CHAPTER ONE

PSYCHOLOGY

The position of the Philosophy of Occultists in the face of Materialism and Theology. — Characteristics of Occultism in philosophy. — The psychology of occultism. — The Astral Body showing the transition from the Spirit (the self) to the body (the non-self). — The Constitution of the Human Being in three principles. — Analysis of the principles and psychological and anatomical adaptation. — Constitution of the human being and analysis of the other principles. — The physical body. — The astral body. — The psychic being. — The conscious spirit.

Spiritualist Philosophy, as understood by the classics, has always been characterized by an extreme disdain for anatomical facts and physiological laws. Under the pretext that the Spirit is the sole former of Matter and that it only has to dictate its laws to it, without being subject to them, an axiom—whether based on a syllogism A form of logical reasoning where a conclusion is drawn from two assumed premises or not—was considered far more probative than any experience whatsoever. From this arose the subtleties of scholasticism The system of theology and philosophy taught in medieval European universities based on Aristotelian logic and the writings of the early Church Fathers, the hindrances brought into all philosophical systems by Theology, and the difficulty experienced by the Human Spirit in escaping its leading strings and reclaiming its freedom amidst all these obstacles created, since the 15th century, by the lack of understanding of the Great Art original: "Art Magna"; likely referring to the Ars Magna of Ramon Llull, a system of logic intended to prove the truth of Christian doctrine through combined philosophical concepts.