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[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 [whispered]: "... i do not even know their earthly names, and i have very 
 seldom seen them in their physical bodies ...
 they used to meet me physically at a time and place fixed in advance. for my 
 part, i believe they are human beings living on this earth, but possessed by 
 terrible and superhuman powers ...
 my physical encounters with them have shown me how difficult it is for a 
 mortal, however 'advanced', to support their presence ...
 i do not mean that during my rare meetings with them i experienced the same 
 feeling of intense physical depression that accompanies the loss of magnetism. 
 on the contrary, i felt i was in contact with a force so terrible that i can 
 only compare it to the shock one would receive from being near a flash of 
 lightning during a great thunder-storm, experiencing at the same time great 
 difficulty in breathing ...
 the nervous prostration i spoke of was accompanied by cold sweats and bleeding 
 from the nose, mouth and sometimes the ears." 

 (samuel liddell macgregor mathers, quoted by kenneth grant) - kfl