It is intended, though, to limit this help to a minimum. After we have penetrated to a certain degree into the meaning of the picture, we are there introduced to the corresponding geometric figure which expresses the same 'idea'. The process here of penetrating to these three levels' has to be accomplished twenty-two times in order to learn the 'alphabet'. This book consists of fifty six symbols which are arranged according to a certain system that corresponds to the manner in which a man traverses four worlds. Now the content of this teaching is 'magic' which is also divided into lower or ceremonial magic and higher magic.
Ceremonial magic is used for two kinds of purposes.
This latter use is very characteristic. Through performing ceremonial magic, communications from the supersensible are made sense perceptible. Here it is not chat consciousness is raised to an experience of the supersensible, but rather, that the supersensible is brought down and made sense perceptible. Higher magic is primarily centered on the use of the relation of the four elements in man to the four elements outside of man. This theoretical knowledge is applied in magic.