“Magic Psychic Training... Introspection or Self-Knowledge ~ In our own mansion, meaning our body and our soul, we must find our way about at every moment. Therefore our first task will be to know ourselves. Each initiation system, no matter which kind it may be, will put this condition in the first place. Without self-knowledge there will be no real development on a higher level.”

Source: Initiation Into Hermetics (1956), p. 35

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Czech hermeticist, illusionist, occultist and writer 1909–1958

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