its operations.
"You can imagine the power at the command of such an association?" "An association thus selected would do anything it chose. It could possess the world if it pleased."
Thereupon the higher adept, after asking for a further promise of secrecy, declared:
"Well, in exchange for this promise, Brother Copin, I am authorized to let you know that this association exists and that, further, I am authorized to introduce you into it."<sup></sup>
It was then that Monsieur Copin Albancelli understood that the point to which the conversation was leading up was not, as he had at first supposed, an invitation to take the next step in Freemasonry--the thirtieth degree of Knight Kadosch--but to enter through a side-door into an