THE INTERIOR LIFE FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE MYSTICS.

AN ADDRESS

BY

ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.

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If it were necessary to divide the science called "mystical" into two chief branches, we might call them the phenomenal and the transcendental. This is not a perfectly accurate division, but it serves a practical purpose by showing a clear boundary line in a two-fold process. On one hand, there is that which—under the term "Magic"—includes most branches of the occult or secret sciences. This includes doctrines about the nature and power of angels, ghosts, and spirits; methods for summoning and controlling the spirits of the dead, elemental spirits, and demons; the creation of talismans; all forms of divination, including crystal gazing; and all the mysterious calculations that made up Kabbalistic science A Jewish mystical tradition often adapted by Western occultists to find hidden meanings in numbers and letters.. There is a strong similarity between the spiritual and psychological phenomena of our own time and these experiments from the past; they hold the same value and serve a similar purpose. To those searching for "a sign," these things may provide evidence of worlds that go beyond our normal