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each other, each one by reason of the individuality of 

 its own inherent power, notwithstanding the fact that 

 both have the same origin and the same life ; for the 

 one primordial power has become differentiated in each 

 separate form, and its originally homogeneous action has 

 become modified by the special qualities that have been 

 acquired by the forms in which it manifests itself. " As 

 the sky with its stars and constellations is nothing 

 separate from the All but includes the All, so is the 

 * firmament ' of Man not separate from Man ; and as 

 the Universal Mind is not ruled by any external being, 

 likewise the firmament in Man (his individual sphere of 

 mind) is not subject to the rule of any creature, but is an 

 independent and powerful whole." ^ 



The practical application of Astronomia (mental 

 science) is called Magic, a science which by investigat- 

 ing the parts of the whole leads to a comparison of 

 their ideal relations and connections, and consequently 

 to a recognition of their inner nature. " Hidden things 

 (of the soul) which cannot be perceived by the physical 

 senses, may be found through the sidereal body, through 

 whose organism we may look into Nature in the same 

 way as the sun shines through a glass. The inner nature 

 of everything may therefore be known through Magic in 

 general, and through the powers of the inner (or second) 

 sight. ^ These are the powers by which all secrets of 



1 This fundamental truth of oocultism is allegorically represented in 

 the interlaced double triangles. He who has succeeded in bringing his 

 individual mind in exect harmony with the Universal Mind has succeeded 

 in reuniting the inner sphere with the outer one, from which he has only 

 become separated by mistaking illusions for truths. He who has succeeded 

 in carrying out practically the meaning of this symbol has become one 

 with the father ; he is virtually an adept, because he has succeeded in 

 squaring the circle and circling the square. All of this proves that Para- 

 celsus has brought the root of his occult ideas from the East. 



' If the individual mind is one with the Universal Mind, and if the 

 possessor of the individual mind wishes to find out some secret of Nature, 

 he does not require to seek for it outside of the sphere of his mind, but he 

 looks for it in himself, because everything that exists in Nature (which is 

 a manifestation of the Universal Mind) exists in and is reflected by him* 



