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But that such men have existed, and do exist today, is a matter of earnest belief to all advanced occultists of all schools. "--The Kybalion.

" These men have never sought popular approval, nor numbers of followers. All are on the Path, whose end is THE ALL.

This is more than a mere poetic figure of speech--it is an idea of the actual process of the creation of the Universe. But this will not do, for there are no materials outside of THE ALL with which it may create.

And it is largely because they have often lacked this physical calm and poise that we are apt to call those men mad who have penetrated behind the deceptive Looking Glass of our senses and with half-dazed eyes brought back word of the strange conditions beyond. That was a thing all men could understand and honor.

On his own plane of being, how does Man create? "THE ALL creates in its Infinite Mind countless Universes, which exist for aeons of Time--and yet, to THE ALL, the creation, development, decline and death of a million Universes is as the time of the twinkling of an eye.

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. LIFE AND MIND!

Our intent is not to erect a new Temple of Knowledge, but rather to place in the hands of the student a Master-Key with which he may open the many inner doors in the Temple of Mystery through the main portals he has already entered. " And all are simply degrees of the same thing, as you will see if you will but think a moment.

We accept and teach the view of the great Hermetic thinkers of all times, as well as of those illumined souls who have reached higher planes of being, both of whom assert that the inner nature of THE ALL is UNKNOWABLE. , operates along the same general lines, for there is but one principle involved, no matter by what name the phenomena be called.

And, yet, THE ALL does create and manifest, and seems to find some kind of satisfaction in so doing. Nothing stands still-everything is being born, growing, dying-the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline--the law of rhythm is in constant operation--there is no reality, enduring quality, fixity, or substantiality in anything-- nothing is permanent but Change.

This is in the affairs of the Universe, suns, worlds, men, animals, mind, energy, and matter. We do not live in a world of dreams, but in an Universe which while relative, is real so far as our lives and actions are concerned.