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One of the old Hermetic Masters wrote, long ages ago: "He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery. All the fundamental and basic teachings embedded in the esoteric teachings of every race may be traced back to Hermes.

But as something can never come from nothing, from what could THE ALL have created it. 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.

Have the Venus of Medici, the Sistine Madonna, the Apollo Belvidere, spirits and reality of their own, or do they represent the spiritual and mental power of their creators? It is the Law, from which the Laws proceed, and it is not subject to them.

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

What else can it be-- of what else can it be made? There can be nothing existing outside of THE ALL, else THE ALL would not be THE ALL.

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. Man, like Micawber, may exclaim: "The Spirit of my Creator is inherent within me-- and yet I am not HE!

" 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 ALL; Its Reason; Its Act; is Law; are ONE, all being names for the same thing. Where does "darkness" leave off, and "light" begin?

We want you to realize this fact thoroughly, before you pass judgment on the Hermetic conception of the Mental nature of the Universe. Such is The Law.

The Masters obey the Causation of the higher planes, but they help to RULE on their own plane. 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 of the subject may seem somewhat more startling.

And, again, while Micawber may be said to be Dickens, yet Dickens is not identical with Micawber. No, 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.