This process is believed by the Hermetists to have a Correspondence to the mental process of an artist, writer, or inventor, who becomes so wrapped up in his mental creation as to almost forget his own existence and who, for the time being, almost "lives in his creation," If instead of "wrapped" we use the word "rapt," perhaps we will give a better idea of what is meant.
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In THE ALL, indeed, do "we live and move and have our being.
He was known as Hermes Trismegistus.
"But what kind of Life and Mind do you mean?
And as there is Nothing outside of THE ALL, in Reality, then any and all such finite things must be as Nothing in Reality.
Let us take a radical and extreme example--that of "Love and Hate," two mental states apparently totally different.
Real life cannot be treated as a thing of little colored patches.
But among these great Masters of Ancient Egypt there once dwelt one of whom Masters hailed as "The Master of Masters.
Then again, the ideal of the artist or sculptor, which he is endeavoring to reproduce in stone or on canvas, seems very real to him.
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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.
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In this and similar methods, consist the Art of the Hermetists.
And, yet, THE ALL does create and manifest, and seems to find some kind of satisfaction in so doing.
The best authorities regard him as a contemporary of Abraham, and some of the Jewish traditions go so far as to claim that Abraham acquired a portion of his mystic knowledge from Hermes himself.
Transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of the Master.
From him they obtained the Master-Key which explained and reconciled their divergent views, and thus the Secret Doctrine was firmly established.
The Hermetic Principle of Cause and Effect, in its aspect of The Law of Attraction, will bring lips and ear together--pupil and book in company.
" And so while to THE ALL the Universe must be unreal and illusionary, a mere dream or result of meditation,--nevertheless, to the finite minds forming a part of that Universe, and viewing it through mortal faculties, the Universe is very real indeed, and must be so considered.
So you may see that Mental Transmutation is the "Art of Mental Chemistry," if you like the term--a form of practical Mystic Psychology.
The Principle of Correspondence must apply to this as well as to other problems.