Arthur Machen — Downloaded Texts Index
TL;DR: Arthur Machen — Downloaded Texts Index Downloaded from Project Gutenberg. Public domain. Machen (1863–1947) was a key influence on Lovecraft. Welsh author, Golden Dawn member.
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| File | Title | Year | Words (approx) | Source |
the-great-god-pan.txt | The Great God Pan | 1894 | ~25,000 | Gutenberg #389 |
the-house-of-souls.txt | The House of Souls | 1906 | ~80,000 | Gutenberg #25016 |
the-three-impostors.txt | The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations | 1895 | ~55,000 | Gutenberg #35517 |
the-hill-of-dreams.txt | The Hill of Dreams | 1907 | ~65,000 | Gutenberg #13969 |
the-terror.txt | The Terror | 1917 | ~40,000 | Gutenberg #35617 |
the-angels-of-mons.txt | The Angels of Mons | 1915 | ~15,000 | Gutenberg #14044 |
Relevance to Remote Viewing / Predictive Programming
The Great God Pan (1894) — HIGH RELEVANCE
A brain surgeon performs a microscopic alteration to a woman’s brain to “level the solid wall of sense” and allow her to perceive the spirit-world (“see the Great God Pan”). The operation succeeds — she sees Pan — and is immediately and permanently driven insane. The story traces the offspring of this contact through Victorian London.
Key mechanism: Brain surgery as a technological method to open dimensional perception. Compare to Lovecraft’s “From Beyond” (electronic machine activating pineal gland) — same concept, different technology.
“All these things—yes, from that star that has just shone out in the sky to the solid ground beneath our feet—I say that all these are but dreams and shadows; the shadows that hide the real world from our eyes. There is a real world, but it is beyond this glamour and this vision.”
“A trifling rearrangement of certain cells, a microscopical alteration… With a touch I can bring them into play, with a touch I can complete the communication between this world of sense and—”
“Clarke quailed before them. They shone with an awful light, looking far away, and a great wonder fell upon her face, and her hands stretched out as if to touch what was invisible.”
The Three Impostors (1895) — MEDIUM RELEVANCE
Connected stories involving transformation, hidden identities, and a sinister network. Contains “The Novel of the Black Seal” — ancient pre-human race surviving in Welsh hills, communicating via mysterious inscriptions and possibly influencing human minds.
The House of Souls (1906) — MEDIUM RELEVANCE
Collection including “The White People” — a girl’s diary of her initiation into a hidden world of pre-human entities through ritual and language. Also contains “A Fragment of Life” — couple glimpse a sacred geography underlying ordinary London.
The Hill of Dreams (1907) — LOW-MEDIUM
Semi-autobiographical novel about a writer who perceives Roman/pagan reality overlaying modern Wales. Hallucinatory, but the “other world pressing through” theme is strong.
The Terror (1917) — MEDIUM
Nature (animals) turns collectively hostile toward humanity — coordinated attack without visible intelligence directing it. Mass behavioral change. Compare to Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space” and Blackwood’s “The Willows.”
The Angels of Mons (1915) — HIGH RELEVANCE (for predictive programming specifically)
Machen wrote a fictional story (“The Bowmen”) about spectral medieval archers protecting British troops at Mons. It was published as fiction in a newspaper. The public believed it was a true account. Machen spent years trying to convince people he had invented it, but the “Angels of Mons” legend persisted and was used as wartime propaganda. This is a documented case of fiction becoming accepted reality — the exact mechanism of predictive programming in reverse.
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