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the Kingdom of God; so also there are natural magicians and magicians who are the product of art. Yet, generally speaking, the magician—unlike the poet—is not born but made, for the same potentialities abide in the whole of humanity, and they can ultimately be developed in everyone. What is needed, therefore, is not merely people possessed of the gifts of clairvoyance, or even of lucidity, of prophetic foresight, or of the qualities called mediumistic, but those who—by the nature of their aspirations and by the help of a favorable environment—are able to apply the arcane laws of evolution to their own interior selves. But there is another and indispensable condition: namely, the power to distinguish between Hermetic truth and the shameless frauds which have surrounded it from time immemorial. At present, the intellectual world is substantially divided into those who reject esoteric doctrine and practice as entirely fraudulent, and those whose credulity identifies its worst impostures and most childish perversions with its highest forms of truth. Transcendentalism is concerned with the development and application of certain powerful forces resident in the interior man; and as these forces have been developed and applied in various directions, from many motives, and with a variety of ends in view, historical mysticism is very diverse in its character. It is often childish, superstitious, dangerous, malevolent, and obscene, and by its very nature has always been peculiarly liable to the counterfeits of charlatans.