Rational Psychology

DEDICATION

...is not granted to be hoped for. But if self-knowledge original: "cognitio sui" has been recommended to wise men in every age, then the internal knowledge of the soul original: "anima"—the nobler part of us—must be recommended above all. For from this study, a certain unexpected light of understanding shines forth, not only upon universal Nature, but even upon its very Author: the most wise and powerful Divine Power original: "Numen". Moreover, a singular defense for virtue is gained, which no one truly understands unless they have experienced it personally.

Indeed, what could be more pleasant, what more to be desired, than to look intimately into the Nature of things—that admirable work which the Supreme Architect original: "Artifex summus" created for the sake of its being known—and in that work, as if in a mirror, to perceive the Architect Himself...