Science dubs all immediate effectuations “mystical,” and refuses to rest until she has extirpated all such-like ideas. But the mystical is not that which science understands by the term; for to her the mystical is nothing but the non-scientific. It is actuality itself that is mystical. Apart from actuality there is nothing mystical whatever; for it is only the actual, no matter where one lays hold of it, that rolls back into the twilight of beginninglessness. Beginninglessness is what is mystical, and my consciousness _the_ mystical itself. A miracle is nothing mystical. For, if it happens, then it is law; and if it does not happen--why, then it simply is not! This immediate action of man upon man--this it is that reveals to me how energies operate. When a glance from my eye produces a “stir” in another human being, this energical impulse is not obliged to pass through all the media lying between, but operates _immediately_. To be sure, an attempt is made to read mechanically this fact also--to interpret it in the form of psychic vibrations, subtlest etheric waves; and science and theosophic, spiritistic, and all sorts of mysticism here go hand in hand. But there is not the least necessity that it should be a glance, a sound, or anything else of a positive nature which moves another. A silence, a failure to look may ofttimes be that which produces the most striking psychic convulsions. To interpret this, however, as a case of transmigrating vibrations, were scarcely possible even for the boldest of hypothesis-makers. It is even so! That which is most natural is most strange to us. Here too, as with “consciousness,” it is a case of _sapere aude!_ We simply must learn again to dare to take actuality for that which it is--for that which acts there where it can and must act. When love springs up between two beings, this means that unique attunement prevails. This, however, signifies that energy passes over immediately. It has no need first to wrestle with air and ether molecules: _it exists there only where it acts, and it acts there only where it is uniquely attuned_. This is the way in which actual energies operate. This way cannot be proven inductively: it can only be experienced intuitively. And it is this experience which supplies us with our parallel, our point of support, in comprehending how Kamma works. And only because we have lapsed out of this actual life into the re-actual life of science, has the Kamma-teaching become strange and unnatural to us. The value of an intuition to him who has not himself experienced it, is only measurable by the extent to which it is of service as a working hypothesis. Of what service is the Buddha-thought here? In the first place, it makes it possible to “read” both kinds of motion, the inorganic as well as the organic, the falling as well as the proceeding, from one common point of view.