ABSTRACT
Ever since the world began, man has had two distinct and fundamental attitudes towards the unseen; and through them has developed two methods of getting in touch with it. For the purpose of present inquiry, author proposes to call these methods the “way of magic” and the “way of mysticism.” Hence it is that so much which is really magic is loosely and popularly described as mysticism. No deeply religious man is without a touch of mysticism; and no mystic can be other than religious, in the psychological if not in the theological sense of the word. The fundamental difference between the two is this: magic wants to get, mysticism wants to give—immortal and antagonistic attitudes, which turn up under one disguise or another in every age of thought. Mysticism, whose great name is too often given to these supersensual activities, is utterly different from this. It is non-individualistic.
