“It is impossible to study a system of the universe without studying man. At the same time it is impossible to study man without studying the universe. Man is an image of the world. He was created by the same laws which created the whole of the world. By knowing and understanding himself he will know and understand the whole world, all the laws that create and govern the world. And at the same time by studying the world and the laws that govern the world he will learn and understand the laws that govern him. In this connection some laws are understood and assimilated more easily by studying the objective world, while man can only understand other laws by studying himself. The study of the world and the STUDY OF MAN must therefore run parallel, one helping the other. Fragments: Four

“In right knowledge the STUDY OF MAN must proceed on parallel lines with the study of the world, and the study of the world must run parallel with the STUDY OF MAN. Laws are everywhere the same, in the world as well as in man. Having mastered the principles of any one law we must look for its manifestation in the world and in man simultaneously. Moreover, some laws are more easily observed in the world, others are more easily observed in man. Therefore in certain cases it is better to begin with the world and then to pass on to man, and in other cases it is better to begin with man and then to pass on to the world. Fragments: Seven

“The scale obtained in this way from 1 to 3072 can serve us for the STUDY OF MAN. (See Table 3.) Fragments: Nine

“From this point of view another formula. Know thyself, is full of particularly deep meaning and is one of the symbols leading to the knowledge of truth. The study of the world and the STUDY OF MAN will assist one another. In studying the world and its laws a man studies himself, and in studying himself he studies the world. In this sense every symbol teaches us something about ourselves. Fragments: Fourteen

There had been talks in our groups about types before and it seemed to us that the science of types was the most difficult thing in the STUDY OF MAN because G. gave us very little material and required of us our own observations of ourselves and others. Fragments: Seventeen