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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 222 | 206 LATEST MAGIC cards, or to effect some other substitution neces- sary for the purpose of his next item. Verbum sap, by all means cultivate the use of the wand, and for the sake of effect, let it be of an ele- gant and distinctive character. An office-ruler or a piece of cane would serve many of its mechanical purposes, but would lack the prestige attached to what is, professedly, the genuine article. One of the most striking proofs of the extensive use and appreciation of the wand by modern magicians is furnished by the remarkable collec- tion of such implements got together by Dr. Saram R. Ellison, of New York. Dr. EllisonĀ¹ is an eminent and popular phy- sician, whose ruling passion is wanting to know things, particularly things that other people don't know. Such being his temperament, it goes almost without saying that at an early period of his career he became a Freemason. Having been duly initiated into the mysteries of the ordinary lodge, and learnt all it had to teach him, he still yearned for "more light," and accordingly worked his way up step by step through intervening degrees in masonry till he reached what is known as the thirty-third degree, an order even more exclusive than that of the Garter, and claiming to possess secrets as to which the ordinary "blue" mason, 1 Since this was written Dr. Ellison has passed into the mysterious beyond. |