The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time

For many people today, the term “secret science” has a certain appeal. What the secret scientist is so easily accused of by his opponents is that people are too easily moved when something mysterious, something dark, or something enigmatic is spoken of, so that those who are unclear in their thinking or too comfortable to stand on the ground of knowledge, or too weak to let knowledge work on them, are drawn to it. Thus, the occult scientist has much support, and in a certain sense he counts on this strange instinct in human nature, on the pull in human nature toward the spiritual in the worst sense of the word.