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If you seek such teachings, you must go elsewhere for them--Hermeticism contains nothing for you along these lines. Well, then, secondly, Man pro-creates or reproduces his kind by the process of begetting, which is self-multiplication accomplished by transferring a portion of his substance to his offspring.

" The Hermetic Teachings regarding the process of Evolution are that, THE ALL, having meditated upon the beginning of the Creation--having thus established the material foundations of the Universe--having thought it into existence--then gradually awakens or rouses from its Meditation and in so doing starts into manifestation the process of Evolution, on the material mental and spiritual planes, successively and in order. Now do not become befogged, nor frightened--we are not trying to lead you into the Christian Science field under cover of Hermetic Philosophy.

"--The Kybalion. This is true not only of the Physical Plane, but of the Mental and even the Spiritual Planes.

At any rate, you shall hear very little about Theology and Metaphysics in these lessons. But that such men have existed, and do exist today, is a matter of earnest belief to all advanced occultists of all schools.

There are planes beyond our knowing, but when we apply the Principle of Correspondence to them we are able to understand much that would otherwise be unknowable to us. But always remember, that THE ALL is but One, and that in its Infinite Mind the Universe is generated, created and exists.

We commit a folly when we attempt to deny the existence of Matter in the relative aspect. "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.

It is ours, yet unknown to us, forgotten, uncharted, in some ways dangerous. The question is: "WHY does THE ALL create Universes" The question may be asked in different forms, but the above is the gist of the inquiry.

" And we caution all students to be sure to grasp the Divine Paradox of the Absolute and Relative, lest they become entangled in the mire of the Half-Truth. Between "Black and White"?

Look at your thermometer and see if you can discover where "heat" terminates and "cold" begins! Matter becomes less gross; the Units spring into being; the combinations begin to form; Life appears and manifests in higher and higher forms; and Mind becomes more and more in evidence--the vibrations constantly becoming higher.

The various "treatments," "affirmations," "denials" etc. These men devoted their lives to the labor of love which the poet has so well stated in his lines: "O, let not the flame die out!