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“Yes, this knowledge can be communicated, and better still, can be obtained without communication by any person who will take the trouble to dig after the buried crock. The door to the final mysteries swings wide open to every human being who by patient assiduity has won the right to lift the knocker. The charge of ‘secrecy’ lies against every science and art as well as this, for there is a ‘secret’ behind every chemical experiment, every microscopic adjustment, the setting of every type, the making of every article of use or ornament. — nay, even the polishing of a boot, without the discovery of which the result is not attainable. This being so, if your Tom Noddies of correspondents or my numerous other critics fancy that they can absorb Occultism as a blotting-pad does a drop of ink, they are—to put it in the mildest form—asses!

{{Style S-HPB SB. Restored|“Yes, this knowledge can be communicated, and better still,}} can be obtained without communication by any person who will take the trouble to dig after the buried crock. The door to the final mysteries swings wide open to every human being who by patient assiduity has won the right to lift the knocker. The charge of ‘secrecy’ lies against every science and art as well as this, for there is a ‘secret’ behind every chemical experiment, every microscopic adjustment, the setting of every type, the making of every article of use or ornament. — nay, even the polishing of a boot, without the discovery of which the result is not attainable. This being so, if your Tom Noddies of correspondents or my numerous other critics fancy that they can absorb Occultism as a blotting-pad does a drop of ink, they are—to put it in the mildest form—asses!

The student of Occultism must realize at the outset that there are two sides to magic—the dark and light, the good and evil, magic and sorcery. The one deals with high and pure spirits, and is employed for beneficent purposes; the other brings its votaries into relations with and ultimately under subjection to the Elementary, and is a curse to its practicers and victims.

The student of Occultism must realize at the outset that there are two sides to magic—the dark and light, the good and evil, magic and sorcery. The one deals with high and pure spirits, and is employed for beneficent purposes; the other brings its votaries into relations with and ultimately under subjection to the Elementary, and is a curse to its practicers and victims.