The Science of Finite and Infinite Life Containing Practical Hints for Students of Occultism. Magic means that divine art of exercise of spiritual power by which the awakened spirit in man may control the living elements. It was not my object, in composing this book to write merely a code of ethics, …but to assist the student in studying the elements of which his own soul is composed, and to learn to know his own psychical organism.
In this Spirit of God in man rest all of man’s divine and magical powers. To call the attention of the readers to the divine powers existing within themselves, thus to lead them to a knowledge of their own higher nature, to aid them in entering a higher life and finally to state what the greatest mystics of the East and West have taught in regard to the nature and the development of these powers, has been the aim of the Author