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THE KYBALION: Hidden Law of Attraction Secrets of Hermetic Wisdom - The Three Initiates (1908) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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