THE KYBALION by the Three Initiates Audiobook (Hermetic Principles in detail)

The kybalion a study of the hermetic philosophy  of ancient Egypt and Greece by the three initiates   narrated by ALIO Voices. The lips of wisdom are  closed except to the ears of understanding this   little volume of hermetic teachings is reverently  dedicated to hermes trismegistus. This known by  

The ancient Egyptians says that thrice great  and master of masters introduction. We take   great pleasure in presenting to the attention  of students and investigators of the secret   doctrines. This little work based upon the world  old hermetic teachings. There is been so little  

Written upon the subject, notwithstanding the  countless references to the teachings and the   many works upon occultism that the many earnest  searches after the arcane truths will doubtless   welcome the appearance of the present volume. The  purpose of this work is not the enunciation of  

Any special philosophy or doctrine, but rather  is to give to the students a statement of the   truth that will serve to reconcile the many bits  of occult knowledge that they may have acquired   but which are apparently opposed to each other in  which often serve to discourage and discussed the  

Beginner in the study are intent is not to erect  a new temple of knowledge, but rather to place in   the hands of the student a master key with which  he or she may open the many inner doors in the  

Temple of mystery through the main portals they  have already entered. There is no portion of the   occult teachings possessed by the world which have  been so closely guarded as the fragments of the   hermetic teachings which have come down to us over  the tens of centuries which have elapsed since  

The lifetime of his great founder her mistress  McGinnis does the scribe of the gods who dwelt   in old Egypt in the days when the present race of  men was in its infancy, contemporary with Abraham,   and if the legends be true and instructor  of that venerable sage Hermes was and is  

The great central son of occultism, whose rays  have served to illuminate the countless teachings   which have been promulgated since his time all  the fundamental and basic teachings embedded in   the esoteric teachings of every race may be traced  back to Hermes. Even the most ancient teachings of  

India undoubtedly have their roots in the original  hermetic teachings from the land of the guide is   many ancient occultists wandered to the land of  Egypt and sat at the feet of the master from him.   They obtained the master key, which explained  and reconciled their divergent views and thus  

The secret doctrine was firmly established  from other lands also came the learned ones,   all of whom regarded Hermes as the master of  masters, and his influence was so great that,   in spite of the many wanderings from the path on  the part of the centuries of teachers in these  

Different lands. There may still be found asserted  basic resemblance and correspondence which   underlies the many, and often quite divergent  theories entertained and taught by the occultists   of these different lands today. The student of  comparative religions will be able to perceive  

The influence of the hermetic teachings in every  religion worthy of the name now known to man,   whether to be a dead religion, or one in full  vigor in our own times. There is always asserted   correspondence in spite of the contradictory  features and the hermetic teachings act as the  

Great reconciler. The lifework of Hermes seems  to have been in the direction of planting the   great seed truth which is grown and blossomed and  so many strange forms rather than to establish a   school of philosophy which would dominate the  world’s thought, but nevertheless the original  

Truths taught by him have been kept intact in  their original purity by a few men in each age who   refusing great numbers of half developed students  and followers followed the hermetic custom and   reserved their truth for the few who are ready  to comprehend and master it from lip to ear. The  

Truth is been handed down among the few there’ve  always been a few initiates in each generation in   the various lands of the earth who kept alive  the sacred flame of the hermetic teachings and   such have always been willing to use their labs to  relight the lesser labs of the outside world. When  

The light of truth grew dim and clouded by reason  of neglect and when the wicks became clogged with   foreign matter. There were always a few to attend  faithfully the altar of the truth upon which was  

Kept alight the perpetual lamp of wisdom these men  devoted their lives to the labor of love which the   poet has so well stated in his lines old. Let not  the flame die out cherished age after age and its  

Dark cavern in its holy temples cherished fed by  pure ministers of love. Let not the flame die out.   These men have never sought popular approval  nor numbers of followers they are indifferent   to these things, for they know how few there are  in each generation who are ready for the truth  

Or who would recognize it if it were presented  to them. They reserve the strong meet for men,   while others furnish the milk for babes. They  reserve their pearls of wisdom for the few elect   who recognize their value and who wear them in  their crowns instead of casting them before the  

Materialistic vulgar swine who would trample them  in the mud and mix them with their disgusting   mental food but still these men have never  forgotten or overlooked. The original teachings   of Hermes regarding the passing on of the words of  truth to those ready to receive it. Which teaching  

Is stated in the kybalion as follows where  fall the footsteps of the master the ears of   those ready for his teaching open wide and again  when the ears of the students are ready to hear,   then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom, but  the customary attitude has always been strictly in  

Accordance with the other hermetic aphorism.  Also in the kybalion the lips of wisdom are   closed except to the ears of understanding. There  are those who have criticized this attitude of the   Hermitage’s and who have claimed that they did  not manifest the proper spirit in their policy  

Of seclusion and reticence, but a moment  to glance back over the pages of history   will show the wisdom of the Masters who knew the  folly of attempting to teach to the world that   which was neither ready or willing to receive the  Hermitage’s have never sought to be martyrs, and  

Have instead sat silently aside with the pitting  smile on their closed lips while the heathen raged   noisily about them and their customary amusement  of putting to death and torture. The honest but   misguided enthusiasts who imagined that they could  force upon a race of barbarians. The truth capable  

Of being understood only by the elect who advanced  along the path and the spirit of persecution is   not as yet died out in the land. There are certain  hermetic teachings which, if publicly promulgated,   would bring down upon the teachers a great cry of  scorn and revile Mitt from the multitude who would  

Again raise the cry of crucify, crucify, in his  little work we have endeavored to give you an idea   of the fundamental teachings of the kybalion  striving to give you the working principles,   leaving you to apply them yourselves rather  than attempting to work out the teaching in  

Detail. If you are a true student, you will be  able to work out and apply these principles if   not then you must develop yourself into one for  otherwise the hermetic teachings will be is,   words, words, and more words to you the three  initiates chapter 1 the hermetic philosophy from  

Old Egypt have come the fundamental esoteric  and occult teachings, which have so strongly   influenced the philosophies of all races, nations  and peoples for several thousand years. Egypt,   the home of the pyramids and the Sphinx was  the birthplace of the hidden wisdom and mystic  

Teachings from her secret doctrine. All nations  have borrowed India, Persia child is Medea, China,   Japan, Syria, ancient Greece and Rome and other  ancient countries partook liberally at the feast   of knowledge which the higher offense and masters  of the land devices so freely provided for those  

Who came prepared to partake of the great story  mystic in a cold floor which the masterminds of   that ancient land had gathered together in ancient  Egypt throughout the great depths and masters who   have never been surpassed and who seldom have  been equaled during the centuries that have  

Taken their processional flight since the days of  the great Hermes in Egypt was located. The great   Lodge of lodges of the mystics at the doors of  her temples entered the neophytes who afterword   as higher offense adapts and masters traveled to  the four corners of the earth, carrying with them  

The precious knowledge which they were ready,  anxious and willing to pass on to those who   are ready to receive the same. All students of  the occult recognize the dead, that they owe to   these venerable masters of that ancient land, but  among these great masters of ancient Egypt there  

Once was, one of whom masters hailed as the master  of masters. This man if man indeed he was dwelt in   Egypt in the earliest days, he was known as Hermes  transmit justice. He was the father of the occult  

Wisdom, the founder of astrology, the discoverer  of alchemy. The details of his life story are lost   to history all into the laps of the years, though  several of the ancient countries disputed with   each other and their claims to the honor of having  furnished his birthplace, and this thousands of  

Years ago, the date of his sojourn in Egypt and  that his last incarnation on this planet is not   now known, but it has been fixed at the early days  of the oldest dynasties of Egypt long before the  

Days of Moses the best authorities regard him as  a contemporary of Abraham and some of the Jewish   traditions go so far as to claim that Abraham  acquired a portion of his mystic knowledge from   Hermes himself as the years rolled by after  his passing from this plane of life tradition  

Recording that he lived 300 years in the flesh,  the Egyptians deified Hermes and made him one of   their gods under the name of both. Years later,  the people of ancient Greece also made him one   of their many gods calling him Hermes the God of  wisdom, the Egyptians revered his memory for many  

Centuries. Tens of centuries. The calling him  the scribe of the gods and bestowing upon him   distinctively is ancient title transmit justice,  which means that the rice great the great great   the greatest great etc. and all the ancient lands.  The name of Hermes transmit justice was revered,  

The name being synonymous with the fount of  wisdom even to this day we use the term hermetic   in the use of secret sealed so that nothing can  escape, etc. in this by reason of the fact that   the followers of Hermes always observed the  principle of secrecy in their teachings. They  

Did not believe in casting pearls before swine,  but rather held to the teaching milk for babes   meet for strong men, both of which maxims are  familiar to readers of the Christian Scriptures,   but both of which had been used by the Egyptians  for centuries before the Christian era in this  

Policy of careful dissemination of the truth  has always been characterized by the hermetic’s   even into the present day. The hermetic teachings  are to be found in all lands among all religions,   but never identified with any particular country  nor with any particular religious sect. This is  

Because of the warning of the ancient teachers  against allowing the secret doctrine to become   crystallized into a creed. The wisdom of  this caution is apparent to all students   of history. The ancient occultism of India and  Persia degenerated and was largely lost. Owing  

To the fact that the teachers became priests  and so mixed theology with the philosophy,   the result being that the occultism of Indian  Persia has been gradually lost amidst the mass   of religious superstition calls creeds and gods  so it was with ancient Greece and Rome. So it  

Was with the hermetic teachings of the Gnostics  and early Christians which were lost. At the time   of Constantine, whose iron hand smothered  philosophy with the blanket of theology,   losing to the Christian church that which was its  very essence and spirit, and causing it to grow up  

Throughout several centuries before it found the  way back to its ancient faith, the indications   apparent to all careful observers in this 20th  century being that the church is now struggling   to get back to its ancient mystic teachings, but  there were always a few faithful souls who kept  

Alive the flame tending a carefully and not  allowing us like to become extinguished and   thanks to the stock charts and fearless minds. We  have the truth still with us, but it is not found   in books to any great extent it is been passed  along from master to student from initiate to  

Hire a fat from lip to ear when was written down  at all. Its meaning was veiled in terms of alchemy   and astrology so that only those possessing  the key could read it a right. This was made   necessary in order to avoid the persecutions of  the theologians of the Middle Ages who fought the  

Secret doctrine with fire and sword steak get it,  and cross even to this day. There will be found,   but few reliable books on the hermetic philosophy.  Although there are countless references to it in   many books written on various phases of  occultism and yet the hermetic philosophy  

Is the only master key which will open all the  doors of the occult teachings in the early days,   there was a compilation of certain basic hermetic  doctrines passed on from teacher to student, which   was known as the kybalion the exact significance  and meaning of the term having been lost for  

Several centuries. This teaching, however, is  known to many, to whom it has been dissented   to from mouth to ear. On and on throughout  the centuries its precepts have never been   written down or printed so far as we know it was  merely a collection of maxims, axioms and precepts  

Which were not understandable to outsiders, but  which were readily understood by students after   the axioms, maxims and precepts had been explained  and exemplified by the hermetic initiates to their   neophytes. These teachings really constituted the  basic principles of the art of hermetic alchemy  

Which, contrary to the general belief dealt in  the mastery of mental forces, rather than material   elements. The transmutation of one kind of mental  vibration and to others instead of the changing of   one kind of metal into another. The legends of the  philosopher’s stone which would turn base metal  

Into gold was an allegory relating to hermetic  philosophy readily understood by all students of   true hermetic system in this little book, of  which this is the first lesson we invite our   students to examine into the hermetic teachings  as set forth in the kybalion and is explained by  

Ourselves humble students of the teachings  who, while bearing the title of initiates   are still students at the feet of Hermes. The  master we hear and give you many of the maxims,   axioms and precepts of the kybalion, accompanied  by explanations and illustrations which we  

Deem likely to render the teachings more easily  comprehended by the modern student, particularly   as the original text is purposely veiled and  obscure terms. The original maxims, axioms   and precepts of the kybalion are printed here in  quotation marks with the proper credit being given  

Our own work is printed in the regular way in the  body of the work we trust that the many students   to whom we now offer this little work will derive  as much benefit from the study of its pages, as  

Have the many who have gone on before treading the  same path to mastery throughout the centuries that   have passed since the times of Hermes transmit  justice, the master of Masters. The great,   great, in the words of the kybalion once the  ears of the students are ready to hear. Then,  

The lips to fill them with wisdom where follow the  footsteps of the master the ears of those ready   for his teaching open wide so that according  to the teachings the passage of this book to   those ready for the instruction will attract the  attention of such as are prepared to receive the  

Teaching and likewise when the pupil is ready to  receive the truth then will this little book come   to him or her. Such is the law. The hermetic  principle of cause-and-effect in its aspect of   the law of attraction will bring lips and ears  together pupil in book and company so shall it  

Be chapter 2. The seven hermetic principles, the  principles of truth are seven he who knows these   understandably possesses the magic key before  whose touch all the doors of the temple fly open   the kybalion the seven hermetic principles upon  which the entire hermetic philosophy is based are  

As follows one. The principle of mentalism to the  principle of correspondence. Three. The principle   of vibration for the principle of polarity. Five.  The principle of rhythm. Six. The principle of   cause and effect. Seven. The principle of gender.  These seven principles will be discussed and  

Explained. As we proceed with these lessons.  A short explanation of each. However, may as   well be given at this point one the principle of  mentalism, the all is mind. The universe is mental   the kybalion this principle embodies the truth  that all is mind. It explains that the all which  

Is the substantial reality underlying all the  outward manifestations and appearances which we   know under the terms of the material universe.  The phenomena of life matter, energy, and,   in short, all that is appearance to our material  senses is spirit, which in itself is unknowable  

And undefinable, but which may be considered and  thought of as a universal infinite living mind. It   also explains the all the phenomenal world, the  universe is simply a mental creation of the all   subject to the laws of created things and that the  universe as a whole and in its parts or units has  

Its existence in the mind of the all in which  mind we live and move and have our being. This   principle by establishing the mental nature of the  universe easily explains all of the varied mental   and psychic phenomena that occupy such a large  portion of the public attention and which without  

Such explanation are not understandable and defy  scientific treatment and understanding of this   great hermetic principle of mentalism enables the  individual to readily grasp the laws of the mental   universe and to apply the same to his well-being  and advancement. The hermetic student is enabled  

To apply intelligently. The great mental laws  instead of using them in a haphazard matter with   the master key in his possession, the student may  unlock the many doors of the mental and psychic   temple of knowledge and enter the same freely  and intelligently. This principle explains the  

True nature of energy, power, and matter and  why and how all these are subordinate to the   mastery of my one of the old hermetic Masters  Road long ago. He who grasps the truth of the   mental nature of the universe is well advanced on  the path to mastery. And these words are as true  

Today as at the time they were first written.  Without this master key mastery is impossible   and the student knocks in vain as the many doors  of the temple to the principle of correspondence   as above so below as below so above the kybalion.  This principle embodies the truth that there is  

Always a correspondence between the laws and  phenomena of the various planes of being and   life. The old hermetic axiom ran in these words as  above so below as below so above and the grasping   of this principle gives one the means of solving  many a dark paradox and hidden secretive nature.  

There are planes beyond our knowing. But when  we apply the principle of correspondence to   them. We are able to understand much that would  otherwise be unknowable to us. This principle is   of universal application and manifestation  on the various planes of the material,  

Mental and spiritual universe. It is a universal  law. The ancient hermit is considered this   principle as one of the most important mental  instruments by which man was able to pry aside   the obstacles which hid from view. The unknown  its use. Even tore aside the veil of Isis,  

To the extent that a glimpse of the face of the  goddess might be caught. Just as a knowledge of   the principles of geometry enables man to measure  distant sons and their movements while seated in   his observatory so a knowledge of the principle of  correspondence enables man to reason intelligently  

From the known to the unknown, studying the monad.  He understands the Archangel three. The principle   of vibration. Nothing rests. Everything moves  everything vibrates the kybalion this principle   embodies the truth that everything is in motion.  Everything vibrates. Nothing is at rest fax which  

Modern science endorses and which each new  scientific discovery tends to verify and yet   this hermetic principle was enunciated. Thousands  of years ago by the Masters of ancient Egypt. This   principle explains that the differences between  different manifestations of matter, energy, mind,  

And even spirit result largely from varying  rates of vibration from the all which is pure   spirit down to the grossest form of matter all is  in vibration, the higher the vibration, the higher   the position in the scale. The vibration of spirit  is at such an infinite rate of intensity and  

Rapidity that it is practically addressed. Just  as a rapidly moving wheel seems to be motionless   and at the other end of the scale. There are gross  forms of matter whose vibrations are so low as to   seem addressed between these poles. There are  millions upon millions of varying degrees of  

Vibration from corpuscle and electron atoms and  molecules to worlds and universes. Everything   is in vibratory motion. This is also true in the  plains of energy and force which are but varying   degrees of vibration but also on the mental  planes, who states depend upon vibrations and  

Even onto the spiritual planes and understanding  of this principle with the appropriate formulas   enables hermetic students to control their own  mental vibrations as well as those of others. The   Masters also apply this principle to the concrete  of natural phenomena in various ways. He who  

Understands the principle of vibration has grasped  the scepter of power says one of the old writers   for the principle of polarity, everything is dual.  Everything has poles. Everything has its pair of   opposites like and unlike our the same opposites  are identical in nature, but different in degree  

Extremes meet all truths are but half-truths. All  paradoxes may be reconciled the kybalion. This   principle embodies the truth that everything is  dual. Everything has to poles everything has its   pair of opposites, all of which were old hermetic  axioms explains the old paradoxes that perplexed.  

So many which have been stated as follows  thesis and antithesis are identical in nature,   but different in degree. Opposites are the same,  differing only in degree, the pairs of opposites   may be reconciled. Extremes meet. Everything is  and is it at the same time. All truths are but  

Half-truths. Every truth is half false. There are  two sides to everything etc. etc. etc. it explains   that in everything. There are two poles were  opposite aspects and that opposites are really   only the two extremes of the same thing with many  varying degrees between them to illustrate heat  

And cold, although opposites are really the same  thing. The differences consisted merely of degrees   of the same thing. Look at your thermometer and  see if you can discover where heat terminates and   cold begins. There is no such thing as absolute  heat or absolute cold. The two terms heat and  

Cold. Simply indicate varying degrees of the  same thing and that same thing which manifests   as heat and cold is merely a form variety and  rate of vibration so heat and cold, or simply   the two poles of that which we call heat and the  phenomena attended thereupon are manifestations  

Of the principle of polarity. The same principle  manifests in the case of light and darkness which   are the same thing. The difference consisting  of varying degrees between the two poles of the   phenomena. Where does darkness leave off and like  to begin. What is the difference between large  

And small, between hard and soft black-and-white  sharp indole noise and quite how about high and   low positive and negative. The principal polarity  explains these paradoxes and no other principle   can supersede the same principle operates on the  mental plane. Let us take a radical and extreme  

Example that of love and hate to mental states  apparently totally different and yet there are   degrees of hate and degrees of love and a middle  point in which we use the terms like or dislike   which shade into each other so gradually that  sometimes we are at a loss to know whether we like  

Or dislike or neither, and all are sickly degrees  of the same thing as you will see, if you will,   but think a moment and more than this, and  considered of more importance by the Hermitage’s   it is possible to change the vibrations of hate  to the vibrations of love in one’s own mind and  

In the minds of others. Many of you who read  these lines have had personal experiences of   involuntary rapid transition from love to hate and  the reverse in your own case and that of others   and you will therefore realize the possibility of  this being accomplished by the use of the will,  

By means of the hermetic formulas good and  evil are but the poles of the same thing,   and the Hermitage understands the art of  transmuting evil into good. By means of   an application of the principle of polarity. In  short, the art of polarization becomes a phase of  

Mental alchemy known and practiced by the ancient  and modern hermetic Masters at understanding of   the principle will enable one to change his  own polarity, as well as that of others. If   he will devote the time and study necessary to  master the art. Five. The principle of rhythm,  

Everything flows out and in everything has its  ties all things rise and fall. The pendulum   swing manifests in everything. The measure of the  swing to the right is the measure of the swing to   the left. Rhythm compensates the kybalion this  principle embodies the truth that in everything.  

There is manifested a measured motion to and fro  of flow and inflow of swing backward and forward   a pendulum like movement. A tide like ebb and flow  high tide and low tide between the two poles which   exist in accordance with the principal polarity  described a moment ago. There is always an action  

And reaction in advance and retreat arising in the  sinking. This is in the affairs of the universe,   sons worlds, men, animals, mind, energy and  matter. This law is manifest in the creation   and destruction of worlds and the rise and fall  of nations in the life of all things, and finally  

In the mental states of man and it is with this  latter that the Hermitage find the understanding   of the principal. Most important, the Hermitage  have grasped this principle fighting is universal   application and have also discovered certain means  to overcome its effects in themselves by the use  

Of the appropriate formulas and methods they  apply the mental law of neutralization. They   cannot unknow the principal or cause it to cease  its operation but they have learned how to escape   its effects upon themselves to a certain degree  depending upon the mastery of the principal they  

Have learned how to use it instead of being used  by it in this and similar methods consist of the   art of the Hermitage’s the master of Hermitage’s  polarizes himself at the point at which he desires   to rest and then neutralizes the rhythmic swing  of the pendulum which would tend to carry him to  

The other pole all individuals who have attained  any degree of self-mastery do this to a certain   degree, more or less, unconsciously, but the  master does this consciously, and by the use   of his will and attains a degree of poise and  mental firmness almost impossible of belief on  

The part of the masses who were swung backward  and forward like a pendulum. This principle   and that of polarity had been closely studied by  the Hermitage’s and the methods of counteracting   neutralizing and using them form an important part  of the hermetic mental alchemy. Six. The principle  

Of cause and effect. Every cause has the effect.  Every effect has its cause. Everything happens   according to law chances but a name for Lord not  recognized. There are many planes of causation,   but nothing escapes the law the kybalion.  This principle embodies the fact that there  

Is a certain cause for every effect in effect from  every cause. It explains that everything happens   according to law, that nothing ever merely happens  that there is no such thing as chance that while   there are various planes of cause and effect.  The higher dominating the lower planes. Still  

Nothing ever entirely escapes the law damages  understated the art and methods of rising above   the ordinary plain of cause and effect, to  a certain degree and by mentally rising to a   higher plane. They become because there’s instead  of effects the masses of people are carried along,  

Obedient to the environment. The wills and desires  of other stronger than themselves. Heredity   suggestion and other outward causes moving them  about like pause on the chessboard of life,   but the Masters rising to the plain above dominate  their moods, characters, qualities and powers as  

Well as the environment surrounded them and become  movers instead of pawns. They help to play the   game of life. Instead of being played and moved  about by other wills and environment. They use the   principal instead of being its tools, the Masters  obey the causation of the higher planes, but they  

Help to rule on their own plane in this statement.  There is condensed a wealth of hermetic knowledge,   let him read and listen well, who can. Seven.  The principle of gender. Gender is an everything.   Everything has its masculine and feminine  principles. Gender manifests on all planes.  

The kybalion this principle embodies the truth  that there is gender manifested in everything.   The masculine and feminine principles ever at  work. This is true not only of the physical   plane but of the mental and even the spiritual  planes on the physical plane. The principal  

Manifests a sex on the higher planes. It takes  higher forms, but the personal is ever the same,   no creation, physical, mental or spiritual is  possible without this principle of gender and   understanding of this loss will throw light  on many a subject that is perplexed the minds  

Of men. The principle of gender works ever in the  direction of generation regeneration and creation   everything and every person contains the two  elements are principles or this great principal   within it him or her every male thing has the  female element. Also, every female contains  

Also the male principle. If you would understand  the philosophy of mental and spiritual creation   generation and regeneration. You must understand  and study this hermetic principal. It contains the   solution of many mysteries of life. We caution you  that this principle has no reference to the many  

Base pregnancies integrating lustful theories  teachings and practices which are taught under   other fanciful titles and which are prostitution  of the great natural principle of gender such base   revivals of the agent and fullness forms of  palaces intent to ruin mind body and soul and  

Hermetic philosophy has ever sounded the warning  note against these degraded teachings, which tend   toward lust, licentiousness, and perversion of  nature’s principles. If you seek such teachings.   You must go elsewhere for them her medicines and  contains nothing for you. Along these lines to the  

Peer. All things are peer to the base. All things  are base chapter 3 mental transmutation mind as   well as metals and elements may be transmuted  from state to state agreed to degree condition   to condition, pole to pole vibration to vibration  true hermetic transmutation is a mental art. The  

Kybalion as we have stated the Hermitage were the  original alchemists, astrologers and psychologists   Hermes having been the founder of the schools of  thought from astrology has grown modern astronomy   from alchemy has grown modern chemistry from the  mystic psychology has grown the modern psychology  

Of the schools but it must not be supposed  that the ancients were ignorant of that which   the modern school supposed to be their exclusive  and special property. The records engraved on the   stones of ancient Egypt show conclusively that  the ancients had a full comprehensive knowledge  

Of astronomy the very building of the pyramid,  showing the connection between their design and   the study of astronomical science, nor were they  ignorant of chemistry for the fragments of the   ancient writings show that they were acquainted  with the chemical properties of things. In fact,  

The ancient theories regarding physics are being  slowly verified by the latest discoveries of   modern science, notably those relating to the  Constitution of matter, nor must it be supposed   that they were ignorant of the so-called modern  discoveries in psychology. On the contrary, the  

Egyptians were especially skilled in the science  of psychology, particularly in the branches that   the modern schools ignore but which nevertheless  are being uncovered under the name of psychic   science which is perplexing. The psychologists  of the day and making them reluctantly admit that  

There may be something in it. After all, the truth  is that beneath the material, chemistry, astronomy   in psychology. That is the psychology and its  phase of brain action, the ancients possessed   the knowledge of transcendental astronomy called  astrology of transcendental chemistry called  

Alchemy of transcendental psychology called mystic  psychology, they possessed the inner knowledge as   well as the outer knowledge. The latter alone  being possessed by modern scientists among the   many secret branches of knowledge possessed by the  Hermitage’s was that notice mental transmutation,  

Which forms the subject matter of this lesson.  Transmutation is a term usually employed to   designate the ancient art of the transmutation  of metals, particularly of the base metals into   gold. The word transmute needs to change from  one nature, form or substance into another to  

Transform and accordingly mental transmutation  means the art of changing and transforming mental   states forms and conditions and to others. So you  may see that mental transmutation is the art of   mental chemistry. If you like the term a form of  practical mystic psychology, but this means far  

More than appears on the surface, transmutation,  alchemy or chemistry on the mental plane is   important enough in its effects to be sure, and  of the arts stopped, there would still be one of   the most important branches of study known to man.  But this is only the beginning. Let’s find out why  

The first of the seven hermetic principles is  the principle of mentalism. The axiom of which   is the all is mind. The universe is mental which  means that the underlying reality of the universe   is mind and the universe itself is mental that is  existing in the mind of the all we shall consider  

This principle in succeeding lessons. But let us  see the effect of the principal if it be assumed   to be true if the universe is mental in its  nature, then mental transmutation must be the   art of changing the conditions of the universe  along the lines of matter force in mind. So you  

See that mental transmutation is really the magic  of which the agent writers had so much to say in   their mystical works and about which they gave  so few practical instructions. If all be mental   in the art, which enables one to transmute  mental conditions must render the master. The  

Controller of material conditions as well as those  ordinarily called mental as a matter of fact none   but advanced mental alchemists have been able to  attain the degree of power necessary to control   the grocer physical conditions such as the control  of the elements of nature, the production or  

Cessation of tempests the production and cessation  of earthquakes and other great physical phenomena   but that such men have existed and do exist today  as a matter of earnest belief to all advanced   occultists of all schools that the Masters exist  and have these powers the best teachers assure  

Their students having had experiences which  justify them in such belief and statements.   These masters do not make public exhibitions of  their powers but seek seclusion from the crowds   of men in order to better work their way along the  path of attainment we mentioned their existence  

At this point merely to call your attention to  the fact that their power is entirely mental and   operates along the lines of the higher mental  transmutation under the hermetic principle of   mentalism. The universe is mental but students  and hermits is of lesser degree than Masters the  

Initiates and teachers are able to freely work  along the mental plane and mental transmutation.   In fact all that we call psychic phenomena, mental  influence, mental science, new thought phenomena,   etc. operates on the same general lines, for  there is but one principal involved no matter  

By what name the phenomena be called the student  and practitioner mental transmutation works along   the mental plane transmuting mental conditions,  states, etc. and to others. According to various   formulas more or less efficacious. The various  treatments, affirmations, denials, etc. of the  

Schools of mental science are but formulas often  quite imperfect and unscientific of the hermetic   art. The majority of modern practitioners are  quite ignorant compared to the agent Masters for   they lack the fundamental knowledge upon which the  work is based not only made the mental states of  

Oneself be changed or transmitted by hermetic  methods but also the states of others may be,   and are constantly transmuted in the same way,  usually unconsciously but often consciously by   some understanding the laws and principles in  cases where the people affected are not informed  

Of the principles of self protection and more than  this, as many students and practitioners of modern   mental science. No every mental condition.  Depending upon the minds of the people may be   changed or transmuted in accordance with the  earnest desire will and treatments of person  

Desiring changed conditions of life. The public  are so generally informed regarding these things.   At present, that we do not deem it necessary to  mention the same at length. Our purpose at this   point, being merely to show the hermetic principle  and art. Underlying all of these various forms of  

Practice good and evil for the force can be used  in opposite directions. According to the hermetic   principles of polarity in this little book,  we shall state the basic principles of mental   transmutation that all who may listen and read may  grasp the underlying principles and thus possess  

The master key that will unlock the many doors of  the principal of polarity, we shall now proceed   to a consideration of the first of the seven  hermetic principles. The principle of mentalism   and which is explained the truth that the all  is mind. The universe is mental. In the words  

Of the kybalion we ask for the close attention  and careful study of this great principal on the   part of our students, for it is really the basic  principle of the whole hermetic philosophy and of   the hermetic art of mental transmutation. Chapter  4 the all under and back of the universe of time,  

Space, and change is ever to be found. The  substantial reality the fundamental truth. The   kybalion substance means that which underlies  all outward manifestations. The essence the   essential reality. The thing in itself, etc.  substantial means actually existing being the   essential element being real, etc. reality means  the state of being real, true, enduring, valid,  

Fixed, permanent, actual etc. under and behind  all outward appearances are manifestations there   must always be a substantial reality. This is  the law man. Considering the universe of which   he is a unit sees nothing but change matter forces  and mental states he sees that nothing really is.  

But that everything is becoming and changing  nothing standstill everything is being born,   dying, growing the very instant of thing reaches  its height begins to decline the law of rhythm   is in constant operation. There is no reality,  enduring quality, fixedness or substantiality  

In anything. Nothing is permanent but change he  sees all things evolving from other things and   resolving into other things, a constant action  and reaction inflow and outflow building up and   tearing down creation, the destruction, birth,  growth, and death. Nothing endures. But change  

It if he be a thinking man. He realizes that  all of these changing things must be but outward   appearances or manifestations of some underlying  power some substantial reality. All thinkers and   all lands and at all times have assumed the  necessity for postulating the existence of the  

Substantial reality all philosophies worthy of the  name had been based upon this thought. Men have   given to the substantial reality many names. Some  have called it by the term of deity. Other many   titles. Others have called it the infinite and  eternal energy others to try to call it matter,  

But all have acknowledged its existence.  It is self-evident it needs no argument in   these lessons will follow the example of some of  the world’s greatest thinkers, both ancient and   modern. The hermetic Masters and have called this  underlying power, the substantial reality by the  

Hermetic name of the all which term we consider  the most comprehensive of the midterm supplied   by Manta that which transcends names in terms we  accept and teach the view of the great hermetic   teachers and thinkers of all times, as well as  of those aluminum souls who have reached higher  

Planes of being both of whom assert that the inner  nature of the all is unknowable. This must be so,   for none but the all itself can comprehend its  own nature and being dramatist believe and teach   that the all in itself is an must ever be  unknowable. They regard all the theories,  

Gases and speculations of the theologians and  metaphysicians regarding the inner nature of the   all is but the childish efforts of the mortal  mind to grasp the secret of the infinite. Such   efforts have always failed and will always fail  from the very nature of the task one pursuing  

Such inquiries travels around and around in the  labyrinth of thought until he is lost to all same   reasoning, action or conduct that is utterly unfit  for the work of life. He is like a squirrel which   frantically runs around and around the circling  treadmill of his cage, traveling ever yet reaching  

Nowhere at the end of prisoner still and standing  just where he started and still more presumptuous   are those who attempt to ascribe to the all the  personality qualities, properties, characteristics   and attributes of themselves ascribing to the all  the human emotions, feelings and characteristics,  

Even down to the piteous qualities of mankind such  as jealousy, susceptibility to flattery and praise   desire for offerings and worship and all the other  survivals from the days of the childhood of the   race. Such ideas are not worthy of grown men and  women and are rapidly being discarded at this  

Point it might be proper for me to state that we  make a distinction between religion and theology,   between philosophy and metaphysics religion to  us means that intuitional realization of the   existence of the all and one’s relationship to  it. While theology means the attempts of men to  

Ascribe personality qualities and characteristics  to it. There theories regarding its affairs will   desires, plans and designs and their assumption  of the office of middlemen between the all in   the people, philosophy to us means the inquiry.  After knowledge of things knowable and thinkable  

While metaphysics means the attempt to carry  the inquiry over and beyond the boundaries   and into regions unknowable and unthinkable it  with the same tendency is that of theology and   consequently both religion and philosophy mean to  us things having roots in reality, while theology  

And metaphysics. See my broken reads rooted in the  quicksand of ignorance and affording not. But the   most insecure support for the mind or soul of man.  We do not insist upon our students accepting these   definitions. We mentioned the merely to show our  position. At any rate, you shall hear very little  

About theology and metaphysics in these lessons.  But while the essential nature of the all is   unknowable. There are certain truths connected  with his existence which the human mind finds   itself compelled to accept and an examination of  these reports form a proper subject of inquiry,  

Particularly as they agree with the reports of the  illumined on higher planes, and to this inquiry,   we now invite you that which is the fundamental  truth. The substantial reality is beyond true   naming, but the wise men call it the all in its  essence, the all is unknowable. But the report of  

Reason must be hospitable. He received and treated  with respect, the kybalion the human reason whose   reports we must accept so long as we think at  all and forms is as follows regarding the all   and that without attempting to remove the veil  of the unknowable one. The all must be all that  

Really is. There can be nothing existing outside  of the old else the all would not be the all too   the all must be infinite for is nothing else to  define confined bound limited or restricted the   all it must be infinite in time, or eternal. It  must’ve always continuously existed for there  

Is nothing else to have ever created. And so  they can never evolve from nothing and if it   had ever not been even for a moment it would  not be now. It must continually exist forever,   for there is nothing to destroy it, and it can  never not be, even for a moment, because something  

Can never become nothing it must be infinite in  space. It must be everywhere, for there is no   place outside of the all it cannot be otherwise  than continuous in space without a break,   cessation, separation or interruption, for there  is nothing to break separate or interrupt its  

Continuity and nothing with which to fill in the  gaps, it must be infinite in power or absolute,   for there is nothing to limit, restrict, restrain  confined disturb or condition it. It is subject   to no other power, for there is no other power  three the all must be immutable or not subject to  

Change in its real nature, for there is nothing  to work changes upon it, nothing, into which it   could change, nor from which it could have  changed it cannot be added to nor subtracted   from increased nor diminished, nor become greater  or lesser in any respect whatsoever. It must’ve  

Always been and must always remain just what it  is now the all that has never been is not now and   never will be. Anything else and to which it can  change the all being infinite, absolute, eternal   and unchangeable. It must follow that anything  finite, changeable, fleeting and conditioned  

Cannot be the all that is there is nothing outside  of the all in reality than any and all such finite   things must be as nothing in reality please do  not be frightened by these words were not try  

To lead on to some other of science under the  cover of hermetic philosophy here. There is a   reconciliation of this apparently contradictory  state of affairs. Be patient, we will reach it   in time we see around us that which is called  matter, which forms the physical foundation for  

All forms is the all merely matter. Not at all.  Matter cannot manifest life or mind and is life   and the mind are manifested in the universe. The  all cannot be matter for nothing rises higher than   its own source. Nothing is ever manifested in  an effect that is not in the cause. Nothing is  

Evolved as a consequence that is not involved as  an attested and in that modern science informs us   that there is really no such thing as matter that  will be called matter is merely interrupted energy  

Or force that is energy or force at a low rate  of vibration as a recent writer has said matter   has melted into mystery, even material sciences  abandoned the theory of matter and now rests on   the basis of energy then is the all mirror energy  or force, not energy or force as the material  

Is use the terms for their energy enforcer blind  mechanical things devoid of life or mind life and   mind can never evolve from blind energy or force  for the reason given a moment ago. Nothing can   rise higher than its source. Nothing is evolved  unless it is involved. Nothing manifests in the  

Effect, unless it is in the cause and so the all  cannot be mirror energy or force. For if it were,   then there would be no such things as life and  mind and existence. And we know better than that,  

For we are alive and using mind to consider  this very question and so are those who claim   that energy or force is everything. What is  there than higher than matter or energy that   we know to be existent in the universe, life  in mind, life and mind and all their varying  

Degrees of unfoldment then you ask do you mean to  tell us that the all his life and mind yes and no   is our answer. If you mean life in mind as we pour  petty mortals know them. We say no. The all is not  

A dead but what kind of life and mind to do you  mean, you ask, the answer is living mind is far   above that which mortals know by those words as  life and mind are higher than mechanical forces or  

Matter infinite living mind, as compared to finite  life in mind, we mean that which the illumined   souls mean when they reverently pronounce the  word spirit the all is infinite living mind,   the illumined call it spirit. Chapter 5 the mental  universe. The universe is mental held in the mind  

Of the all the kybalion the all his spirit. But  what is spirit, this question cannot be answered   for the reason that its definition is practically  that of the all which cannot be explained or   defined spirit is simply a name that men give to  the highest conception of infinite living mind,  

It means the real essence, it means living mind  as much superior to life in mind as we know them   as the latter are superior to mechanical energy  and matter spirit transcends our understanding   and we use the term, merely that we may think or  speak of the all for the purposes of thought and  

Understanding. We are justified in thinking of  spirit as infinite living mind at the same time   acknowledging that we cannot fully understand. We  must either do this or stop thinking of the matter   at all. Let us now proceed to a consideration  of the nature of the universe as a whole and in  

Its parts. What is the universe we have seen  that there can be nothing outside of the all   then is the universe. The all know this cannot  be because the universe seems to be made up of   many and is constantly changing, and in other  ways it does not measure up to the ideas that  

We are compelled to accept regarding the  all as stated in our last lesson. Then,   of the universe is not the all then it must be  nothing. Such is the inevitable conclusion of   the mind. At first thought, but this will not  satisfy the question for we are sensible of the  

Existence of the universe. Then, if the universe  is neither the all nor nothing. What can it be,   let us examine this question. If the universe  exists at all, or seems to exist, it must proceed  

In some way from the all it must be a creation  of the all but is something can never come from   nothing. From what could the all have created.  Some philosophers have answered this question   by saying that the all created the universe from  itself that is from the being and substance of  

The all but this will not do for the all cannot be  subtracted from nor divided as we have seen, and   then again if this be so would not. Each particle  in the universe. Be aware of its being the all  

The all cannot lose its knowledge of itself, nor  actually become an atom or blind force or lonely   living thing. Some men indeed realizing that the  all is indeed all and also recognizing that they,   the man existed have jumped to the conclusion  that they and the all were identical and that  

They have filled the air with shouts of I am God,  to the amusement of the multitude, and the sorrow   of sages. The claim of the corpuscle that I am man  would be modest in comparison. But what indeed is  

The universe. If it be not the all yet not created  by the all having separated itself into fragments.   What else can it be of what else can it be made.  This is the great question, let us examine it   carefully. We find here that the principle  of correspondence from lesson one comes to  

Our aid. Here the old hermetic axiom as above so  below may be pressed into service at this point.   Let us endeavor to get a glimpse of the workings  on higher planes by examining those on our own.   The principle of correspondence must apply to  this as well. As to other problems let’s see on  

His own plane of being. How does man create will  first. He may created by making something out of   outside materials, but this will not do for there  are no materials outside of the all with which it   may create will then secondly man procreates or  reproduces his kind by the process of begetting  

Which is self multiplication accomplished by  transferring a portion of his substance to   his offspring, but this will not do. Because the  all cannot transfer subtracted portion of itself,   nor can it reproduce or multiply itself in the  first place. That would be a taking away and in  

The second case of multiplication or addition to  the all both thoughts being in absurdity. Is there   no third way in which man creates yes there is.  He creates mentally and in so doing he uses no   outside materials nor does he reproduce himself.  And yet, his spirit pervades the mental creation  

Following the principle of correspondence we  are justified considering that the all creates   the universe mentally in a manner akin to the  process whereby man creates mental images, and   here is whether report of reason tallies precisely  with the report of the illumined as shown by their  

Teachings and writings such as the teachings of  the Wiseman. Such was the teaching of Hermes,   the all can create in no other way except  mentally without either using material and   there is none to use, or else reproducing itself,  which is also impossible. There is no escape from  

This conclusion of the reason which as we have  said agrees with the highest teachings of the   illumined just as you, the student may create a  universe of your own and your mentality. So does   the all create universes in its own mentality, but  your universe is the mental creation of a finite  

Mind where is that of the all is the creation  of an infinite. The two are similar in kind,   but infinitely different in degree. We shall  examine more closely into the process of creation   and manifestation. As we proceed, but this is  the point to fix in your minds. At this stage,  

The universe and all it contains is a mental  creation of the all indeed truly all is mind   the all creates in its infinite mind countless  universes which exist for eons of time and yet,   to the all the creation, development, decline  in depth of a million universes. He is is the  

Time of the twinkling of an eye, the kybalion  the infinite mind of the all is the womb of   universes. The principle of gender from lesson  one is manifested on all planes of life material,   mental and spiritual, but as we said before,  gender does not mean sex. Sex is merely a  

Material manifestation of gender. Gender means  relating to generation or creation, and wherever   anything is generated or created on any plane.  The principle of gender must be manifested and   this is true even in the creation of universes now  do not jump to the conclusion that we are teaching  

That there is a male and female God or creator.  That idea is merely a distortion of the ancient   teachings on the subject. The true teaching is  that the all in itself is above gender as it is  

Above every other law, including those of time and  space. It is the law from which the laws proceed   and it is not subject to them. But when the all  manifest on the plane of generational creation,   then it acts according to law and principle,  for it is moving on a lower plane of being,  

And consequently and manifest the principle of  gender in its masculine and feminine aspects of   the mental plane, of course, this idea may seem  startling to some of you here for the first time,   but you have all really passively accepted it  in your everyday conceptions you speak of the  

Fatherhood of God and the motherhood of nature of  God, the divine father and nature. The universal   mother and have thus instinctively acknowledged  the principle of gender in the universe is is not   true, but the hermetic teaching does not imply  a real duality. The all is one. The two aspects  

Are merely aspects of manifestation. The teaching  is that the masculine principle manifested by the   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, whereupon the latter begins the actual  

Work of the evolution of the universe from simple  centers of activity onto man and then on and on,   still higher all according to well-established  and firmly enforced laws of nature. If you prefer   the old figures of thought. You may think of the  masculine principle is God the father and of the  

Feminine principle is nature, the universal mother  from whose womb, all things have been born. This   is more than a mere poetic figure of speech. It  is an idea of the actual process of the creation   of the universe but always remember that the  all is but one and that, in its infinite mind,  

The universe is generated created and exists,  it may help you to get the proper idea if you   will apply the law of correspondence to yourself  and your own mind you know that the part of you,   which you call hi, in a sense, stands apart  and witnesses the creation of mental images in  

Your own mind the part of your mind in which the  mental generation is accomplished may be called   the meat in distinction from the eye which stands  apart and witnesses and examines the thoughts,   ideas and images of the me as above so below.  Remember in 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 reference for the all  which feeling we call religion that respect and   reverence for the father mind. Is it any wonder  that we consider the works and wonders of nature.  

You are overcome with a mighty feeling, which  has its roots down away in your innermost being   is the mother mind that your pressing close-up  to like a baby to the breast do not make the   mistake of supposing that the little world  you see around you. The earth is a mere grain  

Of dust in the universe is the universe itself.  There are millions upon millions of such worlds,   and greater and there are millions of millions of  such universes in existence within the infinite   mind of the all and even in our own little solar  system. There are regions in planes of life are  

Higher than ours and beings compared to which we  earthbound mortals are is the slimy lifeforms that   will in the oceans bed when compared to man. There  are beings with powers and attributes higher than   man has ever dreamed of the gods, possessing, and  yet these beings were once as you and still lower  

And you will be even as they and still higher in  time for such is the destiny of man as reported   by the illumined and death is not real even in a  relative sense it is but a birth to a new life and  

You shall go on and on and on to higher and still  higher planes of life for eons upon eons of time.   The universe is your home and you shall explore  its farthest recesses before the end of time. You  

Are dwelling in the infinite mind of the all and  your possibilities and opportunities are infinite   both in time and space and at the end of the grant  cycle of eons when the all show draw back into  

Itself, all of its creations. You will go gladly.  For you will then be able to know the whole truth   of being at one with the all such is the report  of the illumined those with advanced well along  

The path and in the meantime rest. Call easy and  serene. You are safe and protected by the infinite   power of the father mother mind within the father  mother mind mortals children are at home. There   is not one who was fatherless nor motherless in  the universe. The kybalion chapter 6 the divine  

Paradox the half wise recognizing the comparative  unreality of the universe imagine that they may   defy its laws. Such are vain and presumptuous  fools and their broken against the rocks and   torn asunder by the elements, by reason of their  folly. The truly wise, knowing the nature of the  

Universe use law against laws. The higher against  the lower and by the art of alchemy transmute that   which is undesirable into that which is worthy  and does triumph mastery consists not in abnormal   dreams and visions and fantastic imaginings  were living, but in using the higher forces  

Against the lower escaping the pains of the lower  planes by vibrating on the higher transmutation,   not presumptuous. Denial is the weapon of the  master the kybalion this is the paradox of the   universe resulting from the principle of polarity  which manifests when the all begins to create  

Heart into it. Ford points the difference between  half wisdom, and wisdom, while to the infinite,   all the universe is laws its powers, its life,  it’s phenomena are as things witnessed in the   state of meditation or in dream it to all that  is finite, the universe must be treated as real  

And life and action and thought must be based  thereupon. Accordingly, although with an ever   understanding of the higher truth, each according  to its own plane and laws were the all to imagine   that the universe were indeed reality than woe  to the universe, for there would be then no  

Escape from lower to higher divine word then  would the universe become a fixed entity and   progress would become impossible and of man, only  to have wisdom packs and lives and thinks of the   universe is merely a dream akin to his own finite  dreams, then indeed does it so become for him and  

Like a sleepwalker, he stumbles ever. Around and  around in a circle, making no progress in being   forced into an awakening at last by his falling  bruised and bleeding over the natural laws which   he ignored. Keep your mind ever owned the star  but let your eyes watch over your footsteps, lest  

You fall into the mire by reason of your upward  gaze remember the divine paradox that while the   universe is not. Still, it is remember ever the  two poles of truth. The absolute and the relative   beware of half-truths. What happened to snow was  the law of paradox is an aspect of the principle  

Of polarity. The hermetic writings are filled with  references to the appearance of the paradox in the   consideration of the problems of life and being.  The teachers are constantly warning their students   against the error of omitting the other side of  any question and the warnings are particularly  

Directed to the problems of the absolute and  relative which perplex all students of philosophy   in which caused so many to think and act contrary  to what is generally known as common sense and we   caution all students to be sure to grasp the  divine paradox of the absolute and relative  

Luster, they become entangled in the mire of the  half-truth. With this in view this particular   lesson has been written. Please listen to it  carefully. The first thought that comes to the   thinking man, after he realizes the truth that the  universe is a mental creation of the all is that  

The universe and all that it contains is a mere  illusion and unreality against which I did. His   instincts revolved but this, like all of the great  truths must be considered both from the absolute   and the relative points of view from the absolute  viewpoint. Of course the universe is in the nature  

Of an illusion, a dream, a phantasmagoria, as  compared to the all in itself. We recognize this   even in our ordinary view for, we speak of the  world is a fleeting show that comes and goes, is   born and dies for the element of impermanence and  change finiteness and un-substantiality must ever  

Be connected with the idea of a created universe  when it is contrasted with the idea of the all   no matter what may be our beliefs concerning  the nature of both philosopher, metaphysician   scientist and theologian all agree upon this  idea and the thought is found in all forms of  

Philosophical thought and religious conceptions as  well as in the theories of the respective schools   of metaphysics and theology so the hermetic  teachings do not preach the unsubstantiality   of the universe in any stronger terms than those  more familiar to you. Although their presentation  

On the subject may seem somewhat more startling,  anything that has a beginning and an ending must   be in a sense, unreal and untrue and the universe  comes under the rule in all schools of thought   from the absolute point of view, there is nothing  real except the all no matter what terms we may  

Use in thinking of or discussing the subject,  whether the universe be created of matter,   or whether it be a mental creation in the mind  of the all it is of substantial non-enduring   a thing of time, space, and change. We want you  to realize this fact thoroughly before you pass  

Judgment on the hermetic conception of the mental  nature of the universe think over any and all of   the other conceptions and see whether this be not  true of them. But the absolute point of view shows   merely one side of the picture the other side is  the relative one absolute truth has been defined  

As things is the mind of God knows them while  relative truth is things as the highest reason   a man understands them and so while to the all  the universe must be unreal and delusionary. A   mere dream a result of meditation. Nevertheless to  the finite minds forming a part of that universe  

And viewing it to mortal faculties. The universe  is very real indeed and must be so considered in   recognizing the absolute view we must not make  the mistake of ignoring or denying the facts   and phenomena of the universe as they present  themselves to our mortal faculties. We are not  

The all remember to take familiar illustrations.  We all recognize the fact that matter exists to   our senses. We will fare badly if we do not,  and yet even our finite minds understand the   scientific victim that there is no such thing  as matter from a scientific point of view that  

Which we call matter is held to be merely an  aggregation of atoms which atoms themselves   are merely a grouping of units of force called  electrons or ions vibrating in a constant circular   motion we kick a stone. We feel the impact it  seems to be real notwithstanding that we know  

It to be merely what we have stated above but  remember that our foot which feels the impact   by means of our brains is likewise matter, so  constituted of electrons and for that matter,  

So are our brains and at the best if were not by  reason of our mind. We would not know the foot   or stone at all. Then again, the ideal of the  artist or sculptor which he is endeavoring to  

Reproduce in stone or on canvas seems very real  to him. So to the characters in the mind of the   author or dramatist which he seeks to express  so that others may recognize them and if this  

Be true in the case of our finite minds what must  be the degree of reality and the mental images   created in the mind of the infinite old friends to  mortals. This universe of mentality is very real  

Indeed it is the only one we can never know that  we rise from plane to plane higher and higher,   and it to know it. Otherwise by actual experience,  we must be the all itself. It is true that the  

Higher we rise in the scale. The closer to the  mind of the father we reach the more apparent   becomes the illusory nature of finite things, but  not until the all finally withdraws us into itself   does the vision actually vanish. So we do not have  to dwell upon the feature of allusion. Instead,  

Recognizing the real nature of the universe that  seek to understand his mental laws and endeavor to   use them to the best effect in our upward progress  through life as we travel from plane to plane of   being the laws of the universe are nonetheless  iron laws because of the mental nature, all except  

The all are bound by them. What is in the infinite  mind of the all is real in a degree, second only   to that reality itself, which is vested in the  nature of the all. So do not feel insecure or  

Afraid. We are all held firmly in the infinite  mind of the all and there is nothing to hurt us or   for us to fear. There is no power outside of the  all to affect us so we may rest calm and secure.  

There is a world of comfort and security. In this  realization when once attained, then calm and   peaceful. Do we sleep rocked in the cradle of the  deep, resting safely in the bosom of the ocean of  

Infinite mind which is the all in the all indeed  do we live and move and have our being. Matter   is nonetheless matter to us while we dwell on the  plane of matter. Although we know it to be merely   an aggregation of electrons or particles of force  vibrating rapidly and gyrating around each other  

In the formations of atoms. The atoms in turn,  vibrating and gyrating forming molecules, which   latter in turn form larger masses of matter, nor  does matter become less matter when we follow the   inquiry still further and learn from the hermetic  teachings that the force of which the electrons  

Are but units is merely a manifestation of the  mind of the all and like all those in the universe   is purely mental in its nature while on the plane  of matter, we must recognize its phenomena, we may  

Control matter as all masters of higher or lesser  degrees do, but we do so by applying the higher   forces, we commit a folly when we attempt to deny  the existence of matter in the relative aspect we  

Made a nice mastery over us, and rightly so, but  we should not attempt to ignored in its relative   aspect, at least so long as we dwell upon its  plane nor to the laws of nature become less cost  

And more effective when we know them. Likewise  to be merely mental creations. They are in full   effect on the various planes we overcome the lower  laws by applying still higher once and in this way   only, but we cannot escape law or rise above it  entirely. Nothing but the all can escape law and  

That is because the all is law itself, from which  all laws emerge, the most advanced Masters may   acquire the power usually attributed to the gods  of men and there are countless ranks of being in   the great hierarchy of life whose being in power  transcends even that of the highest Masters among  

Men, to a degree unthinkable by mortals. But even  the highest master and the highest being must bow   to the law and the be is nothing in the eye of  the all so that even if these highest beings  

Whose powers exceed even those attributed by  men to their gods if even these are bound by,   and are subservient to law, then imagine the  presumption of mortal man of our race in grade   when he dares to consider the laws of nature is  unreal, visionary and illusory because he happens  

To be able to grasp the truth that the laws are  mental in nature and simply mental creations of   the all those laws which the all intends to be.  Governing laws are not to be defied or argued  

Away so long as the universe endures, will they  endure for the universe exists by virtue of these   laws which form its framework in which hold it  together. The hermetic principle of mentalism   while explaining the true nature of the universe  upon the principle that all his mental does not  

Change the scientific conceptions of the universe  life or evolution. In fact, science merely   corroborates the hermetic teachings. The letter  merely teaches that the nature of the universe   is mental while modern science has taught that it  is material, or more recently that it is energy  

As the last analysis. The hermetic teachings  have no faults to find with Herbert Spencer’s   basic principle was postulates the existence of an  infinite and eternal energy from which all things   proceed. In fact, the hermetic’s recognize and  Spencer’s philosophy the highest outside statement  

Of the workings of the natural laws that have ever  been promulgated and they believed Spencer to have   been a reincarnation of an ancient philosopher who  dwelt in ancient Egypt thousands of years ago and   who later incarnated as Heraclitus, the Grecian  philosopher lived 500 BC in regard to statement  

Of the infinite and eternal energy as directly in  the line of the hermetic teachings, always with   the addition of their own doctrine that his energy  is the energy of the mind of the all with the   master key of the hermetic philosophy the student  of Spencer will be able to unlock many doors of  

The inner philosophical conceptions of the great  English philosopher whose work shows the results   of the preparation of his previous incarnations.  His teachings regarding evolution rhythm are an   almost perfect agreement with the hermetic  teachings regarding the principle of rhythm,  

So the student of hermetic’s need not lay aside  any of his cherished scientific views regarding   the universe. All he is asked to do is to grasp  the underlying principle of the all is mind. The  

Universe is mental held in the mind of the all  he will find that the other six of the seven   principles will fit into his scientific knowledge  and will serve to bring out obscure points and to   throw light and dark corners. This is not to  be wondered at, when we realize the influence  

Of the hermetic thought on the early philosophers  of Greece, upon whose foundations of thought. The   theories of modern science largely rest the  acceptance of the first hermetic principle.   Mentalism is the only great point of difference  between modern science and hermetic students in  

Science is gradually moving toward the hermetic  position and is groping in the dark for a way out   of the labyrinth into which it is wanted in its  search for reality. The purpose of this lesson   is to impress upon the minds of our students.  The fact that for all intents and purposes,  

The universe and its laws and its phenomena are  just as real, so far as man is concerned as they   would be under the hypotheses of materialism or  synergism under any hypothesis, the universe,   in its outer aspect is changing, ever flowing and  transitory, and therefore devoid of substantiality  

And reality. But note the other pole of truth  under any of the same hypotheses we are compelled   to act and live as if the fleeting things were  real and substantial, with this difference,   always between the various hypotheses that  under the old views mental power was ignored as  

A natural force while under mentalism, it becomes  the greatest natural force in this one difference   revolutionizes life to those who understand the  principal and his resulting loss and practice.   So finally, students all grasp the advantage  of mentalism and learn to know use and apply  

The laws resulting from their but do not yield  to the temptation which is the kybalion states   overcomes the half wise, and which causes them to  be hypnotized by the apparent unreality of things,   the consequence being that they wander about  like dream people dwelling in a world of dreams,  

Ignoring the practical work and life of man, the  end being that they are broken against the rocks   and torn asunder by the elements, by reason of  their folly. Instead, follow the example of the   wise, which the same authority states use law  against the laws. The higher against the lower  

And by the art of alchemy transmute that which  is undesirable, and to that which is worthy and   thus triumph following the authority, let  us avoid the half wisdom, which is folly,   which ignores the truth that mastery consists  not in abnormal dreams and visions and fantastic  

Imaginings of living, but in using the higher  forces against the lower escape in the pains   of the lower planes by vibrating on the higher  remember always dear student, the transmutation,   not presumptuous. Denial is the weapon of the  master the above quotations are from the kybalion  

And are worthy of being committed to memory by  the student. We do not live in a world of dreams,   but in a universe which, while relative is real,  so far as our lives and actions are concerned,  

Our business in the universe is not to deny his  existence, but to live using the laws to rise from   lower to higher living on doing the best that we  can under the circumstances arising each day and  

Living as far as it is possible to our highest  ideals and ideas the true meaning of life is   not known to men on this plane. If indeed to any  but the highest authorities in our own intuitions  

Teaches that we will make no mistake in living up  to the best that is in us, so far as is possible   and realizing the universal tendency in the same  direction in spite of apparent evidence is to the  

Contrary, we are all on the path and the road  leads up whatever with frequent resting places   received the message of the kybalion and follow  the example of the wise, avoiding the mistake of   the half wise who perish due to their folly.  Chapter 7 the all in all, while all is in the  

All it is equally true that the all is in all.  To him who truly understands this truth has come   great knowledge. The kybalion how often have the  majority of people heard repeated the statement   that their deity called by many names was all in  all and how little had they suspected the era cold  

Truth concealed by these carelessly uttered words.  The commonly used expression is the survival of   the ancient hermetic maxim quoted above as the  kybalion says to him who truly understands this   truth has come great knowledge and this being so,  let us seek this truth. The understanding of which  

Means so much in this statement of truth. This  hermetic maxim is concealed. One of the greatest   philosophical, scientific, and religious truths we  have given you the hermetic teaching regarding the   mental nature of the universe. The truth that the  universe is mental held in the mind of the all has  

The kybalion says in the passage quoted above  all is in the all but note also the correlated   statement that it is equally true that the all is  in all this apparently contradictory statement is   reconcilable under the law of paradox. It is  moreover an exact hermetic statement of the  

Relations existing between the all and is mental  universe. We have seen how all is in the all. Now   let us examine the other aspect of the subject.  The hermetic teachings are to the effect that the   all is imminent in which means remaining within  inherent abiding within its universe and in every  

Part particle unit or combination within the  universe. This statement is usually illustrated   by the teachers, by reference to the principle of  correspondence the teacher instructs the student   to form a mental image of something a person, an  idea something having a mental form the favorite  

Example being that of the author or dramatist  forming that he of his characters or a painter,   sculptor, forming an image of an ideal that  he wishes to express by his art. In each case,   the student will find that while the image has his  existence and being solely within his own mind,  

Yet he the student author, dramatist, painter  or sculptor is in a sense imminent in remaining   within or abiding within the mental image. Also,  in other words, the entire virtue life, spirit of   reality in the mental image is derived from the  eminent mind of the thinker considered this for  

A moment until the idea is fully grasped to take a  modern example. Let us say that fellow Iago Hamlet   Lear, Richard the third existed merely in the mind  of Shakespeare at the time of their conception   of creation. And yet Shakespeare also existed  within each of these characters giving them their  

Vitality, spirit and action whose is the spirit  of the characters that we know is make copper   Oliver twist, Uriah Heep is a Dickens breath.  Each of these characters of personal spirit,   independent of their creator had the Venus  of the DC the Sistine Madonna. The Apollo  

Belvedere spirits and reality of their own or  do they represent the spiritual and mental power   of their creators. The law paradox explains that  both propositions are true. Viewed from the proper   viewpoints make copper is both macabre or and yet  Dickens and again while macabre, may be said to be  

Dickens. Yet Dickens is not identical with macabre  or man like McCarver may exclaim the spirit of my   creator is inherent within me and yet I am not he.  How different this from the shocking half-truth so   vociferously announced by certain of the half  wise, who filled the air with their raucous  

Cries of I am God. Imagine poor McCarver with a  sneaky Uriah Heep crying. I am Dickens or some   of the lowly clots in one of Shakespeare’s plays  grandiose the announcing that I am Shakespeare,  

The all is in the earth more and yet the earthworm  is far from being the all and still the wonder   remains that though the earthworm exist merely  as a lowly thing created and having is being  

Solely within the mind of the all. Yet the all is  imminent in the earthworm head and the particles   that go to make up the earthworm. Can there be any  greater mystery than this. Of all in the all and  

The all in all, the student will of course realize  that the illustrations given above are necessarily   imperfect and inadequate, for they represent the  creation of mental images and finite minds while   the universe is a creation of infinite mind, and  the difference between the two poles separates  

Them. And yet, it is merely a matter of degree.  The same principle is in operation. The principle   of correspondence manifests in each as above  so below as below so above and in the degree   that man realizes the existence of the indwelling  spirit imminent within his being so will he rise  

In the spiritual scale of life. This is what  spiritual development means the recognition   realization and manifestation of the spirit within  us. Try to remember this last definition, that of   spiritual development. It contains the truth of  true religion. There are many planes of being many  

Sub planes of life. Many degrees of existence in  the universe and all depend upon the advancement   of beings and the scale of which scale the lowest  point is the grossest matter, the highest being   separated only by the thinnest division from  the spirit of the all and upward and onward  

Along the scale of life. Everything is moving  all are on the path whose end is the all all   progress is a returning home. All is upward and  onward. In spite of all seemingly contradictory   appearances. Such is the message of the illumined  the hermetic teachings concerning the process of  

The middle creation of the universe are that at  the beginning of the creative cycle. The all in   his aspect of being projected swilled toward its  aspect of becoming in the process of creation   begins. It is talk to the process consists of  the lowering of vibration until a very low degree  

Of vibratory energy is reached at which point  grossest possible form of matter is manifested.   This process is called the stage of involution  in which the all becomes involved or wrapped   up in his creation. This process is believed by  the Hermitage’s to have a correspondence to the  

Mental process of an artist, writer or inventor  who become so wrapped up in his mental creation   is almost forget his own existence and who, for  the time being, almost lives in his creation. If   instead of wrapped we use the word wrapped perhaps  will give a better idea of what is meant. This  

Involuntary stage of creation is sometimes called  the outpouring of the divine energy, just as the   evolutionary state is called the in drawing the  extreme pole of the creative process is considered   to be the furthest removed from the all while the  beginning of the evolutionary state is regarded as  

The beginning of the return swing of the pendulum  of rhythm a coming home. Idea being held in all   the hermetic teachings, the teachings are that  during the outpouring. The vibrations become lower   and lower until finally the urge ceases and the  return swing begins. But there is this difference  

That while in the outpouring the creative forces  manifest compactly and as a whole, yet from the   beginning of the evolutionary or in drawing stage  there is manifested the law of individualization.   That is the tendency to separate into units of  force, so that finally that which left the all as  

An individualized energy returns to a source, as  countless highly developed units of life. Having   risen higher and higher in the scale by means  of physical, mental and spiritual evolution.   The engine Hermitage use the term meditation. In  describing the process of the mental creation of  

The universe in the mind of the all the word  contemplation also being frequently employed,   but the idea intended seems to be that of  the employment of the divided attention.   Attention is a word derived from the Latin root  meaning to reach out to stretch out and so the  

Active attention is really a mental reaching out  extension of mental energy so that the underlying   idea is readily understood when we examine  into the real meaning of attention the hermetic   teachings regarding the process of evolution. At  that the all having meditated upon the beginning  

Of the creation having thus established  the material foundations of the universe,   having thought it into existence, then gradually  awakens or arouses from his meditation and in so   doing, starts into manifestation. The process of  evolution on the material, mental and spiritual  

Planes successively and in order. Thus, the upward  movement begins and all begins to move spirit word   matter becomes less gross. The unit spring into  being. The combinations begin to form life appears   in manifests in higher and higher forms in mind  becomes more and more in evidence. The vibrations  

Constantly becoming higher. In short, the entire  process of evolution and all of its phases begins   and proceeds according to the established laws  of the in drawing process all of this occupies   eons upon eons of man’s time each eon containing  countless millions of years but yet the illumined  

Inform us that the entire creation, including  involution and evolution of the universe is,   but as the twinkle of an eye to the all at the  end of countless cycles of eons of time. The all   withdraws its attention. It’s contemplation and  meditation of the universe for the great work is  

Finished and all is withdrawn into the all from  which it emerged, but mystery of mysteries. The   spirit of each soul is not annihilated but is  infinitely expanded the created and the creator   are merged, such as the report of the illumined  the above illustration of the meditation and  

Subsequent awakening from meditation of the all  is, of course, but an attempt of the teachers to   describe the infinite process by a finite example.  And yet, as below so above the differences merely   in degree and just as the all arouses itself from  the meditation upon the universe so does man in  

Time cease from manifesting upon the material  plane and withdraws himself more and more into   the indwelling spirit, which is indeed the divine  ego. There is one more matter of which we desire   to speak in this lesson and that comes very  near to an invasion of the metaphysical field  

Of speculation. Although our purpose is merely to  show the futility of such speculation. We allude   to the question which inevitably comes to the  mind of all thinkers who have ventured to seek   the truth. The question is why does the all create  universes. The question may be asked in different  

Forms, but the above is the gist of the inquiry  may have striven hard to answer this question, but   still there is no answer worthy of the name. Some  have imagined that the all had something to gain  

By it, but this is absurd for what could the all  again that it did not already possess. Others have   sought the answer in the idea that the all wished  something to love and others that it created for   pleasure or amusement, or because it was lonely,  or to manifest its power all trivial explanations  

And ideas belonging to the childish period of  thought. Others have sought to explain the mystery   by assuming that the all found itself compelled  to create by reason of its own internal nature.   Its creative instinct. This idea is in advance  of the others, but it’s week point lies an idea  

Of the all being compelled by anything internal  or external if it’s internal nature or creative   instinct compelled to do anything in the internal  nature or creative instinct would be the absolute   instead of the all and so accordingly. That part  of the proposition fails, and yet the all does  

Create and manifest and seems to find some kind  of satisfaction. In so doing, and it is difficult   to escape the conclusion that in some infinite  degree. It must have what would correspond to   an inner nature or creative instinct and man was  correspondingly infinite desire and will it could  

Not act unless it willed to act and it would not  will to act unless it desired to act and would not   desire to act unless it obtained some satisfaction  thereby and all of these things would belong to an  

Inner nature and might be postulated as existing.  According to the law of correspondence. But still,   we prefer to think of the all is acting entirely  free from any influence internal as well as   external. That is the problem which lies at the  root of difficulty and the difficulty that lies  

At the root of the problem. Strictly speaking,  that cannot be said to be any reason whatsoever   for the all to act for a reason implies a  cause and the all is above cause-and-effect,   except when it wills to become a cause, at which  time the principal is set into motion. So you see,  

The matter is unthinkable. Just as the all  is unknowable, just as we say the all merely   is. So we are compelled to say that the all acts  because it acts at the last the all is all reason,  

In itself, all law in itself all action in itself  and it may be said truthfully that the all is   its own reason its own law, its own act or still  further that the old it’s reason its act, its law  

Are one all being names for the same thing, in the  opinion of those who are giving you these present   lessons. The answer is locked up an inner self  of the all along with its secret of being the law  

Of correspondence in our opinion reaches only to  that aspect of the all which may be spoken of as   the aspect of becoming back of that aspect is the  aspect of being in which all laws are lost in law,   all principles merge into principal and the  all principal and being are identical one and  

The same. Therefore metaphysical speculation on  this point is futile. We go into the matter here   merely to show that we recognize the question  and also the absurdity of the ordinary answers   of metaphysics and theology. In conclusion, it may  be of interest to our students to learn that while  

Some of the ancient and modern hermetic teachers  have rather inclined in the direction of applying   the principle of correspondence to the question  with result of the inner nature conclusion. Still,   the legends have it that Hermes the great when  asked this question by his advanced students  

Answered them by pressing his lips tightly  together and saying, not a word indicating   that there was no answer. But then he may have  intended to apply the axiom of his philosophy that   the lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears  of understanding believing that even his advanced  

Students did not possess the understanding which  entitled them to the teaching. At any rate,   if Hermes possessed the secret he failed to  impart in so far as the world is concerned   the lips of Hermes are closed regarding and where  the great Hermes hesitated to speak what mortal  

May dare to teach but remember that whatever be  the answer to this problem. If indeed there be   an answer. The truth remains that while all is in  the all it is equally true that the all is in all  

The teaching on this point is emphatic and we may  add the concluding words of the quotation to him   who truly understands this truth has come great  knowledge. Chapter 8 the planes of correspondence   as above so below as below so above the kybalion  the greatest second hermetic principle embodies  

The truth that there is a harmony agreement  and correspondence between the several planes   of manifestation life and being. This truth is  the truth, because all that is included in the   universe emanates from the same source and the  same laws principles and characteristics apply  

To each unit or combination of units of activity  as each manifests its own phenomena upon its own   plane for the purpose of convenience of thought  and study the hermetic philosophy considers that   the universe may be divided into three great  classes of phenomena known as the three Great  

Plains namely one the great physical plane to  the great mental plane, and three the greatest   spiritual plane. These divisions are more or less  artificial and arbitrary for the truth is that all   of the three divisions are but ascending degrees  of the great scale of life. The lowest point of  

Which is undifferentiated matter and the highest  point that of spirit, and moreover the different   plane shade into each other so that no hard and  fast division may be made between the higher   phenomena of the physical and the lower of the  mental or between the higher of the mental and  

The lower of the physical and short the three  Great Plains may be regarded as three great   groups of degrees of life manifestation. While  the purposes of this book do not allow us to enter   into an extended discussion of or explanation  of the subject of these different planes. Still,  

We think it will, to give a general description  of the same. At this point. At the beginning we   may as well consider the questions often asked  by the neophyte who desires to be informed   regarding the meaning of the word plane, which  term is been very freely used and very poorly  

Explained in many recent works upon the subject  of occultism. The question is generally about as   follows is a plane of plays having dimensions or  is it merely a condition or state we answer no,   not a place nor ordinary dimension of space and  yet more than a state or condition. It may be  

Considered as a state or condition. And yet the  state or condition is a degree of dimension and a   scale subject to measurement somewhat paradoxical  right, but let us examine it further. A dimension   you know is a measure in a straight line relating  to measure etc. the ordinary dimensions of space  

Are length breath and hiked, or perhaps length  breath, height, thickness or circumference,   but there is another dimension of created things  or measure in a straight line known to occultists   and to scientists as well, although the latter  have not as yet applied the term dimension to  

It. In this dimension, which by the way, is  the much speculated about fourth dimension   is the standard used in determining the degrees  are planes. This fourth dimension may be called   the dimension of vibration is a fact well known to  modern science as well as to the Hermitage to have  

Embodied the truth in the third hermetic principle  that everything is in motion. Everything vibrates.   Nothing is at rest from the highest manifestation  to the lowest everything in all things vibrate.   Not only do they vibrate at different rates of  motion, but as in different directions. And in  

A different manner. The degrees of the rate of  vibrations constitute the degrees of measurement   on the scale of vibrations in other words, the  degrees of the fourth dimension. In these degrees   form. What a cult is called planes. The higher the  degree of rate of vibration, the higher the plane  

And the higher the manifestation of life occupying  that plane so that while a plane is not a place,   nor yet the state or condition, yet it possesses  qualities common to both. We should have more   to say regarding the subject of the scale of  vibrations in our next lessons in which we shall  

Consider the hermetic principle of vibration you  will kindly remember however that the three Great   Plains are not actual divisions of the phenomena  of the universe, but merely arbitrary terms used   by the Hermitage’s in order to aid in the thought  and study of the various degrees and forms of  

Universal activity in life, the Adam of matter.  The unit of force the mind of man and the being of   the archangel are all the degrees in one scale and  all fundamentally the same. The difference being   solely a matter of degree and rate of vibration.  All are creations of the all and have their  

Existence, solely within the infinite mind of  the all the hermit to subdivide each of the three   Great Plains into seven minor plans in each of  these latter also subdivided into seven sub planes   all divisions being more or less arbitrary shading  into each other and adopted merely for convenience  

Of scientific study and thought the great physical  plane and at seven minor planes is that the vision   of the phenomena of the universe which includes  all that relates to physics or material things   forces and manifestations. It includes all forms  of that which we call matter in all forms of that  

Which we call energy or force, but you must  remember that hermetic philosophy does not   recognize matter as a thing in itself or is having  a separate existence even in the mind of the all   the teachings of that matter is but a form of  energy that is energy at a low rate of vibration  

Of a certain kind and accordingly the Hermitage’s  classified matter under the head of energy and   give to it. Three of the seven minor planes of the  great physical plane. These seven minor physical   planes are as follows. The plaintiff matter a  the plaintiff matter, be the plaintiff matter see  

The plane of ethereal substance. The plaintiff  energy a the plane of energy be the plaintiff   energy C. The plaintiff matter a comprises  the forms of matter. It is form of solids,   liquids and gases as generally recognized by the  textbooks on physics. The plaintiff matter be  

Comprises certain higher and more subtle forms of  matter of the existence of which modern sciences,   but now recognizing the phenomena of radiant  matter and it’s phases of radium etc. belonging   to the lower subdivision of this minor plane.  The plane of matter see comprises forms of the  

Most subtle and tenuous matter. The existence of  which is not suspected by ordinary scientists. The   plane of ethereal substance comprises that which  science speaks of as the either the substance of   extreme 10 annuity and elasticity pervading all  universal space and acting as a medium for the  

Transmission of waves of energy such as light,  heat, electricity etc. this ethereal substance,   forms a connecting link between matter, so-called,  and energy and partakes of the nature of each. The   hermetic teachings, however, instructed that this  plane has seven subdivisions as have all of the  

Other minor planes and that in fact there are  seven ethers instead of but one next above the   plane of ethereal substance comes the plane of  energy. A which comprises the ordinary forms of   energy known to science is seven sub planes being  respectively heat, light, magnetism, electricity,  

And attraction, including gravitation, cohesion,  chemical affinity etc. and several other forms of   energy indicated by scientific experiments not  as yet named or classified the plane of energy   be comprises seven sub planes of higher forms  of energy, not as yet discovered by science,  

But which have been called nature’s finer  forces and which are called into operation   and manifestations of certain forms of mental  phenomena, and by which such phenomenon becomes   possible. The plane of energy. See comprises seven  sub planes of energy so highly organized that it  

Bears many of the characteristics of life, but  which is not recognized by the minds of men of   the ordinary plane of development being available  for the use on beings of the spiritual plane   alone. Such energy is unthinkable to ordinary  man and may be considered almost as the divine  

Power the beings employing the same, are as God’s  compared even to the highest human types known to   us the great mental plan comprises those forms  of living things known to us in ordinary life,   as well as certain other forms not so well known,  except to the occultists. The classification of  

The seven minor mental planes is more or less  satisfactory and arbitrary. Unless accompanied   by elaborate explanations which are foreign to  the purpose of this particular work, but we may   as well mention them. They are as follows. The  plane of mineral mind, the plane of elemental mind  

A the plane of plant mind the plane of elemental  might be the plane of animal mind the plane of   elemental mind see the plane of human mind. The  plane of mineral mind comprises the states or   conditions of the units or entities or groups,  and combinations of the same, which animates the  

Forms known to us as minerals, chemicals, etc.  these entities must not be confounded with the   molecules Adams and corpuscles themselves,  the latter being merely the material bodies   are forms of these entities just as a man’s body  is, but his material form and not himself. These  

Entities may be called souls. In one sense and  are living beings of a low degree of development,   life and mind just a little more than the units  of living energy comprise the higher subdivisions   of the highest physical plane. The average mind  is not generally attributed the position of mind,  

Soul, or life to the mineral kingdom but always  told us recognize the existence of the same,   and modern science is rapidly moving forward  to the point of view of the hermetic. In this   respect, the molecules Adams and corpuscles  had their loves and hates likes and dislikes,  

Attractions and proportions affinities and  non-affinities etc. and some of the more   daring of modern scientific mind have expressed  the opinion that the desire and will emotions   and feelings of the atoms differ only in degree  from those of men. We have no time or space to  

Argue this matter. Here all occultists know this  to be a fact, and others are referred to some   of the more scientific works in recent history  for outside corroboration. There are the usual   seven subdivisions to this plane. The plane of  elemental mind a comprises the state or condition,  

And degree of mental and vital development of a  class of entities unknown to the average man, but   recognized to occultists. They are invisible to  the ordinary sense is a man but nevertheless exist   and play the part of the drama of the universe.  The degree of intelligence is between that of the  

Mineral and chemical entities. On the one hand,  and of the entities of the plant kingdom. On   the other. There are seven subdivisions to this  plan. Also the plane of plant mind and at seven   subdivisions comprises the states or conditions of  the entities comprising the kingdoms of the plant  

World, the vital and mental phenomena of which is  fairly well understood by the average intelligent   person. Many new and interesting scientific  works regarding my did life implants having been   published during the last decade. Plants have life  mind and souls as well as have the animals man  

And Superman the plane of elemental might be in it  seven subdivisions comprises the stated conditions   of a higher form of elemental or unseen entities  playing their part in the general work of the   universe, the mind and life of which form a part  of the scale between the plane of plant mind and  

The plane of animal mind the entities partaking of  the nature of both the plane of animal mind and it   seven subdivisions comprises the stated conditions  of the entities and beings or souls animating the   animal forms of life familiar to us all. It is  not necessary to go into details regarding this  

Kingdom or plan of life for the animal world is  as familiar to us, as is our own. The plane of   material mind to see and it seven subdivisions  comprises those entities or beings invisible, as   are all such elemental forms which partake of the  nature of both animal and human life in a degree,  

And in certain combinations. The highest forms  are semi-human in intelligence, the plane of human   mind and it seven subdivisions comprises those  manifestations of life and mentality which are   common to man in his various grades, degrees, and  the vision in this connection we wish to point out  

The fact that the average man of today occupies,  but the fourth subdivision of the plane of human   mind and only the most intelligent have crossed  the borders of the fifth subdivision is taken to   raise millions of years to reach this stage and  will take many more years for the race to move on  

To the sixth and seventh subdivisions and beyond.  But remember that there have been races before us,   which have passed through these degrees and  then on to higher planes, our own race is the   fifth with stragglers from the fourth, which has  set foot upon the path and then there are a few  

Advanced souls of our own race was outstripped the  masses and who passed on to the sixth and seventh   subdivision in some few being still further on the  man of the sixth subdivision will be the Superman,   he of the seventh will be the over man and  our consideration of the seven minor mental  

Planes. We have merely referred to the  three elemental planes in a general way,   we do not wish to going to the subject in detail  in this work for does not belong to this part of   the general philosophy and teachings. But we may  say this much in order to give you a clearer idea  

Of the relations of these planes to the more  familiar ones. The elementary planes and bear   the same relation to the planes of mineral plant,  animal and human mentality in life that the black   keys of the piano due to the white keys. The  white keys are sufficient to produce music,  

But there are certain scales, melodies and  harmonies in which the black keys play their   part in which their presence is necessary. They  are also necessary as connecting links of soul,   condition, entity states, etc. between the several  other planes, certain forms of development being  

Contained therein. This last fact giving to  the reader who can read between the lines a   new light upon the processes of evolution and a  new key to the secret door of the leaps of life   between kingdom and kingdom. The great kingdoms of  elementals are fully recognized by all occultists  

And the esoteric writings are full of mention  of them passing on from the great mental plane   to the great spiritual plan, what shall we say,  how can we explain these higher states of being,   life and mind to mind as yet unable to grasp and  understand the higher subdivisions of the plane of  

Human mind. The task is impossible. We can speak  only in the most general terms. How may light be   described to a man born blind. How sugar to a man  who has never tasted anything sweet how harmony to  

One born death. All that we can say is that the  seven minor planes of the great spiritual plane.   Each minor plane having it. Seven. Subdivisions  comprise beings possessing life mind and form as   far above that of man of today as the latter is  above the earthworm mineral or even certain forms  

Of energy or matter the life of these being so  far transcends hours that we cannot even think   of the details of the same there mind so far  transcends hours that to them. We scarcely seem   to think in our mental processes seem almost akin  to material processes the matter of which there  

Forms are composed of is of the highest planes of  matter. Nay, some are even said to be clothed in   pure energy what may be said of such beings on  the seven minor planes of the great spiritual   plane exist beings, of whom we may speak as  Angels archangels demigods on the lower minor  

Planes will those great souls whom we call masters  and adapts above then come the great hierarchies   of the angelic host unthinkable to man and above  those come those who may, without a reference be   called the gods so high in the skill of being  are they there being intelligence and power  

Being akin to those attributed by the races of  men to their conceptions of deity. These beings   are beyond even the highest flights of the human  imagination. The word divine being the only one   applicable to them. Many of these beings as well  as the angelic host take the greatest interest in  

The affairs of the universe and play an important  part in its affairs. These unseen divinities and   angelic helpers extended their influence freely  and powerfully in the process of evolution and   cosmic progress. Their occasional intervention  and assistance in human affairs have led to the  

Many legends, beliefs, religions and traditions of  the race past and present. They have superimposed   their knowledge and power upon the world  again and again, all under the law of the all,   of course. Even so, even the highest of these  advanced beings exist merely as creations of  

And in the mind of the all and are subject to  the cosmic processes and universal laws, they   are still mortal. We may call them gods if we like  but still they are, but the elder brother and of   the race. The advanced souls who have outstripped  their brethren and who have foregone the ecstasy  

Of absorption by the all in order to help the  race on its upward journey along the path,   but they belong to the universe and are subject  to its conditions. They are mortal and their plane   is below that of absolute spirit. Only the most  advanced hermit’s are able to grasp at the inner  

Teachings regarding the state of existence and  the powers manifested on the spiritual planes.   The phenomenon is so much higher than that of  the mental planes that confusion of ideas would   surely result from an attempt to describe the  same, only those whose minds have been carefully  

Trained along the lines of the hermetic philosophy  for years. Yes, those who have brought with them   from other incarnations. The knowledge acquired  previously can comprehend just what is meant by   the teaching regarding the spiritual planes had  much of these inner teachings is held by the  

Hermitage as being too sacred, important and even  dangerous for general public dissemination. The   intelligent student may recognize what we mean by  this. We state that the meaning of spirit as used   by the Hermitage is akin to living power animated  force inner essence essence of life, etc. which  

Meeting must not be confounded with the usually  and commonly employed in connection with the term   religious ecclesiastical if the real holy, etc.  to occultists. The word spirit as used in the   sense of the animating principle, carrying with  it the idea of power living energy Mystic force,  

Etc. and occultists know that that which is known  to them is spiritual power may be employed for   evil as well as good ends in accordance with  the principle of polarity of fact which has   been recognized by the majority of religions and  their conceptions of Satan basil above the devil,  

Lucifer fallen Angels, etc. and so the knowledge  regarding these planes has been kept in the holy   of holies and all esoteric fraternities and occult  orders in the secret chamber of the temple, but   this may be said here that those who have attained  high spiritual powers and have misused them have  

A terrible fate in store for them in the swing  of the pendulum of rhythm will inevitably swing   them back to the furthest extreme of material  existence, from which point they must retrace   their steps spirit word along the weary rounds  of the path but always with the added torture of  

Having always with the malingering memory of the  heights from which they fell. Owing to their evil   actions. The legends of the fallen angels have a  basis in actual facts as all advanced occultists   know the striving for selfish power on the  spiritual planes inevitably results in the sulfur  

Soul losing its spiritual balance and falling  back as far as it had previously risen, but   to even such a soul. The opportunity of return is  given in such souls make the return journey paying   the terrible penalty according to the invariable  law. In conclusion, we would again remind you that  

According to the principle of correspondence which  embodies the truth as above so below has below so   above all of the seven hermetic principles are in  full operation on all of the many planes physical,   mental, and spiritual. The principle of mental  substance. Of course, applies to all the planes  

For all are held in the mind of the all the  principle of correspondence manifests in all, for   there is a correspondence harmony and agreement  between the several planes. The principle of   vibration manifest on all planes. In fact, the  very differences that go to make the planes arise  

From vibration as we have explained the principal  polarity manifest on each plane. The extremes   of the polls being apparently opposite and  contradictory. The principle of rhythm manifest   on each plane. The movement of the phenomena  having its ebb and flow rise and flow incoming  

And outgoing. The principle of cause-and-effect  manifest on each plane every effect having his   calls and recalls having its effect. The principle  of gender manifest on each plane. The creative   energy being always manifest an operating along  the lines of his masculine and feminine aspects  

As above so below is below so above this  centuries old hermetic axiom embodies one   of the great principles of universal phenomena as  we proceed with our consideration of the remaining   principles we will see even more clearly the truth  of the universal nature of this great principal  

Of correspondence chapter 9 vibration. Nothing  rests. Everything moves everything vibrates the   kybalion the great third hermetic principal the  principle of vibration embodies the truth. That   motion is manifest in everything in the universe  that nothing is addressed that everything moves  

Vibrates and circles this hermetic principal was  recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers   who embodied it in their systems but then for  centuries was lost sight of by the thinkers   outside of the hermetic ranks but in the 19th  century physical science rediscover the truth  

In the 20th century scientific discoveries have  added additional proof of the correctness. In   truth of this centuries old hermetic doctrine the  hermetic to concern that not only is everything   in constant motion and vibration but that the  differences between the various manifestations of  

The universal power are due entirely to the very  great, and motor vibrations. Not only this, but   that even the all in itself manifest the constant  vibration of such an infinite degree of intensity   and rapid motion that it may be practically  considered as addressed the teachers directing the  

Attention of the students at the fact that even  on the physical plane. A rapidly moving object   such as a fan, a revolving wheel seems to be at  rest, the teachings are to the effect that spirit   is at one end of the pole vibration. The other  pole being certain extreme gross forms of matter  

Between these two poles are millions upon millions  of different rates and modes of vibration. Modern   science has proven that all that we call matter  and energy are but modes of vibratory motion and   some of the more advanced scientists are rapidly  moving toward the positions of the occultists who  

Hold that the phenomena of mind are likewise modes  of vibration or motion, but to see what size has   to say regarding the question of vibrations in  matter and energy in the first place. Science   teaches that all matter manifests in some degree  the vibrations arising from temperature heat being  

Object cold or hot. Both being but degrees of the  same things it manifest certain he vibrations and   in that sense is in motion, and vibration,  then all particles of matter are in circular   motion from corpuscle to sons the planets are over  around sons and many of them turn on their axes.  

The sons move around greater central points, and  these are believed to move around still greater,   and so on ad infinitum. The molecules of which  the particular kinds of matter composed are in a   state of constant vibration movement around each  other and against each other. The molecules are  

Composed of atoms, which likewise are in a state  of constant movement and vibration. The atoms are   composed of corpuscles sometimes called electrons,  ions, etc., which are also a state of rapid motion   revolving around each other in which manifest a  very rapid state and motor vibration and so we see  

That all forms of matter. Manifest vibration  in accordance with the hermetic principle of   vibration and so it is with the various forms of  energy science teaches that like he’d magnetism   and electricity are but forms of vibratory  motion connected in some way with and probably  

Emanating from the either science does not as yet  attempt to explain the nature of the phenomenon   known as cohesion which is the principle of  molecular attraction nor chemical affinity,   which is the principle of atomic attraction nor  gravitation, the greatest mystery of the three,  

Which is the personal of attraction by which  every particle or mass of matter is bound to   every other particle or mass. These three forms  of energy are not as yet understood by science   yet the writers inclined the opinion that these  two are manifestations of some form of vibratory  

Energy of fact which the hermit is have held and  talked for ages past the universal leader, which   is postulated by science without its nature, being  understood clearly is held by the hermit is to   be but a higher manifestation of that which is  erroneously called matter. That is to say matter  

At a higher degree of vibration and is called by  them. The ethereal substance. The hermit is teach   that this ethereal substance is of extreme to  annuity inelasticity and pervade universal space   serving as a medium of transmission of waves of  vibratory energy such as heat, light, electricity,  

Magnetism, etc. the teachings are that get their  acceptance as a connecting link between the forms   of vibratory energy known as matter. On the one  hand, and energy or force on the other and that   it also manifested degree of vibration and rated  mode entirely its own scientists have offered  

The illustration of a rapidly moving wheel topper  cylinder to show the effects of increasing rates   of vibration. The illustration supposes a wheeled  top a revolving cylinder running at a low rate of   speed. We will call this revolving thing. The  object and follow me out the illustration but  

Is suppose the object is moving slowly. It may be  seen readily, but no sound of his movement reaches   the ear. The speed is then gradually increase in  a few moments this movement become so rapid that  

A deep growl or low note may be heard. Then, as  the rate is increased. The note rises one of the   musical scale, then the motion being still further  increased the next highest note is distinguished,   then one after another, all the nose of the  musical scale appear rising higher and higher  

As the motion is increased. Finally, when the  motion has reached a certain rate of final note   perceptible to human ears is reached and the  shrill piercing shriek dies away in silence   follows. No sound is heard from the revolving  object. The rate of motion being so high that the  

Human ear cannot register the vibrations. Then  comes the perception of rising degrees of heat   that after quite a time. The eye catches a glimpse  of the upcoming of the old dark reddish color as   the rate increases, the rate becomes brighter  then as the speed is increased, the red melt  

Into an orange and the orange melt into a yellow  following in succession are shades of green, blue,   indigo, and finally Violet as the rate of speed  increases, then the violet shades away and all   color disappears. The human eye. Not being able  to register them, but there are invisible rays  

Emanating from the revolving object. The rays that  are used in photographing and other subtle rays of   light then began to manifest the peculiar race  known as the x-rays, etc. as the Constitution of   the object changes electricity and magnetism are  emitted when the appropriate rate of vibration  

Is attained when the object reaches a certain rate  of vibration is molecules disintegrate and resolve   themselves into the original elements are atoms  in the atoms following the principle of vibration   are separated into the callous corpuscles of  which they are composed, and finally even the  

Corpuscles disappear and the object may be said  to be composed of the ethereal substance size   does not dare to follow the illustration further  but the hermit is teach that of the vibrations be   continually increased. The object would mount up  the success of states of manifestation and would  

In turn manifest the various mental stages  and then on spirit work until would finally   reenter the all which is absolute spirit. The  object however would have ceased to be an object   long before the state of ethereal substance was  reached, but otherwise the illustration is correct  

And as much as it shows the effect of cost of the  increased rates and modes of vibration. It must   be remembered in the above illustration that the  state is at which the object throws off vibrations   of light, heat, etc. it is not actually resolved  into those forms of energy which are much higher  

In the scale, but simply that it reaches a degree  of vibration which those forms of energy are   liberated in a degree from the confining influence  of his molecules, atoms in corpuscles, as the case   may be, these forms of energy of the much higher  in the scale than matter are imprisoned and  

Confined in the material combinations by reason  of the energies manifesting through and using   material forms, but does becoming entangled and  confide in the creations of material forms which   to extend is true of all creations. The creating  force becoming involved in its creation. But the  

Hermetic teachings go much further than do  those of modern science. They teach that   all manifestation of thought and emotion, reason,  will, or desire or any mental state or condition   are accompanied by vibrations. A portion of which  are thrown often, which tend to affect the minds  

Of the persons by induction. This is the principle  which produces the phenomena of telepathy, mental   influence and other forms of the action and power  of mind to remind with which the general public   is rapidly becoming acquainted only to the wide  dissemination of occult knowledge by the various  

Schools cults and teachers along these lines at  this time every thought he motion her mental state   has its corresponding rate and motor vibration and  by an effort of the will of the person or of other   persons. These mental states may be reproduced  just as a musical tone may be reproduced by  

Causing an instrument to vibrate at a certain rate  just as color may be reproduced in the same way   by a knowledge of the principle of vibration is  applied to mental phenomena one may polarize his   mind at any degree. He wishes thus getting the  perfect control over his mental states, moods,  

Etc. in the same way. He may affect the minds  of others producing the desired mental states   in them. In short, he may be able to produce on  the mental plane that would science produces on   the physical plane, namely vibrations. It will  this power. Of course may be acquired only by  

The proper instruction exercises practice, etc.  besides being that of mental transmutation. One   of the branches of the hermetic art. A little  reflection on what we have said will show the   student that the principle of vibration underlies  the wonderful phenomena of the power manifested  

By the Masters and adapts were able to apparently  set aside the laws of nature, but who in reality   are simply using one law against another, one  principle against others and will accomplish their   results by changing the vibrations of material  objects or forms of energy and thus perform what  

Are commonly called miracles is one of the old  hermetic writers has truly said he who understands   the principle of vibration has grasped the scepter  of power chapter 10 polarity, everything is duel.   Everything has poles. Everything has its pair of  opposites like and unlike at the same opposites  

Are identical in nature, but different in degree  extremes meet all truths about half-truths. All   paradoxes may be reconciled. The kybalion the  great fourth hermetic principal the principle of   clarity embodies the truth that all manifested  things have two sides to aspects to poles,  

A pair of opposites with manifold degrees between  the two extremes. The old paradoxes, which is ever   perplexed the mind of man are explained by an  understanding of this principle. Man is always   recognized something akin to this principle  in his endeavor to express it by such sayings,  

Maxims and aphorisms as the following. Everything  is and isn’t. At the same time. All truths about   half-truths. Every truth is half false. There are  two sides to everything there is a reverse side to   every shield, etc. etc. the hermetic teachings are  to the effect that the difference between things  

Seemingly diametrically opposed to each other is  merely a matter of degree. It teaches that the   pairs of opposites may be reconciled and that  thesis and antithesis are identical in nature,   but different in degree and that the universal  reconciliation of opposites is affected by  

Recognition of this principle of clarity.  The teachers claim that illustrations of this   principle may be had on every hand and from an  examination into the real nature of anything. They   begin by showing the spirit and matter are, but  the two poles of the same thing. The intermediate  

Planes being merely degrees of vibration. They  show that the all and that many are the same.   The difference being merely a matter of degree  of mental manifestation. Does the law and laws   are the two poles opposite the one thing likewise  principle and principles infinite mind and finite  

Minds, then passing on to the physical plane. They  illustrate the principle by showing that heat and   cold identical in nature. The differences being  merely a matter of degrees that the monitor shows   many degrees of temperature. The lowest poll  being called cold and the highest heat between  

These two poles are many degrees of heat or cold  call them either and you were equally correct.   The higher of 2° is always warmer, while the Lord  is always colder. There is no absolute standard,   all as a matter of degree. There is no place  in the thermometer where he’d ceases and  

Cold begins. It is all a matter of higher or  lower vibrations. The very terms high and low,   which we are compelled to use our but poles of the  same thing. The terms are relative. So with East  

And West travel around the world in a eastward  direction and you reach a point which is called   West at your starting point and you returned  from that was what point travel far enough   north you will find yourself traveling south or  vice versa light and darkness are poles of the  

Same thing with many degrees between them. The  musical scale is the same starting with see you   move upward into you reach another C, and so on.  The differences between the two ends of the board   being the same with many degrees between the two  extremes. The scale of color is the same higher  

And lower vibrations being the only difference  between hi Violet and low red large and small are   relative, so her noise and quiet hard and soft  followed the rule as well. Likewise sharpened,   though positive and negative are two poles of the  same thing with countless degrees between them,  

Good and bad are not absolute we call one end of  the scale good and the other bad or one into good   and the other evil. According to the use of  the terms I think is less good than the thing  

Higher in the scale but that less good thing and  turn is more good than the thing next below it,   and so on. The more or less being regulated by the  position on the scale and so it is on the mental  

Plane love and hate are generally regarded as  being things diametrically opposed to each other,   entirely different on reconcilable but we apply  the principle of polarity and we do this we find   that there is no such thing as absolute love  or absolute hate as distinguished from each  

Other. The two are merely terms applied to the two  poles of the same thing. Beginning at any point of   the scale we find more love or less hate. As we  ascend the scale and more hate or less love. As  

We descend. This being true, no matter from what  point higher low. We may start there are degrees   of love and hate, and there is a middle point  were like and dislike become so faint that it   is difficult to distinguish between them courage  and fear, to the same rule. The pairs of opposites  

Exist everywhere where you find one thing you find  its opposite. The two poles and it is this fact   that enables the Hermitage to transmute one mental  state into another along the lines of polarization   things belonging to different classes cannot be  transmuted into each other but things of the same  

Class may be changed. That is, may have their  polarity changed this love never becomes East   or West or red or violet, but it may and often  does turn it to hate and likewise hate may be   transformed in the love by changing his polarity  courage may be transmuted into fear and the  

Reverse heart things may be rendered soft, though,  things become sharp, hot things become cold,   and so on. The transmutation always being between  things of the same kind of different degrees. Take   the case of a fearful man by raising his mental  vibrations along the line of fear. Courage. He  

Can be filled with the highest degree of  courage and fearlessness and likewise the   slothful man may change himself into an active,  energetic individual simply by polarizing along   the lines of the desired quality. The student was  familiar with the processes by which the various  

Schools of mental science, etc. produce changes  in the mental states of those following their   teachings may not readily understand the principle  underlying many of these changes win. However, the   principal polarity is once grasped and it is seen  that the mental changes are occasioned by change  

Of polarity, a sliding along the same scale. The  matter is more readily understood the changes not   in the nature of the transmutation of one thing  into another thing entirely different but is   merely a change of degree in the same things  of vastly important difference. For instance,  

Borrowing an analogy from the physical plane. It  is impossible to change heat and the sharpness,   loudness, highness, etc. but he did may readily  be transmuted into cold simply by lowering the   vibrations in the same way hate and love are  mutually transmittable. So our fear encourage  

But fear cannot be transmuted into love, nor can  courage be transformed into hate the mental states   belong to innumerable classes, each class of which  has its opposite poles along which transmutation   is possible. The student will readily recognize  that in the mental states as well as in the  

Phenomena of the physical plane. The two poles  may be classified as positive and negative,   respectively. This love is positive to hate  courage to fear activity to non-activity,   etc. and will be noted also that even to those  unfamiliar with the principle of vibration. The  

Positive pole seems to be of a higher degree  than the negative and readily dominates it,   the tendency of nature is in the direction of  the dominant activity of the positive pole. In   addition to the changing of the poles of one’s  own mental states by the operation of the art  

Of polarization. The phenomena of mental influence  and its manifold faces shows us that the principal   may be extended so as to embrace the phenomena of  the influence of one mind over that of another, of   which so much has been written and taught of later  years when it is understood that mental induction  

Is possible that that is that mental states may  be produced by induction from others. Then we   can readily see how a certain rate of vibration  or polarization of a certain mental state may be   communicated to another person, and his polarity  in that class of mental states thus changed. It is  

Along this principal that the results of many of  the mental treatments are obtained. For instance,   a person is blue melancholy and full of fear.  A mental site is bringing his own mind up to   the desired vibration by his trade will and does  obtain the desired polarization in his own case  

Then produces a similar mental state and the other  by induction, the result being that the vibrations   are raised and the person polarizes toward the  positive end of the scale instead of towards   the negative and his fear and other negative  emotions are transmuted to courage and similar  

Positive mental states. A little study will show  you that these mental changes are nearly all along   the line of polarization. The change being one  of degree rather than of kind a knowledge of the   existence of this great hermetic principle will  enable the student to better understand his own  

Mental states and those of other people. He will  see that the states are all matters of degree and   sing this. He will be able to raise or lower the  vibration. It will to change his mental poles and  

Thus the master of his mental states instead  of being there servant and slave and by his   knowledge he will be able to aid his fellows  intelligently and by the appropriate methods   change the polarity when the same is desirable.  We advise all students to familiarize themselves  

With this principal polarity for correct  understanding of the same will throw light   on many difficult subjects chapter 11 rhythm,  everything flows out and in everything has its   ties all things rise and fall. The pendulum swing  manifests in everything. The measure of the swing  

To the right is the measure of the swing to the  left. Rhythm compensates the kybalion the great   fit hermetic principle, the principle of rhythm  and bodies the truth that in everything. There   is manifested a measured motion but to and from  movement of flow and inflow of swing forward and  

Backward a pendulum like movement attired like  ebb and flow high tide and low tide between the   two poles manifest on the physical, mental or  spiritual planes. The principle of rhythm is   closely connected with the principal polarity  described in the preceding chapter rhythm  

Manifest between the two poles established by  the principle of polarity. This does not mean   however that the pendulum of rhythm swings to the  extreme poles for this rarely happens. In fact,   it is difficult to establish the extreme polar  opposites. In the majority of cases, but the swing  

Is ever toward first one pole and then the other.  There is always an action and reaction and advance   and retreat arising in a sinking manifested in  all of the errors in phenomena of the universe,   sons worlds, men, animals, plants and minerals  forces energy mind and matter. Yes, even spirit  

Manifests this principle, the principle manifest  in the creation and destruction of worlds and the   rise and fall of nations and the life history  of all things, and finally in the mental states   of man, beginning with the manifestations of  spirit of the all it will be noticed that there  

Is ever the outpouring in the indrawn the outer  breathing and inbreeding of Brom as the Brahmans   word universes are created reach their extreme  low point of materiality and then begin their   upward swing son spring into being and then their  height of power being reached, the process of  

Retrogression begins and after eons they become  dead masses of matter awaiting another impulse,   which starts again their inner energies into  activity and a new solar lifecycle is begun,   and thus it is with all the worlds they are  born, grow and die, only to be reborn, and thus  

It is with all the things of shape and form. They  swing from action to reaction from birth to death   from activity to inactivity and then back again.  Thus it is with all living things. They are born,   grow and die and then reborn so it is with  all great movements, philosophies, creeds,  

Fashions, governments, nations, and all else  birth, growth, maturity, decadence that,   and then new birth, the swing of the pendulum is  ever in evidence night follows day and day, night,   the pendulum swings from summer to winter and then  back again. The corpuscles, atoms, molecules and  

All masses of matter swing around the circle of  their nature. There is no such thing as absolute   rest or cessation from movement and all movement  partakes of rhythm. The principle is of universal   application. It may be applied to any question or  phenomena of any of the many planes of life. It  

May be applied to all phases of human activity.  There is always the rhythmic swing from one pole   to the other the universal pendulum is ever in  motion the ties of life flow in and out according   to law the principle of rhythm is well understood  by modern science and is considered a universal  

Law was applied to material things, but the hermit  is carried the principal much further and know   that it’s manifestations and influence extend to  the mental activities of man and that it accounts   for the bewildering succession of moods, feelings  and other annoying and perplexing changes that we  

Notice ourselves, but the hermitages by studying  the operations of this principal have learned to   escape some of his activities by transportation  the hermetic Masters long since discovered that   while the principle of rhythm was invariable and  ever in evidence and mental phenomena. Still,  

There were two planes of its manifestation  so far as mental phenomena are concerned,   they discovered that there were two general planes  of consciousness, the lower and the higher the   understanding of which fact enabled them to rise  to the higher plane and thus escape the swing of  

The rhythmic pendulum, which manifested on the  lower plane. In other words, the swing of the   pendulum occurred on the unconscious plane and the  consciousness was not affected. This they call the   law of neutralization. Its operations consist  in the raising of the ego above the vibrations  

Of the unconscious plane of mental activity so  that the negative swing of the pendulum is not   manifested in consciousness and therefore they  are not affected. It is akin to rising above   the thing and letting it pass beneath you. The  hermetic master or advanced student polarizes  

Himself at the desired pole and by a process akin  to refusing to participate in the backward swing   or if you prefer a denial of its influence over  him. He stands firm in his polarized position   and allows the middle pendulum to swing back  along the unconscious plane. All individuals  

Who have attained any degree of self-mastery  accomplish this more or less unknowingly and   by refusing to allow their moods and negative  mental state to affect them. They apply the law   of neutralization. The master however carries us  to a much higher degree of proficiency and by the  

Use of his will he attain the degree of poise and  mental firmness almost impossible of belief on the   part of those who allow themselves to be swing,  backward and forward by the mental pendulum of   moods and feelings the importance of this will be  appreciated by any thinking person who realizes  

What creatures of moods, feelings and emotions  majority of people are and how little mastery   of themselves. They manifest if you will stop to  consider a moment you will realize how much the   swings of rhythm have affected you in your life  how appeared of enthusiasm has been invariably  

Followed by an opposite feeling and mood of  depression. Likewise, your moods and periods   of courage have been succeeded by equal moods of  fear and so it has ever been with the majority   of persons tied the feeling have ever risen  and fallen with them but have never suspected  

The cause or reason of the mental phenomena and  understanding of the workings of this principal   will give one the key to the mastery of these  rhythmic swings of feeling and will enable him   to know himself better and to avoid being carried  away by these inflows and outflows. The will is  

Superior to the conscious manifestation of this  principal. Although the printable itself can never   be destroyed. We may escape its effects. But the  principal operates. Nevertheless, the pendulum   ever swings, although we may escape being carried  along with it. There are other features of this  

Operation of the principle of rhythm, of which  we wish to speak at this point that comes into   its operations. That which is known as the law of  compensation, one of the definitions or meanings   of the word compensate is to counterbalance which  is the sense in which the hermit is use the term  

Is this law compensation to which the kybalion  refers when it says the measure of the swing to   the right is the measure of the swing to the left.  Rhythm compensates the law of compensation is that   the swing in one direction determines the swing  in the opposite direction or to the opposite pole,  

The one balances or counterbalances the other  on the physical plane. We see many examples   of this law. The pendulum of the clock swings a  certain distance to the right and then an equal   distance to the left. The seasons balance each  other in the same way the ties follow the same  

Law and the same law is manifested in all the  phenomena of rhythm the pendulum with a short   swing in one direction has but a short swing in  the other. While the long swing to the right,   invariably means the long swing to the left  and object hurled upward to a certain height  

Has an equal distance to traverse on its return,  the force with which a project Allison upward,   a mile is reproduced when the projectile returns  to the earth on his return journey, this law is   constant on the physical plane as reference  to the standard authorities will show you,  

But the hermit is carried still further, they  teach that a man’s mental states are subject to   the same law, the man who enjoys keenly is subject  to king, suffering while he who feels but little   pain is capable of feeling but little joy the pig  suffers but little mentally and enjoys but little  

He is compensated and on the other hand there are  other animals who enjoy keenly but whose nervous   organism and temperament caused him to suffer  exquisite degrees of pain and so it is with   man. There are temperaments which permit of, but  low degrees of enjoyment, but equally low degrees  

Of suffering. While there are other temperaments  which permit the most intense enjoyment, but also   the most intense suffering. The rule is that the  capacity for pain and pleasure in each individual   are balanced. The law of compensation is in full  operation here, but the hermit just go still  

Further in the spatter. They teach that before one  is able to enjoy a certain degree of pleasure he   must have swung as far proportionately toward  the other pole of feeling they hold, however,   that the negative is precedent to the positive in  this matter. That is to say that in experiencing  

A certain degree of pleasure. It does not  follow that he will have to pay up for with the   corresponding degree of pain on the contrary, the  pleasure is the rhythmic swing, according to the   law of compensation for degree of pain previously  experienced either in the present life or in a  

Previous incarnation. This throws a new light on  the problem of pain dermatitis regarding the chain   of lives is continuous and is forming a part of  one life of the individual so that in consequence,   the rhythmic swing is understood in this way.  While it would be without meaning unless the  

Truth of incarnation is admitted, but the harm it  is claimed that the master or advanced student is   able to a great degree to escape the swing toward  pain by the process of neutralization before   mentioned by rising onto the higher plane of the  ego. Much of the experience that comes to those  

Dwelling on the lower plane is avoided and escaped  the law of compensation, plays an important part   in the lives of men and women. It will be noticed  that one generally pays the price of anything he  

Possesses or lacks if he has one thing he lacks  another. The balance is struck. No one can keep   his penny and have the bit of cake. At the same  time. Everything has is pleasant and unpleasant  

Sides the things that one gains are always paid  for by the things that one loses the rich possess   much that the poor lack while the poor often  possess things that are beyond the reach of   the rich, the millionaire may have the inclination  toward feasting and the wealth wherewith to secure  

All the dainties and luxuries of the table while  he lacks the appetite to enjoy the same. He envies   the appetite and digestion of the labor who lacks  the wealth and inclinations of the millionaire and   who gets more pleasure from his plain food than  the millionaire could obtain even if his appetite  

Were not jaded nor his digestion ruined for the  wants habits and inclinations differ. And so it is   through life. The law of compensation is ever in  operation striving to balance and counterbalance   and always succeeding in time, even though several  lives may be required for the return swing of the  

Pendulum of rhythm chapter 12 causation. Every  calls has its effect. Every effect has its calls.   Everything happens according to law chances but  a name for laws not recognized. There are many   planes of causation, but nothing escapes the law.  The kybalion the great sixth hermetic principal  

The principle of cause-and-effect embodies the  truth. That law pervades the universe that nothing   happens by chance. That chance is merely a term  indicating because existing but not recognized   or perceived that phenomenon is continuous  without a break or exception. The principle of  

Cause-and-effect underlies all scientific thought.  Ancient and modern, and was enunciated by the   hermetic teachers in the earliest of days. While  many and varied disputes between the many schools   of thought have since arisen. These disputes  have been principally upon the details of the  

Operations of the principal and still more often  upon the meaning of certain words. The underlying   principle of cause-and-effect has been accepted as  correct, are partly all the thinkers of the world   worthy of the name. To think otherwise would be to  take the phenomena of the universe from the domain  

Of law and order and to relegated to the control  of the imaginary, something which may have called   chance a little consideration will show anyone  that there is in reality no such thing as pure   chance. Webster defines the word chance as follows  a suppose agent or mode of activity other than a  

Force law or purpose the operation or activity  of such an agent. The supposed effect of such an   agent. I happening, fortuity, causality, etc.  but a little consideration will show you that   there can be no such agent is chance in the sense  of something outside of law something outside of  

Cause-and-effect. How could there be a something  acting in the phenomenal universe independent of   the laws order and continuity of the latter, such  as, something would be entirely independent of   the order. The trend of the universe, and  therefore superior to it, we can imagine.  

Nothing outside of the all being outside of the  law, and that only because the all it is the law   in itself. There is no room in the universe for  a something outside of and independent of law,   the existence of such a something would  render all natural laws and effective and  

Would plunge the universe in the chaotic disorder  and lawlessness. A careful examination will show   that will be called chance is merely an expression  relating to obscure causes causes that we cannot   perceive causes that we cannot understand the  word chance is derived from a word meaning to  

Fall as the falling of dice, the idea being that  the fall of the dice and many other happenings are   mentally I happening unrelated to any calls and  this is the sense in which the term is generally   employed when the matter is closely examined. It  is seen that there is no chance whatsoever about  

The fall of the dice. Every time a guy falls and  displays a certain number. It obeys the law as   infallible as that which governs the revolution of  the planets around the sun back of the fall of the  

Dice are causes or chains of causes running back  further than the mind can follow the position of   the die in the box. The amount of muscular energy  expended in the throw the condition of the table  

And so on. All are causes the effect of which may  be seen, but back of these seem causes. They are   chains of unseen proceeding causes, all of which  had a bearing upon the number of the diet which  

Fell uppermost Aphrodite cast a great number of  times it will be found that the number shown will   be about equal. That is, there will be an equal  number of one spot to spot etc. coming up most   toss opinion the air and become down either  heads or tails, but make a sufficient number  

Of tosses and the heads and tails will about even  up. This is the operation of the law of averages,   but both the average in the single toss, the  law of cause and effect, and if we were to   examine into the preceding causes. It would be  clearly seen that it is simply impossible for  

The die to fall other than it did under the same  circumstances and at the same time given the same   causes the same results will follow. There is  always a calls in the because to every event.   Nothing ever happens without a calls or rather  a chain of causes some confusion has arisen in  

The minds of persons considering this principle  from the fact that they were unable to explain   how one thing could cause another thing that is  be the creator of the second thing is a matter   of fact no thing ever causes or creates another  thing cause-and-effect deals merely with events  

And event is that which comes arrives or happens  as result or consequence of some preceding event,   no event creates another event but is merely a  proceeding link in the great orderly chain of   events flowing from the creative energy of the  all. There is a continuity between all events  

President consequent and subsequent there is a  relation existing between everything that has   gone before and everything that follows a stone is  dislodged from a mountainside and crashes through   a roof of a cottage in the valley below. At first  sight with regard this as a chance effect. But  

When we examine the matter we find a great chain  of causes behind it in the first place. There   was the rain was soft and the earth supporting the  stone which allowed it to fall in the back of that  

Was the influence of the son of the rains etc.  which gradually disintegrated the piece of rock   from a larger piece. Then there were the causes  which led to the formation of the mountain and its   upheaval by convulsions of nature, and so on ad  infinitum. Then we might follow the causes behind  

The rain that we might consider the existence of  the roof. In short, we would soon find ourselves   involved in a mesh of cause-and-effect, from  which we would soon strive to extricate ourselves,   just as a man has two parents and four  grandparents and eight great-grandparents and  

16 great-great-grandparents, and so on until when,  say, 40 generations are calculated, the numbers of   ancestors run into many millions so it is with  a number of causes behind even the most trifling   inventor phenomena such as the passage of a tiny  speck of said before your eyes. It is not an  

Easy matter to trace the bit of soot back to the  early period of the world history when it formed   a part of a massive tree trunk which is afterward  converted into coal and so on until is the spec of  

So that now passes before your vision on his way  to other adventures in a mighty chain of events,   causes and effects brought it to its present  condition, and the latter is but one of the chain  

Of events which will go to produce other events  hundreds of years from now. One of the series of   events arising from the tiny bit of said was the  writing of these lines, which cause the typesetter   to perform certain work the proofreader to do  likewise and which will arouse certain thoughts  

In your mind and that of others, which in turn  will affect others and so on and so on beyond   the ability of man to think further at all from  the passage of a tiny bit of soot, all of which  

Shows the relativity, an association of things and  further on the fact that there is no great. There   is no small in the mind that calls at all stop to  think for a moment if a certain man had not met a  

Certain made a way back in the dim period of the  Stone Age, you are now reading these lines would   not now be here and if perhaps the same couple  that fails to meet, we can now write these lines  

Would not now be here in the very act of writing  on our part in the act of reading and listening on   yours will affect not only the respective lives  of yourself and ourselves, but will also have a  

Direct or indirect effect upon many of the people  now living and who will live in the ages to come.   Every thought we think every act we perform has  its direct and indirect results which fit into  

The great chain of cause and effect, we do not  wish to enter to a consideration of free will or   determination in his work for various reasons.  Among the many reasons is the principal one   that neither side of the controversy is entirely  right. In fact, both sides are partially right.  

According to the hermetic teachings. The principle  of clarity shows that both are but half-truths the   opposing poles of truth, the teachings are that a  man may be both free and yet abound, by necessity,   depending upon the meaning of the terms and  the height of truth from which the matter is  

Examined the ancient writers examine and express  the matter. Thus, the further the creation is from   the center, the more it is bound. The closer  to the center. It reaches the closer to free,   is it the majority of people are more or less  the slaves of heredity and environment etc. and  

Manifest very little freedom. They are swayed by  the opinions customs and thoughts of the outside   world and also by their emotions, feelings and  moods. They manifest no mastery worthy of the   name they indignantly repudiate this assertion  saying why I certainly am free to act and was I  

Please. I just do what I want to do, but they  failed to express whence arises the want to.   And as I please. What makes them want to do one  thing in preference to another. What makes them  

Pleased to do this and not do that. Is there no,  because to their pleasing and wanting the master   can change these pleases and wants it to others  at the opposite end of the metal pole. He is   able to will to will instead of to will because  some feeling, mood, emotion, or environmental  

Suggestion arouses a tendency or desire within him  to do so. The majority of people are carried along   like the falling stone obedience to environment  outside influences and internal moods, desires,   etc., not to speak of the desires and wills  of other stronger than themselves. Heredity  

And environment suggestion carrying them  along without resistance on their part or   the exercise of the will moves like the palms on  the checkerboard of life. They play their parts   in her latest side of the game is over, but the  Masters knowing the rules of the game rise above  

The plane of material life and placing themselves  in touch with the higher powers of their nature,   dominate their own moods, characters, qualities  and polarity as well as the environment surrounded   them and thus become movers in the game instead  of pawns causes instead of affects the Masters  

Do not escape the causation of the higher planes,  but fall in with the higher laws and thus master   circumstances on the lower plane. They thus form  a conscious part of the law. Instead of being   mere blind instruments while they serve on the  higher planes they rule on the material plane,  

But on higher and lower the law is always in  operation, there is no such thing as chance the   blind goddess has been abolished by reason we are  able to see now, with eyes made clear by knowledge   that everything is governed by universal law that  the infinite number of laws are but manifestations  

Of the one great law. The law, which is the all it  is true indeed that not a sparrow drops unnoticed   by the mind of the old that even the hairs on  our head are numbered as the Scriptures have  

Said there is nothing outside of law. Nothing  that happens contrary to it and yet do not make   the mistake of supposing that man is but a blind  automaton. Far from it. The hermetic teachings are   that man may use law to overcome laws and that the  higher will always prevail against the lower until  

At last he is reached the stage in which he seeks  refuge in the law itself and laughs the phenomenal   loss to scorn. Are you able to grasp the inner  meaning of this chapter 13. Gender gender is   in everything. Everything has its masculine and  feminine principles. Gender manifests on planes.  

The kybalion the great seventh hermetic principal  the principle of gender embodies the truth that   there is gender manifested in everything that  the masculine and feminine principles are ever   present and active in all phases of phenomena  on each and every plane of life at this point,  

We think it will, to call your attention to the  fact that gender in its hermetic sense and sex   in the ordinarily accepted use of the term are  not the same. The word gender is derived from   the Latin root meaning to beget to procreate  to generate to create, to produce a moment’s  

Consideration will show you that the word has a  much broader and more general meaning that the   term sex, the latter referring to the physical  distinctions between male and female living   things, sex is merely a manifestation of gender  on a certain plane of the great physical plane.  

The plane of organic life we wish to impress  this distinction upon your minds for the reason   that certain writers of acquired a smattering of  the hermetic philosophy have sought to identify   the seventh hermetic principal with wild and  fanciful and often reprehensible. The reason  

Teachings regarding sex. The office of gender is  solely that of creating, producing and generating   and its manifestations are visible on every plane  of phenomena. It is somewhat difficult to produce   proofs of this along scientific lines for the  reason that science has not as yet recognized  

This principle as of universal application but  still some proofs are forthcoming from scientific   sources in the first place we find a distinct  manifestation of the principle of gender among the   corpuscles ions or electrons which constitute the  basis of matter as science now knows the latter,  

And which, by forming certain combinations form  the atom, which until lightly was regarded as   final and indivisible the latest word of science  is that the atom is composed of a multitude of   corpuscles, electrons or ions. The various things  being applied by different authorities revolving  

Around each other in vibrating at a high degree  and intensity, but the accompanying statement is   made that the formation of the atom is really due  to the clustering of negative corpuscles around a   positive one. The positive corpuscles seeming  to exert a certain influence upon the negative  

Corpuscles causing the latter to assume certain  combinations and thus create or generate an atom.   This is in line with the most ancient hermetic  teachings which of always identify the masculine   principle of gender with the positive and the  feminine with the negative poles of electricity  

So-called now a word at this point regarding  this identification. The public mind has formed   an entirely erroneous impression regarding  the qualities of the so-called negative pole   of electrified or magnetized matter. The terms  positive and negative are very wrongly applied  

To this phenomenon by science, the word positive  me something real and strong as compared with   the negative unreality or weakness. Nothing  is further from the real facts of electrical   phenomena. The so-called negative pole of the  battery is really the pole in and by which the  

Generational production of new forms and energies  is manifested. There is nothing quote negative   unquote about the best scientific authorities now  use the word could load in place of negative the   work at those coming from the Greek root meaning  the set the path of generation etc. from the cook  

Told pole and merge the swarm of electrons or  corpuscles from the same pulling merge those   wonderful rays which a revolutionized scientific  conceptions during the past decade, the cook told   pole is the mother of all the strange phenomena  which have rendered useless. The old textbooks  

Which caused many long accepted theories to  be relegated to the scrap pile of scientific   speculation that could load or negative pole is  the mother principle of electrical phenomena,   and of the finest forms of matter as yet known to  science. So you see we are justified in refusing  

To use the term negative in our consideration of  the subject and in insisting upon substituting   the word feminine for the old term. The facts  of the case Barrus out in this without taking   the hermetic teachings into consideration, and  so we shall use the word feminine in place of  

Negative and speaking of that pole of activity.  The latest scientific teachings are that the   creative corpuscles or electrons are feminine  side says there composed of negative electricity.   We say there composed of feminine energy of  feminine corpuscle becomes detached from,  

Or rather leaves a masculine corpuscle and starts  on a new career. It actively seeks a union with   the masculine corpuscle being urged thereto by the  natural impulse to create new forms of matter or  

Energy. One article so far as to use the term it  at once. Seeks of its own volition, a union this   detachment and uniting form the basis of the  greater part of the activities of the chemical   world when the feminine corpuscle unites with the  masculine corpuscle of certain process is begun,  

The feminine particles vibrate rapidly under  the influence of the masculine energy and circle   rapidly around the latter. The result is the birth  of a new atom. This new atom is really composed of   a union of the masculine and feminine electrons or  corpuscles. But when the union is formed. The atom  

Is a separate thing. Having certain properties,  but no longer manifesting the property of   free electricity. The process of detachment or  separation of the feminine electrons is called   ionization. These electrons or corpuscles are the  most active workers in nature’s field arising from  

Their unions, or combinations manifest the varied  phenomena of light, heat, electricity, magnetism,   attraction, repulsion, chemical affinity  and the reverse and similar phenomena,   and all this arises from the operation of the  principle of gender on the plane of energy. The  

Part of the masculine principle seems to be that  of directing a certain inherited energy toward the   feminine principle and the starting into activity  the creative processes, but the feminine principle   is the one always doing the active creative  work and this is so on all planes. And yet,  

Each principle is incapable of operative energy  without the assistance of the other in some of   the forms of life. The two principles are combined  in one organism, for that matter. Everything in   the organic world manifests both genders. There is  always the masculine present in the feminine form  

And the feminine form their medications include  much regarding the operation of the two principles   of gender in the production and manifestation of  various forms of energy, but we do not deem it   expedient to go into detail regarding the same.  At this point because we are unable to backup  

The same with scientific proof for the reason that  science is not as yet progressed this far, but the   example we have given you of the phenomena of the  electrons or corpuscles will show you that science   is on the right path and will also give you a  general idea of the underlying principles. Some  

Leading scientific investigators have announced  their belief that in the formation of crystals   that was to be found something that corresponded  to sex activity which is another strong showing   the direction the scientific winds are blowing  and each year will bring other fax to corroborate  

The correctness of the hermetic principle of  gender. It will be found that gender is in   constant operation and manifestation in the field  of inorganic matter and in the field of energy or   force electricity is now generally regarded as the  something in which all of the forms of energy seem  

To melt or dissolve the electrical theory of  the universe is the latest scientific doctrine   and is growing rapidly in popularity and general  acceptance and thus follows that we are able to   discover in the phenomena of electricity, even at  the very root and source of its manifestations. A  

Clear and unmistakable evidence of the presence  of gender and its activities. We are justified   in asking you to believe that science at last has  offered proves of the existence and all universal   phenomena of that great hermetic principle, the  principle of gender is not necessary to take up  

Your time with the well-known phenomena of  the attraction and repulsion of the atoms   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 need extended comment from us,  

But have you ever considered that all of these  things are manifestations of the gender principle.   Can you not see that the phenomena is on all fours  with that of the corpuscles or electrons and more   than this. Can you not see the reasonableness  of the hermetic teachings which assert that the  

Very law of gravitation, the strange attraction by  reason of which all particles and bodies of matter   in the universe tend toward each other is but  another manifestation of the principle of gender,   which operates in the direction of attracting  the masculine to the feminine energies and vice  

Versa. We cannot offer you scientific proof of  this. At this time but examine the phenomena   in the light of the hermetic teachings on the  subject and see if you have not a better working   hypothesis than any offered by physical science.  Submit all physical phenomena to the test and you  

Will discern the principle of gender effort and  evidence. Let us now pass on to a consideration   of the operation of the principal on the mental  plane. Many interesting features of their awaiting   examination. Chapter 14 mental gender. Students  of psychology who have followed the modern trend  

Of thought along the lines of mental phenomena are  struck by the persistence of the dual mind idea,   which is manifested itself so strongly during  the last 10 or 15 years, which is given rise   to a number of possible theories regarding the  nature and Constitution of these two minds the  

Late Thomas J. Hudson attained great popularity  in 1893 by advancing his well-known theory of   the objective and subjective minds, which he held  existed in every individual. Other writers have   attracted almost equal attention by the theories  regarding the conscious and subconscious minds  

That voluntary and involuntary minds. The  active and passive minds, etc. the theories   of the various writers differ from each other  but there remains the underlying principle of   the duality of mind. The student of the hermetic  philosophy attempted to smile when he reads and  

Hears of these many new theories regarding the  duality of mind. Each school adhering tenaciously   to its own pet theories, and each claim to have  discovered the truth. The student turns back the   pages of a cold history in the way back in the  dim beginnings of occult teachings. He finds  

References to the ancient hermetic doctrine of  the principle of gender on the mental plane,   the manifestation of mental gender and examining.  Further, he finds that the ancient philosophy   took cognizance of the phenomena of the dual mind  and accounted for by the theory of mental gender.  

This idea of mental gender may be explained in a  few words to students who are familiar with the   modern theories just alluded to the masculine  principle of mind corresponds to the so-called   objective mind, conscious mind, voluntary mind,  active mind, etc. and the feminine principle of  

Mind corresponds to the so-called subjective  mind, subconscious mind and voluntary mind,   passive mind, etc. of course the hermetic  teachings do not agree with the many modern   theories regarding the nature of the two faces of  mind, nor does it admit many of the facts claimed  

For the two respective aspects some of the said  theories and claims being very far-fetched and   incapable of standing the test of experiment  and demonstration. We point to the phases of   agreement merely for the purpose of helping the  student to assimilate his previous they acquired  

Knowledge with the teachings of the hermetic  philosophy students of Hudson will notice the   statement at the beginning of the second chapter  of the law of psychic phenomena that the mystic   jargon of the hermetic philosophers discloses  the same general idea, ergo the duality of mind  

If Dr. Hudson had taken the time and trouble  to decipher a little of the mystic jargon of   the hermetic philosophy he might’ve received  much light upon the subject of the dual mind.   But then perhaps his most interesting work might  not have been written. Let us now consider the  

Hermetic teachings regarding mental gender. The  hermetic teachers impart the instruction regarding   the subject by bidding their students examine the  report of the consciousness regarding their self.   The students are bidden to turn their attention  inward upon the self dwelling within each each  

Student is led to see that his consciousness gives  him first report of the existence of his self. The   report is I am this at first seems to be the  final words from the consciousness, but a little   further examination discloses the fact that this  I am may be separated or split into two distinct  

Parts or aspects which while working in unison and  a conjunction, yet nevertheless may be separated   and consciousness while at first, there seems to  be only an high existing a more careful and closer   examination reveals the fact that there exists  and I and the me these mental twins differ in  

Their characteristics in nature and an examination  of their nature and the phenomena arising from   the same will throw much light upon many of the  problems of mental influence. Let us begin with   a consideration of the me, which is usually  mistaken for the eyes by the student until  

He presses the inquiry a little bit further back  into the recesses of consciousness. A man thinks   of his self and its aspect of me as being composed  of certain feelings, taste likes, dislikes,   habits, peculiar ties and characteristics all  which go to make up his personality or the self  

Known to himself and others. He knows that these  emotions and feelings change are born and die away   are subject to the principle of rhythm and the  principle of clarity which, taken from one extreme   of failing to another. He also thinks of the me  as being certain knowledge gathered together in  

His mind, and thus forming a part of himself.  This is the me of a man, but we have proceeded   to hastily the me of many men may be said to  consist largely of the consciousness of the body,   and their physical appetites, their consciousness  being largely bound up with the bodily nature,  

They practically lived there. Some men even go so  far as to regard their personal apparel as a part   of their me and actually seem to consider a part  of themselves. A writer has humorously said that   man consist of three parts, soul, body, and close  these close conscious people would lose their  

Personality. If the vested of their clothing  by savages upon the occasion of a shipwreck,   but even many were not so closely bound up with  the idea of personal Raymond stick closely to   the consciousness of their bodies being there me.  They cannot conceive of a self independent of the  

Body there mind seems to them to be practically  is something belonging to their body, which in   many cases it is, indeed, but is man arises in the  scale of consciousness. He is able to disentangle  

His me from his ideal body and is able to think of  his body is belonging to the mental part of him,   but even that he is very apt to identify the  me entirely with the mental states, feelings,   etc., which he feels to exist within him.  He is very apt to consider these internal  

States is identical with himself instead of there  being simply things produced by some part of his   mentality and existing within him of him and  in him but still not himself. He sees that he   may change these internal states of feelings  by an effort of will and that he may produce  

A filling or state of exactly opposite nature  in the same way. And yet the same need exists.   And so after a while he is able to set aside these  various mental states, emotions, feelings, habits,   qualities, characteristics, and other personal  mental belongings. He is able to set them aside  

In the not me collection of curiosities and  encumbrances as well as valuable possessions.   This requires much mental concentration and power  of mental analysis on the part of the student. But   still, the task is possible for the advanced  student and even those not so far advanced,  

Are able to see in the imagination. How the  process may be performed after the sling the side   process has been performed. The student will find  himself in conscious possession of a self which   may be considered in its I and me dual aspects  then he will be felt to be a something mental  

In which thoughts, ideas, emotions, feelings,  and other mental states may be produced, it   may be considered as the mental womb as the engine  style that capable of generating mental offspring.   It reports the consciousness as a me with latent  powers of creation and generational mental progeny  

Of all sorts and kinds its powers of creative  energy are felt to be enormous but still it seems   to be conscious that it must receive some form  of energy from either its I companion or else   from some other I before it is able to bring into  being its mental creations. This consciousness  

Brings with the realization of an enormous  capacity for mental work and creative ability,   but the student soon finds that this is not all  that he finds within his inner consciousness,   he finds that there exists a mental something  which is able to will that the me act along  

Certain creative lines in which is also able to  stand aside and witnessed the mental creation.   This part of himself. He is talk to call his eye.  He is able to rest in his consciousness that will,   he finds there not a consciousness of and ability  to generate and actively create in the sense  

Of the gradual process attended departmental  operations, but rather a sense in consciousness   of and ability to project and energy from the  eyes to the me a process of willing that the   mental creation begin and proceed. He also finds  that the eye is able to stand aside and witnessed  

The operation of the means mental creation and  degeneration. There is this dual aspect in the   mind of every person. The eye represents  the masculine principle of mental gender.   The me represents the feminine principle. The eye  represents the aspect of being the me the aspect  

Of becoming. You will notice that the principle of  correspondence operates on this plane just as it   does upon the great plane upon which the creation  of universes is performed. The two are similar   in kind. Although vastly different in degree  as above so below. These aspects of mind the  

Masculine and feminine principles the eye in the  me considered in connection with the well-known   mental and psychic phenomena give the master key  to these dimly known regions of mental operation   and manifestation. The principle of mental gender  gives the truth underlying the whole field of the  

Phenomenon of mental influence. The tendency of  the feminine principle is always in the direction   of receiving impressions while the tendency of the  masculine principle is always in the direction of   giving out or expressing the feminine principle  has a much more varied field of operation that has  

The masculine principle the feminine principle  conducts the work of generating new thoughts,   concepts, ideas, including the work of the  imagination. The masculine principle contents   itself with the work of the will, in its varied  phases and yet without the activate of the will of  

The masculine principle the feminine principle is  apt to rest content with generating mental images   which are the result of impressions received  from outside instead of producing original   mental creations. Persons who can give continued  attention and thought was subject actively employ  

Both of them mental principles. The feminine  and the work of active mental generation and   the masculine will and stimulating and energizing  the creative portion of the mind. The majority of   persons really employ the masculine principle but  little and are content to live according to the  

Thoughts and ideas instilled into the me from the  eyes of other minds, but it is not our purpose to   dwell upon this phase of the subject, which may  be studied for many good textbook upon psychology   with the key that we have given regarding mental  gender. The student of psychic phenomena is aware  

Of the wonderful phenomena classified under  the head of telepathy, thought transference,   mental influence, suggestion, hypnotism, etc.  many have sought for an explanation of these   varied phases of phenomena under the theories of  the various dual mind teachers in a measure they  

Are right, but there’s clearly a manifestation  of two distinct phases of mental activity,   but is such students will consider these dual  minds in the light of the hermetic teachings   regarding vibrations and mental gender. They will  see that the long-sought for key is at hand in  

The phenomena of telepathy. It is seen how the  vibratory energy of the masculine principle is   projected toward the feminine principle of another  person, and the latter takes the seat thought and   allows it to develop into maturity in the same  way, suggestion, hypnotism, operate the masculine  

Principle of the person giving the suggestions  directs a stream of vibratory energy or willpower   toward the feminine principle of the other person  and the latter accepting it makes it its own and   acts and things. Accordingly, an idea thus lodged  in the mind of another person grows and develops.  

And in time is regarded as the rightful mental  offspring of the individual. Where is it is in   reality like the cuckoo, a place in the sparrows  nest where destroys the rightful offspring and   makes itself at home. The normal method is  for the masculine and feminine principles in  

A person’s mind to coordinate and act harmoniously  in conjunction with each other but unfortunately   the masculine principle in the average person is  too lazy to act. The display of willpower is too   slight and the consequence is that such persons  are ruled almost entirely by the minds and wills  

Of other persons whom they allowed to do their  thinking and willing for them. How few original   thoughts or original actions are performed by the  average person are not the majority of persons   mere shadows and echoes of others, having stronger  wills are minds than themselves. The trouble is  

That the average person dwells almost altogether  in his me consciousness and does not realize that   he is such a thing as an I he is polarized  in his feminine principle of mind and the   masculine principle in which is lodged the will  is allowed to remain inactive and not employed.  

The strong men and women of the world invariably  manifest the masculine principle of will and their   strength depends materially upon this fact instead  of living upon the impressions made upon their   minds by others. They dominated their own minds  by there will obtaining the kind of mental images  

Desired and moreover dominate the minds of others.  Likewise, in the same manner. Look at the strong   people how they managed to implant their seed  thoughts in the minds of the masses of the people,   thus causing the latter to think thoughts in  accordance with the desires and wills of the  

Strong individuals. This is why the masses  of people are such sheeplike creatures never   originating idea of their own, nor using their  own powers of mental activity, the manifestation   of mental gender may be noticed all around us in  everyday life. The magnetic persons are those who  

Are able to use the masculine principle in the  way of impressing their ideas upon others, the   actor who makes people weep her cry as he wills is  employing this principle and so is the successful   or greater, statesman, preacher, writer or other  people who are before the public attention the  

Peculiar influence exerted by some people over  others is due to the manifestation of mental   gender along the vibratory lines above indicated  in this principle lies the secret of personal   magnetism, personal influence, fascination, etc.  as well as the phenomena generally grouped under   the name of hypnotism. The student was  familiarized himself with the phenomena  

Generally spoken of as psychic will discovered  the important part played in the set phenomena by   that force which science is styled suggestion by  which term is made to the processor method whereby   ideas transferred to or impressed upon the mind  of another, causing the second the mind to act in  

Accordance there with a correct understanding of  suggestion is necessary in order to intelligently   comprehend the varied psychic phenomena which  suggestion underlies but still a knowledge of   vibration and mental gender is necessary for the  student of suggestion for the whole principle of  

Suggestion depends upon the principle of mental  gender and vibration. It is customary for the   writers and teachers of suggestion to explain  that it is the objective or voluntary mind which   make the mental impression or suggestion  upon the subjective or involuntary mind,  

But they do not describe the process or give us  any analogy in nature whereby we may more readily   comprehend the idea but if you will think of the  matter in the light of the hermetic teachings   you will see that the energizing of the feminine  principle by the vibratory energy of the masculine  

Principle is in accordance to the universal laws  of nature and that the natural world affords   countless analogies whereby the principal may be  understood in fact the hermetic teachings show   that the very creation of the universe follows the  same law and that it all create a manifestations  

Upon the planes of the spiritual, the mental and  the physical. There is always an operation. This   principle of gender. This manifestation of the  masculine and the feminine principles as above   so below as below so above and more than this  when the principle of mental gender is once  

Grasped and understood the varied phenomena of  psychology at once becomes capable of intelligent   classification and study. Instead of being very  much in the dark. The principal works out in   practice because it’s based upon the immutable  universal laws of life. We shall not enter into  

An extended discussion of or description of  the varied phenomena of mental influence or   psychic activity. There are many books, many  of them quite good, which have been written and   published on the subject of later years. The main  facts stated in these various books are correct,  

Although the several writers have attempted to  explain the phenomena by various pet theories   of their own. The student may acquaint himself  with these matters and by using the theory of   mental gender. He will be able to bring order out  of the chaos of conflicting theory and teachings  

And may moreover readily make himself a master of  the subject. If he is so inclined. The purpose of   this work is not to give an extended account of  psychic phenomena rather to give to the student  

A master key whereby he may unlock the many doors  leading into the parts of the temple of knowledge   which he may wish to explore. We feel that in this  consideration of the teachings of the kybalion one   may find an explanation which will serve to clear  away many perplexing difficulties. A key that  

Will unlock many doors. What is the use of going  into detail regarding all of the many features   of psychic phenomena and mental science provided  we place in the hands of the student. The means   whereby he may acquaint himself fully regarding  any phase of the subject, which may interest them  

With the aid of the kybalion one may go through  any occult library, a new, the old flight from   Egypt illuminating many dark pages and obscure  subjects. That is the purpose of this book.   We do not come expounding a new philosophy, but  rather furnishing the outlines of a great world,  

Old teaching, which will make clear the teachings  of others, which will serve as a great reconciler   of different theories and opposing doctrines.  Chapter 15 hermetic axioms. The possession of   knowledge unless accompanied by manifestation  and expression and action is like the hoarding  

Of precious metals of vain and foolish thing  knowledge like wealth is intended for use. The   law of use is universal and he who violates it  suffers by reason of his conflict with natural   forces. The kybalion the hermetic teachings, while  always having been Securely locked up in the minds  

Of the fortunate possessors thereof, for reasons  which we have already stated were never intended   to be merely stored away in secret. The law abuses  dwelt upon in the teachings. As you may see by   reference to the above quotation from the kybalion  which they said forcibly knowledge without use and  

Expression is a vein think bringing no good to  its possessor or to the race beware of mental   miserliness and express into action. That what  you have learned study the axioms and aphorisms,   but practice them. Also we give below. Some of the  more important hermetic axioms from the kybalion  

With a few comments added to each make these  your own and practice and use them for their   not really your own until you have used them  to change your mood or mental state change or   vibration. One may change his mental vibrations by  an effort of will in the direction of deliberately  

Fixing the attention upon a more desirable state  will directs the attention and attention changes   the vibration cultivate the art of attention  by means of the will and you have solved the   secret of the mastery of moods and mental states  to destroy undesirable rate of mental vibration  

Put into operation. The principle of clarity and  concentrate upon tile opposite pole to that which   you desire to suppress kill out the undesirable  by changing its polarity. This is one of the most   important of the hermetic formulas. It is based  upon true scientific principles we have shown you  

That a mental state and its opposite, were merely  the two poles of one thing and that by mental   transmutation. The polarity might be reversed.  This principle is known to modern psychologists   who apply to the breaking up of undesirable habits  by bidding their students concentrate upon the  

Opposite quality. If you are possessed of fear do  not waste time trying to kill out fear but instead   cultivate the quality of courage and the fear will  disappear. Some writers have expressed this idea,   most forcibly by using the illustration of  the dark room. You do not have to shovel out  

Or sweep out the darkness, but by merely opening  the shutters or letting in the light the darkness   has disappeared to kill out a negative quality  concentrate upon the positive pole of that same   quality and the vibrations will gradually change  from negative to positive until finally you will  

Become polarized on the positive pole instead  of the negative, the reverse is also true is   when you found out to their sorrow and have  allowed themselves to vibrate to constantly   on the negative pole of things by changing your  polarity. You may master your moods change your  

Mental states. Remake your disposition and build  up your character. Much of the mental mastery of   the advanced hermetic’s is due to this application  of polarity which is one of the most important   aspects of mental transportation. Remember the  hermetic axiom which says mind as well as metals  

And elements may be transmitted from state to  state degree to degree condition to condition,   pole to pole vibration to vibration the master  of polarization is the mastery of the fundamental   principles of mental transmutation or mental  alchemy for unless one acquires the art of  

Changing his own polarity. He will be unable  to affect his environment and understanding of   this principle will enable one to change his own  polarity, as well as that of others. If you will,   but devote the time care study and practice  necessary to master the art. The principle is  

True, but the results obtained depend upon the  persistent patience and practice of the student   rhythm may be neutralized by an application of  the art of polarization as we have explained   in previous chapters, the hermit is told that  the principle of rhythm manifest on the mental  

Plane as well as on the physical plane and that  the bewildering succession of moods, feelings,   emotions, and other mental states are due to  the backward and forward swing of the mental   pendulum which carries us from one extreme of  feeling to the other. The hermit is also teach  

That the law of neutralization enables one to a  great extent, to overcome the operation of rhythm   and consciousness as we have explained, there  is a higher plane of consciousness as well as   the ordinary lower plane and the master by rising  mentally to the higher plane because of the swing  

Of the mental pendulum to manifest on the lower  plane and he dwelling on his higher plane escapes   the consciousness of the swing backward. This is  affected by polarizing the higher self and thus   raising the mental vibrations of the ego above  those of the ordinary plane of consciousness. It  

Is akin to rising above the thing and allowing  it to pass beneath you. The advanced hermit is   polarizes himself at the positive pole of his  being the I am pole rather than the pole of   personality and by refusing and denying the  operation of rhythm raises himself above its  

Plane of consciousness and standing firm in his  statement of being, he allows the pendulum to   swing back on the lower plane without changing his  polarity. This is accomplished by all individuals   who have attained any degree of self-mastery,  whether they understand the law or not such  

Person simply refused to allow themselves to be  swung back by the pendulum of mood and emotion   and by steadfastly affirming the superiority to  remain polarized on the positive pole the master,   of course, attained a far greater degree  of proficiency because he understands the  

Law which he is overcoming by a higher law and  by the use of his will he attend to degree of   poison mental steadfastness almost impossible to  believe on the part of those who allow themselves   to be swung backward and forward by the mental  pendulum of moods and feelings. Remember, always,  

However, that you do not really destroy the  principle of rhythm. For it is indestructible,   you simply overcome one law by counterbalancing  it with another, and thus maintain an equilibrium.   The loss of balance and counterbalance are in  operation on the mental as well as on the physical  

Planes and an understanding of these laws enables  one to seem to overthrow laws. Where is he is   merely exerting a counterbalance. Nothing escapes  the principle of cause and effect, but there are   many claims of causation, and one may use the laws  of the higher to overcome the laws of the lower by  

An understanding of the practice of polarization  the hermit’s rise to a higher plane of causation   and thus counterbalance the laws of the lower  planes of causation by rising above the plane   of ordinary causes. They become themselves in a  degree causes instead of being merely calls by  

Being able to master their own moods and feelings  and by being able to neutralize rhythm as we have   already explained there able to escape a great  part of the operations of cause and effect on the   ordinary plane. The masses of people are carried  along obedience to their environment. The wills  

And desires of other stronger than themselves. The  effect of inherited tendencies. The suggestions of   those about them and other outward causes which  tend to move them about on the chessboard of life   like mere pawns by rising above these influencing  causes the advanced hermit to seek a higher plane  

Of mental action and by dominating their moods and  emotions, impulses, and feelings they create for   themselves. New characters, qualities and powers  by which they overcome their ordinary environment   and thus become practically players instead of  mere pawns. Such people help to play the game of  

Life. Understandably, instead of being moved about  this way and that way by stronger influences and   powers and wills. They use the principle of cause  and effect. Instead of being used to buy it. Of   course, even the highest are subject to the  principle is a manifest on the higher planes,  

But on the lower planes of activity. They are  masters instead of slaves as the kybalion says   the wise one serve on the higher but rule on the  lower they obey the laws coming from above them,  

But on their own plane and those of below them.  They rule and give orders, and yet, in so doing,   they form a part of the principal instead of  opposing it. The wise man falls in with the law  

And by understanding its movements. He operated  instead of being its blind slave just as does the   skilled swimmer turn this way and that way going  and coming as he will instead of being is the law  

Which is carried here and there along the river  so was the wise man as compared to the ordinary   man and yet both swimmer and log wise men in  full are subject to law. He who understands   this is well on the road to mastery the kybalion.  In conclusion, let us again call your attention  

To the hermetic axiom true hermetic transmutation  is a mental art in the above axiom. The hermit is   teach that the great work of influencing one’s  environment is accomplished by mental power,   the universe being holy mental. It follows that 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 are attracting so much attention and study  in these earlier years of the new century back of   and under the teachings of the various cults in  schools remains ever constant, the principle of  

The mental substance of the universe. If the  universe be mental in a substantial nature,   then it follows that mental transmutation  must change the conditions in phenomena of   the universe. If the universe is mental then  mind must be the highest power affecting its  

Phenomena. If this be understood that all the  so-called miracles and wonderworking’s are   seen plainly for what they are the all his  mind. The universe is mental the kybalion.

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