FOREWORD
This little work is intended to describe in a nutshell the intricacies of the metaphysical worlds which underlie the foundation of our more familiar material world, and so relevant today in the effects inherent in the New Age factor set into motion by the operations behind the scenes during this latter half of this, the 20th. century. In order to do this I have borrowed freely from Theosophy, and had the temerity to describe the contemporary scenarios of Practical Metaphysics involving The Great White Brotherhood and Cosmic Masters on which we have depended for our very existence, on more than one occasion. In addition there are to be found herein, the answers to the eternal questions "What are we? Where have we come from ?, and Where are we going?" There are a few essays on allied subjects pertinent to the conditions of today which were fairly spontaneous and are easy to read, here and there; but the core consists of a series of lectures given on metaphysics to my contempories. I suggest free consultation with The List of Contents for selective reading as associated sequence is somewhat lacking. Pragmatists and Humanists alike may be impatient with the note of spirituality throughout which is inevitable in advanced metaphysics. Much is presented in didactic style as being True, which is inevitable in a work of this type, but where there is doubt I have not been loth to suggest it. There is no satisfactory proof as yet, and so you are excused if it is regarded as Theory for so it will remain without exercising the Imagination and allowing the Intuitive Faculty to permit Discrimination.This Faculty is accustomed to allow new information to bury itself in the subconscious whenever it is too much for the conscious mind to digest, to be regurgitated at such a time that it is ready to reconsider and accept it.
It is hoped it will fill the gap in religious knowledge and correct some of the distortions to which orthodoxy has been prone, and provide answers for the suffering and confusion in the world. For the graduates in philosophy it presents an extrapolation of the classical themes, and a challenge to indulge in the speculative. The ideas of Pythagoras and Plato will be recognised, but how the metaphysical in terms of New Age Thought are received is up to individual discrimination. You do not have to believe any of it, and a healthy degree of scepticism is expected. I have expressed that which is, to me,a plausible account of things and shows my personal bias, and so I avoid a compendium of more numerous extracts from various experts, dithering from one opinion to another as is often found in the more voluminous scholastic works and theses. The bibliography is correspondingly brief and information fairly condensed .Unnecessary verbiage only serves to obscure, language being a poor vehicle for metaphysics, but is all we have.