" The "known" is the
phenomenal world, cognizable by our five senses. And all that we see in
this manifested world are the effects, the causes of which are to be
sought after in the noumenal, the unmanifested, the "unknown world:"
this is to be accomplished by meditation, i.e., continued attention to
the subject. Occultism does not depend upon one method, but employs
both the deductive and the inductive. The student must first learn the
general axioms, which have sufficiently been laid down in the Elixir of
Life and other occult writings. What the student has first to do is to
comprehend these axioms and, by employing the deductive method, to
proceed from universals to particulars. He has then to reason from the
"known to the unknown," and see if the inductive method of proceeding
from particulars to universals supports those axioms. This process
forms the primary stage of true contemplation. The student must first
grasp the subject intellectually before he can hope to realize his
aspirations. When this is accomplished, then comes the next stage of
meditation, which is "the inexpressible yearning of the inner man to 'go
out towards the infinite.
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