And yet this Hermetic Principle was enunciated thousands of years ago, by the Masters of Ancient Egypt.
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It includes all forms of that which we call Matter, and all forms of that which we call Energy or Force.
The Hermetic Teachings have no fault to find with Herbert Spencer's basic principle which postulates the existence of an "Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.
They possessed the Inner Knowledge as well as the Outer Knowledge, the latter alone being possessed by modern scientists.
The great Second Hermetic Principle embodies the truth that there is a harmony, agreement, and correspondence between the several planes of Manifestation, Life and Being.
In fact all that we call "psychic phenomena,"; "mental influence"; "mental science"; "new-thought phenomena," etc.
If you mean Life and Mind as we poor petty mortals know them, we say No!
We must either do this or stop thinking of the matter at all.
The question is: "WHY does THE ALL create Universes" The question may be asked in different forms, but the above is the gist of the inquiry.
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If its "internal nature," or "creative instinct," compelled it to do anything, then the "internal nature" or "creative instinct" would be the Absolute, instead of THE ALL, and so accordingly that part of the proposition falls.
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Strictly speaking, there cannot be said to be any "Reason" whatsoever for THE ALL to act, for a "reason" implies a "cause," and THE ALL is above Cause and Effect, except when it Wills to become a Cause, at which time the Principle is set into motion.
The claim of the corpuscle that: "I am Man!
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.
Others have sought to explain the mystery by assuming that THE ALL found itself "compelled" to create, by reason of its own "internal nature"--its "creative instinct.
This idea may seem startling to some of you who hear it for the first time, but you have all really passively accepted it in your everyday conceptions.
Such is the message of the Illumined.
So do the characters in the mind of the author; or dramatist, which he seeks to express so that others may recognize them.
Let us now proceed to a consideration of the nature of the Universe, as a whole and in its parts.
" Rather follow the example of the wise, which the same authority states, "use Law against Laws; the higher against the lower; and by the Art of Alchemy transmute that which is undesirable into that which is worthy, and thus triumph.