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The vibration of Spirit is at such an infinite rate of intensity and rapidity that it is practically at rest--just as a rapidly moving wheel seems to be motionless. We see around us that which is called "Matter," which forms the physical foundation for all forms.

" So it was with Ancient Greece and Rome. " you ask.

Just as you, student, may create a Universe of your own in your mentality, so does THE ALL create Universes in its own Mentality. we do not insist upon our students accepting these definitions--we mention them merely to show our position.

" But their customary attitude has always been strictly in accordance with the other Hermetic aphorism, also in The Kybalion: "The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding. Let us now proceed to a consideration of the nature of the Universe, as a whole and in its parts.

It must be seen in its entirety. It is the MOTHER MIND that you are pressing close up to, like a babe to the breast.

So it was with the Hermetic Teachings of the Gnostics and Early Christians, which were lost at the time of Constantine, whose iron hand smothered philosophy with the blanket of theology, losing to the Christian Church that which was its very essence and spirit, and causing it to grope throughout several centuries before it found the way back to its ancient faith, the indications apparent to all careful observers in this Twentieth Century being that the Church is now struggling to get back to its ancient mystic teachings. Men have given to this Substantial Reality many names-some have called it by the term of Deity (under many titles).

and No! This process is called the stage of Involution, in which THE ALL becomes "involved," or "wrapped up," in its creation.

There is always certain correspondence in spite of the contradictory features, and the Hermetic Teachings act as the Great Reconciler. But when THE ALL manifests on the plane of generation or creation, then it acts according to Law and Principle, for it is moving on a lower plane of Being.

"Attention" is a word derived from the Latin root, meaning "to reach out; to stretch out," and so the act of Attention is really a mental "reaching out; extension" of mental energy, so that the underlying idea is readily understood when we examine into the real meaning of "Attention. We allude to the question which inevitably comes to the mind of all thinkers who have ventured to seek the Truth.

Transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of the Master. Were THE ALL to imagine that the Universe were indeed Reality, then woe to the Universe, for there would be then no escape from lower to higher, divineward--then would the Universe become a fixity and progress would become impossible.