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Without this Master-Key, Mastery is impossible, and the student knocks in vain at the many doors of The Temple. From lip to ear the truth has been handed down among the few.

Is there no third way in which MAN creates? Real life cannot be treated as a thing of little colored patches.

Its precepts have never been written down, or printed, so far as we know. An understanding of its laws will throw light on many a subject that has perplexed the minds of men.

The Hermetists have grasped this Principle, finding its universal application, and have also discovered certain means to overcome its effects in themselves by the use of the appropriate formulas and methods. They cannot annul the Principle, or cause it to cease its operation, but they have learned how to escape its effects upon themselves to a certain degree depending upon the Mastery of the Principle.

We recognize this even in our ordinary view, for we speak of the world as "a fleeting show" that comes and goes, is born and dies--for the element of impermanence and change, finiteness and unsubstantiality, must ever be connected with the idea of a created Universe when it is contrasted with the idea of THE ALL, no matter what may be our beliefs concerning the nature of both. What is IN THE INFINITE MIND OF THE ALL is REAL in a degree second only to that Reality itself which is vested in the nature of THE ALL.

"Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled. " This idea is in advance of the others, but its weak point lies in the idea of THE ALL being "compelled" by anything, internal or external.

This Principle embodies the truth that "everything is dual"; "everything has two poles"; "everything has its pair of opposites," all of which were old Hermetic axioms. Even the most ancient teachings of India undoubtedly have their roots in the original Hermetic Teachings.

" So it was with Ancient Greece and Rome. All progress is a Returning Home.

But your Universe is the mental creation of a Finite Mind, whereas that of THE ALL is the creation of an Infinite. Each according to its own Plane and Laws.

From him they obtained the Master-Key which explained and reconciled their divergent views, and thus the Secret Doctrine was firmly established. 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?