1-Psychic.Net

" The truth is, that beneath the material chemistry, astronomy and psychology (that is, the psychology in its phase of "brain-action") the ancients possessed a knowledge of transcendental astronomy, called astrology; of transcendental chemistry, called alchemy; of transcendental psychology, called mystic psychology. (3) 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.

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. It is the art of seeing life steadily and whole both within and outside the perception of our physical senses and it cannot be completely mastered until the subjugation and co-operation of the body are made part of the coherent scheme of things.

Under any hypothesis the Universe in its outer aspect is changing, ever-flowing, and transitory--and therefore devoid of substantiality and reality. We find here that the "Principle of Correspondence" (see Lesson I.

This is the great question. We must either do this or stop thinking of the matter at all.

There is always an action and a reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising and a sinking. 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, and with the same tendency as that of Theology.

Each according to its own Plane and Laws. " The Teaching on this point is emphatic.

Between "High and Low"? In other words, the entire virtue, life, spirit, of reality in the mental image is derived from the "immanent mind" of the thinker.

Do not make the mistake of supposing that the little world you see around you--the Earth, which is a mere grain of dust in the Universe--is the Universe itself. He had tried luxury and had renounced its poisons.

But this will not do, for there are no materials outside of THE ALL with which it may create. The old Hermetic axiom ran in these words: "As above, so below; as below, so above.

Everything, and every person, contains the two Elements or Principles, or this great Principle, within it, him or her. 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.