Elementary Treatise on Practical Magic

F. Ch. BARLET

Dear friend,

Permit me to dedicate this book to you, who are today the most eminent representative of the Western initiatory tradition. The "Western initiatory tradition" refers to the lineage of esoteric knowledge—such as Hermeticism and Rosicrucianism—preserved in Europe.

For more than eighteen years you have pursued the solution to the highest problems that can present themselves to the mind of man. Apart from all struggles as well as all sects, you have known how to reserve your efforts for the serious and profound study of our contemporary sciences, and this study has led you to occult science original: "la science occulte", considered by you as the only synthetic way of realization in all orders of intellectuality. But you have wanted to show that occultism Occultism: the study of hidden laws of nature and the mind, often seeking to bridge the gap between science and spirituality drew its greatest strength from the adaptation of the method it reveals to our current knowledge. Your works on the law of the evolution of the idea through the ages, on synthetic chemistry, on sociology, and finally your program of reasoned reforms for our education at all levels, have come to reveal to your readers that the study of the