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First published at 1934.ONE of the American reviewers of the first edition of the "New
Model of the Universe" remarks that two ideas in this book
presented particular difficulties for him: the idea of esotericism
and the idea of the psychological method.It cannot be denied that, in general, these ideas are very far
from modern thought.But as there is no sense in reading my book without having
some conception of the meaning of these two ideas I will try
here to show ways of approach to them.First of all both ideas need the recognition of the fact that
human thought can work on very different levels.The idea of esotericism is chiefly the idea of higher mind. To
see clearly what this means we must first of all realise that our
ordinary mind (including the mind of a genius) is not the
highest possible order of human mind. The human mind can
rise to a level almost inconceivable for us, and we can see the
results of the work of higher mind, those most accessible to us
in the Gospels, and then in Eastern Scriptures: in the
Upanishads, in the Mahabharata; in works of art such as the
Great Sphinx at Gizeh, and in other memorials though they are
few in literature and art. The true valuation of the meaning of
these and similar memorials and the realisation of the difference
between them and others which have been created by ordinary
man, or even by a genius, needs experience, knowledge and a
special training of the mind and perception and, perhaps, special
faculties not possessed by everyone. In any case nothing can be
proven.So that the first step towards understanding the idea of
esotericism is the realisation of the existence of a higher mind,
that is, a human mind, but one which differs from the ordinary
mind as much as, let us say, the mind of an intelligent and
educated grown up man differs from the mind of a child of six.