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All thinkers, in all lands and in all times, have assumed the necessity for postulating the existence of this Substantial Reality. But there is this difference, that while in the "Outpouring" the creative forces manifest compactly and as a whole, yet from the beginning of the Evolutionary or "Indrawing" stage, there is manifested the Law of Individualization--that is, the tendency to separate into Units of Force, so that finally that which left THE ALL as unindividualized energy returns to its source as countless highly developed Units of Life, having risen higher and higher in the scale by means of Physical, Mental and Spiritual Evolution.

Though the world is really our own we are as little at home in it at first as the long-lost heir when he returns to his kingdom and finds the scepter strange and alarming in hands used to the spade. From him they obtained the Master-Key which explained and reconciled their divergent views, and thus the Secret Doctrine was firmly established.

And yet these beings were once as you, and still lower--and you will be even as they, and still higher, in time, for such is the Destiny of Man as reported by the Illumined. " These men have never sought popular approval, nor numbers of followers.

This is what spiritual development means--the recognition, realization, and manifestation of the Spirit within us. At any rate, if Hermes possessed the Secret, he failed to impart it, and so far as the world is concerned THE LIPS OF HERMES ARE CLOSED regarding it.

In Egypt was located the Great Lodge of Lodges of the Mystics. "There is not one who is Fatherless, nor Motherless in the Universe.

We take great pleasure in presenting to the attention of students and investigators of the Secret Doctrines this little work based upon the world-old Hermetic Teachings. 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.

The legends of the "Philosopher's Stone" which would turn base metal into Gold, was an allegory relating to Hermetic Philosophy, readily understood by all students of true Hermeticism. And the spirit of persecution has not as yet died out in the land.

But it must not be supposed that the ancients were ignorant of that which the modern schools suppose to be their exclusive and special property. The old Hermetic axiom, "As above so below," may be pressed into service at this point.

These Masters do not make public exhibitions of their powers, but seek seclusion from the crowds of men, in order to better work their may along the Path of Attainment. We mention their existence, at this point, merely to call your attention to the fact that their power is entirely Mental, and operates along the lines of the higher Mental Transmutation, under the Hermetic Principle of Mentalism.

But it must not be supposed that the ancients were ignorant of that which the modern schools suppose to be their exclusive and special property. The ordinary dimensions of space are length, breadth, and height, or perhaps length, breadth, height, thickness or circumference.