Think over any and all of the other conceptions, and see whether this be not true of them.
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Beware of Half-Truths.
He had tried a cruel asceticism and had cast aside its follies, and so experienced he taught a wise temperance that the body attaining perfect poise may not thrust its revolt in the face of the spirit.
The latter merely teaches that the nature of the Universe is "Mental," while modern science has taught that it is "Material"; or (of late) that it is "Energy" at the last analysis.
Try to remember this last definition--that of spiritual development.
Matter becomes less gross; the Units spring into being; the combinations begin to form; Life appears and manifests in higher and higher forms; and Mind becomes more and more in evidence--the vibrations constantly becoming higher.
And the spirit of persecution has not as yet died out in the land.
Thus the upward movement begins--and all begins to move Spiritward.
And even in our own little solar system there are regions and planes of life far higher than ours, and beings compared to which we earth-bound mortals are as the slimy life-forms that dwell on the ocean's bed when compared to Man.
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The Hermetists have never sought to be martyrs, and have, instead, sat silently aside with a pitying smile on their closed lips, while the "heathen raged noisily about them" in their customary amusement of putting to death and torture the honest but misguided enthusiasts who imagined that they could force upon a race of barbarians the truth capable of being understood only by the elect who had advanced along The Path.
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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.
Such is the report of the Illumined--those who have advanced well along The Path.
But do not yield to the temptation which, as The Kybalion states, overcomes the half-wise and which causes them to be hypnotized by the apparent unreality of things, the consequence being that they wander about like dream-people dwelling in a world of dreams, ignoring the practical work and life of man, the end being that "they are broken against the rocks and torn asunder by the elements, by reason of their folly.
" We answer: "No, not a place, nor ordinary dimension of space; and yet more than a state or condition.
Some philosophers have answered this question by saying that THE ALL created the Universe from ITSELF--that is, from the being and substance of THE ALL.
This Principle embodies the truth that "everything is dual"; "everything has two poles"; "everything has its pair of opposites," all of which were old Hermetic axioms.
And this is true even in the creation of Universes.
The Masters also apply this Principle to the conquering of Natural phenomena, in various ways.
There is no Power outside of THE ALL to affect us.