Experience of the Inner Worlds

The first half of the book is devoted to getting the principles right. This concerns a proper distinction between magic and mysticism, between natural and revealed religion, between monism and theism. For his examples Gareth Knight throws his historical net wide, embracing examples from the Old and New Testaments, the man-god Alexander the Great, the Mysteries of Isis and Mithra, medieval Holy Spirit movements, Christian Platonism, Sufi love poetry, the Templars and Crusaders, the Troubadour and Courts of Love, the Arthurian and Holy Grail legends and Spiritual Alchemy.

In the second half Gareth Knight gets down to the practicalities of modern occultism. He analyses the merits of inner plane communications, and ideas about them : the traditional ideas of 'the Masters', the psychological approach of C.G. Jung, and the possibility of communication with non-human entities, angelic or elemental.