ern mind to accept a method foreign to its nature, Ouspensky elaborates a weird cosmology. From Pythagorean principles he deduces a kind of esoteric chemistry (e.g. “the air we breathe is hydrogen 192”), and the usual astrological theory of planetary influences is supplemented by borrowings from primitive mythology (“everything that dies feeds the moon”).
It would be difficult to challenge Ouspensky’s gloomy dictum that “people are becoming less and less sane”; but many of us will be tempted to find in his book a confirmation of that thesis.
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