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The Kybalion · The Kybalion

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  The Kabalian by the three initiates, the lips of wisdom are closed except to
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  the ears of understanding. To Hermes Trismegistus, known by the ancient Egyptians as
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  the Great, Great and Master of masters. This little volume of Hermetic teaching
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  is reverently dedicated. We take great pleasure in presenting to the attention of students
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  and investigators of the secret doctrines, this little work based upon the world old
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  Hermetic teachings. There has been so little written upon this subject, notwithstanding the
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  countless references to the teachings in the many works upon occultism, that the many
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  searchers after the arcane truths will doubtlessly welcome the appearance of this present volume.
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  The purpose of this work is not the annunciation of any special philosophy or doctrine,
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  but rather, it is to give the students a statement of the truth
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  that will serve to reconcile the many bits of occult knowledge that have been acquired,
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  but which are apparently opposed to each other, and which often serve to
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  discourage and discuss the beginner in the study. Our intent is not to erect
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  a new temple of knowledge, but rather to place in the hands of the
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  student, a master key with which he may open the many doors in the
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  Temple of Mystery through the main portals he has already entered. There is no
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  portion of the occult teachings possessed by the world which have been so closely guarded
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  as the fragments of the Hermetic teachings which have come down to us over the
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  tens of centuries, which have elapsed since the lifetime of its great founder,
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  Hermes Trismegistus, the scribe of the Gods, who dwelt in Old Egypt in
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  the days when the present race of men was in its infancy, contemporary with
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  Abraham, and, if the legends be true, in instructor of that venerable
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  stage. Hermes was and is the great central son of a cultism whose rays
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  have served to illume the countless teachings which have promulgated since his time. All
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  the fundamental and basic teachings embedded in the esoteric teachings of every race may be
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  traced back to Hermes. Even the most ancient teachings of India undoubtedly have their
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  roots in the original Hermetic teachings from the land of the Ganges. Many advanced
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  occultists wandered to the land of Egypt and sat at the feet of the Master.
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  From him they obtained the Master Key, which explained and reconciled their divergent
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  views, and thus the secret doctrine was firmly established. From other lands also
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  came the learned ones, all of whom regarded Hermes as the master of masters,
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  and his influence was so great that, in spite of the many wanderings
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  from the path on the part of the centuries of teachers in these different lands,
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  there may still be found a certain basic resemblance and correspondents which under lies
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  the many and often quite divergent theories entertained and taught by the occultists of these
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  different lands. The student of comparative religions will be able to perceive the influence
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  of the Hermetic teachings in every religion worthy of the name now known to man,
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  whether it be a dead religion or one in full vigor in our times,
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  there is always certain correspondence in spite of the contradictory features, and the
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  Hermetic teachings act as the great reconciler. The life work of Hermes seems to
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  have been in the direction of planning the great seed truth, which has grown
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  and blossomed in so many forms, rather than to establish a school of philosophy
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  which would dominate the world's thought. But nevertheless, the original truths taught by
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  him have been kept intact in their original purity by a few men each age,
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  who, refusing great numbers of half developed students and followers, followed the
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  hermetic custom and reserve their truth for the few who were ready to comprehend and
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  master it. From lip to ear, the truth has been handed down among
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  the few. There have always been a few initiates in each generation, in
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  the various lands of the earth, who kept alive the sacred flame with the
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  hermetic teachings, and such have always been willing to use their lamps to re
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  light the lesser lamps of the outside world. When the light of truth grew
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  dim and clouded by reason of neglect, and when the whigs became clogged with
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  foreign matter, there were always a few to tend faithfully the altar of the
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  truth, upon which was kept alight the perpetual lamp of wisdom. These men
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  devoted their lives to the labor of love, which the poet has so well
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  stated in his lines. Oh let not the flame die out, cherished age
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  after age, in its dark cavern in its holy temples, cherished fed by
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  pure ministers of love. Let not the flame die out. These men have
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  never sought popular approval, nor numbers of followers. They are indifferent to these
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  things, for they know how few there are in each generation who are ready
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  for the truth, or who would recognize it if it were presented to them.
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  They reserve the strong meat for men, while others furnish the milk for
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  babes. They reserve their pearls of wisdom for the few elect who recognize their
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  value and who wear them in their crowns, instead of casting them before the
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  materialistic, vulgar swine, who would trample them in the mud and mix them
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  with their disgusting mental food. But these men have never forgotten or overlooked the
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  original teachings of Hermes regarding the passing on of the words of truth to those
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  ready to receive it, which teaching is stated in the Kabalian as follows,
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  where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for his
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  teaching open wide, and again, when the ears of the student are ready
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  to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom, But their
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  customary attitude has always been strictly in accordance with the other hermetic aphorism. Also
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  in the Kabalion, the lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears of
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  understanding. There are those who have criticized this attitude of the Hermetis, and
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  who have claimed that they did not manifest the proper spirit in their policy of
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  seclusion and reticence. But a moment's glance back over the pages of history will
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  show the wisdom of the masters who knew the folly of attempting to teach the
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  world that which it was neither ready nor willing to receive. The Hermetists have
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  never sought to be martyrs, and have instead sat silently aside, with a
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  pitying smile on their closed lips, while the heathen raised noisily about them in
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  their customary amusement of putting to death and torture. The honest but misguided enthusiasts
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  who imagine that they could force upon a race of barbarians the truth capable of
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  being understood only by the elect who had advanced along the path, and the
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  spirit of persecution has not yet died out in the land. There are certain
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  Hermetic teachings which, if publicly promulgated, would bring down upon the teachers a
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  great cry of scorn and revilement from the multitude, who would again raise the
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  cry of Crucify, Crucify. In this little work we have endeavored to give
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  you an idea of the fundamental teachings of the Kabalian, striving to give you
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  the working principles, leaving you to apply them yourselves, rather than attempting to
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  work out the teaching in detail. If you are a true student, you
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  will be able to work out and apply these principles. If not, then
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  you must develop yourself into one, for otherwise the Hermetic teachings will be as
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  words words words to you. The three initiates end of Introduction, Chapter one,
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  the Hermetic Philosophy. The lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears
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  of understanding the Kabalian. From Old Egypt have come the fundamental, esoteric and
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  occult teachings which have so strongly influenced the philosophies of all races, nations,
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  and peoples for several thousand years. Egypt, the home of the pyramids and
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  the Sphinx, was the birthplace of the hidden wisdom and mystic teachings from her
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  secret doctrine all nations have borrowed India, Persia, Chaldea, Medea, China,
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  Japan, Assyria, Ancient Greece and Rome, and other ancient countries partook
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  liberally at the feast of knowledge which the hierophants and masters of the land of
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  Isis so so freely provided for all those who came prepared to partake of the
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  great store of mystic and occult lore which the master minds of that ancient land
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  had gathered together. In ancient Egypt dwelt the great adepts and masters, who
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  have never been surpassed, and who seldom have been equalled during the centuries that
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  have taken their processional flight since the days of the Great Hermes. In Egypt
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  was located the great lodge of lodges of the mystics. At the doors of
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  her temple entered the neophytes, who, afterward, as hierophens, adepts,
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  and masters, traveled to the four corners of the earth, carrying with them
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  the precious knowledge which they were ready, anxious and willing to pass on to
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  those who were ready to receive the same. All students of the occult recognized
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  the death that they owe to these venerable masters of that ancient land. But
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  among these great masters of ancient Egypt, there once dwelt, one of whom
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  the men masters hailed as the master of masters. This man if man.
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  Indeed, he was dwelt in Egypt in the earliest days. He was known
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  as Hermes Trismegistus. He was the founder of the occult wisdom, the founder
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  of astrology, the discoverer of alchemy. The details of his life story are
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  lost to history owing to the lapse of the years, though several of the
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  ancient countries disputed with each other in their claims to the honor of having furnished
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  his birthplace, and this thousands of years ago. The date of his sojourn
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  in Egypt, in that his last incarnation on this planet, is not now
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  known, but it has been fixed at the early days of the oldest dynasties
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  of Egypt, long before the days of Moses. The best authorities regard him
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  as contemporary of Abraham, and some of the Jewish traditions go so far as
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  to claim that Abraham acquired a portion of his life mystic knowledge from Hermes himself,
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  as the years rolled by after his passing from this plain of life,
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  tradition recording that he lived three hundred years in the flesh. The Egyptians deified
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  Hermes and made him one of their gods under the name of Thoth. Years
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  after, the people of ancient Greece also made him one of their many gods,
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  calling him Hermes, the God of Wisdom. The Egyptians revered his memory
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  for many centuries, yes, tens of centuries, calling him the scribe of
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  the gods, and bestowing upon him distinctively his ancient title tris Magistus, which
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  means the thrice great, the great great, the greatest great, et cetera.
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  In all the ancient lands, the name of Hermes tris Magistus was revered,
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  the name being synonymous with the fount of wisdom. Even to this day
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  we use the term Hermetic in the sense of sin sealed so that nothing can
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  escape, and this by the reason of the fact that the followers of Hermes
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  always observed the principle of secrecy in their teachings. They did not believe in
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  casting pearls before swine, but rather held to the teaching milk for babes,
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  meat for strong men, both of which maxims are familiar to readers of the
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  Christian Scriptures, but both of which had been used by the Egyptians for centuries
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  before the Christian era, and this policy of careful dissemination of the truth has
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  always characterized the Hermetics even unto the present day. The Hermetic teachings are to
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  be found in all lands, among all religions, but never identified with any
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  particular country, nor with any particular religious sect. This because of the warning
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  of the ancient teachers against allowing the secret doctrine to become crystallized into a creed.
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  The wisdom of this caution is apparent to all students of history. The
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  ancient occultism of Indian Persia degenerated and was largely lost, owing to the fact
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  that the teachers became priests and so mixed theology with the philosophy, the result
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  being that the occultism of Indian Persia had been gradually lost amidst the mass of
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  religious superstition, cults, creeds, and gods. So it is with ancient
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  Greece and Rome, so it is with the Hermetic teachings of the Gnostics and
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  early Christians, which were lost at the time of Constantine whose iron hands smothered
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  philosophy with the blanket of theology, losing to the Christian Church that which was
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  its very essence and spirit, and causing it to grope through several centuries before
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  it found the way back to its ancient faith. The indications a parent who
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  all careful observers in the twentieth century being that the Church is now struggling to
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  get back to its ancient mystic teachings. But there were always a few faithful
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  souls who kept alive the flame, tending it carefully and not allowing its light
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  to become extinguished. And thanks to these staunch hearts and fearless minds, we
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  have the truth still with us. But it is not found in books to
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  any great extent. It has been passed along from master to student, from
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  initiate to hyerophant, from lip to ear. When it was written down at
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  all, its meaning was veiled in terms of alchemy and astrology, so that
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  only those possessing the key could read it art. This was made necessary in
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  order to avoid the persecutions of the theologians of the Middle Ages, who fought
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  the secret doctrine with fire and sword. Steak, Gibbet and cross. Even
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  to this day, there will be found but few reliable books on the Hermetic
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  philosophy, although there are countless references to it in many books written on various
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  phases of occultism. And yet the Hermetic philosophy is the only master key which
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  will open all the doors of the occult teachings. In the early days,
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  there was a compilation of certain basic hermetic doctrines passed on from teacher to students,
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  which was known as the Kabbalian, the exact significance and meaning of the
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  term having been lost for several centuries. This teaching, however, is known
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  to many, to whom it has descended from mouth to ear on and on
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  throughout the centuries. Its precepts have never been written down or printed, so
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  far as we know. It was merely a collection of maxims, axioms,
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  and precepts which were non understandable to outsiders, but which were readily understood by
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  students. After the axioms, maxims, and precepts had been explained and exemplified
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  by the Hermetic initiates to their neophytes, these teachings really constituted the basic principles
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  of the art of hermetical ousemechemy, which, contrary to the general belief,
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  dealt in the mastery of mental forces rather than material elements, the transmutation of
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  one kind of mental vibration into others, instead of the changing of one kind
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  of metal into another. The legends of the Philosopher's Stone, which would turn
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  base metal into gold, was an allegory relating to Hermetic philosophy readily understood by
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  all students of true Hermeticism. In this little book, of which this is
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  the first lesson, we invite our students to examine into the Hermetic teachings as
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  set forth in the Kabalian, and as explained by ourselves, humble students of
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  the teachings, who, while bearing the title of initiates, are still students
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  at the feet of Hermes, the Master. We herein give you many of
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  the maxims, axioms and precepts of the Kabalian, accompanied by explanations and illustrations
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  which we deem likely to render the teachings more easily comprehended by the modern student,
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  particularly as the original text is purposely veiled in obscure terms. The original
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  maxims, axioms and precepts of the Kabalian are printed herein in italics, the
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  proper credit being given our own work is printed in the regular way in the
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  body of the work. We trust that the many students to whom we now
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  offer this little work will derive as much benefit from the study of its pages
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  as have the many who have gone on before, treading the same path to
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  mastery throughout the centuries that have passed since the times of Hermes trist Magistus,
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  the Master of masters, the Great Great. In the words of the Kabalian,
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  where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for
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  his teaching all been wide the Kabalian. When the ears of the student are
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  ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom. The
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  Kabalian so that, according to the teachings, the passage of this book to
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  those ready for the instruction will attract the attention of such as prepared to receive
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  the teaching. And likewise, when the pupil is ready to receive the truth,
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  then will this little book come to him or her, such as the
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  law the hermetic principle of cause and effect, in its aspect of the law
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  of attraction, will bring lips and ear together pupil and book in company.
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  So motive be end of Chapter one, Chapter two. The seven Hermetic principles,
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  the principles of truth are seven. He who knows these understandingly possesses the
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  magic key, before whose touch all the doors of the temple fly open.
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  The Kabalian. The seven Hermetic principles upon which the entire Hermetic philosophy is based
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  as follows. One the principle of mentalism, two the principle of correspondence,
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  three the principle of vibration, four the principle of polarity, five the principle
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  of rhythm, six the principle of cause and effect. Seven the principle of
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  gender. These seven principles will be discussed and explained as we proceed with these
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  lessons. A short explanation of each, however, may as well be given
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  at this point. One the principle of mentalism. The all is mind,
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  The universe is mental. The Kabalian. This principle embodies the truth that all
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  is mind. It explains that the all, which is the substantial reality underlying
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  all the outward manifestations and appearances which we know under the terms of the material
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  universe, the phenomena life, matter, energy, and in short, all
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  that is apparent to our material sense is spirit, which in itself is unknowable
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  and undefinable, but which may be considered and thought of as a universal,
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  infinite, living mind. It also explains that all the phenomenal world or universe
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  is simply a mental creation of the all, subject to the laws of created
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  things, and that the universe as a whole and in its parts or units,
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  has in existence in the mind of the All, in which mind we
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  live and move and have our being. This principle, by establishing the mental
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  nature of the universe, easily explains all the varied mental and physical phenomena that
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  occupy such a large portion of the public attention, and which without such explanation
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  are non understandable and defy scientific treatment. In understanding of this great hermetic principle
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  of mentalism enables the individual to readily grasp the laws of the mental universe and
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  to apply the same to his well being and advancement. The hermetic student is
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  enabled to apply intelligently the great mental laws instead of using them in a haphazard
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  manner. With the master key in his possession, the student may unlock the
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  many doors of the mental and psychic temple of knowledge and enter the same freely
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  and intelligently. This principle explains the true nature of energy, power, and
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  matter, and why and how all these are subordinate to the mastery of mind.
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  One of the old Hermetic masters wrote long ages ago, he who grasps
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  the truth of the mental nature of the universe is well advanced on the path
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  to mastery. And these words are as true today as they were when they
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  were first written. Without this master key, mastery is impossible when the student
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  knocks in vain at the many doors of the temple. Two. The principle
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  of correspondence as above, so below, as below, so above the Kabalian.
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  This principle embodies the truth that there is always a correspondence between the laws
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  and phenomena of the various planes of being in life. The old Hermetic axiom
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  ran in these words as above, so below, as below, so above,
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  And the grasping of this principle gives one the means of solving many a
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  dark paradox, the hidden secret of nature. There are planes beyond our knowing,
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  but when we apply the principle of correspondence to them, we are able
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  to understand much that would otherwise be unknowable to us. This principle is of
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  universal application and manifestation on the various planes of the material, mental, and
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  spiritual universe. It is a universal law. The ancient hermeticist considered the principle
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  as one of the most important mental instruments by which man was able to pry
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  aside the obstacles which hid from view the unknown. Its use even tore aside
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  the veil of isis to the extent that a glimpse of the face of the
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  goddess might be caught. Just as a knowledge of the principles of geometry enables
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  man to measure distant suns and their movements while seated in his observatory, so
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  a knowledge of the principle of correspondence enables man to reason intelligently from the known
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  to the unknown. Studying the monad, he understands the archangel three. The
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  principle of vibration. Nothing rests, everything moves, everything vibrates the Kabalian.
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  This principle embodies the truth that everything is in motion, everything vibrates, nothing
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  is at rest, facts which modern science endorses and which each new scientific discovery
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  tends to verify. And yet this hermetic principle was enunciated thousands of years ago
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  by the masters of ancient Egypt. The principle explains the differences between different manifestations
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  of matter, energy, mind, and even spirit result largely from varying rates
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  of vibration. From the all which is pure spirit, down to the grossest
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  form of matter, all is in vibration. The higher the vibration, the
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  higher the position in the scale. The vibration of spirit is at such an
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  infinite rate of intensity and rapidity that it is practically at rest, just as
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  a rapidly moving wheel seems to be motionless. And at the other end of
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  this scale there are gross forms of matter whose vibrations are so low as they
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  seem to be at rest. Between these poles there are millions upon millions of
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  varying degrees of vibration. From corpuscle and electron, atom and molecule to worlds
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  and universes, everything is in vibratory motion. This is also true on the
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  planes of energy and force, which are but varying degrees of vibration, and
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  also on the mental planes, whose states depend upon vibrations, and even onto
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  the spiritual planes. In understanding of this principle, with the appropriate formulas enables
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  hermetic students to control their own mental vibrations, as well as those of others.
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  The masters also apply this principle to the conquering of natural phenomena in various
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  ways. He who understands the principle of vibration has grafts the scepter of power.
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  Says one of the old writers, four the principle of polarity. Everything
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  is dual. Everything has poles, Everything has its pair of opposites. Like
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  and unlike are the same. Opposites are identical in nature but different in degree.
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  Extremes meat, All truths are but half truths. All paradoxes may be
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  reconciled. The Kabbalian this principle embodies the truth that everything is dual, Everything
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  has two poles, everything has its pair of opposites, all of which were
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  old hermetic axioms. It explains the old paradoxes that have perplexed so many,
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  which have been stated as follows. Thesis and anti thesis are identical in nature,
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  but different in degree. Opposites are the same, differing only in degree.
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  The pairs of opposites may be reconciled. Extremes meat, everything is and
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  isn't at the same time, all truths are but half truths. Every truth
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  is half false. There are two sides to everything, etc. Etc.
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  Etc. It explains that in everything there are two poles or opposite aspects,
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  and that opposites are really only the two extremes of the same thing, with
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  many varying degrees between them. To illustrate heat and cold, although opposites are
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  really the same thing, the differences consisting merely of degrees of the same thing.
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  Look at your thermometer and see if you can discover where heat terminates and
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  cold begins. There is no such thing as absolute heat or absolute cold.
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  The two terms heat and cold simply indicate varying degrees of the same thing,
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  And that same thing which manifests as heat and cold is merely a form,
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  variety and rate of vibration. So heat and cold are simply the two poles
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  of that which we call heat, and the phenomena attendant thereupon are the manifestations
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  of the principle of polarity. The same principle manifests in the case of light
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  and darkness, which are the same thing. The difference consisting of varying degrees
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  between the two poles of the phenomena. Where does darkness leave off and light
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  begin. What is the difference between large and small, between hard and soft,
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  between black and white, between sharp and dull, between noise and quiet,
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  between high and low, between positive and negative. The principle of polarity
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  explains these paradoxes, and no other principle can supersede it. The same principle
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  operates on the mental plane. Let us take a radical and extreme example that
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  of love and hate, two mental states apparently totally different, And yet there
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  are degrees of hate and degrees of love, and a middle point in which
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  we use the terms like or dislike, which shade into each other so gradually
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  that sometimes we are at a loss to know whether we like or dislike,
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  or either, And all are simply degrees of the same thing, as you
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  will see if you will, but think a moment. And more than this,
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  and considered of more importance by the hermetists, it is possible to change
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  the vibrations of hate to the vibrations of love, in one's own mind and
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  in the minds of others. Many of you who read these lines have had
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  personal experiences of the involuntary, rapid transition from love to hate. And the
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  reverse in your own case and that of others. And you will therefore realize
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  the possibility of this being accomplished by the use of the will by means of
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  the hermetic formulas. Good and evil are but the poles of the same thing,
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  and the hermetis understands the art of transmuting evil into good by means of
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  an application of the principle of polarity. In short, the art of polarization
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  becomes a phase of mental alchemy, already known in practice by the ancient and
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  modern Hermetic masters. In understanding if the principle will enable one to change his
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  own polarity, as well as that of others, if he will devote the
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  time and study necessary to master the art. Five, the principle of rhythm.
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  Everything flows out, and in everything has tides. All things rise and
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  fall. The pendulum swing manifests in everything. The measure of the swing to
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  the right is the measure of the swing to the left. Rhythm compensates the
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  Kabalian. This principle embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured
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  motion to and fro, a flow, and inflow, a swing backward and
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  forward. A pendulum like movement a tide like ebb and flow, a high
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  tide and low tide between the two poles, which exist in accordance with the
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  principle of polarity described a moment of gold. There is always an action and
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  a reaction in advance and a retreat, a rising and a sinking. This
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  is in the affairs of the universe, suns, worlds, men, animals,
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  mind, energy, and matter. This law is manifest in the creation
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  and destruction of worlds, in the rise and fall of nations, in the
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  life of all things, and finally in the mental states of man. And
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  it is with this latter that the hermetists find the understanding of the principle most
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  important. The hermetists have grasped this principle, finding its universal application, and
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  have also discovered certain means to overcome its effects in themselves. By the use
• 31:45
  of the appropriate formulas and methods, they apply the mental law of neutralization.
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  They cannot annull the principle or cause it to cease its operation, but they
• 31:56
  have learned how to escape its effects upon themselves to a certain degree, depending
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  upon the mastery of the principle. They have learned how to use it instead
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  of being used by it. In this and similar methods consists the art of
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  the hermetis. The master of hermetics polarizes himself at the point at which he
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  desires to rest, and then neutralizes the rhythmic swing of the pendulum which would
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  tend to carry him to the other pole. All individuals who have attained any
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  degree of self mastery do this to a certain degree, more or less unconsciously.
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  But the Master does this consciously and by the use of his will,
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  and attains a degree of poison mental firmness, almost impossible of belief on the
• 32:44
  part of the masses who are swung backward and forward like a pendulum. This
• 32:49
  principle and that of polarity have been closely studied by the Hermetists, and the
• 32:53
  methods of counteracting, neutralizing, and using them form an important part of the
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  Hermetic mental alchemy. Six The principle of cause and effect. Every cause has
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  its effect, every effect has its cause. Everything happens according to law.
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  Chance is but a name for law not recognized. There are many planes of
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  causation, but nothing escapes the law. The Kabbalian this principle embodies the fact
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  that there is a cause for every effect, an effect for every cause.
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  It explains that everything happens according to law, that nothing ever merely happens,
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  that there is no such thing as chance, That while there are various planes
• 33:39
  of cause and effect, the higher dominating the lower planes, still nothing ever,
• 33:45
  entirely escapes the law. The hermetists understand the art and methods of rising
• 33:51
  above the ordinary plane of cause and effect to a certain degree, and by
• 33:55
  mentally rising to a higher plane, they become cause instead of effects. The
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  masses of people are carried along obedient to environment, the wills and desires of
• 34:07
  others stronger than themselves, heredity, suggestion, and other outward causes, moving
• 34:14
  them about like pawns on the chessboard of life. But the masters, rising
• 34:19
  to the plane above, dominate their moves, characters, qualities, and powers,
• 34:24
  as well as the environments surrounding them, and become movers instead of pawns.
• 34:30
  They help to play the game of life instead of being played and moved
• 34:35
  about by other wills and environment. They use the principle instead of being its
• 34:40
  tools. The masters obey the causation of the higher planes, but they help
• 34:45
  to rule on their own plane. In this statement, there is condensed a
• 34:50
  wealth of hermetic knowledge, Let him read who can seven the principle of gender.
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  Gender is an e Everything has its masculine and feminine principles. Gender manifests
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  on all planes the Kabalian. This principle embodies the truth that there is gender
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  manifested in everything, the masculine and feminine principles ever at work. This is
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  true not only of the physical plane, but of the mental and even the
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  spiritual planes. On the physical plane, the principle manifests as sex. On
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  the higher planes, it takes higher forms, but the principle is ever the
• 35:31
  same. No creation, physical, mental, or spiritual, is possible without
• 35:37
  this principle. An understanding of its laws will throw light on many a subject
• 35:44
  that has perplexed the minds of men. The principle of gender works ever in
• 35:47
  the direction of generation, regeneration, and creation. Everything and every person contains
• 35:55
  the two elements or principles, or this great prince within it him or her.
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  Every male thing has the female element. Also, every female contains also
• 36:07
  the male principle. If you would understand the philosophy of mental and spiritual creation,
• 36:14
  generation and regeneration, you must understand and study this hermetic principle. It
• 36:21
  contains the solution of many mysteries of life. We caution you that this principle
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  has no reference to the many base, pernicious and degrading, lustful theories,
• 36:31
  teachings, and practices which are taught under fanciful titles, and which are a
• 36:37
  prostitution of the great natural principle of gender. Such base revivals of the ancient,
• 36:43
  infinous forms of fallacism tend to ruin mind, body, and soul,
• 36:47
  and the Hermetic philosophy has ever sounded the warning note against these degraded teachings which
• 36:53
  tend toward lust licentiousness, and perversion of Nature's principles. If you seek such
• 37:00
  teachings, you must go elsewhere for them. Hermeticism contains nothing for you along
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  these lines. To the pure, all things are pure. To the base,
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  all things are base. End of Chapter two, Chapter three. Mental
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  transmutation, Mind, as well as metals and elements, may be transmuted from
• 37:25
  state to state, degree to degree, condition to condition, whole to pole,
• 37:31
  vibration to vibration. True hermetic transmutation is a mental art the Kabbalian As
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  we have stated, the Hermetists were the original alchemists, astrologers, and psychologists,
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  Hermes having been the founder of these schools of thought. From astrology has
• 37:52
  grown modern astronomy. From alchemy has grown modern chemistry. From the mystic psychology
• 37:59
  has the modern psychology of the schools. But it must not be supposed that
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  the ancient schools were ignorant of that which the modern schools supposed to be their
• 38:08
  exclusive and special property. The records engraved on the stones of ancient Egypt show
• 38:15
  conclusively that the ancients had a full comprehensive knowledge of astronomy, the very building
• 38:21
  of the pyramids showing the connection between their design and the study of astronomical science.
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  Nor were they ignorant of chemistry, for the fragments of the ancient writings
• 38:31
  show that they were acquainted with the chemical properties of things. In fact,
• 38:37
  the ancient theories regarding physics are being slowly verified by the latest discoveries of modern
• 38:44
  science, notably those relating to the constitution of matter. Nor must it be
• 38:49
  supposed that they were ignorant of the so called modern discoveries in psychology. On
• 38:53
  the contrary, the Egyptians were especially skilled in the science of psychology, particularly
• 39:00
  in the branches that the modern schools ignore, but which nevertheless are being uncovered
• 39:06
  under the name of psychic science, which is perplexing the psychologists of today and
• 39:12
  making them reluctantly admit that there must be something in it. After all.
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  The truth is that beneath the material chemistry, astronomy and psychology, that is,
• 39:23
  the psychology in its phase of brain action, the ancients possessed a knowledge
• 39:29
  of transcendental astronomy called astrology, of transcendental chemistry called alchemy, of transcendental psychology
• 39:38
  called mystic psychology. They possess the inner knowledge as well as the outer knowledge,
• 39:45
  the latter alone being possessed by modern scientists. Among the many secret branches
• 39:51
  of knowledge possessed by the hermetists was that known as mental transmutation, which forms
• 39:57
  the subject matter of this lesson. Transmutation is a term usually employed to designate
• 40:02
  the ancient art of the transmutation of metals, particularly of the base metals into
• 40:07
  gold. The word transmute means to change from one nature, form or substance
• 40:15
  into another, to transform, and accordingly, mental transmutation means the art of
• 40:21
  changing and transforming mental states, forms, and conditions into others. So you
• 40:28
  may see that mental transmutation is the art of mental chemistry. If you like,
• 40:32
  the term a form of practical mystic psychology. But this means far more
• 40:37
  than appears on the surface. Transmutation alchemy or chemistry on the mental plane is
• 40:45
  important enough in its effects to be sure, and if the art stopped,
• 40:49
  there would still be one of the most important branches of study known to man.
• 40:52
  But this is only the beginning. Let us see why. The first
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  of the seven Hermetic principles is the principle of mentalism, the axiom of which
• 41:02
  is the all is mind. The universe is mental, which means that the
• 41:07
  underlying reality of the universe's mind and the universe itself is mental, that is,
• 41:14
  existing in the mind of the all. We shall consider this principle in
• 41:17
  succeeding lessons. But let us see the effects of the principle. If it
• 41:22
  be assumed to be true, if the universe is mental in its nature,
• 41:27
  then mental transmutation must be the art of changing the conditions of the universe along
• 41:32
  the lines of matter, force, and mind. So you see therefore,
• 41:37
  that mental transmutation is really the magic of which the ancient writers had so much
• 41:43
  to say in their mystical works, and about which they gave so few practical
• 41:47
  instructions. If all be mental, then the art which enables one to transmute
• 41:53
  mental conditions must render the master the controller of material conditions as well as those
• 42:00
  ordinarily called mental. As a matter of fact, none but advanced mental alchemists
• 42:06
  have been able to attain the degree of power necessary to control the grosser physical
• 42:10
  elements, such as the control of the elements of nature, the production or
• 42:15
  cessation of tempests, the production and cessation of earthquakes, and other great physical
• 42:21
  phenomena. But that such men have existed and do exist today is a matter
• 42:27
  of earnest belief to all advanced occultists of all schools that the masters exist and
• 42:32
  have these powers. The best teachers assure their students, having had experience which
• 42:38
  justify them in such beliefs and statements. These masters do not make public exhibitions
• 42:45
  of their powers, but seek seclusion from the crowds of men in order to
• 42:50
  better their work along the path of attainment. We mention their existence at this
• 42:54
  point merely to call your attention to the fact that their power is entirely mental
• 43:00
  and operates along the lines of the higher mental transmutation. Under the hermetic principle
• 43:06
  of mentalism. The universe is mental the Kabalian, but students in hermeticis of
• 43:13
  lesser degree than masters. The initiates and teachers are able to freely work along
• 43:19
  the mental plane in mental transmutation. In fact, all that we call psychic
• 43:24
  phenomena, mental influence, mental science, new thought, phenomena, et cetera,
• 43:31
  operates along the same general lines, for there is but one principle involved.
• 43:37
  No matter by what name the phenomena be called. The student and practitioner
• 43:42
  of mental transmutation works upon the mental plane, transmuting mental conditions, states,
• 43:49
  et cetera, into others according to various formulas, more or less efficacious.
• 43:55
  The various treatments, affirmations, denials, etc. Of the schools of mental
• 44:00
  science are but formulas, often quite imperfect and unscientific, of the Hermetic art.
• 44:07
  The majority of modern practitioners are quite ignorant compared to the ancient masters,
• 44:14
  for they lack the fundamental knowledge upon which the work is based. Not only
• 44:19
  may the mental states of one's self be changed or transmuted by hermetic methods,
• 44:23
  but also the states of others may be and are constantly transmuted in the same
• 44:30
  way, usually unconsciously, but often consciously by some understanding the laws and principles
• 44:37
  in cases where the people affected are not informed of the principles of self protection.
• 44:43
  And more than this, as many students and practitioners of modern mental science
• 44:47
  know, every material condition, depending upon the minds of other people, may
• 44:52
  be changed or transmuted in accordance with the earnest desire, will, and treatments
• 44:59
  of persons desiring changed conditions of life. The public are so generally informed regarding
• 45:06
  these things at present that we do not deem it necessary to mention the same
• 45:09
  at length, our purpose at this point being merely to show the Hermetic principle
• 45:15
  in art underlying all of these various forms of practice good and evil, For
• 45:21
  the force can be used in opposite directions according to the Hermetic principles of polarity.
• 45:27
  In this little book we shall state the basic principles of mental transmutation,
• 45:31
  that all who read may grasp the underlying principles and thus possess the master key
• 45:37
  that will unlock the many doors of the principle of polarity. We shall now
• 45:43
  proceed to a consideration of the first of the Hermetic seven principles, the principle
• 45:47
  of mentalism, in which is explain the truth that all is mind the universe
• 45:53
  is mental. In the words of the Kabalian, we ask the close attention
• 45:59
  and care study of this great principle on the part of our students, for
• 46:04
  it really is the basic principle of the whole Hermetic philosophy and the Hermetic art
• 46:09
  of mental transmutation. End of Chapter three, Chapter four. The all under
• 46:17
  and back of the universe of time, space, and change is ever to
• 46:22
  be found the substantial reality, the fundamental truth. The Kabalian substance means that
• 46:30
  which underlies all outward manifestations, the essence, the essential reality, the thing
• 46:37
  in itself, et cetera. Substantial means actually existing, being, the essential
• 46:45
  element, being real, et cetera. Reality means the state of being real,
• 46:52
  true, enduring, valid, fixed, permanent, actual, etc.
• 46:59
  Under In behind all outward appearances or manifestations, there must always be a substantial
• 47:05
  reality. This is the law man, considering the universe of which he is
• 47:10
  a unit, sees nothing but change in matter, forces, and mental states.
• 47:16
  He sees that nothing really is, but that everything is becoming and changing.
• 47:22
  Nothing stands still. Everything is being born, growing, dying. The
• 47:29
  very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline. The law
• 47:34
  of rhythm is in constant operation. There is no reality, enduring, quality,
• 47:39
  fixity, or substantiality in anything. Nothing is permanent but change. He
• 47:46
  sees all things evolving from other things and resolving into other things, constant action
• 47:53
  and reaction, inflow and outflow, building up and tearing down, creation and
• 48:00
  destruction, birth, growth and death. Nothing endures but change. And if
• 48:06
  he be a thinking man, he realizes that all of these changing things must
• 48:12
  be but outward appearances or manifestations of some underlying power, some substantial reality.
• 48:20
  All thinkers, in all lands and in all times have assumed the necessity for
• 48:25
  postulating the existence of this substantial reality. All philosophies worthy of the name have
• 48:32
  been based upon this thought. Men have been given to this substantial reality many
• 48:38
  names. Some have called it by the term of deity under many titles.
• 48:44
  Others have called it the infinite and eternal energy. Others have tried to call
• 48:49
  it matter. But all have acknowledged its existence. It is self evident.
• 48:54
  It needs no argument. In these lessons, we have followed the example of
• 49:00
  some of the world's greatest thinkers, both ancient and modern. The Hermetic masters
• 49:06
  have called this underlying power, this substantial reality, by the hermetic name of
• 49:12
  the All, which term we consider the most comprehensive of the many terms applied
• 49:17
  by man to that which transcends names and terms. We accept and teach the
• 49:23
  view of the great hermetic thinkers of all times, as well as of those
• 49:28
  illumined souls who have reached higher planes of being, both of which assert that
• 49:31
  the inner nature of the All is unknowable. This must be so, for
• 49:37
  naught by the All itself can comprehend its own nature and being. The hermetists
• 49:43
  believe and teach that the All in itself is and must ever be unknowable.
• 49:50
  They regard all the theories, guesses, and speculations of the theologians and metaphysicians
• 49:55
  regarding the inner nature of the All as but the childish efforts of mortal minds
• 50:00
  to grasp the secret of the infinite. Such efforts have always failed, and
• 50:06
  will always fail. From the very nature of the task. One pursuing such
• 50:12
  inquiries travels around and around in the labyrinth of thought until he is lost to
• 50:16
  all sane reasoning, action, or conduct, and is utterly unfitted for the
• 50:22
  work of life. He is like the squirrel which frantically runs around and around
• 50:27
  the circling treadmill wheel of his cage, traveling ever and yet reaching nowhere at
• 50:32
  the end, a prisoner still and standing just where he started. And still
• 50:37
  more presumptuous are those who attempt to ascribe to the all the personality qualities,
• 50:45
  properties, characteristics, and attributes of themselves, ascribing to the all the human
• 50:51
  emotions, feelings, and characteristics, even down to the pettiest qualities of mankind,
• 50:57
  such as jealousy, susceptible ability to flattery and praise, desire for offerings
• 51:02
  and worship, and all the other survivals from the days of the childhood of
• 51:07
  the race. Such ideas are not worthy of grown men and women, and
• 51:13
  are rapidly being discarded. At this point, it may be proper for me
• 51:17
  to state that we make a distinction between religion and theology, between philosophy and
• 51:22
  metaphysics. Religion to us means that intuitional realization of the existence of the All
• 51:30
  and one's relationship to it, while theology means the attempts of men to ascribe
• 51:36
  personality, qualities and characteristics to it, their theories regarding its affairs, will,
• 51:44
  desires, plans, and designs and their assumption of the office of middlemen
• 51:50
  between the All and the people. Philosophy to us means the inquiry after knowledge
• 51:57
  of things knowable and thinkable, while meta physics means the attempt to carry the
• 52:01
  inquiry over and beyond the boundaries and into regions unknowable and unthinkable, and with
• 52:08
  the same tendency as that of theology. And consequently, both religion and philosophy
• 52:15
  mean to us things having roots in reality, while theology and metaphysics seem like
• 52:21
  broken reeds, rooted in the quicksands of ignorance, and affording not but the
• 52:27
  most insecure support for the mind or soul of man. We do not insist
• 52:32
  upon our students accepting these definitions. We mention them merely to show our position.
• 52:38
  At any rate, you shall hear very little about theology and metaphysics in
• 52:44
  these lessons. But while the essential nature of the All is unknowable, there
• 52:49
  are certain truths connected with its existence which the human mind finds itself compelled to
• 52:54
  accept, and in examination of these reports form a proper sense object of inquiry,
• 53:00
  particularly as they agree with the reports of the illumined on higher planes.
• 53:07
  And to this inquiry we now invite you that which is the fundamental truth.
• 53:13
  The substantial reality is beyond true naming, but the wise men call it the
• 53:19
  all, the Kabalian. In its essence, the all is unknowable, the
• 53:25
  Kabalian. But the report of reason must be hospitably received and treated with respect.
• 53:35
  The Kabalian. The human reason, whose reports we must accept, so
• 53:39
  long as we think at all, informs us as follows regarding the all,
• 53:45
  and that without attempting to remove the veil of the unknowable one. The All
• 53:52
  must be all that really is. There can be nothing existing outside of the
• 53:58
  all, else the All would not be the all. Two. The All
• 54:04
  must be infinite, for there is nothing else to define, confine, bound,
• 54:08
  limit, or restrict the All. It must be infinite in time or
• 54:14
  eternal. It must have always continuously existed, for there is nothing else to
• 54:20
  have ever created it, and something can never evolve from nothing, And if
• 54:24
  it had ever not been even for a moment, it would not be now.
• 54:30
  It must continuously exist forever, for there is nothing to destroy it,
• 54:37
  and it can never not be even for a moment, because something can never
• 54:42
  become nothing. It must be infinite. In space, it must be everywhere,
• 54:47
  for there is no place outside of the All. It cannot be otherwise
• 54:52
  than continuous in space without break, cessation, separation, or interruption, for
• 55:00
  there is nothing to break, separate, or interrupt its continuity, and nothing
• 55:06
  with which to fill in the gaps. It must be infinite in power or
• 55:09
  absolute, for there is nothing to limit, restrict, restrain, confine,
• 55:15
  disturb, or condition it. It is subject to no other power, for
• 55:22
  there is no other power. Three. The All must be immutable or not
• 55:28
  subject to change in its real nature, for there is nothing to work changes
• 55:32
  upon it, nor from which it could have changed. It cannot be added
• 55:37
  to, nor subtracted from, increase, nor diminished, nor become greater or
• 55:43
  lesser in any respect whatsoever. It must have always been and must always remain
• 55:50
  just what it is now. The All there has never been, is not
• 55:54
  now, and never will be anything else into which it can change. The
• 56:00
  All being infinite, absolute, eternal, and unchangeable, it must follow that
• 56:06
  anything finite, changeable, fleeting, and conditioned cannot be the All. And
• 56:13
  as there is nothing outside of the All in reality, then any and all
• 56:17
  such finite things must be as nothing in reality. Now, do not become
• 56:23
  befogged or frightened. We are not trying to lead you into the Christian science
• 56:28
  field under cover of hermetic philosophy. There is a reconciliation of this apparently contradictory
• 56:35
  state of affairs. Be patient, we will reach it in time. We
• 56:40
  see around us that which is called matter, which forms the physical foundation for
• 56:45
  all forms, is the all merely matter? Not at all, matter cannot
• 56:52
  manifest life or mind. And as life and mind are manifested in the universe,
• 56:58
  the all cannot be matter, for nothing rises higher than its own source.
• 57:02
  Nothing is ever manifested in an effect that is not the cause. Nothing
• 57:07
  is evolved as a consequent that is not involved as an antecedent. And then
• 57:14
  modern science informs us that there is really no such thing as matter, That
• 57:19
  what we call matter is merely interrupted energy or force, that is, energy
• 57:24
  or force at a low rate of vibration. As a recent writer has said,
• 57:30
  matter has melted into mystery. Even material science has abandoned the theory of
• 57:36
  matter and now rests on the basis of energy. Then is the all mere
• 57:42
  energy or force? Not energy or force as the materialists use the forms for
• 57:47
  their energy and force are blind mechanical things, devoid of life or mind.
• 57:53
  Life and mind can never evolve from blind energy or force, for the reason
• 57:59
  given a moment ago, oh, nothing can rise higher than its source.
• 58:04
  Nothing is evolved unless it is involved. Nothing manifests in the effect unless it
• 58:09
  is in the cause. And so the all cannot be mere energy or force,
• 58:15
  for if it were, then there would be no such things as life
• 58:19
  and mind in existence. And we know better than that, for we are
• 58:22
  alive in using mind to consider this very question, and so are those who
• 58:29
  claim that energy or force is everything. What is there, then, higher
• 58:35
  than matter or energy that we know to be existent in the universe, life
• 58:39
  and mind, life and mind in all their varying degrees of unfoldment. Then
• 58:46
  you ask, do you mean to tell us that the all is life and
• 58:51
  mind? Yes, and no is our answer. If you mean life and
• 58:57
  mind as we poor petty mortals know them, we say, no, the
• 59:00
  all is not that. But what kind of life and mind do you mean?
• 59:06
  You ask? The answer is living mind, as far above that which
• 59:10
  mortals know. By these words, as life and mind are higher than mechanical
• 59:15
  forces or matter, infinite living mind as compared to finite life and mind.
• 59:22
  We mean that which the illumined souls mean when they reverently pronounce the word spirit.
• 59:29
  The All is infinite living mind. The illumined call it spirit. End
• 59:36
  of Chapter four, Chapter five, The mental Universe. The universe is mental,
• 59:45
  held in the mind of the All. The Kabbalian the All is Spirit.
• 59:51
  But what is Spirit? This question cannot be answered for the reason that
• 59:55
  its definition is practically that of the all, which cannot be explained or defined.
• 1:00:02
  Spirit is simply a name that men give to the highest conception of infinite
• 1:00:07
  living mind. It means the real essence. It means living mind, as
• 1:00:13
  much superior to life and mind as we know them, as the latter are
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  superior to mechanical energy and matter. Spirit transcends our understanding, and we use
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  the term merely that we may think or speak of the All for the purposes
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  of thought and understanding. We are justified in thinking of Spirit as infinite living
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  mind, at the same time acknowledging that we cannot fully understand it. We
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  must either do this or stop thinking of the matter at all. Let us
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  now proceed to the consideration of the nature of the universe as a whole and
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  in its parts. What is the universe? We have seen that there can
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  be nothing outside of the All, then is the universe the all? Know
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  this cannot be because the universe seems to be made up of many and is
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  constantly changing, and in other ways it does not measure up to the ideas
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  that we are compelled to accept. Regarding the All, as stated in our
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  last lesson, Then if the universe be not the All, then it must
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  be nothing. Such is the inevitable conclusion of the mind at first thought.
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  But this will not satisfy the question. For we are sensible of the existence
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  of the universe. Then if the universe is neither the All nor nothing,
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  what can it be? Let us examine this question. If the universe exists
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  at all, or seems to exist, it must proceed in some way from
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  the All. It must be a creation of the All. But if something
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  can never come from nothing, from what could the All have created it.
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  Some philosophers have answered this question by saying that the All created the universe from
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  itself, that is, from the being and substance of the All. But
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  this will not do, for the All cannot be subtracted from nor divided,
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  as we have seen. And then again, if this be so, would
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  not each particle in the universe be aware of its being the All, The
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  All could not lose its knowledge of itself, nor actually become an atom,
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  or blind force, or lowly living thing. Some men, indeed, realizing
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  that the All is indeed all, and also recognizing that they, the men,
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  existed, have jumped to the conclusion that they and the All were identical,
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  and they have filled the air with shouts of I am God, to
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  the amusement of the multitude and the sorrow of sages. The claim of the
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  corpusal that I am Man would be modest in comparison. But what indeed is
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  the universe? If it be not the All, not yet created by the
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  All, having separated itself into fragments, what else can it be? Or
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  what else can it be made? This is a great question. Let us
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  examine it carefully. We find here that the principle of correspondence comes to our
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  aid. The old hermetic axiom as above so below may be pressed into service.
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  At this point. Let us endeavor to get a glimpse of the workings
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  on higher planes by examining those on our own. The principle of correspondence must
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  apply to this as well as to other problems. Let us see on his
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  own plane of being, how does man create? Well? First, he
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  may create by making something out of outside materials, but this will not do,
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  for there are no materials outside of the All with which it may create
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  well. Then, secondly, man pro creates or reproduces his kind by the
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  process of begetting, which is self multiplication, accomplished by transferring a portion of
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  his substance to his offspring. But this will not do, because the All
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  cannot transfer or subtract a portion of itself, nor can it reproduce or multiply
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  itself. In the first place, there would be a taking away, and
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  in the second case a multiplication or addition to the All, both thoughts being
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  an absurdity. Is there no third way in which man creates? Yes,
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  there is. He creates mentally, and in doing so he uses no outside
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  materials, nor does he reproduce himself. And yet his spirit pervades the mental
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  creation. Following the principle of correspondence, we are justified in considering that the
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  All creates the universe mentally in a manner a akin to the process whereby man
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  creates mental images. And here is where the report of reason tallies precisely with
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  the report of the illumined as shown by their teachings and writings. Such are
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  the teachings of the wise men, such was the teaching of Hermes. The
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  All can create in no other way except mentally, without either using material,
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  and there is none to use, or else reproducing itself, which is also
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  impossible. There is no escape from this conclusion of the reason, which,
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  as we have said, agrees with the highest teachings of the illumined. Just
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  as you, student, may create a universe of your own in your mentality,
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  so does the All create universes in its own mentality. But your universe
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  is the mental creation of a finite mind, whereas that of the All is
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  the creation of an infinite mind. The two are similar in kind, but
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  infinitely different in degree. We shall examine more closely into the process of creation
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  and manifestation as we proceed, but this is the point to fix in your
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  minds at this stage. The universe and all it contains is a mental creation
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  of the All. Verily, indeed, all is mind. The All creates
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  in its infinite mind countless universes which exist for eons of time, and yet
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  to the All, the creation, development and decline in death of a million
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  universes is as the time of the twinkling of an eye. The Kabalian,
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  the infinite mind of the All is the womb of universes the Kabalian. The
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  principle of gender is manifested on all planes of life, material, mental,
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  and spiritual. But as we have said before, gender does not mean sex.
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  Sex is merely a material manifestation of gender. Gender means relating to generation
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  or creation, and whenever anything is generated or created on any plane, the
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  principle of gender must be manifested, and this is true even in the creation
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  of universes. Now, do not jump to the conclusion that we are teaching
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  that there is a male and female God or creator. That idea is merely
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  a distortion of the ancient teachings on the subject. The true teaching is that
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  the All in itself is above gender, as it is above every other law,
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  including those of time and space. It is the law from which the
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  laws proceed, and is not subject to them. But when the All manifests
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  on the plane of generation or creation, then it acts according to law and
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  principle, for it is moving on a lower plane of being, and consequently
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  it manifests the principle of gender in its masculine and feminine aspects on the mental
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  plane. Of course, this idea may seem startling to some of you who
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  hear it the first time, but you have all really passively accepted it in
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  your everyday conceptions. You speak of the fatherhood of God and the motherhood of
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  Nature, of God the divine Father, and Nature the universal Mother, and
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  have thus instinctively acknowledged the principle of gender in the universe. Is this not
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  so? But the hermetic teaching does not imply a real duality. The all
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  is one. The two aspects are merely aspects of manifestation. The teaching is
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  that the masculine principle, manifested by the All, stands in a way apart
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  from the actual mental creation of the universe. It projects its will toward the
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  feminine principle, which may be called nature, whereupon the latter begins the actual
• 1:09:04
  work of the evolution of the universe from simple centers of activity on to man,
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  and then on and on still higher, all according to well established and
• 1:09:15
  firmly enforced laws of nature. If you prefer the old figures of thought,
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  you may think of the masculine principle as God, the father and of the
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  feminine principle, as Nature, the universal mother, from whose womb all things
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  have been born. This is more than a mere poetic figure of speech.
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  It is an idea of the actual process of the creation of the universe.
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  But always remember that the all is but one, and that in its infinite
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  mind the universe is generated, created, and exists. It may help you
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  to get the proper idea if you will apply the law of correspondence to yourself
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  and your own mind. You know that the part of you which you call
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  I in a sense, stands apart and witnesses the creation of mental images in
• 1:10:08
  your own mind. The part of your mind in which the mental generation is
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  accomplished may be called the me, in distinction from the eye, which stands
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  apart and witnesses and examines the thoughts, ideas, and images of the Me.
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  As above so below. Remember, the phenomena of one plane may be
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  employed to solve the riddles of higher or lower planes. Is it any wonder
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  that you, the child, feel that instinctive reverence for the all, which
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  feeling we call religion, that respect and reverence for the father mind. Is
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  it any wonder that, when you consider the works and wonders of nature.
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  You are overcome with a mighty feeling which has its roots away down in your
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  inmost being. It is the mother mind that you are pressing close up to,
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  like a babe to the breast. Do not make the mistake of supposing
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  that the little world you see around you, the earth, which is a
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  mere grain of dust in the universe, is the universe itself. There are
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  millions upon millions of such worlds and greater, and there are millions of millions
• 1:11:20
  of such universes in existence within the infinite mind of the All. And even
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  in our own little solar system, there are regions and plains of life far
• 1:11:30
  higher than ours, and beings compared to which we earth bound mortals are as
• 1:11:35
  the slimy life forms that dwell on the ocean's bed. When compared to man,
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  there are beings with powers and attributes higher than man has ever dreamed of
• 1:11:46
  the God's possessing. And yet these beings were once as you, and still
• 1:11:51
  lower, And you will be even as they, and still higher in time.
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  For such is the destiny of man, as reported by the illumined.
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  And death is not real, even in the relative sense. It is but
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  birth to a new life, and you shall go on and on and on
• 1:12:12
  to higher and still higher planes of life for eons upon eons of time.
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  The universe is your home, and you shall explore its farthest recesses. Before
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  the end of time. You are dwelling in the infinite mind of the All,
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  and your possibilities and opportunities are infinite, both in time and space.
• 1:12:32
  And at the end of the grand psycho of eons, when the All shall
• 1:12:38
  draw back into itself all of its creations, you will go gladly, for
• 1:12:43
  you will then be able to know the whole truth of being at one with
• 1:12:46
  the All. Such is the report of the illumined those who have advanced well
• 1:12:51
  along the path. And in the meantime, rest, calm and serene.
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  You are safe and protected by the infinite power of the Father mother Mind.
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  Within the Father Mother Mind, mortal children are at home. The Kabalian.
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  There is not one who is fatherless nor motherless in the universe. The Kabalian
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  end of Chapter five, Chapter six, the Divine paradox. The half wise,
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  recognizing the comparative unreality of the universe, imagine that they may defy its
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  laws. Such are vain and presumptuous fools. And they are broken against the
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  rocks and torn asunder by the elements of reason of their folly. The truly
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  wise, knowing the nature of the universe, use laws against laws, the
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  higher against the lower, and by the art of alchemy, transmute that which
• 1:13:51
  is undesirable into that which is worthy, and thus triumph. Mastery consists not
• 1:13:59
  in abnormal dress, visions and fantastic imaginings or living, but in using the
• 1:14:04
  higher forces against the lower, escaping the pains of the lower planes by vibrating
• 1:14:11
  on the higher. Transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of the
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  master, the kavalion. This is the paradox of the universe, resulting from
• 1:14:24
  the principle of polarity, which manifests when the all begins to create parkin to
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  it, for it points the difference between half wisdom and wisdom. While to
• 1:14:34
  the infinite all the universe, its laws, its powers, its life,
• 1:14:40
  its phenomena are as things witnessed in the states of meditation or dream. Yet
• 1:14:45
  to all that is finite, the universe must be treated as real, and
• 1:14:49
  life, and action and thought must be based thereupon accordingly, although with an
• 1:14:57
  ever understanding of the higher truth. According to its own plane and lass.
• 1:15:02
  Were the all to imagine that the universe were indeed reality, then woe to
• 1:15:08
  the universe, for there would then be no escape from lower to higher divine
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  word. Then would the universe become a fixity, and progress would become impossible.
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  And if man, owing to half wisdom, acts and lives and thinks
• 1:15:23
  of the universe as merely a dream akin to his own finite dreams, then
• 1:15:29
  indeed does it so become for him, And like a sleepwalker, he stumbles
• 1:15:33
  ever around and around in a circle, making no progress, and being forced
• 1:15:39
  into an awakening at last by his falling bruised and bleeding over the natural laws
• 1:15:45
  which he ignored. Keep your mind ever on the star, but let your
• 1:15:49
  eyes watch over your footsteps, lest you fall into the mire by reason of
• 1:15:55
  your upward gaze. Remember the divine paradox, that while the universe is not
• 1:16:01
  still, it is. Remember ever, the two polls of truth, the
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  absolute and the relative. Beware of half truths. What Hermetists know as the
• 1:16:14
  law of paradox is another aspect of the principle of polarity. The Hermetic writings
• 1:16:19
  are filled with references to the appearance of the paradox in the consideration of the
• 1:16:25
  problem of life and being. The teachers are constantly warning their students the error
• 1:16:30
  of omitting the other side of any question, and their warnings are particularly directed
• 1:16:35
  to the problems of the absolute and the relative, which perplex all students of
• 1:16:41
  philosophy, and which cause so many to think and act contrary to what is
• 1:16:45
  generally known as common sense. And we caution all students to be sure to
• 1:16:51
  grasp the divine paradox of the absolute and relative, lest they become entangled in
• 1:16:58
  the mire of the half truth. With this in view, this particular lesson
• 1:17:02
  has been written. Read it carefully. The first thought that comes to the
• 1:17:08
  thinking man after he realizes the truth that the universe is a mental creation of
• 1:17:13
  the all, is that the universe and all that it contains is a mere
• 1:17:17
  illusion in unreality, against which idea his instincts revolt. But this, like
• 1:17:26
  all other great truths, must be considered both from the absolute and the relative
• 1:17:30
  points of view. From the absolute point of view, of course, the
• 1:17:34
  universe is in the nature of an illusion, a dream, a phantasmagoria.
• 1:17:41
  As unsubstantiality must ever be connected with the idea of a created universe. When
• 1:17:46
  it is contrasted with the idea of the All. No matter what may be
• 1:17:50
  our beliefs concerning the nature of both philosopher, metaphysician, scientist, and theologian
• 1:18:00
  all agree upon this idea, and the thought is found in all forms of
• 1:18:03
  philosophical thought, in religious conceptions, as well as in the theories of the
• 1:18:09
  respective schools of metaphysics and theology. So the Hermetic teachings do not preach the
• 1:18:15
  unsubstantiality of the universe in any stronger terms than those more familiar to you,
• 1:18:20
  although their presentation of the subject may seem somewhat more startling. Anything that has
• 1:18:28
  a beginning and an ending must be in a sense real and untrue, and
• 1:18:32
  the universe comes under the rule in all schools of thought. From the absolute
• 1:18:38
  point of view, there is nothing real except the all. No matter what
• 1:18:43
  terms we may use in thinking of or discussing the subject, whether the universe
• 1:18:47
  be created of matter or whether it be a mental creation. In the mind
• 1:18:53
  of the all, it is unsubstantial, non enduring, a thing of time,
• 1:18:58
  space and change. We want you to realize this fact thoroughly before you
• 1:19:03
  pass judgment on the Hermetic conception of the mental nature. Of the universe.
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  Think over any and all of the other conceptions and see whether this be not
• 1:19:14
  true of them. But the absolute point of view shows merely one side of
• 1:19:18
  the picture. The other side is the relative one. Absolute truth has been
• 1:19:24
  defined as things as the mind of God knows them, while relative truth is
• 1:19:30
  things as the highest reason of man understands them. And so while to the
• 1:19:34
  all the universe must be unreal and illusionary, a mere dream or result of
• 1:19:41
  meditation, nevertheless, to the finite minds forming a part of that universe and
• 1:19:46
  viewing it through mortal faculties, the universe is very real, indeed, and
• 1:19:53
  must so be considered. In recognizing the absolute view, we must not make
• 1:19:58
  the mistake of ignoring or denying the facts and phenomena of the universe as they
• 1:20:02
  present themselves to our mortal faculties. We are not the all, remember to
• 1:20:10
  take familiar illustrations. We all recognize the fact that matter exists to our senses.
• 1:20:15
  We will fare badly if we do not. And yet even our finite
• 1:20:20
  minds understand the scientific dictum that there is no such thing as matter. From
• 1:20:26
  a scientific point of view, that which we call matter is held to be
• 1:20:30
  merely an aggregation of atoms, which atoms themselves are merely a grouping of units
• 1:20:35
  of force called electrons or ions, vibrating and inconstant circular motion. We kick
• 1:20:44
  a stone and we feel the impact. It seems to be real, notwithstanding
• 1:20:48
  that we know it to be merely what we have stated above. But remember
• 1:20:53
  that our foot, which feels the impact by means of our brains, is
• 1:20:58
  likewise matter instituted of electrons, and for that matter, so are our brains.
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  And at the best, if it were not by reason of our mind,
• 1:21:10
  we would not know the foot or stone at all. Then again,
• 1:21:14
  the ideal of the artists or sculptor, which he is endeavoring to reproduce in
• 1:21:18
  stone or on canvas, seems very real to him. So do the characters
• 1:21:24
  in the mind of the author or dramatist which he seeks to express so that
• 1:21:29
  others may recognize them. And if this be true in the case of our
• 1:21:32
  finite minds, what must be the degree of reality in the mental images created
• 1:21:39
  in the mind of the infinite o friends to mortals. This universe of mentality
• 1:21:44
  is very real. Indeed, it is the only one we can ever know.
• 1:21:48
  Though we can rise from playing to plane higher and higher in it to
• 1:21:54
  know it otherwise, but actual experience, we must be the All itself.
• 1:22:00
  It is true that the higher we rise in the scale, the nearer to
• 1:22:04
  the mind of the Father we reach, the more apparent becomes the illusory nature
• 1:22:10
  of finite things. But not until the All finally withdraws us into itself does
• 1:22:15
  the vision actually vanish. So we need not dwell upon the feature of illusion.
• 1:22:21
  Rather, let us, recognizing the real nature of the universe, seek
• 1:22:26
  to understand its mental laws and endeavor to use them to the best effect in
• 1:22:31
  our upward progress through life as we travel from playing to plain of being.
• 1:22:38
  The laws of the universe are nonetheless iron laws because of the mental nature all
• 1:22:44
  except the All, are bound by them. What in the infinite mind of
• 1:22:48
  the All is real in a degree second only to that reality itself, which
• 1:22:55
  is vested in the nature of the All. So do not feel insecure or
• 1:23:00
  afraid. We are all held firmly in the infinite mind of the All,
• 1:23:04
  and there is naught to hurt us or for us to fear. There is
• 1:23:09
  no power outside of the All to affect us, so we may rest calm
• 1:23:14
  and secure. There is a world of comfort and security in this realization when
• 1:23:18
  once attained, then calm and peaceful do we sleep rocked in the cradle of
• 1:23:24
  the deep, resting safely on the bottom of the ocean of infinite mind,
• 1:23:30
  which is the all in the all. Indeed do we live and move and
• 1:23:34
  have our being. Matter is nonetheless matter to us while we dwell on the
• 1:23:41
  plane of matter, although we know it to be merely an aggregation of electrons
• 1:23:45
  or particles of force, vibrating rapidly and gyrating around each other in the formations
• 1:23:53
  of atoms, the atoms in turn vibrating and gyrating, forming molecules, which
• 1:23:59
  latter in tur form larger masses of matter. Nor does matter become less matter
• 1:24:04
  when we follow the inquiry still further and learn from the hermetic teachings that the
• 1:24:11
  force of which the electrons are but units, is merely a manifestation of the
• 1:24:15
  mind of the All, and like all else in the universe, is purely
• 1:24:20
  mental in its nature, while on the plane of matter we must recognize its
• 1:24:26
  phenomena. We may control matter, as all masters of higher or lesser degrees
• 1:24:31
  do, but we do so by applying the higher forces. We commit a
• 1:24:36
  folly when we attempt to deny the existence of matter in the relative aspect.
• 1:24:42
  We may deny its mastery over us, and rightly so, but we should
• 1:24:46
  not attempt to ignore it in its relative aspect, at least so long as
• 1:24:50
  we dwell upon its plane. Nor do the laws of nature become less constant
• 1:24:56
  or effective when we know them likewise to be merely mental creations. They are
• 1:25:01
  in full effect on the various planes. We overcome the lower planes by applying
• 1:25:08
  still higher ones, and in this way only, but we cannot escape law
• 1:25:14
  or rise above it entirely. Nothing but the All can escape law. And
• 1:25:18
  that is because the All is law itself, from which all laws emerge.
• 1:25:25
  The most advanced masters may acquire the powers usually attributed to the gods of men,
• 1:25:30
  And there are countless ranks of being in the great hierarchy of life whose
• 1:25:34
  being in power transcends even that of the highest masters among men, to a
• 1:25:40
  degree unthinkable by mortals. But even the highest master and the highest being,
• 1:25:45
  must bow to the law and be as nothing in the eye of the All.
• 1:25:50
  So that if even these highest beings, whose powers exceed even those attributed
• 1:25:57
  by men to their gods, if even these are bound by and are subservient
• 1:26:01
  to law. Then imagine the presumption of mortal man of our race and grade,
• 1:26:08
  when he dares to consider the laws of nature as unreal, visionary,
• 1:26:12
  and illusory, because he happens to be able to grasp the truth that the
• 1:26:16
  laws are mental in nature and simply mental creations of the All those laws which
• 1:26:23
  the All intends to be governing. Laws are not to be defied or argued
• 1:26:28
  away. So long as the universe endures, will they endure. For the
• 1:26:33
  universe exists by virtue of these laws, which form its framework and which hold
• 1:26:39
  it together. The hermetic principle of mentalism, while explaining the true nature of
• 1:26:45
  the universe upon the principle that all is mental, does not change the scientific
• 1:26:49
  conceptions of the universe, life, or evolution. In fact, science merely
• 1:26:56
  co operates the hermetic teachings. The latter merely teaches that the nature of the
• 1:27:01
  universe is mental, while modern science has taught that it is material, or
• 1:27:06
  of late, that it is energy. In the last analysis, the hermetic
• 1:27:12
  teachings have no fault to find with Herbert Spencer's basic principle, which postulates the
• 1:27:18
  existence of an infinite in eternal energy from which all things proceed. In fact,
• 1:27:25
  the Hermetics recognize in Spencer's philosophy the highest outside statement of the workings of
• 1:27:31
  the natural laws that have ever been promulgated. And they believe Spencer to have
• 1:27:36
  been a reincarnation of an ancient philosopher who dwelt in ancient Egypt thousands of years
• 1:27:43
  ago, and who later incarnated as Heraclitis, the Grecian philosopher who live BC.
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  Five hundred. And they regard his statement of the infinite in eternal energy
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  as directly in the line of the Hermetic teachings, always with the addition of
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  their own doctrine that his energy is the energy of the mind of the all.
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  With the master key of the Hermetic philosophy, the student of Spencer will
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  be able to unlock many doors of the inner philosophical conceptions of the great English
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  philosopher, whose work shows the results of the preparation of his previous incarnations.
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  His teachings regarding evolution and rhythm are in almost perfect agreement with the Hermetic teachings
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  regarding the principle of rhythm. So the student of Hermetics need not lay aside
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  any of his cherished scientific views regarding the universe all he is asked to do
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  is grasp the underlying principle of the all is mind and the universe is mental.
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  Held in the mind of the all, he will find that the other
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  six of the seven principles will fit into his scientific knowledge, and will serve
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  to bring out obscure points and to throw light in dark corners. This is
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  not to be wondered at when we realize the influence of the Hermetic thought of
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  the early philosophers of Greece, upon whose foundations of thought the theories of modern
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  science largely rest. The acceptance of the first Hermetic principle mentalism is the only
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  great point of difference between modern science and hermetic students, and science is gradually
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  moving toward the hermetic position in its groping in the dark for a way out
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  of the labyrinth into which it has wandered in its search for reality. The
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  purpose of this lesson is to impress upon the minds of our students the fact
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  that, to all intents and purposes, the universe and its laws and its
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  phenomena are just as real so far as man is concerned, as they would
• 1:29:49
  be under the hypothesis of materialism or energism, and under any hypothesis, the
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  universe in its outer aspect is changing, ever flowing, and transitory, and
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  therefore devoid of substantiality and reality. But note the other pole of the truth.
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  Under the same hypothesis, we are compelled to act and live as if
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  the fleeting things were real and substantial. With this difference always between the various
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  hypotheses that under the old views, mental power was ignored as a natural force,
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  while under mentalism it becomes the greatest natural force. And this one difference
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  revolutionizes life to those who understand the principle in its resulting laws and practice.
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  So finally, students all grasp the advantage of mentalism and learn to know,
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  use, and apply the laws resulting therefrom but do not yield to the temptation
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  which, as the Kabalian states, overcomes the half wise, and which causes
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  them to be hypnotized by the apparent unreality of things, the consequence being that
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  they wander about like dream people, dwelling in the world of dreams, ignoring
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  the practical work in life of man, the end being that they are broken
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  against the rocks and torn asunder by the elements by reason of their folly.
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  Rather follow the example of the wise, which the same authority states, use
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  law against law, the higher against the lower, and by the art of
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  alchemy, transmute that which is undesirable into that which is worthy, and thus
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  triumph following the authority. Let us avoid the half wisdom, which is folly,
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  which ignores the truth that mastery consists not in abnormal dreams, visions and
• 1:31:47
  fantastic imaginings or living, but in using the higher forces against the lower,
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  escaping the pains of the lower planes by vibrating on the higher. Remember,
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  always, student, that transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of
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  the master. The above quotations are from the Kabbalian and are worthy of being
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  committed to memory by the student. We do not live in a world of
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  dreams, but in a universe which, while relative, is real so far
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  as our lives and actions are concerned. Our business in the universe is not
• 1:32:26
  to deny its existence, but to live, using the laws, to rise
• 1:32:30
  from lower to higher, living on doing the best that we can under the
• 1:32:34
  circumstances, arising each day and living so far as is possible to our biggest
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  ideas and ideals. The true meaning of life is not known to men on
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  this plane, if indeed to any but the highest authorities in our own intuitions,
• 1:32:55
  teach us that we will make no mistake in living up to the best
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  that is in us so far is possible, and realizing the universal tendency in
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  the same direction, in spite of apparent evidence to the contrary. We are
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  all on the path, and the road leads upward, ever with frequent resting
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  places. Read the message of the Kabalian, and follow the example of the
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  wise, avoiding the mistake of the half wise, who perish by reason of
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  their falling. End of Chapter six, Chapter seven, The all in all,
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  while all is in the all, it is equally true that the all
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  is in all. To him who truly understands this truth, hath come great
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  knowledge the Kabalian. How often have the majority of people heard repeated the statement
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  that their deity called by many names, was all in all? And how
• 1:33:55
  little have they suspected the inner occult truth concealed by these carelessly uttered words.
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  The commonly used expression is a survival of the ancient hermetic maxim quoted above.
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  As the Kabalian says, to him who truly understands this truth, hath come
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  great knowledge and this being. So let us seek this truth, the understanding
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  of which means so much. In this statement of truth, this Hermetic maxim
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  is concealed one of the greatest philosophical, scientific, and religious truths. We
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  have given you the Hermetic teachings regarding the mental nature of the universe, the
• 1:34:38
  truth that the universe is mental held in the mind of the All. As
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  the Kabalian says in the passage quoted above, all is in the All.
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  But note also the correlated statement that it is equally true that the All is
• 1:34:54
  in the All. This apparently contradictory statement is reconcilable under the law of paradox.
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  It is, moreover, an exact Hermetic statement of the relations existing between
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  the All and its mental universe. We have seen how all is in the
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  All. Now let us examine the other aspect of the subject. The Hermetic
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  teachings are to the effect that the All is imminent in remaining within, inherent,
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  abiding within its universe, and in every part, particle, unit,
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  or combination within the universe. The statement is usually illustrated by the teachers by
• 1:35:36
  a reference to the principle of correspondence. The teacher instructs the student to form
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  a mental image of something, a person, an idea, something having a
• 1:35:47
  mental form, the favorite example being that of the author or dramatist forming an
• 1:35:54
  idea of his characters, or a painter or sculptor forming an image of an
• 1:35:59
  ideal that that he wishes to express by his art. In each case,
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  the student will find that while the image has its existence and being solely within
• 1:36:10
  his own mind, yet he, the student, author, dramatist, painter,
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  or sculptor, is in a sense eminent in remaining within or abiding within
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  the mental image. Also, in other words, the entire virtue, life,
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  spirit of reality in the mental image is derived from the imminent mind of
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  the thinker. Consider this for a moment until the idea is grasped. To
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  take a modern example, let us say that Othello, Iago, Hamlet,
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  Lear, Richard the Third existed merely in the mind of Shakespeare at the time
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  of their conception or creation. And yet Shakespeare also existed within each of these
• 1:36:58
  characters, giving them their vitality, spirit and action. Whose is the spirit
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  of the characters that we know as Micawber, Oliver, twist Uriah Heap,
• 1:37:10
  Is it Dickens? Or have each of these characters a personal spirit independent of
• 1:37:15
  their creator. Have the venus of Medici, the Sistine Madonna, the Apollo
• 1:37:20
  Belvidere spirits and reality of their own? Or do they represent the spiritual and
• 1:37:27
  mental powers of their creators? The law of paradox explains that both propositions are
• 1:37:32
  true viewed from the proper viewpoints. Micawber is both Micawber and yet Dickens.
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  And again, while Micawber may be said to be Dickens, yet Dickens is
• 1:37:45
  not identical with Micawber. Man Like Micawber may explain, the spirit of my
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  creator is inherent within me, and yet I am not He. How different
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  this is from the shocking half truth, so vociferic announced by certain of the
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  half wives, who fill the air with their raucous cries of I am God.
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  Imagine poor Micawber, or the sneaky Uriah Heap crying I am Dickens,
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  or some of the lowly clods in one of Shakespeare's plays, eloquently announcing that
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  I am Shakespeare. The all is in the earthworm, and yet the earthworm
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  is far from being the all. And still the wonder remains, that though
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  the earthworm exists merely as a lowly thing created in having its being solely within
• 1:38:33
  the mind of the All. Yet the All is eminent in the earthworm and
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  in the particles that go to make up the earthworm. Can there be any
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  greater mystery than this of the all in the all, and the all in
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  all. The student will, of course realize that the illustrations given above are
• 1:38:53
  necessarily imperfect and inadequate, for they represent the creation of mental images and finite
• 1:38:59
  minds, while the universe is a creation of infinite mind, and the difference
• 1:39:03
  between the two poles separates them. And yet it is merely a matter of
• 1:39:08
  degree. The same principle as in operation. The principle of correspondence manifests in
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  each as above, so below, as below, so above, And in
• 1:39:20
  the degree that man realizes the existence of the indwelling spirit eminent within his being,
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  so he will rise to the spiritual scale of life. This is what
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  spiritual development means, the recognition, realization, and manifestation of the spirit within
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  us. Try to remember this last definition, that of spiritual development. It
• 1:39:45
  contains the truth of true religion. There are many planes of being, many
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  subplanes of life, many degrees of existence in the universe, and all depend
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  upon the advancement of beings in the scale of which scale the lowest point is
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  the grossest matter, the highest being separated only by the thinnest division from the
• 1:40:06
  spirit of the all. And upward and onward. Along this scale of life,
• 1:40:12
  everything is moving, All are on the path whose end is the All.
• 1:40:16
  All progress is returning home, all upward and onward. In spite of
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  all seemingly contradictory appearances, such as the message of the illumined. The Hermetic
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  teachings concerning the process of the mental creation of the universe are that at the
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  beginning of the creative cycle, the all, in its aspect of being,
• 1:40:40
  projects its will toward its aspect of becoming, and the process of creation begins.
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  It is taught that the process consists of the lowering of vibration until a
• 1:40:50
  very low degree of vibratory energy is reached, at which point the grossest possible
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  form of matter is manifested. Process is called the stage of involution, in
• 1:41:02
  which the all becomes involved or wrapped up in its creation. This process is
• 1:41:09
  believed by the hermitis to have a correspondence to the mental process of an artist,
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  writer, or inventor who becomes so wrapped up in his mental creation as
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  to almost forget his own existence, and who for the time being almost lives
• 1:41:25
  in his creation. If instead of rapped, we use the word rapped,
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  perhaps we will give a better idea of what is meant. The involuntary stage
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  of creation is sometimes called the outpouring of the divine energy, just as the
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  evolutionary state is called the in drawing. The extreme pole of the creative process
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  is considered to be the furthest removed from the all, while the beginning of
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  the evolutionary stage is regarded as the beginning of the return swing of the pendulum
• 1:41:58
  of rhythm, home idea being held in all of the hermetic teachings. The
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  teachings are that during the outpouring, the vibrations become lower and lower, until
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  finally the urge ceases and the return swing begins. But there is this difference
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  that while in the outpouring the creative forces manifest compactly and as a whole,
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  yet from the beginning of the evolutionary or in drawing stage, there is manifested
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  the law of individualization, that is, the tendency to separate into units of
• 1:42:34
  force, so that finally that which left the all as unindividualized energy returns to
• 1:42:43
  its source as countless highly developed units of life, having risen higher and higher
• 1:42:48
  in the scale by means of physical, mental, and spiritual evolution. The
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  ancient hermetists use the word meditation in describing the process the mental creation of the
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  universe in the mind of the All, the word contemplation also being frequently employed,
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  but the idea intended seems to be that of the employment of the divine
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  attention. Attention is a word derived from the Latin root meaning to reach out,
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  to stretch out, and so the act of attention is really a mental
• 1:43:24
  reaching out extension of mental energy, so that the underlying idea is readily understood
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  when we examine the real meaning of attention. The Hermetic teachings regarding the process
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  of evolution are that the All, having meditated upon the beginning of the creation,
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  having thus established the material foundations of the universe, having thought it into
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  existence, then gradually awakens or rouses from its meditation, and in so doing
• 1:43:56
  starts into manifestation the process of evolution on the material, mental, and spiritual
• 1:44:01
  planes, successively and in order. Thus the upward movement begins, and all
• 1:44:09
  begins to move spiritward, matter becomes less gross, the units spring into being,
• 1:44:15
  the combinations begin to form, Life appears and manifests in higher and higher
• 1:44:20
  forms, and the mind becomes more and more in evidence, the vibrations constantly
• 1:44:27
  becoming higher. In short, the entire process of evolution, in all its
• 1:44:31
  phases, begins and proceeds according to the established law of the indrawing process.
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  All of this occupies eons upon eons of man's time, each eon containing countless
• 1:44:45
  millions of years. But yet the Illumined inform us that the entire creation,
• 1:44:50
  including involution and evolution of a universe, is but as the twinkle of the
• 1:44:57
  eye to the All. At the end of the countless cycles of eons of
• 1:45:00
  time, the All withdraws its attention, its contemplation and meditation of the universe,
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  For the great work is finished, and all is withdrawn into the All
• 1:45:13
  from which it emerged. But mystery of mysteries, the spirit of each soul
• 1:45:17
  is not annihilated, but infinitely expanded. The created and the creator are merged.
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  Such is the report of the Illumined. The above illustration of the meditation
• 1:45:30
  and subsequent awakening from meditation of the All is, of course, but in
• 1:45:34
  attempt of the teachers to describe the infinite process by a finite example. And
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  yet, as below, so above, the difference is merely in degree.
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  And just as the All arouses itself from the meditation upon the universe, so
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  does man in time cease from manifesting upon the material plane, and withdraws himself
• 1:45:59
  more and more into the indwelling spirit, which is indeed the divine ego.
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  There is one more matter of which we desire to speak in this lesson,
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  and that comes very near to an invasion of the metaphysical field of speculation.
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  Although our purpose is merely to show the futility of such speculation. We allude
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  to the question which inevitably comes to the mind of all thinkers who have ventured
• 1:46:26
  to seek the truth. The question is why does the All create universes?
• 1:46:31
  The question may be asked in different forms, but the above is the gist
• 1:46:35
  of the inquiry. Men have striven hard to answer this question, but still
• 1:46:42
  there is no answer worthy of the name. Some have imagined that the All
• 1:46:45
  had something to gain by it, but that is absurd, for what could
• 1:46:49
  the All gain that it did not already possess. Others have sought the answer
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  in the idea that the all wished something to love, and others that it
• 1:47:00
  created for pleasure or amusement, or because it was lonely, or to manifest
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  its power. All puerile explanations and ideas belonging to the childish period of thought.
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  Others have sought to explain the mystery by assuming that the All found itself
• 1:47:18
  compelled to create by reason of its own internal nature its creative instinct. This
• 1:47:26
  idea is in advance of the others, but its weak point lies in the
• 1:47:30
  idea of the all being compelled by anything internal or external. If its internal
• 1:47:36
  nature or creative instinct compelled it to do anything, then the internal nature or
• 1:47:43
  creative instinct would be the absolute instead of the all. And so accordingly that
• 1:47:49
  part of the proposition fails. And yet the All does create and manifest,
• 1:47:56
  and seems to find some kind of satisfaction in so doing. And it is
• 1:48:00
  difficult to escape the conclusion that in some infinite degree it must have what would
• 1:48:06
  correspond to an inner nature or creative instinct in man with correspondingly infinite desire in
• 1:48:14
  will. It could not act unless it willed to act, and it would
• 1:48:18
  not will to act unless it desire to act, and it would not desire
• 1:48:24
  to act unless it obtained some satisfaction thereby. And all of these things would
• 1:48:30
  belong to an inner nature, and must be postulated as existing according to the
• 1:48:34
  law of correspondence. But still we prefer to think of the All as acting
• 1:48:41
  entirely, free from any influence, internal as well as external. That is
• 1:48:46
  the problem which lies at the root of difficulty, and the difficulty that lies
• 1:48:51
  at the root of the problem. Strictly speaking, there cannot be said to
• 1:48:56
  be any reason whatsoever for the All. To act for a reason implies a
• 1:49:00
  cause, and the All is above cause and effect, except when it wills
• 1:49:05
  to become a cause, at which time the principle is set into motion.
• 1:49:11
  So you see, the matter is unthinkable, just as the all is unknowable.
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  Just as we say the all merely is. So we are compelled to
• 1:49:20
  say that the All acts because it acts. At the last, the All
• 1:49:27
  is all reason in itself, all law in itself, all action in itself.
• 1:49:33
  And it may be said truthfully that the all is its own reason,
• 1:49:38
  its own law, its own act, or still further, that the All,
• 1:49:44
  its reason, its act, its law are one, all being names
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  for the same thing, in the opinion of those who are giving you these
• 1:49:53
  present lessons. The answer is locked up in the inner self of the all,
• 1:49:58
  along with its secret of being. The law of correspondence, in our
• 1:50:02
  opinion, reaches only to that aspect of the all, which may be spoken
• 1:50:08
  of as the aspect of becoming. Back of that aspect is the aspect of
• 1:50:13
  being, in which all laws are lost. In law, all principles merge
• 1:50:17
  into principle, and the all principle and being are identical one and the same.
• 1:50:26
  Therefore, metaphysical speculation on this point is futile. We go into the
• 1:50:31
  matter here merely to show that we recognize the question and also the absurdity of
• 1:50:38
  the ordinary answers of metaphysics and theology. In conclusion, it may be of
• 1:50:43
  interest to our students to learn that, while some of the ancient and modern
• 1:50:47
  Hermetic teachers have rather inclined in the direction of applying the principle of correspondence to
• 1:50:54
  the question with the result of the inner nature conclusion, still legends have it
• 1:51:00
  that Hermes the Great, when asked this question by his advanced students, answered
• 1:51:04
  them by pressing his lips tightly together and not saying a word, indicating that
• 1:51:11
  there was no answer. But then he may have intended to apply the axiom
• 1:51:15
  of his philosophy that the lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears of
• 1:51:21
  understanding, believing that even his advanced students did not possess the understanding which entitled
• 1:51:29
  them to the teaching. At any rate, if Hermes possessed the secret,
• 1:51:33
  he failed to impart it. And so far as the world is concerned,
• 1:51:38
  the lips of Hermes are closed regarding it. And where the great Hermes hesitated
• 1:51:44
  to speak, what mortal dare to teach. But remember that whatever be the
• 1:51:48
  answer to this problem, if indeed there be an answer, the truth remains
• 1:51:54
  that while all is in the all, it is equally true that the all
• 1:51:59
  is in the all. The teaching on this point is emphatic, and we
• 1:52:03
  may add the concluding words of the quotation. To him who truly understands this
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  truth, hath come great knowledge. End of Chapter seven, Chapter eight.
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  Planes of correspondence, as above, so below, as below, so above.
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  The Kabalian, the second great Hermetic principle, embodies the truth that there
• 1:52:31
  is a harmony, agreement, and correspondence between the several planes of manifestation,
• 1:52:38
  life and being. The truth is a truth because all that is included in
• 1:52:43
  the universe emanates from the same source, and the same laws, principles,
• 1:52:48
  and characteristics apply to each unit or combination of units of activity, as each
• 1:52:56
  manifests its own phenomena upon its own plane. For the purpose of convenience of
• 1:53:01
  thought and study, the Hermetic philosophy considers that the universe may be divided into
• 1:53:08
  three great classes of phenomena, known as the three Great planes, namely one
• 1:53:15
  the great physical plane, two the great mental plane, three the great spiritual
• 1:53:21
  plane. These divisions are more or less artificial and arbitrary, for the truth
• 1:53:28
  is that all of the three divisions are but ascending degrees of the great scale
• 1:53:31
  of life, the lowest point of which is undifferentiated matter, and the highest
• 1:53:38
  point that of spirit. And moreover, the different planes shade into each other,
• 1:53:44
  so that no hard and fast division may be made between the higher phenomena
• 1:53:47
  of the physical and the lower of the mental, or between the higher of
• 1:53:53
  the mental and the lower of the physical. In short, the three great
• 1:53:58
  planes may be regarded as three great groups of degrees of life manifestation. While
• 1:54:03
  the purposes of this little book do not allow us to enter into an extended
• 1:54:09
  discussion of or explanation of the subject of these different planes. Still, we
• 1:54:15
  think it well to give a general description of the same at this point,
• 1:54:19
  at the beginning, we may as well consider the question so often asked by
• 1:54:25
  the neophyte who desires to be informed regarding the meaning of the word plane,
• 1:54:30
  which term has been very freely used and very poorly explained in many recent works
• 1:54:36
  upon the subject of occultism. The question is generally about as follows. Is
• 1:54:43
  a plane a place having dimensions or is it merely a condition or state?
• 1:54:48
  We answer no, not a place nor ordinary dimension of space. And yet
• 1:54:55
  more than a state or condition, it may be considered as a state of
• 1:55:00
  or condition. And yet the state or condition is a degree of dimension in
• 1:55:04
  a scale subject to measurement. Somewhat paradoxical, is it not, But let
• 1:55:10
  us examine the matter. A dimension, you know, is a measure in
• 1:55:15
  a straight line relating to measure. The ordinary dimensions of space are length,
• 1:55:20
  breadth, and height, or perhaps length breadth, height, thickness, or
• 1:55:28
  circumference. But there is another dimension of created things, or measure in a
• 1:55:32
  straight line, known to occultists and to scientists as well, although the latter
• 1:55:39
  have not yet applied the term dimension to it. And this new dimension,
• 1:55:44
  which by the way, is the much speculated about fourth dimension, is the
• 1:55:48
  standard used in determining the degrees or planes. The fourth dimension may be called
• 1:55:56
  the dimension of vibration. It is a fact well known to my modern science
• 1:56:00
  as well as to hermetists, who have embodied the truth in their third Hermetic
• 1:56:04
  principle that everything is in motion, everything vibrates, nothing is at rest.
• 1:56:12
  From the highest manifestation to the lowest. Everything in all things vibrate. Not
• 1:56:17
  only do they vibrate at different rates of motion, but as in different directions
• 1:56:23
  and in different manner. The degrees of the rate of vibrations constitute the degrees
• 1:56:29
  of measurement on the scale of vibrations, in other words, the degrees of
• 1:56:33
  the fourth dimension, and these degrees form what occultists call planes. The higher
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  the degree of rate of vibration, the higher the plane, and the higher
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  manifestation of life occupying that plane, So that while a plane is not a
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  place, nor yet a state or condition, yet it possesses qualities common to
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  both. We shall have more to say regarding the subject of the scale of
• 1:57:00
  vibrations. In our next lessons, in which we shall consider the Hermetic principle
• 1:57:04
  of vibration, you will kindly remember, however, that the three great planes
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  are not actual divisions of the phenomena of the universe, but merely arbitrary terms
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  used by the hermeticis in order to aid in the thought and study of the
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  various degrees and forms of universal activity in life. The atom of matter,
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  the unit of force, the mind of man, and the being of the
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  archangel are all but degrees in one scale, and all fundamentally the same,
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  the difference between solely a matter of degree and rate of vibration. All are
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  creations of the All, and have their existence solely within the infinite mind of
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  the All. The Hermetists subdivide each of the great planes into seven minor planes,
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  and each of these latter are also subdivided into to seven subplanes, all
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  divisions being more or less arbitrary, shading into each other, and adopted merely
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  for convenience of scientific study and thought. The great physical plane and its seven
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  minor planes, is that division of the phenomena of the universe, which includes
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  all that relates to physics or material things, forces, and manifestations. It
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  includes all forms of that which we call matter, and all forms of that
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  which we call energy or force. But you must remember that hermetic philosophy does
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  not recognize matter as a thing in itself, or as having a separate existence,
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  even in the mind of the All the teachings are that matter is but
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  a form of energy, that is, energy at a low rate of vibrations
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  of a certain kind. And accordingly, the hermetists classify matter under the head
• 1:58:55
  of energy and give to it three of the seven minor planes of the great
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  physical plane. These seven minor physical planes are as follows. One the plane
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  of matter A. Two the plane of matter B. Three the plane of
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  matter C. Four the plane of ethereal substance, five the plane of energy
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  A. Six the plane of energy B. Seven the plane of energy C.
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  The plane of matter A comprises the forms of matter in its form of
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  solids, liquids, and gases, as generally recognized by the textbooks on physics.
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  The plane of matter B comprises certain higher and more subtle forms of matter,
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  of the existence of which modern science is but now recognizing the phenomena of
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  radiant matter in its phases of radium et cetera, belonging to the lower subdivision
• 1:59:58
  of this minor plane. The plane of matter C comprises forms of the most
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  subtle and tenuous matter, the existence of which is not suspected by ordinary scientists.
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  The plane of ethereal substance comprises that which science speaks of as the ether,
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  a substance of extreme tenuity and elasticity, pervading all universal space, and
• 2:00:23
  acting is a medium for the transmission of waves of energy, such as light,
• 2:00:28
  heat, electricity, et cetera. This ethereal substance forms a connecting link
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  between matter so called and energy, and partakes of the nature of each.
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  The hermetic teachings, however, instruct that this plane has seven subdivisions, as
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  have all of the minor planes, and in fact there are seven ethers instead
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  of but one. Next above the plane of ethereal substance comes the plane of
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  energy A, which comprises the ordinary forms of energy known to science, its
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  seven subplanes being respectively heat, light, magnetism, electricity, and attraction,
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  including gravitation, cohesion, chemical affinity, etc. And several other forms of
• 2:01:18
  energy indicated by scientific experiments but not yet named or classified. The plane of
• 2:01:26
  energy B comprises seven subplanes of higher forms of energy, not as yet discovered
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  by science, but which have been called nature's finer forces, and which are
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  called into operation in manifestations of certain forms of mental phenomena, and by which
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  such phenomena becomes possible. The plane of energy C comprises seven subplanes of energy,
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  so highly organized that it bears many of the characteristics of life, but
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  which is not recognized by the minds of men on the ordinary plane of development,
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  being available for the use of beings. On the spiritual plane alone,
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  such energy is unthinkable to ordinary man, and may be considered almost as the
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  divine power. The beings employing the same are as gods compared even to the
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  highest human types known to us. The great mental plane comprises those forms of
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  living things known to us in ordinary life, as well as certain other forms
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  not so well known except to the occultist. The classification of the seven minor
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  mental planes is more or less satisfactory and arbitrary unless accompanied by elaborate explanations which
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  are foreign to the purpose of this particular work, but we may as well
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  mention them. They are as follows, One the plane of mental mind,
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  two the plane of elemental mind, A V the plane of plant mind,
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  four the plane of elemental mind B five, the plane of animal mind,
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  six the plane of elemental mind C seven the plane of human mind. The
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  plane of mineral mind comprises the states or conditions of the units or entities,
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  or groups and combinations of the same which animate the forms known to us as
• 2:03:28
  minerals, chemicals, etc. These entities must not be confunded with the molecules,
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  atoms, and corpuscles themselves, the latter being merely the material bodies or
• 2:03:41
  forms of these entities, just as a man's body is but his material form
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  and not himself. These entities may be called souls in one sense, and
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  are living beings of a lower degree of development, life and mind, just
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  a little more than the units of living in an energy, which comprise the
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  higher subdivisions of the highest physical plane. The average mind does not generally attribute
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  the possession of mind, soul, or life to the mineral kingdom, but
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  all occultists recognize the existence of the same, and modern science is rapidly moving
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  forward to the point of view of the hermetic. In this respect, the
• 2:04:23
  molecules, atoms, and corpuscles have their loves and hates, likes and dislikes,
• 2:04:29
  attractions and repulsions, affinities and non affinities, etc. And some of
• 2:04:34
  the more daring scientific minds have expressed the opinion that the desire and will,
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  emotions and feelings of the atoms differ only in degree from those of men.
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  We have no time or space to argue this matter. Here all occultists know
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  it to be a fact, and others are referred to some of the more
• 2:04:56
  recent scientific works for outside cooperation. There are the usual seven subdivisions to this
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  plane. The plane of elemental mind A comprises the state or condition and degree
• 2:05:10
  of mental and vital development of a class of entities unknown to the average man,
• 2:05:15
  but recognized to occultists. They are invisible to the ordinary senses of man,
• 2:05:21
  but nevertheless exist and play their part of the drama of the universe.
• 2:05:28
  Their degree of intelligence is between that of the mineral and chemical entities on the
• 2:05:32
  one hand, and of the entities of the plant kingdom on the other.
• 2:05:38
  There are seven subdivisions to this plane. Also, the plane of plant mind,
• 2:05:43
  in its seven subdivisions, comprises the states or conditions of the entities comprising
• 2:05:49
  the kingdoms of the plant world. The vital and mental phenomena of which is
• 2:05:55
  fairly well understood by the average intelligent person. Many new and interesting lias scientific
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  works regarding mind in life and plants have been published during the last decade.
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  Plants have life, mind, and souls, as well as have the animals
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  man and superman. The Plane of elemental mind B, in its seven subdivisions,
• 2:06:18
  comprises the states and conditions of a higher form of elemental or unseen entities
• 2:06:25
  playing their part in the general work of the universe, the mind and life
• 2:06:29
  of which form a part of the scale between the plane of plant mind and
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  the plane of animal mind, the entities partaking of the nature of both.
• 2:06:39
  The plane of animal mind, in its seven subdivisions, comprises the states and
• 2:06:45
  conditions of the entities, beings or souls animating the animal forms of life familiar
• 2:06:51
  to us all. It is not necessary to go into details regarding as kingdom
• 2:06:56
  or plane of life, for the animal world is as for familiar to us
• 2:07:00
  as our own. The Plane of elemental mind C, in its seven subdivisions,
• 2:07:06
  comprises those entities or beams invisible, as are all such elemental forms,
• 2:07:13
  which partake of the nature of both animal and human life in a degree and
• 2:07:17
  in certain combinations. The highest forms are semi human in intelligence. The plane
• 2:07:25
  of human mind, in its seven subdivisions, comprises those manifestations of life and
• 2:07:30
  mentality which are common to man in his various grades, degrees and divisions.
• 2:07:36
  In this connection, we wish to point out the fact that the average man
• 2:07:41
  of today occupies but the fourth subdivision of the plane of human mind, and
• 2:07:45
  only the most intelligent have crossed the borders of the fifth subdivision. It has
• 2:07:51
  taken the race millions of years to reach this stage, and it will take
• 2:07:56
  many more years for the race to move on to the sixth and seventh subdivisions
• 2:08:01
  and beyond. But remember that there have been races before us which have passed
• 2:08:07
  through these degrees and then on to higher planes. Our own race is the
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  fifth, with stragglers from the fourth, which has set foot upon the path.
• 2:08:18
  And there are a few advanced souls of our own race who have outstripped
• 2:08:22
  the masses and who have passed on to the sixth and seventh subdivision, and
• 2:08:28
  some few being still further on. The man of the sixth subdivision will be
• 2:08:33
  the superman. He of the seventh will be the over man. In our
• 2:08:39
  consideration of the seven minor mental planes. We have merely referred to the three
• 2:08:43
  elementary planes in a general way. We do not wish to go into this
• 2:08:48
  subject in detail in this work, for it does not belong to this part
• 2:08:52
  of general philosophy and teachings. But we may say this much in order to
• 2:08:58
  give you a little clearer idea of the relations of these planes to the more
• 2:09:01
  familiar ones. The elementary planes bear the same relation to the planes of mineral,
• 2:09:07
  plant, animal, and human mentality in life that the black keys on
• 2:09:13
  a piano. Due to the white keys, the white keys are sufficient to
• 2:09:16
  produce music, but there are certain scales, melodies, and harmonies in which
• 2:09:22
  the black keys play their part, and in which their presence is necessary.
• 2:09:28
  They are also necessary as connecting links of soul, condition, entity, states,
• 2:09:33
  et cetera. Between the several other planes, certain forms of development being
• 2:09:39
  attained therein this last fact, giving to the reader who can read between the
• 2:09:45
  lines, a new light upon the processes of evolution, and a new key
• 2:09:50
  to the secret door of the leaps of life between kingdom and kingdom. The
• 2:09:54
  great kingdoms of elementals are fully recognized by all occultists, and the esoteric writings
• 2:10:01
  are full of mention of them. The readers of Bulwers, Sonani and similar
• 2:10:07
  tales will recognize the entities inhabiting these planes of life, passing on from the
• 2:10:13
  great mental plane to the great spiritual plane. What shall we say? How
• 2:10:18
  can we explain these higher states of being, life and mind to minds as
• 2:10:22
  yet unable to grasp and understand the higher subdivisions of the plane of human mind?
• 2:10:28
  The task is impossible. We can speak only in the most general terms.
• 2:10:35
  How may light be described to a man born blind? How sugar to
• 2:10:39
  a man who has never tasted anything sweet? How harmony to one born death?
• 2:10:46
  All that we can say is that the seven minor planes of the Great
• 2:10:50
  spiritual plane, each minor plane having its seven subdivisions, comprise beings possessing life,
• 2:10:56
  mind, and form as far by that of man today, as the
• 2:11:01
  latter is above the earthworm minimal, or even certain forms of energy or matter.
• 2:11:07
  The life of these beings so far transcends ours that we cannot even think
• 2:11:13
  of the details of the same. Their minds so transcend ours that to them
• 2:11:18
  we scarcely seem to think, and our mental processes seem almost akin to material
• 2:11:24
  processes, the matter of which their forms are composed is of the highest planes
• 2:11:30
  of matter. Nay, some are even said to be clothed in pure energy.
• 2:11:35
  What may be said of such beings? On the seven minor planes of
• 2:11:39
  the great spiritual plane exist beings of whom we may speak of as angels,
• 2:11:45
  ark angels, demigods. On the lower minor planes dwell those great souls whom
• 2:11:52
  we call masters and adepts. Above them come the great hierarchies of the angelic
• 2:11:58
  hosts, unthinkable to me. And above those come those who may, without
• 2:12:03
  irreverence, be called the gods. So high in the scale of being are
• 2:12:07
  they, their being, intelligence and power being akin to those attributed by the
• 2:12:11
  races of men to their conceptions of deity, These beings are beyond even the
• 2:12:18
  highest flights of the human imagination, the word divine being the only one applicable
• 2:12:24
  to them. Many of these beings, as well as the angelic host take
• 2:12:30
  the greatest interest in the affairs of the universe, and play an important part
• 2:12:33
  in its affairs. These unseen divinities and angelic helpers extend their influence freely and
• 2:12:41
  powerfully in the process of evolution and cosmic process. Their occasional intervention and assistance
• 2:12:48
  in human affairs have led to the many legends, beliefs, religions, and
• 2:12:54
  traditions of the race past and present. They have superimposed their knowledge of power
• 2:13:00
  upon the world again and again, all under the law of the All,
• 2:13:05
  of course. But yet even the highest of these advanced beings exist merely as
• 2:13:11
  creations of and in the mind of the All, and are subject to the
• 2:13:16
  cosmic processes in universal laws. They are still mortal. We may call them
• 2:13:22
  gods if we like, but they are still but the elder brethren of the
• 2:13:26
  race, the advanced souls who have outstripped their brethren, and who have forgone
• 2:13:31
  the ecstasy of absorption by the All in order to help the race on its
• 2:13:37
  upward journey along the path. But they belong to the universe and are subject
• 2:13:41
  to its conditions. They are mortal, and their plane is below that of
• 2:13:46
  absolute spirit. Only the most advanced hermetists are able to grasp the inner teachings
• 2:13:52
  regarding the state of existence and the powers manifested on the spiritual planes. The
• 2:13:58
  phenomena is so much higher than that of the mental planes that a confusion of
• 2:14:03
  ideas would surely result from an attempt to describe the same. Only those whose
• 2:14:09
  minds have been carefully trained along the lines of Hermetic philosophy for years. Yes,
• 2:14:15
  only those who have brought with them from other incarnations the knowledge acquired previously
• 2:14:20
  can comprehend just what is meant by the teachings regarding these spiritual planes, and
• 2:14:26
  much of these inner teachings is held by the Hermetists as being too sacred,
• 2:14:31
  important, and even dangerous for general public dissemination. The intelligent student may recognize
• 2:14:39
  what we mean by this when we state that the meaning of spirit, as
• 2:14:43
  used by the Hermetis is akin to living power, animated force, inner essence,
• 2:14:50
  essence of life, etc. Which meaning must not be confounded with that
• 2:14:54
  usually and commonly employed in connection with the term i e. Religious, ecclesiastical,
• 2:15:03
  spiritual, ethereal, holy, et cetera, et cetera. To occultist,
• 2:15:09
  the word spirit is used in the sense of the animating principle, carrying
• 2:15:13
  with it the idea of power, living energy, mystic force, and occultists
• 2:15:20
  know that that which is known to them as spiritual power may be employed for
• 2:15:24
  evil as well as good ends, in accordance with the principle of polarity,
• 2:15:31
  a fact which has been recognized by the majority of religions in their conceptions of
• 2:15:35
  Satan, Beelzebog, the Devil, Lucifer, fallen Angels, et cetera.
• 2:15:41
  And so the knowledge regarding these plains has been kept in the Holy of Holies,
• 2:15:46
  in all esoteric fraternities and occult orders in the secret Chamber of the Temple.
• 2:15:52
  But this may be said here that those who have attained high spiritual powers
• 2:15:58
  and have misused them have a terrible fate in store for them, and the
• 2:16:01
  swing of the pendulum of rhythm will inevitably swing them back to the furthest extreme
• 2:16:07
  of material existence, from which point they must retrace their step spiritward along the
• 2:16:13
  weary rounds of the path, but always with the added torture of having always
• 2:16:20
  with them a lingering memory of the heights from which they fell owing to their
• 2:16:24
  evil actions. The legends of the fallen Angels have a basis in actual facts,
• 2:16:30
  as all advanced to cultis snow. The striving for selfish power on the
• 2:16:35
  spiritual plains inevitably results in the selfish soul losing its spiritual balance and falling back
• 2:16:41
  as far as it had previously risen. But to even such a soul,
• 2:16:46
  the opportunity of a return is given, and such souls make the return journey,
• 2:16:52
  paying the terrible penalty according to the invariable law. In conclusion, we
• 2:16:58
  would again remind you that according to the principle of correspondence, which embodies the
• 2:17:03
  truth as above, so below, as below, so above, all of
• 2:17:09
  the seven hermetic principles are in full operation on all of the mini planes,
• 2:17:13
  physical, mental, and spiritual. The principle of mental substance, of course,
• 2:17:20
  applies to all the planes, for all are held in the mind of
• 2:17:24
  the all. The principle of correspondence manifests in all, for there is correspondence,
• 2:17:30
  harmony, and agreement between the several planes. The principle of vibration manifests
• 2:17:37
  on all planes. In fact, the very differences that go to make the
• 2:17:41
  planes arise from vibration. As we have explained, the principle of polarity manifests
• 2:17:48
  on each plane, the extremes of the poles being apparently opposite in contradictory.
• 2:17:54
  The principle of rhythm manifests on each plane the movement of the phenomena having its
• 2:18:00
  ebb and flow rise and flow incoming and outgoing. The principle of cause and
• 2:18:05
  effect manifests on each plane, every effect having its cause, and every cause
• 2:18:11
  having its effect. The principle of gender manifests on each plane, the creative
• 2:18:18
  energy being always manifest and operating along the lines of its masculine and feminine aspects.
• 2:18:26
  As above, so below, as below, so above. This century's
• 2:18:31
  old Hermetic axiom embodies one of the great principles of universal phenomena. As we
• 2:18:37
  proceed with our consideration of the remaining principles, we will see even more clearly
• 2:18:43
  the truth of the universal nature of this great principle of correspondence. End of
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  Chapter eight, Chapter nine vibration. Nothing rests, everything moves, everything vibrates
• 2:19:00
  the Kabalian the great third Hermetic principle. The principle of vibration, embodies the
• 2:19:07
  truth that motion is manifest in everything in the universe, that nothing is at
• 2:19:11
  rest, that everything moves, vibrates, and circles. This Hermetic principle was
• 2:19:18
  recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers, who embodied it in their systems,
• 2:19:22
  but then for centuries it was lost sight of by the thinkers outside of
• 2:19:28
  the Hermetic ranks. But in the nineteenth century, physical science rediscovered the truth
• 2:19:35
  and the twentieth century scientific discoveries have added additional proof of the correctness and truth
• 2:19:41
  of this centuries old hermetic doctrine. The Hermetic teachings are that not only is
• 2:19:48
  everything in constant movement and vibration, but that the differences between the various manifestations
• 2:19:54
  of the universal power are due entirely to the varying rate and mode of vib
• 2:20:01
  Not only this, but that even the all in itself manifests a constant vibration
• 2:20:07
  of such infinite degree of intensity and rapid motion that it may be practically considered
• 2:20:13
  as at rest. The teachers directing the attention of the students to the fact
• 2:20:18
  that even on the physical plane, a rapidly moving object such as a revolving
• 2:20:24
  wheel, seems to be at rest. The teachings are to the effect that
• 2:20:28
  Spirit is at one end of the pole of vibration, and the other pole
• 2:20:33
  being certain extremely gross forms of matter. Between these two poles are millions upon
• 2:20:39
  millions of different rates and modes of vibration. Modern science has proven that all
• 2:20:46
  that we call matter and energy are but modes of vibratory motion, and some
• 2:20:52
  of the more advanced scientists are rapidly moving toward the positions of the occultists,
• 2:20:58
  who hold that the phenomena of mind are likewise modes of vibration or motion.
• 2:21:03
  Let us see what science has to say regarding the question of vibrations in matter
• 2:21:09
  and energy. In the first place, science teaches that all matter manifests in
• 2:21:15
  some degree the vibrations arising from temperature or heat. Be an object cold or
• 2:21:22
  hot, both being but degrees of the same thing, it manifests certain heat
• 2:21:26
  vibrations, and in a sense is in motion and vibration. Then all particles
• 2:21:33
  of matter are in circular movement from corpusal to suns. The planets revolve around
• 2:21:39
  suns, and many of them turn on their axes. The suns move around
• 2:21:45
  greater central points, and these are believed to move around still greater and so
• 2:21:50
  on, add infinitum. The molecules of which the particular kinds of matter are
• 2:21:54
  composed are in a state of constant vibration and movement around each other, each
• 2:22:00
  other, and against each other. The molecules are composed of atoms, which
• 2:22:05
  likewise are in a state of constant movement and vibration. The atoms are composed
• 2:22:09
  of corpuscles sometimes called electrons, ions, et cetera, which also are in
• 2:22:16
  a state of rapid motion revolving around each other, and which manifest a very
• 2:22:22
  rapid state and mode of vibration. And so we see that all forms of
• 2:22:26
  matter manifest vibration in accordance with the hermetic principle of vibration. And so it
• 2:22:33
  is with various forms of energy. Science teaches that light, heat, magnetism,
• 2:22:39
  and electricity are but forms of vibratory motion, connected in some way with
• 2:22:45
  and probably emanating from, the ether. Science does not as yet attempt to
• 2:22:50
  explain the nature of phenomena known as cohesion, which is the principle of molecular
• 2:22:56
  attraction, nor chemical affinity, which is principle of atomic attraction, nor gravitation,
• 2:23:03
  the greatest mystery of the three, which is the principle of attraction,
• 2:23:07
  by which every particle or mass of matter is bound to every other particle or
• 2:23:13
  mass. These three forms of energy are not as yet understood by science.
• 2:23:18
  Yet the writers inclined to the opinion that these two are manifestations of some form
• 2:23:24
  of vibratory energy, a fact which the hermetists have held and taught for ages
• 2:23:30
  past. The universal ether, which is postulated by science without its nature being
• 2:23:37
  understood clearly, is held by the hermetists to be but a higher manifestation of
• 2:23:43
  that which is erroneously called matter, that is to say, matter at a
• 2:23:48
  higher degree of vibration, and is called by them the ethereal substance. The
• 2:23:54
  hermetists teach that this ethereal substance is of extreme tenuity and elasticity and pervades universal
• 2:24:01
  space, serving as a medium of transmission of waves of vibratory energy such as
• 2:24:07
  heat, light, electricity, magnetism, et cetera. The teachings are that
• 2:24:13
  the ethereal substance is a connecting link between the forces of vibratory energy known as
• 2:24:20
  matter on the one hand an energy or force on the other, and also
• 2:24:26
  that it manifests a degree of vibration in rate and mode entirely its own.
• 2:24:31
  Scientists have offered the illustration of a rapidly moving wheel top or cylinder to show
• 2:24:37
  the effects of increasing rates of vibration. The illustration supposes a wheel top or
• 2:24:43
  revolving cylinder running at a low rate of speed. We will call this revolving
• 2:24:48
  thing the object in the following illustration. Let us suppose the object is moving
• 2:24:56
  slowly. It may be seen readily, but no sound of its movement reaches
• 2:25:01
  the ear. The speed is gradually increased. In a few moments, its
• 2:25:05
  movement becomes so rapid that a deep growl or low note may be heard.
• 2:25:11
  Then, as the rate is increased, the note rises one in the musical
• 2:25:16
  scale. Then the motion, still being further increased, the next highest note
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  is distinguished, Then, one after another, all the notes of the musical
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  scale appear, rising higher and higher as the motion is increased. Finally,
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  when the motions have reached a certain rate, the final note perceptible to human
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  ears is reached, and the shrill, piercing shriek dies away and silence follows.
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  No sound is heard from the revolving object, the rate of motion being
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  so high that the human ear cannot register the vibrations. Then comes the perception
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  of rising degrees of heat. Then, after quite a time, the eye
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  eye catches a glimpse of the object becoming a dull, dark reddish color.
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  As the rate increases, the red becomes brighter. Then, as the speed
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  is increased, the red melts into an orange. Then the orange melts into
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  a yellow, then follow successively the shades of green, blue, indigo,
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  and finally violet. As the rate of speed increases, then the violet shades
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  away and all color disappears, the human eye not being able to register them.
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  But there are invisible rays emanating from the revolving object, the rays that
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  are used in photographing, and other subtle rays of light then begin to manifest,
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  the peculiar rays known as the X rays, etc. As the constitution
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  of the object changes, electricity and magnetism are emitted when the appropriate rate of
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  vibration is attained. When the object reaches a certain rate of vibration, its
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  molecules disintegrate and resolve themselves into the original elements or atoms. Then the atoms,
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  following the principle of vibration, are separated into the countless corpuscles of which
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  they are composed, and finally even the corpuscles disappear, and the object may
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  be said to be composed of the ethereal substance. Science does not dare to
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  follow the illustration further, but the Hermitists teach that if the vibrations be continually
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  increased, the object would mount up the successive states of manifestation and would in
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  turn manifest the various mental stages and then on spirit word, until it would
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  finally re enter the all which is absolute spirit. The object, however,
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  would have ceased to be an object long before the stage of ethereal substance was
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  reached. But otherwise the ill is correct inasmuch as it shows the effect of
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  constantly increased rates and modes of vibration. It must be remembered in the above
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  illustration that the stages at which the object throws off vibrations of light, heat,
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  et cetera, is not actually resolved into those forms of energy which are
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  much higher in the scale, but simply that it reaches a degree of vibration
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  in which those forms of energy are liberated in a degree from the confining influences
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  of its molecules, atoms, and corpuscles. As the case may be.
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  These forms of energy, although much higher in the scale than matter, are
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  imprisoned and confined in the material combinations by reasons of the energies manifesting through and
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  using material forms, but thus becoming entangled and confined in their creations of material
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  forms, and to which extent is true of all creations, the creating force
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  becoming involved in its creation. But the hermetic teachings go much further than do
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  those of modern science. They teach that all manifestation of thought, emotion,
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  reason, will or desire, or any mental state or condition are accompanied by
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  vibrations, a portion of which are thrown off, and which tend to affect
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  the minds of other persons by induction. This is the principle which produces a
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  phenomena of telepathy, mental influence, in other forms of the action and power
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  of mind over mind, with which the general public is rapidly becoming acquainted owing
• 2:29:39
  to the wide dissemination of occult knowledge by the various schools, cults, and
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  teachers along these lines. At this time, every thought of motion or mental
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  state has its corresponding rate and mode of vibration, and by an effort of
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  the will of the person or of other persons, these mental state may be
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  reproduced, just as a musical tone may be reproduced by causing an instrument to
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  vibrate at a certain rate, just as a color may be reproduced in the
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  same way. By a knowledge of the principle of vibration as applied to mental
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  phenomena, one may polarize his mind at any degree he wishes, thus gaining
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  a perfect control over his mental states, moods, etc. In the same
• 2:30:26
  way, he may affect the minds of others, producing the desired mental states
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  in them. In short, he may be able to produce on the mental
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  plane that which science produces on the physical plane, namely, vibrations at will.
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  This power, of course, may be acquired only by the proper instruction,
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  exercises, practice, etc. The science being that of mental transmutation,
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  one of the branches of the Hermetic art. A little reflection on what we
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  have said was show the student that the principle of vibration underlies the wonderful phenomena
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  of the power manifested by the masters and adepts, who are able to apparently
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  set aside the laws of nature, but who in reality are simply using one
• 2:31:15
  law against another, one principle against others, and who accomplish their results by
• 2:31:22
  changing the vibrations of material objects or forms of energy, and thus perform what
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  are commonly called miracles. As one of the old Hermetic writers has truly said,
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  he who understands the principle of vibration has grasped the scepter of power.
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  End of Chapter nine, Chapter ten polarity. Everything is dual, everything has
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  polls. Everything has its pair of opposites. Like and unlike are the same.
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  Opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree. Extremes meet,
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  All truths are but half truths. All paradoxes may be reconciled. The Kabbalian
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  the great fourth hermetic principle, the principle of polarity, embodies the truth that
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  all manifested things have two sides, two aspects, two poles, a pair
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  of opposites, with manifold degrees between the two extremes. The old paradoxes which
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  have ever perplexed the mind of men, are explained by an understanding of this
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  principle. Man has always recognized something akin to this principle, and has endeavored
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  to express it by such sayings, maxims, and aphorisms as the following.
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  Everything is and isn't at the same time. All truths are but half truths.
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  Every truth is half false. There are two sides to everything. There
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  is a reverse side to every shield except The hermetic teachings are to the effect
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  that the differences between things seemingly diametrically opposed to each other are merely a matter
• 2:33:09
  of degree. It teaches that the pairs of opposites may be reconciled, and
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  that thesis and anti thesis are identical in nature but different in degree, and
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  that the universal reconciliation of opposites is affected by a recognition of this principle of
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  polarity. The teachers claim that illustrations of this principle may be had on every
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  hand and from an examination into the real nature of anything. They begin by
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  showing that spirit and matter are but the two poles of the same thing,
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  the intermediate planes being merely degrees of vibration. They show that the all and
• 2:33:50
  the many are the same, the difference is being merely a matter of degree
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  of mental manifestation. Thus the law and law us are the two opposite poles
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  of one thing. Likewise principle and principles infinite mind and finite mind. Then,
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  passing on to the physical plane, they illustrate the principle by showing that
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  heat and cold are identical in nature, the differences being merely a matter of
• 2:34:20
  degrees. The thermometer shows many degrees of temperature, the lowest pole being called
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  cold, the highest heat. Between these two poles are many degrees of heat
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  or cold. Call them either, and you are equally correct. The higher
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  of two degrees is always warmer, while the lower is always colder. There
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  is no absolute standard, always a matter of degree. There is no place
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  on the thermometer where heat ceases and cold begins. It is all a matter
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  of higher or lower vibrations. The very terms high and low which we are
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  compelled to use a poles of the same thing. The terms are relative.
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  So with east and west. Travel around the world in an eastward direction,
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  and you reach a point which is called west at your starting point, and
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  you return from that westward point. Travel far enough north, and you will
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  find yourself traveling south, or vice versa. Light and darkness are poles of
• 2:35:24
  the same thing, with many degrees between them. The musical scale is the
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  same. Starting with sea, you move upward until you reach another sea,
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  and so on. The difference is between the two ends of the board,
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  being the same, with many degrees between the two extremes. The scale of
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  color is the same, higher and lower vibrations being the only difference between high
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  violet and low red. Large and smaller relative, So are noise and quiet.
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  Hard and soft follow the rule. Likewise, sharp and dull, positive
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  and negative are two poles of the same thing with countless degrees between them.
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  Good and bad are not absolute. We call one end of the scale good
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  and the other bad, or one end good and the other evil. According
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  to the use of terms, a thing is less good than the thing higher
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  in the scale, but that less good thing is in turn more good than
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  the thing next below it, and so on, the more or less being
• 2:36:28
  regulated by the position on the scale, And so it is on the mental
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  plane. Love and hate are generally regarded as things being diametrically opposed to each
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  other, entirely different, unreconcilable. But we apply the principle of polarity,
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  and we find that there is no such thing as absolute love or absolute hate,
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  as distinguished from each other. The two are merely terms applied to the
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  two poles of the same thing. Beginning at any point of the scale.
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  We find more love or less hate as we ascend the scale, and more
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  hate or less love as we descend. This being true no matter from what
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  point high or low we may start. There are degrees of love and hate,
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  and there is a middle point where alike and dislike becomes so faint that
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  it is difficult to distinguish between them. Courage and fear come under the same
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  rule. The pairs of opposites exist everywhere. Where you find one thing,
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  you find its opposite, the two poles, and it is this fact that
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  enables the hermetis to transmitte one mental state into another along the lines of polarization.
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  Things belonging to different classes cannot be transmuted into each other, but things
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  of the same class may be changed, that is, may have their polarity
• 2:37:52
  changed. Thus, love never becomes east or west, or red or violet,
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  but it may and often does, turn into hate. And likewise,
• 2:38:01
  hate may be transformed into love by changing its polarity. Courage may be transmuted
• 2:38:09
  into fear, and the reverse. Hard things may be rendered soft, Dull
• 2:38:13
  things become sharp, hot things become cold, and so on, the transmutation
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  always being between things of the same kind of different degrees. Take the case
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  of a fearful man, by raising his mental vibrations along the line of fear
• 2:38:30
  courage, he can be filled with the highest degree of courage and fearlessness.
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  And likewise, the soothful man may change himself into an active, energetic individual
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  simply by polarizing along the lines of the desired quality. The student who is
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  familiar with the processes by which the various schools of mental science, et cetera
• 2:38:52
  produce changes in the mental states of those following their teachings, may not readily
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  understand the principle underlying many of these changes. When, however, the principle
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  of polarity is once grasped, it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned
• 2:39:07
  by a change of polarity, a sliding along the same scale. The latter
• 2:39:13
  is readily understood. The change is not in the nature of transmutation of one
• 2:39:18
  thing into another thing entirely different, but merely as a change of degree in
• 2:39:24
  the same things, a vastly important difference. For instance, borrowing an analogy
• 2:39:31
  from the physical plane, it is impossible to change heat into sharpness, loudness,
• 2:39:37
  highness, et cetera. But heat may readily be transmuted into cold simply
• 2:39:43
  by lowering the vibrations in the same way. Hate and love are mutually transmutable,
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  so are fear and courage. But fear cannot be transformed into love,
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  nor can courage be transmuted into hate. The mental states belong to innumerable ba
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  classes, each class of which has its opposite poles, along which transmutation is
• 2:40:05
  possible. The student will readily recognize that in the mental states, as well
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  as in the phenomena of the physical plane, the two poles may be classified
• 2:40:15
  as positive and negative respectively. Thus love is positive to hate, courage to
• 2:40:20
  fear, activity to non activity, etc. Etc. And it will also
• 2:40:26
  be noticed that, even to those unfamiliar with the principle of vibration, the
• 2:40:31
  positive pole seems to be of a higher degree than the negative and readily dominates
• 2:40:37
  it. The tendency of nature is in the direction of the dominant activity of
• 2:40:41
  the positive pole. In addition to the changing of the poles of one's own
• 2:40:46
  mental states by the operation of the art of polarization. The phenomena of mental
• 2:40:52
  influence in its manifold phases shows us that the principle may be extended so as
• 2:40:58
  to embrace the phenomena of the influence of one mind over that of another,
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  of which so much has been written and taught of late years. When it
• 2:41:07
  is understood that mental induction is possible, that is, that mental states may
• 2:41:13
  be produced by induction from others, then we can readily see how a certain
• 2:41:18
  rate of vibration or polarization of a certain mental state may be communicated to another
• 2:41:24
  person, and his polarity in that class of mental states thus changed. It
• 2:41:30
  is along this principle that the results of many of the mental treatments are obtained.
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  For instance, a person is blue, melancholy, and full of fear.
• 2:41:41
  A mental scientist, bringing his own mind up to the desired vibration by
• 2:41:45
  his trained will and thus obtaining the desired polarization in his own case, then
• 2:41:50
  produces a similar mental state in the other by induction, the result being that
• 2:41:56
  the vibrations are raised, and the person polarized is towards the positive end of
• 2:42:01
  the scale instead of toward the negative, and his fear and other negative emotions
• 2:42:07
  are transmuted to courage and other positive mental states. A little study will show
• 2:42:13
  you that these mental changes are nearly all along the line of polarization, the
• 2:42:18
  change being one of degree rather than of kind. A knowledge of the existence
• 2:42:24
  of this great hermetic principle will enable the student to better understand his own mental
• 2:42:28
  states and those of other people. He will see that these states are all
• 2:42:33
  matters of degree, and seeing thus he will be able to raise or lower
• 2:42:39
  the vibration at will to change his mental poles, and thus be master of
• 2:42:43
  his mental states instead of being their servant and slave, and by his knowledge
• 2:42:48
  he will be able to aid his fellows intelligently and by the appropriate methods,
• 2:42:54
  change the polarity when the same is desirable. We advise all student udents to
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  familiarize themselves with this principle of polarity, for a correct understanding of the same
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  will throw light on many different subjects. End of Chapter ten, Chapter eleven.
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  Rhythm. Everything flows out, and in everything has its tides. All
• 2:43:20
  things rise and fall. The pendulum swing manifests in everything. The measure of
• 2:43:26
  the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left.
• 2:43:30
  Rhythm compensates the Kabbalian the great fifth Hermetic principle. The principle of rhythm embodies
• 2:43:39
  the truth that in everything there is manifest in a measured motion, a to
• 2:43:43
  and from movement, a flow and inflow, a swing forward and backward,
• 2:43:48
  a pendulum like movement, a tide like ebb and flow, a high tide
• 2:43:54
  and a low tide between the two poles manifest on the physical, mental,
• 2:43:58
  or spiritual planes. The principle of rhythm is closely connected with the principle of
• 2:44:05
  polarity described in the preceding chapter. Rhythm manifests between the two poles established by
• 2:44:11
  the principle of polarity. This does not mean, however, that the pendulum
• 2:44:16
  of rhythm swings to the extreme poles, for this rarely happens. In fact,
• 2:44:22
  it is difficult to establish the extreme polar opposites in the majority of cases.
• 2:44:26
  But the swing is ever toward first one pole and then the other.
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  There is always an action and reaction, in advance and a retreat, a
• 2:44:37
  rising and a sinking manifest in and all of the airs and phenomena of the
• 2:44:41
  universe suns, worlds, men, animals, plants, minerals, forces,
• 2:44:48
  energy, mind and matter. Yes, even spirit manifests this principle. The
• 2:44:54
  principle manifests in the creation and destruction of worlds, in the rise and of
• 2:45:00
  nations, in the life history of all things, and finally in the mental
• 2:45:05
  states of man. Beginning with the manifestations of spirit of the all, it
• 2:45:09
  will be noticed that there is ever the outpouring, in the indrawing, the
• 2:45:13
  outbreathing, and in breathing of Brahm. As the Brahmins word it. Universes
• 2:45:20
  are created, reach their extreme low point of materiality, and then begin in
• 2:45:24
  their upward swing, suns spring into being, and then their height of power
• 2:45:30
  being reached, the process of retrogression begins, and after eons they become dead
• 2:45:35
  masses of matter, awaiting another impulse, which starts again their inner energies into
• 2:45:41
  activity, and a new solar life cycle is begun. And thus it is
• 2:45:46
  with all worlds. They are born, grow and die, only to be
• 2:45:50
  reborn. And thus it is with all the things of shape and form.
• 2:45:54
  They swing from action to reaction, from birth to death, from activity to
• 2:46:00
  inactivity, and then back again. Thus it is with all living things.
• 2:46:05
  They are born, grow and die, and then are reborn. So it
• 2:46:09
  is with all great movements, philosophies, creeds, fashions, governments, nations,
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  and all else. Birth, growth, maturity, decadence, death,
• 2:46:22
  and then new birth. The swing of the pendulum is ever in evidence.
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  Night follows day and day night. The pendulum swings from summer to winter and
• 2:46:33
  then back again. The corpuscles, atoms, molecules, and all masses of
• 2:46:39
  matter swing around the circle of their nature. There is no such thing as
• 2:46:43
  absolute rest or cessation for movement, and all movement partakes of rhythm. The
• 2:46:50
  principle is of universal application. It may be applied to any question, or
• 2:46:56
  any phenomena of any of the many planes of life. It may be applied
• 2:47:00
  to all phases of human activity. There is always the rhythmic swing from one
• 2:47:05
  pole to the other. The universal pendulum is ever in motion. The tides
• 2:47:09
  of life flow in and out according to law. The principle of rhythm is
• 2:47:15
  well understood by modern science and is considered a universal law as applied to material
• 2:47:20
  things. But hermetists carry the principle much further, and know that its manifestations
• 2:47:26
  in influence extend to the mental activities of man, and that it accounts for
• 2:47:31
  the bewildering succession of moods, feelings, and other annoying and perplexing changes that
• 2:47:37
  we notice in ourselves. But the hermetists, by studying the operations of this
• 2:47:43
  principle, have learned to escape some of its activities by transmutation. The hermetic
• 2:47:50
  masters long since discovered that while the principle of rhythm was invariable and ever in
• 2:47:54
  evidence in mental phenomena, still there were two planes of its manifest stations,
• 2:48:00
  so far as mental phenomena are concerned. They discovered that there were two general
• 2:48:05
  planes of consciousness the lower and the higher, the understanding of which fact enabled
• 2:48:11
  them to rise to the higher plane and thus escape the swing of the rhythmic
• 2:48:15
  pendulum which manifested on the lower plane. In other words, the swing of
• 2:48:20
  the pendulum occurred on the unconscious plane, and the consciousness was not affected.
• 2:48:26
  This is called the law of neutralization. Its operations consist in the raising of
• 2:48:31
  the ego above the vibrations of the unconscious plane of mental activity, so that
• 2:48:37
  the negative swing of the pendulum is not manifested in consciousness and is therefore not
• 2:48:41
  affected. It is akin to rising above a thing and letting it pass beneath
• 2:48:46
  you. The hermetic master or advanced student polarizes himself at the desired coal,
• 2:48:54
  and by a process akin to refusing to participate in the backward swing, or,
• 2:49:00
  if you prefer, a denial of its influence over him, he stands
• 2:49:03
  firm in his polarized position and allows the mental pendulum to swing back along the
• 2:49:09
  unconscious plane. All individuals who have attained any degree of self mastery accomplish this
• 2:49:16
  more or less unknowingly, and by refusing to allow their moods and negative mental
• 2:49:20
  states to affect them. They apply the law of neutralization. The master,
• 2:49:26
  however, carries this to a much higher degree of proficiency, and by the
• 2:49:31
  use of his will he attains a degree of poise and mental firmness, almost
• 2:49:35
  impossible to believe on the part of those who would allow themselves to be swung
• 2:49:39
  backward and forward by the mental pendulum of moods and feelings. The importance of
• 2:49:45
  this will be appreciated by any thinking person who realizes what creatures of moods,
• 2:49:50
  feelings, and emotions the majority of people are, and how little mastery of
• 2:49:56
  themselves they manifest. If you will stop and consider a moment, you will
• 2:50:01
  realize how much these swings of rhythm have affected you in your life, how
• 2:50:05
  a period of enthusiasm has been invariably followed by an opposite feeling and mood of
• 2:50:11
  depression. Likewise, your moods and periods of courage have been succeeded by equal
• 2:50:16
  moods of fear. And so it has ever been with the majority of persons.
• 2:50:22
  Tides of feelings have ever risen and fallen with them, but they have
• 2:50:26
  never suspected the cause or reason of the mental phenomena. An understanding of the
• 2:50:31
  workings of this principle will give one the key to the mastery of these rhythmic
• 2:50:35
  swings of feeling, and will enable him to know himself better and to avoid
• 2:50:41
  being carried away by these inflows and outflows. The will is superior to the
• 2:50:46
  conscious manifestation of this principle. Although the principle itself can never be destroyed,
• 2:50:52
  we may escape its effects, But the principle operates nevertheless. The pendulum ever
• 2:50:58
  swings, although we may escape being carried along with it. There are other
• 2:51:03
  features of the operation of this principle of rhythm of which we wish to speak
• 2:51:09
  at this point. There comes into its operations that which is known as the
• 2:51:13
  law of compensation. One of the definitions or meanings of the word compensate is
• 2:51:18
  to counterbalance, which is the sense in which hermetists use the term. It
• 2:51:24
  is the law of compensation to which the cabolume refers when it says, the
• 2:51:28
  measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the
• 2:51:33
  left. Rhythm compensates. The law of compensation is that the swing in one
• 2:51:39
  direction determines the swing in the opposite direction, or to the opposite pole.
• 2:51:45
  The one balances or counterbalances the other. On the physical plane. We see
• 2:51:50
  many examples of this law. The pendulum of the clock swings a certain distance
• 2:51:54
  to the right and then an equal distance to the left. Ands balance each
• 2:52:01
  other in the same way. The tides follow the same law, and the
• 2:52:05
  same laws manifested in all the phenomena of rhythm. The pendulum with a short
• 2:52:09
  swing in one direction has but a short swing in the other, while the
• 2:52:15
  long swing to the right invariably means the long swing to the left. An
• 2:52:18
  object hurled upward to a certain height has an equal distance to traverse on its
• 2:52:24
  return. The force with which a projectile is sent upward a mile is reproduced
• 2:52:31
  when the projectile returns to the Earth on its return journey. This law is
• 2:52:35
  constant on the physical plane, as reference to the standard authorities will show you.
• 2:52:41
  But the hermitists carry it still further. They teach that a man's mental
• 2:52:46
  states are subject to the same law. The man who enjoys keenly is subject
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  to keen suffering, while he who feels but little pain is capable of feeling
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  but little joy. The pig suffers but little mentally, and enjoys but little
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  he is compensated. On the other hand, there are animals who enjoy keenly,
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  but whose nervous organism and temperament cause them to suffer exquisite degrees of pain.
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  And so it is with man. There are temperaments which permit of but
• 2:53:18
  a low degree of enjoyment and equally low degrees of suffering, while there are
• 2:53:22
  others which permit the most intense enjoyment but also the most intense suffering. The
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  rule is that the capacity for pain and pleasure in each individual are balanced.
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  The law of compensation is in full operation here. But the Hermitists goes still
• 2:53:39
  further in this matter. They teach that before one is able to enjoy a
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  certain degree of pleasure, he must have swung as far proportionately toward the other
• 2:53:50
  pole of feeling. They hold, however, that the negative is precedent to
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  the positive in this matter. That is to say, that, in experience
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  en seing a certain degree of pleasure, it does not follow that he will
• 2:54:03
  have to pay up for it with a corresponding degree of pain. On the
• 2:54:07
  contrary, the pleasure is the rhythmic swing, according to the law of compensation,
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  for a degree of pain previously experienced, either in the present life or
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  in a previous incarnation. This throws a new light on the problem of pain.
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  The Hermetists regard the chain of lives as continuous and as forming a part
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  of one life of the individual, so that in consequence, the rhythmic swing
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  is understood in this way, where it would be without meaning unless the truth
• 2:54:37
  of reincarnation is admitted. But the Hermetists claim that the master or advanced student
• 2:54:45
  is able to a great degree to escape the swing of pain by the process
• 2:54:50
  of neutralization before mentioned, by rising onto the higher plane of the ego.
• 2:54:54
  Much of the experience that comes to those dwelling on the lower plane is a
• 2:54:58
  void and escaped. The law of compensation plays an important part in the lives
• 2:55:05
  of men and women. It will be noticed that one generally pays the price
• 2:55:09
  of anything he possesses or lacks. If he has one thing, he lacks
• 2:55:13
  another. The balance is struck. No one can keep his penny and have
• 2:55:18
  a bite of cake. At the same time, everything has its pleasant and
• 2:55:22
  unpleasant sides. The things one gains are always paid for by the things one
• 2:55:28
  loses. The rich possess much that the poor lack, while the poor often
• 2:55:33
  possessed things that are beyond the reach of the rich. The millionaire may have
• 2:55:37
  an inclination toward feasting and the wealth wherein to secure all the dainties and luxuries
• 2:55:43
  of the table, while he lacks the appetite to enjoy the same. He
• 2:55:48
  envies the appetite and digestion of the laborer, who lacks the wealth and inclinations
• 2:55:54
  of the millionaire, and who gets more pleasure from his plain food than the
• 2:55:58
  millionaire could obtain, even if his appetite were not jaded, nor his digestion
• 2:56:03
  ruin. For the wants, habits, and inclinations differ, And so it
• 2:56:07
  is through life. The law of compensation is ever in operation, striving to
• 2:56:13
  balance and counterbalance, and always succeeding in time, even though several lives may
• 2:56:18
  be required for the return swing of the pendulum of rhythm. End of Chapter
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  eleven, Chapter twelve causation. Every cause has its effect, every effect has
• 2:56:31
  its cause. Everything happens according to law. Chance is but a name for
• 2:56:37
  law, not recognized. There are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes
• 2:56:43
  the law. The Kabalium, the great sixth thermatic principle, the principle of
• 2:56:50
  cause and effect, embodies the truth that law pervades the universe, that nothing
• 2:56:54
  happens by chance. That chance is merely a term indicating cause, existing but
• 2:57:01
  not recognized or perceived. That phenomena is continuous without break or exception. The
• 2:57:07
  principle of cause and effect underlies all scientific thought, ancient and modern, and
• 2:57:13
  was enunciated by the hermetic teachers in the earliest days. While many in varied
• 2:57:20
  disputes between the many schools of thought have since arisen, these disputes have been
• 2:57:24
  principally upon the details of the operations of the principle, and still more often
• 2:57:30
  upon the meaning of certain words. The underlying principle of cause and effect has
• 2:57:35
  been accepted as correct by practically all the thinkers of the world worthy of the
• 2:57:41
  name. To think otherwise would be to take the phenomena of the universe from
• 2:57:46
  the domain of law and order, and to regulate it, to control the
• 2:57:50
  imaginary something which men have called chance. A little consideration will show anyone that
• 2:57:56
  there really is in reality no such a thing is pure chance. Webster defines
• 2:58:03
  the word chance as follows. A supposed agent or mode of activity other than
• 2:58:07
  a force, law, or purpose, the operation or activity of such agent,
• 2:58:13
  the supposed effect of such agent, a happening fortuity, casualty, et
• 2:58:20
  cetera. But a little consideration will show you that there can be no such
• 2:58:24
  agent as chance, in the sense of something outside of law, something outside
• 2:58:30
  of cause and effect. How could there be something acting in the phenomenal universe
• 2:58:35
  independent of the laws, order, and continuity of the latter. Such a
• 2:58:41
  something would be entirely independent of the orderly trend of the universe, and therefore
• 2:58:46
  superior to it. We can imagine nothing outside of the All being outside of
• 2:58:50
  the law, and that only because the All is the law itself. There
• 2:58:56
  is no room in the universe for something outside of and independent of law.
• 2:59:01
  The existence of such a something would render all natural laws ineffective and would plunge
• 2:59:07
  the universe into chaotic disorder and lawlessness. A careful examination will show that what
• 2:59:15
  we call chance is merely an expression relating to obscure causes, causes we cannot
• 2:59:20
  perceive, causes that we cannot understand. The word chance is derived from a
• 2:59:26
  word meaning to fall, as the falling of dice, the idea being that
• 2:59:33
  the fall of the dice and many other happenings are merely a happening unrelated to
• 2:59:37
  any cause, and this is in the sense in which the term is generally
• 2:59:41
  employed. But when the matter is closely examined, it is seen that there
• 2:59:46
  is no chance whatsoever about the fall of the dice. Each time a die
• 2:59:52
  falls and displays a certain number, it obeys a law as infallible as that
• 2:59:56
  which governs the revolution of the planets around them the sun. Back of the
• 3:00:01
  fall of the dye are causes, or chains of causes, running back further
• 3:00:05
  than the mind can follow, the position of the dye in the box,
• 3:00:11
  The amount of muscular energy expended in the throw, the condition of the table,
• 3:00:16
  et cetera, et cetera. All are causes, the effect of which
• 3:00:20
  may be seen. But back of these seeing causes there are chains of unseen
• 3:00:24
  preceding causes, all of which had a bearing upon the number of the dye
• 3:00:30
  which fell uppermost. If a dye be cast a great number of times,
• 3:00:35
  it will be found that the numbers shown will all be about equal. That
• 3:00:39
  is, there will be an equal number of one spot, two spot,
• 3:00:43
  et cetera. Coming uppermost. Toss a penny in the air, and it
• 3:00:46
  may come down either heads or tails. But make a sufficient number of tosses,
• 3:00:52
  and the heads and tails will about even up. This is the operation
• 3:00:56
  of the law of average. But both the average in a single toss come
• 3:01:01
  under the law of cause and effect. And if we were able to examine
• 3:01:05
  into the preceding causes, it would be clearly seen that it was simply impossible
• 3:01:09
  for the die to fall other than it did under the same circumstances. And
• 3:01:15
  at the same time, given the same causes, the same results will follow.
• 3:01:20
  There is always a cause and a be cause to every event. Nothing
• 3:01:26
  ever happens without a cause, or rather a chain of causes. Some confusion
• 3:01:31
  has arisen in the minds of persons considering this principle from the fact that they
• 3:01:37
  were unable to explain how one thing could cause another thing, that is,
• 3:01:41
  be the creator of the second thing. As a matter of fact, no
• 3:01:46
  thing ever causes or creates another thing. Cause and effect deals merely with events.
• 3:01:52
  An event is that which comes, arrives, or happens as a result
• 3:01:56
  or consequence of some preceding event. No event creates another event, but is
• 3:02:03
  merely a preceding link in the great orderly chain of events flowing from the creative
• 3:02:07
  energy of the all. There is a continuity between all events, precedent,
• 3:02:13
  consequent, and subconsequent there is a relation existing between everything that has gone before
• 3:02:20
  and everything that follows. A stone is dislodged from a mountain side and crashes
• 3:02:26
  through a roof of a cottage in the valley below. At first sight,
• 3:02:30
  we regard this as a chance effect. But when we examine the matter we
• 3:02:33
  find a great chain of causes behind it. In the first place, there
• 3:02:39
  was the rain, which softened the earth supporting the stone and which allowed it
• 3:02:43
  to fall. Then back of that was the influence of the sun, other
• 3:02:46
  rains, etc. Which gradually disintegrated the piece of rock from a larger piece.
• 3:02:52
  Then there were the causes which led to the formation of the mountain and
• 3:02:56
  its upheaval by convolutions of nature, and so on, add infinitum. Then
• 3:03:03
  we might follow up the causes behind the rain, et cetera. Then we
• 3:03:07
  might consider the existence of the roof. In short, we would soon find
• 3:03:11
  ourselves involved in a mesh of cause and effect from which we would soon strive
• 3:03:16
  to extricate ourselves. Just as a man has two parents and four grandparents,
• 3:03:22
  and eight great grandparents and sixteen great great grandparents, and so on and so
• 3:03:28
  on, until when say, forty generations are calculated, and the number of
• 3:03:35
  ancestors run into many millions. So it is with the number of causes behind
• 3:03:39
  even the most trifling event or phenomena, such as the passage of a tiny
• 3:03:45
  speck of soot before your eye. It is not an easy matter to trace
• 3:03:48
  the bit of soot back to the early period of the world's history, when
• 3:03:52
  it formed a part of a massive tree trunk, which was, afterwork,
• 3:03:56
  converted into coal and so on, until the speck of soot now passes before
• 3:04:01
  your vision on its way to other adventures, and a mighty chain of events,
• 3:04:07
  causes and effects brought it to its present condition, And the latter is
• 3:04:11
  but one of the chain of events which will go on to produce other events
• 3:04:16
  hundreds of years from now. One of the series of events arising from the
• 3:04:20
  tiny bit of soot was the writing of these lines, which caused the typesetter
• 3:04:26
  to perform certain work the proof reader to do likewise, and which will arouse
• 3:04:31
  certain thoughts in your mind and that of others, which will in turn affect
• 3:04:35
  others, and so on and on and on beyond the ability of man to
• 3:04:41
  think further, and all from the passage of a tiny bit of soot,
• 3:04:46
  All of which shows the relativity and association of things, and the further fact
• 3:04:50
  that there is no great, there is no small in the mind that causeth
• 3:04:56
  all stop to think for a moment. If a a certain man had not
• 3:05:01
  met a certain maid away back in the dim period of the Stone Age,
• 3:05:05
  you who are now reading these lines, would not be here. And if
• 3:05:09
  perhaps the same couple had failed to meet, we who now write these lines,
• 3:05:13
  would not be here. And the very act of writing on our part,
• 3:05:18
  and the act of reading on yours, will affect not only the respective
• 3:05:22
  lives of yourself and ourselves, but will have a direct or indirect effect upon
• 3:05:28
  many other people now living and who will live in the ages to come.
• 3:05:33
  Every thought, we think, every act we perform, has its direct and
• 3:05:37
  indirect results which fit into the great chain of cause and effect. We do
• 3:05:43
  not wish to enter into a consideration of free will or determination in this work,
• 3:05:48
  for various reasons. Among the many reasons is the principal one that neither
• 3:05:54
  side of the controversy is entirely right. In fact, both sides are partially
• 3:05:58
  right. According to the Hermetic teachings. The principle of polarity shows that both
• 3:06:05
  are but half truths the opposing polls of truth. The teachings are that a
• 3:06:09
  man may be both free and yet bound by necessity, depending upon the meaning
• 3:06:15
  of the terms and the height of truth from which the matter is examined.
• 3:06:20
  The ancient writers express the matter thus, the further the creation is from the
• 3:06:24
  center, the more it is bound. The nearer the center it reaches,
• 3:06:30
  the nearer free is it. The majority of people are more or less the
• 3:06:35
  slaves of heredity, environment, etc. And manifest very little freedom. They
• 3:06:41
  are swayed by the opinions, customs, and thoughts of the outside world,
• 3:06:45
  and also by their emotions, feelings, moods, etc. They manifest no
• 3:06:50
  mastery worthy of the name. They indignantly repudiate this assertion, saying, why
• 3:06:56
  I am certainly free to act and do as I can please. I do
• 3:07:01
  just what I want to do. But they fail to explain whence arise the
• 3:07:05
  want to and as I please? What makes them want to do one thing
• 3:07:09
  in preference to another? What makes them please to do this and not to
• 3:07:13
  do that? Is there no because to their pleasing and wanting, The master
• 3:07:20
  can change these pleases and wants into others. At the opposite end of the
• 3:07:24
  mental poll. He is able to will to will instead of to will because
• 3:07:30
  some feeling, mood, emotion, or environmental suggestion arouses a tendency or desire
• 3:07:37
  with him to do so. The majority of people are carried along like the
• 3:07:41
  falling stone, obedient to environment, outside influences in internal moods, desires,
• 3:07:48
  et cetera, not to speak of the desires and wills of others stronger than
• 3:07:52
  themselves. Heredity, environment and suggestion carrying them along without resistance on their part
• 3:08:00
  or the exercise of the will. Moved like the pawns on the checkerboard of
• 3:08:05
  life, they play their parts and are laid aside after the game is over.
• 3:08:09
  But the masters, knowing the rules of the game, rise above the
• 3:08:13
  planes of material life and place themselves in touch with the higher powers of their
• 3:08:18
  nature, dominate their own moods, characters, qualities, and polarity, as
• 3:08:24
  well as the environments surrounding them, and thus become movers in the game instead
• 3:08:30
  of pawns, causes instead of effects. The masters do not escape the causation
• 3:08:35
  of the higher planes, but fall in with the higher laws and thus master
• 3:08:41
  circumstances on the lower plane. They thus form a conscious part of the law,
• 3:08:46
  instead of being mere blind instruments. While they serve on the higher planes,
• 3:08:52
  they rule on the material plane. But on higher and on lower,
• 3:08:56
  the law is always in operation. There's no such thing as chance. The
• 3:09:01
  blind goddess has been abolished by reason. We are able to see now with
• 3:09:07
  eyes made clear by knowledge, that everything is governed by universal law, that
• 3:09:13
  the infinite number of laws are but manifestations of the one great law, the
• 3:09:18
  law which is the all. It is true, indeed that not a sparrow
• 3:09:22
  drops unnoticed by the mind of the all, and even the hairs on our
• 3:09:26
  head are numbered. As the scriptures have said, there is nothing outside the
• 3:09:31
  law, nothing that happens contrary to it. And yet do not make the
• 3:09:37
  mistake of supposing that man is but a blind automation. Far from that,
• 3:09:43
  the hermetic teachings are that man may use law to overcome laws, and that
• 3:09:46
  the higher will always prevail against the lower, until at last he has reached
• 3:09:52
  the stage in which he seeks refuge in the law itself, and laughs the
• 3:09:56
  phenomenal laws to scorn. Are you able to grasp the inner meaning of this?
• 3:10:03
  End of Chapter twelve, Chapter thirteen. Gender. Gender is in everything,
• 3:10:11
  everything, has its masculine infeminine principles. Gender manifests on all planes the
• 3:10:18
  Kabbalian the grade seventh thermetic principle, The principle of gender, embodies the truth
• 3:10:24
  that there is gender manifested in everything, that the masculine and feminine principles are
• 3:10:31
  ever present and active in all phases of phenomena, on each and every plane
• 3:10:35
  of life. At this point, we think it well to call your attention
• 3:10:39
  to the fact that gender in its hermetic sense and sex in the ordinarily accepted
• 3:10:45
  use of the term are not the same. The word gender is derived from
• 3:10:50
  the Latin root meaning to beget, to procreate, to generate, to create,
• 3:10:56
  to produce. A moment's consideration will show you that the word has a
• 3:11:01
  much broader and more general meaning than the term sex, the latter referring to
• 3:11:05
  the physical distinctions between male and female living things. Sex is merely a manifestation
• 3:11:11
  of gender on a certain plane of the great physical plane, the plane of
• 3:11:15
  organic life. We wish to impress this distinction upon your minds for the reason
• 3:11:20
  that certain writers who have acquired a smattering of the hermetic philosophy have sought to
• 3:11:26
  identify this seventh thermetic principle with wild and fanciful and often reprehensible theories and teachings
• 3:11:33
  regarding sex. The office of gender is solely that of creating, producing,
• 3:11:39
  generating, etc. And its manifestations are visible on every plane of phenomena.
• 3:11:46
  It is somewhat difficult to produce proofs of this along scientific lines, for the
• 3:11:50
  reason that science has not yet recognized this principle as of universal application. But
• 3:11:56
  still some proofs are forthcoming from scientific clad sources. In the first place,
• 3:12:01
  we find a distinct manifestation of the principle of gender among the corpuscles, ions,
• 3:12:07
  or electrons, which constitute the basis of matter as science now knows the
• 3:12:13
  latter, and which, by forming certain combinations, form the atom, which
• 3:12:18
  until lately was regarded as final and indivisible. The latest word of science is
• 3:12:24
  that the atom is composed of a multitude of corpuscles, electrons, or ions,
• 3:12:30
  the various names being applied by different authorities, revolving around each other and
• 3:12:35
  vibrating at a high degree and intensity. But the accompanying statement is made that
• 3:12:39
  the formation of the atom is really due to the clustering of negative corpuscles around
• 3:12:45
  a positive one. The positive corpuscles, seeming to exert a certain influence upon
• 3:12:50
  the negative corpuscles, causing the latter to assume certain combinations and thus create or
• 3:12:56
  generate an atom. Is in line with the most ancient hermetic teachings, which
• 3:13:03
  have always identified the masculine principle of gender with the positive and the feminine with
• 3:13:07
  the negative poles of electricity so called now a word. At this point regarding
• 3:13:13
  this identification, the public mind has formed an entirely erroneous impression regarding the qualities
• 3:13:20
  of the so called negative pole of electrified or magnetized matter. The term positive
• 3:13:26
  and negative are very wrongly applied to this phenomenon by science. The word positive
• 3:13:31
  means something real and strong, as compared with a negative unreality or weakness.
• 3:13:37
  Nothing is further from the real facts of electrical phenomenon. The so called negative
• 3:13:43
  pole of the battery is really the pole in and by which the generation or
• 3:13:48
  production of new forms and energies are manifested. There is nothing negative about it.
• 3:13:56
  The best scientific authorities now use the word cathode in place negative, the
• 3:14:01
  word cathode coming from the Greek root meaning descent, the path of generation,
• 3:14:07
  etc. From the cathode pole emerge the swarm of electrons or corpuscles. From
• 3:14:13
  the same pole emerged these wonderful rays, which have revolutionized scientific conceptions during the
• 3:14:18
  past decade. The cathode pole is the mother of all of the strange phenomena
• 3:14:24
  which have rendered useless the old textbooks, and which have caused many long accepted
• 3:14:30
  theories to be relegated to the scrap pile of scientific speculation. The cathode or
• 3:14:37
  negative pole is the mother principle of electrical phenomena and of the finest forms of
• 3:14:43
  matter as yet known to science. So you will see we are justified in
• 3:14:48
  refusing to use the term negative in our consideration of the subject, and in
• 3:14:52
  insisting upon substituting the word feminine for the old term. The facts of the
• 3:14:58
  case bear us out in this without taking the hermetic teachings into consideration, and
• 3:15:03
  so we shall use the word feminine in place of negative in speaking of that
• 3:15:09
  poll of activity. The latest scientific teachings are that the creative corpuscles or electrons
• 3:15:16
  are feminine. Science says they are composed of negative electricity. We say they
• 3:15:20
  are composed of feminine energy. A feminine corpuscle becomes detached from, or rather
• 3:15:26
  leaves, a masculine corpuscle and starts on a new career. It actively seeks
• 3:15:33
  a union with a masculine corpuscle, being urged there too by the natural impulse
• 3:15:39
  to create new forms of matter or energy. One writer goes so far as
• 3:15:43
  to use the term it at once seeks of its own volition, a union,
• 3:15:48
  etc. This detachment and uniting form the basis of the greater part of
• 3:15:54
  the activities of the chemical world. When the feminine corpuscle un knights with a
• 3:16:00
  masculine corpuscle, a certain process is begun. The feminine particles vibrate rapidly under
• 3:16:07
  the influence of the masculine energy and circle rapidly around the latter. The result
• 3:16:13
  is the birth of a new atom. This new atom is really composed of
• 3:16:16
  a union of the masculine and feminine electrons or corpuscles, But when the union
• 3:16:22
  is formed, the atom is a separate thing, having certain properties, but
• 3:16:28
  no longer manifesting the property of free electricity. The process of detachment or separation
• 3:16:33
  of the feminine electrons is called ionization. These electrons or corpuscles are the most
• 3:16:41
  active workers in nature's field, arising from their unions or combinations, manifest the
• 3:16:46
  varied phenomena of light, heat, electricity, magnetism, attraction, repulsion,
• 3:16:54
  chemical affinity, and the reverse and similar phenomena, and rises from the operation
• 3:17:01
  of the principle of gender. On the plane of energy. The part of
• 3:17:05
  the masculine principle seems to be that of directing a certain inherent energy toward the
• 3:17:09
  feminine principle and thus starting into activity the creative processes. But the feminine principle
• 3:17:16
  is the one always doing the active creative work. And this is so on
• 3:17:20
  all planes. And yet each principle is incapable of operative energy without the assistance
• 3:17:28
  of the other. In some of the forms of life, the two principles
• 3:17:31
  are combined in one organism. For that matter, everything in the organic world
• 3:17:37
  manifests both genders. There is always the masculine present in the feminine form.
• 3:17:43
  The hermetic teachings include much regarding the operation of the two principles of gender in
• 3:17:48
  the production and manifestation of various forms of energy, etc. But we do
• 3:17:54
  not deem it expedient to go into detail regarding the same at this point,
• 3:17:58
  because we are unable to back up the same with scientific proof, for the
• 3:18:03
  reason that science has not yet progressed thus far. But the example we have
• 3:18:07
  given you of the phenomena of electrons or corpuscles will show you that science is
• 3:18:13
  on the right path, and will also give you a general idea of the
• 3:18:16
  underlying principles. Some leading scientific investigators have announced their belief that in the formation
• 3:18:24
  of crystals there was to be found something that corresponded to sex activity, which
• 3:18:28
  is another straw showing the direction the scientific winds are blowing, and each year
• 3:18:35
  will bring other facts to coroberate the correctness of the hermetic principle of gender.
• 3:18:39
  It will be found that gender is in constant operation and manifestation in the field
• 3:18:45
  of inorganic matter and in the field of energy or force. Electricity is now
• 3:18:50
  generally regarded as the something into which all other forms of energy seem to melt
• 3:18:56
  or dissolve. The electrical theory of the year universe is the latest scientific doctrine
• 3:19:03
  and is growing rapidly in popularity and general acceptance. And thus it follows that
• 3:19:07
  if we are able to discover in the phenomena of electricity, even at the
• 3:19:13
  very root and source of its manifestations a clear and unmistakable evidence of the presence
• 3:19:18
  of gender and its activities. We are justified in asking you to believe that
• 3:19:24
  science at last has offered proofs of the existence and all universal phenomena of that
• 3:19:31
  great Hermetic principle, the principle of gender. It is not necessary to take
• 3:19:37
  up your time with the well known phenomena of the attraction and repulsion of the
• 3:19:41
  atoms, chemical affinity, the loves and hates of the atomic particles, the
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  attraction or cohesion between the molecules of matter. These facts are too well known
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  to need extended comment from us. But have you ever considered that all of
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  these things are manifestations of the gender principle? Can you not see that the
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  phenomena is on all fours with that of the corpuscles or electrons. And more
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  than this, can you not see the reasonableness of the Hermetic teachings which assert
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  that the very law of gravitation, that strange attraction, by reason of which
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  all particles and bodies of matter in the universe tend towards each other, is
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  but another manifestation of the principle of gender, which operates in the direction of
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  attracting the masculine to the feminine energies, and vice versa. We cannot offer
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  you scientific proof of this at this time, but examine the phenomena in the
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  light of the hermetic teachings on the subject, and see if you have not
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  a better working hypothesis than any offer by physical science. Submit all physical phenomena
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  to the test, and you will discern the principle of gender ever in evidence.
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  Let us now pass on to a consideration of the operation of the principle
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  on the mental plane. Many interesting features are there awaiting examination. End of
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  Chapter thirteen, Chapter fourteen Mental gender. Students of psychology who have followed the
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  modern trend of thought along the lines of mental phenomena are struck by the persistence
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  of the dual mind idea which has manifested itself so strongly during the past ten
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  or fifteen years, and which has given rise to a number of plausible theories
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  regarding the nature and constitution of these two minds. The late Thompson J.
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  Hudson attained great popularity in eighteen ninety three by advancing his well known theory of
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  the objective and subjective minds, which he held existed in every individual. Other
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  writers have attracted almost equal attention by the theories regarding the conscious and subconscious minds,
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  the volunteers and involuntary minds, the active and passive minds, et cetera,
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  et cetera. The theories of the various writers differ from each other,
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  but there remains the underlying principle of the duality of mind. The student of
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  the Hermetic philosophy is tempted to smile when he reads and ears of these many
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  new theories regarding the duality of mind, each school adhering tenaciously to its own
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  pet theories, and each claiming to have discovered the truth. The student turns
• 3:22:31
  back the pages of occult history and away back in the dim beginnings of occult
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  teachings, he finds references to the ancient Hermetic doctrine of the principle of gender
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  on the mental plane, the manifestation of mental gender. And examining further,
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  he finds that ancient philosophy took cognisance of the phenomenon of the dual mind and
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  accounted for it by the theory of mental gender. This idea of mental gender
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  may be explained in a few words to students who are familiar with the modern
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  theories just alluded to. The masculine principle of mind corresponds to the so called
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  objective mind, conscious mind, voluntary mind, active mind, et cetera,
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  and the feminine principle of mind corresponds to the so called subjective mind, subconscious
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  mind, involuntary mind, passive mind, et cetera. Of course, the
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  Hermetic teachings do not agree with the many modern theories regarding the nature of the
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  two phases of mind, nor does it admit many of the facts claimed for
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  the two respective aspects, some of the said theories and claims being very far
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  fetched and incapable of standing the test of experiment and demonstration. We point to
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  the phases of agreement merely for the purpose of helping the student to assimilate his
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  previously acquired knowledge with the teachings of the Hermetic philosophy. Students of Hudson and
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  will notice the statement at the beginning of his second chapter of the Law of
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  Psychic Phenomena that the mystical jargon of the Hermetic philosophers disclose the same idea,
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  i e. The duality of mind. If doctor Hudson had taken the time
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  and trouble to decipher a little of the mystic jargon of the Hermetic philosophy.
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  He might have received much light upon the subject of the dual mind. But
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  then perhaps his most interesting work might not have been written. Let us now
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  consider the Hermetic teachings regarding mental gender. The Hermetic teachers impart their instruction regarding
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  this subject by bidding their students examine the report of their consciousness regarding their self.
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  The students are bidden to turn their attention inward upon the self dwelling within
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  each Each student is led to see that his consciousness gives him first a report
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  of the existence of his self. The report is I Am. This at
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  first seems to be the final words from the consciousness, but a little further
• 3:25:03
  examination discloses the fact that this I am may be separated or split into two
• 3:25:11
  distinct parts or aspects, which, while working in unison and in conjunction,
• 3:25:16
  yet nevertheless may be separated in consciousness. While at first there seems to only
• 3:25:24
  be an eye existing, a more careful and closer examination reveals the fact that
• 3:25:30
  there exists an I and a me. These mental twins differ in characteristics in
• 3:25:35
  nature, and an examination of their nature and phenomena arising from the same will
• 3:25:41
  throw much light upon the many problems of mental influence. Let us begin with
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  the consideration of the me, which is usually mistaken for the eye by the
• 3:25:52
  student until he presses the inquiry a little further back into the recesses of consciousness.
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  A man thinks of his self in its aspect of me, as being
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  composed of certain feelings, tastes, likes, dislikes, habits, peculiar ties,
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  characteristics, et cetera, all of which go to make up his personality,
• 3:26:15
  or the self known to himself and others. He knows that these emotions
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  and feelings change, are born, and die away, are subject to the
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  principle of rhythm, the principle of polarity, which take him from one extreme
• 3:26:28
  of feeling to another. He also thinks of the me as being certain knowledge
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  gathered together in his mind, and thus forming a part of himself. This
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  is the me of a man, but we have proceeded to hastily. The
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  me of many men may be said to consist largely of their consciousness of the
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  body, in their physical appetites, et cetera. Their consciousness being largely bound
• 3:26:54
  up with their bodily nature, they practically live there. Some men even go
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  so far as to regard their personal apparel as part of their me, and
• 3:27:03
  actually seem to consider it as part of themselves. A writer has humorously said
• 3:27:09
  that men consist of three parts, soul, body, and clothes. These
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  close conscious people would lose their personality if divested of their clothing by savages upon
• 3:27:22
  the occasion of a shipwreck. But even many who are not so closely bound
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  up with the idea of personal raiment stick closely to the consciousness of their bodies,
• 3:27:31
  being their me. They cannot conceive of a self independent of the body.
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  Their mind seems to them to be practically a something belonging to their body,
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  which in many cases it is indeed. But as man rises in the
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  scale of consciousness, he is able to disentangle his me from his idea of
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  body, and is able to think of his body as belonging to the mental
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  part of him. But even then he is very apt to identify the me
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  entirely with the mental states, feelings, et cetera, which he feels to
• 3:28:05
  exist within him. He is very apt to consider these internal states as identical
• 3:28:11
  with himself, instead of there being simply things produced by some part of his
• 3:28:16
  mentality and existing within him, of him and in him, but still not
• 3:28:22
  himself. He sees that he may change these internal states of feelings by all
• 3:28:28
  effort of will, and that he may produce a feeling or state of an
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  exactly opposite nature in the same way, and yet the same me exists.
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  And so after a while he is able to set aside these various mental states
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  emotions, feelings, habits, qualities, characteristics, and other personal mental belongings.
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  He is able to set them aside in the not me collection of curiosities
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  and encumbrances, as well as valuable possessions. This requires much mental concentration and
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  power of mental analysis on the part of the student, but still the task
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  is possible for the advanced student, and even those not so far advanced are
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  able to see in the imagination how the process may be performed. After these
• 3:29:16
  laying aside processes have been performed, the student will find himself in conscious possession
• 3:29:22
  of a self which may be considered in its eye and me dual aspects.
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  The me will be felt to be something mental in which thoughts, ideas,
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  emotions, feelings, and other mental states may be produced. It may be
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  considered as the mental womb, as the ancients styled it, capable of generating
• 3:29:43
  mental offspring. It reports to the consciousness as a me with latent powers of
• 3:29:48
  creation and generation of mental progeny of all sorts and kinds. Its powers of
• 3:29:56
  creative energy are felt to be enormous, but still seems to be conscious that
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  it must receive some form of energy from either its eye companion, or else
• 3:30:05
  from some other eye ere it is able to bring into being its mental creations.
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  This consciousness brings with it a realization of an enormous capacity for mental work
• 3:30:18
  and creative ability. But the student soon finds that this is not all that
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  he finds within his inner consciousness. He finds that there exists a mental something
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  which is able to will that the me act along creative certain lines, and
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  which is also able to stand aside and witness the mental creation. This part
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  of him he is taught to call his eye. He is able to rest
• 3:30:43
  in its consciousness at will. He finds there not a consciousness of an ability
• 3:30:48
  to generate and actively create in the sense of the gradual processes attendant upon mental
• 3:30:54
  operations, but rather a sense and consciousness of inability to project an energy from
• 3:31:01
  the eye to the me a process of willing that the mental creation begin and
• 3:31:05
  proceed. He also finds that the eye is able to stand aside and witness
• 3:31:11
  the operation of the me's mental creation and generation. There is dual aspect in
• 3:31:18
  the mind of every person. The eye represents the masculine principle of gender.
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  The me represents the feminine principle. The eye represents the aspect of being,
• 3:31:30
  the me the aspect of becoming. You will notice that the principle of correspondence
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  operates on this plane, just as it does the great plane upon which the
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  creation of universes is performed. These two are similar in kind, although vastly
• 3:31:46
  different in degree. As above, so below, as below so above.
• 3:31:52
  These aspects of mind, the masculine and feminine principles, the I and the
• 3:31:58
  me, considered in connection with the well known mental and psychic phenomena, give
• 3:32:03
  the master key to these dimly known regions of mental operation and manifestation. The
• 3:32:09
  principle of mental gender gives the truth underlying the whole field of the phenomena of
• 3:32:15
  mental influence, etc. The tendency of the feminine principle is always in the
• 3:32:20
  direction of receiving impressions, while the tendency of the masculine principle is always in
• 3:32:26
  the direction of giving out or expressing. The feminine principle has a much more
• 3:32:33
  varied field of operation than has the masculine principle. The feminine principle conducts the
• 3:32:37
  work of generating new thoughts, concepts, ideas, including the work of the
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  imagination. The masculine principle contents itself with the work of the will in its
• 3:32:50
  varied phases, and yet without the active aid of the will of the masculine
• 3:32:54
  principle, the feminine principle is apt to rest content which generates mental images which
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  are the result of impressions received from outside, instead of producing original mental creations.
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  Persons who can give continued attention and thought to a subject actively employ both
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  of the mental principles, the feminine in the work of the mental generation and
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  the masculine will in stimulating and energizing the creative portion of the mind. The
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  majority of persons really employ the masculine principle but little, and are content to
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  live according to the thoughts and ideas instilled into the me from the eye of
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  other minds. But it is not our purpose to dwell upon this phase of
• 3:33:37
  the subject, which may be studied from any good text book upon psychology.
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  With the key that we have given you regarding mental gender, the student of
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  psychic phenomena is aware of the wonderful phenomena classified under the head of telepathy,
• 3:33:52
  thought, transference, mental influence, suggestion, hypnotism, et cetera. Many
• 3:34:00
  have sought for an explanation of these varied phases of the phenomena under the theories
• 3:34:05
  of the various dual mind teachers, and in a measure they are right,
• 3:34:09
  for there is clearly a manifestation of two different phases of mental activity. But
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  if such students will consider these dual minds in light of the hermetic teachings regarding
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  vibrations and mental gender, they will see that the long sought key is at
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  hand. In the phenomena of telepathy, it is seen how the vibratory energy
• 3:34:31
  of the masculine principle is projected toward the feminine principle of another person, and
• 3:34:37
  the latter takes the seed thought and allows it to develop into maturity. In
• 3:34:41
  the same way suggestion in hypnotism operates the masculine principle of a person giving the
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  suggestions directs a stream of vibratory energy or will power toward the feminine principle of
• 3:34:54
  the other person, and the latter, accepting it, makes it its own
• 3:34:58
  and acts and thinks accordingly. An idea thus lodged in the mind of another
• 3:35:03
  person grows and develops, and in time is regarded as the rightful mental offspring
• 3:35:09
  of the individual, where it is in reality like the cuckoo egg placed in
• 3:35:13
  the sparrow's nest, where it destroys the rightful offspring and makes itself at home.
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  The normal method is for the masculine and feminine principles in a person's mind
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  to coordinate and act harmoniously in conjunction with each other. But unfortunately, the
• 3:35:31
  masculine principle in the average person is too lazy to act, the display of
• 3:35:35
  will power is too slight, and the consequences that such persons are ruled almost
• 3:35:41
  entirely by the minds and wills of other persons whom they allow to do their
• 3:35:45
  thinking and willing for them. How few original thoughts or actions are performed by
• 3:35:50
  the average person, are not the majority of persons mere shadows and echoes of
• 3:35:56
  others having stronger wills or minds than themselves. The trouble is that the average
• 3:36:01
  person dwells almost altogether in his me consciousness and does not realize that he has
• 3:36:07
  such a thing as an eye. He is polarized in his feminine principle of
• 3:36:11
  mind, and the masculine principle in which is lodged by the will, is
• 3:36:16
  allowed to remain inactive and not employed. The strong men and women of the
• 3:36:22
  world invariably manifests the masculine principle of will, and their strength depends materially upon
• 3:36:28
  this fact. Instead of living upon the impressions made upon their minds by others,
• 3:36:35
  they dominate their own minds by their will, obtaining the kind of mental
• 3:36:39
  images desired, and moreover dominate the minds of others likewise in the same manner.
• 3:36:46
  Look at the strong people how they manage to implant their seed thoughts in
• 3:36:50
  the minds of the masses of the people, thus causing the latter to think
• 3:36:54
  thoughts in accordance with the desires and wills of the strong individuals. This is
• 3:37:00
  why the masses of people are such sheeplike creatures, never originating an idea of
• 3:37:05
  their own, nor using their own powers of mental activity. The manifestation of
• 3:37:11
  mental gender may be noticed all around us in every day life. The magnetic
• 3:37:16
  persons are those who use the masculine principle in the way of impressing their ideas
• 3:37:20
  upon others. The actor who makes people weep or cry as he wills is
• 3:37:26
  employing this principle, and so is the successful orator, statesman, creature,
• 3:37:33
  writer, or other people who are before the public attention. The peculiar influence
• 3:37:37
  exerted by some people over others is due to the manifestation of mental gender along
• 3:37:43
  the vibrational lines above indicated. In this principle lies the secret of personal magnetism,
• 3:37:50
  personal influence, fascination, et cetera, as well as the phenomena gradually
• 3:37:56
  grouped under the name of hypnotism. The student who has familiarized himself with the
• 3:38:01
  phenomena generally spoken of as psychic will have discovered the important part played in the
• 3:38:07
  said phenomena by that force which science has styled suggestion, by which term is
• 3:38:13
  meant the process or method whereby an idea is transferred to or impressed upon the
• 3:38:20
  mind of another, causing the second mind to act in accordance therewith A correct
• 3:38:26
  understanding of suggestion is necessary in order to intelligently comprehend the varied psychical phenomena which
• 3:38:33
  suggestion underlies. But still more is a knowledge of vibration and mental gender necessary
• 3:38:39
  for the student of suggestion, For the whole principle of suggestion depends upon the
• 3:38:45
  principle of mental gender and vibration. It is customary for the writers and teachers
• 3:38:50
  of suggestion to explain that it is the objective or voluntary mind which makes the
• 3:38:56
  mental impression or suggestion upon the subjective or involuntary mind. But they do not
• 3:39:01
  describe the process or give us any analogy in nature, whereby we may more
• 3:39:07
  readily comprehend the idea. But if you will think of the matter in the
• 3:39:11
  light of the Hermetic teachings, you will be able to see that the energizing
• 3:39:16
  of the feminine principle by the vibratory energy of the masculine principle is in accordance
• 3:39:22
  to the universal laws of nature, and that the natural world affords countless analogies
• 3:39:28
  whereby the principle may be understood. In fact, the Hermetic teachings show that
• 3:39:33
  the very creation of the universe follows the same law, and that in all
• 3:39:37
  creative manifestations upon the planes of the spiritual, the mental, and the physical.
• 3:39:43
  There is always an operation this principle of gender, this manifestation of the
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  masculine and the feminine principles, as above, so below, as below,
• 3:39:54
  so above, and more than this. When the principle of mental gene is
• 3:40:00
  once grasped and understood, the varied phenomena of psychology at once becomes capable of
• 3:40:05
  intelligent classification and study. Instead of being very much in the dark, the
• 3:40:11
  principle works out in practice because it is based upon the immutable universal laws of
• 3:40:18
  life. We shall not enter into an extended discussion of or description of the
• 3:40:24
  very phenomena of mental influence or psychic activity. There are many books, many
• 3:40:30
  of them quite good, which have been written and published on this subject of
• 3:40:33
  late years. The main facts stated in these various books are correct, although
• 3:40:39
  the several writers have attempted to explain the phenomena by various pet theories of their
• 3:40:43
  own. The student may acquaint himself with these matters, and by using the
• 3:40:48
  theory of mental gender, he will be able to bring order out of the
• 3:40:52
  chaos of conflicting theory and teachings, and may moreover readily make himself a master
• 3:40:58
  of the subject. If he be so inclined. The purpose of this work
• 3:41:03
  is not to give an extended account of psychic phenomena, but rather to give
• 3:41:07
  the student a master key, whereby he may unlock the many doors leading into
• 3:41:11
  the parts of the Temple of knowledge which he may wish to explore. We
• 3:41:16
  feel that this is in consideration of the teachings of the Kabalian. One may
• 3:41:20
  find an explanation which will serve to clear away many perplexing difficulties, a key
• 3:41:26
  that will unlock many doors. What is the use of going into detail regarding
• 3:41:31
  all of the many features of psychic phenomena and mental science? Provided we place
• 3:41:37
  in the hands of the student the means whereby he may acquaint himself fully regarding
• 3:41:41
  any phase of the subject which may interest him. With the aid of the
• 3:41:46
  Kabalian, one may go through any occult library anew the old light from Egypt,
• 3:41:52
  illuminating many dark pages and obscure subjects. That is the purpose of this
• 3:41:58
  book. We do not come at founding in new philosophy, but rather furnishing
• 3:42:03
  the outlines of a great world old teaching, which will make clear the teachings
• 3:42:07
  of others, which will serve as a great reconciler of differing theories and opposing
• 3:42:13
  doctrines. End of Chapter fourteen, Chapter fifteen Hermetic Axioms. The possession of
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  knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and expression in action, is like the
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  hoarding of a precious metal. A vain and foolish thing is like the hoarding
• 3:42:33
  of precious metals. A vain and foolish thing. Knowledge, like wealth,
• 3:42:39
  is intended for use. The law of use is universal, and he who
• 3:42:43
  violates it suffers by reason of his conflict with natural forces. The Kabalian the
• 3:42:52
  Hermetic teachings, while always having been kept securely locked up in the minds of
• 3:42:56
  the fortunate possessors thereof reasons which we have already stated, were never intended to
• 3:43:03
  be mere restored away and secreted. The law of use is dwelt upon in
• 3:43:07
  the many teachings, as you may see by reference to the above quotation from
• 3:43:13
  the Kabalian, which states it forcibly, knowledge without use and expression is a
• 3:43:18
  vain thing, bringing no good to its possessor or to the race. Beware
• 3:43:24
  of mental miserliness, and express into action that which you have learned. Study
• 3:43:28
  the axioms and aphorisms, but practice them also. We give below some of
• 3:43:35
  the more important hermetic axioms from the Kabalian, with a few comments added to
• 3:43:39
  each. Make these your own, and practice and use them, for they
• 3:43:45
  are not really your own until you have used them to change your mood or
• 3:43:50
  mental state, change your vibration the Kabalian. One may change his mental vibrations
• 3:43:56
  by an effort of will in the direction of deliberately fixing the attention upon a
• 3:44:01
  more desirable state. Will directs the attention, and attention changes the vibration.
• 3:44:07
  Cultivate the art of attention by means of the will, and you will have
• 3:44:13
  solved the secret of the mastery of moods and mental states. To destroy an
• 3:44:18
  undesirable rate of mental vibration, put into operation the principle of polarity, and
• 3:44:24
  concentrate upon the opposite pole to that which you desire to suppress. Kill out
• 3:44:28
  the undesirable by changing its polarity the Kabalian This is one of the most important
• 3:44:35
  of the hermetic formulas. It is based upon true scientific principles. We have
• 3:44:41
  shown you that a mental state and its opposite were merely the two poles of
• 3:44:46
  one thing, and that by mental transmutation, the polarity might be reversed.
• 3:44:50
  This principle is known to modern psychologists, who apply it to the breaking up
• 3:44:56
  of undesirable habits by bidding their students concentrate upon the opposite quality. If you
• 3:45:01
  are possessed of fear, do not waste your time trying to kill out fear,
• 3:45:07
  but instead cultivate the quality of courage, and the fear will disappear.
• 3:45:13
  Some writers have expressed this idea, most forcibly by using the illustration of the
• 3:45:18
  dark room. You do not have to shovel out or sweep out the darkness,
• 3:45:22
  but by merely opening the shutters and letting in the light, the darkness
• 3:45:26
  has disappeared. To kill out a negative quality, concentrate upon the positive pole
• 3:45:33
  of that same quality, and the vibrations will gradually change from negative to positive,
• 3:45:39
  until finally you will become polarized on the positive pole instead of the negative.
• 3:45:45
  The reverse is also true, as many have found out to their sorrow
• 3:45:48
  when they have allowed themselves to vibrate too consistently on the negative pole of things.
• 3:45:54
  By changing your polarity, you may master your moods, change your mental
• 3:45:58
  states, remake your disposition, and build up your character. Much of the
• 3:46:03
  mental mastery of the advanced hermetics is due to this application of polarity, which
• 3:46:09
  is one of the most important aspects of mental transmutation. Remember the hermetic axiom
• 3:46:16
  quoted previously, which says, mind, as well as metals and elements,
• 3:46:22
  may be transmuted from state to state, degree to degree, condition to condition,
• 3:46:28
  pole to pole, vibration to vibration the kabalian. The mastery of polarization
• 3:46:37
  is the mastery of the fundamental principles of mental transmutation or mental alchemy. For
• 3:46:43
  unless one acquires the art of changing his own polarity, he will be unable
• 3:46:46
  to affect his environment. And understanding of this principle will enable one to change
• 3:46:52
  his own polarity as well as that of others, if he will but devote
• 3:46:56
  the time, care, study, and practice necessary to master the art.
• 3:47:01
  The principle is true, but the results obtained depend upon the persistent patience and
• 3:47:07
  practice of the student. Rhythm may be neutralized by an application of the art
• 3:47:13
  of polarization the kabalian. As we have explained in previous chapters, the hermetists
• 3:47:20
  hold that the principle of rhythm manifests on the mental plane as well as on
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  the physical plane, and that the bewildering succession of moods, feelings, emotions,
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  and other mental states are due to the backward and forward swing of the
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  mental pendulum, which carries us from one extreme of feeling to the other.
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  The hermetists also teach that the law of neutralization enables one to a great extent
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  to overcome the operation of rhythm and consciousness. As we have explained, there
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  is a higher plane of consciousness as well as the ordinary lower plane, and
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  the master, by rising mentally to the high plane, causes the swing of
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  the mental pendulum to manifest on the lower plane, and he, dwelling on
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  his higher plane, escapes the consciousness of the swing backward. This is affected
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  by polarizing on the higher self, and thus raising the mental vibrations of the
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  ego above those of the ordinary plane of consciousness. It is akin to rising
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  above a thing and allowing it to pass beneath you. The advanced hermatis polarizes
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  himself at the positive pole of his being, the I Am pole rather than
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  the pole of personality, and by refusing and denying the operation of rhythm,
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  raises himself above its plane of consciousness and standing firmly in his statement of being,
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  he allows the pendulum to swing back on the lower plane without changing his
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  polarity. This is accomplished by all individuals who have attained any degree of self
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  mastery, whether they understand the law or not. Such persons simply refuse to
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  allow themselves to be swung back by the pendulum of mood and emotion, and
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  by steadfastly affirming the superiority, they remain polarized on the positive pole. The
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  master, of course, attains a far greater degree of proficiency because he understands
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  the law which he is overcoming by a higher law, and by the use
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  of his will, he attains a degree of poise and mental steadfastness, almost
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  impossible of belief on the part of those who allow themselves to be swung backward
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  and forward by the mental pendulum of moods and feelings. Remember always, however,
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  that you do not really destroy the principle of rhythm, for that is
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  indestructible. You simply overcome one law by counterbalancing it with another, and thus
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  maintain an equilibrium. The law of balance and counterbalance are in operation on the
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  mental as well as on the physical planes, and an understanding of these laws
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  enables one to seem to overthrow laws, whereas he is merely exerting a counterbalance.
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  Nothing escapes the principle of cause and effect. But there are many planes
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  of causation, and one may use the laws of the higher to overcome the
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  laws of the lower. The Kabalian by an understanding of the practice of polarization,
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  the hermetis rise to a higher plane of causation and thus counterbalance the laws
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  of the lower planes of causation. By rising above the plane of ordinary causes,
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  they become themselves, in a degree causes instead of merely caused. By
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  being able to master their own moods and feelings, and by being able to
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  neutralize rhythm, as we have already explained, they are able to escape a
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  great part of the operations of cause and effect. On the ordinary plane,
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  the masses of people are being carried along obedient to their environment, the wills
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  and desires of others stronger than themselves, the effects of inherited tendencies, the
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  suggestions of those about them, and other outward causes which tend to move them
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  about on the chessboard of life like mere pawns. By rising above these influencing
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  causes, the advanced hermatists seek a higher plane of mental action, and by
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  dominating their moods, emotions, impulses, and feelings, they create for themselves
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  new characters, qualities, and powers by which they overcome their ordinary environment and
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  thus become practically players instead of mere pawns. Such people help to play the
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  game of life understandingly, instead of being moved about this way and that way
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  by stronger influences and powers and wills. They use the principle of cause and
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  effect instead of being used by it. Of course, even the highest are
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  so subject to the principle as it manifests on the higher planes, but on
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  the lower planes of activity, they are masters instead of slaves. As the
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  Kabalian says, the wise ones serve on the higher but rule on the lower.
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  They obey the laws coming from above them, but on their own plane
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  and those below them they rule and give orders, And yet in so doing
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  they form a part of the principle instead of opposing it. The wise man
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  falls in with the law, and by understanding its movements, he operates it
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  instead of being its blind slave, just as does the skilled swimmer turn this
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  way in that way, going and coming as he will, instead of being
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  as the log which is carried here and there so is the wise man as
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  compared to the ordinary man. And yet both swimmer and log, wise and
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  fool are subject to the law. He who understands this is well on the
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  road to mastery the Kabalian. In conclusion, let us again call your attention
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  to the Hermetic axiom. True hermetic transmutation is a mental act the Kabalian.
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  In the above axiom, the Hermetists teach that the great work of influencing one's
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  environment is accomplished by mental power. The universe being wholly mental, it follows
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  that it may be ruled only by mentality. And in this truth is to
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  be found in explanation of all the phenomena and manifestations of the various mental powers
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  which are attracting so much attention and study in these early years of the twentieth
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  century. Back of and under the teachings of the various cults and schools,
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  remains ever constant the principle of mental substance of the universe. If the universe
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  be mental in its substantial nature, then it follows that mental transmutation must change
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  the conditions and phenomena of the universe. If the universe is mental, then
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  mine must be the highest power affecting its phenomena. If this be understood,
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  then all the so called miracles and wonder workings are seen plainly for what they
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  are. The all is mind, The universe is mental. The Kabalian end
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  of Chapter fifteen, recording by Andrea Fiori W W W dot A N D
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  r e A f I O r E dot name end of the Kabalian by
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  the Three Initiates