The Future thatAwaits Us.^281
traces the action of his drugs by astral sight;
neither the physician nor the surgeon will
be shut out by the surface of things as they
are to-day, but every doctor will see exactly
what is at fault and will apply his remedies
accordingly.
Or take the methods of chemistry. The
chemist will no longer theorise, but will see;
his"atoms" willno longerbepossibleabstrac-
tionsbut thingsthatcan beeasilyexaminedand
traced;^ allcombinationswillbe studiedwith
astral vision, stage after stage watched and
followed; he will test, dissociate, combine,
rearrange,allwiththecertaintythatcomesfrom
vision,and hewillmanipulatehismaterials by
thenewforcesathiscommand. Inpsychology
how changed will be the methods when the
mind lies before the psychologist as an open
book; insteadofspeculatingonmindinanimals,
drawing inferencesfrom their actions, guessing
attheirmotives, hewillseethe wayin which
the animal is thinking, the strange world that
dawns on the animal intelligence-aworldso
different from ourownbecause the standpoint
from which it is seen is so different. Then
indeedwillmanbeabletodealeffectivelywith
*See the article on "Occult Chemistry" in "Lucifer,"
November,1895,reprintedasapamphlet,6d.
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