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"--The Kybalion. Between "Sharp and Dull"?

They did not believe in "casting pearls before swine," but rather held to the teaching "milk for babes"; "meat 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. All is Upward and Onward, in spite of all seemingly contradictory appearances.

It is, moreover, an exact Hermetic statement of the relations existing between THE ALL and its Mental Universe. The Principle of Gender (see Lesson I.

There is no Power outside of THE ALL to affect us. So "heat" and "cold" are simply the "two poles" of that which we call "Heat"--and the phenomena attendant thereupon are manifestations of the Principle of Polarity.

From astrology has grown modern astronomy; from alchemy has grown modern chemistry; from the mystic psychology has grown the modern psychology of the schools. The human reason, whose reports we must accept so long as we think at all, informs us as follows regarding THE ALL, and that without attempting to remove the veil of the Unknowable: (1) THE ALL must be ALL that REALLY IS.

We kick a stone and we feel the impact--it seems to be real, notwithstanding that we know it to be merely what we have stated above. At the beginning we may as well consider the question so often asked by the neophyte, who desires to be informed regarding the meaning of the word "Plane", which term has been very freely used, and very poorly explained, in many recent works upon the subject of occultism.

The claim of the corpuscle that: "I am Man! " And so THE ALL cannot be mere Energy or Force, for, if it were, then there would be no such things as Life and Mind in 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.

The Principle of Gender works ever in the direction of generation, regeneration, and creation. " How different this from the shocking half-truth so vociferously announced by certain of the half-wise, who fill the air with their raucous cries of: "I am God!

So "heat" and "cold" are simply the "two poles" of that which we call "Heat"--and the phenomena attendant thereupon are manifestations of the Principle of Polarity. 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.

In ancient Egypt dwelt the great Adepts 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. This Principle is of universal application and manifestation, on the various planes of the material, mental, and spiritual universe--it is an Universal Law.