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Crucify. It was merely a collection of maxims, axioms, and precepts, which were non-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.

They come as inevitably and normally as breathing, but like all other powers are to be used with caution and wisdom and by no means as a show-off or an end in themselves. " And, in the degree that Man realizes the existence of the Indwelling Spirit immanent within his being, so will he rise in the spiritual scale of life.

To take a modern example, let us say that Othello, Iago, Hamlet, Lear, Richard III, existed merely in the mind of Shakespeare, at the time of their conception or creation. 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.

One pursuing such inquiries travels around and around in the labyrinth of thought, until he is lost to all sane reasoning, action or conduct, and is utterly unfitted for the work of life. "There is not one who is Fatherless, nor Motherless in the Universe.

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. We do not live in a world of dreams, but in an Universe which while relative, is real so far as our lives and actions are concerned.

Verily indeed, ALL IS MIND! Not only do they vibrate at different rates of motion, but as in different directions and in a different manner.

Not only do they vibrate at different rates of motion, but as in different directions and in a different manner. "--The Kybalion.

"--The Kybalion. " And, this being so, let us seek this truth, the understanding of which means so much.

Contemporary with Abraham, and, if the legends be true, an instructor of that venerable sage, Hermes was, and is, the Great Central Sun of Occultism, whose rays have served to illumine the countless teachings which have been promulgated since his time. And, yet: "As Below, so Above.

The old Hermetic axiom, "As above so below," may be pressed into service at this point. It is the Law, from which the Laws proceed, and it is not subject to them.