Outward / Inward: For the Intellect or for the spiritual act conforming to it, there is no difference between the OUTWARD and the inward: the OUTWARD is also within, since the soul is everywhere the soul, on the macrocosmic scale as well as in the microcosm, while the inward for its part has an aspect of OUTWARDness since phenomena are everywhere phenomena, within us and around us. In practice and “alchemically,” it is thus impossible to speak of the world and of life without at the same time taking account of the soul and the flux of thought. The world is the soul and the soul is the world. From this it follows, and herein lies the whole interest of a distinction that might seem to be tautological, that in acting on the inward we act upon the OUTWARD: we hold both the world and our life within our soul. However, when we speak about the “world,” the question of knowing whether we are thinking of the OUTWARD or the inward does not arise, because OUTWARD things come before what is within; our earthly environment existed before we were born, and a tree exists prior to our looking at it. The world is always a priori the realm of existence surrounding us; it is never, unless expressly specified, our inward cosmos only. (GTUFS: LogicT, Man and Certainty)