TH E
K YBA LI ON
A STU D Y O F
THE H
E RM ET I C
PH I LOSO PH Y O F
ANC I ENT EG Y PT AND
G REE C E
TH R EE I NI TI ATES
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TH E Y OG I PU B LI CATI O N S OCI ETY
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S t a t ion
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H ER M ES TR I S M EG I S TU S
K NOWN B Y TH E ANC l ENT
EG YPTI A S
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TH E G R E AT G REAT
!
AND
MASTE R OF MASTE RS
THI S LI
TTLE VOLUME OF HERMETI C TEAC HINGS
I S REVERENTLY D ED I CATE D
C ON T E N T S
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Pa ar
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Int odution
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ven H ermetic Principles
Mental Tr ansmuta tion
Se
Th e Divin
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VI I
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VI I I
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“ Th
e
P r do
a a
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All
in All
Pl n
a es of
Corr esponden
ce
bration
Polarity
Rhythm
Causa tion
Gend er
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rm et ic Ax ioms
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I NTRODUC TI ON
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We take grea t pleasure in presenting t o
the attentionof students and investigators
o f the Secr et Doctrine s thi s l i ttle work
based u
ponthe world old Her metic Teach
ings There ha s been so li ttle written
upon this subject notwith standing the
countless reference s t o th e Teachings in
th e many wo rks upon occu
lti sm th at the
many ea rnest search ers after th e Arcane
Truth s will doubtless welco me th e appear
ance of the present volume
The pu
rpo se of thi s work i s not the
enunci ation of any special philosophy or
doctrine but rather is to give to the stu
dents a statement of th e Truth th at will
lt
serve to reconcile the many bits of occu
knowledge that they may have acquired
bu
t whi ch are apparently opposed to each
oth er and which often serve t o di scoura ge
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and di sg ust th e beginner in the study
O ur intent is not to erec t a new Temple of
K nowledge but rather to plac e in th e
hands of the student a Master K ey with
which he may open the many inner doors
in the Temple of Mystery th rough th e
m ai n portals h e h as already entered
There i s no por tion of th e occu
lt teach
ings possessed by th e world which have
b een so closely guarded as the fragments
of the He r met ic Teachings wh ich have
come down to us over the tens of centuries
which have elapsed since th e l ifetime of i ts
great fou
nder Her mes Trismegi stus the
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scribe of th e gods
who dwelt in old
Egypt in th e days wh en the present race
o f men was in i ts in
fancy Contemporary
with Abrah am and i f th e legends be true
an instructor of that venerable sage
Hermes was and is th e Great Central Sun
o f O cculti sm wh ose rays have se r v ed t o
illumine the countless teach ings which
have been promulgated s ince hi s time All
the fundamental and basic teachings em
bedded in the esoteric teachings of eve r y
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race may b e traced bac k to Hermes Even
the most ancient teachings of India un
doubtedly have their roots in the original
Hermetic Teachings
F r om the land of the Ganges many ad
lti sts wandered to the land of
ve nced oc cu
E gyp t and sat at the feet of the Master
From him they obtained the Master K ey
which explained and reconciled their diver
ge nt views and thu
s the Sec ret Doctrine
wa s firmly established From other lands
also came the lea rned ones all of whom
regarded Hermes a s the Master of Ma s
ters and his influence w as so great that in
sp i te of the m any wanderings from the
pa th onthe pa rt of the centuries of teach
e r s in th ese difi er en
t lands there m ay still
be found a certa in bas ic resemblance and
correspondence which underlies the many
and often qu
ite divergent theories enter
t a in
ght by t he o ccu
ltists of these
e d and ta u
t lands today
The stu
dent of
difi e r en
Comparative Religions will be able to p er
ceiv e th e i nfluence of the Hermetic Teach
ings in ever y religion wo rthy of the name
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now know n to m an whethe r it be a dea d
religion or one in full vigo r in ou r own
times There i s always a ce rtain corre
sp on
den
c e in s pite of the contradictory
features , and the He rmetic Teachings act
as the Great Reconcile r
The l i fework of He rmes seems to have
been inthe direction of planting the great
Seed Truth which has gr own and blos
som ed in so many strange fo r ms r ather
than t o establish a school of philo s
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op hy which would domina te the worl d s
Bu
thou
ght
t
never theless, the or igi
nal tru
ths tau
gh t by him have be en
kept intact in thei r o riginal purity by
a few men in each age w ho r e
fusing great numbers of half developed
dents and followers , followed the Her
stu
metic custo m and reserved their truth for
the few w ho were ready to comprehend
d ma ster it From lip to ear the truth
an
ha s been handed down among the few
There h ave always beena few Initiates in
each generation in the various lands of
the earth w ho kept alive the sacre d flame
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the He r metic Teachings and such have
always been willing to use the i r lamp s t o
r e light the lesser lamps of th e out side
world when the li ght of truth grew dim
and clouded by reasonof neglect and when
the wicks became clogged with foreign
matter There were always a few t o tend
faithfully the altar of the Truth upon
which was kept alight the Perp etual Lamp
of Wisdom
These men devoted their
lives t o the labor of l ove wh ich the poet
has so well stated in his lines
t ! Cherished
0 let not the flame die ou
—
age afte r age in its dark cavern in its
holy temples cherish ed F ed by pure min
”
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ist er s of love let not the flame di e ou
t1
These men have never sought popula r
approval nor numbers of followers They
are indi ff erent t o th ese things for th ey
know how few there are in each generat ion
who are ready for the truth or w ho would
reco gnize it if it were presented t o them
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Th ey reserve the strong meat fo r men
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while others furnish the milk for babes
Th ey reserv e their pearls of wisdom for
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the few elect w ho reco gnize their valu
e
and w ho wear them in their crow ns in
stea d of casting them before the mat e rial
ist ic vulgar swine w ho would trample th em
st
inthe mud a n
d mi x them with thei r dis gu
in
mental
food
But
still
these
m
n
ha
v
e
e
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never forgottenor overlooked the original
teachings of Her mes regarding the pass
ing onof the words of truth to those ready
to receive it which teaching i s stated in
Where fall
The K yb alion a s follows
the footsteps of the Master the ears of
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those ready fo r his Teaching openwide
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When the ears of the stu
An
d again:
dent are ready t o hear then cometh the
lip s t o fill them with wi sdom
But thei r
customa ry attitude has always beenstrictly
in a ccord ance with the othe r Hermetic
Th e
aphorism also in The K yb alion:
l ip s of Wisdom are closed except t o the
ea rs of Understanding
There are those who have c riticised thi s
attitude of the Hermetists and w ho have
claimed that they did not manifest the
proper sp irit in thei r policy of seclus ion
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and re ticenc e But a moment s glance
back ove r the pages of histo r y will sho w
th e wisdom of the Masters who knew the
folly of attempting to teach to the world
that which it w as neither ready or wil ling
t o r eceive
The Her metists have never
sou
ght to be martyrs and have instead
sat silently aside with a pi tying smile on
thei r clo sed lips while the heathen raged
no isily abou
t them in their customary
amusement of putting to death and torture
the honest but misgu
ided enthus ia sts w ho
imagined that they c ould force upona race
of barba rians the truth capable of being
understood only by the elect w ho had a d
v an
ced along The P ath
An
d the spirit of persecution h a s not as
yet di ed out inthe land There are cer
tain Her metic Teach ings which , if pub
lic ly promul gated would b ring down upon
the teachers a great cry of scorn and
revilement from the multitu
d e w ho would
again ra ise the cry of Crucify l Crucify
In thi s l ittle work we have endeavored
to give you an idea of the fu
ndamental
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Kyb alion
t eachings of The K yb alion striving t o
give you the working Principles leaving
you t o apply them yourselves rather than
attempting t o wo rk out the teaching in de
tail I f you are a true student youwill
be able t o work ou
t and apply these Prin
—
c ip les
if not th enyou must develop your
self into one fo r otherw ise the Hermetic
“
Teachings will be as
words words
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wo rds t o you
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TH E TH REE I nm r n
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C HAPT E R I
TH E H n
nunr l c
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PH ILOSOPH Y
l ps of wisdo m are clo se d
U nderst a nding —The K yb alion
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of
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From old Egypt have come the funda
mental esoteri c and occult teach ings which
have so strongly influenced the philosophies
of all races nati ons and peoples for sev
eral thousand years Egypt the home of
the Pyramids and the Sphinx was the
bi rthplace of the Hidden Wisdom and
Mystic Teach ings From her Secret Doc
t rine all nations have bo rrowed India
Pers ia Chaldea Medea China J apan
Assyria anci ent Gree ce and Rome and
other anci ent countries pa rtook l iberally a t
the feast of knowledge which the Hiero
h
a
n
and
Masters
of
the
Land
of
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pared to partake of the great store of
Myst ic and O ccult Lore which th e master
minds of that ancient land had gathered
together
In ancient Egypt dwelt the great Adepts
and Masters who have never been sur
passed and who seldom have been equaled
during the centuries that have taken their
process ional flight s ince the days of the
In E gyp t wa s lo cated th e
Great Hermes
At
Great Lodge of Lodges of th e Mystics
the doors of her Temples entered the Neo
s
h
e
who
afterw
a
rd
as
H
i
erop
h
ant
t
s
p y
Adepts and Masters traveled to the four
corners of the ea rth carrying with them
the preciou
s knowledge which they we r e
ready anxious and willing to p as s onto
those who were ready t o receive the same
All students of the O ccult recognize the
debt that they owe t o these venerable Mas
ters of that ancient land
But among these great Masters of An
cient Egypt there once dwelt one of whom
“
Masters hailed a s Th e Maste r of Mas
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This man if man indeed he w a s
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name of Thoth Years after the people of
Ancient Greece also made h im one of their
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many gods calling him He rmes the god
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o f Wisdom
The Egyptians revered his
—
memory for many cent uries yes tens of
—
centu
ries calling him the Scribe of the
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and bestowing upon him dis
Go d s
t in
cient title
ct ively his an
Tr ismegis
tu
s
which means the thrice great
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the great great
the greatest grea t
et c
t lands the name of
I nall the anc ien
Hermes T rismegistu s was revered the
name being synonymou
F ount
s with t he
of Wisdom
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Evento thi s day we u
her
se the te r m
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metic inthe sense of secret
sealed
othing c anesc ape
etc and thi s
so th a t n
by rea sonof the fact that the followers of
Hermes always observed the pr inciple of
They did not
sec recy inthei r tea chings
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believe in casting p earls before swine
bu
t ra ther held t o the teaching milk for
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babes ; meat for strong men
both of
which maxims are familiar t o readers of
the Ch ristian script ures but both of which
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h ad been used by the Egyptians for c e n
tu
r ie s before the Christ ian era
And th i s policy of careful d i sseminat ion
of the t r u
th has always character ized the
Her metics even unto the p resent day The
Her metic Teachings are t o be found inall
lands among all religions but never iden
t ified with any particular country nor with
any p articular religious sect
This b e
c ause o f the warning of the ancient teach
ers against allowing the Secret Doctrine to
become crystallized into a creed The wi s
dom of thi s cauti onis apparent t o all stu
dents of hi story The ancient occultism of
Indi a and Persia degenerated and was
largely lo st owing to the fact that th e
teachers became pr iests and so mixed
theo l ogy with the philosophy the result
being that the occulti sm of India and Per
sia ha s bee ngradually lost amidst th e mass
o f reli gious superstition cults creeds and
gods
So it was with Ancient G reece
and Rome So it was with the Hermetic
Teach ings of th e Gnostics and Early Chri s
tians which were lost at the time of Con
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nt ine wh ose i ron hand smothered phi
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losophy with
the blanket of theology losing
t o the Chri st i an Church that which was its
very essence and sp irit and causing it t o
grope th roughout several centuries before
it found the way back t o its ancient faith
th e indications apparent t o all careful oh
servers in thi s Twentieth Century being
that th e Church is now struggl ing to get
back t o its a cient mystic teachings
But there were always a few faithful
souls w h o kept al ive th e Flame tending it
carefully and not allowing its l igh t to b e
come extinguished And thanks to these
staunch hearts and fearless mind s we
h ave the truth still with us But it is not
fou
nd in books t o any great extent It has
been passed along from Master to Student ;
from Init iate t o Hi erophant ; from lip t o
ear When it w a s wr itten do w n at all its
meaning was veiled in terms of alchemy
and astrology so that only those possess
ing the key could read it aright This was
made necessary inorder to avo id the perse
cu
t ion
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The H e r m e t ic Philosop hy
Ages ,
who fought th e Secret Doctrine with
fi re and sword ; stake gibbet and cros s
Even to this day there will be found but
few r eliable books on the Hermetic
Philosophy although there are countless
references to it in many books written on
various phases of O ccult i sm And yet the
Hermetic Philosophy is the only Master
K ey which will open all the doors of th e
O ccult Teachings !
In the early days there was a comp ila
tio nof certainBas i c Her metic Doctr ine s
passed on from teacher to student which
“
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was known as T HE K YB ALI ON the
exact significance and meaning of th e term
having been lost for several centuries Thi s
teaching however i s known t o many t o
whom it ha s descended from mouth to ear
on and on throughout th e centuries
I ts
precepts have never been wr itten down or
p rinted so far as we know It was merely
a collect ion of maxims axioms and pre
which were nonunders tandable t o
c ept s
outs iders but which were re a d ily unde r
stood by students afte r t he ax io m s
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maxims and precep ts ha d been explained
itiates
and exemplifi ed by the Hermetic I n
to th ei r NeOphyt e s These tea chings really
constituted the basic p rincipl es of Th e
which con
Art of Hermetic Alchemy
t r ary t o the general be lief dealt in the
mastery of Mental F orces rather thanMa
—
t e r is l Elements the Transmuta tion of on
e
kind of Mental Vibrations into others in
stead of the changing of one kind of metal
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into another Th e legends of the Philoso
h
er
Stone
w
hi
c
h
would
turn
base
metal
s
p
int o Gold was an allegory relating to Her
metic Philosophy readily understood by
all students of true Her metici sm
I n thi s l ittle book of whi ch thi s is th e
F i rst Lesson we invite our students t o ex
amine into the Hermetic Teachings as set
forth i n TH E K YB ALI ON and as ex
lained
by
ourselves
humble
students
of
p
the Teachings who while bearing the title
of Initiates are still student s at the feet
of HE R ME S the Master
We herein give
o
u
a
m
ny
of
t
he
max
i
ms
axioms
and
pre
y
c e p t s o f TH E K Y B AL I ON a c c o m p ani ed
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by exp lanations and illustrations whi ch we
d eem likely to render th e teachings more
easily comprehended by the modern stu
dent p articularly as the or iginal text is
purposely vei led inobscure ter ms
The original maxim s axioms and pre
“
T HE K YB ALI ON are printed
cep t s of
herein in quotation marks the proper
credit being given O ur own work is
printed inthe regu
lar way in the body of
We trust that the many stu
the w ork
dents to whom we now o ff er thi s li ttle work
will derive as much benefit from the study
of its pages as have th e many who have
gone onbefore treading the same Path to
Mastery th roughout the centuries that have
passed s ince the times of HE R ME S TRI S
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MEGI S TUS the Master of Masters the
Great Great In the words of TH E K Y
BALI O N
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Wher e fall
t hose ready
t he f oot st e
f or
his
K yb a lio n
of
ng
c achi
r the ears o f
open wide —The
t he Mas t e
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When
co
m
e
th
of
tud t
t m
r e ad t o
t he s
en a re
t he ears
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Wi t h
he
i s t o itll
t he
g oa lion
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lp
he a
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isdom
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that according t o the Teachings the
pa ssage of this book to those ready for
th e instruction will attract the attenti on of
such as are prepared to receive th e Teach
ing And likewise when the pupil is ready
t o rece ive th e truth then will this l ittle
book come t o him or her Such is The
Law The Hermeti c P rinciple of Cause
an
d E ffect in i ts aspect of The Law of At
tract ion will bring lips and ear together
pup il and book in company So mote it be !
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VI
Kyb a lion
PRIN CIPLE O F C AUS E
AND E F F E C T
TH E PRIN CIPLE O F GE N DE R
TH E
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Th ese
Seven Principles w ill be discussed
and explained as we proceed with these les
sons A short explanati on of each how
eve r may as well be given at this point
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“T
HE
PRIN C IPLE
LIS M
OF M EN TA
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I
ALL is M ND ; The Un
iv erse is Ment al
The K yb a lion
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This
Principle embodies the truth tha t
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It expla ins that TH E
All is M ind
ALL ( which is th e Subs tant i al Re a l ity
underlying all the outward manifes tations
and appearances which we know under th e
terms of The Ma terial Univer se
th e
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Phenomena of Life ; Matter ; Eu
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s
and
in
short
all
t
ha
t
apparent
e rgy
;
t o our material senses ) is SPIRIT which
in it self i s UN K N OWABLE and UNDE
FINABLE but which may be considered
an
d th ough t of as AN U NIVERS AL I N
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FINIT E , LIVING MIND It also explains
tha t all the phenomenal wo rld o r universe
is simply a Mental Creationof TH E AL L
su
bjec t t o the L aws of Created Things and
n
iverse a s a whol e a nd in it s
that the u
nits has its existence inthe Mind
pa rts or u
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of TH E ALL in which M ind we live and
move and have our be ing
This P rinci
ple by establishing the Mental Nature of
the Universe easily explains all of the v a
r ied m ental and p sychi c phenomena tha t
occupy such a large p o rtionof the pu
bli c
attention and which withou
t such explana
tion a re non understandable and defy
scientific treatment Anunderstanding of
thi s great Hermetic Principle of Mental
ism enables the indivi du
al to rea dily grasp
iverse and t o
the laws of the Mental Un
a p ply the same t o hi s well being and a d
vancement The Hermetic Student is e n
a bl ed t o apply intell igently the great Men
tal Laws instead of us ing them in a hap
hazard manner With th e Master K ey in
his possession th e s tudent may unlock th e
many doors of the mental and psychic tem
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ple o f knowledge and enter the same freely
and intelli gently Th i s Principle explains
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the t rue nature of Energy
Power
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and Matt er and why and how a ll these
are subord inate t o the Master y of Mind
O ne of the old Hermet ic Masters wr ote
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long ages ago : He w ho grasp s the truth
o f th e Men t al N a ture of the Un
iverse is
well advanced on The Pa th t o Master y
And these words are as true to d ay as at
the time they were first written Without
this Master K ey Mast er y is impossible
and the s tudent knocks in vainat the many
doors of The Temple
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TH E
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bv
PRIN CIPLE OF
a o e,
K yb a lio n
so
below ;
as
E
E
C ORR S POND NC
below
,
so
a
E
.
bove —The
.
.
This Principle embo dies the truth that
there is always a Correspondence between
the laws and phenomena of the various
planes of Being and Life The old Her
metic axiom ran in these words
As
above so below ; as bel ow so above And
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cip les
S eu
en H e r m e tic P r in
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th e g ra sp ing of this Principle gives one
the means of solving many a dark p aradox
and hidden secret of N ature T here are
planes beyond ou
r knowing b u
t when we
apply the Principle of Corresp ondence t o
them we are able t o understand much that
ld othe rw i se be u
wou
nknowable to us This
niversal application and
Principl e is of u
manifestation onthe various planes of the
ma te ri al mental and spiritu
al u
niverse
it is an Un
iversal Law Th e ancient Her
metiste considered thi s Principle as one of
the mo st im p o rtant mental instruments by
which manw as able to p ry aside the obsta
cles which hid from view the Unknown
I ts u
se even tore aside the Ve il of Isis to
the exte nt tha t a glimpse of the fa ce of the
goddes s might be caught J ust a s a knowl
ed ge of the Principles of Geomet ry enables
man t o measure distant suns and thei r
movements while seated in hi s observa
tor y so a knowledge of the Principle of
Correspondence enables Man to reason in
t elligen
t ly from the K n
own to the Un
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Th e K y b a lio n
kno w n
S tudying the monad h e under
stands th e arch angel
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TH E
br t
o”
N thing
a es.
PRINC IPLE
OF
VIB RATIO N
.
rests ; everything move s ; everything
—The
K yb a lion
vi
.
This
Princ iple embod ies the t ruth th a t
”
“
everything i s in mo tion ; everyt hing
”
“
”
vibrates ; no thing i s a t res t ; facts
which Modern Sci ence endorses and which
each new sci ent ific di scovery t ends t o ver
ify An
d ye t this Herme tic Principle w a s
enunciated thousands of years ago by the
Ma ste rs o f Anci ent Egyp t Thi s P r inci
ple e xplains that the difl e r enc e s be tween
di ff erent manifes tations of Ma tter Eu
e r gy Mind and even Spirit resul t largely
from varying rates of Vibration From
TH E ALL which is Pure Sp i rit down t o
the grossest form of Matter all is in vibra
—
ti on the higher the vibrati on the high er
the position in the scale The vibrati on o f
Spiri t i s at such an infinite rate of int en
c it y and rapid ity th at i t is pra c ti c a lly at
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S ev en H e r m e t ic P r inc ip le s
—
rest jus t
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a rapidly moving whee l seems
t o be mo tion
less And at the oth er end of
the scale there are gross forms of matt er
whose vibra ti ons are so low as t o seem a t
res t Between these poles there are mil
li ons upon m illions of varying degrees of
vibrati on From corpuscle and electron
atom and molecule t o worlds and u
ni
verses everyt hing i s invibrat ory motion
Thi s i s also true on the planes of energy
and force ( which are b u
t varying degrees
of vibrati on ) ; and also on the men t al
planes ( whose states depend u
pon vibra
tions ) and even onto the spiritual planes
An u
nderstanding of this Principle with
the appropriate formulas enables Her
metic s tudents t o control th eir own mental
vibrations as well as those of others The
Mas ters also apply this Principle t o t he
conquering of N atural phenomena in vari
ou
s ways
He w ho u
nderstands the Prin
c ip le of Vibra ti on ha s graspe d the s ceptr e
”
of power says one of the old writers
as
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The K yb a lion
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Iv
TH E
.
PRINC IPLE
or P OL ARI I Y
' ‘
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verything is Dual ; everything has poles ; every
thing h as it s pair of opposites ; like and unlike are t he
sa m e ; oppo sit es ar e ide nt ica l in n
t in
atur e but difl eren
degree ; ex tremes meet ; all truths ar e but half truths ; all
—
ara
x
p do es may be reconciled
The K yb alion
E
,
-
.
.
Principle embodies th e truth that
”
“
everyt hing i s dual ; everyt hing has
“
”
tw o po les ;
everyt hing has i ts pa i r of
opposites all of which were old Hermetic
axi oms I t explains the old paradoxes
th at have perplexed so ma ny which have
b een sta t ed as follows
Thes i s and ant i
thesis a re identi cal in nature b u
t diff erent
”
“
i n degree ; op posites are the same dif
“
”
f
onl
y
in
degree
the
p
a
i
rs
fe r in
o
o
;
g
p
i
s
e
may
be
re
c
onc
i
le
d
extremes
t
s
o
p
”
“
meet ; everything is and isn t at th e
same time
all truths are b ut h alf
”
“
truths ;
every tr u
th is half false
“there a re tw o sides t o eve ryt hing ” etc
e tc
etc It expla ins tha t in everything
th ere are tw o poles or oppos ite aspec ts
”
and that opposites are really only the
tw o ext remes of the same thing with many
This
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”
“
Hard and Soft ! Between Black and
”
“
”
White ! Between Sharp and D u
ll !
”
“
Bet ween Noise and ! uiet ! Between
“
”
High and Low ! Between Pos itive
and Nega tive
The P rinciple of Pol a r
ity explains these paradoxes and no oth er
Principle can supersede it The same Prin
c ip le operates on the Ment al Plane
Le t
us take a radical and ext reme example
“
”
that of Love and Ha t e
t w o ment al
s ta tes apparent ly totally di ff er en t
And
yet there are degrees of Hate and degrees
of Love and a middle point in whi ch we use
“
”
the terms Like or Dislike which sh ade
int o each o ther so gradu
ally tha t some
times we are at a loss to know whether we
“
“
”
“
”
”
l ike or di slike or neither
An
d
all are simply degrees of the same thing as
o
u
will
see
if
o
u
will
but
think
a
moment
y
y
An
d more than thi s ( and cons idered of
more impo rtance by the Hermeti sts ) it i s
possible to change the vibrations of Ha te
t o the vibrations of Love in one s ow n
mind and in the minds of others Many
of you w ho read these lines h ave had per
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35
onal experiences of th e involuntary rap id
tr ansition from Love t o Hate and the re
verse in your ow ncase and tha t of others
An
d you will th erefore realize the poss i
b ility of th is be ing accompl i sh ed by the
use of the Will by means of the Herme tic
”
formulas
Good and Evil are but th e
poles of the same thing and the Hermeti st
unders tands the art of t ransmuting Evil
int o Good by means of an applica tion of
th e Principle of Polarity In sh ort th e
”
Ar t of Polari za ti on bec omes a ph ase of
Mental Alch emy known and practiced
by th e ancient and modern Hermetic Mas
ters An unders tand ing of the Principle
will enable one t o change his own Polari ty
as well as th at of others if he will devote
th e time and study necessa r y t o master
th e art
s
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TH E
V
.
PRIN C IPLE
OF RH Y TH M .
v e rything fl o w s o ut and in; eve ryt hing h as it s
tides ; all things rise and fall ; t he pendulum swing
ma nifest s ineverything ; t he me asure o f t he swing t o t he
right is t he ”mea sure of t he swing t o t he left ; rhythm
o mpensa t es —The K yb alio n
E
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.
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The K yb alion
36
Principle embodies the tru
th that
ifested a mea s
in ever ything there is man
ure d motion t o and fro ; a flow and in
flow ; a swing backwa rd and forward ; a
pendulu
m e movement ; a tide like ebb
and flow ; a high tide and low tid e ; b e
tween th e tw o poles which exist in accord
ance with the Principle of Polarity de
scribed a moment ago There is always
an action and a reaction ; an advance and
a retreat ; a ri s ing and a sinking This is
in the aff ai rs of th e Un
iverse su
ns worlds
men a nimals m ind energy and m atter
This l a w is mani fest in the creation and
destruction of worlds ; in th e rise and fa ll
of na ti ons ; in the life of all things ; and
finally in the mental states of Man ( and it
i s w ith this latt er th at the Herm eti sts find
th e u
nderstanding o f the Principle most
impo rtant ) The Hermetis t s have grasped
thi s Principle finding its unive rsal applica
tion and have also discovered certa in
means to overcome i ts e ff ects in themselves
by the use of the appro priate formulas and
methods They apply the Mental L aw of
Thi s
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S even H er m e tic P r inc ip les
37
Neu
t ralization They cannot annul the
Principle or cause it to cease i ts operation
but they have learned how t o escape it s
e fi ec t s upon themselve s t o a certa i n degree
depe nding upon the Mas tery of th e Prin
They have learned how to USE i t
c ip le
instea d of being USED BY i t In this and
sim ilar methods cons ist the Ar t of th e
Her metists The Master of Hermetics p o
la r ize s himself at th e po in t a t which he
des i re s to rest and then neutralizes the
Rhyt hmic swing of the pendulu
m which
wou
ld tend t o ca r ry him to the o ther pole
als w ho have a ttained any de
All individu
f
t
re
Self
M
a
stery
do
this
a
certa
i
n
o
e
o
g
degree more or less unconsciously but the
Ma ste r does this consciously and by th e
use of his Will and atta ins a degree o f
Poise and Mental Fi r mness almost im p os
sible of belief on the part of the masses
w ho a re swu
ng backward and forward l ike
dulu
m This Principle and th at of
a p en
Polarity have been closely s tudi ed by th e
He rmetists ; and the meth ods o f co u
nter
g neu
t ralizin
g and USIN G them form
a ct in
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an important part
Alch emy
of
the
Hermetic Mental
.
TH E
PRIN C IPLE
OF
CAU S E
AND EF F EC T
.
very Cause h as it s B fl ect ; every Efl ec t has it s
Cau se ; ev eryt hing h a ppens accordin
g to Law Chance is
but a nam e for Law n ot reco gnized ther e are m”a ny
pla ne s of causa tion but no thing esca pes the Law
E
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The K yb alio n
.
Principle embo dies t he fact that
there i s a Cause for ever y Efi ect ; an
Efi ec t from every Cause It explains that
”
Eve rything Happens acc ording to Law ;
“
”
that nothing ever merely happens ; that
th ere i s no such thing a s Chance ; that
while th ere are various planes of Cause
and E ff ect the highe r dominating th e
lower planes still nothing ever enti rely
escapes the Law The Hermeti sts under
s tand the a rt and method s of rising above
the ordinary plane of Cause and E ff ect
t o a certain degree and by mentally ri sing
t o a highe r p lane they become Causers m
stead of E ff ect s The ma sses of people
a re ca rried along obedient to envi ron
This
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ment ; the wills and desires of others
di
stron
r
th
a
n
th
e
m
s
el
v
e
s
here
t
sug
e
;
;
y
g
gest ion ; and other outward ca uses moving
them about like p awns onthe Chessboard
of Life
t the Masters rising t o the
Bu
plane above d ominate thei r moods char
act e rs qu
alities and powers as well as the
environment surrou
nding them and b e
They help
com e Movers in
ste a d of p awns
t o PLAY TH E GAME O F LI F E instead
of be ing p l ayed and mo ved abo u
t by oth er
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Principle inste ad of being its tools The
M asters obe y the Causation of the highe r
planes b u
t they help t o RUL E on their
e I nthis statement there is con
ow np lan
dense d a wealth of He rmetic knowledge
let him read who can
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n
v
ne
p la n
rHE
PRIN CIPLE or G ENDER
is in everyt
r i ci
an
d F emi i e
Thc K yb a lio n
es
Ge
li
nd er
.
n n P n p es ;
.
v
ything
e er
Ge
.
has it s Masen
a ll
a i es s
nder m n f t on
.
PRIN CIPLE O F GE ND E R
ciple embodi es the t ruth tha t
This Prin
VI I
.
TH E
.
Kyb alion
The
40
there is GE NDE R manifested in every
—
line and Feminine Prin
thing the Mascu
Thi s is tru
e not only
c ip le s ever at work
of the Phys ical Plane but of the Mental
and even the Sp i ri tual Planes O n th e
Phys ical Plane the Principle mani fests as
S EX on the higher planes it takes hi ghe r
forms but th e Principle is ever th e same
No creati on phys ical mental o r spiritual
is possible wi thout this P rinciple Annu
de r st an
din
of
its
laws
wi
l
l
th
r
ow
light
g
on many a subjec t that has per plexed th e
The Principle of Gender
minds of men
works ever inthe di rection of generation
regeneration and creation E verything
and every p erson contains the two E le
ments or Principles o r this great Prin
Eve ry Male
c ip le withi n it hi m o r he r
thing has the Female Element also ; every
Female contains also the M ale Principle
If you would understand the philosophy of
Mental and Spiritual Creation Generation
and Re generation you mu st u
nder stan d
and study this Hermetic Principl e It c on
tains the solution of many myste ries of
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C HAPT E R III
M ENTAL
Min
d ( as
w ll
A
.
A ON
TR NS M U T TI
.
metals and elements) may b e
mu
to degree ; con
t ed from sta te to st at e ; do
t un
dition t o condition ; pole t o pole ; vi ration to vibration
—
i
T
ra
s
a
i
9
M
a
r
m
n
mut
t
o
n
nt
l
A
rt
Tr u
c
s
H
e
e
t
e
Thc
e
i
e
as
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K yb alion
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As we have stated , the He rm etist s were
t he
riginal alchemists a strologe rs and
p sychologists Hermes having been the
founde r of these schools of thought F rom
as trology has grown modern astronomy ;
from alchemy h a s grown mod ern chem
ist r y ; from the mystic p sychology has
grown the modern p sycholo gy of the
sc hool s But i t mu
s t not be supp o se d t hat
the ancients were ignorant of that which
the mo dern schools suppose to b e thei r
exclusive and sp ecial p rop ert y The rec
o rds engraved on the stones of Ancient
Egypt show conclusively that the ancients
o
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44
The
Kyb alion
a fu
ll comprehens ive knowledge o f
astronomy the very building of the Pyra
mids s howing th e connec tion between their
des ign and the study of astronomical
science No r were they ignorant of Chem
ist r y for th e fragment s of the ancient
writings s how that they were acquainted
with the chemical properties of things ; in
fact the ancient theories regarding phys
ics are being slowly verified by the latest
discoveries of modernscience not ably
those relating to the constituti on of matter
No r mus t it be supposed th at they were
ignorant of the so called modern discov
—
eries in p sycholo gy on the contrary the
Egyptians were e specially skilled in the
science of Psychology particu
larly in the
branche s that th e mode rn schools i gnore
but which nevertheless are be ing unc ov
ered u
nder the name of psychic s cience
which is p erplexing the p sychologists of
to day and making them reluctantly admit
“
that there may be something in it after
all
The t r uth is that beneath the mate rial
had
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45
chemistry astronomy and psychology ( that
“
is the psychology in its phase of brain
the ancients p os sessed a knowl
edge of tran
s cendental a stronomy called
astrology ; of transcendental chemi stry
called alchemy ; of transcendent al p sychol
They pos
ogy called mystic p sychol o gy
sessed the Inner K nowledge as well as the
O uter K nowledge the latter alone being
possessed by modern scientists Among
the many secret branches of knowledge
po ssessed by the Hermetists was that
known as Mental Transmutation which
fo r m s the subject matte r of this lesson
T ransmut ation is a term usu
ally em
ployed to designate the ancient art of the
—
tr ansmutation of metals part icu
larly of
the ba se metal s into gol d The word
’
Transmute means to change from one
nat u
re form or sub stance into another ;
”
t o tr ans fo rm
Web
ter
a
c
c
ord
n
s
A
d
(
)
in
l
Mental Transmutation means the
gy
art of changing and transforming mental
state s forms and conditions into others
So you may see that Mental Transmuta
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The
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Kg ha lian
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the Ar t of Mental Chemi stry if
—
o
u
l
i
ke
the
term
fo
rm
f
p
ra
c
tical
a
o
y
Mystic Psychology
But thi s means far more than app ears
on the surface Transmutation Alchemy
or Chemistry on the Mental Plane is im
portant enough in its e ff ects to be sure
ld sti ll
and if the art stopped there it wou
be one of the most imp ortant branches o f
study known to man
But thi s is only the
beginning Let u
s see why !
The first of the Seven Hermetic Prin
c iple s is the Principle of Mentalism t h e
“
a xiom of which is
T HE ALL is M ind ;
th e Universe is Mental which means tha t
the Underlying Reality of the Universe is
Mind ; and the Universe itself is Ment al
“
that is
existing in the M ind of TH E
ALL
We shall consider thi s Pr inciple
in succeeding les sons but let us see the
e ff ect of the principle if it be a s sumed to
be true
If the Universal i s Mental ini ts nature
then Mental Transmutati on mus t be th e art
of CHAN GIN G THE C O ND ITIO NS O F
tion
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TH E
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UNIVERSE along the lines of Ma t
ter Force and Mind So you see there
for e that Mental Transmuta tion is really
the Magic of which the ancient writers
ha d so much to say in their mystical works
and about which they gave so few p ractical
inst ructions If All be Mental then the
art which enables one to transm ute mental
conditions must render the M a ste r the
controller of material conditions a s well a s
’
those ordinar ily called mental
As a ma tter of fact none but advanced
M ental Al ch emists have been able t o a t
tain the degree of p ower necessar y to con
tr ol the gro sser phys ica l conditions such
as the control of the elem ents of Nat u
re ;
the production or cessation of tempests ;
the p roduction and cessation of earth
qu
akes and other great physical phenom
ena B ut that such m enhave existed and
do exist to day is a ma tter of earnest b e
lief to all advanced o ccu
lti sts of all
schools That the Masters exist and have
these powers the best teacher s a ssure their
s tu
dent s h aving had exp er iences which
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48
justify them insuch beli ef and statements
The se M a ster s do not make publ ic ex hib i
tions of thei r powers but seek sec lusion
from the crowds of men inorder to better
work their way along the Path of Attain
ment We mention their exi stence at this
p oint merely to call you r attention t o the
fact that their p ower is entirely Mental
and operates along the lines of the higher
Mental Transmutation u
nder the Her
metic Princip le of Mentalism
The Uni
—
verse is Mental
The K yb alion
Bu
dents and Her metists of lesser
t stu
—
d
degree than M a sters the Initiates a n
—
Teachers are able to freely work along
the Mental Plane, in Mental Transmuta
tion In fact all that we call p sychic
phenomena
mental influence
men
’
tal science
new thought phenom ena
etc , op erates along the same general lines
fo r there is but one principle involved no
matter by wh at name the phenomena b e
called
The student and p ractitioner of Mental
Transmutation works among the Mental
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may be changed o r transmuted in acco rd
ance with the ea rnest desire will and
”
treatments of person des i ring changed
conditions of life The publ ic are so gen
e r a lly info r med regarding these things at
present that we do not deem it necessary
to mention the s ame at leng th our purpose
at this p oint being m erely to sh ow the
Hermetic Principle and Art underlying all
of these va rious forms of practice good
and evil for the force can be used in oppo
site directions accord ing to th e Hermet ic
Principles of Polari ty
I n this l i ttle book we s hall state th e
b a sic p rinciples of M ental Transmutat ion
that all who read may grasp the Unde r
lying Principles and thus po ssess the
Master K ey that will u
nl ock the many
doo rs of the Principle of Polarity
We shall now p roceed to a consideration
of the first of the Hermetic Seven P r in
—
i
c ple s
the Prin
ciple of Mental i sm in
which is explained the truth that TH E
ALL is Mind ; the Universe i s Mental
in the words of The K yb alion We ask the
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clo se attention, and carefu
l study of this
great Principle on the part of our stu
dents for it is really the B asic Pr inciple
of the whole He rmetic Philosophy and of
th e Her metic Ar t of Mental T ransmu
ta
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CHAP TER I V
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TH E ALL
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nder and back of th e Univer se of Time Sp ace
an
d Cha nge is ev er to b e fo und The S u bstantial Reality
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The K yb a lion
ndamental Trut
t he F u
Substance means : that which u
nder
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lies all outward manife stations ; the os
sence ; the essential real i ty ; th e thing in
itself etc
Substantial means : actu
ally exi sting ; being the e ssenti al element ;
“
”
”
“
being real etc
Reality means : the
state of being real ; true endur ing ; valid ;
etc
fixed ; pe r manent ; a ctual
Under and behind all outward appe ar
an
ces or manife stations th ere mu st always
be a Substantial Reali ty Thi s is the Law
Man considering the Universe of which he
is a u
nit sees nothing but change in matter
force s and mental states He sees that
nothing really IS but that everything is
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BE CO MIN G and CHAN GIN G Nothing
—
stands still everything is being bo rn
—
growing dying the very instant a thing
reaches its height it begins to decline
the law of rhythm is in const ant op eration
—there is no reality enduring quality fix
—
ity or subs t antiality in anything nothing
i s permanent but Change He sees all
things evolving from other things and r e
—
solving into other th ings
a const ant ao
tion and reaction ; inflow and outflow ;
b uild ing up and tearing down ; creation
an
d destruc ti on ; b irth growth an d death
No thing endures but Change And if he
be a thinking man he realizes that all of
these changing things must be but outward
a ppearances or manifes t ations of som e
—
de r lymg Power some Substantial Re
Un
al ity
All thin
kers in a ll land s and inall times
h ave assumed the necessi t y for p ostulating
the exi stence of thi s Substantial Reality
All philosophies worthy of the name h ave
been ba sed upon this thought Men have
given t o thi s Substantial Reality many
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names some have ca lled it by the term of
nder many titles ) ; others have
(u
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called it The In
fin
ite an
d E ternal Eu
’
e rgy
others have tried to call it Mat
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ter
but all have acknowl edged its exist
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ence
It is self evident it needs no
D eity
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I n these
lessons we have followed the
exa mple of som e of the worl d s greatest
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thinke r s both ancient and modem the
—
Hermetic M aster s and have called this
—
Underlying Power thi s Substantial Real
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ity b y the He r met ic n ame of
TH E
”
ALL
which term we consider the m ost
comp rehensive of the many terms applied
by M an to THAT which tr anscends names
and t e rms
We accep t and teach the view of the
grea t Her meti c thinkers of all tim es as
well as of tho se illum ined souls w ho have
reached higher planes of being both of
whom asser t tha t the inner nature of THE
AL L is UN K NO WAB LE
Thi s must be
so
for naught by THE ALL itself can
a tu
comp rehend it s ow nn
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The K yb a lio n
TH E ALL,
in it se lf ,
is
a
nd nms t
b e UNK NOWAB LE The y r e ga r d
es ses a n
t he ori es , g n
la t ion
d sp e c n
s
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t he im
er
m tm
se cr et
of
all
t he
Of
t he
TH E ALL as b u
t t he
o f m or ta l m in
ds t o g ra sp
e Of
childish e fi o r ts
the
e ver
finit e
t he I n
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ch
Su
e ffo
r ts
r
r e of t he t a sk
fr om the v er y na t u
e pu
On
ing s u
quir ies t r av els ar ou
nd and
su
ch in
ntil
arou
nd in the labyrint h of th ought u
he is lost t o a ll sa ne r easo ning ac tion or
ct and is utterly unfitt ed for the work
c ondu
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frantica lly r u
nd and ar ound the
ns arou
circling treadmill wheel of his cage travel
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ing ever and yet reaching nowhere a t the
st
end a p risoner still and standing j u
where he started
And still more p resu
m p tu
ous are those
who attempt to a scribe t o TH E AL L the
pe rsona lity qualities pr o per ties charac
t erist ic s and attribut es of themselves
a scribing to THE ALL t he hu
man emo
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gions unknowable and unthinkable a nd
w ith the sa m e ten
dency a s that of Th eo l
o gy
And c onsequently both Religi on and
Phi lo sophy m e a n to us things h aving roo t s
in Re al ity while Th eology a n
d Meta
physic s seem like broken ree ds rooted in
t he qu
icks ands of i gnorance a nd a ff ording
naugh t but th e mos t insecure support for
th e mind or soul of Man We do not ins i st
upon our students accepting th ese defini
—
tions w e menti on them merely t o show
our pos iti on At any ra t e youshall hear
very l ittle about The ology and Meta
physics inth ese lessons )
But while the essential nature of TH E
ALL i s Unknowable th ere are certa in
truths connect ed with its existence wh ich
the human mind finds i t self compelled to
accept And an examina ti on of th ese t e
ports form a proper subject of inqui ry
particularly as they agree w ith th e reports
of the Illumined onh igher planes
And to
this inqu
iry we noes invite you
—
damen
THAT which is t he F u n
t l Tru
th the Sub
t is l Reality—
b
ut t he Wise
at a n
is beyon d tru
e n ming
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M n c ll it TH E ALL —The K y b al on
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TH E ALL is UNK NOWAB L
r po rt o f Reason must be hospitably
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Thc K yb a lion
tr te d with re pect
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The
human reason whose rep o rts we
must accept so long as we think at all in
forms us as follows regarding TH E ALL
and that w i thout att empting t o remove the
veil of th e Unknowable :
H
E
1
T
ALL must be ALL that RE
( )
ALLY I S There can b e n
othing existing
out side of THE ALL else TH E AL L
ld not be TH E AL L
wou
T
2
THE
must
I
NFIN
I
E
fo
r
A
LL
b
e
( )
the re is nothing else t o define confine
bo u
nd limit or restric t T HE AL L It
must be Infinite in Time or E TERNAL
it mu st have always continu
ously exi sted
for there is nothing else t o have eve r cre
a ted it and something c an never evolve
from nothing a nd if it had eve r not
been even for a moment it wou
ld not
—
be now it must continu
ously exi st for
ever for there i s nothing to destroy it and
it can never not b e evenfor a moment
because something c annever become noth
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fi
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It m st be In te inSpace it must
be Everywhere for there i s no pl ace out
—
side of TH E ALL it cannot b e otherwise
than continuous in Sp ace without b r eak
cessati on separation or interrup tion for
there is nothing t o break separate or in
n
i
ts
conti
uity
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whi ch to fill in the gap s
It must be
Infinite in Power or Absolute for the re
is nothing t o limit restrict restrain con
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it is subject
fin
e di sturb or condition it
t o no other Power for the re is no other
P ower
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3
E
L
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must
be
IMMU
B
E
T
T
A
L
A
( )
or not subject t o change init s real natu
re
for there is nothing to work changes upon
it ; nothing into which it could cha nge nor
from which it could have changed It can
not b e added t o nor subtracted from ; in
crea sed nor diminished ; no r become
greater or lesser in any resp ect whatso
ever I t must have always been and must
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always remain just what it is now THE
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ot n
ow
ALL the re ha s never been is n
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nchange
ca
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fin
ite Absolute
being In
s t follow
E ternal and Unchangeable it mu
that anything fin
ite changeable fleeting
and conditioned cannot be THE ALL And
g outside of THE ALL
as there is Nothin
ite
in Reality then any and al l such fin
things mu st b e as Nothing in Reality Now
ot bec ome befogged nor frightened
do n
to the
w e a re not trying t o lea d you in
nder cover of Her
Christian Sci ence field u
metic Philo sophy There is a Reconcilia
ti onof thi s apparently contradicto r y state
Be p atient, we w ill reach it in
of a ffa i rs
ALL
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We see a rou
nd us tha t which is called
Ma tter
which fo rms the physical
ndation for all fo rms I s THE AL L
fo u
merely M a tter ! Not a t all ! Matt er can
not manife st Life or Mind and as Life and
Mind a re ma nifested inthe Universe TH E
ALL can
not be Matter for nothing rises
—
highe r than it s ow n source nothing i s
ever manifested in an e fi ec t that i s not in
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t he
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cause no thing is evolved as a co us e
quent th at i s not involved as an antecedent
And then Modern Science informs us that
there is really no such thing as Matt er
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that what we call Matter i s merely inter
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e
d
energ
y
or
for
c
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t
h
at
is
ener
y
ru
p
g
o r force at a low rate of vibration As a
recent writer ha s said Matter has melted
into Mystery
Even Material Sci ence has
abandoned the theory of Matter and now
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rests on the basis of Ene rgy
Then is THE ALL mere Energy or
F o rce ! Not Energy or Force as th e ma t e
se the term s for t h e i r energy and
r ia list s u
fo rc e are blind mechan ical things devo id
of Life or M ind Life and Mind can never
evolve from blind Energy or Force for the
“
rea son given a moment ago :
Nothing
—
rce not hing
can rise highe r th an it s sou
—
is evolved u
nless it is involved no thing
manifests in the e fi ec t u
nless i t is in the
An
d so THE ALL ca nno t be mere
ca use
En
e rgy or Fo rc e for if i t were then t here
d M ind
ld be no s u
c h thing s as L i fe an
wou
d w e kn
ow be tt er t hantha t
ce an
inexisten
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The All
for w e are Alive and using Mind to con
sider this very question and so a re those
w ho cl aim tha t En
ergy or F o rce is Every
,
What is there then higher than Matter
or E nergy tha t we kn
ow to be existent in
the Universe ! LIF E AND MIND ! Life
an
d Mind inall their va rying degrees of
“
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Then
unfoldment !
you ask do you
mean t o tell us th at TH E ALL is LIFE
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d MIND !
Yes ! and No ! is our an
swer If youmean Life and Mind as we
poor p etty mortal s know them we say N0 !
Bu
t what kind of
TH E ALL is not that !
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Life and Mind do you mean ! youask
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The answer is L IVIN G MIND a s far
above that which mortal s know by these
words as Life and Mind are higher than
—
mechanical forces or matter INFI NITE
ite Life
LIVIN G MIND a s comp ared t o fin
and Mind
We mean that which the
illum ined souls mean when they reverently
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p ronou
nce the word : SPIRIT l
TH E ALL is Infin
ite Livin
g Min
d
th e Illumined call it SPIRI T !
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M ind at the same tim e a c kno w le dgi ng th at
we cannot fully understand it We must
either do thi s or stop thinking of the mat
ter at all
Let us now proceed to a cons ideration of
the nature of th e Univer se a s a whole and
in its parts What i s th e Universe ! We
have seen th a t there can be nothing outside
Then i s th e Universe TH E
o f TH E AL L
i
AL L ! N 0 thi s cannot be because the Un
verse seems t o be made up of M ANY and
i s constantly ch anging and in oth er ways
it does not measure up to the ideas th at we
a r e compelled t o accep t regard ing TH E
ALL as sta ted i n our last lesson Then i f
the Universe be not TH E ALL th en i t
—
must be N o thing such i s th e inevit able
conclus ion of the mind at first thought
But this will not sati sfy the ques tion fo r
we are sensible of th e exi stence of the Un i
verse Then i f the Universe i s neith er
TH E ALL n
o r Nothing wh at can i t be !
Let us examine thi s question
If th e Universe exi sts at all o r s e ems t o
e x i st it m u s t proce ed in so m e w a y from
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AL L it must be a creation of
TH E
ALL
TH E
But as something can never come
from nothing from what could TH E ALL
h ave created it ! Some philosophers have
answered thi s question by saying th at TH E
ALL c r ea t ed t he U niverse from I TS E LF
— th a t i s from the being and substance of
TH E AL L But th i s will not do for TH E
AL L canno t be subtrac ted from nor di
v ide d as we have seen and th en again i f
thi s be so would not each particle in th e
Un iverse b e aware of it s being TH E ALL
TH E ALL c ould not lose its knowledge
of itself nor actually B E C OME an atom
or blind force or lowly living thing Some
men indeed realizing that TH E ALL i s
indeed ALL and also recognizing th at
th ey the men exi sted have jumped t o the
conclus ion th at they and TH E ALL were
identical and they have filled th e air with
“
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shouts of I AM GOD t o th e amusement
of the multitude and the sorrow of sages
The claim of the co rpuscle that
I am
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Man ! would be modest in comparison
But what indeed is the Universe if it
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be not TH E ALL not yet c rea t ed by TH E
ALL h aving sepa rated it self into frag
—
ments ! What else ca n it b e of wh at else
can it b e ma de ! This i s th e great quest i on
Let u
We find
s examine i t carefully
here that the Principle of Correspond
ence ( see Le sson I ) c omes t o our aid
here The O ld Hermetic axiom As above
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so below
may be pressed into service a t
this point Let us endeavor t o get a
glimpse of the workings onhigh er p lane s
by examining those on our ow n The
Principle O f Correspondence must apply
to this as well as t o oth er problems
Let us see ! O n his own plane of being
h ow does Man c reate ! Well first h e may
create by making something out of outs ide
materials But thi s will not do for th ere
are no materials outsi de of TH E ALL with
which it m ay create Well th en secondly
Man pro c reates or reproduces his kind by
the p rocess of begetting which i s self
mu
ltiplication accomplish ed by transfer
ring a portion of h i s substanc e to h i s
O ff spring But this wi ll not do becaus e
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can
not transfer or subtract a
po r tion of itself nor can it rep roduce or
—
multiply itself in the fi rst place there
would b e a taking away and inthe second
ca se a mu
ltiplication or addition to THE
ALL both thoughts being a n abs u
rdity
Is there no third way in which MAN
—
creates ! Yes there i s he C R EAT E S
MENTALLY ! And in so doing he uses
no outside mater ials nor doe s he rep ro
duce himself and yet his Spi rit pe rvades
the Mental C reation
Foll owing the Principle of Correspond
ence we a re just ified in cons idering that
TH E ALL c reates the Unive rse ME N
TALLY ina man
ner akinto the process
whereby Mancreates Mental Images And
here is where the report of Reason tallies
preci sely with the report of the Illu
mined
a s shown by their teachings and writ ings
Such a re the teachings of the Wi se Men
Such was the Teaching of Hermes
TH E ALL can create in no other way
except mentally wi thout either using mate
or else
r i al ( a nd there is none to use )
TH E AL L
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reprodu
cing itself ( which is also imp os
sible )
There is no es cape from this con
c lu
sion of th e Re ason which a s we have
said agrees with the highest teachings o f
the Illumined J ust as you stu
dent may
create a Universe of your own in your
mental ity so does TH E ALL create Uni
verses in it s own Mentality But your
Universe is the mental creation of a Finite
Mind whereas that of TH E ALL is the
creati on of an Infinite The tw o are S imi
lar in kind b u
t infin
itely di fferent in de
gree We sh all examine more closely into
the process of creati on and manifestation
as we proceed But thi s is the point to
fix in your minds at th i s stage : TH E UNI
VERSE AND AL L I T CO N TAINS IS
A ME N TAL CREATI O N O F TH E ALL
Verily indeed AL L IS MI ND !
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on of me and t to
Univ er
ch e ist fo r
TH E ALL t he c reatio n devel opment decline an death
f
millio”n Univ r i
t he time of t he twi nkling
of “ neye —
The K yb li n
The Infinite Min
d of THE ALL is the womb of
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Univ r
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se s,
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Principle of Gender ( see Les son I
and other les sons to follow ) is manifested
on a ll plane s of l ife mate rial mental and
s pi ritual But as we have said before
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Sex
sex is
Gender doe s not mean
merely a material mani festation of gender
Gender means relating t o generation
An
or c rea tion
d wherever anyt hing i s
generated or c reated on any plane the
Principle of Gender must be manifested
An
d thi s is true even in the creation of
Un
iver ses
Now do not jump to the conclus ion that
g that there is a male and
w e a re te achin
female God or Creator That idea i s
merely a di stortion of the ancient teach
ings onthe su
bject The true teaching is
tha t THE ALL in i tself is above Gender
a s it is above every other Law includ ing
tho se of Time and Space It is the Law
from which the Laws proceed and it is not
subj ec t to them But when TH E AL L
manifests on the plane of generation or
creation then it acts acc ording to Law and
Principle for i t is moving on a lower plane
The
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72
Kybalion
Being And consequently it manifest s
the Principle of Gender init s Masculine
and Feminine aspect s on the Ment al Pla ne
of course
Th is idea may seem sta rtlin
g t o some of
you who hear it for the first tim e but you
have all reall y pa ssively acc epted it in
your everyday conc eptions You s pe ak
of the Fatherhood of God and the Mother
—
hood of Nature o f God the Divine
Fathe r and Nature the Universal Mother
—and have thus instinctively acknowled ged
the Pr inciple of Gender in the Unive rse
Is thi s not so !
But the Hermetic teaching doe s not im
—
ply a real dual ity TH E ALL is ONE
the Two Aspects are merely a spe ct s of
manifestation The teaching is tha t The
Mas culine Principle manife sted by T HE
ALL stands in a way apart from the
actual mental creation of the Universe It
projects its Will toward the Feminine
Principle ( which may be called Nature
wh ereupon th e latt er begins the actual
w ork of th e evoluti on of the Un iverse from
of
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examines the thoughts ideas and images of
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the Me
As above so below
remem
ber and the phenomena of one plane may
be employed to solve the riddles of higher
or lower planes
Is it any wonder that You, the child feel
that instinctive reverence for TH E AL L
which feeling we call religion
tha t r e
spect and reverence for TH E F AT HE R
MIN D ! Is it any wonder that when you
consider the works and wonders of N atu
re
you a re overcome w ith a mighty feel
which
has
roots
away
down
in
your
in
i
t
s
g
inmo st being ! It is the MOT HE R MIND
that youare pressing close up to like a
babe to the breast
Do not m ake the mistake of suppos ing
that the little worl d you see around you
the Earth which is a mere grain of dust in
—
iverse itself There
the Univer se is the Un
a re millions u
pon millions of such worlds
an
And there are mill ions of
d greater
ch Universes in exi stenc e
millions of su
within the Infin
ite Mind of TH E ALL
An
d even in our ow n l ittle solar system
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there a re regions and planes of life far
higher th an ours and be ings compared to
which we earth bound mortals a re as the
slimy life forms that dwell on the ocean s
b ed when comp ared to Man There are b e
ings with powers and attributes higher
than Man has ever dreamed of the gods
posses sing And yet these beings were
—
once a s you and sti ll lower and you will
be even a s they and still higher in time
fo r such is the Destiny of Man as rep orte d
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Death is not real even inthe Rela
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tive sense it is but B i rth to a new life
an d You shall go on and on and on to
higher and still higher planes of l ife for
aeons u
pon a eons of time The Universe
i s your home and you shall explore its
farthest reces ses before the end of Time
You are dwelling in the Infinite M ind of
TH E ALL and your po ssibil ities and op
i
i
t
s
fi
n
t
i
n
a
re
in
i
e
both
time
and
t
u
n
or
e
p
s p ace And at the end of the Grand Cycle
o f A eons when TH E ALL shall draw back
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into itself all of its creations youwill go
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uwill thenbe able
know
Truth of be ing At On
e with
THE ALL
Su
ch is the repo rt of the
—
Illu
mined those w ho have a dvanced well
along The Path
And in the mean
time rest calm and
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serene youare safe and protected by the
Infinite Power of the F AT HE R MOTHE R
gladly for
the Whole
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or Mot herless
e w ho is F a therless, n
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t he F at he
h me
There
inthe U iverse
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C HAPT E R VI
TH E
D IVINE
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Pasan
ox
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l f w r ogn ng
omp t v unr ty
of
nv
n t tt y
d fy
Lw
u
n
pr umptu ou fool
t y
brok n g n
ro k
torn
nd r by
m nt by
n of
folly
tr ly w
kn w
n t of
nv r
g t l w
g
g
lwr
by
A rt o f l my
tr n mut t t w
und r bl nto t t w
wort y
t u t mp
t ry o n t no t
norm l
on
f nt t m g ng or
but u ng
g r for
g nt
of
lo w r pl n by v br t ng on
not pr umptuo u d n l
—
w pon o f
tr
Th e ha
ise, ec
izi
t he c
ar a i e
eali
t he U i erse, imagi e h a
a s
h e m ay e
it s
s ch ar e vai
a re
d
es
s
s, a n
an
d he
a ai st t he
d
e
c s an
a su e
t he ele
s
r easo
t h eir
The
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u ise , o
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in
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s;
se
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t h e hi her a ain
A c he
st t he o e ; a n
d
t he
hic h is
a s
ha
ha
h ic h is
e
esi a
e i
in ab
Mas e
h , an
sis s
d h s riu h
c
liv
a
i s
dr eams, Visi s an
d a a s ic i a in
l
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w
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i
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hi
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i a i
s in
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t he
a es
esca p in t h e
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smu
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t h e hig e r
t a t ion
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This is the Paradox of the Universe
g from the Principle of Polarity
r esultin
ifests when THE ALL be gins
which man
—
to Create hearken to it fo r it points th e
d wis
difi er en
c e bet w een half wisdom an
dom While to THE INFINI TE ALL
the Universe its Laws it s Powers i ts
Life its Phenomena are a s things wit
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neesed in the state of Meditation o r
Dream ; yet to all that is Finite the Uni
verse must be trea ted a s Real and l ife
and acti on and thought must be based
thereu
pon acc ordingly although with an
ever understanding of the Higher Truth
Each according to its ow nPlane and Laws
Were TH E ALL to imagine that the Uni
verse were indeed Real ity then woe to the
Un
iverse for there would be then no es
cap e from lower to higher divinew a r d
then would the Universe become a fix it y
and progress would become imposs ible
And if Man o wi ng to half wisdom acts
and lives and think s of the Universe a s
merely a dream ( akin to hi s own finite
dreams ) then indeed does i t so become for
mbles
him and like a Sleep walker he stu
e ver a round and around in a c i rcle making
no p rogress and being forced into an
awakening at last by his falling bruised
and bleeding over the Natural Laws which
he ignored K eep your mind ever on the
Star but let your eyes watch over your
footsteps lest you fall into the mire by
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rea son of your u
pward gaze Remembe r
the Divine Paradox that while the Uni
verse IS N O T s till I T IS Remember ever
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the Tw o Poles of Truth the Absolute and
the Relative Beware of Half Truth s
“
What Hermetists know as the Law of
Paradox is an aspect of th e Principle of
Pola rity The Hermetic writings are filled
with references to the appearance of th e
Paradox inthe consideration of the prob
lems of Life and Being The Teachers are
constantly warn ing their students against
”
“
the error of omitting the other s ide of
any question And their warnings are
particularly directed to the p roblems of
the Absolute and the Relative which per
plex all students of philo sophy and which
cau se so many to thin
k and act contrary to
‘
wh at is generally known as
common
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sen se
And we cauti on all st udent s to be
su
re to grasp the Divine Paradox of th e
Absolu
te and Relative lest they bec ome en
tangled in the mire of the Half Truth
With this in View thi s particular lesson has
b een written Read i t caref u
lly !
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thought that comes t o the think
ing man aft er he realize s the truth t ha t t he
Universe is a Mental Creation of THE
AL L i s that the Un
iverse and all tha t it
c onta ins is a mere ill u
nreality ;
sion ; a nu
against which idea his instincts revolt
But this l ike all other grea t truths must
be cons idered bo th from the Absolute and
th e Relative points of View From the
Absolute Viewpoint of course the Uni
verse i s in the nature of an illusion a
dream a phantasmagoria as compa red to
ize this
TH E AL L in i tself
We recogn
even in our ordinary View for we Spe ak
“
”
of the world a s a fleeting show tha t
—
comes and goes is born and dies for the
element of impermanence and cha nge
finiteness and unsubstanti al it y mu
st eve r
be connected with th e idea of a created Uni
verse when it is contrasted wi th the idea
of TH E ALL no matter what may b e our
bel iefs concerning the nature of bo th
Philosopher metaphys ician scienti st and
theologian all agree upon thi s i dea and
the thought is found inall forms of philo
The first
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concep tions and see whethe r this be not
true of them
Bu
t of View shows
t the Ab solute poin
—
merely one side of the pict u
re the other
side is the Relative one Ab solute Truth
“
has been defined a s Things as the m ind
of God knows them while Relative Truth
“
i s Thi ngs as the highest rea son of Man
understands them
d so while to TH E
An
ALL the Universe must be u
nreal and
illusionary a mere dream or result of
—
meditation nevertheless to the finit e
minds forming a part of that Universe
and Viewing it through mortal facu
lties
the Universe is very real indeed and must
be so considered In rec ognizing the Ah
solute view we must not make the mistake
of igno ring or denying the fact s and phe
nom ena of the Universe a s they present
—
themselves t o ou
r mortal fa cu
lties w e are
not TH E ALL remember
To take familiar illus trations we all
”
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rec ognize the fact that Matter exists to
—
our senses w e will fare badly if we do
not And yet even our finite minds u
nder
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stand the scientific dictum that there i s no
such th ing as Matter from a scientific po int
—
of View
that which we call Matter i s h eld
to be merely an aggregati on of atoms
whi ch atoms th emselves are merely a
group ing of units of force called electrons
“
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or ions Vibrat ing and in constant ci r
la r mot i on We kick a stone and we feel
cu
—
th e impact it seems to be real not w ith
standing that we know it to be merely what
we have s t ated above But remember th at
our foot which feels th e impact by means
of our brains i s likewi se Matter so con
sti tuted of electrons and for th at matter
so are our brains And at th e best i f it
were not by reason of our M ind we would
not know the foot or st one at all
Th en again th e i deal o f th e arti st or
sculptor which he i s endeavoring t o r e
produce in stone or on canvas seems very
real to him So do th e ch aracters in the
mind of th e a u
th or or dramati st which
he seeks to express so th at others may rec
ize th em
And i f th i s be true in th e
ogn
case of our finit e minds wh at must be the
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degree of Reality in the Men tal Ima ge s
created in the Mind of the Infinite ! Oh
fri ends to mo rtal s this Universe of Men
—
tal ity is very real indee d it is the only
one we can ever know thou
gh we rise from
plane to plane higher and higher in it
To know it oth erwi se by actual exper ience
we must be TH E ALL itself It is true
—
that the higher we rise in the scale the
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nearer to the mind of the Father we
—
reach the more apparent become s th e il
lusory nature of finite things but not until
TH E ALL finally w ithdraws us into itself
does the vi sion actually vanish
So we need not dwell upon the feature
of illu
Rather let u
sion
s reco gnizing the
real nature of the Universe seek to u
nder
stand its mental laws and endeavor to use
them t o th e best eff ect in our upward prog
ress thro u
gh life a s we travel from plane
to plane of being The Laws of the Un i
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verse are none the les s Iron Laws b e
c ause of the mental nature
All except
TH E ALL are bound by them What i s
IN THE I NFINITE MIND O F TH E AL L
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is REAL in a degree second only t o that
Reality itself which is vested in the nature
TH E AL L
of
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So do not feel insecure or
are all HELD FIRMLY IN TH E IN FI N
I TE MIN D O F TH E ALL and there i s
naught to hurt us or for us to fear There
i s no Power outside of TH E ALL to a ffect
us So we may rest calm and secure
There is a world of comfort and security
in thi s realization when once attained
Then
calm and peaceful do we sleep
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rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
rest
ing safely on the bosom of the O cean of
Infinite M ind which is TH E AL L In
TH E ALL indee d do we live and move
and have our being
Matter is none the less Matter to us
while we dwell on the plane of Matter al
ow it to be merely an aggr e
though we kn
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a
i
n
of
ele
t
r
ons
or
particles
of
t
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Force vibrating rapidly and gyrating
around each other in the formations of
atoms ; the atoms in turn vibrating and
gyrating forming molecules which latter
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in turn form larger m asses of Matter
N or does Matter become less Matter when
we follow the inqui ry t ill further and
learn from th e Hermetic Teachings that
the Force of which the electrons are
but units i s merely a manifestation of the
Mind of TH E AL L and like a ll else in the
Universe is purely Mental in its nature
While on the Plane of Matter we m ust
—
reco gnize its phenomena w e may contro l
Matter ( as all Masters of higher or les ser
degree do ) but we do so by applying the
high er forces We c ommit a folly when
we attempt to deny th e existence of Matter
in the relative aspect We may deny its
—
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mastery over us and rightly so b ut we
should not attempt to ignore it in its rela
tive aspect at least so long as we dwell
upon its plane
Nor do th e Laws of Natu
re become less
constant or e ffective when we know th em
l ikewise t o be merely mental creations
They a r e in full e ffect onth e vari ou s planes
We ov e r c o m e th e lo w er laws by applying
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s t il l h ig h e r on e s
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Bu
t we
cannot escape Law or rise above it
entirely Nothing but TH E AL L can e s
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cape Law and that because TH E ALL is
LAW itself from whi ch all Laws emerge
The most advance d Masters may a cqui re
the p owers usually attributed to the gods
of men ; and there are countless ranks of
being in the great hierarchy of life whose
being and power transce nds even th at of
the highest Masters among men t o a de
gree u
nthinkable by mortals but even the
highest Master and the highest Be ing
must bow to the Law and be as Nothing in
the eye of TH E AL L So that i f even
these highest Beings whose powers exceed
even those attributed by men t o their gods
— if even these are bound by and are sub
ser vient to Law then imagine the pre
sumption of mortal man of our race and
grade when he dares to cons ider the Laws
“
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unreal
vi sionary and
o f N ature a s
illusory bec ause he happens t o be able t o
g r asp the truth that the Laws are Mental
in nature and simply Mental Creations
o f TH E ALL
Those Laws which TH E
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ot
intends to b e govern
ing Laws a r e n
to be defied or argued away S o long as
the Universe endures will they endure
for the Un
iverse exists by virtue of these
Laws which form its framework and which
hold it together
The Hermetic Prin
ciple of M entalism
while explaining the tr u
e nature of the
Universe u
pon the p r inciple tha t all is
Mental does not change the scientific con
c ep t ion
s of th e Un iverse Life or Ev olu
ti on In fact science merely co rroborates
the Herm etic Teachings The latter merely
teach es that th e nature of the Universe is
Mental while modern science has taught
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that it i s Material ; or ( of late ) that it
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is Energy at the last analysis The
Hermetic Teachings have no fault to find
with Herbert Spencer s bas ic principle
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which postulates the exi stence of an I n
finite and E ternal Energy from which all
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things proceed
In fact the Hermetics
recognize in Spencer s philosophy the high
est out side statement of the workings of
th e N atur al Law s th at have ever been p r o
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iverse
THE ALL is Mind ; the Un
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i s Menta l held in the Mind of TH E
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He will find that the other six of
ALL
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the Seven Principles will fit into his
scientific knowledge and will ser ve to bring
ou
re points and to throw light in
t obscu
dark corners Thi s is not t o be wondered
at when we reali ze the in
fl uence of the
Hermetic thought on the early philoso
h
e
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s
of
ree
c
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p
on
whose
fo
dations
u
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u
n
p
o f thought the theories of modern science
largely rest The acceptance of the First
Hermetic Principle ( Mentalism ) i s t he
ly great point of difl er en
on
c e between
Modern Science and Hermeti c student s
and Science is gradually moving toward
the Hermetic position in its grop ing in t he
dark for a way out of the Labyrinth int o
which it has wandered in its search fo r
Reality
The pu
rp ose of this lesson is t o impress
upon the minds of our students the fact
i
tha t to al l intents and p u
rposes the Un
verse and its laws and its phenomena are
n
ust
as
RE
L
so
far
as
Man
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concer
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they wou
ld b e u
nder the hypotheses of
Mater ialism or E nergism
Under any
hypothesis the Unive rse inits outer aspect
ging, eve r flow ing and transito ry
is chan
and the re fore devoid of su
b stantiali ty and
reality B u
t ( no t e the othe r pole of the
t ru
th ) u
nder any of the same hyp otheses
we a re compe ll ed t o ACT AND LIVE as
i f the flee ting things were rea l and sub
s t an
ce alway s b e
tial With this difi er en
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nder
tween the va riou
that u
s hyp othese s
the old views Mental P ower w a s ignored
as a Na tura l For ce whil e u
nder Mentali em
i t bec omes the Greate st Natural Force
And this one difi er en
ce revolutioniz es Life
t o those w ho u
nderstand the P rinciple and
lting laws and p ractice
its resu
So finally students all gra sp the a d
vantage of Mentalism and learn t o know
use and apply the laws resulting there
t do n
fro m B u
ot yield to the temptation
which a s The K yb alionstates overc ome s
th e half wise and which causes them to be
h y pnotized by the app a rent unreal ity of
things the consequence be ing that they
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wander ab o u
t l ike dream people dwelling
in a world of dreams ignor ing the p r ac
tical work and life of m an the end being
tha t they are broken aga inst the rocks
and torn asunder b y the elements by reason
of their foll y
Rather follow the example
of the wise
which the same aut hority
states use Law against Laws ; the higher
against the lower ; and by the Art of
Alchemy transmute that which is u
nde
s i rable into that which is worthy and thus
trium ph
Following the authority let us
avoid the half wi sdom ( whi ch is folly )
“
which ignores the truth that
Mastery
consi sts not in abnormal dreams vis i ons
and fantastic imaginings or l iving but in
using the higher forces against the lower
escaping the pains of the lower planes by
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vibrating on the higher
Remember a l
ways student that Transmutati on no t
presum ptuous den ial is th e weapon of th e
The above quotations are from
Master
The K yb a lion and are worthy of being
committed to memory by the student
We do not l ive in a world of dreams but
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Universe which while relat ive is real
so far as our lives and actions are c on
ce rn
ed Our business in the Universe is
not to deny its existence b u
t to LIVE
us ing the Laws to rise from lower to high er
—living on do ing the best that we can
unde r the ci r cumstances arising each day
and living so far as is possible to our
highes t ideas and ideals The true Mean
ing of Life is not known to men on this
—
—
plane if indeed t o any but the highest
authorities and our own intu itions teach
us that we w ill make no mistake in liv ing
up to the best that is in us so far as i s
p ossibl e and realizing the Universal ten
den
cy in the same directi on in sp ite of
apparent evidences to the contrary We
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are all on The Path and th e road leads
upward ever with frequent rest ing places
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Read the Message of The K yb alion and
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follow the example of the wise
avoid
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ing the mistake of the half wise who
pe ri sh by reason of their folly
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C HAPTER VII
TH E ALL
While
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ALL
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A ll is in TH E ALL it is equally true th t
TH E ALL is inAll
T him w ho tru
ly under tands this
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truth hath come grea t knowledge —
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How often have th e majority of people
heard repeated th e statement that their
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De ity ( called by many names ) was All in
All
and how little have they s usp ec ted
the inner occult truth concealed by these
ly
carelessly uttered words ! The common
used express ion is a survival o f th e ancient
Hermetic Maxim quoted above As t he
To him who tr u
K yb a lionsays
ly u
nder
stands this truth hath come great knowl
d this being so let us seek thi s
edge
An
truth the u
nderstanding of which means
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so much
In this statement of truth thi s
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Hermetic Maxim is concealed one of the
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grea test philosophical scientific an
d te
s tru
ligiou
t hs
We ha ve given youthe Herm etic Teach
ing rega rding the Menta l Na tur e of the
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ive rse the tr u
Un
th that the Univer se is
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Mental held in the Mind of THE AL L
As the K yb a lion sa ys in the pa ssa ge
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quoted above :
All is in TH E AL L
But note al so the co related statement
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that : It is equally tr u
e tha t TH E ALL is
inALL
This apparently c ontradict ory
s tatement is reconcilable under the Law of
Paradox It is moreover an exact H e r
metic statement of the relations ex isting
betw een TH E ALL and it s Men tal Uni
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verse We have seen how All is in TH E
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now let u
s e x amin
e the othe r
AL L
aspec t of the subject
The Hermetic Teachings are t o the e fl ec t
that TH E ALL is I mminent in
rema in
ing within; inherent ; abiding withi n
its
nit
Universe and in eve ry part particle u
or combination within the Universe This
statement is usually illustrated by the
Teachers by a reference t o the Principle
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giving them their vitality spirit and
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action Whose is the spirit of the char
actors that we know as Mica wber O liver
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Twist U riah Heep is it Dickens or have
each of the se characters a p ersonal spirit
independent of thei r creator ! Have the
Venus of Medici the Sistine Madonna the
App ollo Belvidere spirits and reality of
their own or do they repre se nt the spir
it u
al and mental power of the i r creators !
The Law of Paradox explains that both
propo siti ons are true viewed from the
proper viewp oints
Micawber is both
Micawber and yet Dickens And again
whil e Micawber may be said to be Dickens
yet Dickens i s not identical with Micawber
Man l ike Micawber may exclaim : The
Spirit of my Creator i s inh erent within me
— and yet I am not HE !
H ow difl er en
t
this from the shocking half truth so vocif
er ou
sly anno u
nced by certain of the half
wise who fill the ai r w i th th ei r raucous
”
cries of :
I Am God !
Imagine poor
Micawber or the sneaky Uriah Heep cry
“
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I Am Dickens ; or some of the
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The A ll
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lowly clods in one of Shakespeare s plays
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grand iloquently a nnouncing that
I Am
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TH E ALL is in the
Shakespeare !
earth worm and yet th e earth worm is far
from being TH E ALL And still th e
wonder remains th at though the earth
worm ex i sts merely as a lowly thing
created and having it s being solely within
—
the Mind of TH E AL L yet TH E AL L i s
imma nent in the earth w o rm and in the
particles that g o t o make up the earth
w orm
Canthere be any greater mystery
“
th an this of All in TH E AL L ; and TH E
AL L in All !
The student w ill o f course realize that
ec e s
th e illustrations given above are n
sa r ily imperfect and inadequate for they
represent the creation o f mental images in
fini te minds while th e Un iverse is a crea
—
tion of Infinite M ind and th e d i fference
betwee n the two poles separates them
d yet it is merely a matter of degree
An
—
the same Principle i s i n Operation th e
Principle of Correspondence manifests
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each
As above, so Below ; as Below so
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above
d in t he degree tha t Manrealize s th e
An
existence of the Indwelling Spirit imma
nent within his being so will he rise inth e
spiritual scale of life Thi s is what spir
—
the recognit ion
it u
a l develo pm ent mean s
realization and manifes t ation of the S pir it
Tr y to remember thi s las t
s
w ithin u
—
al development
it ion that of s piri t u
defin
It contains the Truth of True Rel igi on
—
There are many planes of Being many
—
sub planes of Life many degrees of exist
ence in the Universe And all d epend upon
th e advancement of beings inthe scale of
which s cale the lowest p oint is the grossest
matter the highest being separated only
by th e thinnest division from the SPIRIT
of TH E ALL And upward and onw ard
along this Scale of Life everything is
moving All a re on the Path whose end
is TH E AL L Al l progress is a Returning
Home All is Upward and Onward in
sp ite of all seemingly contradictory ap
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rha p s we will give a better idea of wh at
i s meant
Thi s Involuntary stage of Creation i s
“
”
s omet imes called the
Outpouring of th e
Divine Energy just as the Evolut iona r y
“
”
s tate is called the Indrawing
Th e
ext reme pole of th e Creative pro cess is
c ons idered t o be th e fu
rthest removed from
TH E ALL while the beginn
ing of the
Evolutionary stage is regarded a s the
beginning of the return swing of the p en
“
—
dulum of Rhyt hm a coming home idea
being h eld in all of the Hermetic Teach
ings
The Teachings are that during the O ut
pouring the vibrati ons become lower and
lower until finally the urge ceases and the
return swing begins But there is this dif
“
”
fe rence that while in the Outpouring
th e creative forces man i fest compactly and
as a wh ole yet from the beginning of the
“
”
Evolutionary or Indrawing stage there
is mani fes t ed the Law of Individualization
—that is the tendency t o separate into
Unit s o f Force so that finally th at w hich
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left TH E AL L as unindivi du
alized energy
returns to its source as countless highly
developed Units of Life having risen
higher and higher in the sca le by means
of Physical Menta l and Spiritual Evolu
tion
The ancient Hermetists use th e word
Medita t i on
in descr ibing the process
iverse in
of t he menta l creation of the Un
the Mind of TH E AL L the word Con
tem plation
also being frequently em
ployed But the idea intended seems t o be
th at of the employment of th e D ivine
Attenti on is a word derived
Attention
from the La tin root meaning to reach
out ; to stretch out
and so the act of
Attention i s really a mental
reaching
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out ; extens i on of mental energy so tha t
the underlying idea is readily understood
when we examine into the real meaning of
Attention
The Hermetic Teachings regarding the
pro ce s s of Evolution are that TH E AL L
having meditated upon the beginning of
—
the C reation having thu s es tabli sh ed th e
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material foundations of the Un
ive rse
—
having thou
ght it into existe nce t hen
gradually awakens or r ou
se s fro m it s
Meditation and in so d oing sta rts into
manifestat ion the process of E volution on
the material mental and spi ritu
a l p l anes
suc cessively and in orde r Thu
s t he u
p
—
ward movement begins and all begins t o
move S pir itw a r d Matte r becomes less
gross ; th e Units Spring into being ; the
combinat ions begin t o form ; Life appea rs
and manifests in higher and higher fo rm s ;
and M ind becomes more and more in evi
—
dence the vibrations constantly becoming
higher In sho rt the entire p roces s of
Evolution in all of it s pha ses begins, and
p roceeds according t o the e stablished Law s
“
Indrawing p roc ess All of this
of the
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occup ie s ae ons up on aeons of Mans time
each ae on containing countle ss millions of
yea rs but yet the Illumined info rm u
s that
the entire creation includin
g Involution
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and Evolution of an Unive rse is but as
”
th e twinkle of the eye t o THE ALL At
the end o f c ountless cycles of none of t it he
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Kyb a lion
Me t a phy sic al field o f specul a tion , alth ough
ur purpo se i s merely to sh ow th e futility
lat i on We allude t o t he
o f such spec u
questi on which inevi tably comes to the
mind of all thinke rs w h o h av e ventured t o
“
seek the Truth The question Is
WH Y
”
The
does TH E AL L create Universes !
quest ion may be asked in di ff erent fo rms
but the above i s the gist of the inqui ry
Men have striven h ard t o answer this
question but still there is no answer
wo rthy of the name Some h ave imagined
that TH E AL L had something t o gain by
it but this is absurd for what could TH E
AL L gain that it did not already possess !
O th ers have sough t th e answer in th e idea
“
that TH E ALL wi sh ed something t o
love ; and oth ers that i t created for pleas
“
ure or amusement ; o r because it was
”
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lonely ; or t o manife st it s power all
puerile explanations and ideas belonging
to th e childish period of th ough t
O thers have sought t o explain the
myste ry by assum ing th at TH E ALL
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found itself comp ell ed t o creat e by
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—its
reason of its own inte rnal nature
Thi s idea i s in ad
creative instinct
vance of the others but its weak point l ies
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in the idea of TH E AL L be ing com
l
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by
anyt
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inte
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external
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If it s internal nature or creative in
ct
st in
compelled i t to do anything then
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the
internal nature or creative in
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st in
ct
wou
l d be the Absolute instead o f
TH E AL L and so accordingly that part
of the propos ition fall s And yet TH E
AL L does create and man
ifest and seems
to find some kind of satisfaction in so
doing A d it is difficu
lt to escap e the
conclusion that in some infinite degree it
must have what wou
ld corresp ond t o an
“
”
“
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inner nature or creative instinct in
man with correspondingly infinite Desi re
and Will It could not act un
l ess it Willed
ot Will t o Ac t un
to Ac t ; and i t wou
ld n
less
ld n
it Des i red t o Ac t ; and it wou
ot Desire
t o Ac t unless it obtained some Sati sfact ion
thereby And all of these th ings would
“
belong to an Inner N ature and migh t
be postulated as exi sting according to th e
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den
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Co r r espon
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to t hin
k of THE ALL as ac tin
g
of
La w
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f
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p
al
te r n
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w e ll as e xt e rn
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li
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reas on implies a
ALL t o ac t for a
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se
ca u
and THE ALL is above Cau
se
and Efi ect except w henit Wills t o become
a Cau
ciple is se t
se at which time the Pr in
into motion So you see the matter is
Unthinka ble jus t as THE ALL is Un
knowable J u
st as we say THE AL L
—
merely IS
so we are compe lled t o say
“
that T HE AL L ACTS BECAUSE I T
ACTS
At the last TH E AL L is All
Rea son in Itself ; All Law in Itself ; All
—
Action in Itself and it may be said truth
fully that THE AL L is Its Own Reason ;
it s ow nLaw ; its ow nAc t —o r still further
that TH E AL L ; Its Re ason; Its Ac t ; is
Law ; are O NE all being names for t h
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conclusion, s till
Inne r N ature
the
legends h ave it that HE RME S the Great
when asked this question by his advanced
students answered them by PRESSIN G
HI S LIPS TI GHTLY T OGE T HE R and
saying not a word indica ting that there
WAS N O AN SWER But then he may
have intended to apply the axiom of h i s
philosophy that
The lip s of Wisdom
are closed except to th e ears of Under
standing
believing that even his a d
v an
c e d students did not possess th e Under
standing which entitled them t o the Teach
ing At any rate i f Hermes possessed the
Secret he failed to impart it and so far a s
the world is concerned TH E LIPS O F
HE RME S ARE CLO SED regard ing it
And where the Great Hermes hesitated t o
speak wh at mortal may dare t o teach !
But remember that whatever be the
answer to this problem if indeed there be
an answer the truth rema ins th at
“
Wh ile All is in TH E AL L it i s equally
”
Th e
t rue th at TH E AL L is in All
An
d
Teaching onth i s point i s emph atic
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The All
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may add the concluding words of the
quotati on
To him who truly u
nder
stands thi s truth hath come great knowl
edge
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nomena
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II I
kn
es,
ownas t he Thr ee Great Plan
e
The Grea t Physic al Plan
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The Great S pir itu
e
al Plan
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These division
s a re mo re or less ar ti
ficial an
d a rbit rary for the tr u
t h is t ha t
all of the three divisions are but ascend
f
h
in
d
e
g
r
ee
s
f
t
gr
e
a
t
c
a
le
Life
the
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s
o
e
g
ndifi e r ent iat ed
lowest point of which is u
Matte r, and the h ighest point that of
Spi rit
the difl e r ent
An
d moreover
Planes shade into each other so that no
hard an
d fast divi sion may be made be
tweenthe higher phenomena of the Physi
cal an
d the l ower of the Mental ; o r b e
tween the highe r of the Mental and the
lower of the Physical
I nsho rt , the Th ree Great Planes may b e
regarded as th ree great gr ou
p s of degrees
ifesta tion While the purposes
of Li fe Man
of this l ittle book do n
ot allow us to enter
in
to anexten
ded discussion of or explana
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tion of the subject of these di ff erent
planes still we th ink it well to give a gen
eral descripti on of the same at th i s po int
At the beginning we may as well c on
sider the questi on so often asked by the
neophyt e who desi res to b e informed r e
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“
garding the meaning of the word Plane
which term has been very freely used and
very poorly explained In many recent
works upon the subject of occult i sm The
questi on i s generally about as follows
“
Is a Plane a place having dimensions or
”
i s i t merely a condition or state !
We
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answer
No not a pl ace nor ordinary
dimens ion of space ; and yet more than a
state or condition It may be considered
as a state or condition and yet the state
or condit i on is a degree of dim ens i on i n
a scale subjec t to measu
rement
Some
what p aradoxical is it not ! But let us
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examine the ma tter A dimension you
know is a measu
re ina straight l ine r e
lating to measu
re
etc The ordinary
dimensions of space are length breadth
and height or perhap s length breadth
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height thickness or circumference B u
t
th ere is another dimensi on of crea ted
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things or mea su
re ina straight l ine
known to occ u
ltists and to scientists as
well although the l atter have not as yet
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—
applied the te rm dimension to it and
thi s new dimension which by th e way is
the mu
ch speculated about Fourth Di
m en
sion
i s the standard used in deter
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mi ning the degrees or planes
Thi s Four th Dimens i on may be called
the D imens ion of Vibrati on
It i s a
fact well known to modern sci ence as well
a s to th e Hermet i sts who h ave embodi ed
the truth intheir Third Hermetic Prin
”
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that everything i s in moti on ;
c ip le
everything vibrates ; nothing i s at rest
From the highest manifestation to the
lowest everything and all things Vibrate
Not o nly do they vibrate at di ff erent rates
of motion but a s in di ff erent di rect ions
and ina di ff erent manner The degree s of
the rate of vibrations constitute the
de grees of mea surement on th e Sc ale of
—
Vibrations inother words the degrees of
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and have their existence solely withinthe
Infinite Mind of TH E ALL
The Hermet i sts sub divide each of the
Three Great Planes into Seven Min
or
Planes and each of these latter a re also
sub divided into seven su
b planes all di
vis ions being more or les s arbitrary shad
ing into each oth er and adopted merely
ience of scient ific stu
for conven
dy and
though t
The G reat Physical Plane and it s Seven
M inor Planes is that division of the phe
nom ena of th e Universe which includes all
that relates t o phys ics or material things
forces and mani festati ons It includes all
forms of th at wh ich we call Matter and
all forms of th at which we call Energy or
Force But youmu
s t remember that the
Hermetic Philosophy does not recognize
“
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Matter as a thing i n itself or as having
a separate exi stence even in the Mind of
TH E ALL The Teachings are th at Mat
—
ter i s but a form of Energy that is En
e r gy at a low rate of vibrations of a ce r
tain kind And accordingly th e Hermetists
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class i fy Ma tter u
nder the head of Energy
and give t o it three of th e Seven Minor
Planes of th e Great Physical Plane
These Seven Mino r Physical Plane s are
as follows
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Plane of Matte r ( A)
The Plane of Matter ( B )
The Plane of Matter ( C )
The Plane of Ethereal Substance
The Plane of Energy ( A )
The Plane of Energy ( B )
The Plane of Energy ( C )
Th e
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The Plane of Matter ( A ) comp rises the
forms of Matter in it s form of solids
ized
liquids and gases as generally reco gn
by the text books on physics The Plane
of M a tter ( B ) comprises c e rtain higher
and more subtle forms of Matte r of the
existence of wh ich modern science is but
now reco gnizing the phenomena of Ra di
ant Matter init s phases of ra dium etc
b elongin
g to the lowe r sub divis ion of this
Minor Plans The Plane of Matte r ( C )
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comp rises forms of the mo st su
btle and
tenuous Matter the existence of which is
not sus pected by ordina ry scientists The
Plane of E thereal Substanc e comp rises that
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wh ich sci ence speaks of as
The E ther
s substance of ext reme tenuity and ela stic
ity pervading all Univer sal Sp ace and
acting as a mediu
m for the transm ission
o f waves of energy
such as light hea t
electricity etc Th i s Ethe real S u
bstance
forms a connecting link between Matter
f
s
o
c
alled
and
Ener
a
n
d
p
artakes
o
(
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gy
th e nature of each The Hermetic Tea ch
ings however instruct that this plane
has seven sub divi s ions ( a s have all of the
Minor Planes ) and that infact there a re
e
s evenethers instea d of but on
Next above the Plane of E thereal Su
b
stance comes the Plane of Energy ( A )
which compri ses the o rdina ry forms of
Energy known to science it s seven su
b
planes being respectively Heat ; Light ;
Magneti sm ; Electr icity and Attraction
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ncl
d
i
n
g
rav
i
tat
i
on
Cohe
ion
C
emi
a
l
s
u
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h
(
Afi n
ity etc ) and several other forms of
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la ssificat ion of the Seven Minor
Ment al Planes is more or less satisfact ory
an
d arbi trary ( unless accompanied by elab
C r a t e explanati ons which are foreignto the
purpo se of thi s p arti cu
lar work ) but we
may as well mention them They are as
follows
The
c
,
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The Plane of Miner al Mind
The Plane of Elemental M ind
d
Th e Plane of Plant Min
Th e Plane of Elemental Mind
The Plane of Animal Mind
The Plane of E lemental M ind
The Plane of Hu
man M ind
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The Plane of Mineral Mind comp rises
“
the states or conditions of the uni ts or
entities or groups and combinations of the
same which animate th e forms known t o
“
These
us as minerals chemicals etc
ot b e con
f ou
entities mu
nded with the
st n
molecules atoms and corpuscles th em
selve s the latter bei ng merely the materia l
bodi es or fo rm s of these entities j ust as a
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s body is but his material fo rm and
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not h imself
These entities may be
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c alled
souls in one sense and are l iving
beings of a low degre e o f development l ife
—
an
d mind just a l i ttle more th an the units
“
of
l iving energy which comprise the
higher sub d ivi si ons of the hi ghest Phys
ical Plane The average mind does not
generally attribute the po ssession of m ind
soul or l ife to the M ineral kingdom but
all occ ulti sts recogn
ize the existence of the
same and modern science is rapidly m ov
—
ing forward to the point of View of th e
Hermetic in th i s respect The molec ules
atoms and corpuscles have their loves
“
”
and hates ; likes and dislikes ; attrae
”
tions and repulsi ons ; aflinit ies and non
”
etc and some of t he more dar
afi n
it ie s
ing of modern scientific mind s have ex
pressed the op inion that the des i re and
w i ll emoti ons and feel ings of the atoms
di ff er only in degree from those of men
We have no t ime or space to arg u
e thi s
ma tter here All o ccultists know it t o b e
a fact and other s are referred t o some of
ma n
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more rece nt sc ientific w orks fo r out side
a l sev e n
su
c o r r o b o ra ti on
Ther e a r e t he u
su
b divis i ons t o th i s pla ne
The Plane o f Ele menta l Mind ( A ) com
pri ses th e s ta te o r condition and de gr e e of
menta l and vita l dev elopment o f a class o f
entiti es unknown t o th e a ver age man but
rec ogniz ed t o oc cultists Th ey are invis
ible t o the ordinary se ns es of ma n but
nevertheless exi st and play their part of
th e Drama of the Univer se Thei r degree
of intell igence i s be tw een tha t of the min
eral and ch emica l entiti es on the one hand
and of the entities of the plant kingdom on
th e oth er There are seven sub—
divisions
to thi s plane also
The Plane of Plant M ind in its seven
sub divis ions compri ses the sta tes or con
dit ions of th e ent i ti es compris ing the king
doms of th e Plant World th e vital and
mental phenomena of which i s fai rly well
u
nderstood by the average intelligent pe r
son many new and in teresting scient ific
“
works regarding
M ind and Life in
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Plants having been published during the
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Kyb a lion
and in cer ta in combinati ons The highes t
forms are semi human i n intelligence
The Plane of Human M ind in it s seven
sub d ivi s ions compri ses those mani fe st a
tions of l ife and mental ity which are c om
m ont o Man in his various grades degrees
and divi sions In thi s connection we wi sh
to po int out the fact that the average m a n
—
of t o da y occ up i es but the fourth su
b d i vi
s i on of the Plane of Human M ind and only
the most intell igent have crossed the b o r
ders of the F i fth Sub D ivis ion It h as
taken the race mill ions of years to reac h
thi s sta ge and it will take many more years
for th e race to move on t o the s ixth and
—
seventh sub d ivi s ions and beyond But
remember th at there have been races b e
fore us which have passed th rough these
degrees and th en ont o higher planes O ur
own race is th e fifth ( with stragglers from
the fourth ) which has set foot upon The
Path And then there are a few advanced
souls of our ow nrace w ho h ave outs t ripp ed
th e masses and who have passed onto the
sixth and seventh sub divi s i on and some
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few being still further on The man of the
S ixth Sub Division will be The Sup er
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“
Man ; he of the Seventh will be The
O ver Man
In our consideration of the Seven Minor
Mental Planes we have merely referred to
the Three Elementary Planes in a general
way We do not wish to go into thi s sub
j c et 1 1 1 deta i l in this work for it does not
belong to this pa rt of the general philos
Ophy and teachings
But we may say this
much in order t o give youa little clearer
i dea of the relati ons of these planes to the
more familiar ones the Elementary
Planes bear the same relation to the Planes
Plant Animal and Hu
man
of M i neral
Mental ity and Life that the black keys on
the p i ano do t o th e white keys Th e white
keys are su
flic ien
t to produce music but
there are cer tain scales melodies and har
monies in which the black keys play thei r
part and in which their presence i s nec e s
“
sary They are also necessa ry as con
nect ing l inks
of soul condition ; entity
s tates etc between the several other
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planes certain fo rm s of development be ing
—
a ttained therein this la st fact giving to
“
the reader who can rea d be tw ee n the
”
l ines a new l ight upon the processes of
Evolut ion and a new key to the sec ret doo r
”
“
o f th e
leaps of l ife be tween kingdom
and kingdom The great king doms of E le
m ent a ls are fully recogni ze d by all o ccult
i sta and the esoteric wri tings are fu
ll of
lwer s
mention of them The readers of Bu
! anon i and similar t ales will reco gnize
th e enti ties inhabiting these planes of l i fe
Pass ing on from the Great Menta l Plane
t o the Great Sp i ritual Plane what shall we
say ! How can we explain these higher
s tates of Being Life and Mind to minds
as yet unable to grasp and u
nderstand th e
higher sub divi si ons of th e Plane of Human
Mind ! The task is impo ssible We can
sp eak on
ly in the most general terms H ow
may Light be described t o a man born blind
how sugar t o a man w ho has never ta sted
—
anything sweet how harmony t o one born
dea f !
All that we c an say is that the Seven
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Ky b a lion
may without i rreverenc e be called
“
”
The Gods
so high in the scale of Be ing
are they their being int elligence and
power being akin to those a tt ributed by
the races of men to thei r concepti ons of
Deity These Be ings are beyond even the
highes t flights of the human imaginat i on
“
”
the word Divine being the only one ap
plicable t o them Many of these Beings as
well as the Angelic Host take the greatest
interes t in the a fi air s of the Universe and
play an important pa rt init s a fi airs These
Unseen D ivini ties and Angel ic Helpers ex
t end the i r influence freely and powerfully
in the process of Evolution and Co smic
Progress Thei r occas ional intervention
and ass i stance in human a fi air s have led
to th e many legends bel iefs religions and
t raditions of the race past and p resent
They have super impo sed their knowledge
and power upon the world again and again
all under th e Law of TH E AL L of course
But yet even the highest of these a d
ve nced Beings exi st merely as creations of
and in the M ind of TH E AL L and are
w ho
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subject to the Cosmi c Processes and Uni
versal Laws They are s till Mortal We
may call them gods if we like but s till
they are but th e Elder Breth ren of the
—
Race th e advanced souls w ho have out
stripp ed th ei r brethren and w ho have fore
f
one
t
he
ecstacy
bsorption
by
o
A
T
H
E
g
AL L in order t o help th e race on its u
p
wa rd journey along The Pa th But th ey
belong to th e Universe and are subject t o
—
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i ts conditions th ey are mo rtal and th eir
lane
is
belo
w
that
o
f
A
bsolute
Sp
i
rit
p
ly the most advanced Hermeti sts are
On
able to grasp th e Inner Teachings regard
ing th e sta t e of exis t ence and the powers
manifested on the Sp i ritual Planes Th e
phenomena is so much higher than that of
the Mental Planes that a confus ion of ideas
would surely result from an attempt to de
scribe the same Only those whose m inds
have be en carefully tra ined along th e l ines
—
of the He r metic Philosophy for years yes
those w ho have brought with them from
oth er incarnations the knowl edge acqui red
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p reviously c an comprehend just what is
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meant b y the Tea ching rega rding these
es And much of these Inner
al Plan
S pir it u
i
r
Teachin
held
b
y
the
He
met
s
t
s
s
i
s
a
s
g
being t oo sacr ed importa nt and even dan
g
ne
r
al
p
ubl
i
c
d
i
ssem
i
n
a
tion
u
s
f
or
ro
e
e
g
telligent st u
dent ma y recognize what
The in
w e mea n by this when we s ta te tha t t he
“
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mean
ing of Sp i rit as us ed by the Her
“
” “
i
metist s is akinto Living Power
An
“
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Inner Es sence
Es
mat ed F o rc e
sen
ce of Life etc which mea ning must
not b e confounded with th at usually and
commonly employed in connection with t he
term i e
religious ; eccles ias tical ; spir it
uelle ; ethe real ; holy etc etc To oc cul t
”
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ist s the wo r d Spirit is u
sed in the sense
carrying
The Animating Principle
of
with it the idea o f Power Living Energy
Mystic F orce etc And occ ulti sts know
own t o them as Sp ir
t hat th at which is kn
itu
may be employed for evil as
al Power
well as good ends ( in acco rdance with the
Principle o f Polarity ) a fact which has
been recogniz ed by the majority of reli
gions in th eir concep tions of Satan Res lze
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—and such souls make the return journey
,
p aying th e terrible penalty according t o
the invariable Law
In conclusion we would againremind you
tha t according to the Principle of Corre
sp on
den
ce which embodies the truth :
As
Above so Below ; as Below so Above
a ll
of the Seven Her met i c Principles are in
full operation on all of the many planes
Physical Menta l and Spiritual The Prin
c iple of Menta l Substance o f course a pp lies
to all the p lanes for all are held in the
Mind of TH E ALL The Principle of Cor
respondence manifests in all for there is a
correspondence ha r mony and agreement
between the several planes The Princip le
of Vibration manifes t s on all planes infact
the very d ifferences that go t o make the
a
ri
e
from
V
ibration
as
we
ha
v
e
s
l
n
a
e
S
p
exp lained The Principle of Po la rity ma n
ifest s on each plane the extremes of the
Poles being apparently oppo site an d con
t r a dic t or y The Princip l e of Rhythm ma n
ife st s oneach Plane the movement of th e
phenomena having it s ebb and flow rise
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and flow incoming and outgoing The
Principle of Cause and Efi e ct m anifests on
each Plane ever y Efi ec t having its C ause
and ever y Caus e having its c fi ec t The
Principle o f Gender ma nifests on eac h
Plane th e C reative Energy be ing always
m a nifest and ope rating along th e lines of
it s Mascu
ine Aspects
line an
d Femin
“
As Above so Below ; as Below so
ri es old Her metic
Above
Thi s cent u
axiom embo dies one of the gr eat Principles
iversal Phenomena As we proceed
o f Un
wi th our cons iderati on of the remaining
Principl es we will see even more clearly
the tru
t h of the universal na ture of thi s
f
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rea
Pr
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p
ondence
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Kybalion
Her metic Teachings are that not
only is everything in c ons tant movement
an
d vibratio n but th at the difi er ences
be tween the various manifestations of the
universal power are due entirely to the
varying rate and mode of vibrations Not
only t his but that even TH E ALL in itself
manifests a cons tant Vibr ation of such an
infinite degree of int ensity and rapid mo
t ion that it may be p ractically cons idered
as at rest the teachers directing the atten
t ion of th e students t o the fact that even on
t he physica l plane a rap idly moving object
o
suc
as
a
revol
v
in
g
wh
el
seems
t
be
h
e
(
)
at rest The Teachings are t o th e efi ec t
that Spi rit is at one end of the Pole of
Vibra tion the other Pole being certa in ex
t r em ely gros s forms of Ma tter
Between
th ese tw o poles are millions upon millions
o f difi e r en
t rates and modes of vibrati on
Modern Science h as proven that all that
we c all Matter and Energy are but mo des
”
o f vibratory motion
and some of the
more advanced scientists are rap idly mov
ing t oward t he posi tions of th e occultists
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who hold that the phenomena of Mind are
lik ewise modes of v ibration o r moti on Let
us see what science has t o say regarding
the question of vibrations in matter and
energy
In the first place science teaches that all
matter mani fests i n some degree the
vibrations ari s ing from temperature or
—
heat Be an object cold or hot both being
—
but degrees of the same things it mani
fests certain heat Vibrations and in that
sense is inmotion and vibration Then all
particle s of Matter are in circular move
ment from corpuscle t o suns The planets
revolve around suns and many of them
turn on thei r axes Th e suns move arou
nd
greater central points and these are b e
liev ed t o move around still greater and
so on ad infinit u
les of which
m Th e molecu
the particular kinds of Matter are c om
posed are in a state of constant vibration
and movement around each oth e r and
against each other The molecu
les a re com
posed o f Atoms which l ikewi se are ina
state of constant movement and vibra tion
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The a toms are c omposed of Co rpu
scles,
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somet imes ca lled
e le ct r on
s,
ion
s,
etc ,
which also a re ina st a te of ra pid m otion,
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ifest a ve ry ra pid sta te an
man
d mode of
vibra tion And so we se e tha t all fo rms
of Ma tt e r man
ifest Vibra t ion in accor d
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it is with the variou
Science teaches that Light Hea t
En
ergy
Magnetism and El ectricity are b u
t fo rms
of vib ra to ry motion connected inso me way
w ith, an
d probably eman ating from the
ce d oes not as yet attempt to
Ether Scien
a tu
re of the phenomena known
explainthe n
as Cohesio n which is the p rinciple of Mo
lar Attractio n; nor Chemica l Aflin
ity
lecu
which is the p rinciple of Atomic At t rac
tion; nor Gravitation ( the greatest mys
tory of the th ree ) which is the p rinciple
of a tt ract io n by which eve ry particle or
nd t o every o the r
mass of Matter is bou
f
o
e
s
l
ma
These
thre
fo
rm
a
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c
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nderstoo d by sci
ergy are n
ot a s yet u
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S c ient ist s ha ve ofi e r e d t he illu
s t ra t ionof
a ra p idly m ov in
w
h
t
o
or
e
e
l
li
n
d
c
r
e
,
p,
y
g
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t o show t he efi e ct s o f in
c re a sin
of
ra
t
e
s
g
vib r at ion The illust r at ion su
a
o
ses
pp
whe el , t op , or rev olving cylinder , r u
nning
—
a t a low ra t e o f spee d
w e w ill call t his
“
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re v olving thing t he object in follow ing
s t rat ion
Le t u
ppose the
ou
t t h e illu
s su
objec t moving slowly I t ma y b e seenr ea d
nd of its movement reaches
i ly, but no sou
th e ear The speed is gr adually incr e ase d
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In a few moments it s movement bec omes so
rapid tha t a deep growl or low note m a y b e
hea rd Then as the rate is increase d the
note r ises one in the mus ical sca le Then
the mot ion being s til l furth er increa se d the
next highest note i s distinguished Th en
one after another all the note s of t he
mus ica l scale appear ris ing higher and
higher as the motion is increased Finally
when the motions have reached a certain
rate the final note percept ible to human
ears is reached and the shrill piercing
shriek dies away and s ilence follows N o
nd i s h eard from th e revolving object
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the rate of motion being so high that the
human ear cannot register the vibrations
Then come s the p erception of rising de
grees of Heat Then after quite a time the
eye catches a glimpse of th e object b ec om
ing a dull dark reddi sh color As the rat e
increases the red becomes brighter Th en
as th e speed is increased th e red melts into
an orange
Th en th e orange melts into a
yellow
Then follow successively the
shades of green blue indi go and finally
violet as the ra t e of speed increases Th en
the vi olet shades away and all color disap
pears the human eye not be ing able t o
register th em But there are invi sible rays
emanating from the revolving object the
rays that are used in pho tographing and
oth er subtle rays of l ight Th en begin t o
liar rays known as th e
manifest the pecu
“
X Rays etc as th e constitution of the
object changes Electricity and Magnetism
are emitted when the approp riate rate of
vibration is atta ined
When the object reach es a certain rate
o f vibr a ti on it s molecules di s in t egra t e and
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re so lve themselves into the o riginal ele
ments or atoms Then the a toms follow
a
in
t
h
Pr
i
c
i
pl
o
f
Vib
r
tion
a
n
re
se
a
e
e
,
g
p
rated into the cou
ntless co rpuscles of which
they are comp osed And finally event he
co rpuscles disappea r and the obj ect may
be said to b e compo sed of The E the real
Substance Science does not dar e t o follow
s tration furthe r but the Herm etist s
the illu
teach tha t if the vibra tions b e continu
a lly
increased the object wou
ld mou
nt u
h
e
t
p
successive sta tes of manifes ta tion and
woul d int u
rn manifest the variou
s me nta l
ntil it
s ta ge s and then on S piritw ar d, u
wou
ld finally r e enter THE ALL which is
Absolu
te Spi rit The object how ever
wou
ld have ceased to b e an obj ect l ong
be fo re the stage of Ethereal Substance w as
t othe rwi se the illu
st rationis
reached b u
asmu
ch as it shows the efi ect of
c o rrec t in
const antly increa sed rates and modes of
vib ration It mu
st be remembe red inthe
above illustra tion that a t the stages at
which the obj ect throws ofi vib rations
“
of light heat etc it is not actu
ally r e
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Kyb alion
phenomena of telepathy
mental influ
ence and oth er forms of the action and
power of mind over mind with which the
general public is rapidly bec oming ac
u
a
i
n
owing
to
t
h
e
w
i
de
d
i
em
i
n
a
tion
t
e
d
ss
q
o f occu
lt knowledge by the various schools
cu
lts and teachers along these lines at this
time
Ever y thought emoti on or mental sta te
ha s its corresponding rate and mode of
Vibration And by an e ff ort of the will of
the person or of other p ersons th ese
mental states may be reproduced j ust as a
mus ical tone may be reproduced by causing
aninstrument t o Vibrate at a certain rate
—just as color may be reproduced in the
same way By a knowledge o f the Pri nci
ple of Vibrati on a s applied t o Mental Phe
nomens one may polarize hi s mind at any
degree he wishes thus gaining a perfec t
control over his mental states moods etc
In the same way h e may a ff ect th e minds
producing the des ired mental
of others
states in them In short he may be able
t o produce on the Mental Plane that which
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science produces on the Physical Plane
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This power
namely Vibrations at Will
o f course may be acquired only by the
proper instruction exercises practice etc
th e science being th at of Mental Tr ansm u
t at ion one of th e branche s o f the Hermetic
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little reflection on what we have sa id
w ill show th e student that the Principle of
Vibration underl i es the wonderful phenom
ena of the power mani fested by the Mas
ters and Adepts who are able to appar
ently set as ide the Laws of Nature but
who in real ity are simply using one law
against anoth er ; one principle aga inst
others ; and who accomplish their results
by changing the vibration s o f material oh
jeeta or form s of energy and thus perform
”
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wh at are commonly called mi racles
A s on
e of th e old Hermet i c wr i ters h a s
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truly said : He who understands th e Prin
cible of Vibrati on has grasped the sceptre
o f Power
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t half t ru
tru
th s a re b u
ths
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every truth is half false ; there a r e tw o
” “
s ides to everything ; there is a reve rse
”
etc etc
si de to every s hield
The Hermeti c Teachings are t o the e ff ec t
that the diff erence between things seem
t
o
in
d
i
ametrically
op
p
os
e
d
e
a
c
h
othe
r
l
gy
i s merely a matter of degree It teaches
“
that the pai rs of oppo sites may be reco n
“
ciled and th at thesis and anti the sis a r e
identic al in nature but di ff erent in de
”
“
gree ; a nd th at th e universal reconcilia
tion of oppo si tes is e ff ected by a r ec ogn
i
ti on o f thi s Principle of Polarity The
te a c h e rs cl a im tha t illustrations of this
P r inc ipl e m a y be h ad on every h and an
d
fr o m an ex a m ina ti on into th e real nature
n
T
of an
thi
g
h
ey
be
i
n
by
show
i
ng
tha
t
y
g
S p i r it a nd M a tt e r a r e but th e two p oles of
the same thing the intermediate planes
b e ing m e rely de g rees of vibrati on
They
they Sh ow that TH E ALL and The Many
a r e th e sa m e th e di ff e r e nce be ing merely
a m a tt e r o f d e g r e e o f Ment a l Man
i fes t a
t ion Thus the L AI V a nd L a w s a r e th e
a ll
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opposite poles of one thing Likewise
d
PRI N CIPLE and Principles Infinite Min
and finite mi nd s
Th en pass ing on t o the Physical Plane
they illustrate the Principle by showing
that Heat and Cold are identical in nature
the diff erences being merely a matter of
degrees The thermometer shows many
degrees of tempe rature the lowest pole
being called
cold
and the high es t
hea t
Between these tw o poles are many
“
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degrees of heat or cold
call th em
either and you are equally correct The
“
higher of t w o degrees i s always warmer
“
There
while the lower is always colder
—
i s no absolute standard all is a matter of
degree There is no place onthe the rm om
eter wh ere h eat ceases and cold begins It
i s all a matter o f higher or lower vibra
“
”
tions The very terms high and low
which we are compelled to use a re but
poles of the s ame thing the terms are rel
“
” —
a tive So with East and West
travel
a ro u
nd the world in an eas tw a rd direction
an
d youreach a po int whi c h is c a lled w e s
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you
g point and your et ur nfrom
r sta r tin
t ha t w es tw ard poin
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ou
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No r th and youw ill fin
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rse lf tr a velin
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So uth or Vice ve rsa
Light and Da rkness are poles of t he
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v
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startin
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p
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re
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othe
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so
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r
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u
y
fc renees be tweenthe tw o ends of the b oa rd
being th e same w ith ma ny de gr ees bet w een
the t w o extremes The sc ale of c olo r is
—
th e same higher and lower Vib r ations
being the only di ff erence be tw eenhigh Vio
let and low red Large and Sm all a r e rel a
t ive So are N oi se and ! uiet ; Hard and
Soft follow the r ule Likewise Sha r p an
d
Dull Pos itive and N ega tive a r e tw o poles
of the same thing with cou
ntless degr ee s
between them
—
w e ca ll
Go od and Bad are n
ot absolute
one end of the scale Good and the other
Bad or one end Good and the other Ev il
ac cording to the use of the terms A thing
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where Where youfind one thing youfind
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it s opposit e the tw o poles
ables the Her
And it is this fact that en
metist to transmute one mental sta te into
another along the lines of Polarization
t cla sse s can
Th ings belonging t o difi e r en
not be transmuted into each othe r b ut
th ings of the same cla ss may b e changed
th at is m ay have their p ola rity change d
Thus Love n
ever becom es East or West
—
o r Red o r Violet
but it may and O ften
does turn into Hate and likewise Ha te
may be t r ansform ed into Love by changing
it s polarity Courage may be transmuted
into Fear a nd th e reverse Hard things
may be rendered Soft Dull things become
Sh arp Ho t things bec ome Cold And so
on th e transmu t a t ion always b eing b e
tween things of the same kind of d i ff erent
degrees Take the case of a Fearful man
By rais ing his mental vibrations along the
line o f Fear Courage he can be filled with
the highest degree of Courage and Fea r
lessness And likewi se the Slothful man
m ay c h a n
ge himself int o an Active Ene r
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getic individual simply by p ola rizing along
the l ines of the desired quality
The student w ho is familiar with the
p rocesses by which the various schools of
Mental Science etc p rodu
ce change s in
the mental states of tho se following their
teachings may not readily u
nderstand the
principle underlying m any of these
changes When however the Principle of
Polarity is once grasped and it is seen that
the mental changes are o cca sioned by a
change of polarity a sliding along the
—
same scale
the matter is more readily nu
a ture
de r st ood Th e change is not in the n
of a transmutation of one th ing into an
other thing entirely d iff erent but is
merely a ch ange of degree in the same
things a vastly important diff erence F o r
instance borrowi ng an analogy from the
Phys ical Plane it is imposs ible to change
Heat into Sh arpness Loudness Highness
e tc
but Heat may readily be transmuted
into C old simply by lowering the vibra
ti ons In the same way Hate and Love are
tually t ransmutable ; so are Fear and
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But Fear cannot b e tran
sfo rmed
into Love nor can Cou
rage b e transmuted
into Hate The mental sta tes belong t o in
numerable classes each cla ss of which ha s
its opposite poles along which transm u
ta
ti on i s possible
The student w ill rea dily reco gn
ize t ha t
in the mental states as well a s inthe phe
nom ena of the Physica l Plane the tw o
pole s may b e classified as Po si tive an d
Negative res pectively Thus Love is Pos
it iv e to Hate ; Co u
rage to Fear ; Activity
t o NonAct ivity etc e tc
d it wi ll also
An
be noticed that even t o th ose unfamilia r
with the Principle of Vibrati on the Posi
tive pole seems to be of a high er degree
than the Negative and readily domina t es
it The tendency of N ature i s in th e dir ec
tion of the dominant activity of the Posi
tive pole
In addition to t he changing of the poles
o f on
e s ow nmental states by the operat i on
of the art of Polari zation the phenomena
o f Mental Influence in its m anifold phases
shows us that the p rinciple may be e x
Courage
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t ransmuted to Courage and simil ar p osi
tive mental states A little study will Show
you that these m enta l changes are nearly
all along the line of P olarization th e
change being one of degree rather than
of kind
A knowledge of the existence of this
great Hermet ic Principle will enable the
student to better unders t and his own
mental states and th ose of other people
He will see th a t these states are all mat
ters of degree and seeing thus h e will b e
able t o ra i se or lower the vibration at will
to change hi s mental poles and thus b e
Mas ter o f hi s mental states instead of
being their servant and slave And by his
knowledge he will be able to aid h is fellows
intelligently and by the appropriate meth
ods ch ange the polarity wh en the same is
desirable We advi se all s tudent s to famil
ia r ize themselves with thi s Pr inciple of P0
la r ity for a correct u
nders tanding o f the
same will throw l ight onma ny difficult sub
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CHAP TE R
RH YTH M
yt ng o
t n
v yt ng
XI
.
Ever hi
fl ws ou
t an
d in;
i es ; all hi gs rise an
d a ; t he e
hi
est s in e e r
e asu
re
; t he
ri h , is t he
eas r e
t he s i
c
e sa es
The K yb alion
td
f
gt
omp n t
m
of
u
has it s
u
ma i
t he
t he s i
t he le ; rh h
eve
p nd lum 5 g n
of
w ng t o
w ng to
ft
yt m
f ll
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The great Fifth Hermetic P rincipl e the
—
P rinciple of Rhyt hm e mbodies the truth
that in ever yt hing there is manife sted a
measu
r ed motion ; a t o and from move
ment ; a flow and inflow ; a swing forward
an
d backward ; a p endulum like movement ;
a tide l ike ebb and flow ; a high tide and a
low tide ; between the tw o poles manifes t
onthe physi cal mental o r sp i r itual p lanes
The Principle of Rhyt hm is closely con
ne ct ed with the Principle of Polarity de
scribed in th e preceding chapter Rhythm
m ani fests between the t w o poles establ i shed
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The
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by the Principle of Polarity This does
not mean however that the pendu
lu
m of
Rhythm swings t o th e extreme poles for
thi s rarely ha ppens ; in fac t it is difficult
t o e stablish the ext reme polar opp os i tes in
the majority of ca se s But the swing is
ever toward first one pole and then th e
o ther
There i s always an action and reacti on;
an advance and a re t reat ; a ri s ing and a
s inking ; manifested in all of the airs and
n
henome
a
of
the
Un
i
verse
Suns
worlds
p
men animals plants minerals forc es
energy mind and matter yes even Spi rit
manifes t s this Principle The Princ iple
manifests in the crea tion and destr uction
o f worlds ; in the r ise an d fa ll of nat ions ;
in the life hi story of all things ; and fina lly
i n the mental sta tes of Man
Beginning with th e manifestations of
—
—
Spirit of THE ALL it w ill be no ticed
that there is ever th e O utpouring and th e
Indrawing ; t he
Outbre athing and I n
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brea thing of Brahm
a s th e Brahm ans
word it Universes are created ; reach t he i r
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The
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toms molec ules and all masses of ma t ter
swing arou
nd the circle of their nature
There i s no such thh g a s absolute rest or
cessat ion from movement and all move
ment partakes of Rhythm The p rinciple
i s of u
niversal appl ication It may be ap
pli ed to any question or phenomena of any
o f th e many planes of l i fe
It may be ap
pl ied to all ph ases of human activi t y
Th ere i s always th e Rhythmic swing from
on
e p ole to th e oth er
The Universal Pen
dulum i s ever in moti on The Tides of
Life flow in and out according to Law
The Principle o f Rh ythm i s well u
nder
s t ood by modern sci ence and i s cons idered
a un iversal law as appl ied to material
things But th e Herm etists carry th e pr in
c ip le much furth er and know th at its man
ife st a t ions and in
fluence extend to the
m ental act iviti es of Man and th at i t a o
c ounts for th e bew i lder in g succession of
moods feel ings and other annoying and
perplexing changes that we notice in our
selves B u
t th e Herm eti sts by studying
the Operations of thi s Principle have
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learned to escape some of its activities b y
Tran smutation
The Hermetic Masters long sinc e d i s
covered that while the Principle of Rhyt hm
was invariable and ever in evidence in
m ental phenomena still there were t w o
planes of i ts manifestati on s o far as menta l
phenomena are concerned Th ey discov
ered that there were tw o general planes
of
Consc i ousness th e Lower and the
Higher th e understanding of which fac t
enabled th em to ri se to the higher plane
and thus escap e the swing of th e Rhythmi c
pendulum which mani fested on the lower
plane In other words the swing of th e
pendulu
m occurred on th e Unconscious
Plane and th e Consciousness was not a f
fec t ed This th ey c all th e Law of N eutrali
z a t ion Its operat i ons cons i st i n th e ra i s
ing of the Ego above th e vibrati ons of th e
Unconscious Plane of mental activity so
that the negative swing of the pendulum i s
not mani fested in consciousness and th ere
fore th ey are not a ffec ted It i s akin to
ri s ing above a thing and letting i t pass b e
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nea th you The Hermetic Maste r or a d
van
dent polarizes himself a t the
c ed stu
des ired pole and by a process akin to
refusing to participa te inthe backw ard
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sw ing or if youp r efe r, a denia l of it s
influence over him he sta nds firm in hi s
pola r ized position, and allow s the menta l
ncon
pendu
lum to swing back along the u
sci ous plane All individu
a ls w ho h ave at
t a in
ed any degree of self mast e ry aec o m
i
d
i
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n
l
h
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thi
mo
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k
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o
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p
by refusing to allow th eir moo ds and nega
t ive mental sta tes to a fi ect t hem they
a pply th e Law of Neutraliz a t ion
The
Master howeve r ca rries this to a mu
ch
higher degree of proficiency and by the
use of hi s Will he atta ins a degree of Poise
and Ment al Fi rmness almo st impos sible of
b el i ef on th e p art of tho se w ho all o w them
selves t o be swung back ward a nd fo rward
b y th e menta l p endu
lum of moo ds and
fe el ings
The importance of t his will b e appro
c ia t e d by any thinking pers on w ho rea lize s
what creatures of moods feelings and emo
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wings although we may escape be ing car
ri ed along with it
There are other features of th e o p erati on
of thi s Principle o f Rhythm of which we
wish to speak at thi s point There c ome s
into it s operations that which is knowna s
th e Law of Compensation One of the defi
nit ions or meanings of the word Com pen
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sate i s to cou
nterbal ance which is th e
sense in which th e Hermeti sts use the term
It i s this Law of Compensati on to which
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The
th e K yb a lion refers wh en i t says
measure of th e swing t o the right is th e
measure of the swing to the left ; rhythm
compensa t es
The Law of Comp ensati on i s th at th e
swing in one di rec tion determines the swing
in the oppos ite di recti on o r to th e oppos it e
—
pole th e one balances or c ount er b a l
an
c e s th e oth er
On th e Phys i cal Plane
we see many examples o f thi s Law Th e
pendulum of the clock swings a certa in d is
tance to the right and th en an equal dis
tance to the left The seasons balance each
othe r in th e same way The t ide s follow
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the same Law And the same Law i s m a n
ife st ed in all the phenomena of Rhythm
m with a short swing in one
The pendulu
direction has but a short swing in th e
oth er ; while the long swing to th e righ t
invariably means the long swing to th e left
An objec t hurled upward to a certa i n
height has an equal di stance to traverse on
i ts return Th e force with which a p r o
t
is
sent
u
p
ward
a
m
i
le
is
reproduced
ec
i
l
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j
when the p rojectile returns t o the earth on
i ts return journey This Law i s constant
o nth e Physic al Plane as reference to t h e
standard authorities will sh ow you
But t he Hermetists carry it still further
Th ey teach that a man s mental states are
subject to the same Law The man w ho
enjoys keenly i s subject to keen su ff ering ;
while h e w ho feels but li ttle pain i s capable
o f feel ing but l i ttle joy
Th e pig su ffers
but little menta lly and enjoys but little
he i s co mpens a ted And on the oth er h and
there a re other animals w ho enjoy keenly
but whose nervous organism and tempera
m en t cau
se th em t o suff er exqui site de gre e s
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pa in And so it i s with Man There a r e
t emperaments which pe rmit of but low de
e
r
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of
enjoyment
and
eq
u
all
y
l
o
de
w
g
grees of suffering ; while there ar e others
w hich permi t th e most inte nse enjoyment
but also th e most intense sufl er ing The
rule i s th at th e capacity for painand pleas
ure in each individual are bal anced The
Law of Compensation is in full ope ra tion
here
But the Hermetists go still further in
thi s m atter They teach that before one is
able t o enjoy a ce rtaindegree of pleasure
he must have swung a s fa r p ropo rtion
ately toward the other p ole of feeling
Th ey hold however that the Negative is
prec edent t o the Positive in this matter
th at is t o say th at in exp eriencing a cer
tain degree of pleasure it does not follow
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that he will have to pay up for it with
a corresponding degree of pain ; on the c on
t r a r y th e pleasure i s the Rhythmic swin
g
according to the Law of Compensation fo r
a de gree of pain p reviously exp erienced
e ither in the present life or in a previous
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pleasant and u
npleasant sides : The
things tha t one ga ins are al ways paid for
by the things t hat one loses Th e rich pos
while the
se ss much t hat the poor lack
poor often posses s things that are beyond
The milli onai re may
t he rea ch of the rich
have th e inc linati on toward feasting and
the wea lth whe r ewith t o secure all the dain
ties an
d luxuries of the ta ble while he lacks
the appetite t o enjoy the s ame ; he envies
the appe tite and digest i on of th e labo rer
w ho lacks the wea l t h and inclinati ons of
d who gets more p leas
th e millionaire an
ure from his plain food thanthe mill ionaire
ld obtain even if hi s appeti te were not
co u
jaded nor his digestion ruined for the
want s habits and inclinations diff er And
s o it i s through l ife
Th e Law of Com p en
sation i s ever in operati on s t riving t o bal
ance and counter balance and always suc
ce edin
in
time
even
th
ough
several
l
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ves
g
may be required for the return swing of
the Pendu
lum of Rhythm
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CHAPTER XII
Ever
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planes of
The
y
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Cau
ca sati
on
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bu
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Efl sct has it s
to Law ; Chance is
ar e ma
esca es t he Law
ever
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ny
p
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the
great Six th Hermetic Principle—
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Principle of Cause and E ff ect e mbodies
th e t r u
th tha t Law pervade s t he Universe ;
that nothing happens by Ch ance ; that
dicating cau
se
Ch ance is merely a te rm in
ized or p erceived ;
exi sting b u
t not recogn
th at phenomena is continu
ous withou
t
break or exception
Th e Prin
u
ciple of C ause and Efi ect n
d er lie s all scientific though t an
t and
cien
nciate d by t he Her
m odern and w as enu
metic Tea che rs inthe earliest days While
m a ny and var ied disputes b e tw een the
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The K y b ah on
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many school s of thought have since arisen
these di sputes ha ve be en p rincip ally upon
the details of the operations of the P rin
pon the mean
c ip le and still more often u
f
i
n
u
certa
w
ord
The
nde
r
l
y
i
g
Prin
o
s
n
in
g
c ip le o f Cause and E ff ect has beenaccep t ed
as correc t by p ractically all the thinkers of
the world worthy of the na me To think
ld be t o take the ph eno men
otherwise wou
a
niverse from the domain of Law
of the u
and O rder and to relega te it to the control
of the imaginary something which men
have ca lled Chance
A l i ttle consideration will show anyone
that there is in reality no su
ch thing a s
pure Chance Webs t er define s the word
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Chance a s follows : A supp o sed agent
or mode of activity o t h er than a force l aw
or pu rpo se ; the o pe ration o r activity of
such agent ; the supposed efi ect of such
an agent ; a happening ; fo rtuity ; ca sual t y
etc
But a little considerationwill show
you that there can be no such agent as
Ch an
ce inthe sense of something out
—
s ide of Law something outside of Cause
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The
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ela ted to any cau
d this is the sense
An
se
in which the ter m is generally employed
But when the matter is clo sely examined
it is seen that there is no chance what
soever about the fall of the dice E ach
t ime a die falls and displays a certai n
number it obeys a law as infallible as that
which governs the revolution of the planets
around the su
n Back of the fall of th e
die are causes or chains of causes running
back fu
rther than th e mind can follow The
pos it ion of the di e in th e b ox ; th e amount
of mus cular energy expended in the th row ;
th e condition of the table etc etc all are
causes th e e ff ect of which may be seen
But back of these seen causes there are
cha ins of u
nseen preceding causes all of
which h ad a bearing upon the number of
th e die which fell uppermost
If a die be cast a great number of times
it will be found that th e numbers shown
will be about equal that i s there will b e
an equal number of one spot two spot etc
coming uppermost Toss a penny in th e
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tails ; but make a suffic ient numbe r
o f tosses and the heads and ta ils will about
even up This i s the operation of the law
But both the average and th e
o f average
single toss come u
nder the Law of Cause
and E ffect and if we were able t o examine
into the p receding causes it would be
clearly seen that it was sim ply imposs ible
for the die to fall other than it did under
the same circumstances and at the same
t ime Given the same causes the same r e
lt s wil l follow
su
There i s always a
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cause and a because to every event
Nothing ever happens without a cause
or rather a chain of causes
Some confusion has ar i sen in the minds
of persons cons idering this Pr inciple from
the fact that they were unable to exp lain
how one thing cou
ld cause another thing
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that is be the creato r of the second
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th ing As a matter o f fact no thing
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ever causes o r creates another thing
Cause and E ff ect deals merely wi th
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An event
events
is that which
c omes arri ves or happens as a result or
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consequent of some preceding event
N0
t
creat es
another event b u
t is
even
merely a preceding link inthe grea t o rde rly
chain of event s flow ing fr om t he creat ive
energy of TH E ALL There is a cont in
uity between all events precedent conse
quent and subsequ
ent The re is a relation
g between everything that has go ne
existin
before and eve rything that follows A
s tone is dislo dged from a mountain side
an
d c rashes throu
gh a roof of a cottage in
the valley belo w At first s ight we rega r d
this as a chance eff ect but whenw e exam
ine the matte r we find a grea t chain of
causes behind it I nthe first place t here
was the rain which softened the ea rth su
p
p orting the stone and which allowed it t o
fall ; then back of that w as the influence of
th e sun other rains etc which gradually
disintegrated the piece of rock from a
larger p iece ; then there were the cau
s es
which led t o the forma tion of the mo u
ntain
and its upheaval by convu
ls ions of nature
and so onad infinitu
Th en we might fol
m
low up th e causes behind the ra in etc
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Ky balion
events hu
ndreds of years from no w One
y
o f t he se rie s of ev ent s a rising from t he tin
bit of soot w as the writing of these lines
which caused the typ esetter to p erform
certainwo rk ; the proofreader to do like
wise ; and which will a rouse ce rtain
thou
ghts inyou
r mind and tha t of others
which in turn will afi ect others and so on
and on and on beyond the abili ty of m an
—
to think fu rth er and all from the pass age
of a tiny bit of s oot all of wh ich shows
the relativit y and associati on of things
and the further fact that there is no
great ; there is no small ; in the mind that
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causeth all
Stop to think a moment If a ce rtain
manha d n
ot met a certain maid away back
—
in the dim p erio d of the Stone Age you
w ho are n
ow rea ding the se l ines wo u
ld not
now be here And if perhaps the s ame
cou
ple had fa iled to meet we who now
write these lines wou
ld not now be here
And the very act of writin
g onour part
and the act of reading on yours will a ff ect
not only the respective l ives of yourself and
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ourselves b u
t will also have a di rec t or
indi rect afi ect u
pon m any other pe ople
now living and who will live in the ages to
come Ev ery tho u
gh t we think every act
we perfor m has its direct and indir ect t e
lts which fit into t he gr ea t chainof Cau
su
se
and Efi ec t
We do not wish to enter into a cons ider
ism in this
ation o f Free Will or Deter min
work for variou
Among the
s reas ons
many reas ons is the principal one that
neither s ide of the cont rove rsy is entirely
—
right in fact both sides ar e partia lly
right ac cording to the Hermetic Teach
ings The Pr inciple of Polari ty s hows
—
tha t both a r e b u
H
a
l
f
T
r
th
t
u s the oppos
ing poles of Tru
th The Teachings are
that a manmay be bo th Free and yet bo und
by Necessity depending upon the meanin
g
of the te rms and t he height of Truth from
which the matter is examined The an
cient wr iters express the ma tter thus
The fu
rther the creation is from the
Centre t he more i t is bound ; the nearer
the Centre it reaches the nearer Free i s
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The K yba lion
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ma jority of peop le ar e mo re or less
the slaves of he redity envi ronment et c
and mani fe st ve ry litt le Freedom They
are swayed by t he opinions cu
sto ms an
d
thoughts of t he ou
tside world and al so by
s fee lin
their emotion
gs moo ds etc They
ma ni fest no Mas tery wor thy of the nam e
They indignan
tly repu
dia te this asse rtion
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saying Why I certain
ly am fre e t o ac t
—
an
d do as I plea se I do j u
st wha t I wa nt
t o do
but they fail t o explain whence
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a r ise the want to and as I please
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What makes them want to do one thing
in p reference t o ano ther ; what makes them
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pl ease to do this and not do that ! I s
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the re no becau
to their plea sing
se
and wanting i The Maste r can change
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these pl eases and wants into othe rs
at the oppo site end of the mental pole He
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is able t o Will t o will
in
s te ad of t o w ill
becau
emotion or
se some feelin g m ood
mental suggestionarouses a tend
environ
cy or desire withinhim so to do
en
The majori ty of p eople a re carried alon
g
like the fall ing st one obedient to environ
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Bu
t,
Ky b alion
n higher and on lower the La w
Th ere is no su
is alw ays inope ra tion
ch
things as Chanc e The blind goddess has
beenabolished by Reason We are able to
wit h eyes made clea r by knowl
ow
see n
i
edge tha t eve r ythin g i s gove r ned by Un
—
ver sal Law that t he infinite numbe r of
l aws a re b u
t ma n
if esta ti on
s of the One
—
Grea t Law the LAW which is THE AL L
It is true indeed that not a sparrow dr op s
—
unnoticed by the M ind of TH E ALL that
even the hairs on our head are numbered
a s the scrip t ures have said
There is noth
ing outside o f Law ; no thing that happe ns
contra ry to it And yet do not make the
mistake of supp osing that Man is but a
—
blind automaton far from that The H er
metic Teachings are that Man may use
Law to overcome laws and that the higher
will always prevail against the lower until
at last he has reached the stage in which
he seeks refuge in th e LAW it self and
lau
ghs the phenomenal laws to scorn Ar e
o
u
able to grasp the inner meaning of
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CHAPT E R
n der
is in everyt hin ,
r i ci
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an
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- The
K yb a lio n
es
Ge
line
plan
nn P n p
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ever
.
ything h
as
it s Mas cu
nder manifest s on
Ge
a ll
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great Seventh Hermetic Principle
—
the P rinciple of Gender embo dies the
truth that there is Gender mani fested in
—
everyt hing that the Mascu
l ine and Femi
nine p rinciples are ever p resent and active
in all ph a ses of phenomena on eac h and
every plane of life At this point we t hink
it well to ca ll your attention to the fact
that Gender in it s Hermetic sense and Sex
i n the ordinarily acc epted use of the term
are not the sam e
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The word Gender is derived fr om the
“
Latin root mean
ing
to beget ; to pro
c reate ; to
t
e
n
erate
o
cr
e
a
t
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to
p
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The K y b a lion
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sidera t ion w i ll show yo u
A moment s c on
tha t the wor d has a mu
ch broa de r and m o re
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in
genera l mean
g t hanthe te rm Sex , the
la tt er r e ferr ing t o the physica l distinctions
’
merely a manifesta t ionof Gende r ona
cer t ain plane of the Grea t Physica l Plane
t he plan
ic life We wish t o im
e of organ
p ress this distinctionu
ponyou
r minds for
the reason that ce r t ain w riters who have
acq uired a smatte ring of the Herme tic Phi
losophy have sought to iden
t ify this Sev
en
th Herme ti c Principl e with w ild and fan
c ifu
l and often reprehensible theo ries an
d
tea chings regarding Sex
The oflice of Gende r is so lely that of or e
a ting producing generating etc and its
manifes tations are visible on every plane
lt t o
of phenomena It is somewha t difi cu
produce proofs of this along sc ientific lines
fo r the reason that science ha s not a s yet
recognized this Principl e a s of u
nive rsa l
application But still some proofs a re
forthcoming from scientific sources I nthe
fir st place w e fin
ct manifestation
d a d istin
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Negative
Kyb alion
of
Poles
Elect ricity
(
ao
led )
N ow a word at this point regarding this
identification The public mind has formed
an entirely erroneous imp ression regard
ing the qualities of the so called N ega
tive pole of electrified or magnetized
Matter The terms Pos itive and Nega tive
are very wrongly appli ed to th is phenom
nonby science The word Pos itive means
en
something real and strong as compared
with a N egative unreali ty o r weakness
N othing i s further from the real facts of
elec trica l phenomena The so c alled N ega
tive pole of the ba ttery i s really the pole in
and by which the generation or p roduction
of new forms and energies is manife sted
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There is no th ing negative about it The
best scientific authori ties now use the word
“
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Cathode in place of Negative
the
word Cathode coming from th e Greek root
“
meaning descent ; the p ath of generat ion
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From the Cathode pole emerge the
et c
swa rm of electrons or corpuscles ; from the
”
same pole emerge those wonderful rays
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have revolutionize d sc ientific concep
ti ons during the past decade The Cathode
pole i s t he Mo ther of all of the strange
henomena
whic
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h
ave
rendere
u
eless
the
d
s
p
sed many
old t ext bo oks and whi ch have c au
long accepted theories to be relegated to
th e scrap p ile of scientific spec ulation The
Cathode or Negative Pole is the Mo th er
Principle of Electrica l Phenomena anJ of
the finest forms of matte r as yet known to
science So you see we are justified in
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refusing to use the te rm N egative
our considerati on of the subject and in
insist ing upon substituting the word
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Feminine for the old te rm The facts
of the cas e bea r us ou
t in this without tak
ing the Hermetic Teachings into c onsid
An
e r a t ion
d so w e shall u
se t he word
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F em m ine inthe place of Negat ive in
speaking of that pole of activity
The latest sc ientific teachin
gs a r e that
the creative corpuscles o r electrons are
Feminine ( sc ience says they a r e com
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po sed of negative e lectricity
w e say
they are co m po sed o f Feminine energy )
which
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The
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Feminine c o rpu
sc le becomes det ac he d
from or ra the r leaves a Masc u
lin
e c or p u
s
c le an
d sta r ts ona n
I t a ct iv ely
ew c ar ee r
seeks a u
nionw i th a Masc u
lin
e c o rpu
sc le
being urged the re t o by the na t u
lse
r al im pu
t o c rea t e n
e rgy
ew for ms of Ma tt e r or En
se the t e r m
On
e w rit e r goes so far as t o u
i t a t onc e seeks of its ow n volition a
union etc This detac hm ent and u
niting
fo r m the bas is of the grea t e r pa r t of the
activit ies of the chemical world Whenthe
Femin ine corp usc le unites w ith a M asen
line co r puscle a ce rtain p rocess is begu
n
The Feminine pa r ticle s vibra te ra pi dly
unde r th e influence of th e Masc u
line en
nd the lat te r
orgy and circl e ra pi dly a ro u
The result is t he birth of a n
ew at o m
This new atom is really composed of a
u
nionof the Ma sc uline and Feminine ele c
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t rons o r corpuscles b u
t whenthe u
fo rmed the atom is a sepa rate thing hav
n
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r
t
ai
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ro
p
e
t
i
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but
lon
g
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r
ma
i
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o
n
g
festing the p rope rty of free electricity
The p rocess of detachm ent or separa tion
of the Feminine electrons i s called ion
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Ky b alion
garding the ope rationof t he tw o p rinciples
of Gende r in the producti on and manifesta
tion of various fo rms of energy etc b ut
we do not deem it exp edient to go into
detail regarding the same at this po int
becaus e we are u
nable to back u
the
same
p
with sc ientific proof fo r the reason that
scien
c e ha s not a s yet progressed thu s far
But the example w e have given you of the
phenomena of the electrons or corpuscles
will show youthat science is on the right
path a nd will also give you a genera l idea
of the u
nderlying p rinciples
Some leading scientific investiga to rs
have announced their belief that in t he
forma ti on of crystals there w as to be found
sex
something that corresponded t o
activity which is another straw showing
the d irection the scientific winds a re blow
ing And each yea r will bring othe r facts
to corroborate the correctness of the Her
metic Principle of Gender It w ill be found
that Gende r is in constant operation and
manifestation inthe field of inorganic mat
ter and int he field of Energy o r Force
E lec tricity is now gene rally regarded as
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th e
Something into which all o the r
forms of energy seem t o melt o r dissolve
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The El ect rical Theo ry of the Universe
is the latest scientific doctrine and is grow
ing rapidly inp opu
la rity and general ao
c ep t an
d it thus follows that if w e
ce
An
are able to discover in the phenomena of
—
electricity even a t the very root and
—
source of it s manifestations a c lea r and
unmistakable evidence of the p res ence of
Gender and its activit ies we are jus tified
in asking youto bel ieve that science at l ast
has o ffered p roofs of the existence in all
universal phenomena of that great Her
—
r
metic P inciple the Principle of Gender
It is not necessary t o take up your time
with the well known phenomena of the
attraction an
d repulsion of the a toms ;
chemical affinity ; the loves and hates
of the atomic particles ; the attraction or
cohesion between the molecules of matter
These facts are too well known to n
eed
extended comment from us But have you
ever considered that all of these things are
ma nifestations of the Gender Principle !
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Kyb alion
C a n you
not see that the phenomena is
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onall fo u
or elect rons ! And more th an this can you
not see the reasonableness of the Hermet ic
Teachings which asse r t th at the very Law
—
of Grav ita tion tha t st range attraction by
reason of which all par ticles and bodies of
matte r in the u
niverse tend towa rd each
—
other is but another manifestation of the
Principle of Gende r which op erates in the
direc tion of attracting the Mascu
line to the
Feminine energies and vice versa l We
cannot ofi er yousc ientific p roof of this at
—
this time bu
t examine the phenomena i n
the light of the He rmetic Teachings onthe
su
bject and see if youhave not a better
working hyp othesis than any ofi er ed by
physical science Submit all physica l phe
nomens t o the test and you w ill discern
the Principle of Gender ever in evidence
Let us now pas s on to a consideration o f
the operation of the Principle onthe Men
tal Plane Many interesting features are
there awaiting examination
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Ky b a lion
minds
the active and pass ive minds
e tc etc The theori es of the various
w r it ers di ffer from each o ther but there
remains the underlying principle of th e
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duality of mind
The student of th e Hermet ic Philosophy
is temp t ed t o smile when he reads and hears
“
new theor ies regarding
o f th ese many
the dual ity of m ind each school adh ering
tenaciously t o it s ow n pet theori es and
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each cla iming t o h ave di scovered the
”
The s tudent turns back th e pages
truth
o f occult h i s t o r y and away back in the dim
beginnings of occult t eachings he finds ref
e r en
ce s t o th e a nc i ent Hermet i c doctrine
o f th e Pr inc iple of Gender on the Mental
—
Plane the manifes t ation of Mental Gen
der And examining furth er h e finds t hat
the ancient p hilosophy took cognizance of
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th e phenomenon of th e dual m ind and
accounted fo r it by th e theory of Mental
Gender Thi s i dea of Mental Gender may
be expla ined in a few words t o student s
w ho are fami li ar with th e modern th eor i e s
just alluded t o The Mascul ine Principle
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M ent a l G ender
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Mind corresponds to the so c alled Oh
e
i
v
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t
e
M
i
nd
onsc
i
ous
Mind
oluntary
C
V
j
;
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Mind ; Active Mind etc And the Femi
nine Principle of Mind corresponds t o the
so called Subjective Min
d ; Sub conscious
Mind ; Invol u
ntary Mind ; Pass ive Mind
etc O f course the Hermetic Teachings do
not agree with the many modern theories
regarding the nature of the two phases of
mind no r does it admit many of the facts
claimed for the two respective a spec ts
some of the said theories and claims being
ve ry far fetched and incapable of standing
the test of ex p eriment and demonstration
We point to the phases of agreement
merely fo r the purp ose of helping the stu
dent to assimilate hi s previously acqu
ired
knowledge with the teachings of the Her
metic Philosophy Stu
dents of Hudson will
notice the statement at the beginning of h i s
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second chapter of The Law of Psychic
Phenomena
that
The mystic ja rgon
of the He rmetic philo so phe r s di sclose s th e
—
i e the duality of
same genera l idea
m ind
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Kyb alion
and trouble to decipher a little of the
mystic jargon of the Her metic Philoso
phy he might have received much lig ht
upon th e subject of the dua l mind —b ut
then pe rhap s his m ost interesting work
might not have been written Let u
ow
s n
cons ider the Hermetic Teac hings regard
in
Mental
ender
G
g
The Hermetic Teache rs impa rt their in
struction regarding this subjec t by bidding
thei r students exam ine the repo r t of their
consciousness regar ding thei r Self The
rn their attention
students a r e hiddento tu
inward upon the S elf dwel ling within eac h
Each student i s led to see that his con
sc iou
sn
e ss gives h im first a repo r t of the
—
existence of his Self the repo r t is I
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Am
This at first seems to b e the final
words from the consciousness but a li ttle
further examination di scloses the fact tha t
“
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this I Am m ay be separated o r split
into two distinct p a rts or aspects, which
while working in unison and in conj u
nct ion
yet nevertheless may b e separated incon
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The
Kybalion
as being certa in knowledge gathered to
gether inhis mind and t hus forming a pa rt
“
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of him self
Thi s is the Me of a man
But we have proceeded too hast ily The
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Me of many men may be said to consi st
largely of thei r consciousness of the body
an
d th eir physical appetites etc
Their
sness being la rgely bound u
conscio u
w
ith
p
thei r bodily nature th ey practically live
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there
Some m en even go so fa r a s to
regard their personal apparel as a p art of
their Me and actually seem to consider
it a pa r t of themselves A writer has hu
m orou
sly said that
men consi st of three
—
p arts sou
l body and cloth es
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clothe s co nscious
people would lose
thei r personali ty if divested of thei r cloth
ing by savages upon the occas ion of a ship
wreck But even many who are not so
closely bound up with the idea of personal
raiment stick clo sely to the consciousnes s
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of their bodies being t hei r Me
They
can
not conceive of a Self independent of
the body Thei r mind seems t o them to be
practically a something belonging to
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—
their body which in many cases it i s in
deed
But as man ri ses in the scale of con
sc iou
sn
e ss h e is able to disentangle h i s
“
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Me from his idea of body and is able
“
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t o think of his body as belonging to th e
mental part of him But even then h e i s
very apt t o ident ify the Me entirely
w ith the men t al sta t es feelings etc which
he feels to exist within him He is ver y ap t
t o consi der th ese internal states as iden
tical wit h himself instead of thei r bei ng
”
simply things produced by some part of
hi s mental ity and exi s ting withi n him
“
himself
o f him and in him but still not
He sees that h e may change these internal
s ta t es of feelings by an e fi or t of will and
tha t he may produce a feel ing or s tate of
an exactly oppos ite nature in the same
“
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way and yet th e same Me exists And
so aft er a while he is able t o set a side
these various mental states emoti ons
feelings habits qualiti es characteristic s
—
and other persona l mental belongings he
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is able t o set them aside in the not me
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co llectionof cur iosities and encu
mbrances
able possessions This r e
as well as va lu
qu
i res mu
ch mental conc entration and
powe r of ment al analysis on the part of
the stu
dent B u
t still the t a sk is p o ssibl e
for the advanced student and eventhose
not so far advanced a r e able t o see inthe
imagination how the p rocess may b e per
formed
After this laying a side proc ess has bee n
performed the student w ill find him self in
“
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conscious possess ion of a Self which
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may be considered in its I and Me
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dual aspects Th e Me will be felt t o be
a Something mental in which thoughts
ideas emotions feel ings and othe r mental
states may be produced It may b e consid
“
ered a s the mental wom
as the an
—
cien
g men
t s s tyled it capable of generatin
tal ofi sp ring It reports t o the conscious
ness as a Me with latent powers of crea
tion and generation of mental p ro geny of
ds I t s powers of crea tive
all sorts and kin
t still
energy are felt to be enormous B u
it seems to be conscious that it mu
st r e
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The K y b alion
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d ge ne ra t ion
t ion an
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in t he m ind
Th e r e is t his
dual
y person The
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lin
I re p r esents the Mascu
cip le of
e P r in
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Menta l Gende r t he Me re pres ents the
Fema le Pr inc iple The I represents the
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Asp ec t of Be in g ; t he Me the Aspec t of
Bec oming Y ouw ill no tice that the Pr in
c iple o f Co r r e spo n
d ence oper ate s on thi s
plane just as it does upon the grea t plane
upo n which the crea ti on of Universes i s
per for med The tw o a re similar in kind
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a bo ve so below ; as below s o above
These a spec ts o f mind—the Mascu
l ine
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and Feminine Principles the I and th e
—
Me
considered in connec tion with th e
well known mental and psychic phenomena
give the master key t o these dimly known
regions of menta l oper ati on and man ifes ta
tion The principle of Mental Gender gives
the truth underlying the whole field of th e
phenomena of menta l influenc e etc
The tendency of the F eminine Principle
i s always in the di rec ti on of receiving im
press i ons while th e tendency of the Mas
asp ect
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culine P rinciple is always in the direction
of giving out or expressing Th e Femi
nine Principle has a much more varied field
of operati on than has the Masculine Prin
c ip le
The Feminine Principle conduct s
the work of generating new though ts con
capts ideas including the work of the im
The Masculine Principle con
a t ion
agin
tents itself with the work of the Will
inits vari ed phases And yet wi th out the
active a i d of the Will of the Masculine
Principle the F eminine Principle i s apt t o
rest content with generating mental im ages
whi ch are the result of impress i ons re
c eiv ed from outs i de instead of producing
original mental creations
Persons who can give continued att ention
and thought to a subject actively employ
—
both of the Mental Pr inciples the Femi
nine in the work of active mental genera
tion and the Ma scul ine Will ins timulating
d energizing the crea tive portion of the
an
mind The majority of persons really em
ploy the Mascul ine Principle b ut li ttle and
a re
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thought s and ideas instilled into the Me
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from the I of other minds B u
t it is
not our purpo se to dwell u
pon this phase
of the subject which may b e stu
died from
any good text book u
pon psychology with
the key that we have givenyourega rding
Mental Gender
The stu
dent of Psychic Phenomena is
aware of the wonderfu
l phenomena classi
fied under the hea d of Telepa thy ; Thou
ght
Transference ; Mental In
fluence ; Su
es
gg
ti on ; Hypnoti sm etc M any have sought
for an explanation of t hese varied pha ses
of phenomena under the theories of the
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various dual mind teacher s And in a
measure they are r ight for there is clea rly
a manifestation of tw o distinct phases of
mental activi ty But if such stu
dents will
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consider these dual minds in the light
of the Hermetic Teachings r ega rding Vi
s and Mental Gender they will see
b r a tion
that the long sought for key is at hand
In the phenomena of Telepathy it is seen
how th e Vibra t ory Energy of the Mascul ine
Principle is projec ted toward the Feminine
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s, w hom
d wills of o t her pe rson
minds a n
they allow to do their thinking and willing
a l t h ou
ghts or
for them
H ow few o r igin
al actions a re per for med by the a ver
o ri gin
Ar e not t he majori ty of pe r
age pe rson !
sons mere shadows and echoes of others
hav ing stronge r w ill s or m in
ds thanthem
selves ! The tr ouble is tha t the a vera ge
per son dwells a lmo st altogether in his
d does n
Me consciou
s ness, an
ot re a lize
th at he ha s su
ch a thing a s an
He i s
pola rized in his Feminine Principle of
Mind, and the Masculine Principle , in
which is lodged the Will , is allowed t o r e
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maininactive and not employed
The strong men and women of th e world
invariably manifest the Mascul ine Princi
ple of Will and their stre ngth depends
materially upon this fact Ins t ead of l iv
ing upon t he impressi ons made upon thei r
minds by others they dominat e the ir ow n
minds by their Will obtaining the kind of
mental images desired and moreover dom
ins t e the minds of others likewi se in th e
same manner Look at the st rong people
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how
they manage t o implant thei r seed
th oughts in the minds of the masses of th e
people thus caus ing th e latter to think
thought s in accordance with the desires
and wi lls of the st rong individuals This i s
why th e masses of people are such sh eep
l ike creatures never originat ing an idea of
th ei r ow n nor using their ow np owers of
mental activity
Th e man
ifestati on of Mental Gender may
be noticed all around us in everyday life
Th e magneti c persons are those who are
able to use the Mascul ine Principle in th e
way of impress ing th eir ideas upon o thers
The actor who makes people weep or cry
as h e will s is employing this principle
And so i s the successful orator statesman
preach er writer or other people who are
before th e public attention The peculiar
influence exerted by some people over oth
ers i s due to the manifestation of Mental
Gender along th e Vib r a t or ial l ines above
indic ated In this princip le l i es the secret
of personal ma gnetism personal influence
fascination etc a s well as the ph enomena
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pr oc ess or method w hereb y an idea is
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t ransfe rred t o or impres sed upon the
mind of another cau
sin
g the second mind
ce ther ewith A corr ect
to act inacco rdan
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in order t o int elligently compr ehend the
varied psychical phenomena which Sugges
t ion underl ies But still more is a knowl
edge of Vibration and Mental Gender nec
essar y for the student of Suggesti on F or
th e whole p rinciple of Suggestion depends
upon th e principle of Menta l Gender and
Vibra t ion
It is customar y for the writers and
teachers of Suggest ion to explain tha t it i s
the objective or voluntary mind which
make the mental impress ion or suggestion,
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apable of intelligent classification and
s tudy instead of being very mu
ch in the
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dark The principle works out in p r ac
tice because it is based u
on
the
i
m
t
a
m
u
p
ble universal laws of life
We shall not enter into an extended di s
cu
the varied
s sion of o r des c ription of
phenomena of mental influence o r p sychic
activi ty There are many books many of
them quite good which have been written
and published onthis subjec t of lat e years
The main facts stated in the se var i ous
books are correct although the several
wri ters have attempted t o expl ain the phe
nom ena by various pet theories of their
ow n
The student may acqua int himself
with these matters and by using the theory
of Mental Gender he will be able t o bring
order out of the ch aos of conflict ing theory
and teachings and may moreover readily
make himself a master of the subject if he
b e so incl ined
The purpo se of thi s work
i s not to give an extended account of p sy
chic phenomena but rather t o give t o th e
student a master key whereby he may nu
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lock
the many doors leading into the part s
Of the Temple Of K nowledge whi ch he may
wish t o explore We feel that in thi s c on
s ideration Of the teachings Of The K yb al
ion one may find anexplanati on which w ill
serve to clear away m any perplexing difli
—
cu
lties a key th at will unlock many doors
Wh at is the use Of going into detail r e
garding all of the many features of psychic
ph enomena and mental science provi ded
we place in the h ands of the student the
means whereby he m ay acquaint himself
fully regarding any pha se Of the subject
which may interest him With the aid Of
The K yb alion one may go through any
occult library anew the old Light from
Egyp t illuminating many dark pages and
obscure subjects Tha t is the purpose Of
thi s book We do not come expou
nding a
new philosophy but rather furnishing the
outlines Of a gr eat world Old teach ing
which will make clea r the teachings Of
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others which will serve as a Great Recon
c iler O f difi erin theorie s
and
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from The K yb alion which sta tes it forc i
bly K nowledge wi thout Use and Expres
s ion is a va in thing br inging no goo d t o
it s possessor or to the rac e Be ware Of
Menta l Miserl iness and expres s int o Ao
ti on th at which youh ave lea rned Study
the Axi oms and Aph orisms but p ractic e
them also
We give below some Of the more impo r
t ant Hermetic Axioms from The K yb alion
with a few comments added t o ea ch Make
these your ow n and pra cti ce and use them
ntil you
for they are not really your ow nu
h ave U sed them
TO change your mood or menta l sta te
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change your vibra tion
One may change hi s mental vibrations
by an e fi ort Of Will in the direction Of
deliberately fixing the Attention upon a
more desirable state Will directs the At
tention and Attention changes the Vibra
tion Cultivate the Art Of Attention by
means Of the Will and you have solved
the secret Of the Maste ry Of Moods and
Mental States
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destr oy an u
ndesir able rat e of
m en ta l vib rat ion put in
t o ope rat ion t he
Pr inciple of Polarity and con
tr at e upon
cen
the opposit e pole t o t hat which youdesire
to suppress
K ill ou
ndesirable by
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Th is is on
e Of the most importa nt Of t he
H ermetic Formulas It is based u
pontr u
e
scientific principles We h ave s how n you
that a mental state and its oppos it e were
merely the t w o poles Of one thing and
that by Menta l Transmuta tion the polarity
might be reversed Thi s principle is known
t o modern psychologists w ho apply it t o
the breaking up Of u
ndes i rable habits by
bidding their students concentrat e upon the
opposite qualit y If youare possessed Of
“
Fear do not waste tim e tr ying to kill
t
Fear but instead cu
ltivate the qu
al
ou
ity Of Courage and the Fear w ill disap
pear Some wri ters have exp ressed thi s
i dea most forcibly by using the illustration
Of the dark room Y ou do not h ave t o
sh ovel ou
t or swee p ou
ess but
t the Darkn
b y merely opening the shutters and l
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ting in th e Light the Darkness has disap
pe e red TO kill out a Negative qual i ty
c oncentrate upon the Posi tive Pole Of tha t
same qual ity and the vibra ti ons will grad
ua lly change from Negative t o Pos itive
u
nt il fina lly youwill become p ola rized on
the Pos itive pole ins t ead of the Negative
The rever se is also true as many have
found out t o their sorrow when they have
allowed themselves t o vibrate t oo con
t ly on th e Nega tive pole Of th ings By
st an
changing your p olarity you may mas t er
your moods change your mental sta t es r e
make your disposition and buil d up char
acter Much Of the Mental Mas tery Of the
advanced Hermetics i s due t o this appl ica
ti on Of Polarity which is one Of the impor
tant aspects of Mental Transmutation
Remember the Hermetic Axiom ( quoted
previ ously ) which says
Mind ( as well a s metals and element s )
may be transmuted from s tate t o state ;
degree t o degree ; condition t o condition ;
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pole to pole ; vibration t o vibration
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Hermetis t s also teach that the Law Of
N eutralization enables one t o a great ex
t ent t o overcome the operation Of Rhyt hm
in consciousness As we have ex plained
th ere is a Higher Plane O f Consciousness
as well as the ordina ry Lower Plane and
the Master by rising mentally t o the Higher
Plane causes the sw ing Of the ment al pend
ulum t o manifest on the Lower Plane and
he dwelling onhis Higher Plane escapes
the consciousne ss o f the swing backw ard
This is e fi ec t ed by polarizing onth e Higher
Self and thus ra i sing th e mental vibra
tions Of the Ego above tho se Of th e ordi
na ry plane Of con sci ousness It is akin t o
rising above a thing and allowing it t o
pas s beneath you The advanced Herme t
ist pol arizes himself at the Positive Pole
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g the I Am
pole rather
Of his Bein
than the p ole Of personal it y and by r e
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fusing and denying th e operation Of
Rhythm raises himself above its plane Of
consci ousness and standing fir m in hi s
Statement Of Being he allows the pendulum
t o swing back onth e Lower Plane without
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This is a ccom
cha nging his Pola rity
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by
all
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v
iduals
w
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a
ve
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li
s
t
e
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o
p
tain
de
g
ree
Of
self
mas
t
e
ry
whether
ed an
y
they understand the law or not
Such
persons simply refuse t o allow them
s elves t o be swung back by the pendulum
Of mood and emoti on and by steadfastly
the
superiority
they
remain
l
afi rm in
o
g
p
a r ized onth e Posit ive p ole
Th e Master
Of course attains a far greater degree Of
proficiency because he u
nderstands the
law whi ch he is overcoming by a higher
law and by the use Of his Will he atta ins
a degree Of Poise and Mental Steadfa st
ness almost impossible Of belief on the
part Of those who allow themselves t o b e
swu
ng backw ard and fo rward by the men
tal pendulum Of moods and fee lings
Remember always however that you
do not really destroy the Principle Of
Rhyt hm for that is indestru
ctible Y ou
nte r bal
simply overcome one law by c ou
an
a
n
d
u
it
with
a
other
th
ma
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cin
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an equilibriu
m The laws O f balance and
counter bal ance ar e in ope rati on on the
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menta l as well a s on the physical planes
and an u
ndersta nding O f these l aws on
ables one t o seem t o overth row laws
whereas he is merely exerting a cou
nter
balance
Nothing es capes the Principle of Cau
se
and Efi ec t but there a re many Planes Of
Causati on and one may use the laws Of
the higher t o overcome the laws of the
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lower
nderstanding O f the practice Of
By an u
Polarizati on the Hermetists rise t o a
hi gh er plane Of Caus ation and thu
s coun
ter balance th e laws Of the lower pl anes Of
C ausation By ri sing above the plane Of
ordinary Causes they become themselves
in a degree Causes instead Of being merely
By being able t o master thei r
Caused
ow nmoods and feelings and by being able
t o neutralize Rhyt hm as we h ave already
ex plained they are able t o es cape a gre at
pa rt Of the operations Of Cause and E ff ect
on the ordinary plane The ma sses Of p eo
ple are ca rried along obedient t o their en
v ir on
t ; t he wills and de si res Of others
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ul e on the lowe r They Obey the l aws
co m in
g from above them but ontheir ow n
plane an d tho se below them they rule and
give o rders And yet in so doing they
form a part of the P rinciple instead of
Opposing it The wise man falls in with
the Law and by understanding its move
ments he Operates it instea d Of being its
blind slave J ust as does the skilled swim
mer turn this way and that way going
and coming a s he will instead Of being as
the log which is carr ied here and there
so is the wi se man as comp a red t o the or
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din
a r y ma n
and yet both swimm er and
log ; wise m an and fool are subject t o
La w
He who understands this is well on
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In conclusion let us againcall your at
tention t o th e Hermetic Axiom
Tru
e Hermetic Transmutation is a
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Mental Ar t
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In the above axiom the Hermetists teach
that the great work Of influencing one s en
v ir on
m en
t is accomplish ed by Mental
Power The Universe being wholly mental
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it follows th a t it may be ruled only by
Mentality And in this truth is to be
found an explanation of all the phenomena
and manifestations of the various mental
powers which a re attracting so much at
tenti on and study in these earlier years
o f the Twentiet h Century
Back of and
under the teachings of the various cults
and schools remains ever constant the
principle of the Mental Substance Of the
Universe If the Universe be Mental in
it s substanti al nature then it follows that
Ment al Transmutation must change the
conditions and phenomena Of the Universe
If the Universe is Mental then Mind mus t
be the highest power a ff ecting its ph enom
ena If this be understood then all th e
miracles and wonder work
so called
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THE ALL is MI ND ; The Universe is
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