Philosophie des hautes sciences

covers the passions, the tastes, the social circles, and in general everything that belongs to the exterior of the Consultant, and flows back, without the express consent of the latter, into his interior, and this movement is also part of Human Art.

This weak foreword should reveal to Society, as to the truly Studious, that the number, the root of all dimensions, developing the interior of the microcosm the world in miniature, namely Man; 2nd. that the theme giving the table of the influences of the Stars, influences imperceptible but palpable, abounding in the macrocosm the great world or Universe; relate to a foundation of Science, not only of superficial principles, such as the Art of colors and letters, but to a foundation of internal principle, which the Antagonists of the High Sciences must never have thought of, since these principles, once recognized, give the conviction of the High Sciences.

It is by knowing perfectly how to bind and unbind these four bases that one ascends

to the true Science and to the Wisdom of the Mages and primitive Peoples, and finally to Divination, which we have particularly in view here.

If the excellent judiciaire power of judgment or discernment of certain Men, acquired by common universal Science, by a hundred thousand reflections, and by a continuity of facts always followed and developed to their ultimate power, were, as is believed, the unique principle of Divination, this excellent judgment, I say, would not be at fault in its prognostics, and it would indicate in the prognostic of an event not only the circumstances, but the time and the place, which is impossible for it.

Common judgment, we know, as in all Sciences, is indispensable to the High Sciences, the latter having nothing more than the others except being more elevated and more perfect, but by no means forming a separate class; thus the ciron a microscopic mite enters into the chain of animal Beings, and the Elephant is