Whatever his ideas on the Messianic era and the true destiny of man may have been, the following account of mysticism and magic, written from 1823-25 by Hoëné Wronski, might well be an actual picture of world conditions to-day under the influence of similar mystic and secret societies – far more numerous and influential than the public imagine – through which the Invisible Centre is again seeking to direct and dominate the nations and the world.