In conclusion, it may be of interest to our students to learn that while some of the ancient, and modern, Hermetic Teachers have rather inclined in the direction of applying the Principle of Correspondence to the question, with the result of the "Inner Nature" conclusion,--still the legends have it that HERMES, the Great, when asked this question by his advanced students, answered them by PRESSING HIS LIPS TIGHTLY TOGETHER and saying not a word, indicating that there WAS NO ANSWER.
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In other words, the entire virtue, life, spirit, of reality in the mental image is derived from the "immanent mind" of the thinker.
So, you see, the matter is Unthinkable, just as THE ALL is Unknowable.
" And whenever anything is generated or created, on any plane, the Principle of Gender must be manifested.
We have seen how "All is in THE ALL"--now let us examine the other aspect of the subject.
And then Modern Science informs us that there is really no such thing as Matter--that what we call Matter is merely "interrupted energy or force," that is, energy or force at a low rate of vibration.
The Hermetists have never sought to be martyrs, and have, instead, sat silently aside with a 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 they regard his statement of the "Infinite and Eternal Energy" as directly in the line of the Hermetic Teachings, always with the addition of their own doctrine that his "Energy" is the Energy of the Mind of THE ALL.
Nor were they ignorant of Chemistry, for the fragments of the ancient writings show that they were acquainted with the chemical properties of things; in fact, the ancient theories regarding physics are being slowly verified by the latest discoveries of modern science, notably those relating to the constitution of matter.
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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.
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Each according to its own Plane and Laws.
" And these words are as true today as at the time they were first written.
At the end of countless cycles of aeons of time, THE ALL withdraws its Attention--its Contemplation and Meditation--of the Universe, for the Great Work is finished--and All is withdrawn into THE ALL from which it emerged.
(At this point, it may be proper for me to state that we make a distinction between Religion and Theology--between Philosophy and Metaphysics.
Look at your thermometer and see if you can discover where "heat" terminates and "cold" begins!
Between "Black and White"?
Not only do they vibrate at different rates of motion, but as in different directions and in a different manner.
Life and Mind in all their varying degrees of unfoldment!
" Rather follow the example of the wise, which the same authority states, "use Law against Laws; the higher against the lower; and by the Art of Alchemy transmute that which is undesirable into that which is worthy, and thus triumph.