Tertium Organum

already 
accomplished
transition to the understanding and the recognition of the world of the 
'miraculous'. And a transition to the miraculous is impossible without admitting the 
reality of
new logical relations, absurd and impossible from the point of view of our 
logic. 
What are the laws of our logic? 
They are the laws of our perception of the three-dimensional world or the laws of 
our three-dimensional perception of the world. 
If we want to leave the three-dimensional world behind and advance further, we 
must first of all evolve some fundamental logical principles which would enable us to 
observe the relationships of things in the world of many dimensions and see in them a 
certain orderly interdependence rather than complete absurdity. If we enter there with 
logical principles of the three-dimensional world, they will drag us back, will not allow 
us to rise above the ground. We must first of all, throw off the fetters of our logic. This 
is the first, the great and the principal liberation towards which humanity should strive. 
A man who has thrown off the fetters of 'three-dimensional logic', has already passed in 
thought into another world. And this transition is not only possible but is being 
constantly accomplished. Unfortunately, we are not entirely aware of our rights to the 
'other world' and often lose these rights, considering ourselves locked into this 
terrestrial 
world. And yet ways leading there exist. Poetry, mysticism, idealistic 
philosophy of all ages and peoples preserve traces of such transition. Following these 
traces we also can find the way. Ancient and modern thinkers have left us many keys 
with which we can unlock the mysterious doors, and many magical formulae before 
which these doors open by themselves. But we failed to understand the purpose of 
either the keys or the formulae; and we have lost the understanding of magical 
ceremonies and rituals of initiation in the Mysteries, which pursued only one aim - to 
help this transition in man's soul. 
And so the doors have remained locked, and we even deny that there is anything 
behind these doors. Or, suspecting the existence of another world, we regard it as 
similar to ours and separate from ours, and attempt to penetrate it without realizing that 
the chief obstacle on 

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our path is our own division of the world into 
this world
and the 
world 
beyond. 
The world is one -
but the means of perceiving it are different. And with 
imperfect means of perception it is impossible to penetrate into that which is 
accessible only to the perfect. 
Attempts with the logic of the phenomenal world to penetrate in thought 
into the world beyond, the world of noumena, the world of causes, if they did 
not prove a complete failure or did not lead a man to the world of 
waking
dreams,
gave one result only. - Conscious of the new order of things man lost 
the sense of the reality of the old order. The visible world began to appear to 
him fantastic, unreal; everything vanished around him, disappeared like 
smoke, leaving a terrifying sensation of 
illusion.
He felt in everything the 
abyss of infinity, and everything pouring away into this abyss. 
The sensation of infinity is the first and most terrifying trial before 
initiation. There is nothing! The small insignificant soul feels itself suspended 
in an infinite void. Then even the soul itself ceases to exist. There is nothing ­
there is only infinity, the constant and continuous breaking up and dissolution 
of everything. In the mystical literature of all peoples there are references to 
this sensation of