ABSTRACT
The age-old belief in magic and the occult arouses light-hearted scepticism and often derisive criticism. An almost irresistible impulse urges to put down the whole of the occult to superstition. Astrology and the occult in general are signs of an existing pattern in the universe beyond the range of sense-perception and beyond the compass of the mind which is adapted to it. This pattern can show through into the world we know. It is at this very point at which the subjective factor in pulls down the shutter that the extension of the universe begins. In fact, the point to grasp is that the whole universe, inconceivably vast and, in fact, infinite is continuous with the portion we know. The whole conception of the universe is determined as strictly as that of the blind people by the own characteristics, perceptions and limitations.
