But still these men have never forgotten or overlooked the original teachings of Hermes, regarding the passing on of the words of truth to those ready to receive it, which teaching is stated in The Kybalion as follows: "Where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for his Teaching open wide.
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All thinkers, in all lands and in all times, have assumed the necessity for postulating the existence of this Substantial Reality.
Whether the Universe be created of Matter, or whether it be a Mental Creation in the Mind of THE ALL--it is unsubstantial, non-enduring, a thing of time, space and change.
This is in the affairs of the Universe, suns, worlds, men, animals, mind, energy, and matter.
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" The difference is merely in degree.
All he is asked to do is to grasp the underlying principle of "THE ALL is Mind; the Universe is Mental--held in the mind of THE ALL.
In this and similar methods, consist the Art of the Hermetists.
So that while a plane is not "a place," nor yet "a state or condition," yet it possesses qualities common to both.
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"Substantial" means: "actually existing; being the essential element; being real," etc.
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Following the Principle of Correspondence, we are justified in considering that THE ALL creates the Universe MENTALLY, in a manner akin to the process whereby Man creates Mental Images.
And accordingly, "Mental Transmutation" means the art of changing and transforming mental states, forms, and conditions, into others.
" We mean that which the illumined souls mean when they reverently pronounce the word: "SPIRIT!
The Principle of Polarity explains these paradoxes, and no other Principle can supersede it.
An understanding of this great Hermetic Principle of Mentalism enables the individual to readily grasp the laws of the Mental Universe, and to apply the same to his well-being and advancement.
Anything that has a beginning and an ending must be, in a sense, unreal and untrue, and the Universe comes under the rule, in all schools of thought.
And it is difficult to escape the conclusion that in some infinite degree it must have what would correspond to an "inner nature," or "creative instinct," in man, with correspondingly infinite Desire and Will.
But, remember, that whatever be the answer to this problem, if indeed there be an answer the truth remains that: "While All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE ALL is in All.
It must be Infinite in Time, or ETERNAL,--it must have always continuously existed, for there is nothing else to have ever created it, and something can never evolve from nothing, and if it had ever "not been," even for a moment, it would not "be" now,--it must continuously exist forever, for there is nothing to destroy it, and it can never "not-be," even for a moment, because something can never become nothing.