HELLO MY LOVELY PEOPLE OF AFRICA
OCCULT Knowledge means knowledge which is "hidden", but it also means knowledge which is known. If it is knowledge that is known, there must be Those who know it; there could be no knowledge without the knowers of it. True occult knowledge can be obtained only by those who follow the path to it. That path was set down by Those Who Know; all who will may and can arrive at that knowledge. This is not a path open only to certain persons; it is open to every living human being, and limited only by the limitations we ourselves place around it through choice or through ignorance.
Much is heard in the world today of what passes for "occult knowledge". Much experiment goes on under that name in various directions: we have societies for psychical and psychological research, and there is much talk of psychic and astral "experiences" and "communications" with the dead. All these various methods of research are from below, upwards, and will never find the goal. Scientific methods, psychological methods, the methods of the Spiritualists, alike proceed from particulars to universals. Particulars are infinite, and those who follow that path will inevitably get lost in its infinite ramifications, with no real knowledge gained. The goal is to be found from above, below -- from universals to particulars, and not the reverse.
