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