III. The Pre-Michaelite Way, and the Way of Michael

In the first stage—the vision of concrete forms of spiritual being—Man feels no impellent need to bring what his vision shows him into any nearer relation with the world perceived by his senses. The world's sensible phenomena reveal themselves, it is true, as being the deeds of that which is beheld by supersensible vision; but to construct a special science of what is directly, spiritually visible to the ‘mind's eye,’ is not a matter of urgent necessity. Moreover the world of Spirit-Beings, shewn by vision, presents such a wealth that the attention is arrested by this above everything else.