Man considering the Universe, of which he is a unit, sees nothing but change in matter, forces, and mental states.
Discover Psychic Experiences plus detailed information on Absolutely Free Psychic Readings as well as the full story about Psychic Medium Channeler and much more...
As a recent writer has said "Matter has melted into Mystery.
With this in view this particular lesson has been written.
But the Absolute point of view shows merely one side of the picture--the other side is the Relative one.
The old Hermetic axiom ran in these words: "As above, so below; as below, so above.
This Principle and that of Polarity have been closely studied by the Hermetists, and the methods of counteracting, neutralizing, and USING them form an important part of the Hermetic Mental Alchemy.
But as something can never come from nothing, from what could THE ALL have created it.
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.
It is taught that the process consists of the lowering of Vibration until a very low degree of vibratory energy is reached, at which point the grossest possible form of Matter is manifested.
Discover Psychic Experiences plus detailed information on Absolutely Free Psychic Readings as well as the full story about Psychic Medium Channeler and much more...
The Principle of Gender (see Lesson I.
Discover Psychic Experiences plus detailed information on Absolutely Free Psychic Readings as well as the full story about Psychic Medium Channeler and much more...
We overcome the lower laws, by applying still higher ones--and in this way only.
, into others, according to various formulas, more or less efficacious.
These divisions are more or less artificial and arbitrary, for the truth is that all of the three divisions are but ascending degrees of the great scale of Life, the lowest point of which is undifferentiated Matter, and the highest point that of Spirit.
So that if even these highest Beings, whose powers exceed even those attributed by men to their gods--if even these are bound by and are subservient to Law, then imagine the presumption of mortal man, of our race and grade, when he dares to consider the Laws of Nature as "unreal!
As the Kybalion says: "To him who truly understands this truth, hath come great knowledge.
Read the message of The Kybalion--and follow the example of "the wise"--avoiding the mistake of "the half-wise" who perish by reason of their folly.
" "As above, so below," remember, and the phenomena of one plane may be employed to solve the riddles of higher or lower planes.
And more than this, as many students and practitioners of modern mental science know, every material condition depending upon the minds of other people may be changed or transmuted in accordance with the earnest desire, will, and "treatments" of person desiring changed conditions of life.
This is the Paradox of the Universe, resulting from the Principle of Polarity which manifests when THE ALL begins to Create--hearken to it for it points the difference between half-wisdom and wisdom.