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It has been passed along from Master to Student; from Initiate to Hierophant; from lip to ear. In this and similar methods, consist the Art of the Hermetists.

We have seen that there can be nothing outside of THE ALL. There are many planes of Being--many sub-planes of Life--many degrees of existence in the Universe.

affairs of daily life, because in that strange world we are explorers. You will kindly remember, however, that the Three Great Planes are not actual divisions of the phenomena of the Universe, but merely arbitrary terms used by the Hermetists in order to aid in the thought and study of the various degrees and Forms of universal activity and life.

This is what spiritual development means--the recognition, realization, and manifestation of the Spirit within us. Read it carefully!

" But note also the co-related statement, that: "It is equally true that THE ALL is in ALL. Let us examine it carefully.

" Even Material Science has abandoned the theory of Matter, and now rests on the basis of "Energy. " Yes!

What is the Universe? Real life cannot be treated as a thing of little colored patches.

In THE ALL, indeed, do "we live and move and have our being. We overcome the lower laws, by applying still higher ones--and in this way only.

And consequently it manifests the Principle of Gender, in its Masculine and Feminine aspects, on the Mental Plane, of course. 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.

And all depend upon the advancement of beings in 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. So, we need not dwell upon the feature of illusion.