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The court magicians were employed by King Montezuma of Mexico to lift supernatural barriers against the Spanish army Cortes advanced from the coast to his inland capital city, but they failed to stop him. Is this not stuff of identically the same piece of superstition as that encountered in Tibet four hundred years later by the army of Sir Francis Younghusband, and described in A Hermit in the Himalayas?

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 13 : The Occult > # 74