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 eative Psychics 
 
 I Art of Regeneration 
 
 The Science and Art of the Religion 
 of the Future; a Positive Science of 
 Metapsychics and the Art Expression 
 of Regenerative Mysticism; an Inter- 
 pretation of the Emancipation of the Age 
 
 BY 
 
 FRED HENKEL 
 
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 GOLDEN PRESS 
 
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Creative Psychics 
 
 The Art of Regeneration 
 
 The Science and Art of the Religion 
 of the Future; a Positive Science of 
 Metapsychics and the Art Expression 
 of Regenerative Mysticism; an Inter- 
 pretation of the Emancipation of the Age 
 
 "^ BY 
 
 FRED HENKEL 
 
 Printed for the Author by the 
 
 GOLDEN PRESS 
 
 203 Tajo Buildingr 
 
 Los Angreles, California, U. S. A. 
 
 1917 
 
To all who foster Self-Reliance, 
 Self-Development and Sex Un- 
 foldment as fruitions of the pro- 
 creative urge ; who see in Creative 
 Generation, Re-generation and Art 
 generation; who value the divine 
 importance of developing the In- 
 herent Creative and Procreative 
 Powers to encompass the ''Whole 
 of Divinity" : Humanity as well as 
 Nature. 
 
 Copyright 
 
 FRED HENKEL 
 
 203 Tajo Building 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 U. S. A. 
 
Meditations and Reflections ^p, ^ 
 
 Mysticism — Creative Psychics — is caused through the sincere ef- 
 fort to transcend the appearance of things and to recognize the causes 
 as well as to find naturally automatically self-healing remedies. 
 
 Our own insight into life and nature developes in the same degree 
 as we exert ourselves to interpret and develop insight in others. 
 
 As we try to understand others and help them to help themselves, 
 to that extent do we redeem ourselves. 
 
 Humanity alone can consciously develope supernatural power. 
 
 Vigorous thinking about life's problems, the "fair" playing of the 
 game of life, brings out the dynamic relationship between body, mind 
 and soul, and self-critical unconscious cerebration, intuition and 
 revelations. 
 
 Mysticism is created through underlying feeling and aestheticism 
 to the intellect, that is the beautiful to the useful, or what is the same : 
 Eastern thought to Western knowledge. 
 
 Mysticism implies character formation. 
 
 Symbolism drags realism into art; mysticism shoves it out. 
 
 All symbolical art is fictitious art and is the forerunner of all fic- 
 tion. Truly relative art can only come through reaction against 
 symbolical art. 
 
 The modern efficiency man is a practical psychiatrist. 
 
 Laughter, wit and humor as well as satire and swearing are reme- 
 dies with mystical healing powers, which humanity had to create by 
 necessity against the perversion through false reverence, fear and 
 superstition. The dogmatist naturally lacks these self-healing quali- 
 ties and also cannot appreciate them. 
 
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CONTENTS OF PART ONE 
 
 1. Preface and the problem at large 5 
 
 2. Religion, the evolution of perception of the Unseen. ... 6 
 
 3. Psychology, what it is. What is psycho-logic ? What 
 
 is the law that governs psychic phenomena ? 11 
 
 4. Metapsychics and creative mysticism, an introduction . . 16 
 
 5. The Creative Force, Its Principle, and the principle 
 
 of the emancipation of the age 41 
 
 6. What is Mysticism, and What is a Mystic ? 54 
 
 7. How to Produce the Mystic 67 
 
 Price 25 cents. $2.00 per dozen copies 
 
PREFACE AND THE PROBLEM AT LARGE 
 
 Metapsychics and creative Mysticism embody the Science 
 and the Art of the religion of the future. The problem is 
 presented in several series of essays interpreting the working 
 principles which underly the principle of the emancipation 
 of the age. This is an Emancipation through psychic Enlight- 
 enment, that is: an emancipation through Aestheticism, ex- 
 pounding the psychical and metapsychical aspect and an 
 aesthetical view of evolution of life and creation : an aesthetical 
 Weltanschauung. It deals with the perception of the supra- 
 natural or supernatural Creative Force or God of Unity in ac- 
 tion as Duality. It deals with such ancillary problems as the 
 development of the human soul, with religion, philosophy and 
 art of the past and the future, the development of Free Will, 
 practical transcendentalism, creative mysticism, spontaneous 
 creative action of the subliminal mind, organic fusion and 
 growth, mental healing powers, practical psychology and oc- 
 cultism and the laws of psychic phenomena in general. It 
 aims in special at the interpretation of fourth dimensional 
 arts, the psychology of a high art of landscape gardening and 
 other higher dimensional vistas of art. As long as humanity 
 in general, and the artists in particular cannot visualize the 
 Creative Force or God in a high art with nature's beauty 
 as well as with man, woman and child, so long is our concep- 
 tion and vision of It partial and abnormal. It is the office of 
 mystical high art to solve this problem. 
 
 The whole problem of creative development of our psyche, 
 that is of creative psychic or occult powers, depends on psychic 
 exercise. We must cultivate, practice and exercise our psychic 
 powers in order to develop and increase them, just as we must 
 practice and exercise our intellectual and our physical endow- 
 ments. We cannot expect to develop psyche without sincere 
 effort. Creative psychic development, like creative physical 
 development, and unlike intellectual development, depends on 
 independent self development of indwelling, inborn individu- 
 

 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 ality and originality. Creative psychic powers are, however, 
 fundamentally transcendental powers, and we increase them in 
 the proportion of the effort exercised to transcend their phe- 
 nomena. It is not the result of a mechanical process of learn- 
 ing through memorizing, but one of self developing and recip- 
 rocal education through co-operation. The entire problem 
 leads to the interpretation of the education of the future, an 
 education through co-operation, and to the understanding of 
 the beneficial influence which such development must exercise 
 on the normal evolution of Feeling and Vision. The sources 
 which create the power of Intuition, Revelation, and what 
 science calls *' spontaneous creative action of the subliminal 
 mind": to the development of creative mystical or psychic 
 powers in general, and the causes which necessitate their higher 
 development, are manifold but have much in common if we 
 proceed to transcend them. They are dealt with in another 
 series of essays which represent various views of the inex- 
 haustible solution of one and the same riddle of life and 
 creation which presents and reveals itself to every human be- 
 ing, in diverse ways. As all positive sciences have come out 
 of reaction against abstract or alchemistic sciences and thus 
 through a revolution, it must be evident that a positive science 
 of religion and a positive high art must follow the abstract 
 symbolical development of the past. 
 
 n 
 
 RELIGION THE EVOLUTION OP PERCEPTION 
 OP THE UNSEEN 
 
 Metapsychics or meta-psychology is the science of the Un- 
 seen Creative Force just as psychics or psychology is the science 
 of the indwelling unseen creative force of the human mind. Re- 
 ligion of the future is a science and an art dealing with evolution 
 of perception of the Unseen. It is therefore with the evolution 
 of high or religious art expression with which the religion of the 
 
EVOLUTION OP PERCEPTION OF THE UNSEEN 7 
 
 future is concerned. It recognizes thus only a positive science 
 and a positive art of emancipation of vision, and has a positive 
 psychic aim. It recognizes that all humanity needs is to be re- 
 lieved from subnormal or psycho-pathological vision in order to 
 see truth for itself afresh each day. This demands that every 
 age evolves a higher inward vision of truth. As truth is the 
 emancipating power, and as its vision is the principal thing it 
 must be evident that the whole problem hinges on the evolution 
 of high art and Art Consciousness. 
 
 Religion cannot evolve unless high art evolves. Religion, 
 as the term is herein used, is that Reliance that all sentient 
 beings feel towards forces and powers that transcend the unde- 
 veloped faculties of the mind. 
 
 As the mind develops by experience from its vague and 
 crude reliance, it seeks and attains positive justification in scien- 
 tific supports and transcendental or aesthetical gratifications. 
 
 Every advance in science opens wider reaches for the devel- 
 opment of the Art urge. Religion evolves as high Art evolves. 
 It has not evolved otherwise. It cannot evolve otherwise. 
 
 Religion is thus fundamentally an Art Problem, and the re- 
 ligion of the future creates a higher Art Consciousness, which 
 is identical with God Consciousness. The religious instinct in 
 humanity is thus the Visionistic Instinct : the indwelling desire 
 to vision the Unknown and Unseen workings of the Creative 
 Force or God ; it is the inherent desire of Feeling and Express- 
 ing Feeling in acts and in art manifestation. 
 
 The religion of the future is a constructive Science of Feeling 
 and regards spiritual powers as indwelling psychic powers. It 
 propounds principles which increase these fundamentally occult 
 and mystical powers. It thus propounds principles which 
 govern the development of an Occult or Mystical high art, whilst 
 the religion of the past cultivates only a symbolic high art. It 
 recognizes that normal psychic development can only be ob- 
 tained through knowing oneself, as otherwise the vision is de- 
 formed, which results in projection of our pathological 
 self into our vision of the Creative Force or God. As the 
 Creative Force in action is dual it must be evident that our 
 vision of both aspects must be distorted and misleading. The 
 principles underlying mystical high art expression are the 
 
8 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 principles underlying creation itself. Religious consciousness — 
 God consciousness, means art consciousness: A purified per- 
 ception of the Unseen. We look at religion solely from the 
 point of view of art and thus have to purify and increase vision 
 and imagination of the Unseen. The principles underlying the 
 formation of normal vision and imagination, and therefore of 
 true art, are the principles of evolution and growth. 
 
 The past has created only a partial and subnormal, that is, 
 psycho-pathological percept of the Unseen. Mysticism repre- 
 sents a higher normal vision which must be created through 
 reaction against subnormal vision, a process which revolution- 
 izes the individual and creates a higher consciousness. 
 
 The evolution of religion and art of the past is an evolution 
 of subnormal vision. Mysticism brings a vision which is free 
 from the psycho-pathological element of subnormal vision, 
 which latter is created through fear of the Unseen. Reaction 
 against Fear is one of the principal factors in the evolution of 
 mysticism. 
 
 Subnormal vision through fear of the Unseen has led to sup- 
 pression of the knowing and developing of Self. It has nat- 
 urally led to suppression of Truth, and suppression of psychical 
 and occult creative powers of Self, with perversion of spiritu- 
 ality and spirit-life in general as a result. It has led to mis- 
 understanding between individuals, nations and races, and to 
 the neglect to draw from collective experiences of nations and 
 races their cogent lessons, as well as from individual life-ex- 
 periences. It has led from tragedy to tragedy until history 
 especially the historical aspects of religion, represents a dis- 
 torted apprehension of the Unseen. It has led to the suppres- 
 sion of the best and to the survival of the brute, to the rule 
 of the stale, the old and the dead, to a cult of the possessive 
 instinct and of its substitution for truth. It has led to a cult of 
 second hand knowledge, instead of a cult of life experiences and 
 consecration of soul in order to understand the divine and 
 sublime inner workings of one's own life and creativeness. 
 
 In short subnormal vision has led to an abnormal and per- 
 sonal apperception of the Unseen with all the shortcomings of 
 the subnormal vision of the individual. A higher vision and 
 higher visionary powers can only come through self-knowledge 
 
EVOLUTION OF PERCEPTION OF THE UNSEEN 9 
 
 and from a positive science with the collation of life experiences 
 of the whole of the human race, which creates a higher normal 
 consciousness of the Unseen. 
 
 The religion of the future deals scientifically with Principles 
 of the Unseen, and with the principles which lead to a true 
 vision of it. It regards the Unseen as an impersonal creative 
 principle inherent, inborne and active in all life and creation. 
 It visions the principle back of the Creative Force in all created 
 objects, and naturally expresses it in all art-expressions in the 
 same measure as it increases its vision. It sees Good in all 
 created objects and recognizes all shortcomings as a necessary 
 means to a higher evolution. It destroys all cult with evil, and 
 deals with it scientifically, taking the sting and its poisoning 
 property out of it. 
 
 The problem of perception of the Unseen implies a positive 
 scientific education in principles which govern creation, and the 
 Creative Force as a principle of unity in action as duality with 
 no evil in it. It recognizes that there is nothing wrong with 
 life, creation and creator except our apperception of it, which 
 naturally implies that our knowledge and conceptions are im- 
 perfect and misleading. It implies further that we improve 
 our vision automatically in the same measure as we improve our 
 knowledge and conceptions of creative processes, and that our 
 art expressions must increase automatically in the same degree. 
 
 A positive science of perception of the Unseen takes an un- 
 prejudiced, impartial and impersonal view of creator, creation 
 and all creative processes, just as any other positive science is 
 expected to practice although it calls for the development of 
 higher means of cognition. It presents objectively and intel- 
 lectually the aspect of the dual working forces of God in action 
 so that such knowledge can also form and inform the sub- 
 liminal or spiritual self of man as correctly as possible in order 
 that the latter may give true expression of it. Like all positive 
 sciences it will in time accumulate much second hand knowledge 
 with extracts and "canned goods" as the result, but it will 
 perpetuate the original scientific intent to induce and educate 
 the student to scientific practice and experiment such as alone 
 can lead to proper life experiences and forming and informing 
 
10 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 individual and original vision. This will reciprocally also im- 
 prove the individual's art consciousness and art expression. 
 
 Intellectual knowledge and objective perception have been 
 increased and purified in the same measure as the human vision 
 of the Unseen has been purified. Archaic vision of the Unseen 
 distinguishes itself through its frightfulness which early re- 
 ligious art implies. This terroristic expression has diminished 
 in the course of evolution of art: the artistic striving towards 
 more harmonious expressions of the Unseen. This upward 
 process of evolution of vision must naturally continue and 
 the art expressions must become in time more and more true to 
 the Universal Creative Force itself, and must lose all expression 
 of fear. Religion must naturally also lose its perverting aspect 
 as a cult of evil, which it has inherited from its infantile past. 
 
 Religion, and its expression in art form, was from its begin- 
 ning a devil-cult, a cult of fear and superstition, which aspect 
 must be obliterated in time. The old religion must destroy itself 
 and a cult without fear and devil must take its place. The 
 archaic survivals of religion and its derivative art make nat- 
 urally for propagation of subnormal vision, morbid ecstasy, 
 fanaticism and the reversion to sexual infantilism, as psychology 
 has it, to perversion of psyche in general. 
 
 The problem of evolution of perception is therefore the prob- 
 lem of emancipation of humanity from a belief in evil. It has a 
 dual aspect by necessity. It deals scientifically with the causes 
 of evil through improving our intellect and knowledge, besides 
 teaching principles which underly the formation of true vision 
 and art creativeness. The latter implies the forming and in- 
 forming of the psyche or subliminal Self. Both are interde- 
 pendent by necessity and together lead to the emancipation of 
 humanity. 
 
m 
 
 PSYCHOLOGY— WHAT IT IS. 
 
 WHAT IS PSYCHO-LOGIC ? 
 
 WHAT IS THE LAW THAT GOVEENS 
 
 PSYCHIC PHENOMENA? 
 
 The laws of psychic phenomena imply that every age and 
 every individual has to produce its own remedies automatically 
 and increases higher creative and augmented mental healing 
 powers to the extent that it creates the need for them. This is 
 the natural product of the higher consciousness which the age 
 demands from the individual as well as from the race in general. 
 The individual as well as the race must develop higher con- 
 sciousness in order to advance. 
 
 Psychology is a positive science of cognizing and developing 
 the Unknown and Unseen Subliminal Creative Powers in hu- 
 manity. It is a positive science of the Greater Self in man, lead- 
 ing to a positive science of the greater self of the Cosmos and to 
 Cosmic Consciousness. This latter object is the task of meta- 
 psychics. Both deal with the Force that binds, unites, harmon- 
 izes and elevates. 
 
 We cannot understand nor interpret Life and the Cosmos 
 with the intellect alone, but the latter must be assisted by Feel- 
 ing into life and nature. For that purpose we have to develop 
 our Psyche or Feeling Self. Feeling into life and nature 
 teaches us that all life is evolved out of reaction against waste, 
 which waste must naturally accompany every creative process. 
 It teaches us also that evolution of life is an evolution of 
 Psyche or soul, which is evolved through the sincere attempt 
 and effort to compensate for waste. The greater the waste which 
 an age produces the higher it develops its psyche in order to 
 transmute waste into creative profit. 
 
 Our age is an age of highest creativeness, inventiveness and 
 productiveness and also accompanied by the greatest prodigal- 
 ity of waste. It creates and demands automatically the highest 
 
12 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 development of psychic powers. Our age has therefore devel- 
 oped a positive science called psychology which is the automatic 
 outcome of our psycho-pathological development caused by our 
 long continued cult of the male or possessive instinct. It has 
 been created out of Unconscious Reaction against extreme 
 pathological development of our Psyche and through the neglect 
 of our educators to develop a higher consciousness in the indi- 
 vidual and in the race in general. 
 
 What is therefore the nature and what are the principles of 
 a positive science to increase our consciousness and our psychic 
 creative powers ? must be asked ; and on what principles is its 
 logic based? Such principles must naturally be psycho-logical 
 and express through a well formed and well informed Feeling 
 into Life and nature. 
 
 Psyche like psycho-logic is naturally created purest and 
 strongest through transcending our own life experiences which 
 form and inform feeling. It is therefore through the increase 
 of such feeling that we can become conscious of higher cre- 
 ative processes and develop that kind of logic through which we 
 can present and prove the truth of the conclusions and validity 
 of the principles which need to be applied to the higher devel- 
 opment of creative psychic powers, and of the turning of waste 
 into creative profit. The reasoning process must be based on 
 our life experiences and the conclusions must coincide with the 
 collective experiences of races and nations which collaterate 
 such experiences and alone can form and inform feeling aright. 
 
 Principles which form and inform feeling must be of psychic 
 enlightening nature, and it is therefore with principles which 
 enlighten our psychic with which psycho-logical development is 
 concerned first of all, and which naturally enlighten our intel- 
 lect also, and thus obliterate inner conflicts at the same time. 
 This science has naturally two sides : a preventive and a curative 
 or re-creative side. All conflicts naturally produce increased 
 waste, and it is with the causes of waste and the transcending 
 of conflicts with which mysticism is principally concerned. We 
 form and inform our feeling best by transcending conflicts 
 which accompany life experiences. The development of creative 
 psychic powers is therefore forcefully affected by those con- 
 flicts between human factors which are at the root of all exces- 
 
WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGIC? 13 
 
 sive waste. For it is conflict that increases sensitiveness — that 
 is feeling, — and this increased sensitiveness is accompanied by 
 the greater power to react against even the slightest traces of 
 abnormal occurrences and leads to detection of the causes and 
 agents. 
 
 The principles which can develop creative psychic powers 
 demonstrate how every age produces its highest re-creative and 
 mental healing powers out of reaction against pathological 
 development ; our age has created the need for it and produces 
 the remedy automatically in the most sensitive and inspired 
 minds. This is nature ^s own secret. It represents the nature of 
 the Creative Force itself, the principles of which must also 
 govern us but which can only be recognized and developed 
 through own inner effort to create a higher consciousness and 
 a higher common sense. Our age has produced a higher com- 
 mon sense by necessity through its increased wastefulness. Our 
 age obeys the laws of psychic phenomena, the laws that every 
 perverse and abnormal development must create its own natural 
 remedy, which is of a mystical nature. We cannot define it ex- 
 cept through the recognition of principles which lead to its 
 development. Like all true products of the age it meets the de- 
 mand of that age. It is developed because there is need for it. 
 It is not digged from the stone graves in the pyramids nor from 
 the classical wisdom of ancient Greece, although all collective 
 experiences increase our consciousness to a large degree. The 
 intrinsic development of races is naturally less enlightening 
 than the extrinsic values which they have created. Their col- 
 lective experiences, the causes of their doom and their perishing 
 interests us much more than their classical perfection which led 
 up to their decline and extirpation. We learn wisdom from 
 tragedies of nations, just as we learn from our own and other 
 people's life experiences. We meet varied conditions today, 
 and our life experiences must lead to as varied revelations. We 
 cannot repeat eternally the old tragedies, nor can we count upon 
 the duplication and repetition of the individual's experiences, 
 because the experiences of each life are unique ; but all can learn 
 from conclusions drawn by others if they conform to the col- 
 lective experiences of races and nations and other individuals. 
 
 Ours is a commercial age which has its roots in Babylonian 
 
14 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 culture. We need rather Solomonic wisdom and the sagacity of 
 the fakir who tries to transcend the foolishness of humanity. 
 What we need is more like the sublime power of the *' detective" 
 spirit which the age has created outi of reaction against its 
 criminality. Psycho-logic is a higher kind of detective logic 
 which transcends and recognizes both the causes and defects. 
 Our age has produced highest inventiveness and produces nat- 
 urally the highest '^detectiveness." The latter is as much a 
 creative achievement as the former and is caused through the 
 increase of the very same urge within us. Detectiveness repre- 
 sents also therefor an increase of creative psychic power. In- 
 ventiveness meets as much the agressiveness of brute forces as 
 detectiveness. We are emerging out of an age where possession 
 and might ruled over right, and intellect over psyche. We have 
 developed higher consciousness and higher creative psychic 
 powers out of reaction against brutishness and intellectual 
 aggressiveness. We have come to cognize the light within us 
 and develop it automatically to get and keep us out of mental 
 and bodily slavery. We are of an age which wants to get free 
 by all means. We have set our hearts to it and we shall succeed. 
 We live in an age which demands plain truth, and it gets it. It 
 is not to be satisfied with less. The logic of the true psychologist 
 is like the logic of the detective, somewhat obscure to the con- 
 ventionally educated, because of the lack of the former to com- 
 ply with the style of conventional literature of so-called artistic 
 writing ; but he has his own way of tracing as well as expressing 
 truth. He does not strive after an expression in artistic style, 
 but rather after a plain scientific one. It must seem quite 
 natural that the product of psychical development must differ 
 from the intellectual product, and that the elegant is less 
 obvious than the aims at which it strives. Our art and style 
 will naturally change as much as our modes of education and 
 our conceptions of authority change. There must be some- 
 thing of the Unknown and the Unseen in all expressions which 
 have come out of psychic development, because it is arrived at 
 through Peeling, and must be transcended and felt to become 
 an experience and a power. It must arouse the sensitiveness 
 and the ** sense of reaction" which it demands for its under- 
 
WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGIC? 15 
 
 standing. This is what the development of creative psychic or 
 creative mystical powers implies. 
 
 It means greater independence and freedom of self-exertion 
 and self-expression. We enter an age which develops mystical 
 creative powers out of reaction against mental and bodily age- 
 old slavery and exploitation. It means the end of a culture 
 which limits the development of mankind. 
 
 Our age recognizes the subliminal self, the God Within, 
 which rests on the harmonious development of the intellectual 
 and feeling self alike, a true and happy conjunction which 
 leads to higher or supernatural organic fusion and growth, 
 which is of mystical nature. We emerge out of an age of 
 symbol worship, which also makes us perfect to deduce the 
 Unknown from the Known through a logic of psychic nature. 
 
 Such detective logic distinguishes itself from intellectual 
 reasoning from theories of the scholarly educated in that it ar- 
 rives at the truth through a line of intuitive flashes of insight, 
 which come from a well enlightened Psyche without losing 
 contact with Reality. It distinguishes itself from the brilliant 
 but defective deductive reasoning of the hypnotized person and 
 the even short-circuited logic of the religionist and theologian 
 in that it is accomplished through the aid of powerful and en- 
 lightened intellect, which feat is possible only to a mind that 
 has enlightened itself by first hand experiences and revela- 
 tions. It is caused by the cleared vision of subliminal powers. 
 It is the result of a cleared brain-focus of vision which leads to 
 a higher consciousness than the non-creative conventionally 
 educated can acquire. It is for this reason that our most in- 
 spired minds evolve outside of conventional education through 
 self development, and who also have to revolutionize our educa- 
 tional methods and thus advance humanity. All progress of 
 humanity comes from outside of conventional circles and their 
 adulterated modes of expression. 
 
 A positive science of psychics must naturally grow into a 
 science of metapsychics — that is into a science which deals with 
 higher dimensional realms, which interprets the laws and prin- 
 ciples of nature on a higher plane of expression, that is in 
 metapsychical art. Metapsychics deals, therefore, more with 
 the higher development of the supernatural, which demands 
 
16 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 still higher critical and transcending powers. In< its higher 
 phases psychics is therefore applied to all the causes which de- 
 grade humanity. It overcomes all limitations placed on the 
 subliminal power through the restriction of perverted intellect 
 and knowledge. This is naturally also a normal and inborn 
 faculty of humanity, but demands common sense and vision 
 of a still higher order, which is suppressed and perverted by 
 the limitations placed on it through the teachings of age-old 
 superstition. It too rises out of the masses, — we do not know 
 whence it comes. It grows in many inspired minds until it 
 finds expression through one of them, — one who transcends 
 more clearly the principles which govern its development. 
 Every age must thus emancipate itself. 
 
 The development of creative psychic powers is today a 
 necessity. Without it we cannot compete against those that 
 cultivate it. Nor can we meet the competition of brute 
 force without higher psychic powers. Its need is caused by the 
 great inventiveness of the age, and it is the inventor to whom 
 we owe thanks for our progress, though we do not sufficiently 
 recognize his services which are achieved through indefatigable 
 perseverance in spite of all obstacles placed in his way through 
 greed. The inventor is the mystic of our age. He is a creative 
 mystic by necessity, and the age which we are going to enter is 
 the Age of Creative Mysticism or mystical Creativeness. The 
 inventors are the emancipators of humanity, but they are 
 inspired by the artists. 
 
 IV 
 
 METAPSYCHICS AND CREATIVE MYSTICISM 
 
 Metapsychics or meta-psychology is the scientific relation- 
 ing of the IJnseen Creative Force just as psychics or psychology 
 is the science of the human mind or the indwelling Creative 
 Force. 
 
 Creative mysticism is today the paramount educational 
 problem, and all the foremost educators expound principles 
 
METAPSYCHICS 17 
 
 of it with the intent to evolve the Greater Self and a Greater 
 Humanity. All such separate efforts aim at the development 
 of Creative Psychic Powers of Spontaneous Creative Action 
 of the Subliminal Mind and Organic Growth which all depend 
 on Organic Fusion. The principles which govern organic 
 fusion and growth govern the whole universe including the 
 evolution of life, spirituality and art. These separate efforts 
 represent steps towards a Positive Science of Sciences which 
 is in the making, and it is my intention to introduce the reader 
 into the fundamental principles of the religion of the future and 
 its art expression of Metapsychics and Re-creative or Mystical 
 Art. These outstanding educational principles of the present 
 day aim at evoking and cultivating the psychic mental power 
 in order to increase Creative Ability, and they serve to develop 
 the subjective plane of our existence along with the intellectual 
 and physical Self. Education through Play and Re-Creative 
 Recreation, Vocational Training, education through Concentra- 
 tion on Creative Principles and through Self Suggestion, Mind 
 building through development of Mind Power, Mental Healing 
 and the development of Self Reliance in order to overcome fear 
 and to develop Personal Magnetism, are only a few of the most 
 prominent features of the development of mystical creative 
 activity and of higher creativeness in general; of Mystical 
 Awareness of the Mind and of the Development of the Greater 
 Self in Humanity. 
 
 The evolution of metapsychics and creative mysticism may 
 be compared to that of algebra, and demands and cre- 
 ates a distinct line of logic and computation of differ- 
 ent exponents, expressions and characters. It also makes 
 use of terms of other sciences in order to express itself 
 more fully. There exists a certain analogy and interde- 
 pendence between all the different products of mental activity 
 just as between various physical activities and physical and 
 mental activities. Quite naturally all our activity and creative- 
 ness are dependent and interdependent on other and cosmic 
 activity and creativeness. We cannot produce anything which 
 is not both inside and outside of us. All increase of our activ- 
 ity and creativeness must naturally lead to a Higher Conscious- 
 ness and in the end to Cosmic Consciousness. Thus everything 
 
18 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 in the universe is interdependent on the other and on the 
 Whole, and everything is relative to the Whole. All is relative 
 only, but the planes of that relativeness may be either below the 
 normal and natural, or they may be above it and are, to that 
 extent supernatural — that is higher dimensional. All acts 
 and expressions are thus either related to one or the other of 
 these planes with innumerable shades between, because they 
 are fundamentally the product of all our creativeness and 
 activity. The more they are related to the psychic plane the 
 higher is their aim. 
 
 Metapsy chics and Creative Mysticism are as much the out- 
 come of the evolution of mathematics and physics as of the 
 revulsion from superstitious religion. Metaphysics is as much 
 a universal science of physics and a material interpretation 
 of the universe as metapsychics strives for a universal 
 psychic interpretation of the universe, or Universal Psychics. 
 Religion, as we know it, is an arrested development as com- 
 pared with its twin brother metaphysics, and has not yet 
 reached the status of a positive science of psychics, which meta- 
 psychics is destined to achieve. There is both a parallel and a 
 distinction between metapsychics and religion. The former 
 aims directly at an understanding of the Cause, the latter 
 rather at the contemplation of the Effect. Metapsychics, the 
 science of the religion of the future, aims at both the under- 
 standing of the Cause and the Effect. It is a free and posi- 
 tive science and teaches principles which govern mystical cre- 
 ative processes. It attains and radiates a vision of the Cre- 
 ative Force itself, or of God as religion calls the Cause. The 
 religion of the future rests on a positive science of the Creative 
 Force and teaches principles of higher creativeness which are 
 revealed through all positive sciences as well as through 
 contemporaneous study and experiment in creative processes. 
 It is a positive Science of Sciences, but it is not a conglomerate. 
 Such science of sciences is an Organic Fusion or a living 
 Growth, and its development brings with it the understanding 
 of Organic F\ision and Growth, which represents the actual 
 Workings of the Creative Force or God. 
 
 It is therefore essentially with Organic Fusion and Growth 
 with which the religion of the future is concerned, which 
 
METAPSYCHICS 19 
 
 processes are at the root of all human creativeness, productive- 
 ness and reproductive power, just as these constitute the roots 
 of all creation and evolution of the world at large. The process 
 of organic fusion and growth is mystical — or higher dimen- 
 sional and of Psychical Nature, and its understanding depends 
 on the development of creative psychic or constructive occult 
 powers. This mystical process is reciprocal, which means that 
 we develop along with the understanding of it our own psychic 
 creativeness at the same time and automatically. 
 
 All higher creativeness is, like life and creation, the result 
 of the inherent mystical power of the Creative Force itself to 
 Arouse Latent Energies and Hidden Talents — to stimulate and 
 increase Radiant Energy through mystical overcoming of Fric- 
 tion and Gravity, which thus makes organic fusion, gemma- 
 tion and growth possible. All creative activity is radiant 
 activity and produces a mystical effect just as it has a mystical 
 origin. We may best compare it to the mystical creativeness 
 of the inventive genius, who, with the increase of insight, ex- 
 periment and reflex, and through concentrating on creative 
 processes, increases his own creativeness. Or we may compare 
 it to the mystical inquisitive and detective spirit of the cre- 
 ative artist who transcends the actuality of existence and the 
 past, that is ''what was," and creates a vision of the future 
 and 'Svhat might be." 
 
 It is therefore essentially the Detective and Inquisitive In- 
 ventive and Artistic Genius of the race which is representative 
 of the Creative Force, and which has advanced humanity step 
 by step automatically and produced human evolution. While 
 the inventor concentrates m.ore on the advancement of the 
 Utilitarian side of life we find the artist concentrating more 
 on the Aesthetic aspects of life and creation. The acts and 
 thoughts of both are governed by principles which are most 
 truly relative to the principles which govern the Creative Force 
 in Action in its dual aspect, because both have increased their 
 own creative psychic power through Inner Effort. They are 
 not mere imitators but creators. The result is an acquiring of 
 properties and character which create, attract and direct 
 energy through creating higher energy, which is also the Po- 
 tential of the Creative Force itself. 
 
20 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 Humanity in its course of evolution increases the potential 
 energy of the universe through creating energy within the 
 individual as well as through attracting it from external 
 factors. It does that automatically in the measure of discovery 
 of its Relationship with Outside Energy as well as with the In- 
 crease of the Cognizance of its Inner Working Processes 
 which increases its Consciousness. The evolution of humanity 
 depends on its increase of consciousness, which increase is 
 caused through the increase of Awareness as to its relationship 
 and interdependence with other created objects. In other 
 words: all real progress is caused by the Increase of Aware- 
 ness of the Relationship of each phase of Being to every Man- 
 ifestation of Life, Matter and Cosmos. It is thus Cosmic 
 Consciousness that humanity strives for consciously and un- 
 consciously. 
 
 Along with the evolution and revolution of every religion 
 has been produced and proclaimed one or the other of these 
 Relationships only, which is represented in the emancipating 
 principle of such religion. Through that principle it gets its 
 Vision of the Creative Force, which vision is quite naturally a 
 partial percept of the Creative Force or God. The true evolu- 
 tion of every religion depends necessarily on the evolution of 
 the emancipating principle and thus on discarding denatured 
 and anti-natural pseudo-principles which made emancipation 
 necessary. An Emancipation implies the revolution of Re- 
 ligion. Broader vision and higher awareness of relationship 
 can only come through the intercourse of different religions: 
 with Interchange of their emancipating principles. 
 
 The discovery and evolution of every emancipating principle 
 is caused by and results in higher creative psychic powers. Its 
 merit rests on its power of forming and Informing our Psyche 
 on true creative principles, and results therefore in an increase 
 of our supranatural or mystical productiveness, creativeness, 
 inventiveness and art expression, because it advances our own 
 creative power nearer the divine stage of the Creative Force 
 itself. 
 
 The problem of the religion of the future is: to stimulate 
 creative psychic activity, in order that it may assist in pro- 
 moting a harmonious and well balanced development of the 
 
METAPSYCHICS 21 
 
 mental and psychical powers of the awakened individual. 
 This is what occult creativeness means — to cultivate the 
 mystical power of the psyche to produce that magnetic force 
 which is necessary to produce a higher voltage of energy, and 
 overcome the gravity and attrition of the intellect. This is 
 a parallel process corresponding to the electric current under 
 the influence of the magnetic force which is otherwise subject 
 to gravity. Our inventors produce, demonstrate and elucidate 
 on the material plane what we neglect to develop on the psychic 
 or spiritual plane. The inventions then in turn bring the higher 
 cognizance of our own inner sublime workings. Our inventors 
 did not invent electricity but have harnessed it, and humanity 
 has to learn that it can similarly harness its own higher energy 
 and make it productive instead of letting it go to waste, de- 
 stroying the best within us. That is what inventors and artists 
 strive for both objectively and subjectively. The inventor 
 creates for the utilitarian plane as the artist creates for the 
 aesthetic or spiritual plane through developing of increasing 
 psychic power. Both create through reducing friction and 
 gravity within themselves and thus reducing friction between 
 individuals. They make humanity more efficiently creative 
 and reduce their molecular weight. Our bodily molecular 
 weight has decreased in the same measure as our art and in- 
 ventions have increased. A few hundred years ago our fore- 
 fathers could hardly swim, and bathing was considered abnor- 
 mal. With the further increase of psychical development no- 
 body will drown under ordinary conditions. 
 
 It follows that higher creativeness is evolved through re- 
 duction of friction and gravity within and without the individ- 
 ual. All occult processes demonstrate the same fact, but what 
 we are used to call occult processes generally avoid friction 
 more or less altogether. They work on the psychic plane 
 alone. All higher creativeness is occult and' all demonstrate 
 the fact of a separate psychic plane within the individual, just 
 as they demonstrate the duality of the creative force in action. 
 The scholarly educated, mechanically cultured person naturally 
 creates only products which increase friction and gravity 
 evolving clashing concepts, contradictions and confusion, be- 
 cause such culture promotes lethargy, anomaly of the psyche 
 
22 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 and subnormal psychic activity. The more of such adulterated 
 knowledge an age produces, and propagates from its inher- 
 itance of the past the stronger is the natural reaction of 
 psychically creative minds. Invention and art increase at the 
 same rate in order to overcome the enhanced friction and grav- 
 ity which the merely intellectual promulges. The demand for a 
 spiritual revolution and a revolution of all culture and civiliza- 
 tion which this misinformed age has perpetuated from the past 
 becomes constantly more insistent. This process manifests 
 itself today in its most pronounced form. The failure of our 
 intellectual and so-called spiritual leadership is best demon- 
 strated in the present day upheaval. We have to convince the 
 conventionally educated that they are a nuisance and a menace, 
 a thorn in our flesh. Higher creativeness and Spirituality in 
 general depend on the development of creative psychic power 
 through ow^n inner effort, and the necessary revolution can be 
 accomplished only through reaction against our perverted 
 teaching and educating which suppresses it. The coming 
 peace between nations will mark the beginning of still more 
 revolutionary upheavals within the nations unless we can con- 
 vince our educators that they are fundamentally mistaken and 
 fallaciously informed. Democracy will be a complete failure 
 so long as we do not revolutionize our entire educational 
 machineries including our religions. These present survivals 
 from a leisurely aristocracy, the rule of the stale, the palsied, 
 the withered and the dead. The outworn must give way to 
 the virile, the inspired unselfish youth of the age and to the 
 blithesome feminine. The old sacrifice the young for their mis- 
 takes, and the most unselfish are destroyed that the sovereignity 
 of caste and greed may be upheld as long as their tatters will 
 still bear patching. The outstanding remissness of our super- 
 ficial educators consists of their lack of understanding that 
 ultimate things cannot be perceived except through the de- 
 veloped Psyche, This alone can produce the necessary self- 
 reliance and self-confidence which obliterates abnormal vision, 
 and leads to* a revolution of vision and imagination. It leads 
 to the necessary power of concentration on truly evolutionary 
 processes and selfwill of a higher order. It brings quite nat- 
 urally a better understanding of all truly creative processes, 
 
METAPSYCHICS 23 
 
 and creative activity in general as well as a higher esteem for 
 the product of purposeful industry. Whatever does not pro- 
 duce absorbs energy and increases friction and gravity. Futile 
 effort withholds from the creative faculty its rightful share 
 in the valuation of service. Abstinence from labour cannot 
 recreate subnormal (and therefore abnormal) vision of the 
 Creative Force and creative processes in general. Such ab- 
 stention perpetuates the credulity that places reliance upon 
 reactionary forces. It is therefore quite logical that the teach- 
 ings of those whose livelihood and comfort are dependent on 
 the creativeness of others have fallen into utter disrepute as the 
 general creativeness has increased. This same increased cre- 
 ativeness has augmented the conception of the Creative Force 
 amongst the producing class far beyond the conception of the 
 non-producing minority. Creativeness alone can increase the 
 Creative Force within: the psychic power, and it is with the 
 advance of this plane that our age is especially concerned, be- 
 cause this has been neglected and perverted through the long 
 continued and onesided development of the intellectual or ma- 
 terial plane. 
 
 It is with a cult of the psychic plane that the religion of the 
 future is concerned, and which brings with it also a competent 
 valuation of the intellectual plane. It is a well recognized fact 
 that the consciousness of the human personality consists of two 
 planes: the intellectual or material plane and the psychic or 
 spiritual plane, and we have to consider that the psychic plane 
 is the higher dimensional, occult or mystical plane. It repre- 
 sents the supranatural or subliminal workings of the Creative 
 Force within us. All life is composed of a multitude of con- 
 sciousnesses, all of them of dual nature. All represent the Cre- 
 ative Force in Action, just like our entire organism. We are 
 able to develop both planes to a higher status, and thus in- 
 crease our consciousness and awareness as well as our creative- 
 ness. Both planes are interdependent, one is just a plane higher 
 and represents the Supranatural or subliminal within us. The 
 neglect of its development leads to perversion of it, and it be- 
 comes abnormal, immoral. As this plane influences all our acts 
 and thoughts as well as our vision and art creativeness it must 
 be evident that the neglect of it is anti-natural, leading to acts 
 
24 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 and art expression which do not conform to the Creative Force. 
 
 It is upon a positive science of the Creative Force in action 
 that the religion of the future will find its base. This science 
 is metapsychics, a higher science of psychics which demands 
 an indigenous computation and logic and as it evolves it will 
 develop higher representative exponents and characters, that 
 is, higher art expressions just as higher mathematics created 
 its own exponents and nomenclature in order to simplify its 
 problems and facilitate their solutions. Mathematical logic 
 has created algebraic signs or symbols not unlike those of re- 
 ligious logic, but psychology creates characters of quite a dif- 
 ferent order. There is a natural interrelationship between all 
 these developments which we have to transcend in order to 
 understand and develop the Subliminal within. Metapsychics 
 leads to a higher conception of what religion seeks to in- 
 terpret, and is a science which deals as much with the increas- 
 ing vortex of a becoming sun as it deals with the development 
 of human character. It deals as much with the dual conscious- 
 ness of the atom as it deals with mystical organic growth and 
 symbiogenetic evolution of life. It views life and creation from 
 every aspect, and perceives that the vortex of an embryonic 
 sun evolves through an organic fusion of contradistinguished 
 entities which thus develop the personality of matter, or its 
 Gravity as it is commonly called. It recognizes that life evolves 
 out of matter as the Flame of Matter through a decrease of 
 friction and gravity. 
 
 The entities or planes having become higher consciousnesses 
 are still contradistinguished, but their harmonious produce is 
 the individuated entity and its inherent and distinct char- 
 acter. 
 
 The evolution of metapsychics and mysticism in the further 
 development of evolution of the human mind must become clear 
 when we consider the difference between religious subnormal 
 symbolism and mathematical scientific symbolism, and the dif- 
 ference of religious and mathematical logic. The latter is an 
 inexorable consequence of the former and represents in itself 
 a reaction against subnormal logic and symbol worship, a step 
 from the subnormal plane of vision to a material plane. Meta- 
 psychics and mysticism represent a step toward the higher 
 
METAPSYCHICS 25 
 
 normal, with the normal development of the Psyche as a result. 
 Humanity has evolved on the way from religion over meta- 
 physics to metapsychics or higher dimensional psychics, and 
 thus from religious symbolism over mathematical and scientific 
 symbolism to creative mysticism. The intermediary step was 
 made possible only through the development of the Greek 
 cosmological view of life and creation. Mysticism is, funda- 
 mentally speaking, a supranatural plane of symbolism. Sym- 
 bolism evolved along with superstition and is the product of 
 fear of the Unknown. Scientific symbolism is a natural anti- 
 dote against religious symbolism which humanity has created 
 automatically asf a mental remedy. Mysticism is simply the 
 further product of further reaction against subnormal vision 
 of the Creative Force. It represents the revolutionary and re- 
 generative processes that find spontaneous expression on a 
 higher plane of consciousness. Religious symbolism represents 
 a retrogression below the material plane, whilst the symbols of 
 mathematics are intellectual or material. The evolution of the 
 human mind cannot halt either on a subnormal nor on an in- 
 tellectual plane. It will inevitably reach higher. We can un- 
 derstand the process of such evolution much better if we review 
 the evolution of the art of the past and consider that of the 
 future. High art of the past started with symbolism and ar- 
 rived at realism which is induced by the realistic scientific 
 spirit of the age. From there it will automatically pass with 
 the advance of psychic development to mystical art expres- 
 sion. Every phase in the development of art is the product of 
 the times to a large extent. It ought to be more. It ought to be 
 the leading and regenerating spirit of the times. It ought not 
 only to mirror the times but ought to lead it to a higher plane 
 of culture and civilization. In other words: every age ought 
 to produce a higher art with a higher vision of the Unseen. 
 It is therefore with the high or religious art with which the 
 science of the religion is concerned first of all. 
 
 This implies the increase of creative psychic powers in gen- 
 eral, through the processes of forming and informing Psyche 
 which lead to increase of Vision. It recognizes that all effort 
 spent in clearing vision leads automatically to higher psychic 
 powers. It believes that Enlightenment of mental processes 
 
26 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 has a creative effect just as it has an automatically Physical and 
 Mental healing effect. It recognizes that Interpretations of 
 relationship are of highest enlightening order. It interprets 
 all that humanity has created in its proper relationship, and 
 thus also how metapsychics must naturally evolve from religion 
 over metaphysics. It sees that metaphysics is the direct out- 
 come of a cosmological religion, and thus more universal than 
 religion. 
 
 Metapsychics, analogous to higher mathematics, makes use 
 of certain known quantities in order to understand and inter- 
 pret the Unknown and Unseen, and it develops thus along with 
 the increase of collective experiences a higher degree of logical 
 understanding which is of psychological nature, just as it de- 
 velops automatically the psychic urge within. The evolution 
 of the human mind is an evolution of logic. Humanity has 
 passed in the course of evolution from an a-logical state of 
 reasoning to an illogical and irrational state, and is now pro- 
 ceeding from a rational logic to psycho-logic. 
 
 As regards the various modes through which the different 
 sciences including religion try to solve the mystery of the Un- 
 known quantity it must be evident that metapsychics differs in 
 that its aim is direct and affirmative and represents positive 
 psychics. Metapsychics, religion and metaphysics strive at 
 understanding and interpreting the same Unknown quantity 
 through different modes, exponents and characters which de- 
 mand a certain amount of visualizing power in order to use 
 these exponents and characters. Metaphysics and religion 
 make use of symbols whilst metapsychics makes use of prin- 
 ciples which govern mystical expressions. We best regard 
 metapsychics as the science of the religion of the future and 
 mysticism as the base of its art expression, just as religion of 
 the past is best regarded as the science, and symbolism the art 
 derived from epochal religion. We must regard all religious 
 mysticism of the past as art expression, w^hilst the teaching of 
 its principles has been the science. These differences become 
 more clear coincident with the evolution of Creative Mysti- 
 cism. 
 
 The Religion of the Future : its Science and its Art, develope 
 together like the religion of the past and its symbolic art de- 
 
METAPSYCHICS 27 
 
 veloped alongside of each other: or mathematics, algebra and 
 metaphysics. The religion of the future is therefore accom- 
 panied by its own art expression which it creates. All we can 
 do today is to proclaim and interpret some of the principles 
 which govern it, and which can lead to further development 
 of that science and art. The principles which govern a re- 
 ligion and its art must necessarily be the same. In the course 
 of human evolution all such principles must the more and more 
 accord with each other and thus the more conform with the 
 Creative Force itself, and the same principles which govern 
 our religion and art must also govern our life. This has always 
 been the aim of all forward striving minds, but it can only be 
 obtained and the wish fulfilled through a positive Universal 
 Religion governed by Universal Principles. 
 
 As the religious instinct is based on the inherent desire of 
 Expressing Feeling, and as Feeling is of Aesthetical nature we 
 must look at religious development solely from the view of 
 Aestheticism, and it must be made clear that all human evolu- 
 tion like all evolution of life and creation is fundamentally 
 aesthetical evolution. 
 
 We have to thank the religion of the past ^or the evoking of 
 visionary power through creating Fear of the Unknown, and 
 we have to thank it for the inducement of High Art, that is 
 Visionary expression of the Unseen. The visualizing power of 
 the past was necessarily subnormal as psychology and mysti- 
 cism prove. The past suppressed the normal development of 
 Psyche and psychic powers, with the result that the present has 
 created by necessity first a science of Psycho-Pathology, the aim 
 of which is to cure pathological mentality and to find out the 
 causes of such derangements. Like the beginning of all posi- 
 tive sciences the origin of psychology was of analytic nature, 
 and it is now gradually becoming synthetic in the measure that 
 it transcends the causes. The original of any science is at the 
 very inception of its experimental, negative, alchemistic and ab- 
 stract, and the religion of the past presents the negative an- 
 cestor of a positive science of creative psychology. The course 
 of the evolution of every religion ends in a revolution. We can 
 clearly recognize the course of revolution as well as of the 
 reformation in the slow and sure breaking up of religion which 
 
28 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 follows a schism. The moment a t'issiparation breaks a religion 
 into fragments a reformatory endeavor sets in, coincidental 
 with a revolutionary movement. The reformers were the re- 
 ligionists, the revolutionists the artists. The reformer led the 
 religion of the past to extinction, the revolutionists create the 
 religion of the future. The revolutionist propounds altogether 
 new and universal emancipating principles instead of religious, 
 dogmatic, sectarian principles. The religions of the past and 
 the future have as much in common as the shadow of an ob- 
 ject has with the object itself, and as little as the alchemistic 
 abstract philosophy of the past and the positive philosophy of 
 life of the future. Pragmatism, for instance, represents a re- 
 formatory process of outworn, dying, pathological, philosophi- 
 cal theories and dogmas. The philosophy of the future is al- 
 ready in the making outside of philosophical circles just as the 
 religion develops outside of religious circles. 
 
 Religion itself was an antidote against pure feeling of the 
 Unknown, without formful representative expression,, that is, 
 without high art. It was also like abstract philosophy an 
 antidote against '^common sense" without imaginative power 
 and incentive. The mind exercises itself incessantly in trans- 
 cendentalizing its powers of projection, and religions and philo- 
 sophies of the past were adapted to this process. They repre- 
 sent to us the puzzle of contradictions which we have to recon- 
 cile and on which we can exercise and practice our critical 
 transcending power — ever seeking to solve the riddle of life 
 and creation for ourselves on a universal base of understanding. 
 This riddle was not solved for us by our ancestors. They but 
 added complexities that serve to spur oiir critical power of 
 transcendentalization, from which we shall derive the strength, 
 the equipment and the vision to solve it for ourselves. The 
 basic fears of the past precluded a daring to encroach upon the 
 secret of the Unknown. The developing present is unafraid to 
 venture. 
 
 All religions are built on archaic foundations, and the 
 roots of all religions extend deep down into the remote past 
 of humanity. As the roots have sprung from abnormal con- 
 ceptions they are closely related to the Immoral and Egotistic, 
 and religion of the past is therefore much more interested in 
 
METAPSYCHICS 29 
 
 morality than in aestheticism. It is also more interested in the 
 Abnormal rather than in the Normal. This interest in the ab- 
 normal and immoral must naturally exhaust itself in time, be- 
 cause the continuous accentuation of the abnormal, or evil as 
 it is called, must tend to the increase of it. It is a psychic law 
 that the more we center on any process the more we develop it, 
 and the present day's trend is therefore towards propounding 
 the good instead of the evil by way of wholesome reaction 
 against extreme abnormal development. The present day's 
 revivalism through pronouncing anew a devil cult and the ex- 
 istence of a devil is only the last stage of the Pagan Religion 
 of the past, which has produced through its centering on evil 
 such gross abuse, that the defects become evident and their 
 abolition hastened. Mysticism is a cult with the Normal. It 
 deals with the normal and seeks to understand the causes of 
 the abnormal and the immoral. It expands through developing 
 the higher normal out of the abnormal. 
 
 The extremely abnormal stage of our culture and civiliza- 
 tion has reached such a destructive stage that we are searching 
 for the real causes of it, and the effort we spend in transcend- 
 ing to the causes leads us automatically to the Understanding 
 of the cause of all things created. It leads us to a higher under- 
 standing and a higher vision of the Creative Force itself and 
 of the laws and principles Avhich govern its workings. 
 
 In order to understand these workings a high degree of 
 Feeling, or aestheticism, is necessary, which enables one to react 
 unconsciously against the abnormal, and thus recognize the 
 higher normal. It is therefore always Feeling and Aestheti- 
 cism to which we do wisely to yield, and the tendency of the 
 age automatically opens the path to such development. It has 
 recognized and developed principles which lead tO' a readier 
 recognition and a higher development of Feeling and aesthet- 
 icism. It is therefore with such principles with which the teach- 
 ings of the religion and art of the future is concerned. The 
 means are practical psychics, constructive creative aesthetical 
 occultism, or in short the Development of creative psychic 
 powers. All that can be embraced in a positive science of 
 Dsychology forms and informs our Psyche, and forms and in- 
 fornis thereby our aestheticism and Feeling. That all positive 
 
30 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 sciences reach out in time into the realms of the occult has long 
 been recognized. No striving, however sincere, can obviate this 
 because our visioning powers increase and clamor for expres- 
 sion despite all attempted opposition. The trouble is that we 
 try to avoid these realms because they demand deeper think- 
 ing, and we are taught to undervalue our mental capabilities. 
 As we become more familiar with the processes of Life and 
 Mind we can no longer be intimidated by dread of what further 
 progress may disclose. "We gradually but inevitably become 
 accustomed to react to normal impulses and to remain unmoved 
 by uncanny fears of what revelations of science may next com- 
 pel attention. The principles of the religion of the future are 
 the purely scientific principles of the Subliminal Mind. We 
 see in such sciences as higher mathematics how visionary power 
 evolves on a material plane, just as our visualizing power in- 
 creases with the study of electricity. Their evolution is marked 
 by the invention and use of formulas, signs and characters. In 
 religion, art and mathematics this is still more evident. All 
 Bciences have been aided by the means of vision which higher 
 mathematics has developed. Mysticism creates signs, formulas 
 and characters representative of higher dimensional Creative 
 Rhythm. Symbols are abstractions of rhythm only. Higher 
 mathematics would have been impossible without the conception 
 of realms of abstractions. Religion represents the first forma- 
 tion of an abstract science, and all positive sciences have come 
 out of reaction against abstract and alchemistic sciences. All 
 depend therefore on the development of visionary powers which 
 religion has initiated through fear of the Unknown. All strive 
 toward cognition of the Unknown, but with distinct signs 
 and formulas. All strive for an understanding of the Infinite, 
 all express part of the Infinite, all help in a better understanding 
 of it. It is the province of art to express it in spiritual form — 
 that is in higher harmonious Rythm. All strive to relieve the 
 strain which fear has placed on the mind in order that every 
 one may recognize truth for himself. Higher mathematics, 
 through its use of its scientific symbols, has reduced the pres- 
 sure on the mind whijch religious symbolism had produced, and 
 every progress in positive science reduces it further. Meta- 
 psychics however, deals with subliminal creative and mental 
 
METAPSYCHICS 31 
 
 healing processes: a reconciliation of science with religion. 
 Metaphysics has thus far been of all sciences the highest anti- 
 dote because it has created a metaphysical view of creation, and 
 we can best express higher dimensional things scientifically 
 with the aid of metaphysical expressions of higher dimensional 
 vistas. It is thus that we arrive at the interpretation of mysti- 
 cal art as Fourth Dimensional art, resultant upon reaction 
 against the restricting influence of fear. Complete reaction 
 against fear cannot, however, come except by way of complete 
 revolution of visionary power. 
 
 All intellectual products of the past, including the products 
 of organized religious effort, represent restricting forces which 
 create and increase friction and pressure on the mind. They 
 invite the inventor and the artist as well as the sociologist to 
 work towards decrease of friction within the mind and between 
 individuals. They invite all really earnest minds to increase 
 their critical and transcending power — that is their psychic 
 effort, which is aroused through unconscious reaction against 
 restricting influences. Their work is therefore towards enlight- 
 enment of mind, and their work represents mental healing, 
 restoration of ease and surmounting disease. 
 
 Metaphysics as well as religion differentiate themselves from 
 metapsychics through the effort to find knowledge and vision 
 of the Unknown through means of development of vision on the 
 intellectual plane. Symbolism in art and religion is thus striv- 
 ing towards the material plane although they contain elements 
 of spiritual nature. The material plane is a necessary stepping 
 stone from the subnormal to the higher normal or mystical. The 
 higher normal can only be reached through Positive Develop- 
 ment of Psyche which process implies the substitution of su- 
 perior for inferior vision. This leads to a higher vision on the 
 material plane and to a progress in inventions and sciences in 
 general. These processes are all automatic and reciprocal. The 
 development of the intellect is a necessary concomitant just 
 as creative activity and physical training are necessary pro- 
 cesses on their respective planes. The additional training of 
 our psychic nature makes us more nearly perfect — more di- 
 vinely creative, and makes for a Greater Humanity. Psychic 
 creativeness or ** spontaneous creative action" as it may be 
 
32 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 called, can be developed only side by side with general cre- 
 ativeness — a heedlessness of and resistance to the urge to 
 inventiveness, experiment, enterprise and adventure, furnished 
 the excrementitious compost in which symbolism found rest. 
 It becomes therefore evident why our modes of education 
 have not perfected our culture and civilization in accordance 
 with the demand of the age. The world war is only a sympto- 
 matic incident of the neglect to develop Psyche to meet the 
 requirements of the era. It takes such a catastrophe as a 
 world war and perhaps still more bloody revolutions to blow 
 our shallow culture and civilization from the face of the earth. 
 The evolutionary process occasionally manifests in catas- 
 trophic upheavals as evidence that organic growth is not the 
 result of mere adaptation and leisurely reformation. Human 
 society has lost its equilibrium and must attain a higher 
 status. The process becomes clearer as we approach the cata- 
 clysm. The futility of our educational experiments hitherto, 
 the invalidity of the philosophical and theological percepts 
 and of the pseudo-scientific maxims of a shallow materialism 
 account for the distorted interpretation of Life — and the pen- 
 alty for futility confronts us in such hellish outbursts as the 
 devastations and brutalities of war. Education has consisted 
 of contracting, instead of expanding that power of projecting 
 the eager and discerning transcendent perceptions of the 
 Imagination to serve as a bridge between Cause and Effect. 
 Because of this, events quite inevitable take us by surprise. 
 We stifle imagination for fear of what may be disclosed, and 
 our very fear provokes disaster. Fear exercises a depression 
 of the mind which calls forth an increased effort far out of 
 proportion to the pressure. If this pressure is not removed 
 through an increased transcendental Insight and a clearer 
 Vision there comes an explosion which is destructive instead 
 of creative. The excessive accumulation of energy produced 
 in our age must be directed aright through higher enlighten- 
 ment on spiritual planes or it leads to perversion. A credu- 
 lous sluggishness serves to relieve the pressure for a while, 
 but decreases self-control, thus diminishing psychic power. 
 When, at length, the soporific effects of a too easy credulity 
 have worn off, it is found that we have paid for our yielding 
 
METAPSYCHICS 33 
 
 to fear at the cost of a diminished power of wholesome self- 
 suggestion. Then we have the mob spirit in action, which 
 theretofore had been latent but not absent. Psychic self-control 
 is the result of well cultivated instincts and emotions of psychic 
 origin that had been neglected. The mob spirit of the religi- 
 ous fanatic, of the aristocrat, of the rabid beneficiary of priv- 
 ilege, differs in no respect from the mob spirit of the exploited 
 classes. This mob spirit can be destroyed only through a 
 higher application of the emancipating principle of love — 
 itself a radiation of higher vision of the Creative Force. 
 
 On the other hand, every effort of the dominant class in 
 any community to restrict and suppress and pervert a subject 
 class — ^usually the workers, the inventors, the useful class — 
 serves to stimulate the psychic power of the victims of sup- 
 pression. The emancipating Principle of Love, developed out 
 of reaction against the ludicrous doctrine of fear, can no 
 longer be checked with impunity. The contemplation and 
 the knowledge of the Emancipating Principles which the dif- 
 ferent religions excited, represent the bright spots in the evo- 
 lution of mankind from the domination of fear. These emanci- 
 patory principles were not postulated by the disseminators 
 of theologies, but developed in spite of those cults of super- 
 stitions whose office was the conciliation of an irascible and 
 ruthless deity. It is always lack of visionary power of our 
 educators and leaders through which wars and tragedies are 
 caused. What our reactionary forces have yet to learn is that 
 they cannot keep forever the vision of the kingdom of heaven 
 from application on earth through maintaining fear and 
 through resorting to the pagan Hebrew-Babylonian gospel of 
 original sin for maintaining of their power, instead of culti- 
 vating Christ's gospel of Love to its highest possible perfec- 
 tion. This can only be accomplished through proclaiming a 
 religion without a devil. All further abuse of the Creative 
 Force can only lead to a higher conception and a higher state 
 of love in the end, but at the cost of intermediate disaster and 
 ruin. 
 
 The logical deference to the Creative Force is necessarily 
 a cult of Creativeness. All devil cult is pagan, subnormal and 
 
34 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 immoral just as all abstinence from creativeness is immoral, 
 because it decreases consciousness and conscience. 
 
 The real nature of the Unknown is psychic or spiritual 
 and can only become known through increase of creative 
 capability which must be assisted by psychic power. The Un- 
 known increases in the same measure as humanity increases 
 it^ creative psychic power. On the other hand, Truth flees 
 from us in the measure that we neglect to solve its mystery 
 through enlightening and forming our psyche. Or in other 
 words : Truth becomes more fleeting as we develop onesidedly 
 and therefore lopsidedly, and becomes more real and obvious 
 to the extent that we cultivate our psychic power as well. 
 We cannot solve the riddle of life and the Creative Force with 
 the intellect alone. The riddle is that we ourselves are the 
 Unknown, at least its foremost exponent. As we develop 
 physically, mentally and psychically — symmetrically, so shall 
 we understand the riddle of the Unknown of which we are an 
 inseparable part. In the very same measure do we increase 
 automatically the Unknown. The great Unknown, like our 
 individual part of it, is always far in advance of our consci- 
 ousness of it. The riddle can only be solved along with the 
 development and understanding of Creative Rythm, the prin- 
 ciples of which are exemplified in mystical high art. It can 
 only be acquired through the sincere effort to Know Oneself 
 as well as to understand one's neighbor. This effort leads 
 to the relationship which exists between all humanity and 
 all created objects and especially to the contradistinguished 
 psychic relationship between humanity and the fruitful flower- 
 ing of verdant nature. These different relationships have 
 been expounded respectively by the emancipators of the West 
 and the East, by Christ and Buddha. The study, knowledge 
 and exercise of the principles which the different religions 
 and beliefs have provoked are by necessity an indispensible 
 help, because they represent the foremost exponents of the 
 collective experience of the human race toward understand- 
 ing of the Unknown, and its relation to the Known. 
 
 This continuity of progress of the Unknown, and the prog- 
 ressive ascendency of humanity to a higher plane of consci- 
 ousness and a readier capacity for logic has manifested in 
 
METAPSYCHICS 35 
 
 higher planes of art expression. What was symbolism be- 
 comes mysticism, and a consequent opening up of higher di- 
 mensional realms for art expression. The positive science of 
 psychology has shorn Supernaturalism, Occultism and Mysti- 
 cism of their chief perplexity, and we have recognized that 
 the principles which govern creative and re-creative psychic 
 phenomena are the principles which govern th-e Creative 
 Force itself. With the increase of our knowledge of the prin- 
 ciples which govern mysticism and higher dimensional phe- 
 nomena in general we have become acquainted with the Super- 
 natural, so to say. It has lost its estranging aspect through 
 exciting our interest, and thus our emotion of fear is sup- 
 planted by that trusting unafraidness — of Love. Herein lies 
 the mystical aspect and power of Interest, Inquisitiveness, At- 
 tention and Love as antidotes against fear and its perverting 
 influence. 
 
 There is no need to be afraid to explore higher dimensional 
 realms no more than we need to be afraid to explore lower 
 dimensional or subnormal realms, because we have the Un- 
 known within us and need only be told how to study and con- 
 ceive its workings through Experiment and Reflex in order 
 to develop the higher out of the lower. 
 
 The increase of perception of the Creative Force has al- 
 ways depended on the inspiration of the artist, and we have 
 to learn from him how to perceive it. The secret lies in the 
 creative development of our psyche, and the power of per- 
 ception depends on the same mental attitude which the mysti- 
 cal artist has to acquire in order to create true art or Higher 
 Reality as it is called. All that surrounds us and that we per- 
 ceive with the intellect and the objective senses is natural — 
 or Objective Creation — Reality. All that we have to tran- 
 scend with the psychical or spiritual senses is Supernatural — 
 or Higher Reality. Pathological psyche creates the subnormal, 
 which the mystic h^s to re-create. The normal process is, 
 however, that the individual re-creates himself through tran- 
 scendingf the causes of his aberrations, and the effort which 
 we spend on transcending and Knowing ourselves is ** Healing 
 mental and bodily sicknesses." It rests in the inherent power 
 of Self Suggestion. We have individually neglected to de- 
 
36 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 velop this power and our age has therefore developed the 
 psychiatrist. The artist and mystic are essentially psychi- 
 atrists. Mysticism, like all occult phenomena, is so intensely 
 natural that it is supernatural. Everyone is born a mystic, 
 but evolution demands that he lose himself in experiment into 
 creative and procreative processes, acquiring higher Feeling 
 and higher mystical power through Rebirth as a result of 
 inner effort. The process of metamorphosis of the individual 
 demands a Reincarnation of the Spirit in the Flesh, which 
 makes him again a mystic. 
 
 The Natural is in its essence Supernatural because it has 
 the God within itself, but Fear of the Unknown — engendered 
 by stifling of incentive, inquisitiveness, energy, interest, cre- 
 ativeness, and general discouragement of the experimental 
 urge — has made our conception of It perverse and anti-natural. 
 The moment we transcend our wrong conception of it and 
 recognize its true nature, we become mystical like creation 
 itself. All is relative only and planes of relativeness imply 
 different planes of understanding. Mysticism is a transforma- 
 tion of planes of understanding which call powers into action 
 that produce automatically something higher out of the lower. 
 
 The mystery is simple to the understanding when we em- 
 ploy comparative analogy and imagination. The higher di- 
 mensional differs as much from the lower dimensional as 
 universal ideals differ from sectarian ideals, or as the religions 
 of the past differ from a universal religion of the future, which 
 latter represents an organic fusion of the emancipating princi- 
 ples which have been produced along with different religions 
 and beliefs. Or in other comparisons : as much as metaphysics 
 differs from simple mathematics, or a positive science differs 
 from the alchemy of the middle ages. Higher dimensional 
 things are supernatural because they are of psychic nature 
 and origin. That process develops spontaneously, but a most 
 experimental and inquisitive mind must dig things out be- 
 fore the masses become aware of a process which is in the 
 making. 
 
 The mystical mind is the inquisitive experimental mind: 
 the spirit of the inventor plus the spirit of the artist. It is for 
 us to flexily accommodate ourselves to the Useful which the 
 
METAPSYCmCS 37 
 
 one invents and the Beautiful which the other depicts. We 
 acquire through their example and their aid. Whether they 
 will it or not they are leaders — they together reveal to us 
 the Creative Force in action. In the past they manifested 
 through their work alone, their more or less tardy followers 
 profiting from it. As we emerge from the domination of Fear 
 both inventor and artist, and their disciples more receptive 
 of the significance of their achievements, our knowledge of 
 the Creative Force has broadened and continues to expand. 
 It is the combined inventive and artistic spirit which must be 
 cultivated, and this spirit strives after universalization of all 
 social factors. Humanity becomes higher dimensional as it 
 becomes Universal. The mystical mind is the Universal Mind. 
 As humanity becomes universal in that measure our acts and 
 art expressions become mystical. Whether the changing order 
 accomplishes its inevitable revolution tranquilly or in bloody 
 turbulence depends on the contemporary disposition to cling 
 to the institutionalized futilities of the past, or fall into step 
 with the pioneers whose mission it is to blaze the path toward 
 a Unison of mankind in order to insure a higher consciousness 
 and thus a higher creativeness. 
 
 It is therefore universal ideas, ideals and principles with 
 which the teaching of mysticism and metapsychics is concerned, 
 which principles conform to the Creative Force or God, as 
 we are used to call it. The teaching and transcending of such 
 principles has an enlightening and levitating influence both on 
 the individual and the social organism, reducing friction and 
 gravity within and without. It decreases the molecular weight 
 of the individual and makes him easier to create. Like art 
 and invention it is: *^ as if given." 
 
 The value of Metapsychics and creative Mysticism rests 
 on its capability to increase creative efficiency automatically, 
 and the process rests on the self-evolving principle of the Uni- 
 verse which is inherent to ourselves and to the universe. The 
 more we become acquainted with the workings of the Creative 
 Force the higher creative do we become, because our Joy of 
 Action increases in the same degree as the Richness and Joy 
 of Life increases and the whole process depends on the in- 
 
38 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 terest which we take in creative processes, as well as in all 
 objects of creation. 
 
 The first necessary step to develop mysticism is to become 
 acquainted with the principles and facts which have an en- 
 lightening influence on the psyche and clear our vision with- 
 out which we cannot form and inform that entity of ours, and 
 cannot develop it normally. The actual development comes 
 through our inner effort along with creative activity. Creative 
 mysticism differs from religious mysticism, which is created 
 through a-social development and retiring from human inter- 
 course and creativeness more or less. The present age is ad- 
 verse to the development of purely religious mysticism, be- 
 cause we cannot return to a purely, a-logical, state of mind. 
 Its time is passed because symbolism has broadened. Human- 
 ity has with greater universal intercourse created a broader 
 vision. Unfortunately most of our becoming mystics fall in 
 the course of development into the mazes of spiritism or revert 
 to ascetic ecstasy. Ours is an age imbued with creative prob- 
 lems and not of asceticism. A-social development, which for- 
 merly led to transcendentalism and religious mysticism, leads 
 today to perversion. The difference must be made clearer in 
 further interpretations. Creative mysticism is the broadest 
 of all current educational problems, and all the foremost edu- 
 cators expound its principles with the intent to develop psychic 
 creative powers. 
 
 In order to develop creative mysticism and mysticism in 
 general it is necessary to forget and revolutionize one's con- 
 ventional culture and knowledge, and let one's psychic self 
 become alive through fostering its activity. Interest in hu- 
 manity as a whole and in individual endeavor, and all effort 
 which makes for greater universalization of our knowledge, 
 are all that is needed to set the supernatural machine within 
 us in motion. As all spiritual and mystical things are dis- 
 tinctly problems of vision and imagination these latter must be 
 improved and directed toward the Whole as well as toward its 
 main dual aspects, the Useful and the Beautiful alike. These 
 latter two combine in the whole of the Great Unknown. There- 
 in lies the mystical aspect of "the Creative Force in Action." 
 We estrange ourselves from the Creative Force as we estrange 
 
METAPSYCHICS 39 
 
 ourselves from either the Useful or the Beautiful, and see 
 it in symbols only with attributes, but not in true vision. 
 
 All symbols are crutches for lack of something better. As 
 long as we cannot see the Unknown in Everything our vision 
 of it must be defective. When we once grasp the Principle 
 it helps like a vaulting pole to swing us over all obstacles. 
 Symbolism restricts the visionary grasp, and to the extent 
 that we can see the Useful and the Beautiful — that is God — 
 in everything, our vision of it increases automatically, and 
 makes our acts and art expression conform more truly in rela- 
 tivity with it. As long as we conceive the Unknown as the 
 Unknowable we get estranged from it and '^strain our eyes in 
 vain in the dark, because we see without loving," quoting the 
 saying of ancient wisdom. 
 
 It is Fear which keeps humanity in bondage. As we emerge 
 from that bondage therei comes into our consciousness spon- 
 taneously an irresistible apperception of the principle of the 
 Creative Force. This cognition becomes more vivid with the 
 aid of self suggestion and Affirmation and reasoning through 
 Feeling. We perceive that this Creative Principle underlies 
 all evolution in any science, progress and success. Its cogni- 
 tion demands the development and exercise of more than ordi- 
 nary common sense on the plane of the supernatural as well 
 as on other planes. Our reasoning power develops coincidently 
 with the expansion of our phyche, or else our subjective rea- 
 soning is as mischievous as our inductive reasoning process. 
 Both reciprocally operative lead to truth. Our philosophy as 
 well as religion deduces from theoretical principles and such 
 abstract dogmas as do not conform to creative principles. 
 Positive philosophy of life acknowledges that we cannot solve 
 the riddle of life and creation with the intellect alone, nor 
 solely with the powers of the psyche. We must lose fear of 
 abnormal psychic products of spiritual life and spirit mani- 
 festations in general, in order to develop our spiritual self. 
 This necessitates a "clear brain," or better, a "cleared brain 
 focus of vision." This can be accomplished only through 
 critical clarifying of the psyche which is responsible for all 
 vision and imagination, together with the materialization of 
 it in the form of spirit and spiritual expressions. There are 
 
40 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 countless tendencies to get our brain chambers filled with 
 impressions which darken our brain focus of vision, Every 
 single impression leaves its impress in our nervous system. 
 But it is much more difficult to disintegrate the abnormal and 
 unsatisfactory impressions and winnow from out of their em- 
 barrassing multitude a few good visions of ''what might be." 
 If we leave undisturbed our wrong and undigested concep- 
 tions and impressions we store in our brain-cells condensa- 
 tions which obscure the ''Light." We must use our own in- 
 born transcendental critical power to discard the chimerical 
 and unfounded — to UNLEARN, as modern educational science 
 terms it. We can improve only through unlearning, and the 
 creating of "First-Hand Knowledge" as the knowledge which 
 comes with life experiences may be called. We can get first- 
 hand knowledge of spiritual things only through developing 
 our psyche, and not through memorizing and repeating the 
 litanies of the past. 
 
 It is an axiom of biology that with the complexity of our 
 knowledge individual consciousness must be increased in order 
 that the Higher will no longer be sacrificed to the Lower. Our 
 present culture and civilization is based on the abuse of psychic 
 power and "the survival of the most cunning and the brute." 
 Those who could not abuse and would not adapt themselves 
 to the principle that only the brute can survive found no room 
 in our ethical calendar of the past. It is quite natural that 
 those possessing least Feeling manifest the least scruples. As 
 the Creative power is invested in our Psyche or Feeling-self 
 it is evident that the development of phychic power is ob- 
 structed through educational principles which conform to 
 the principles of reactionary forces, but not with the progres- 
 sive ones. The real progress in human evolution exfoliates 
 where least we are likely to expect it. 
 
 Our present day's progress toward a higher culture and 
 civilization is caused by the greater universalization of our 
 visualizing power which process represents a more lucid in- 
 forming of our psyche and the creating of a higher conscious- 
 ness and, in consequence, a higher conscience. Universalization 
 of knowledge brings with it a clearer understanding of col- 
 lective life experiences of nations and races, and collective 
 
THE PRINCIPLE OP EMANCIPATION 41 
 
 experience will supersede pseudo theories woven by the ego- 
 tism of reactionary forces. Such theories represent a restrict- 
 ing force against the Enlightenment. The present day's de- 
 mand is for theories which establish their validity by the cri- 
 terion of positive results. A religion of the future rests solely 
 on its positive results, and these results depend on the accept- 
 ance of and reliance upon those effective principles that un- 
 derlie the Creative Force. 
 
 V 
 
 THE CREATIVE FORCE, ITS PRIISrCIPLE, AND 
 THE PRINCIPLE OF THE EMANCIPA- 
 TION OF THE AGE 
 
 LIFE AND CREATION. THE WORLD AND THE 
 CREATOR. ARE ONE AND THE SAME AND SELF- 
 EVOLVING. Herein lies the mystery and the mystical aspect 
 of life, regeneration and evolution, and the power of the 
 divine physical, mental and sexual creativeness of humanity. 
 On this fact rests also the emancipating power of the Principle 
 of the Creative Force which the transcendental power of the 
 age has evolved, and through which it tries to conceive and 
 interpret the Very Intent of the Creative Force or God. Dif- 
 ferent religions have created various abnormal aspects of the 
 Creative Force and different people have therefore generated 
 diverging postulates of principles of emancipation. The dif- 
 ference between any religion and its principle of emancipation 
 represents a Positive Concept with no reserve or qualifying 
 contingency which would leave room for doubt as to its very 
 nature and intent. If we say God is Love we say there is no 
 evil In God nor in Love. Religion, on the other hand, teaches 
 nevertheless a Principle of Evil which must be of archaic na- 
 ture and therefore abnormal, or subnormal as psychology 
 proves. 
 
 The principles of emancipation which have been brought to 
 light along with the evolution of religions are of purified or 
 aesthetical nature and their strongest appeal is directed to- 
 
42 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 wards the purification or enlightenment of psychic vision and 
 imagination. Every emancipating principle purifies and in- 
 creases the power of vision as collective experience and posi- 
 tive history indicate, while the archaic dogmatic side of re- 
 ligion postulating that principle remains anti-social and anti- 
 aesthetical. With the advance of aestheticism the emancipat- 
 ing principle becomes increasingly operative, while the retard- 
 ing element of dogmatism declines constantly toward extinc- 
 tion — requiring extraordinary drafts on credulity in order to 
 delay inevitable collapse. The emancipating principles are the 
 outgrowth of the artistic spirit; the Emancipators have been 
 Artists. Religious evolution is fundamentally art revolution. 
 Our creative power increases with, and in consequence of, ex- 
 panding and extending power of psychic vision ; and with the 
 cognition of the emancipating principle art creativeness as well 
 as general creativeness increases. The reason for this increase 
 lies in the fact that all psychic enlightenment has an elevating 
 and levitating effect, which makes humanity more highly crea- 
 tive. At the root of all creativeness and creation is a working 
 principle we call God, and, as the conception of it has been 
 evolving, the power of human creativeness has become more 
 active. It is evident that the conception of the emancipating 
 principle which stands for the Creative Force has been induced 
 by the creative part of humanity, and represents also the eman- 
 cipating principle of the age. The fact is that the credit for it 
 has not been properly attributed. The process may be said to 
 be reciprocally compensatory. The principle of emancipation is 
 no less the matrix than the offspring of man's conception of 
 the Creative Force. Through that consecration of soul that 
 comes from the casting out of fear, man is prompted to conform 
 his activities to principles and processes that he instinctively 
 feels to be true — each successful outcome of this ''unafraid- 
 ness" to rely on the Creative Force has spurred to greater 
 reliance, each forward step resulting in augmented creative 
 power. In other phrase : humanity has evolved itself automat- 
 ically through increase of its own creativeness along with the 
 increase of its instinctive Feeling into creative processes. This 
 implies that humanity's further advance in creativeness will 
 be similarly attained through further increase of feeling, and 
 
THE PRINCIPLE OF EMANCIPATION 43 
 
 a consequently firmer understanding of principles which govern 
 all creative processes. 
 
 The principle of the Creative Force mirrors the workings 
 of the creative Force itself. As this compensatory process be- 
 comes increasingly obvious from multiplying aspects, the more 
 securely we lay hold on that principle the more competently 
 creative we become. Principles reveal themselves to the most 
 acute aspiring and inspired in sharp outline — more vaguely to 
 many sensitive if less inquisitive ones. At first but a few are 
 animated to concentrate on the most diverse creative processes 
 and to explore and chart the entrancing vistas they are gifted 
 to perceive. Creative concentration leads to the soul of things, 
 as it increases transcending power, and thus brings enlighten- 
 ment with respect of the Creative Force. The cognition of an 
 emancipating principle may be compared to discovery of wire- 
 less radiography or the invention of the flying machine on 
 which many inspired minds had concentrated before a culmina- 
 tion resulted. Like any invention or discovery it must be fur- 
 ther evolved and developed. All is "in the air" so to say, there 
 being always many inspired minds unconsciously working to- 
 wards the emancipation of humanity just as other reactionary 
 minds lacking this concentrating purposefulness, are constantly 
 busy to hinder. The fact is : the creative processes need to be 
 practiced to be understood, in order to come into an informed 
 consciousness of the Creative Force. 
 
 All reliable interpretations of the Creative Force, or God, 
 depends on a true valuation of positive principles thus far 
 discovered. Humanity thanks Christ for revealing the principle 
 of the Creative Force as Love. This principle compelled rec- 
 ognition despite the extreme anti-social and materialistic age to 
 which it was promulgated. Its development is the result of 
 reaction against the extreme egotism and materialism which 
 the preceding age had developed and which still reigns. This 
 world war is merely the beginning of a revolutionary move- 
 ment which can only end when antiquated parts of our teach- 
 ings, which have perverted our conception of the Creative 
 Force, are repudiated. As yet our western civilizations, how- 
 ever progressive, remain dominated to some extent by the sur- 
 vival of vestiges of Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian and Jew- 
 
44 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 isli conceptions of religion. Here again we may see the re- 
 ciprocal interplay of tendencies. A slave civilization develops 
 from a religion in which fear is the predominating factor, and 
 pari passu a slave religion develops in such a civilization. 
 Such principle of the Creative Force as Love could only be 
 developed amid conditions where Love is most scorned and the 
 procreative faculty most abused. The same emancipating prin- 
 ciple that got its most formidable impetus from the teachings 
 of Jesus, was present in the religions that had preceded those 
 revolutionary utterances. But the priests of those earlier 
 cults, while not ignorant of that principle, preferred to min- 
 imize its importance, where it was not more expedient to either 
 ignore, or forthrightly to resist, its claim. It was scarcely to 
 be expected that the interests that thrived upon the persistence 
 of the fear-thought, should bestir themselves to dispelling fear. 
 On the contrary, the merit and virtue of a dread of the Creative 
 Force was constantly extolled. It cannot be doubted that 
 among the master class, and the priesthood that ministered to 
 that class, there was a recognition of Love as the cohesive force 
 of any worth-while social relationship. But, like the master- 
 class of all ages, they were more concerned for their immediate 
 privileges than for the remote happiness of mankind in gen- 
 eral. Nevertheless, from the preachments of fear sprouted in 
 the minds of the slave class the consciousness that the creative 
 forces manifesting in the very nature of things were benign. 
 And when at length the Nazarene proclaimed the doctrine that 
 God is Love, it was the common people that ** heard Him 
 gladly," for they were gratified to have confirmation of their 
 own consciousness of the emancipatory principle, — a conscious- 
 ness that had, in a vague and inarticulate way, permeated the 
 minds of man. It required the divine daring of the Nazarene 
 to bring that twilight apprehension to full light of day — to 
 focus, as it were, the hazy concept lurkingly lingering in the 
 hearts of the people — to give it coherence and stability. 
 
 An age that invents the powerful motor or masters the 
 electric current and studies the inner working of the atom has 
 naturally a quite different conception of creative processes and 
 of creative forces than an age which indolently lags. It is 
 an axiom in human evolution that the most forward striving 
 
THE PRINCIPLE OF EMANCIPATION 45 
 
 and inspired minds, which are naturally the most sensitive 
 minds, evolve within themselves that part of Creative Force 
 which is most abused and derided at the time. It is this that 
 emancipation of an age implies: the freeing of the age from 
 its particular degradation. Love, however, does not represent 
 the Whole of the principle, especially not to a symbolical age, 
 but it is an essential element of it. Love is at the root of all 
 creativeness and is a prime factor in the awakening and devel- 
 opment of Feeling. It is therefore a psychic enlightening 
 force, spiritual in its nature. The Creative Force is always 
 broader and deeper than our conception of it. It is repre- 
 sented within us by our psyche or feeling self which is always 
 ahead of our intellectual self, and in the measure as we increase 
 the creativeness of our psyche do we increase our creativeness, 
 as well as the conception and vision of the emancipating prin- 
 ciple. The progress in humanity is always reciprocal. Vision, 
 feeling, creativeness increase together automatically, one helps 
 the other just as our hands and feet and our senses help us 
 reciprocally to climb a ladder with more or less agility, or to 
 climb it at all. Those that '^fear" do not start to climb. Love 
 of the light is a product of visionary power. Visionary power 
 is the product of our Psyche or Feeling Self, which in turn 
 means an increase of Aestheticism. Thus all progress is of 
 aesthetical nature, fundamentally speaking, and to the extent 
 that we increase aesthetically in that measure do we increase 
 our conception of the Creative Force automatically. What I 
 wish to express is that love is the most essential part of 
 aestheticism and therefore of emancipation, but aestheticism 
 must aspire to greater and more exalted heights and express it- 
 self on higher and higher planes unceasingly. Every emancipa- 
 ting principle has both a creative and an aesthetical aspect, and 
 religion must become in time a cult of aestheticism and creative- 
 ness. Religion that will not overcome anti-aesthetical tenden- 
 cies incident to every cult of negation (or devil-cult) is futile. 
 Devil-cult implies a cult of fear, and fear reduces creative 
 power to a lower level. Fear saps the love out of creativeness, 
 rendering it impotent to generate feeling or aestheticism. The 
 problem of the religion of the future is therefore a religion of 
 higher creativeness, or a cult with human creativeness. 
 
46 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 It was among slave-holding races that the emancipating 
 principles of love was pronounced, and is beginning to find 
 recognition. Amongst people unacquainted with slavery there 
 developed other principles of emancipation because their orig- 
 inal religious conception of the Creative Force and creative 
 as well as procreative processes were different. We have to 
 turn our attention to the East in order to find different emanci- 
 pating principles. The East has never abused and degraded 
 the creativeness of humanity to such a degree as the West, 
 and has naturally not degraded the procreative faculty, woman- 
 hood and childhood, so much, but that a cult of love and an 
 emancipation through love could be developed and proclaimed. 
 The religion of thei East has also developed a cult of Fear of 
 the Creative Force, but it was Fear of Nature rather than Fear 
 of Man. This fear of nature created subnormal vision of an 
 impersonal aspect of the Creative Force, and a symbolism with 
 nature. The emancipating principle of the East is therefore 
 created out of reaction against fear of nature, whilst the 
 emancipating principle of the West is created out of reaction 
 against fear of man. The principle of emancipation of the 
 East is therefore of impersonal aspect and grew out of reaction 
 against an impersonal symbolical high art, whilst the West 
 has still to react against a personal symbolical art. The West 
 has not yet developed a high art with nature because it had 
 never developed a symbolical or subnormal cult with nature, 
 but had developed a subnormal cult with man and a subnormal 
 or symbolical art with man. 
 
 The difference of the emancipating principle of the East 
 and the West must therefore become evident as we come to 
 understand art. An understanding of religion demands knowl- 
 edge of what constitutes art. All creation is art creation. The 
 laws that govern creation govern true art. We cannot define 
 earlier religions unless we transcend different religions and 
 their high arts, and when we have accomplished this we know 
 the laws that govern the religion and art of the future. Nor 
 can we interpret art and religion without interpreting life and 
 creation. The true knowledge and vision of the Creative Force 
 itself is a natural consequence. Religion is the result of sub- 
 normal vision caused through fear, with the result of project- 
 
THE PRINCIPLE OF EMANCIPATION 47 
 
 ing the vision of the Creative Force outside of oneself. The 
 greater the reaction against fear the purer and higher the art, 
 and love increases in the same degree. We have to abolish fear 
 by abolishing a religion of fear and replacing it by a religion 
 of love, and this latter will be an aesthetic cult which appeals 
 to the psyche. 
 
 The East has evolved its principle of emancipation along 
 with the reaction against symbolism and symbolical high art 
 with nature, which principle of emancipation is fundamentally 
 an art principle. It is like our own principle of emancipa- 
 tion of mystical aesthetical nature. It is represented as 
 ''Harmony, Unity and Balance": the fundamental principles 
 governing high or mystical art. The evolution and disco^^ery 
 of this Eastern Principle must be discussed elsewhere. We 
 are interested in the principle of Love which Christ proclaimed 
 because we can more easily trace the powers which obstructed 
 its evolution as well as those which advanced it. It is as strange 
 to the East as the Eastern principle is to the West. 
 
 It must seem quite natural that a principle of Love must 
 broaden both ways in the course of evolution : intellectually and 
 spiritually, and that it cannot remain a dead letter forever. 
 Why have nearly two thousand years of so-called Christian 
 religion engendered more prostitution of love than develops 
 in paganism ? And why has the great striving for love not yet 
 been realized? Love cannot be developed by a religion which 
 keeps an archaic principle of fear alive. It has been developed 
 in circles which make for fearless research into creative pro- 
 cesses. Positive science, art, invention, sex equality, eugenics, 
 all work for greater socialization of humanity and thefore for 
 a more progressive civilization and aisthetization. The creative 
 masses have advanced civilization in spite of our religion of 
 fear, through enlightenment as to creative processes. There 
 is a logical reason why religion which bears Christ's name has 
 failed to respond to His principle of Creative Force. Religion 
 still regards sexual things as unclean, the woman as still soul- 
 less, the child born in sin. Relations of love are not cultivated 
 by religion ; on the contrary we are enjoined to fear the most 
 vital exercise of love, which cannot but make for prostitution 
 of Love. 
 
48 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 That fear decreases creativeness has been proved through 
 the increase of our creativeness since the weakening authority 
 of religion. Nations which remained orthodox have fallen far 
 behind their more enlightened neighbors in industrial, intel- 
 lectual and assthetical development. Religion has expounded 
 the imagined creativeness of an outside god, as well as an im- 
 agined love and has exalted love and creativeness as abstrac- 
 tions above, beyond and foreign to human love and creativeness. 
 The religion of the future expounds the creativeness of human- 
 ity which is increased through love of humanity. The highest 
 gospel will be the *'love of creativeness." The riddle is there- 
 fore: What has the manifestation of the Creative Force to 
 do with the creativeness of humanity and what has the love 
 of it to do with the love between humanity and its creativeness ? 
 The religionist's conception of God's love and creativeness is 
 the abstract concept of human love and creativeness as con- 
 ceived by such as think lightly or condemningly of human 
 love and procreative processes. The prostitution of human 
 love and reproduction is the result of projecting the inborne 
 creative power towards an extramundane symbol through a 
 perversion of the conception of the procreative power of hu- 
 manity. It created thus an abstract conception or a symbol of 
 the Creative Force. A symbol is always an abstract desocial- 
 ized value. As our symbol-worship has decreased our creative- 
 ness has increased. The symbol has lost its value and the human 
 personality and its own inborne creativeness took preference. 
 The social impetus of the recent past has already found en- 
 lightenment through collective experiences and has replaced 
 a w^orship of an imagined god creativeness for a worship of 
 human creativeness. The abolition of slavery and the respect 
 for the creative part of humanity has increased a thousandfold 
 with the waning conception of a personal god belief. The fu- 
 ture still more will discard the symbol for tlie reality and will 
 create a positive^ science which represents a consecration of 
 soul or psyche to creative ends. It replaces a worship of a 
 symbol through an increased vision of inborne occult powers. 
 This implies that we must conceive the Creative Force in action 
 as revealed to us through our own inner consciousness. The 
 Creative Force reveals itself to us only through developing our 
 
THE PRINCIPLE OF EMANCIPATION 49 
 
 own creative powers to the fullest extent, and that implies that 
 we develop both our intellect and psyche, and both in harmony. 
 Such harmony means essentially love. It proves also that there 
 can be nothing evil in the Creative Force, and that all concep- 
 tions of evil or devil originate in minds too undeveloped to 
 overcome inertia. In a very important sense ''the idle mind is 
 the devil's workshop." The type of mind that abstains from 
 creativeness develops a sense of dependence and fear. Noth- 
 ing of progressive value can emanate from such sources. Never- 
 theless out of such subnormal perversion of psychic power comes 
 an impetus of revolt that inspires the more dynamic in, the 
 direction of greater inventiveness and higher creativeness. On 
 the other hand all creative work begets confidence in oneself 
 and therefore in the Creative Force. Thus we can trace the 
 sourcs of emancipating principles, and see why this heaven- 
 earth is still a foolhouse instead of a paradise. Manifestly sym- 
 bolism denotes an unsound conception of the Creative Force. 
 Prostitution of love and of creativeness spring from the same 
 root. 
 
 Our entire knowledge and wisdom as well as our cultural 
 products are so utterly confusing that it becomes evident that 
 it takes the development of a much higher consciousness than 
 our educators thus far have developed. The real meaning of 
 life and creation escapes the psychically and physically inactive. 
 Their inability to grasp the causes of evil equals their failure to 
 understand the nature of evil, and as well as the nature of Good 
 or God in action. Organized religion, aristocracy and militar- 
 ism for aggression have everything in common and little to dis- 
 tinguish them from each other. All three represent waste which 
 manifests the aspect of evil. As this becomes clear waste will 
 be avoided and the substance and effort employed toAvard ad- 
 vancing in the direction of a really divine state. 
 
 Our appraisal of the principle of emancipation must be en- 
 larged and broadened in order to become increasingly valid. 
 We must look into the nature of love as it reveals itself in all 
 itsi aspects. Love is of mystical creative nature, a mystical 
 or occult process which neither symbolism nor intellectual sci- 
 ence can lucidly understand and competently interpret. En- 
 lightenment as to love comes like all occult mystical processes 
 
50 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 and products through development of feeling, that is, through 
 psychic discernment. The more we develop the one the more 
 we develop automatically the other. Love's sex-expression is 
 the highest power with which humanity is endowed in order 
 to promulge its feeling into life ; and feeling, being of highest 
 importance it must follow that love isi an a?sthetical process 
 which reveals the laws that govern all evolution of life and 
 creation. Besides being the highest creative power with which 
 humanity is endowed, love is also the highest illuminating force, 
 enlightening feeling and developing soul. Whatever therefore 
 makes for enlightenment must lodge in that great principle 
 of the Creative Force that compels to the conviction that GOD 
 is ENLIGHTENMENT itself. 
 
 It is upon principles which make for Enlightenment on 
 which the religion of the future must find its base. Quite 
 naturally all positive sciences contribute to it, and it is funda- 
 mentally a positive science of religion which replaces the re- 
 ligion of the past. We may thank the non-creative integers 
 of humanity of the past that we have a religion, which, though 
 evolved by the creative factors of humanity, has derived no lit- 
 tle stimulus from the inactivity of the indolent. The religion 
 now evolving is as different from the religion of the past as 
 is mediaeval alchemy from modern chemistry. What religion 
 was developed out of the past is upside down and inside out. 
 The religion of the future develops the God Within. This posi- 
 tive science of religion has as many aspects as its principle 
 of emancipation. The social, civic and economic will be as 
 vitally affected as the occult, aesthetic and artistic aspect. The 
 evolution of the coming religion proceeds upon the very re- 
 verse of the animating purpose of earlier religions : the restric- 
 tion of enlightenment. 
 
 As the Creative Force represents a working principle which 
 expresses itself in the makeup of every created object and 
 therefore in the most different expressions it must be evident 
 that our highest acts and art expressions must in future express 
 and reflect that principle. As it is expressed in all individual 
 life so too is it destined to manifest in a collective universal 
 understanding of that principle. In other words, all humanity 
 must reach in time a certain mental homogeneity. The genetic 
 
THE PRINCIPLE OP EMANCIPATION 51 
 
 and specific homogeneity of humanity is proved by the fact 
 that reproductive sexual coition is not only possible but highly 
 beneficial. All the progress of humanity has manifested through 
 intermingling of blood and thought alike. All real progress in 
 culture and civilization, and thus all progress of humanity, has 
 been increased through increased intercourse. Intellectual and 
 spiritual homogeneity of humanity will come in spite of all 
 those reactionary forces which in the past have hindered it. If 
 it cannot come in peace it comes through war. This homo- 
 geneity is obviously of dual nature because all our mentality is 
 dual, that is : intellectual or scientific on the one hand, and spir- 
 itual, that is psychic, occult or mystical, on the other. This 
 mental duality becomes pronounced as both the counterparts 
 become developed. The more universal our intellect becomes 
 the more universal must become our understanding of the prin- 
 ciple governing our psyche. All separation of humanity has led 
 to heterogeneity, and their unification must lead to univer- 
 ealization and a homogeneity of a higher order. 
 
 All universalization of ideas and ideals leads to higher ideals 
 and to a universal conception of the Creative Force. The pres- 
 ent day's trend toward a universal religion through teaching 
 the most beneficial ideas and ideals that all religions have pro- 
 duced, is the best proof that humanity is not going to follow 
 the religious dogmatist in the future. To become acquainted 
 with other religious and other high art expressions is quite nat- 
 urally a better means of enlightenment than to hear only one 
 side of the feud which keeps humanity fighting each other on 
 the so-called heavenly plane. We long for an Open Forum 
 whereon to settle material differences, and a tribunal in which 
 intellectual differences may be compared, and so, in perhaps 
 some similar fashion shall we learn to dispose of spiritual dis- 
 sension. The better wisdom will survive just as it survives in 
 positive science. 
 
 The separation of humanity into castes and creeds belonged 
 to an era of fear and distrust. Unity and harmony and mutual 
 confidence are the offsprings of love. Every incursion into 
 the realms of the supernatural centers on ideas which blossom 
 into ideals. They must necessarily be of experimental nature 
 at first, and must stand the test of use and practice. Cumula- 
 
52 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 tive experience indicates that they are pathological first and 
 destroy themselves in time, and out of reaction and re-creation 
 rises the higher ideal, which is wholesome and can evolve. 
 This evolutionary process with consecutive revolution and re- 
 creation represents always a greater universalization. We 
 live in an age wherein pathological products are being revo- 
 lutionized; we not merely reform them, because all reforming 
 in the past has only led to greater obscuring and confusing 
 of the truth. 
 
 All progress in culture and civilization has been caused 
 through a stern revelation of pathological processes, and the 
 recognition of wholesome principles. This progress has been 
 won by the revolutionist, never by the reformer. We are all 
 aware that on the development of positive science depends the 
 unification of humanity, and positive science of psychology 
 must replace the negative religion of the past. That this sci- 
 ence, which is in theJ making, has shaken the foundation of 
 our religion to the very depth is proof of its efficiency. All 
 positive psychic development disintegrates psycho-pathological 
 impresses automatically; all improvement of occult or sub- 
 jective powers integrates, that is re-incarnates the spirit in 
 the flesh. Religion and art cover only part of the wide range 
 of spiritual or occult processes, but, at present, the most prom- 
 inent part. The future will take even greater interest in the 
 development of other spiritual, psychic or occult phenomena 
 and processes. The understanding of the manifold occult phe- 
 nomena and processes leads naturally to their development. 
 A positive science of religion of the future includes their de- 
 velopment, because they make for higher creativeness. Re- 
 ligion is quite naturally the cause of much of their malforma- 
 tion, but just as religion has increased our power of vision 
 through creating fear so has it also evoked other psychic or 
 occult powers through fear. However, such perversions help 
 us to recognize their origin and purpose. Humanity has never 
 cognized the truth until after disaster had resulted from its 
 earlier rejection. It was re-cognized, as it were, after cogni- 
 tion had been denied. That religion of the past separated 
 itself from normal occult processes and their development is 
 only natural, and a logical consequence of extraraundane ex- 
 
THE PRINCIPLE OF EMANCIPATION 53 
 
 cursions into abstract realms, which led to disregard of the 
 laws of nature. AVith the exhaustion of the abstract or super- 
 stitious realm we arrive at a positive science which makes for 
 a study of the laws of nature which must also be the laws of 
 the Creative Force. Mystical or occult creativeness depends on 
 the degree to which we transcend the principles which gov- 
 ern the Creative Force. This transcending process develops 
 us automatically as repeatedly stated. We cannot expand our 
 own creative powers without expanding the Creative Force 
 within us and our conception of it. We cannot develop a re- 
 ligion of the future without transcending what religion has 
 generated through calling forth reaction. Thus we enter the 
 realms of the religion of the future through better under- 
 standing of the religion of the past, because we need some- 
 thing pathological and spiritually bewildering in order to ex- 
 ercise and increase our transcending occult powers. All effort 
 exerted in transcending any psychic phenomena evokes and 
 increases our own occult or mystical powers. All such tran- 
 scending of phenomena which deal with creative processes 
 serves to stimulate the psychic entity, thereby promoting 
 aestheticism by advancing our feeling into life and nature. On 
 the other hand all non-transcending dwelling on extramundane 
 and symbolical imagination leads to the reverse, and has an 
 anti-£Esthetical effect. It is always with an increase of asstheti- 
 cal powers with which we have to deal in order to increase 
 various occult powers which vary in diverse individuals. All 
 religion makes for destruction of inborn and original individu- 
 ality and its higher or spiritual creativeness. The principle of 
 the Creative Force is of aesthetical nature which leads in time 
 to an aesthetical Weltanschauung, — an aesthetical appercep- 
 tion of the universe. 
 
 We see thus that our psychic entity is that part within us 
 which makes for all spiritual and spirit expressions, and con- 
 sequently for freedom of self expression through direct psychic 
 appeal. Religion, as it will develop henceforth, must com- 
 prise a science capable of interpretation by positive psychic 
 laws, and will lead to an art which speaks directly and affirma- 
 tively to the psyche. The negative intent of the religion! of 
 the past resulted in a religion of negative concepts and must 
 
54 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 be replaced by a religion and an art with positive and affirma- 
 tive purpose. It is therefore evident that the religion of the 
 future recognizes only a positive Creative Force with positive 
 principles, and strives to develop a Free and Positive as well 
 as Universal Science, and its logical and suitable counterpart 
 in Art. 
 
 VI 
 
 WHAT IS MYSTICISM, AND WHAT IS A 
 MYSTIC? 
 
 Mysticism is today a positive psychology and the mystic is 
 a psychist, that is a person with Insight into higher creative 
 processes. The aim of all such positive, constructive or prac- 
 tical psychology is dual: to interpret psychical, mystical or 
 spiritual phenomena and to discover educational principles 
 which lead to the development of such properties and qualities 
 as have a reconciliatory recuperative and restoring or healing 
 effect. Its aim is therefore to develop Insight — the result of 
 well-developed power of Feeling into life and nature and into 
 creative processes in general. The development of such Feel- 
 ing has a positive generative and re-creative effect. Thus mys- 
 ticism as a science deals with the development of various modes 
 of creative and re-creative expressions and especially with 
 mystical or psychic art expression, besides other expressions of 
 soulful life. AH these various terms such as psychic, spiritual, 
 mystical, occult, magic and others have accumulated through 
 interchange of language of different people, but all aim at the 
 interpretation of manifestations of psychic origin. They all 
 represent spiritual or spirit expressions, but as religion or 
 spiritual language of any people has developed along with its 
 art expression, and as mysticism and mystical art is developed 
 out of Reaction against archaic religions and their art, we must 
 apply to expressions of art the term mysticism proper. We 
 have, however, come to perceive that all creation is funda- 
 mentally of the same nature as true art creation, and that re- 
 creative acts are truly religious acts, since we have developed 
 practical mysticism. Creative psychics deals with practical 
 
WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 55 
 
 mysticism as exercised in all walks of life. We enter an age 
 of practical mysticism. This practical mysticism has always 
 existed, although not recognized; and credit has heretofore 
 been given to the non-creative class while these have in reality 
 drawn all their better inspiration from the creative class. 
 
 Art expressions represent fundamentally speaking the spir- 
 itual utterances of the people, just as every day language is 
 the means of interchange of its workaday thinking. Every 
 separate people and race has developed its own spiritual con- 
 ception, mode of expression and view of life and creation, just 
 as every climatic, geographical, geological and physiological 
 condition has manifested in the formation of character inevi- 
 table to it. With the interchange of the respective expressions, 
 opinions, ideals and ideas the people of one country become bet- 
 ter informed than any single nation or race can inform 
 itself alone. Better facilities for travel and communication 
 have enriched our means of expression. Intellectual Greece 
 promulgated our intellectual scientific language, and we have 
 actually accomplished a separation of intellectual from aesthet- 
 ical concepts, which earlier peoples had but dimly sensed. We 
 have become more dual individually as we have progressed 
 beyond our extramundane religion. Never before have the 
 lines between the life and the religion of any peoples been so 
 distinctly drawn. 
 
 Development of psyche requires specialized study, practice 
 and experiment, quite apart from, however assisted by, the 
 intellectual urge. Neither religion nor scholarship are 
 equipped to form, guide or direct our psyche aright. It is not 
 to reform our schools and religion but to revolutionize them, 
 and whatever the outcome, the effort we exert in revolutioniz- 
 ing our perverse teaching must result in a sprightlier Insight. 
 The energy so devoted enhances our critical transcending pow- 
 ers, enabling us to penetrate to the causes of our pagan civ- 
 ilization which are rooted in abnormal psychic development. 
 
 As the terminology of science allows us more candid dis- 
 cussion of creative and procreative processes, which the con- 
 ventional language and culture discountenances and would 
 fain prohibit, it represents a universal language and universal 
 means of exchange of opinions and ideas. It is more a free 
 
56 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 thought language which the forces of reaction dare not boldly 
 curb while they do not hesitate to abridge freedom of press and 
 speech when couched in conventional language, in the expecta- 
 tion that thought is to be denied freedom of expression by such 
 abridgement. 
 
 With the expanding universalization, or socialization, of a 
 language of scientific expression, a more discriminating 
 analysis and a higher criticism evolves. The ''average man" 
 takes less for granted and demands cogent support for every 
 dogma. Clashes of opinion and conviction no longer center 
 about personalities, nor erudite interpretations of ancient docu- 
 ments, with their baseless hostilities ; but partake of the spirit 
 of friendly emulation, which, whatever else the outcome, 
 arouses those engaged from lethargic indifference and conven- 
 tional thinking, and contributes toward a subconscious, or 
 psychic, development that opens the mind to the modern or 
 emancipatory aspects of mysticism. 
 
 A positive science of psychics gives to old and misused 
 terms a new and a more cogent valuation. Such words as 
 mystical, spiritual, occult, aesthetical and magical, formerly 
 employed as signifying manifestations of an anti-natural char- 
 acter, have been rescued from the captivity to which super- 
 stition had subjected them, and have become useful as denot- 
 ing phases of understanding in consonance with experience. 
 
 Mysticism, as it is here termed, has its origin in ancient 
 transcendentalism, and its connotations have followed the 
 changes that religion has undergone. It represents a cult 
 of God of Unity instead of a religious God which is opposed 
 by a devil. It is essentially a cult of reconciliation of opposing 
 concepts — a reconciliation that arrives at ** organic fusion and 
 growth" of which we do not know the process, but cognize the 
 principles which lead to its development. It is therefore mys- 
 tical just as the electric current or gravity is mystical. Such 
 mystical cult of reconciliation has been developed since ancient 
 times by necessity because of the exaggeration of a religious 
 devil cult and differences between and within diverse religions. 
 
 Arising differences of opinion as regards creation and 
 creator resulted in schisms in different religions. Every such 
 Bchism represents the turning point of extra-mundane religion 
 
WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 57 
 
 to a positive religion, and a revulsion against extra-mundane 
 reverence. This is a necessary revolution because every excur- 
 sion into the extra-mundane fictitious causes greater com- 
 plexity of opinion, and therefore a reaction and a return to cis- 
 worldly affairs. Thus every cult of other-worldly powers leads 
 in time back to a cult of human creativeness and divinity of 
 humanity itself. The fact is that our attention is drawn away 
 by sheer necessity from fictitious speculations into practical 
 channels in order to reconcile what had led to hostility. We 
 come therefore today back to a cult of reality of life and 
 existence instead of a cult of speculations. An extra-mundane 
 religious cult cannot solve, but serves rather to increase quar- 
 rels, and we come back from a cult of "There and Then" to 
 a cult of ''Here and Now." Such mystical cult of reconcilia- 
 tion is the result of Insight into creative processes, and is a 
 cult of human creativeness, which is necessitated through the 
 increase of caste and class distinctions and extends to every 
 walk of life, and is caused through reaction against supersti- 
 tion. It will in time take preference over extra-mundane fic- 
 titious religion altogether. Mysticism is no longer religious 
 mysticism as in the past, but we come upon the becoming 
 mystic in every walk of life. 
 
 The mystic of today is the artist with a positive philosophy 
 of life engendered by a deep insight into life and nature, an 
 insight of psychic nature, which by necessity demands a crit- 
 ical enlightening of the intellect as well. Mysticism is an 
 evolution of insight through revolution of one's personality, 
 thinking and character, which represents broadening of vision 
 and indicates radical changes in one's thinking. Our usual 
 vision and thinking is by necessity conventional and habitual, 
 and being largely influenced by symbolism, is imposed on us 
 by hypnotism. 
 
 The mystic, as conceived in the recent past, is both artist 
 and philosopher, and the inborn personality and originality, 
 and the path of his development determines whether he is a 
 mystical artist or a philosophic mystic. Each has arrived at 
 mysticism through a positive philosophy of life. It may be 
 said of all of them that ''their art expression is their religion," 
 just as the practical mystic's creativeness is his highest reli- 
 
58 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 gious expression. All mystics have this in common : that they 
 are ''social universalists" as it were. They are revolutionists 
 necessarily, being in a constant state of reaction against 
 dogmatism, formalism and arbitrary abstractiveness. To com- 
 pile a list of contemporary mystics is a sheer impossibility, 
 for your practical mystic does not burst into prominence in 
 an age where spiritual things are still regarded as other- 
 worldly things, and are separated from life and human 
 creativeness. 
 
 In every age we find the mystic in the making — dominated 
 more or less by vestiges of indoctrinated training, but aspir- 
 ing always to surmount what limits the understanding to the 
 palpable and tangible, and soaring into realms not subject to 
 the limitations of a lower dimensional habit of investigation, 
 bringing back rich booty for the intellect to play with, after 
 its timidities had been allayed, and later — often very much 
 later — to work with, to achieve with — and then, still later, to 
 claim as all its own. 
 
 The revolt against the incongruities imposed upon the 
 human spirit by the dilapidated conventionalism of a discred- 
 ited theology is not to be stayed. The decrepit survivals of 
 fear-inspired theologies are everywhere giving way before the 
 cheery and blithesome joyousness of humanity coming into 
 its own ; coming with a new appreciation of the boundlessness 
 of its inheritance of possibilities; coming with song and love 
 and play and laughter — with its capacity for discerning the 
 whimsical, the sportive, the incongruous — with a sense of 
 humor too long suppressed, as other clamors of the spirit have 
 been suppressed. 
 
 In every age, in every race, in every land there have been 
 those sturdy pioneers of mysticism who dauntlessly rebelled 
 against a rigid conformity to current ideals — or the lack of 
 them. It is not to be denied that intellect has played an im- 
 portant role in man's development. The mystic does not ab- 
 jure those faculties that derive their exercise from dealing 
 with what has already been accomplished, but he brings into 
 operation a capacity for insight into what has not yet been 
 achieved. He accepts the entire endowment of the intellect, 
 but instead of stopping there, it is there he begins. From 
 
WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 69 
 
 that base he projects the tentacles of psyche, giving free rein 
 to an intrepid inquisitiveness. Awe in the presence of the 
 mystical affects both the intellect and the feeling. The intel- 
 lect, when unsupported by mysticism, is overawed by what 
 it has not fathomed, and interprets his attitude in terms of 
 fear. The mystic, on the other hand, while conscious of awe, 
 recognizes in the awe-inspiring an invitation to explore, a 
 call to comradeship with those higher forces that yield their 
 secrets to the loving and the daring. The intellect makes a 
 merit of excluding what is not yet known, tardily and grudg- 
 ingly accepting what feeling has learnt to wrest from the 
 whilom unknown, and meanwhile dismissing rather cavalierly 
 and arrogantly as unknowable whatever itself has not yet 
 been adventurous enough to penetrate. 
 
 Mysticism, without disparaging the negative merit of intel- 
 lectual dogmatism, recognizes the virtues of the intellectual 
 processes, but observes that it is only in copartnership with, 
 and under the guidance of psychic insight, that the intellect 
 becomes efficient. Indeed, copartnership is scarcely the suit- 
 able term to describe^ the conjunction, for, after all, it cannot 
 escape the perception that it is the instinctive, the intuitional, 
 the feeling faculty within us that dominates. It may rather 
 be said that it is the feeling that seeks, that aspires, that per- 
 forms, while the intellect is content to appraise. It is the 
 scales on which the miner weighs his dust after the arduous 
 labor of panning out the metal. 
 
 Mysticism implies and necessitates ''freedom of self ex- 
 pression." It is "feeling become articulate." As the age is 
 eager to discover or discern a mystic it is fitting here that a 
 few be named, without undertaking to compile a list, were 
 that task possible. Ever since Rousseau, Europe has been in 
 the throes of producing mystics, but such development is hin- 
 dered and suppressed through extreme reactionary forces. 
 Nevertheless the list of men who have developed deep insight 
 is legion. Maurice Maeterlinck is an outstanding living ex- 
 ample. The elder Tolstoy was a mystic in whom the mysticism 
 indigenous to earlier religions was blended with that of the 
 emancipation, and the tendency to symbolism so predominated 
 in him as to curb his effectiveness, a condition quite logical in 
 
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60 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 a period of transition; just as Oliver Lodge and some others 
 permitted themselves to be swayed by an inclination to 
 spiritism. 
 
 What is the developing of a positive science of psychics 
 other than the indices of an age of mysticism, when this science 
 once becomes fully socialized and common property? It has 
 remained for America to produce practical mysticism by af- 
 fording the fecund environment for a luxuriant flowering of 
 the dawning religion of the future and its concomitant asethet- 
 icism — its new courage and its new faith, and its acceptance 
 of the beckonings of the unseen forces as less a forbidding 
 challenge than an alluring invitation. 
 
 The outstanding determination of the resolute colonists 
 who formed the republic was to tolerate no aristocracy, 
 theocratic or political. There have been occasional veerings 
 that bear the aspect of reaction, especially in the indifference 
 to the presumptions of its land forestallers, but there has been 
 no reversal and there will not be. Whatever the temporary 
 hindrances, America is still the land of freest opportunity, 
 and while obstructions to entire freedom are encountered, 
 these are certain to be removed. A people that have once de- 
 clared that they will not permit an invasion of life and liberty 
 nor trammels on the pursuit of happiness may suffer some re- 
 strictions for a while, but they have only to become aroused 
 to awareness to defend themselves against encroachment. 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman are conspicuous 
 exponents of mystical insight. Thomas Edison is a practical 
 exemplification of the creative principle of mysticism. Henry 
 Ford is a most remarkable mystical mind manifesting in a 
 practical adaptation of the compensatory principle by supply- 
 ing the age with what it needs instead of abusing it. 
 
 John Dewey, the pioneer preacher of the American move- 
 ment towards civilization and education through play and 
 creativeness, is one whose work will do much for the impend- 
 ing emancipation. 
 
 In ancient times such mystics were regarded by the masses 
 as gods or demi-gods after they had been "discovered'* by the 
 cognoscenti. , The recognition of the practical mystic as the 
 genius of the age has animated in America numerous indi- 
 
WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 61 
 
 vidual educationary endeavor in that direction. Such attempts 
 are still hampered and obstructed by our self-satisfied arrogant 
 educators. All effort towards abolishing unapplied teaching 
 and against the hypnotizing influence of preaching increases 
 automatically the psychic creative powers. The modem mys- 
 tic is a practical man of affairs and altogether represents the 
 creative genius of the age. Independent positive journalism 
 is one of the greatest assets of our age which lessens the 
 weight of the millstones which the past has fastened upon us. 
 Our independent magazines, for which America is justly 
 record-breaking, and which present all sides to the public 
 which, seeks in enlightenment its salvation, are of highest gen- 
 eral value. There are others which are especially devoted to 
 phychic insight while some are striving in their several ways 
 to deal with various aspects of emancipation of humanity from 
 the bondage of the past. We cannot get our insight from a 
 few sources and not from old books, but alone from living 
 thought produced by the most forward striving minds. Civic, 
 economic, social and political matters must be given their 
 share as well as what pertains to the life of the spirit and its 
 expression in aesthetjsm and art. 
 
 The evolution of mysticism has not escaped the invasion 
 of the mountebank and the charlatan, but such impostors have, 
 quite unwittingly, served to spur to genuine endeavor such 
 as are capable of developing critical and transcending power 
 instead of relying on a shallow belief in make-believe. There 
 has been exerted along with religion a prodigious influence to 
 arouse these powers through stimulating curiosity and inquis- 
 itiveness. The adroit priest in ancient Egypt who veiled 
 ** Nothing" is as admirable as the Buddhist priest and Shinto 
 guardian who places a mirror or a crystal to represent the 
 Unknown, and leaves all to the imagination, of those who really 
 seek truth. Oracles, clair-voyance, clair-audience, clair- 
 sentience, telepathy and the many other psychic phenomena 
 all fall under the realms of mysticism, and the abuse and im- 
 position which are practiced side by side with true develop- 
 ment need deter none from developing his distinct psychic 
 power which every individual possesses without exception. 
 Neglect of the genuine, because of the presumptions of the 
 
62 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 spurious is the result of anti-social teachings which prevents 
 "feeling to become articulate." Our spiritual or psychic 
 senses are instinctive extensions of our objective senses, or, 
 to state it in another way, all our objective senses are only 
 further means created by our psyche to inform itself. 
 
 We must therefore regard religions of the past as the ini- 
 tial attempt to solve the riddle of life and creation by experi- 
 ment and reflex but not as the final solution, because all such 
 early effort must lead into the extra-mundane and to conven- 
 tional habit of thought and custom, but not to exercise our 
 own creativeness. The Creative Force is not a habit-forming 
 force, but just the reverse, that it : a force which divides itself 
 into dual contra-distinguished forces in order to *' create some- 
 thing Higher out of the Lower." It is thus a Re-creative 
 Force and an experimenting force. It divides itself in order 
 to create, and unites to re-create, and what cannot unite again 
 must destroy itself. There must always arise mystical minds 
 which through developing Insight into the true nature of Life 
 and Creation produce that necessary Common Understanding 
 which leads to constructive evolution instead of a destructive 
 revolution. The examples of Sodom and Gommorrah, of 
 Babylon and Rome teach us the lesson that life and nature 
 exert a self-evolving experimenting power which tries to solve 
 its problems in its own way, which we can ''feel," and if it 
 does not succeed we destroy ourselves in order that mankind 
 can repeat the experiment again and again until we are taught 
 the necessary lessons. Every effort towards greater separate- 
 ness must be met by a greater striving after Unity, and the 
 mystic tries to solve the problem the age demands for its 
 emancipation. 
 
 Emancipation means thus the pronouncing of a cult of what 
 had been neglected or suppressed, which must follow as the 
 necessary means of restoring the balance which had been lost. 
 A cult of Cooperation must follow a cult of Separateness, a 
 cult of Externalization must lead to a cult of Insight, which 
 brings a higher conception and representation of the Infinite. 
 The more we turn away from nature, the more must the suc- 
 ceeding cult center on the simple and demonstrably relative. 
 A cult of the male must be followed by a higher cult of the 
 
WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 63 
 
 feminine. A cult of sex suppression must be followed by a 
 higher cult of sex-evolvement. The further we have gone into 
 the negative, abstract and unapplied, the stronger must be 
 the striving after the applied and synthetic. The return move- 
 ment represents always a revolution and a reaching out to a 
 higher plane of consciousness and expression. 
 
 We can thus clearly recognize from collective experiences 
 East and West, that the Creative Force itself is a Principle, and 
 by its very nature must be Impersonal and Neutral, and is 
 represented to our conception as the World-Soul, of which our 
 individual soul is just a part which we have to increase. We 
 evolve the Creative Force in the measure as we evolve our- 
 selves. Our soul represents the God in Unity while our dual 
 planes represent it in action. We must develop our dual planes 
 in order to develop soul and thus increase our stabilizing soul 
 as well as the world-soul. Soul represents the gyrator, so to 
 say, which draws the divided dual effort together to united 
 re-creative action again and again, and the result is *' organic 
 fusion and growth." True art, like all true creativeness, is 
 the result of this uniting of the intellect and psyche to unite 
 and re-create through reflex what the separate planes have 
 prepared through experiment. We come thus back to regard 
 all true creation as Art Creation, and have to interpret art in 
 order to understand life and creation. True art is essentially 
 the representation of the infinite Creative Force or God, and 
 must represent it in all created objects in a manner which re- 
 veals the workings of it. True art must have a recuperative 
 or mystical power which has a restoring and re-creating effect 
 on the mind of the beholder. Without going further into the 
 nature of such art at present I quote Schelling's definition of 
 Beauty from Tolstoy's ''What Is Art?": ''Beauty is the rep- 
 resentation of the Infinite in the Finite. And the chief char- 
 acter of a product of art is unconscious infinity. Art is the 
 Union of the subjective and the objective of nature and reason, 
 of the unconscious with the conscious. And therefore art is 
 the highest means of knowledge." 
 
 How this art creativeness and art consciousness may be de- 
 veloped must be left to further publications. What I wish to 
 point out before closing is to submit to the reader the follow- 
 
64 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 ing consideration. The Creative Force, which art has to rep- 
 resent in all created objects, must bring to bear relationship 
 of these objects to each other. The Creative Force in re- 
 creative action, which we alone can represent, reveals itself to 
 us always as contradistinguished duality and pairs of duality, 
 as in male and female or animal and plant. The ancient 
 transcendentalists teach us that *'life is the result of a recon- 
 ciliation of pairs of opposites." Plant nature is the psychical 
 complement to animal life just as woman is the psychical 
 complementary part to man. Our psyche represents the plant 
 self within us, which is most favorably influenced by nature. 
 Plant nature is next to love and sex expression the highest 
 psychic enlightening power. The duty of both is **to form and 
 inform our feeling self* and thus produce insight. The fact 
 is that ** truly relative art with nature" alone can lead to 
 the fundamentals which underly all true art expressions and 
 must form the Insight for all art development. We cannot 
 produce true art without practicing an art ** truly relative to 
 nature," or what must be called **a high art of Landscape 
 Gardening," because verdant and flowering nature and the 
 fruitful hillsides, slopes and valleys alone provide us with such 
 * living plastic material" on which we can form and inform 
 our Psychic Insight. Only through such complementary prac- 
 tice is the artist enabled to produce highest art creations. 
 
 God, the Creative Force, the World-Soul, is Unity, Harmony, 
 a divine Self -Unconscious equipoise. In action it is Sex Force, 
 the two complementary parts composing the united Allness. 
 The dual forces comprising the Whole, enter our understand- 
 ing in different aspects — one, the Restricting, the other the 
 Enlightening, force; or, as the Useful and the Beautiful re- 
 spectively, the first in this duality being what religion has called 
 the Positive or God, the other Bad, or Evil. In other parallel 
 aspects the duality appears as masculine and feminine, or as 
 animal and plant life, or as social and aesthetical respectively, 
 the former embracing the civic and economic, the latter the 
 spiritual or artistic. 
 
 Thus the masculine, the animal, social, civic and economic 
 aspect of the duality stands for the useful, restricting or re- 
 sisting intellectual power, and the feminine, aesthetical, artistic 
 
WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 65 
 
 for the beautiful or enlightening phychic part of the duality. 
 The latter being the inherent and inborne higher representa- 
 tive of the '/Unity," the former the part separated to increase 
 reciprocal experience and thus as necessary catalytic Irritant 
 to regenerativeness and for further enlightenment for the fem- 
 inine or psychic part within. All actual regeneration is per- 
 formed by the feminine or psychic within us, which is not 
 absent in the male but overdominated by the intellectual part. 
 In the feminine sex the Psyche is predominant. 
 
 It is by such symbolical or abstract conceptions as God and, 
 Devil that religions have distorted the meaning and thwarted 
 an understanding of these counterparts of Unity. Theology 
 exalted the Intellect as the Good and decried Psyche as Evil, 
 thereby degrading the Feminine as sinful and the sex-impulse as 
 vile. In mathematics, in chemistry, applied electricity and the 
 like, the religious and algebraic symbols and signs, such as posi- 
 tive and negative, plus and minus, have already found revalua- 
 tion in a more valid interpretation, and the positive science of 
 Psychics shares with all applied sciences the higher enlighten- 
 ment due to this advance. Mysticism too, like theology, postu- 
 lates dualism, but instead of seeking to suppress either aspect 
 of the duality, gives equal and divine importance to each. The 
 suppression of Instinct — as contradistinguished from Intellect — 
 served really to emphasize that which was condemned, thus 
 accentuating the very manifestations against which it most 
 eloquently inveighed. Sex-precocity, for instance, psychic and 
 especially infantile sexual trauma, polymorphous perverse and 
 all such abnormal states which psychology comprises under the 
 collective name of infantilism of sexuality, prevail only among 
 peoples to whom the suppressive endeavors of an inverted mora- 
 listic thology have been represented as the acme of virtue. The 
 requisite balance can be restored only by such higher recogni- 
 tion as increases consciousness, for it springs from a restoration 
 of consciousness which had been lost. The Intellect, being the 
 restricting power (owing to the fallibility and limitation of 
 our objective senses) must recede from its predominance in 
 our culture and social life, and accede to Psyche its proper 
 status as the higher Enlightening power. 
 
 Primeval mystical ages were not contaminated with subse- 
 
66 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 quently-developed condemnation of sex-instinct. Among the 
 ancient Japanese and the earlier Scandian races, and others, 
 the equality of the feminine was never denied ; and we, in the 
 modern revolution against medieval monastic asceticism, are 
 only returning to a higher consciousness of a fundamental truth, 
 after having developed the Intellect far above the stages at- 
 tained by the ancients. 
 
 But we have reached the line of demarcation where the 
 power of the intellect ends. Many of our most advanced phi- 
 losophers and scientists have clearly recognized the presence 
 of such a limitation, but few of them have as yet developed 
 sufficient Insight into creative processes as to be able to cross 
 the Divide into the realms of the mystical. It is for them to 
 develop mysticism in order to clarify their understanding, just 
 as the artist must do who aspires to produce higher art. The 
 power of expression evolves quite spontaneously through the 
 emancipation of the psychic nature from the bondage of the in- 
 tellect. 
 
 In the human species the Female is the higher representa- 
 tive of the Creative Force, as plant life is relatively more highly 
 important than animal life. Primordial life was bi-sexual. 
 There was first plant-animal before animal life was segregated 
 from the duality, just as the male is a segregation from a unified 
 sex duality. Animal life cannot exist without the needful 
 Vitamines or primeval love-food which the animal cannot pro- 
 duce unaided. 
 
 This higher creativeness incident to the feminine principle 
 enters our consciousness as *' psychic enlightenment." Nature- 
 cult and sex-cult are expressions the development of which is 
 of highest importance to our own creativeness. They are of 
 psychic importance first of all, and the cult of the male is of 
 intellectual importance. 
 
 Cognizance of these relative ** importances" and the constant 
 tendency toward equipoise between them, which is *'in the 
 nature of things" and will maintain itself if not subjected to 
 illogical hindrance and suppression, leads to the understanding 
 that there is nothing really evil in nature or in any phase of 
 the creative process. When we relegate to the category of Evil 
 any aspect of the relation we deny ourselves the benfits that 
 
HOW TO PRODUCE A MYSTIC 67 
 
 a clearer understanding would confer. We get unsatisfactory 
 results from suppression and then seek a remedy in further sup- 
 pression. Starting with a cult of ^^evil" we proceed to a cult 
 of Suppression, and the latter instead of discouraging the 
 former only serves to drive it into subnormal perversion. 
 Necessarily this silly canceling contest becomes useful by its 
 inefficacy and futility. It compels an inevitable transvaluation 
 that applies the lever to a higher normal state in which Feeling, 
 or Psyche, becomes more affirmatively articulate. 
 
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 HOW TO PEODUCE THE MYSTIC 
 
 It is only in recent years that any purposeful effort has 
 been made to teach practical mysticism and psychic develop- 
 ment. To this task no insignificant number of profound 
 analysts have earnestly devoted themselves; and a growing 
 number of publications is enlisted in the work. Their aim is 
 to arouse psychic power and use it as the lever which increases 
 human creativeness in manifold directions, quantitatively and 
 qualitatively, in opposition to suppression by brute force. The 
 effort was not the outcome of organized educational endeavor 
 of long privileged standing, but has come in opposition to it 
 and out of individual effort against the abuses of privileged 
 and governmentally subsidized schools maintained to uphold 
 1 rivileges which are anti-social, anti-natural and ^ 'anti-Christ- 
 like.'* Creative psychics comes as a reaction against the prac- 
 tice of branding human flocks like cattle in early youth, as fixed 
 irrevocably to certain castes, creeds and orders; and against 
 the discarding of the best and spiritually richest into the waste 
 heap. It has come from those ''people of affairs" "who en- 
 deavor to make an art out of their life's work." It has come 
 through sympathetic understanding and conceptual inspira- 
 tional individualized insight. It has come through aroused 
 "cathartic subjective" power and out of reaction against the 
 hypnotization of humanity and suppression of subjective power. 
 
68 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 It has come through the instinctive emotional desire to express 
 the deepest unconscious instincts through transcending to the 
 **gist of things," and to the mystical occult significance of 
 seemingly insignificant intuitive discernment. It has come 
 through the active manipulation of human matter. It has come 
 through the inborne desire in humanity to come into ** sub- 
 jective telepathic contact and intercourse" with other lives, 
 with all nature and the cosmos. 
 
 Mysticism in the past was caused through interplay of op- 
 posing concepts, ideals and opinions that seemed irreconcilable, 
 and the same still holds true today. Never was the mystic wel- 
 come by the ruling class because feeling and its expression was 
 feared by those who had been acclaiming the intellect as the 
 god, stigmatizing psyche or feeling as evil and of the devil. 
 
 Until very recent times the career of the mystic was shad- 
 owed by the tragedies of the pyre, the cross and the gibbet. 
 This was to be expected, for nothing is so calculated to arouse 
 resentment as the employment of power that transcends the 
 understanding of those who have become enfeebled by the over- 
 cultivation of the weakest side of humanity and all life. The 
 plant does not develop it at all, because its subjective or psychic 
 entity is wholly predominant. The plant is the unconscious 
 servant of animal and human life. Even the animal has little 
 use for intellect. Humanity alone has developed intellect in 
 a remarkable degree, and it had to sacrifice the psyche to bring 
 intellect to its over-exalted station. Quite naturally this one- 
 sided development reaches a limit, and the restriction imposed 
 upon human progress through the intellect leads to an awaken- 
 ing of the powers of the psyche. The child is not born with a 
 developed intellect but with a strongly pronounced psyche or 
 feeling self which however cannot express itself except in im- 
 agination and pretense. It is this psychic power of imagination 
 and make belief which is responsible for all our religions and 
 arts and advance in creativeness in the past, nor may we expect 
 that this psychic power (and its products) can be normal from 
 its inception. The normal can only come from reaction against 
 the abnormal and it is always a higher normal which must 
 supplant the abnormal. The new-born child represents the un- 
 conscious healing and regenerating power of the creative force 
 
HOW TO PRODUCE A MYSTIC 69 
 
 or God most fully, but the child has to go through a process of 
 transformation aided through experiment, practice and reflex, 
 in order to develop its divine healing and regenerative power 
 to such an extent that it can, when developed, emancipate hu- 
 manity from its errors and doubts, and reconcile what divides 
 humanity. Just as the child has a message of reconciliation 
 so has the mystic the same message only in different degree ^and 
 mode of expression. The power of both the child and the 
 mystic rests on 'direct appeal to feeling and the direct or 
 psychic apperception of truth. ' ' The mystic is a child at heart 
 with the simple and elemental power of direct apperception of 
 truth as it is exercised by the feminine nature instead of the 
 detached principles or abstract propositions of the masculine 
 intellectual mind. It is the opposition which distinguishes the 
 *'man of action" from the ''man of thought." 
 
 ''Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage" 
 for the psychic. He learns to transcend such limitations. It is 
 less important that we get man out of prison than the prison 
 out of man. Formerly every estate was protected by stout 
 walls. Later less formidable fences surrounded the homes of 
 the people. Gradually the height of these barriers was reduced, 
 and of late a parapet of any kind is a rare sight in our cities. 
 We had learned to transcend fences long before we ceased 
 building them. And so, too, we are encompassing the mind of 
 childhood and of youth with fewer and less sturdy restrictions, 
 as we are becoming emancipated from the old theologic dogma 
 that "all that pleases must be vile." Nevertheless the tyranny 
 of habit will continue building intellectual fences, and each 
 succeeding generation will learn to apply the emancipatory 
 principles that mysticism promulgates, and will transcend all 
 that limits humanity. We may imagine with what zeal the 
 Chinese built their massive wall, but the imagination balks at 
 the possibility of a like undertaking of the west to build an 
 intellectual Chinese wall. We have been taught to regard the 
 Far Eastern races as "inferior peoples," yet it cannot be denied 
 that the Japanese in particular have developed a remarkable 
 power of transcending and reconciling the antinomies of the 
 philosophies, religions and the religious arts of China and India 
 with their own. To transcend such antipodal tendencies is the 
 
70 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 task and function of the mystic. Because of their quaintness 
 and unique peculiarity of charm alone the Chinese and Japa- 
 nese arts are an indispensable means to exercise transcendental 
 powers, insight and vision, but their extrinsic value lies in the 
 fact that they are the only real antipodal spiritual products 
 which humanity has produced in opposition to western spirit- 
 uality. There is also much of antipodal quality in East Indian 
 religion and philosophy, but not in high art. All exercise of 
 transcending powers must include Japanese Shinto belief and 
 its high art of landscape painting and landscape gardening. 
 Shinto represents a religion and a religious art with nature 
 just as India and the West has a religious art with man. The 
 transcending of the high arts of both the personal western 
 and the impersonal eastern conception alone can create that 
 necessary complete vision of the whole of divinity. We stand 
 in this age at the threshold of ''that far-off divine event" when 
 at length ''the East and West shall meet" — and the common 
 point of contact is destined to be the conjunction, without 
 obliteration of either, of art ideals that, however far at any 
 time apart have been constantly converging. 
 
 Mysticism, like life and creation, is a reconciliation of con- 
 gruous opposites — the reassembling of counterparts — the meta- 
 psychic mating of the achievements of the intellectual facul- 
 ties with their transcendental relativities on the psychic plane. 
 Among the essential factors in the cultivation of a mystic are : 
 Prenatal predisposition — not alone of the immediate parents — 
 (the maternal factor predominating) but of an ancestry in 
 which the emancipatory tendency has been progressive, largely 
 through transfusion of blood and interchange of thought. 
 Stimulation of the critical and self-analytic processes in early 
 life, not necessarily by cultivation, for these processes are 
 spontaneous in all sentient beings, but rather by refraining 
 from suppressing or discouraging them when they manifest in 
 the growing child. To answer frankly the naive question of 
 the aspiring mind of childhood as it comes into perplexing con- 
 tact with what to outward appearances are antipodal tenden- 
 cies helps the child to find reconciliations of divergent opinions, 
 ideals, and convictions, whereby it develops nature's finer 
 forces as these strive to come to growth in his consciousness. 
 
HOW TO PRODUCE A MYSTIC 71 
 
 With such a foundation the chjld-mind develops so that 
 later in life it becomes constantly less difficult to transcend the 
 fundamental principles of antipodal religions and philosophies 
 as well as their respective art expression; and to develop its 
 own philosophy and at the same time its own inborne expres- 
 sion in conduct and art — that is its '^ religious expressions in 
 actions." 
 
 The mystic or psychic nature in man is aroused through 
 an awakening of enlightening critical aptitudes which set the 
 psychic motor into action to draw from invisible channels that 
 increased energy which makes him produce higher quality with 
 greater facility. A critical enlightening fact at the right time 
 and opportunity, the nature of which has been obscured to 
 him or suppressed, may be all that is necessary to connect the 
 switch with the unseen forces latent in the individual, which, 
 when aroused, are self-healing and self-regenerative. The in- 
 terchange of children of all ages, and of teachers between dif- 
 ferent nations, races and classes, the interchange of children 
 between town-living and country-dwelling people contribute 
 to educational development. Educational progress does not 
 come from the study of reverence and textbooks but through 
 an awakening out of the illusion of desocialized and denatured 
 value, just as it comes with the release from the fictitious and 
 the acquiring of insight into the ^' truly relative to life and 
 nature." 
 
 Work w4th nature, gardening and flowers — a cult of scen- 
 eries, trees and plants, leads to mysticism. Mysticism is cre- 
 ated by the poet and the singer. Religion is a worship of the 
 intellect of man, and is created by the architect or the 
 ''builders mind." Both minds developed together and in har- 
 mony lead to mystical insight and growth. The student's 
 psychic development will be arrested unless he learns to prac- 
 tice his critical transcending powers on all kinds of problems 
 and conflicts : civic, social, economical as well as aesthetieal and 
 artistic. He must learn to react unconsciously against the 
 abnormal and unnatural, and to draw lessons of a positive 
 philosophy of life from his own life experiences and to draw 
 them from little things and little happenings in order to be 
 able to draw them also from big events. The arousing of the 
 
72 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 critical detective, inquisitive and experimental spirit assures 
 self-reliance and self-development. Occasional radical changes 
 in environments, surroundings and food helps to bring finer 
 forces into action, which tend to further growth. 
 
 The mystic gives to the intellectual faculty and its achieve- 
 ments its proper valuation, but while never disparaging these 
 he does not make the mistake of extravagant ascriptions to it. 
 He makes the best use of the intellect, because he knows how 
 to employ it in higher dimensional accord with insight, and in 
 harmonious balance with love. He conceives and interprets 
 the past in the light of the present, thus obtaining glimpses and 
 visions of the future, which faculty the sophisticated habitual 
 thinker lacks. 
 
 He indulges his quickened critical powers of transcendental- 
 ization discarding the outworn through transcending it. He 
 does not hesitate to cast aside what had been useful but is no 
 longer so. His feeling is not tinctured with the sentimentalism 
 that treasures the tool that has served its purpose and can serve 
 no longer; any more than nature preserves the shell in which 
 the chick was housed when that shelter has been outlived; no 
 more than the builder permits the scaffolding to stand when the 
 edifice is completed. 
 
 The development of the mystic has been suppressed in the 
 past just as the child's mind has been fallaciously appraised 
 and as has been the office and influence of the feminine nature. 
 All this suppression calls for a higher valuation of things sup- 
 pressed and an increased application of inherent human powers 
 and forces. There is no difference between human love, sex 
 love and love of the creative force or god, and between god 
 creativeness, sexual creativeness and human creativeness. A 
 cult with the human body and its physics must follow a hide- 
 bound mistreatment and obstruction of physical growth just as 
 a cult of athletics and team play must follow a cult of war 
 and destruction, and a cult of creativeness a cult of abstinence 
 of it. The new cult is always created unconsciously through 
 birth of a new generation which, under the predestining influ- 
 ence of the mother reacts unconsciously against the abnormal 
 outworn cult and lays the foundation of a new one. The prob- 
 lem is very clear when we consider cause and effect. The result 
 
HOW TO PRODUCE A MYSTIC 73 
 
 of monastic and convent life finds its equivalent in bachelordom 
 and prostitution, and a new cult of womanhood and childhood 
 must lead the world out of anti-natural development, just as 
 teamplay, rhythm and folk dancing, physical culture and 
 dramatic social play must be unfolded in order to reconcile the 
 deep distinctions which intercommunal, national and interna- 
 tional materialistic brute strife has engendered. It is always 
 the mystical spirit of an age which produces and enlarges such 
 healing cults and exercises as lead to increased soulful life. 
 
 To make the soul alive and active we must overcome fear 
 and distrust, and thus create within ourselves a self-conscious- 
 ness and self-will of psychic or ''subjective" nature. A buoy- 
 ant daring is indispensable to develop insight and vision which 
 alone can form positive concepts and forthright expression of 
 them. 
 
 Who is to blame for the * ' hypnotizable and alcoholizable 
 mob-spirit" that has long been manifest in society? Why 
 blame anyone ? Why seek some convenient scapegoat that shM 
 carry into the wilderness the burden of those silly antics we 
 have learned to regard as our sins? Why brood in retrospect 
 over the rugged steeps behind? Always loom higher peaks 
 beyond, more torrential streams to cross — but by very reason 
 of the pains of the pioneering we become hardier and more 
 resolute to front what lies ahead. Undaunted and undismayed 
 the mystic of our day draws new inspiration from what his 
 precursors experienced, and what he has learned from their 
 labors. 
 
 And this the neophyte in mysticism must learn, not alone 
 from what has gone before, but from the lessons of his daily 
 observation, and what becomes to him increasingly clear as his 
 insight develops, that the test of truth is liberty — that the say- 
 ing ''the truth shall make you free" connotes that what sup- 
 presses and restricts the creative urge cannot be truth. As the 
 creative force manifests in sex force, in love force and in art 
 force it is for the mystic-in-the-making to practice these forces 
 in their several aspects, without fear that the exercise of life- 
 impressed creativeness on any plane, can be carried to a harmful 
 excess. 
 
 Mysticism, as the term is herein used, is applied psychics. 
 
74 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 
 
 That the designation formerly attached to the inception of a 
 primitive percept of psychic power need not move us to forego 
 and discard a useful appellation. Mysticism, even in its earliest 
 aspects, and despite its crudities and its '^entangling alliances" 
 with that body of primitive guesses that comprise ancient the- 
 ologies, laid nevertheless quite a secure foundation for the 
 science it has become. Indeed those alliances were at no time 
 co-operative. In their closest relationships they never clotured 
 the revolt of aestheticism against the subnormal and fear- 
 begotten moralism of archaic religions. The early mystic, in 
 common with the priest of his time, derived what influence he 
 exercised from the proneness of the people to yield to the claims 
 of awe. With this important difference, which is today more 
 pronounced than ever, that while the awe inspired by the priest 
 was instilled by fear, the awe to which the mystic surrendered 
 was the awe of admiration. One saw in the environing phe- 
 nomena only the evidences of angry and vengeful gods, to be 
 appeased — the other the benign operation of a harmonious 
 system to be comprehended. One a destructive power to be 
 propitiated, the other a creative force to be understood. The 
 respective influences of symbolism and aestheticism, of the 
 clashing tendencies of a lop-sided intellectualism against the 
 dualism in which the psychic and intellectual faculties were 
 each assigned its appropriate station, have been treated in fore- 
 going chapters, and are referred to here for the purpose of 
 insisting that even from its groping origin mysticism has not 
 veered from its emancipatory principles. 
 
 Mysticism, or applied psychics, instead of adding to the 
 realm of the mysterious, as the careless might infer, has quite 
 the opposite office — that of revealing what had been hidden, of 
 liberating what had been shackled, of enlightening what had 
 been obscured. It is the result of ** satisfied curiosity.'* It 
 takes the mystifying and bewildering out of the realms of the 
 unknown and unseen and makes it positive, creative, regenera- 
 tive and healing. Its mission is therefore the opposite of sym- 
 bolism, which is caused through ''unsatisfied curiosity." 
 
 Mysticism manifests in "feeling become more highly articu- 
 late."' The mystic does not appeal to the crowd. It is not his 
 concern whether those of his own generation understand him 
 
HOW TO PRODUCE A MYSTIC 75 
 
 or not. His is a universal interpretation, a cosmic apperception, 
 an aesthetical *' Weltanschauung " entirely impersonal, individ- 
 ually content with what advance humanity has achieved. 
 Whether as an inventor, a constructor or an artist he is a man 
 of action inspired by a vision of what is to be ; wherein he dif- 
 fers from those who, deriving their impetus from the past are 
 content with the ephemeral applause of the present. 
 
 Mysticism is the bringing of forces and energies into true 
 creative relationship and represents an incarnating of spirits 
 which had become dissociate and discarnate. Thus incarna- 
 tion is application and mysticism is applied religion. The 
 mystic artist like the inventor integrates and thus incarnates 
 spirits, disintegrating at the same time automatically disso- 
 ciated spirits which in their state of dissociation are harmful 
 and are called evil spirits. There is no fundamental differ- 
 ence between forces in life and in matter. In life these forces 
 are more highly individualized, spiritualized and aesthetized 
 for cooperation of bio-dynamic and bio-economic nature, that 
 is for ** symbiotic labor.'"' The inventor harnesses the very 
 same forces on the material plane, and brings them thus to 
 application, which the mystic incarnates and thus applies. 
 Applied forces are emancipated forces; nothing can be ef- 
 ficient when wholly unapplied. The process of emancipation 
 is a process of reincarnation, and represents an emancipation 
 of finer forces from the restrictions which keep them from 
 application. Mysticism represents thus an emancipation of 
 humanity from education which keeps it indolent and ignorant 
 of finer forces through unapplied and abstract teaching. It 
 is applied God creativeness, the conscious development of the 
 God within, and is in opposition to religious precepts which 
 teaches abstinence from such divine creative power, substi- 
 tuting praying for ''doing," leaving to a fictitious God what 
 one ought to do oneself with the help of God within, causing 
 dependence through preaching fear and causing worship of 
 dissociated spirits instead of integrating and applying them. 
 
Meditations and Reflections 
 
 True religion is "healing of the spiritual mind, or the psyche" 
 just as true philosophy is "healing of the objective mind or the intel- 
 lect." True art is the product of organic fusion of a cleared intellect 
 and a well-formed and informed psyche, and possesses highest heal- 
 ing powers. 
 
 The mother is the highest source and power for predestination 
 and all that is wrong with our destiny and fate is caused by the 
 masculine preoccupied and drifting bewildered mind. The whole uni- 
 verse and all stellar constellation we have within us. There is nothing 
 outside of us which is not also within us, and our stellar constellation 
 which destines our happiness and usefulness is always set right if our 
 parents trust and believe in themselves. Every grave doubt in the 
 minds of the parents must bring with it by necessity a wrong con- 
 stellation which must be set right by the increased effort of the indi- 
 vidual through acquiring higher wisdom and feeling: the law of com- 
 pensation through reconciliation. 
 
 All demand for stimulants and intoxicants originates in the sup- 
 pression of psychic power and as means to open the threshold of the 
 unconscious self. The excesses in the use of stimulants and intoxicants 
 and their ill effects, the hypnotizable and alcoholizable mob spirit, 
 will disappear with the depreciation of a cult of fear and dependence 
 and of all those forces like militarism which make for fear, just as 
 prostitution will disappear in the same degree. All our religious and 
 philosophical dogmas, like all our laws, are made under the influence 
 of alcohol, fear and dependence. 
 
 On the coming into contact with and transcending the Feelings 
 and Ideas of strangers and foreigners depends the arousing of our own 
 critical powers and creative psychic development, because otherwise 
 we do not even understand our own Feelings and Ideas, nor do we 
 know ourselves. 
 
 Creative Psychics is the art of divine or superhuman efficiency 
 and the science of dynamic relationship. 
 
MEDITATIONS AND REFLECTIONS 77 
 
 Intuition and Revelations are the result of "aesthetically trained 
 instinct." 
 
 Psychic creativeness is unself-conscious creativeness or God 
 creativeness and is the result of equipoise — an automatic harmonic 
 poise — an effortless quiescence representing the reconciliation between 
 Being and Becoming. 
 
 True art production, like true religion ,and like true philosophy 
 is the result of personal mental revolution, and like the latter pos- 
 sesses healing powers. 
 
 Symbolical and realistic art are the results of "inquisitiveness 
 and curiosity unsatisfied and suppressed." 
 
 There is no higher art than a truly relative art with flowering 
 gardens and verdant landscapes, because it is susceptible of transcend- 
 ing the limitations that are placed on all other arts and art expressions. 
 
 What distinguishes a mystical, that is a re-creative art, from 
 others, isf that the Infinite is represented in re-generative action as: 
 Force and Energy represented by Character; and Space and Time, 
 symbolized in harmonizing Rhythm of Motion; subjective reality, rep- 
 resented in a higher dimensional impersonal representation of objective 
 reality; the Maker represented as a regenerative force, calling the 
 spirit of Harmony and Common Understanding out of discord and 
 intolerance. 
 
 Religion of the future is developing through the orientation of the 
 arts and the sciences by the principles of emancipation. 
 
 Healing power, mental and psychic, is a manifestation of Feeling 
 become active and articulate. 
 
 Pathological psychic development is the result of obstructions to 
 "Feeling seeking expression." Unless we develop the psychic exten- 
 sion of the senses we invite disease, disorder, derangement, and from 
 these arise Hate, terminating in destruction and self-destruction. 
 
78 MEDITATIONS AND REFLECTIONS 
 
 Japan and America are the only countries which during the last 
 fifteen hundred years have produced an advance in religion through 
 developing mental healing arts and sciences respectively. 
 
 To become really religious one has to enjoy what beautiful has 
 come out of all religions and must not adhere to a single creed. 
 
 We cannot separate our conceptions of religion from our con- 
 ceptions of life and nature, nor from our acts and art expressions 
 and from our philosophy without necessitating a complete inner revo- 
 lution and rebirth, and acquire through this a positive and affirmative 
 religion and direct expression of truth in our actions, philosophy and 
 art. 
 
 Religion says: civic, social and economical affairs have nothing 
 at all to do with spiritual things which are supposed to be extra 
 mundane and other-worldly things. Creative, practical mysticism 
 says: they have to do with it "all there is." 
 
 Truth must be born anew every day. It can only come from 
 reconciliation and organic fusion of opposing opinions, ideals and ideas, 
 and thus represents a solution of seemingly unsolvable and unrecon- 
 cilable differences, and an emancipation. 
 
 There must always be minds willing to supply humanity with the 
 "lever" which increases its power of creativeness manifold. This lever 
 is "Enlightenment," which is also the Master Idea" of the Creative 
 Force or God. There are two kinds of enlightenment: intellectual and 
 psychic. The latter is Divine enlightenment. Sex enlightenment, sex 
 expression are together with the intercourse with verdant flowering 
 nature and landscape of the highest Divine enlightening importance. 
 
 Humanity has created itself and has to raise itself higher through 
 increasing its psychic power. 
 
 The science of Emancipation connotes a process of discarding the 
 chimerical, "unlearning" the maxims taught by intellectual fearsome- 
 ness, and relying on the Regenerative principle; just as the art of 
 Emancipation is the art of Regeneration. 
 
MEDITATIONS ANJ?. .I^.l^tj^ISCTioife*. T'-! VA'', 79 
 
 The universe is governed by psychic laAVS, and the laws that 
 govern our psychic plane and psychic phenomena in general govern 
 also the Creative Force or God. 
 
 The laws of psychic phenomena decree that all cults, culture and 
 civilization which are based on exploitation and abuse must destroy 
 themselves and give way to higher planes of cooperation. No creed 
 can keep part of humanity in dependence and therefore in the gutter 
 "without staying there itself." 
 
 The law of reciprocation and retribution: All evolution of life and 
 creation is reciprocal, that is symbio-genetic and psycho-genetic. It 
 is reciprocal progressive differentiation and specialization for "evolu- 
 tion through cooperation," the material law of gravity superseded by 
 the spiritual law of reciprocity. 
 
 Mysticism, like truth, implies and necessitates full freedom of self- 
 expression, free speech and free press and as result free thought. 
 All tragedies of nations, races and individuals are caused through sup- 
 pression of mystical or psychic development — from ancient Egypt, 
 Babylon and Greece down to our own great tragedy of a world war. 
 All are caused essentially through suppression of Truth, which can 
 only be revealed where press and speech are as free as the air and 
 the sunlight. 
 
 The principles of organic fusion and spontaneous creative action 
 are the principles of self-creative evolution of life — of creation itself. 
 They represent a reconciliation of opposites and therefore a revolution 
 and a regeneration. They are at the root of all production of life true 
 art and inventions alike which are the product of fecundation, gemma- 
 tion and nourishment through unselfish love, with ultimate birth. 
 Religion and high arts are by necessity originally products of the 
 human male, but are ultimately destined to form parallels to the higher 
 sex creativeness of the woman. But women will, when no longer denied 
 "'-eedom and Equality, bring all these products to a much higher status 
 in man can ever hope to bring them alone. No longer does an en- 
 ^.itened woman believe in man's word "that she cannot understand 
 ais thoughts and actions." The fact is that she has been convinced 
 "man himself did not know what he was talking about." 
 
 True education means re-education just as true recreation means 
 re-creation. 
 
MEDITAl'I0l>f3. AND REFLECTIONS 
 
 Evolvement means regeneration through involution, evolution and 
 revolution. Mysticism is forward vision and implies involution and 
 evolution in order to revolutionize backward, subnormal and intellectual 
 vision. 
 
 The national and the universal mind m.ust develop together har- 
 moniously. The national mind cannot evolve alone as it always reaches 
 a climax beyond which it cannot evolve without complete revolution 
 towards greater universalization. 
 
 Mysticism represents an emancipation from a moral view of life 
 and creation to an aesthetical one. 
 
 Genius is the faculty of self-developed subjective— that is psychic- 
 power to recognize through feeling into life and nature the intimate 
 relationship of a series of facts and appearances which are closely re- 
 lated to each other, which power the purely one-sided intellectually 
 educated and the dogmatist lacks. The development of such spiritual 
 or psychic power serves to bring into cognition principles that hereto- 
 fore were hidden from us. Mysticism therefore begins where material 
 laws and intellectual powers of understanding ends and aestheticism 
 becomes expressed. Then is it that we recognize that life after death 
 is a higher aesthetical state of life on earth just as life is a higher 
 aesthetical state than matter, and just as true art is a higher aesthetical 
 expression of reality where the supersensual organic laws are trans- 
 gressed "aesthetically." In realistic and symbolical art on the other 
 hand, just as in every living creature, tree, animal, man, the lines and 
 forms are subject to geometrical laws which are only "organically" 
 transgressed. The end of occidental fallacy that nature geometrizes 
 is therefore at hand. It has dawned on the modern mind that only the 
 one-sided intellect geometrizes, just as we have come to see that his- 
 tory only repeats itself when we teach the same archaic utterances 
 as truth which our ancestors believed in. 
 
 The West instituted baptism because bathing was considered a 
 disgrace; the East never lost the feeling that water not only cleansed 
 the body but also the soul. The East never produced a wholly ab- 
 stract and unapplied religion. 
 
 Free thought is Impossible without free press and free speech. 
 
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MEDITATIONS AND REFLECTIONS 
 
 The religious instinct in humanity is an inherent and mbor 
 instinct for generative and regenerative balance and power, and p' 
 sents itself to us in "states of mind." Every change in religion is - 
 brought forth by a change of one state of mind into another. A. mys- ^ 
 tical state of mind applies the help of inherent psychic power, and \ 
 produces different expressions in acts and art, as symbolism which 
 represents the product of an abstract state of mind. 
 
 Every higlier state of mind is created by transgression or tres- 
 passing of the restrictions of the past, just as it is created through 
 transgressions of man-made laws and even through transgressions of 
 what we regard as laws of nature. 
 
 Metaphysics is fundamentally the result of transgressiorx of the 
 intellect; metapsy chics is caused through transgression of feeling. 
 (All progress is caused through transgression into excess, bringing 
 higher experiment, experience and expression.) All that is not physics 
 in metaphysics is psychics, and metapsychics represents a truly rela- 
 tive higher dimensional plane of consciousness. We must regard the 
 fourth dimension and even further dimensional planes as higher 
 dimensional states of mind, and not as expressions to be found in 
 the material or physical world. But all effort spent in transgressing 
 material and geometrical laws helps in the development of higher 
 dimensional states of mind and planes of consciousness. 
 
 All original and .advanced thought is emancipating and healing. 
 
 To come into contact with antipodal doctrines of different religions, 
 arts, and antipodal opinions in daily life was the same effect on the 
 child's mind and psyche as the switching on of the electric current 
 has on the light or the motor. All that is needed besides is to direct 
 the child's inventiveness, energy and courage towards optimism, good 
 humor and kindliness, that is: in the right channels of self-knowledge 
 and therefore knowledge of human nature, the sanctity of the flesh 
 and the divinity of the mind and of nature. As imagining power, 
 vision and phantasy making are of highest importance in the develop- 
 ment of the individuals, nations and races alike for tlie casting of 
 Destiny and Fate it must be evident that true education must pay 
 highest attention to the transformation of the youth through child- 
 hood to manhood, and must recognize that evolution of art conscious- 
 ness and evolution of life's consciousness are wholly inseparable. 
 
 The religion ol »he past centered on Healing through blind belief 
 and which necessitated restriction of enlightenment; the religion 
 of the future through complete enlightenment and a higher belief 
 that there is nothing in the whole universe that is not God.