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We overcome the lower laws, by applying still higher ones--and in this way only. There are beings with powers and attributes higher than Man has ever dreamed of the gods' possessing.

The word "Transmute" means "to change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform" (Webster). So long as the Universe endures, will they endure--for the Universe exists by virtue of these Laws which form its framework and which hold it together.

They regard all the theories, guesses and speculations of the theologians and metaphysicians regarding the inner nature of THE ALL, as but the childish efforts of mortal minds to grasp the secret of the Infinite. This Involuntary stage of Creation is sometimes called the "Outpouring" of the Divine Energy, just as the Evolutionary state is called the "Indrawing.

This Principle embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion, to and fro; a flow and inflow; a swing backward and forward; a pendulum-like movement; a tide-like ebb and flow; a high-tide and low-tide; between the two poles which exist in accordance with the Principle of Polarity described a moment ago. But this will not do, for there are no materials outside of THE ALL with which it may create.

Even to this day there will be found but few reliable books on the Hermetic Philosophy, although there are countless references to it in many books written on various phases of Occultism. 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.

The true Meaning of Life is not known to men on this plane . 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.

There are certain Hermetic Teachings, which, if publicly promulgated, would bring down upon the teachers a great cry of scorn and revilement from the multitude, who would again raise the cry of "Crucify! So long as the Universe endures, will they endure--for the Universe exists by virtue of these Laws which form its framework and which hold it together.

"Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes. This is in the affairs of the Universe, suns, worlds, men, animals, mind, energy, and matter.

That idea is merely a distortion of the ancient teachings on the subject. But, what indeed is the Universe, if it be not THE ALL, not yet created by THE ALL having separated itself into fragments?

Without this Master-Key, Mastery is impossible, and the student knocks in vain at the many doors of The Temple. This truth is a truth because all that is included in the Universe emanates from the same source, and the same laws, principles, and characteristics apply to each unit, or combination of units, of activity, as each manifests its own phenomena upon its own plane.