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2. Esoteric Schools of the Present

These schools, now forming, have more esoteric knowledge; this is being correlated and applied.  Much remains theoretical, but theory must ever precede practice.  These schools will advance the teaching beyond the point reached in the earlier schools, carrying it out of the three worlds into the realm of the soul.  They will deal with the world of occult values and will be mental in nature, laying the emphasis upon knowing God, and not just upon feeling after a sensed divinity.  At their best, the old schools brought about the integration of the personality and made the essential dualism of the mystic factual.  The new schools aim at a higher fusion—that between the integrated personality and the soul.  They reveal that behind the dualism of the mystic (a necessary stage) there is the occult fact of identity with the divine.