PREFACE

Occult science The term "occult science" refers to the systematic study of hidden or "hidden from view" laws of nature and the soul. leads to paths other than the repetitions of ancient initiations and the considerations on the triad original: "ternaire"; a fundamental concept in esotericism representing the three-fold nature of existence (e.g., Body, Soul, Spirit). to which young beginners devote themselves, still unable to adapt anything. Your works, which touch upon mathematics as much as biology, have come to avenge us of this insult—the claim that we are condemned to remain petrified in the study of antiquity.

It is by combining the synthetic method bequeathed to us by that antiquity with the analytical rigor of contemporary experimentation that you have succeeded (and that all those who follow in your footsteps will succeed) in creating original and solid work. Nearly twenty years of stubborn labor were necessary for you to successfully complete the task undertaken; but thanks to you, occultism is close to leaving the dangerous path into which it was being dragged by the thoughtlessness of those in whom imagination replaces work and knowledge.

Living far from Paris, having long been familiar with most of these practices that are ignored today, you are closer than any of us to the very source of the teachings of our masters of the invisible Refers to spiritual guides or "Secret Chiefs" believed by occultists to direct human evolution from a non-physical plane., and I owe you a public testimony of gratitude for the warnings and advice that you have always sent us unexpectedly and at the opportune moment. Thanks to these warnings, coming from a high place, we have always been forewarned of all attacks; we have been able to thwart all ambushes and pursue our work of realization without weakness.

It is without money, and without asking for the slightest subscription or the smallest sum from the members of our study groups, that we have created this movement in favor of esoteric studies The study of internal or "inner" knowledge intended for a specialized circle., and that we have succeeded in checking materialism—just as dangerous as clericalism Political or social power held by the clergy; the author views both blind faith and blind denial of the spiritual as equally harmful.—which threatened to lead the minds of the entire younger generation toward the bankruptcy of conscience and morality. Money is a means and not an end; it is by disregarding this teach—