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Whose is the "spirit" of the characters that we know as Micawber, Oliver Twist, Uriah Heep--is it Dickens, or have each of these characters a personal spirit, independent of their creator? 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.

What Hermetists know as "the Law of Paradox" is an aspect of the Principle of Polarity. So that while a plane is not "a place," nor yet "a state or condition," yet it possesses qualities common to both.

There is no portion of the occult teachings possessed by the world which have been so closely guarded as the fragments of the Hermetic Teachings which have come down to us over the tens of centuries which have elapsed since the lifetime of its great founder, Hermes Trismegistus, the "scribe of the gods," who dwelt in old Egypt in the days when the present race of men was in its infancy. They help to PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE, instead of being played and moved about by other wills and environment.

Remember ever the Two Poles of Truth the Absolute and the Relative. There is a Reconciliation of this apparently contradictory state of affairs.

Be patient, we will reach it in time. "Substance" means: "that which underlies all outward manifestations; the essence; the essential reality; the thing in itself," etc.

Real life cannot be treated as a thing of little colored patches. , etc.

So that according to the Teachings, the passage of this book to those ready for the instruction will attract the attention of such as are prepared to receive the Teaching. Try to remember this last definition--that of spiritual development.

No, this cannot be, because the Universe seems to be made up of MANY, and is constantly changing, and in other ways it does not measure up to the ideas that we are compelled to accept regarding THE ALL, as stated in our last lesson. The Laws of the Universe are none the less "Iron Laws" because of the mental nature.

We allude to the question which inevitably comes to the mind of all thinkers who have ventured to seek the Truth. Now do not become befogged, nor frightened--we are not trying to lead you into the Christian Science field under cover of Hermetic Philosophy.

In ancient Egypt dwelt the great Adepts and Masters who have never been surpassed, and who seldom have been equaled, during the centuries that have taken their processional flight since the days of the Great Hermes. But there is this difference, that while in the "Outpouring" the creative forces manifest compactly and as a whole, yet from the beginning of the Evolutionary or "Indrawing" stage, there is manifested the Law of Individualization--that is, the tendency to separate into Units of Force, so that finally that which left THE ALL as unindividualized energy returns to its source as countless highly developed Units of Life, having risen higher and higher in the scale by means of Physical, Mental and Spiritual Evolution.