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AXIOMS AND

QUOTATIONS OFANCIENT HERMETICS

AND OTHERSAccessed: 12/23/04

Ancient Hermetic Axioms of Mental Alchemy

Hermes Mercur ius Tr ismegistus

The KybalionHermetic Phi losophy

Written by Three Initiates

THE LIVING UNIVERSE(A Spiritual Perspective)

THE ALL is in the earth-worm, and yet the earth-worm is far from being

THE ALL. And still the wonder remains, that though the earthworm

exists merely as a lowly thing, created and having its being solely within

the Mind of THE ALL --yet THE ALL is immanent in the earth-worm,

and in the particles that go to make up the earth-worm. Can there be

any greater mystery than this of "All in THE ALL; and THE ALL in

All?" The Universe is a creation of Infinite Mind -- and the difference

between the two poles separates them. And yet it is merely a matter ofdegree --the same principle is in operation --the Principle of

Correspondence manifests in each --"As above, so Below; as Below so

above."

And, in the degree that Man realizes the existence of the Indwelling Spirit

immanent within his being, so will he rise in the spiritual scale of life.

This is what spiritual development means --the recognition, realization,

and manifestation of Spirit within us. Try to remember this last

definition --that of spiritual development. It contains the Truth of True

Religion.


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How often have the majority of people heard repeated the statement that

their Deity (called by many names) was "All in All," and how little have

they suspected the inner occult truth concealed by these carelessly uttered

words?

There are many planes of Being --many sub-planes of Life --many

degrees of existence in the Universe. 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. And, upward and onward along this

Scale of Life, everything is moving. All are on the Path, whose end is

THE ALL. All progress is a Returning Home. All is Upward and

Onward, in spite of all seemingly contradictory appearances. Such is the

Message of the Illumined.

The Process of Physical, or Material Manifestation(" Matter and Energy is exchangeable, not distinct."--Albert Einstein)

This Involuntary stage of Creation is sometimes called the "Outpouring"

of the Divine energy, just as the Evolutionary state is called the "In-

drawing." The extreme pole of the Creative process is considered to be

the furthest removed from THE ALL, while the beginning of the

Evolutionary stage is regarded as the beginning of the return swing of thependulum of Rhythm --a "coming home" idea being held in all of the

Hermetic Teachings. The Teachings are that during the "Outpouring"

the vibrations become lower and lower until finally the urge (of

manifestation) ceases and the return swing begins. 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

"In-drawing" 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 individualized energy returns to its source as

countless highly developed Units of Life, having risen higher and higherin the scale by means of Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Evolution.

The ancient Hermeticists use the word "Meditation," or

"Contemplation" in describing the process of the mental creation of the

Universe in the Mind of THE ALL....

"The Kybalion."

Time belongs to the relative mind, and has no place in the Eternal or

Absolute. Next, the Intellect informs us that it must think of the Absoluteas Infinite in Space --present everywhere --Omnipresent. It cannot be


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limited, for there is nothing outside of itself to limit it. There is no such

place as Nowhere. Every place is in the Everywhere. And Everywhere is

filled with the ALL --the Infinite Reality --the Absolute.

And, just as was the case with the idea of Time, we find it most difficult --

if not indeed impossible --to form an idea of the Omnipresent --of That

which occupies Infinite Space. This is because everything that our minds

have experienced has had dimensions and limits. The secret lies in the

fact that Space, like Time, has no real existence outside of our perception

of consciousness of the relative position of Things --material objects....

Yogi Ramacharaka, " Lessons in Gnani Yoga"

THE PHYSICS OF OUR AMAZING UNIVERSEAstrophysics Most Interesting Discovery About The Universe

As time goes by, it is becoming increasingly evident, as scientific knowledge

expands, that our Universe is not as physical or material as we believe that it is....

that there is some kind of invisible unchanging "constant".... The new discoveries

of Physics ever points toward the reality of SPIRIT and thus forever increasing the

human knowledge and understanding of THE CREATOR at work in ITS

"constant" Manifestation of the Universe --the unconditional CREATIVE

ENERGY that makes the Universe and each unique human on earth a reality.

"Oh, Great SUSTAINER of all LIFE, how we thank THEE!"

Was the inclusion of the cosmological constant

Einstein's "biggest blunder"?

Einstein's Cosmic Fudge Factor

Finding Dark Matter

Rumors of a Strange Universe

A Year of Dark Cosmology

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory(SOHO)

Everything Moves and vibrates --Nothing is allowed to stand still.... THE ALL is

immanent within ITS Creation.
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The Principle of Mentalism

"The Universe isMental in Nature, and Mental Transmutation is the art

of CHANGING THE CONDITIONS OF THE UNIVERSE, along the

lines of Matter, Force, and Mind"

THE ALL or GOD

" All is in THE ALL , and THE ALL is in All."

"While All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE ALL is in All. To

him who truly understands this truth hath come great knowledge."

"Under, and back of, the Universe of Time, Space and Change, is ever to

be found The Substantial Reality-The Fundamental Truth."

"The atom of matter, the unit of force, the mind of man, and the being of

the arch-angel are all but degrees in one scale, and all fundamentally the

same, the difference between solely a matter of degree, and rate of

vibration--all are creations of THE ALL, and have their existence solely

within the Infinite Mind of THE ALL."

Mental Transmutation

"Mind (as well as metals and elements) may be transmuted, from state to

state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to

vibration, True Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art."

Arcane Wisdom

"The Lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."

"Where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for his

Teaching open wide."

"When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to

fill them with Wisdom."
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Divine PymanderMaster Work of the Ages

Hermes Mercurius Tr ismegistus

From a time long, l ong before Moses, a contemporary wi th Abraham

"All this Universal body, in which are all Bodies, is full of Soul, the Soul

full of Mind, the Mind full of GOD. For within He fills them, and without

He contains them, quickening the Universe."

"Life is the Union of the Mind, and the Soul, but death is a dissolving of

that Union."

"God is not a Mind, but the Cause that the Mind is; not a Spirit, but the

Cause that the Spirit is; not Light, but the Cause that Light is."

["The ALL" --CAUSE of all Causation whose inner nature will always remain

unknowable by reason of its ABSOLUTE and INFINITE stature. It can only be

COMPREHENDED and KNOWN to ITSELF. We humans, with our

continuously developing little brains, can only barely glimpse an understanding of

THE ALL.]

"From an indefinite beginning, to an undeterminable end, forit always

begins where it ends...."

"Greed is an unfulfillable desire."

The Ignorant and Unsuspecting and The

Knowledgeable Informed Master

The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment; the

wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; heredity; suggestion;

and other outward causes moving them about like pawns on the

Chessboard of Life. But the Masters, rising to the plane above, dominate

their moods, characters, qualities and powers, as well as the environment

surrounding them, and become movers instead of pawns. They help

PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE, instead of being played and moved about

by other wills and environment. They USE the Principle instead of being

its tools. The Masters obey the Causation of the higher planes, but they

help RULE on their own plane.
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Any individuals who have attained any degree of Self-Mastery do this to a

certain degree, more or less unconsciously, but the Master does this

consciously, and by the use of his Will, and attains a degree of Poise and

Mental Firmness almost impossible of belief on part of the masses who

are swung backward and forward like a pendulum.

They cannot annul the Principle (of RHYTHM), 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. They have learned how to USE it, instead of being USED BY

it.

" The Kybalion"

The Hermeticists have never sought to be martyrs, and have, instead, sat

silently aside with pitying smile on their closed lips, while the "heathen

raged noisily about them" in their customary amusement of putting to

death and torture the honest but misguided enthusiasts who imagined

that they could force upon a race of barbarians the truth capable of being

understood only by the elect who had advanced along The Path.

And the spirit of persecution has not yet died out in the land. There are

certain Hermetic Teachings, which, if publicly promulgated, would bring

down upon the teachers a great cry of scorn and revilement from themultitude, who would again raise the cry of "Crucify! Crucify!"

If you are a true student, you will be able to work out and apply these

Principles --if not, then you must develop yourself into one, for otherwise

the Hermetic Teachings will be as "words, words, words" to you.

The Three Initiates

from "The Kybalion."

The Yogi Publication Society

Greed prevents a person from recognizing his or her own abundance or

wealth and thus they are unable to utilize their own wealth properly.

They will always think that they do not have enough and fear that they

may lose what they have. Some will go as far as cheating and stealing

from other people to increase their own wealth. The Mental trap of being

greedy imprisons a person in a miserable state of Mind in that they will

always be found in wanton because greed is contradictory to the

immutable Principles and Laws of Human Nature. They may not even beaware of their mental state. They may escape the law of the land in their
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greedy bestial activity, but they will not escape the Principles and Laws

immanent within Human Nature; the cause of events that will follow in

their lives.....

The Constant Change in Nature (Evolution) and The

Termination of Conscious Life (The Body)

104. But the people say, That changing is Death, because the Body is

dissolved, and the Life goeth into that which appeareth not [SPIRIT].

105. By this discourse, my dearest Hermes, I affirm as thou hearest, That

the World is changed, because every day part thereof becomes invisible;

but that it is never dissolved.

106. And these are the Passions of the World, Revolutions, andOccultations, and Revolution is a turning, but Occultation is Renovation.

" Divine Pymander" page 95

The Experience of Hermes with The

SPIRIT of THE ALL

Excerpt from the "Divine Pymander"

The second book called "Pymander"

My Thoughts being once seriously busied about the things that are, andmy Understanding lifted up, all my bodily Senses being exceedingly

holden back, as it is with them that are very heavy of sleep, by reason

either of fullness of meat, or of bodily labor. Melthought I saw one of an

exceeding great stature, and an infinite greatness call me by my name andsay unto me, What wouldst thou hear and see? or what wouldst thou

understand, to learn, and know?

2. Then said I, Who art thou? I am quoth he Pymander, the mind of the

great Lord, the most Mighty and absolute Emperor: I know what thou

wouldst have, and I am always present with thee.

3. Then said I, I would learn the things that are and understand the

nature of them, and know God. How? said he: I answered, That I would


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gladly hear. Then he, Have me again in thy mind, and whatsoever thou

wouldst learn, I will teach thee.

4. When he had thus said, he was changed in his Idea or Form, and

straightway in the twinkling of an eye, all things were opened unto me:

And I saw an infinite sight, all things were become light, both sweet and

exceedingly pleasant; and I was wonderfully delighted in beholding it.

5. But after a little while, there was a darkness made in part, coming

down obliquely, fearful and hideous, which seemed unto me to be

changed into a certain moist nature, unspeakably troubled, which yielded

a smoke as from fire; and from whence proceeded a voice unutterable,

and very mournful, but inarticulate, insomuch that it seemed to have

come from that Light.

6. Then from that Light, a certain holy Word joined itself into Nature,

and out flew the pure and unmixed Fire from the moist Nature upward

on high; it was exceedingly light, and sharp, and operative withal. And

the Air which was also lightfollowed the Spirit and mounted up to Fire,(from the Earth and the Water) insomuch that it seemed to hang and

depend upon it.[Comment: Possibly a description of Ethereal, or Universal Substance ("light") in

which the Earth is suspended and constrained in space by the "will" or "LAW" of

SPIRIT.]

7. And the Earth, and the Water, stayed by themselves so mingled

together, that the Earth could not be seen for the Water; but they were

moved, because of the Spiritual Word that was carried upon them.[Comment: The formative stages in the creative process of our "Earth" by the

"will" of SPIRIT as expressed in the Principles and Laws that all of Nature obeys

in the Creative Process. ("THE LAW" or "Spiritual Word," of THE ALL)]

8. Then said Pymander unto me, Dost thou understand this Vision, and

what it meaneth? I shall know, said I: Then said he, I am that Light, the

Mind, thy God, who am before that moist Nature that appeareth out ofdarkness; and that bright and lightful Word from the Mind, is the Son of

God.[ Comment: "GOD is LIGHT," The CAUSE OF ALL CAUSATION]

9. How is that quoth I? Thus, replied he, Understand it: That which in

thee seeth and heareth, the Word of the Lord, and the Mind, the Father,

God, differ not one from the other; and the union of these is Life.

[Comment: THE LAW of SPIRIT is the UNITY of all LIFE]


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Trism. I thank thee. --Pymander. But first conceive well the Light in thy

mind, and know it.[Comment: You must know it! Not just "believe!"]

10. When he had thus said, for a long time we looked steadfastly one upon

the other, insomuch, that I trembled at his Idea or Form.[Comment: The enormous stature of Infinite and Omnipresent SPIRIT which

occupies no specific point (non-local) in Space and Time is difficult to comprehend

and understand by the finite conditioned Human Mind. Most humans are

oblivious and unaware of its enormous large presence in us and all of surrounding

Nature and the Universe. Oh Yes! It would make a person tremble, not because of

fear, but because of the overwhelming, stupefied awe, at the sight of SPIRIT....

Only an ignorant and foolish human would think that he or she is not standing

within ITS presence. We are never alone!]

11, But when he nodded to me, I beheld in my Mind the Light that isinnumerable, and the truly indefinite Ornament or World; and that the

fire is comprehended or contained in or by a most great Power and

constrained to keep its station....

Hermes Tr ismegistus

Comment: The "most great power" that Hermes mentioned being the "Word of

GOD" not as spoken by a mouth, but as the active UNIVERSAL COSMIC LAW

that constrains all celestial bodies in the Universe according to LAW in their

proper station or place in the macrocosm as well as the position of atomic particles

in the microcosm of manifested physical reality. The warping of Magnetic energy

and gravitational fields (not visible to the human eye) in the attraction and

repulsion of celestial bodies and atomic particles is evident of the GREAT

CREATOR at work in keeping the Universe in a constant state of manifestation,

vibration, motion, and order, as it cycles through the process of evolution. Even to

the casual observer is it evident that nothing in the Universe can or is allowed to

stand still, that all things are in a constant state of vibration and motion. Our own

galaxy of which our solar system is a member moves through space and time at

two million miles an hour as it evolves toward SPIRIT (the undefined and

indeterminable beginning) in the upward scale of LIFE of which no human or any

other life form has any control. In other words, you the reader and I the writerare moving through space at two million miles an hour while you read and I write

and we can't even feel it or do anything about it.... How is it possible for

humanity not to "see" the creative process of GOD at work, THE ALL in All?

Has the gravitational field of our planet bedazzled the human consciousness to just

above ground level and the eyesight to no further than our nose? Are we lost in

primitive trivial bickering in the plane of worm consciousness? I will leave these

thoughts for the reader to decide....

Anthropological research supports the evidence of the upward progress of all Life

forms and indicates that all of Life does evolve upward and onward in the Great

Scale of Life by their discovery of changes in the bones and other artifacts in theirongoing field research around the globe. Their discoveries will reaffirm the


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Ancient Hermetic Philosophy which holds that the Universe is constantly changing

and evolving. Darwin and Newton witnessed the physical evidence of this upward

progress of all Life forms but never realized the magnitude of the underlying

causation in the evolutionary process of the Universe. Acceptance of this

knowledge has also been hampered by the premature cognition of doctrines and

dogma of organized religion and the general resistance of humanity to acceptchange in the face of Truth. As mentioned numerous times on this web site,

Science and Universal Spirituality are on a parallel path that one day will

converge.

Pymander to Hermes

"Know thyself well, and learn the things that are and all that is."

The above axiom is a Divine suggestion that goes far beyond the psychic mind or any religious

belief system; beyond any isms or ologies, it is beyond the flight of any human imagination with

regard to the things that can be learned of The MIND. It is not based on what we believe, or what

we think it should be, or what we would like for it to be, but on "what is." The realization of

Arcane knowledge leaves a person in stupefied, humble, and reverend awe that defies the current

collective understanding regarding the reality of theInfinite GOD.The Arcanum web site is only a

very small and humble token to humanity regarding "the things that are and all that is...."

Yogi Ramacharaka

When the soul sees itself as a Centre surrounded by its circumference--when the Sun knows that it is a Sun, and is surrounded by its whirling

planets--then is it ready for the Wisdom and Power of the Masters.(from anold Hindu Master)

Man must master himself before he can hope to exert an influence

beyond himself.

The majority of people in the present stage of race development have but

a faint conception of the reality of the "I." They accept the statement of

its existence, and are conscious of themselves as an eating, sleeping, living

creature --something like a higher form of animal.

I assert my mastery over Mind, Energy, and Matter, and exercise my

Will over them, so do I acknowledge my subordination to the Absolute,

and gladly open my soul to the inflow of Divine Will, and partake of its

Power, Strength and Wisdom.

I am the Master of my mental habits --I control my character. I will to be

strong, and summon the forces of my Nature to my aid.
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I am a centre.

Around me revolves my world.

I am a centre of Influence and Power!

I am a centre of Thought and Consciousness.

I am Independent of the Body.

I am Immortal and cannot be destroyed.

I am Invincible and cannot be injured!

Realization brings Control---and Control brings results.

The human mind will instinctively find its way to the Truth, even if it has

to blaze a new trail through the woods, departing from the beaten tracks

of other minds around it, which lack the courage or enterprise to strikeout for themselves.

Excerpts from the book, "Raja Yoga or Mental Development," by Yogi Ramacharaka (1906)

Yogi Publication Society.

The lower instincts were not implanted in your nature by "the devil";

you came by them honestly.

Spiritual Mind does not run contrary to Intellect --it simply goes beyond

Intellect.

Intellect is cold --Spiritual Consciousness is warm and alive with high

feeling.

When we learn to trust Spirit, it responds by sending us more frequent

flashes of illumination and enlightenment.

THE LOWER REGION OF HUMAN NATURE

Man if he chooses, may excel the beasts in bestiality --he may descend to

depths of which the beast would never have thought. The beast is

governed solely by instinct, and his actions, so prompted, are perfectly

natural and proper, and the animal is not blamed for following the

impulses of its nature. But man, in whom intellect has unfolded, knows

that it is contrary to his highest nature to descend to the level of the

beasts --yea, lower by far. He adds to the brute desires the cunning and

intelligence which have come to him, and deliberately prostitutes his

higher principle to the task of carrying out the magnified animalpropensities. Very few animals abuse their desires --it is left for some


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men to do so. The higher the degree of intellect unfolded in man, the

greater the depths of low passions, appetites, and desires possible to him.

He actually creates new brute desires, or rather builds edifices of his own

upon the brute foundations....

....which will result in the soul having to spend many weary years in

retracing its steps over the backward road it has trodden. Its progress

has been retarded, and it will be compelled to re-travel the road to

freedom, in common with the beast like natures of undeveloped creatures

whose proper state of the journey it is, having an additional burden in the

shape of the horror of consciousness of its surroundings, whereas its

companions have no such consciousness and consequently suffer not.

Yogi Ramacharaka --"Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy" (1903)

The Brute instincts are still with us, constantly forcing themselves intoour field of thought. Occultists learn to curb and control these lower

instincts, subordinating them to the higher mental ideals which unfold

into the field of consciousness. Do not be discouraged if you still find that

you have much of the animal within your nature --we all have --the only

difference is that in some of us have learned to control the brute, and

keep him in leash and subordinate and obedient to the higher parts of our

nature, while others allow the beast to rule them, and they shiver and

turn pale when he shows his teeth, not seeming to realize that a firm

demeanor and a calm mind will cause the beast to retreat to his cornerand allow himself to be kept behind bars. If you find constant

manifestations of the beast within you, struggling to be free and to assert

his old power, do not be disturbed. This is no sign of weakness, but is

really an indication that your spiritual growth has begun. For whereas

you now recognize the brute, and feel ashamed, you formerly did not

realize his presence --were not aware of his existence, for you were the

brute himself.

The precepts bid the soul to look within for the real source of strength --

to be guided by it --to allow it to manifest freely through oneself --to beled by Spirit. When one has sufficiently freed oneself from the

restrictions and confining bonds of the lower self, and is able to allow

Spirit to flow freely and manifest with a minimum degree of resistance,

then will Spirit act through him and work for him, and guide him. And

even the less advanced soul may obtain the greatest benefit from opening

up itself to the inflow of the Divine Principle, and allowing it to work

through it. The man who is led by Spirit --who recognizes the existence of

the Real Self, and trusts it --may live in a greater measure apart from the

turmoil and strife of the outer world. Not that he may withdraw from the

world (for that is often cowardice), but he is able to take his place in the


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great game of Life, and to do his work there and to do it well, and yet feel

certain while he is in it he is not of it. He is able practically to stand aside

and see himself act. Spirit will guide him through the struggle, and will

see that he is nourished and cared for, and will always act for his ultimate

good. It will lead him to that which is best for him and will attract to him

that which he needs. Fear and unfaith are the great obstacles to this free

working of Spirit and until they are cast aside Spirit is hampered and

hindered in its work. But when they are thrown aside Spirit will be free

to do its work.

Yogi Ramacharaka "Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy" (1904)

SPIRITHow shall we approach this subject, which even the most advanced minds

in the flesh to-day can but faintly comprehend? How can the finite

express or comprehend the infinite? Spirit, man's Seventh Principle, is

the Divine Spark --our most precious inheritance from the Divine Power -

-a ray from the Central Sun --the Real Self. Words cannot express it.

Our minds fail to grasp it. It is the soul of the Soul. To understand it we

must understand God, for Spirit is a drop from the Spirit Ocean --a grain

of sand from the shores of the Infinite --a particle of the Sacred Flame. Itis that something within us which is the cause of our evolution through all

the weary ages. It was the first to be, and yet it will be the last to appear

in full consciousness. When man arrives at a full consciousness of Spirit,

he will be so much higher than a man that such a being is at present

inconceivable to the Intellect. Confined in many sheaths of matter, it has

waited through the long and weary ages for even a faint recognition, and

is content to wait for ages more until it fully brought into consciousness.

Man will ascend many steps of development --from man to archangel --

before Spirit will fully claim its own. The Spirit is that within man which

closest approaches the Center --is nearest to God. It is only in anoccasional precious moment that we are aware of the existence of Spirit

within us, and in such moments we are conscious of coming into the awful

presence of the Unknown. These moments may come when one is

engaged in deep religious thought --while reading a poem bearing a

precious message from soul to soul --in some hour of affliction when all

human aid has failed us and when human words seem but mockery --in a

moment when all seems lost and we feel the necessity of a direct word

from a being higher than ourselves. When these moments come they

leave with us a peace which never afterward entirely escapes us, and we

are ever after changed beings. In the moment of Illumination or dawn of


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Spiritual Consciousness we also feel the real presence of the Spirit. In

these moments we become conscious of our relationship with and

connection with the center of Life. Through the medium of Spirit God

reveals Himself to Man.

We cannot dwell longer on this subject --it overpowers one, and mere

words seem to weak for use in connection with it. Those who have felt the

impulses of the Spiritual Mind have been made faintly conscious of the

abiding sense of Spirit, although they cannot grasp its full significance.

And those who have not experienced these things would not understand

us if we wrote volumes of our imperfect and undeveloped conceptions of

the subject. So we will pass on, trusting that we have awakened in your

minds at lest a faint desire to be brought into a closer communion and

contact with this, the highest part of Self --Self itself.

The peace of Spirit abide with you.

(Yogi Ramacharaka)Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy (1904)

To the Spiritually Developing Person

It must not be imagined that this budding consciousness springs full-

grown into a mans mind at once. It has done so in some cases, it is true,

but in the majority of instances, it is a matter of slow growth, but the manis never just the same after the growth commences. He apparently may

lose his full consciousness of the truth, but it will come back to him again

and again, and all the time it is working gradually to make over that

mans nature, and his changed mental attitude manifests itself in his

actions. He becomes more cheerful and happy. Things that worry his

neighbors seem to have but little effect upon him. He finds it hard to

manifest a respectable amount of regret and grief over things that bear

heavily upon those around him. He is apt to be regarded as unfeeling and

heartless, notwithstanding his heart maybe full of Love and Kindness. His

mental attitude is changed--his viewpoint has shifted. He finds himself

ceasing to fear, and those around him are apt to consider him reckless or

thoughtless. Time has less meaning to him, for the idea of eternity has

come to him. Distance ceases to appall him, for is not all space his?

Such a one had better keep quiet, or he will be sure to be considered a

"queer fish," and people may tap their foreheads significantly when

speaking of him (behind his back).

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Every one may enter the occult world for himself --providing he pays the

price of attainment, which price is not of gold or silver, but of the

renunciation of the lower self and the devotion to that which is highest in

man.

Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy. by Yogi Ramacharaka (1903)

Isis Unveiled"Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition"

"....our work then, is a plea for the recognition of the Hermetic

philosophy, the anciently universal Wisdom Religion, as the only possible

key to the Absolute in science and theology."

Helena P. Blavatsky

The Arcanum

The person who understands the workings and operations of Universal

Law,may transmute Matter, Force and Mind, into desirable Conditions

by using the higher LAW against the lower Laws --All Phenomenal laws

are subservient to the causation of the Higher Law.

Who is to say what is, or what isn't? The government? The United

Nations? Religion? Science? When none can grow a single strand of hair

on their head, or a single thumbnail on their finger?

A visual aid has been provided regarding the manifestation of Life and

the cycles of death and rebirth in JPEG format.

There are many beliefs, or combination of belief systems in the world.

The question is, does a given belief hold any substance in reality?

The desire to learn and know The ARCANE TRUTHS is an act of

UNCONDITIONAL UNIVERSAL LOVE.

There is no caste or social status in SPIRIT, only the Unity of Mind.

I thank GOD daily for the Wisdom and Understanding of the Knowledge

of SPIRIT that has brought me the true freedom of my own Mind.

Nothing believed in Spiritual Knowledge; Nothing known in religiousbeliefs.
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Beliefs can be shaken or altered and are subject to change. Arcane

Knowledge is unshakable, immutable, and backed by solid Universal

Principles that are not invented by man nor is it written by man's hand.

The unwavering established ancient Arcane Knowledge and Wisdom

does not come from us "it comes through us," Dr. D. Divine.Its firmlyestablished principles leaves no room for argument or debate, anymore,

than we argue and debate about the addition and subtraction of numbers.

The man or woman whose walk is in Spiritual Knowledge (not believes)

will realize that all of Life's events is one great spiritual experience. Such

simplistic tasks as observing a single blade of grass, flowers, trees,

mountains, humans, animals, the stars above, in all of nature becomes a

deep Spiritual experience that for the most part escapes the general

public's focus or attention.

It has been generally accepted that the human brain only operates

between three to ten percent of capacity. Ten percent of what capacity?

All theories, hypothesis, and thesis regarding the Universe and its reality

have been conceived within this limiting ten percent of brain capacity

leaving the other ninety percent hidden or "unknown." Therefore are all

scientific theories, hypothesis, and thesis subject to change as the human

brain expands beyond the current ten percent limitation as its awareness

is increased and a greater perception of reality is realized. Beliefs and

assumptions will diminish and Knowledge will increase, revising the

human perception of reality forever. It is best to always keep an open

Mind which will speedup the process of learning.

The physical Life of a mortal human is but a momentary window of

Conscious Life in the human experience within the Great Physical Plane.

The brain and body, our instrument of awareness, enables the experience

of consciousness in various degrees of conscious awareness in the Physical

Plane through the five senses (physical) but enables a greater sense of

awareness through the learning process of the sixth sense (mental) and

the development and advancement of the seventh sense (MIND, or

SPIRIT). When disembodiment occurs as in physical "death" (so

called), the experience of "conscious life" is terminated and only the sixth

and seventh sense remains because it is non-material and subconscious in

nature and therefore not subject to decay. There are no physical

particles to speak of to cause change. In other words, humans are

"mental beings" who manifest a body. There is more to us than meets

the eye or that we realize because of the holographic connection with ourINFINITE CREATOR in whose image we are created. Without
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exception or exclusion, are we beings of Life, Energy, and Light which

cause us to be Eternal. An understanding of the phenomenon of the

holographic principle will tell us how we are related to the Universe.

We humans do not just die and cease to exist, we cycle between our

embodied and disembodied state of being because of the immutable and

compelling Universal Principle of RHYTHM which rules generation and

regeneration, a rise and fall of all things, a creation and destruction, a

birth of embodiment, and a death of disembodiment, a constant decay

and renewal of all things. This process is present in all of Nature. We

have experienced it many times in the past and most of us have no

remembrance of the experience. However, it is well known to our

subconscious Mind which has kept record throughout eternal time.Many times we have helped each other through the birthing process --the

only way most of us know to obtain a body. We have yet to accept and

learn the possibility of retaining our body. Scientific verification of these

things would be a novel idea, but for the moment it is not possible because

of their focus in the mechanical and analytical state of consciousness.

Many scientific minds are becoming more and more Intuitive which will

propel them into the Arcane Knowledge and Wisdom of reality. It will be

found that the parallel paths of science and Universal Spirituality will

eventually converge and will leave no room for any doubt regarding the

reality we live in. The next step will be the understanding of theUniversal Principles which enables physical Immortality and the reason

why it is even possible in that it will cause a rise in the human

consciousness above the plane of decay where entropy rules. Armed with

the very ancient Arcane Knowledge and Wisdom, man will escape the

beginningless cycles of decay and renewal, the cycles of birth, death, and

rebirth because of his/her higher placement in the scale of Conscious Life.

When organized religion or religious belief are rigidly resistant to change

because of their established dogma, it will become dissolved in time as

their usefulness to humanity becomes redefined in Spirit and their

purpose may become questionable in light of the new understanding of

reality and realization of the existence of THE ALL. When organized

religion throws aside all of established dogma and superficiality of beliefs,

then it becomes a Universal Religion whose "dogma" and "beliefs" are

replaced by Knowledge and is solidly backed by the Universal Principles

of Life. It must be remembered that all things are subject to constant

change and that it is without cessation --nothing can or is allowed to stand

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Physical Life enables us to learn and expand our Minds (evolution) when

we utilize our time wisely. The disembodied Soul will always be

compelled to return to the Great Physical Plane to experience its

consciousness again, and again, until it has advanced to the point where it

will fulfill and utilize UNIVERSAL COSMIC LAW to its own advantage

and escaping the immutable and beginningless cyclic process of Nature.

This is the Life of a Master, a human who has mastered the lower parts of

his or her own nature and subjecting the lower laws of Nature by using

the Knowledge and Understanding of the higher LAW to which all

phenomenal laws are subservient and obedient. They dwell on Mental

Planes far above that of the collective mindset of today's civilization

whose experience is that of war, violence, suffering. and death. To them,

Life is a mysterious enigma to which they have given little attention, if

any....

FEAR is the root cause of all evils in that it creates hatred, lying,

cheating, theft, dishonesty, maliciousness, separateness, superstition,

human dysfunction, lack of respect, just to name a few. However, there is

another causation back of and behind that of fear, and that is of

ignorance. Ignorance is the fundamental problem in human

consciousness because it is like a ship on the high seas that has no

navigational equipment to pinpoint its location or where it is going in the

rough waters. How will it know where it is, or where it is going when it

lacks the basic navigational equipment? So it is with the human Mind

when it wanders with no direction or purpose in Life. Intellectualknowledge will give it some direction.... but to accomplish a permanent

solution to the wandering lost human Mind, somehow, it must access a

deeper Knowledge of Life, specifically, a Knowledge of the fundamental

Principles of LIFE which are SPIRIT in nature and an understanding

how it operates the Universe and the human Mind. The two are

inseparable, one cannot escape the other. Most Intellectual Knowledge

caters to the corporate, industrial, and financial world of reality but it

will not give the freedom to the human Mind that consciousness needs in

order to utilize its powerful Intuitive faculties to access the deeperKNOWLEDGE and meaning of LIFE. All of the world's problems can

be summed up and pointed in the direction of IGNORANCE and lack of

KNOWLEDGE and SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT. The organized

religions of the world have helped in some ways but have hindered

progress in others because of their rigid attachment to tradition, doctrine,

and dogma, they have fallen short of the goals because of the premature

cognition of their documents and rituals. This has closed the human

Mind to the greater Spiritual Knowledge and it may take many future

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"Life is like a box of chocolates...." Many flavors and colors.... some are

beneficial, some are not. Nevertheless, we are free to choose and

experience the flavor of our choice.

Believers and Knowers will not share the same view because one is a

premature cognition of a hypotethetical concept of belief while the other

is that of an observation of an immutable and unalterable Truth that is

not of our own making.

THE CONCEPT OF DUALISM

Webster's Dictionary defines dualism or the dualistic views of reality:

1: A theory that considers reality to consist of two irreducible elements or modes2 : the quality or state of being dual or of having a dual nature

3 a : a doctrine that the universe is under the dominion of two opposing principles

one of which is good and the other evil b : a view of human beings as constituted of

two irreducible elements (as matter and spirit)

The problem with dualistic views about reality is that it creates disunity,

separateness, superstition, creates satanic rituals because of the

fundamental believe that there are two entities that rule the Universe.

One that rules "evil," while the other rules all that is "good." This is a

very primitive concept of beliefs in that it is no different than the savagewho worships a rock because he or she believes that there is a supreme

being that dwells in the rock and that there are evil spirits lurking and

flying through the air looking for victims to take to their underworld.

The savage displays a dualistic view of reality based on his personal

beliefs of what he or she believes reality is. The cause of superstition is

caused by a lack of Knowledge and awareness. However, the savage can

advance on the scale of Life if he or she is sufficiently humble in order to

be teachable. Fear is the ruler of the savage's life because of his/her

ignorance of the true reality.

Some segments, if not all, of the Christian religion have taken the concept

of dualism as far as to say that GOD is not present within its Creation....

if this were to be a truth, then the concept about an infinite God is not

possible. This is where science and religion clashes because of the

difference in their views about reality. Science maintains mostly a

monotheistic view about reality that is based on their observations of the

Universe. Science has a problem with dualism because they realize that

no matter how large a system of galaxies and planets or universes they

discover, they always find an increasing larger system that can stupefythe human Mind. There is also the ten percent limitation of the human


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Mind that limits its concept of reality in what it is capable of perceiving.

Furthermore, there is the problem of premature cognition of traditional

doctrine within the ten percent capacity of the human brain that can

further stymie or at least slow the advancement of knowledge regarding

the Universe. Therefore is it important that the Intuitive Mind is

invoked within us in the acquisition of Spiritual Knowledge because

SPIRIT KNOWS EVERYTHING and we can tap its INFINITE MIND

for KNOWLEDGE. When this mode of thinking is invoked, the

Universal Principle of CORRESPONDENCE (the opening of the brow

Chakra) is activated and enables the human Mind to acquire Knowledge

from SPIRIT and from the seat of his observatory on earth, without

having to physically traverse the Universe, acquire knowledge of the

distant galaxies which in truth is not possible to visit because of the

inherent limitations of mechanical propulsion. The concept of physicality

must be transcended before modes of transportation through the"invisible" can be utilized.

Hermetic Philosophy maintains a monotheistic view about reality and

enables the concept of an INFINITE GOD that Hermetics refers to as

THE ALL in All. "The Theory of Everything" that is appearing on the

scene and the eighty year old cosmological constant that Albert Einstein

proposed in his equations of the General Theory of Relativity keeps

reappearing in new discoveries of Physics regarding the Universe and will

reaffirm and enforce the Hermetic Axiom "All is in THE ALL; and THE

ALL, is in All," --"The theory of Everything."

THE TRUE ARYANS

The true Aryans are an ancient noble Spiritual race that has nothing to

do with the Aryan nations of racism and skin color to which the

mainstream news media has drawn so much attention and given so much

credit without realizing the true meaning of "Aryan.". The word Arayameans cultured, refine, noble. Aryavarta was the land wherein the

people gave great heed to race culture. Arya-bhava was the ancient name

for the highest virtue. Arya-marga is the path of a noble Spiritual Life.

The difference between a Cult and Occult

These two words have been carelessly utilized without understanding by

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cult(kult) n.[[< L cultus, care, cultivation, orig. pp. of colere, to till:see WHEEL]] 1 a) a system of religious worship or ritual b) a quasi-

religious group, often living in a colony, with a charismatic leader who

indoctrinates members with unorthodox or extremist views, practices, or

beliefs 2 a) devoted attachment to, or extravagant admiration for, a

person, principle, or lifestyle, esp. when regarded as a fad [the cult of

nudism]b) the object of such attachment 3 a group of followers; sect cult

ic adj.cult ism n.cult ist n.

oc cult (for adj. kult ; also a kult ; for v. kult ) adj. [[L occultus,concealed, pp. of occulere,to cover over < ob-(see OB-) + celare,to hide

(see HALL)]] 1 hidden; concealed 2 secret; esoteric 3 beyond human

understanding; mysterious 4 designating or of certain alleged mystic arts,

such as magic, alchemy, astrology, etc. vt., vi.1 to hide or become hidden

from view 2 Astron. to hide by occultation the occult the occult arts or

studies oc cult ly adv.oc cult ness n.

from Comptoms Reference Collection

J. R. Seydel

LIFE AND TEACHING OF THE

MASTERS OF THE FAR EASTby Baird Spalding

"LOVE"

"Love is, as it might be said, cohesion, or a binding force that keeps all

things in relationship to their source."

"But Love will dissolve that which is not in harmony with the Universal

order for it demands of everything its complete adherence to the principle

of its own nature which is SPIRIT."

THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF (V.) "RHYTHM" (The cycles) AND "(VI.)

CAUSE AND EFFECT"

" A r ise and fal l of governments and nations...."

" Every Cause has its Effect; every Ef fect has its Cause; everything happens

according to Law; .... nothing escapes The LAW."

" Whatsoever a man sows, that shal l he also reap."


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With the strong physical bodies and quick perception you have

developed, your race will become a light to all other nations; and you will

look back and wonder, as you are now looking back and wondering why

your forefathers used the stage-coach and the tallow candle when steam

and electricity were all around them, just as it is around you today. Had

they abided by the law, they would have received and benefited as you

have and will."

"You will find that the spiritual surrounds and is above the material.

You will find that in the spiritual there is a higher law, and when you

abide by that law, you receive the benefit; for the spiritual is just above

and around the mechanical or material."

Hollywood, and the Computer Digital Technology of

Today

"It will come to a point where a few of those who develop the pictures

through mechanical means, to their higher degree of perfection, will be

the first to see the true spiritual meaning, the educational value, the

benefit to be derived, and the accomplishments that are possible. Then

those few will have the courage to step forth and proclaim the

accomplishment by the pictures they produce. It will be seen that thesedevices and the people that develop them --now thought to be the most

material --will be the greatest power of any factor brought forth and

developed by your people, in bringing out the true spiritual ideal. Thus it

will be left to those who seem to be the most material of the greatest

material race, to bring forth the truly spiritual. Your people are going

on, and will bring forth a device which will reproduce the voices of those

who have passed, more accurately than they now reproduce the voices of

the living. You are going and will achieve, in a measure, mechanically,

what we do with thought force. This is where you are going to excel all

the world in future development."

From a Spiritual Master of Life in the Himalayas (1894-1898)

Life and Teaching of The Masters of The Far East (Volume II)

[If a movie is produced of Baird Spalding's experiences and his party of eleven

researchers with the Masters of the Himalayas during their expedition in 1894 and

1898 using today's digital technology for special effects, and if it is done right, it

will cause an enormous phenomenal impact in the awakening process of human

consciousness and Spiritual development around the globe, and without doubt,THE ALL will have a "hand" in bringing it about as IT desires for humanity to

understand SPIRIT and to come in closer contact with it. Peace and prosperity
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another move to avoid him from putting to death what he believes is an innocent

man. It was a customary tradition to release a prisoner of the Jewish people's

choice during Passover. On that day Pontius Pilate brought before the Jewish

people, Barabas, a murderer, and Jesus, an alleged heretic, for the release of their

choice....

The public shouted, Barabas! Barabas! Barabas! Release Barabas! Crucify!

Crucify! Crucify him! to Jesus. "Your blood cometh over us and over our

children," they shouted.

The next morning Pontius Pilate's wife told him that she had a dream about Jesus

and said, "You must let this man go, he has done nothing wrong." Against his

own wishes and that of his wife, and under mounting public pressure, he sentenced

Jesus and ordered a servant to bring him a bowl of water to symbolically wash his

hands in innocence to vindicate himself of the sentencing of an innocent man to

death. That day Jesus was forced to carry his own cross to the place of execution

hile the public cynically taunted, mocked, and scorned him on the way. Later aJewish sympathizer helped him carry his cross for the remaining distance after he

collapsed under it's weight. The people celebrated their victory and success to

have finally removed this religious heretic!

A subsequent event occurred, that has escaped the awareness of most humans

today, after the crucifying of Jesus. Two thousand years later a murderer

appeared on the scene by the name of Adolph Hitler who tortured, maimed, and

killed six million Jews. Is it Barabas reincarnated? The Jewish people shouted,

"Your blood cometh over us, and over our children." Is this a self imposed

"curse" in the consequences of the operating Principle of "Cause and Effect" that

followed the subsequent generations of Jewish people to suffer to this day? If so,

then a change must be made somewhere in order not to repeat the cyclic past.

Every human must learn to understand and know the works and operations of the

Universal Principles of Cosmic LAW so that we can do things properly. Did the

chief priest, Caiaphas, conspired to mislead the Jewish people to have Jesus

crucified? If he did, then he will bear the responsibility of his deceptive practices

and actions for centuries, if not for millenniums, to come.

This is not just a lesson for the Jewish people, but for all of us who live on this

planet in the choices that we make and to choose our "words" and "deeds"

carefully on a daily basis. None of us, regardless of race, creed, religion, or skincolor, or social status, is exempt from the works and operations of Cosmic Law.

Universal Cosmic Law is the absolute will of GOD, THE ALL in All.

It is no different today, than it was two thousand years ago. Humans will continue

to fight religious wars with each other for centuries to come until they will learn to

"know" and recognize the "ONE TRUTH" that will bring them together in unity

and harmony. They will continue to resist change when a TRUTH comes to them.

Until then, humans will continue to learn through trial and error the discarding of

useless religious traditions and beliefs, a leftover from the dark ages, the

"inherited tendencies" that has never been questioned to this day, that have

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IDOL OR IDEAL?

The idol worshipping of Jesus has become a stumbling block to most

people and religions who engage in such worship in that it prevents a

person from recognizing his or her own Spiritual responsibility in theattainment of the "proper mind." They believe that "salvation" will all

be done for them and that there is nothing else for them to do. This is a

very dangerous assumption in that it prevents a person from taking the

responsibility and initiative to learn about SPIRIT and to further their

own spiritual growth. When we take upon ourselves his teachings, it will

open the way for SPIRIT to work with us and take us to places in SPIRIT

that we can not even imagine or openly speak about. Something that we

cannot do on our own.

The words that Jesus spoke on Sermon of The Mount became my wife'sand I personal experience( The letter killeth, but the Spirit maketh it

alive). And because of this, we were able to have a deeper understanding

of this great man (Master). We soon realized that his disciples were

prone to the idol worshipping of Jesus for which most of the world has

taken premature cognition for this "inherited" tendency. Jesus

specifically forbade Thomas to kneel down before him when he said, " I

am like each one of you." He referred to the disciples as "brethren."

Most people have followed their religious leaders blindly and copy each

other in this "idol worshipping" of Jesus without pausing for a moment

and to give it some thought. "Blind leaders of the blind, they all fall in

the same ditch."

In the course of time we have learned to idealize the teachings of Jesus

rather than idolizing his person. It is most important for the church and

all religions to discern this difference in order to assist in the Spiritual

growth and advancement of their members. We must learn to recognize

that the value of Jesus' teaching is not in the idol worship of his person,

but in the idealizing of his teaching which is SPIRIT. This mental

posture will perpetuate rapid Spiritual growth and advancement withSPIRIT itself as our teacher. See above: "The Experience of Hermes

with the SPIRIT of THE ALL."

The Secret of Happiness

The whole meaning and joy of Life lay in the search of Perfection and

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The Holographic Universeby Michael Talbot

"There is no observable phenomena without an observer...."

The Rising Cost of Insurance, Medical Care, and

Energy?

The free enterprise system is the most efficient and dynamic economic

system ever devised by man, but it is afflicted with flaws that would

destroy it through increasingly severe periods of inflation and depression

[RHYTHM]. The most serious flaw in the free enterprise system is that

as it accumulates more and more wealth, it becomes less and less capableof using this wealth wisely[greed]. As a result, the accumulation of

riches are accompanied by the rapid spread of human misery....

Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867)

("Enron?" One of many more examples to come, --the savagery of

corporate and industrial cannibalism? Are they willing to jeopardize the

free enterprise system because of their greed?)

Human Misery on The Rise

Unaffordable health care....

Unaffordable health insurance....

Unaffordable medicine....

Unaffordable education....

People going hungry....

Lack of governmental protection....

The continued and increased encroachment of aggressive greedy

pharmaceuticals and financial institutions upon people's livelihoodhungry for profits at any cost....

Lack of governmental protection against these greedy corporate entities

who are the CAUSE of increased human misery (as Carl Marx

predicted). It is only viewed as a "problem," not addressed as insatiable

"avarice and greed " (lack of wisdom). This has caused the "Free

Enterprise System" to become as shark invested waters. A very

dangerous trend for the Free Enterprise System itself because of shear

Godlessness in business ethics.
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The Effects of Alcohol and Drugs upon The Etheric

Web of Human Nature

Excerpt from "The Chakras" (1927)

by C. W. Leadbeater

The astral and Etheric centres are in very close correspondence; but

between them, and interpenetrating them in a manner not readily

describable, is a sheath or web of closely woven texture, a sheath

composed of a single layer of physical atoms much compressed and

permeated by a special form of vital force. The divine life which normally

descends from the astral body to the physical is so attuned as to passthrough this with perfect ease, but it is an absolute barrier to all other

forces --all which cannot use the atomic matter of both the planes. This

web is the protection provided by nature to prevent the premature

opening up of communication between the planes --a development which

could lead to nothing but injury. It will therefore be readily understood

that any injury to this web is a serious disaster.

The malpractices which may more gradually injure this protective web

are of two classes --use of alcohol or narcotic drugs, and the deliberate

endeavour to throw open the door which nature has kept closed, by

means of such a process as is described in the spiritualistic parlance as

sitting for development. Certain drugs and drinks --notably alcohol and

all the narcotics, including tobacco --contain matter which on breaking

up volatilizes, and some of it passes from the physical plane to the astral.

(Even tea and coffee contain this matter, but in quantities so infinitesimal

that it is usually only after long-continued abuse of them that the effect

manifests itself.)

When this takes place in the body of man these constituents rush outthrough the Chakras in the opposite direction to that for which they are

intended, and in doing this repeatedly they seriously injure and finally

destroy the delicate web. This deterioration or destruction may be

brought about in two different ways, according to the type of the person

concerned and to the proportion of the constituents in the Etheric and

astral bodies. First the rush of volatilizing matter actually burns away the

web, and therefore leaves the door open to all sorts of irregular forces

and evil influences.

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checked and crippled, and it is no longer capable of being vitalized by the

particular type of force which welds it into a web. The result of this is a

kind of ossification of the web, so that instead of having too much coming

through from one plane to the other, we have very little of any kind

coming through.

We may see the effects of both of these types of deterioration in the case

of men who yield themselves to drunkenness. Some of those who are

affected in the former way fall into delirium tremens, obsession of

insanity; but those are after all comparatively rare. Far more common is

the second type of deterioration --the case in which we have a kind of

deadening down of the man's qualities, resulting in gross materialism,

brutality and animalism, in the loss of all finer feelings and of the power

to control himself. He no longer feels any sense of responsibility; he may

love his wife and children when sober, but when the fit of drunkennesscomes upon him he will use the money which should have brought bread

for them to satisfy his own bestial cravings, the affection andresponsibility having apparently entirely disappeared.

THE EFFECT OF TOBACCO

The second type of effect is very commonly to be seen among those who

are slaves of the tobacco habit. Its effects are obvious in the physical,

astral and mental bodies. It permeates the man physically with

exceedingly impure particles, causing emanations so grossly material that

they are frequently perceptible to the sense of smell. Astrally it not only

introduces impurity but it also tends to deaden many of the vibrations

and it is for this reason that it is found to "soothe the nerves", as it is

called. But of course for occult progress we do not want the vibrations

deadened, nor the astral body weighed down with poisonous particles.

Its result after death are also of the most distressing character; it causes a

sort of ossification and paralysis of the astral body, so that for a long time

(extending to weeks and months) the man remains helpless, supine,scarcely conscious, shut up as though in a prison, unable to communicate

with his friends, dead for the time to all higher influences. Is it worth

while incurring all these penalties for the sake of a petty indulgence? For

any person who really means to develop his vehicles, to awaken his

chakras, to make progress along the path of holiness, tobacco is

undoubtedly to be sedulously avoided.

All impressions which pass from one plane to the other are intended to

come only through the atomic sub planes, as I have said; but when this

deadening process sets in, it presently infects not only other atomicmatter, but matter of even the second and third sub planes, so that the
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only communication between the astral and the etheric is when some

force acting on the lower sub planes (upon which only unpleasant and evil

influences are to be found) happens to be strong enough to compel a

response by the violence of its vibration.

THE OPENING OF THE DOORS

Nevertheless, though nature takes such precautions to guard these

centres, she by no means intends that they shall always be kept rigidly

closed. There is a proper way in which they maybe opened. Perhaps it

would be more correct to say that the intention is not that the doors

should be opened any wider than their present position, but that the man

should so develop himself that he can bring a great deal more through the

recognized channel. The consciousness of the ordinary man cannot yet

use pure atomic matter either in physical body or in the astral, andtherefore there is normally no possibility for him of conscious

communication at will between the two planes.

We are always adjured to wait for the unfolding of psychic powers until

they come in the natural course of events a consequence of the

development of character, as we see from the study of these force-centres

that they surely will. That is the natural evolution; that is the only really

safe way, for by it the student obtains all the benefits and avoids all the

dangers. That is the Path which our Masters have trodden in the past;

that therefore is the Path for us today.

C. W. Leadbetter

His book, "The Chakras"

Excerpts and Quotations of the

Divine Pymander

The Seventh Book

H is Secret Sermon in the Mount of Regeneration, and the Profession of

Silence.

HERMES; TO HIS SON TAT

The lower regions of Human Nature

THE TWELVE BRUTISH TORMENTS OF THE UNREASONABLE MAN.


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. 1) Ignorance

. 2) Sorrow

3) Intemperance

. 5) Injustice

. 6) Covetousness

. 7) Deceit

. 8) Envy

. 9) Fraud or Guile

10) Wrath

11) Rashness

12) Maliciousness

"They are in number twelve, and under these many more; some

which through the prison of the body, do force the inwardly placed

Man to suffer sensibly."

Hermes

A person who engages in the practice of deception, back-stabbing, l ying, cheating,

steali ng, cunn ing, self ishness, greed, malicious intend, aff ecting other humans. A

miserable sui cidal human of a

low self esteem at the bottom of the pit who may blame other

humans for his or her misery.jrs

The Nobler heights of Human Nature

THE MANNER OF REGENERATION,THE POWER OF TEN.

. 1) The Knowledge of Truth

. 2) The Power of Joy

. 3) The Power of Temperance

. 4) Continence, The Power over Concupiscence.

..5) Communion against Covetousness

. 6) The Calling of The Truth.

. 7) Access to The Truth.

. 8) Truth accompanied by the Good.

. 9) The Good that follows

10) Life and Light.

"Thou has understood O' Son, the manner of Regeneration; for upon the coming

of these Ten, the Intellectual Generation is perfected, and then it driveth away the

Twelve; and we have seen it in the Generation itself."

"Whosoever therefore hath of Mercy obtained this Generation, which according to

God, he leaving all bodily sense, knoweth himself to consist of divine things, and

rejoiceth, being made by God stable and immutable."

Hermes


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A noble refined Spir ituall y developed person who dwel ls in the nobler heights of the

mental scale of M IND. Thi s person is poised and in control of hi s or her M entali sm

as well as the environment, being made stable and immutable by the indwell ing

SPIRI T of GOD.jrs

A Spiritual explanation has been written in light blue colored fonts with

regard to the axioms of the article below in order to help the reader with

its Spiritual meaning. The axioms are written in Green.

DIVINE PYMANDER

Excerpts from "His First Book"Conversation of the Poemandres or Pymander (God) To Hermes

1. O my Son, write this first book, both for Humanity sake and for Piety

towards God.

2. For there can be no Religion more true or just, than to know the things

that are; and to acknowledge thanks for all things, to him that made

them, which thing I shall not cease continually to do.

3. What then should a man do, O Father, to lead his life well; seeing there

is nothing here true?

4. Be Pious and Religious, O my Son; for he that doth so, is the best and

highest Philosopher; and without Philosophy, it is impossible ever toattain the height and exactness of Piety and Religion.

5. But he that shall learn and study the things that are, and how they are

ordered and governed, and by whom, and for what cause, or to what end,

will acknowledge thanks to the Workman, as to a good Father, an

excellent Nurse, and faithful Steward, and he that gives thanks shall be

pious or Religious, and he that is Religious shall know both where truth

is, and what it is, and learning that, he will be yet more and more

Religious. (not "religious" as the world understands it.)

13. But now, O my Son, I will by heads run through the things that are;

Understand thou what I say, and remember what thou hearest.

14. All things that are moved, only that which is not is unmovable.All physical objects, terrestrial or celestial are moved by the Mental activity of THE ALL, while

THE ALL itself, or God, is immovable because it is absolute in presence.

15. Every Body is changeable.All physical objects by their nature change, in space and time, the realm of relativity.

16. Not every Body is dissolvable.Bodies are capable of escaping entropy and mortality if it has the sense of reasoning and possess the


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Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding of The Divine Paradox of Immortality and mortality.

Each aspect being a half a Truth.

17. Some Bodies are dissolvable.Dissolvable, meaning, the process of entropy and the resulting death (so called) of all things that is

known to every living human.

18. Every living thing is not mortal.There are those who are not mortal.

19. Not every living thing is immortal.Then, there are mortals who have no concept of Immortality and are subject to entropy by reason

of their accepted belief in death.

20. That which may be dissolved is also corruptible."Dissolving," the meaning, of decrepit bodies that are no longer capable of sustaining Life with the

resulting death (so called) that follows. Bodies void of a Mind and Life become dissolved and are

returned to the fundamental elements of Nature. Corruptible means the deterioration of the flesh

subject to entropy. However, nothing is ever lost because all that is, has its existence solely withinthe enormous presence of THE INFINITE LIVING MIND of GOD which we refer to as SPIRIT --

THE ALL....

21. That which abides always is unchangeable.There are things that are not subject to entropy such as the Principles of Immortality and is

accomplished through the mental transmutation of the physical body. A knowledge of the mental

art that is beyond human reasoning and is freely available to all who seek the Knowledge.

22. That which is unchangeable is eternal.THE ALL, or GOD

23. That which is always made is always corrupted."Made" means the manifested, or physical realm where everything is subject to change, such as

entropy (decay). The effects of entropy is seen in the aging of the human body, animals, vegetation,

and the rusting of metals.

24. That which is made but once, is never corrupted, neither becomes any

other thing.The other aspect of reality, the other half of the Truth, the other side of the same coin etc., are

things that are unalterable and unchangeable and is not subject to the process of entropy. It is not

suspected by limited mortal minded people.

25. First, God; Secondly, the World; Thirdly, Man.

26. The World for Man, Man for God.

27. Of the Soul; that part which is Sensible is mortal, but that which is

Reasonable is immortal.Sensible, pertaining to the physical aspect, the five senses of the human body or any physical body.

Reasonable--The substantial essence of the Human Mind which is capable of a greater sense of

reasoning and awareness and is therefore capable of perceiving the greater Truths or to deviate

from the Truth which results in being a subject of decay. Animals have extremely limited reasoning

power and therefore become subject to the process of Nature. If Man maintains his Mind on the

animal plane, which is a common practice, he or she too becomes subject to the process of Nature of

which entropy is one of the aspects of manifested reality.


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28. Every Essence is immortal."Essence" is the non-material aspect of being.

29. Every Essence is unchangeable.

30. Every thing that is, is double.The paradox of reality such as mortality and Immortality, all things have their opposite aspects inreality such as Positive and Negative, heat and cold, light and darkness, love and fear, good and

bad....all are relative on the ascending scale of Life. Each paradoxical aspect of Life slowly shades

from one end of Polarity to the opposite without abrupt and sudden changes.

31. None of the things that are stand still.Everything on the physical plane moves and vibrates such as the atoms, planets and galaxies.

Nothing is allowed to stand still. Things come and go, nothing ever stays or endures in the

space/time continuum..

32. Not all things are moved by a Soul, but every thing that is, is moved

by a Soul.Everything that moves in the Universe, is moved by The Infinite Mind of THE ALL, or GOD,

through the effort of its will and is the Divine Order or LAW by which all atomic and subatomic

particles and elements in Nature behave.

33. Every thing that suffers is Sensible, every thing that is Sensible

suffereth.Carnal man.

34. Every thing that is sad, rejoiceth also, and is a mortal living Creature.The pleasures and pains of carnality.

35. Not every thing that joyeth is also sad, but is an eternal living thing.The evolved Human Mind through the awakening process and awareness of Reality, the truly

Spiritually awakened person who has become polarized on the scale of Life and is no longer subject

to the swing of The Pendulum, unlike the masses of people who are tossed to and fro on the

chessboard of Life having no will and effort of their own and therefore no sense of purpose or

direction in Life. They are subject to the swing of the Universal Pendulum,The Law of

Compensation and Equilibrium

36. Not every Body is sick; every Body that is sick is dissolvable.Disease is an indication of entropy and mortality in physical bodies that eventually become

dissolved in death.

37. The Mind in God.The Causation of Mind and Life and the resulting "Mental Laws."

38. Reasoning (or disputing, or discoursing) in Man.Typical of our present day civilization.

39. Reason in the Mind.

40. The Mind is void of suffering.Because Mind is a non-material aspect of all "causation."

41. No thing in a Body true.All that is bodily or physical is subject to change and is highly illusionary.
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42. All that is incorporeal, is void of Lying.The Mental aspect of reality cannot be lied to because it always knows. Ever had a guilty conscious?

43. Every thing that is made is corruptible."Made" means "manifested." All things in the manifested Universe is subject to change. A

continuous Life, death, and rebirth of all things, a constant creation and destruction of suns worlds

and galaxies, a rise and fall of governments and nations. The corruption of flesh into old age and

the rusting of metals .

44. Nothing good upon the Earth, nothing evil in Heaven.The "good" as is understood by the world is a concept in the relative sense. The only significant

good there is, is The Infinite itself because it is the unconditional Cause of all that exists--"The

things that are, and all that is."

45. God is good, Man is evil.

46. Good is voluntary, or of its own accord.

47. Evil is involuntary, or against its will.

48. The Gods choose good things, as good things.

49. Time is a Divine thing."Time" is a measurement of the Evolutionary Progress and advancement of all living things, the

Divineward or Spiritward Journey of all Manifested Life of which there is nothing that can escape

its evolutionary power.

50. Law is human.Mosaic Law upon which the law of the land is based.

51. Malice is the nourishment of the World.One does not have to look far to see malice.

52. Time is the Corruption of Man.Birth, youth, old age and the resulting dissolution of the body.

53. Whatsoever is in Heaven is unalterable.Heaven, or the Astral Planes; the unalterable aspect of the Quantum Reality which is Non-material

and Mental in nature, the aspect of Infinite MIND, of Infinite Knowledge, Wisdom, and

Understanding. Only in this aspect of reality can the concept of Immortality and Eternal Life beknown and understood. Heaven is not a place or a specific locality in Space and Time but a Plane of

hyper Mental activity and vibrations that is spaceless and timeless. It is unchangeable and

unalterable because space, time and physical particles are absent to enable change. A realm that

escapes the present human intellect....

54. All upon the Earth is alterable.Life as our civilization knows it is subject to the changes of evolution and Mental manipulation and

transmutation of states into desirable conditions; History, or His story, the Present, and the Future,

the Spiritward or Divineward journey of all Life, the Divine Providence ofTHE ALL that bears

rule over all. Evolution affects all aspects of Life including the daily advancement of technology.

Causing all things to be suspended in a constant changing world as the world moves through space

and time.

55. Nothing in Heaven is servanted, nothing upon Earth is free.
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In the "Heaven" aspect of reality are no governments, courts, policemen, soldiers, or leaders of any

kind. While everything in Life as the world understands it, is the exact opposite. Everything in the

"Heavenly" or "Astral Planes" which is SPIRIT in nature knows their proper position of behavior,

consequently the Mosaic type laws of which the law of the land are based upon is not needed.

56. Nothing unknown in Heaven, nothing known upon Earth.The intuitive Mind is an aspect of the Astral Planes and is capable of "seeing" and "knowing"things beyond that which the intellectual Mind is only capable of obtaining "empirically."

57. The things upon Earth, communicate not with those in Heaven.The human race is for the most part totally unaware of the true reality that overshadows their

highly illusionary and trivial reality of materialism and for this reason are unable to connect

themselves with the primordial paradigm of the true reality that could give them the master keys to

the Arcane Knowledge and Wisdom regarding the deep secrets of Mind, Life, and the Nature of of

the reality they live in.

58. All things in Heaven are unblamable, all things upon Earth are

subject to Reprehension.Reprehension means that every person belonging to this civilization has to answer to another

person or group of persons. It maybe a failure to adhere to the laws of the land, or be s

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