cursed copy of Cosmogenesis

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This is my first copy of volume one of The Secret Doctrine, Madame Blavatsky's 1888 work that is probably responsible for everything that is Western Occultism today. I bought it from a used bookstore awhile ago and stuck it on a shelf... something about it I just couldn't bring myself to read it.

Anyhow, I get a call from my guy who keeps an eye out for these things and he got a line on a copy of the book in even better condition, along with Vol 2 and the Index/Bibliography (which is actually a separate book). So I go and fork over a bunch of money for these volumes because I'm a fucking nerd, and bring 'em back to the office. Sitting down with them now my feeling about them is totally different. Happy to read them. Blavatsky was a nutjob but there are some good ideas here.

So I figure what the hell, sell my first copy of Vol 1... I take it off the shelf, snap pic related, post that I'm selling it in a couple of closed Facebook groups... figure I'd give my friends a chance at it before I put it on eBay or whatever. I don't put it away because I think maybe people will request specific pics of parts of the book or whatever to check the condition... so it's sitting on the desk next to me.

Over the course of the day I start to get more and more anxious. Like... JUMPY. I can't figure it out. I'm just nervous, like... I might even go so far as to say I start to feel scared. AT NOTHING, by the way... just this general sense that something bad is about to happen.

This goes on well into the evening after I get home, takes me until maybe about an hour before I go to bed before I finally shake it off.

Next day I come back in the office and see the book sitting there, and right away my gut clenches... and I know for a fact it's this fucking book. There's something wrong with it.

Moved it across the room and left it on the window sill... maybe some sunshine will help? IDK...

Anybody with experience with these things have some advice?