The occult sciences a compendium of transcendental doctrine and experiment - Arthur Edward Waite, 1891.pdf

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INTRODUCTION.
claims
of
Hermetic
philosophy
to
the
considera-
tion
of
serious
thinkers
in
the
nineteenth
century
are
not
to
be
confounded
with
those
merely
of
an
exalted
intellectual
system,
or
of
a
sublime
and
legitimate
These
may
be
urged
in
behalf
of
it
with
the
aspiration.
force
of
unadulterated
truthfulness,
but
not
as
the
princi-
pal
point.
What
the
philosophy
which
is
indiscriminately
called
transcendental,
Hermetic,
Rosicrucian,
mystical,
and
esoteric
or
occult,
submits
in
its
revived
form
to
the
scrutator
of
life
and
her
problems
as
a
sufficing
and
rational
cause
for
its
resuscitation,
and
as
an
adequate
ground
for
its
recognition,
is
tersely
this
That
it
com-
:
T
HE
—
and
realisable
knowledge
concerning
the
worlds
which
we
denominate
invisible,
because
they
transcend
the
imperfect
and
rudimentary
faculties
of
a
partially
developed
humanity,
and
con-
cerning
the
latent
potentialities
which
constitute,
by
the
fact
of
their
latency,
what
is
termed
the
interior
man.
In
philosophical
language,
the
Hermetic
science
is
a
method
of
transcending
the
phenomenal
world,
and
attaining
to
the
reality
which
is
behind
phenomena.
At
a
time
when
many
leaders
of
thought
have
substantially
abandoned
all
belief
in
the
existence
of
intelligence
prises
an
actual,
positive,
without
the
visible
universe,
it
is
almost
superfluous
to
say
that
the
mere
claim
of
the
mystics
has
an
irresistible
magnetic
attraction
for
those
who
are
conscious
that
deep
down
in
the
heart
of
every
man
there
exists
the
hunger
after
the
supernatural.
The
mode
of
transcending
the
phenomenal
world,
as
taught
by
the
mystics,
consists,
and
to
some
extent
exclusively,
of
a
form
of
intellectual
ascension
or
develop-
ment,
which
is
equivalent
to
a
conscious
application
of
selective
evolutionary
laws
by
man
himself
to
mam
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