Esoteric - Spiritual

The world mystery... the soul... is one aspect man's long lost knowledge, that we probably had at creation. Mr. Mead studied the soul during his entire career. Here he relates his thoughts on the soul.

Alchemy the source of many of the practices in religions, witchcraft, wizardry, etc. The alchemy lore is a romance of the human race with the sciences and the unknown.

After a long period of discredit and neglect, astrology is beginning to force itself once more on the attention of the learned world.

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world. In these studies I fancy I am about as far from mastering the mystery as the ant which I saw this morning industriously exploring a small section of the garden walk is from getting a clear idea of the geography of the North American Continent. But the ant was occupied and was apparently happy, and she must have learned something about a small fraction of that part of the earth's surface

In this little treatise I am presenting to all students of nature great things to observe and to consider. Great as much because of their intrinsic excellence as of their absolute novelty, and also on account of the instrument by the aid of which they have made themselves accessible to our senses.

THE following pages are designed to give the reader a bird's-eye view of the salient features in Jewish mysticism rather than a solid presentation of the subject as a whole. The reason for this will be apparent when one thinks of the many centuries of variegated thought that have had to be packed within the small number of pages allotted to the book. It is this very fact, too, that will possibly give the present treatment of the subject a fragmentary and tentative appearance.

The author, a doctor and Freemason, connects dots between science and mysticism.