The teaching is that The Masculine Principle manifested by THE ALL stands, in a way, apart from the actual mental creation of the Universe.
Discover free psychic talk plus detailed information on free psychic prediction as well as the full story about hiring psychics for events and much more...
Then is the Universe THE ALL?
The Hermetists sub-divide each of the Three Great Planes into Seven Minor Planes, and each of these latter are also sub-divided into seven sub-planes, all divisions being more or less arbitrary, shading into each other, and adopted merely for convenience of scientific study and thought.
This must be so, for naught by THE ALL itself can comprehend its own nature and being.
Not only may the mental states, etc.
Between these poles, there are millions upon millions of varying degrees of vibration.
So that while a plane is not "a place," nor yet "a state or condition," yet it possesses qualities common to both.
And where the Great Hermes hesitated to speak, what mortal may dare to teach?
They have learned how to USE it, instead of being USED BY it.
Discover free psychic talk plus detailed information on free psychic prediction as well as the full story about hiring psychics for events and much more...
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.
Discover free psychic talk plus detailed information on free psychic prediction as well as the full story about hiring psychics for events and much more...
And there are millions of millions of such Universes in existence within the Infinite Mind of THE ALL.
And yet, Shakespeare also existed within each of these characters, giving them their vitality, spirit, and action.
The student of Comparative Religions will be able to perceive the influence of the Hermetic Teachings in every religion worthy of the name, now known to man, whether it be a dead religion or one in full vigor in our own times.
Between "Noise and Quiet"?
But this means far more than appears on the surface.
And all depend upon the advancement of beings in the scale, of which scale the lowest point is the grossest matter, the highest being separated only by the thinnest division from the SPIRIT of THE ALL.
We go into the matter here, merely to show that we recognize the question, and also the absurdity of the ordinary answers of metaphysics and theology.
This statement is usually illustrated by the Teachers by a reference to the Principle of Correspondence.
Some have imagined that THE ALL had something to gain by it, but this is absurd, for what could THE ALL gain that it did not already possess?