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Magic: The Principles of Higher Knowledge

Karl von Eckartshausen

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3. The Obsession Of Human Beings For The Supernatural

        The immediate working energy of Divine Providence in our physical world is Nature itself.

        Whoever would want to remove the Godliness from Nature, would remove the Soul from the body.

        Where God has an immediate Effect, this power is the Consequence of this Effect and is Nature itself.

        The weak intellect of Human Beings cannot always find a reason or an explanation for certain things in Nature and, therefore, call them Supernatural.

        The Supernatural things in the physical world are nothing more than a lack of knowledge, rather than the essence of the subject.

        There are Energies, Effects and Consequences. Everything which exists consists of these ingredients.

        Energies and Effects are not bound by an absolute necessity, but the necessity is only relative necessity. The Consequences thereof are absolutely necessary because Consequences are children of Effects, whereas the Effect is the daughter of the Energy.

        Prudence of the Eternal and the freedom of mankind is contained in this sentence.

        Any Power or Energy contains infinite Effects and every Effect has infinite Consequences.

        The Power, the Energy, lies in the Whole. Every Effect is in the Energy, every Consequence in the Effect. All together, this is a chain.

        Without God, Nature is a dead creature. Nature is the eternal harbinger, the organ which proclaims the Creator, and also connects the physical world with God.

        In Nature lies the working force and the power of God for the benefit of the physical world.

       The working force of God for the benefit of the Spiritual World is much more than Nature. It contains the power, the force of becoming alike. Within this lies the reason of contin­uance, to immortality.

        Every exception in the normal order of things is founded in Nature. Nature itself does not change, only the manner of dissimilarity in its Effect is the reason for the dissimilarity of its conse­quences.

        Different consequences could have, as a source, the same force, but the source of their origin does not have the same effect.

        Whenever Human Beings with inertia, or who are lazy by nature notice a new phenomenon, they are usually satisfied with an explanation which is the closest or the easiest to obtain, and which does not cause much of an effort.

        That is why people in the past attributed anything they did not understand or were too lazy to think about to sorcery.

        Today, anything which is not understood is denied or dismissed. As was the fault in past centuries to believe everything, today we are faced with laughing at and belittling everything which is not understood.

        Present-day Wisdom is based on what others have thought, or on what others have written or said. This has become the total extent of today's Wisdom.

        There could be no greater difference between thinking for yourself and what others have thought, between what others have said, and your own thinking and your own words.

        The Scholars and Teachers of this century have forgotten that Theory has to thank the Practice for its existence, and that Nature existed before Human Beings made the rules.