TH E

K YBA LI ON
A STU D Y O F

THE H E RM ET I C PH I LOSO PH Y O F
ANC I ENT EG Y PT AND
G REE C E

TH R EE I NI TI ATES

un 07 m un -
m ule ”

TH E Y OG I PU B LI CATI O N S OCI ETY

MASONI C TEM P LE
CH I CAGO I LL
,
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C OP Y RI G H T 1 9 08

TH E Y OG I P UB L I C AT I ON S OC I E Y T .

Ent e r ed S t a t ion H a ll
’
at er s

All r ig h t s r es er ved
 H ER M ES TR I S M EG I S TU S
K NOWN B Y TH E ANC l ENT

N
EG YPTI A S

TH E G R E AT G REAT
!

AND

MASTE R OF MASTE RS
THI S LI TTLE VOLUME OF HERMETI C TEAC HINGS
I S REVERENTLY D ED I CATE D
 C ON T E N T S
0m m . Pa ar .

Int odution
r c

II . ven H ermetic Principles

Se

Mental Tr ansmuta tion

Th e Divine P r do
a a x

VI I .
“ Th
e All ” in All

VI I I . Pl n a es of Corr espondence

Vibration
X . Polarity
Rhythm

Causa tion
Gend er

He rm et ic Ax ioms
 I NTRODUC TI ON .

We take grea t pleasure in presenting t o

the attentionof students and investigators
o f the Secr et Doctrine s thi s l i ttle work

based u ponthe world old Her metic Teach

-

ings There ha s been so li ttle written

.

upon this subject notwith standing the

,

countless reference s t o th e Teachings in

th e many wo rks upon occu lti sm th at the
,

many ea rnest search ers after th e Arcane

Truth s will doubtless welco me th e appear
ance of the present volume .

The pu rpo se of thi s work i s not the

enunci ation of any special philosophy or
doctrine but rather is to give to the stu
,

dents a statement of th e Truth th at will

serve to reconcile the many bits of occu lt
knowledge that they may have acquired ,

bu t whi ch are apparently opposed to each

oth er and which often serve t o di scoura ge
7
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and di sg ust th e beginner in the study .

O ur intent is not to erec t a new Temple of

K nowledge but rather to plac e in th e
,

hands of the student a Master K ey with -

which he may open the many inner doors

in the Temple of Mystery th rough th e
m ai n portals h e h as already entered .

There i s no por tion of th e occu

lt teach
ings possessed by th e world which have
b een so closely guarded as the fragments
of the He r met ic Teachings wh ich have

come down to us over the tens of centuries

which have elapsed since th e l ifetime of i ts
great fou nder Her mes Trismegi stus the
, ,
”
scribe of th e gods who dwelt in old
,

Egypt in th e days wh en the present race

o f men was in i ts in fancy Contemporary
.

with Abrah am and i f th e legends be true

, , ,

an instructor of that venerable sage ,

Hermes was and is th e Great Central Sun

, ,

o f O cculti sm wh ose rays have se r v ed t o

,

illumine the countless teach ings which

have been promulgated s ince hi s time All .

the fundamental and basic teachings em

bedded in the esoteric teachings of eve r y
 I nt r oduc t ion 9

race may b e traced bac k to Hermes Even .

the most ancient teachings of India un

doubtedly have their roots in the original
Hermetic Teachings .

F r om the land of the Ganges many ad

ve nced oc cu lti sts wandered to the land of
E gyp t and sat at the feet of the Master
, .

From him they obtained the Master K ey -

which explained and reconciled their diver

ge nt views and thu
, s the Sec ret Doctrine

wa s firmly established From other lands

.

also came the lea rned ones all of whom

,

regarded Hermes a s the Master of Ma s

ters and his influence w as so great that in
,

sp i te of the m any wanderings from the

pa th onthe pa rt of the centuries of teach

e r s in th ese difi er ent lands there m ay still
,

be found a certa in bas ic resemblance and

correspondence which underlies the many
and often qu ite divergent theories enter
t a ine d and ta u ght by t he o ccultists of these
difi e r en t lands today . The stu dent of
Comparative Religions will be able to p er
ceiv e th e i nfluence of the Hermetic Teach

ings in ever y religion wo rthy of the name ,

1 0 I nt r oduc tion

now know n to m an whethe r it be a dea d

,

religion or one in full vigo r in ou r own

times There i s always a ce rtain corre
.

sp onden c e in s pite of the contradictory

features , and the He rmetic Teachings act

as the Great Reconcile r .

The l i fework of He rmes seems to have

been inthe direction of planting the great
Seed Truth which has gr own and blos
-

som ed in so many strange fo r ms r ather ,

than t o establish a school of philo s !

op hy which would domina te the worl d s

’

thou ght . But never theless, the or igi

,

nal tru ths tau gh t by him have be en

kept intact in thei r o riginal purity by
a few men in each age w ho r e , ,

fusing great numbers of half developed -

stu dents and followers , followed the Her

metic custo m and reserved their truth for
the few w ho were ready to comprehend
an d ma ster it From lip to ear the truth
.

ha s been handed down among the few .

There h ave always beena few Initiates in

each generation in the various lands of
,

the earth w ho kept alive the sacre d flame

,
 I nt r oduct ion 1 1

of the He r metic Teachings and such have

,

always been willing to use the i r lamp s t o

r e light the lesser lamps of th e out side
-

world when the li ght of truth grew dim

, ,

and clouded by reasonof neglect and when ,

the wicks became clogged with foreign

matter There were always a few t o tend
.

faithfully the altar of the Truth upon ,

which was kept alight the Perp etual Lamp

of Wisdom These men devoted their
.

lives t o the labor of l ove wh ich the poet

has so well stated in his lines
0 let not the flame die ou
, t ! Cherished
—
age afte r age in its dark cavern in its
holy temples cherish ed F ed by pure min
.

—
ist er s of love let not the flame di e ou t1
”

These men have never sought popula r

approval nor numbers of followers They
,
.

are indi ff erent t o th ese things for th ey

,

know how few there are in each generat ion

who are ready for the truth or w ho would
,

reco gnize it if it were presented t o them .

“ ”
Th ey reserve the strong meat fo r men ,
“
while others furnish the milk for babes .

Th ey reserv e their pearls of wisdom for

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the few elect w ho reco gnize their valu

, e
and w ho wear them in their crow ns in ,

stea d of casting them before the mat e rial

ist ic vulgar swine w ho would trample th em
,

inthe mud a n d mi x them with thei r dis gust

in g mental food .But still these m e n hav e
never forgottenor overlooked the original
teachings of Her mes regarding the pass
,

ing onof the words of truth to those ready

to receive it which teaching i s stated in
,

The K yb alion a s follows Where fall

the footsteps of the Master the ears of ,

those ready fo r his Teaching openwide ”

.

An d again: “
When the ears of the stu
dent are ready t o hear then cometh the
,

lip s t o fill them with wi sdom But thei r .

’

customa ry attitude has always beenstrictly

in a ccord ance with the othe r Hermetic
aphorism also in The K yb alion:
,
Th e
l ip s of Wisdom are closed except t o the ,

ea rs of Understanding .

There are those who have c riticised thi s

attitude of the Hermetists and w ho have ,

claimed that they did not manifest the

proper sp irit in thei r policy of seclus ion
 I nt r oduc tion 13

and re ticenc e But a moment s glance

.
’

back ove r the pages of histo r y will sho w

th e wisdom of the Masters who knew the ,

folly of attempting to teach to the world

that which it w as neither ready or wil ling
t o r eceive
. The Her metists have never
sou ght to be martyrs and have instead
, , ,

sat silently aside with a pi tying smile on

thei r clo sed lips while the heathen raged
,
‘

no isily abou t them in their customary

’

amusement of putting to death and torture

the honest but misgu ided enthus ia sts w ho
imagined that they c ould force upona race
of barba rians the truth capable of being
understood only by the elect w ho had a d
v an ced along The P ath .

An d the spirit of persecution h a s not as

yet di ed out inthe land There are cer .

tain Her metic Teach ings which , if pub ,

lic ly promul gated would b ring down upon

,

the teachers a great cry of scorn and

revilement from the multitu d e w ho would ,

again ra ise the cry of Crucify l Crucify .

In thi s l ittle work we have endeavored

to give you an idea of the fu ndamental
14 The Kyb alion

t eachings of The K yb alion striving t o

,

give you the working Principles leaving ,

you t o apply them yourselves rather than

,

attempting t o wo rk out the teaching in de

tail I f you are a true student youwill
.
,

be able t o work ou t and apply these Prin

c ip les— if not th enyou must develop your
,

self into one fo r otherw ise the Hermetic

,
“
Teachings will be as words words, ,

wo rds t o you
”
.

TH E TH REE I nm r n
. s .
 C HAPT E R I .

TH E H nnunr l c '
PH ILOSOPH Y .

Th e il ps of wisdo m are clo se d pt to t he of

U nderst a nding —The K yb alion
, ex ce ears
. .

From old Egypt have come the funda

mental esoteri c and occult teach ings which
have so strongly influenced the philosophies
of all races nati ons and peoples for sev
, ,

eral thousand years Egypt the home of .

,

the Pyramids and the Sphinx was the ,

bi rthplace of the Hidden Wisdom and

Mystic Teach ings From her Secret Doc
.

t rine all nations have bo rrowed India .

,

Pers ia Chaldea Medea China J apan

, , , , ,

Assyria anci ent Gree ce and Rome and

, ,

other anci ent countries pa rtook l iberally a t

the feast of knowledge which the Hiero
p h a nt s and Masters of the Land of Is i s so
freely provi ded for those w ho came pre
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pared to partake of the great store of

Myst ic and O ccult Lore which th e master
minds of that ancient land had gathered
together .

In ancient Egypt dwelt the great Adepts

and Masters who have never been sur
passed and who seldom have been equaled
, ,

during the centuries that have taken their

process ional flight s ince the days of the
Great Hermes In E gyp t wa s lo cated th e
.

Great Lodge of Lodges of th e Mystics . At

the doors of her Temples entered the Neo
h
p y t e s who afterw ard as H i erop
, h ant s
,

Adepts and Masters traveled to the four

, ,

corners of the ea rth carrying with them

,

the preciou s knowledge which they we r e

ready anxious and willing to p as s onto

, ,

those who were ready t o receive the same .

All students of the O ccult recognize the

debt that they owe t o these venerable Mas
ters of that ancient land .

But among these great Masters of An

cient Egypt there once dwelt one of whom
“
Masters hailed a s Th e Maste r of Mas
”
ters . This man if man indeed he w a s
,
‘
,
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name of Thoth Years after the people of

.
,

Ancient Greece also made h im one of their

—
many gods calling him He rmes the god ,
”
o f Wisdom . The Egyptians revered his
—
memory for many cent uries yes tens of ,

centu —
ries calling him the Scribe of the‘

”
Go d s , and bestowing upon him dis ,

t in ct ively his an
, cient title Tr ismegis ,

tu s, which means the thrice great

‘ -

the great great

-
’
the greatest grea t
‘ -

et c . I nall the anc ien t lands the name of ,

Hermes T rismegistu s was revered the ,

name being synonymou s with t he F ount

of Wisdom .

Evento thi s day we u , se the te r m

“
her
metic inthe sense of secret
” “ “
sealed

so th a t n othing c anesc ape etc and thi s

’
.
,

by rea sonof the fact that the followers of

Hermes always observed the pr inciple of
sec recy inthei r tea chings They did not
.

believe in casting p earls before swine

“ ”
,

bu t ra ther held t o the teaching milk for

”
babes ; meat for strong men both of ,

which maxims are familiar t o readers of

the Ch ristian script ures but both of which
,
 The H e r m e tic Ph ilosop hy 1 9

h ad been used by the Egyptians for c e n

tu r ie s before the Christ ian era .

And th i s policy of careful d i sseminat ion

of the t r u th has always character ized the
Her metics even unto the p resent day The
, .

Her metic Teachings are t o be found inall

lands among all religions but never iden
, ,

t ified with any particular country nor with ,

any p articular religious sect This b e

.

c ause o f the warning of the ancient teach

ers against allowing the Secret Doctrine to

become crystallized into a creed The wi s .

dom of thi s cauti onis apparent t o all stu

dents of hi story The ancient occultism of
.

Indi a and Persia degenerated and was ,

largely lo st owing to the fact that th e

,

teachers became pr iests and so mixed

,

theo l ogy with the philosophy the result ,

being that the occulti sm of India and Per

sia ha s bee ngradually lost amidst th e mass

o f reli gious superstition cults creeds and

, ,

gods . So it was with Ancient G reece

and Rome So it was with the Hermetic
.

Teach ings of th e Gnostics and Early Chri s

tians which were lost at the time of Con
,
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st a nt ine wh ose i ron hand smothered phi

,

losophy with the blanket of theology losing ,

t o the Chri st i an Church that which was its

very essence and sp irit and causing it t o
,

grope th roughout several centuries before

it found the way back t o its ancient faith ,

th e indications apparent t o all careful oh

servers in thi s Twentieth Century being
that th e Church is now struggl ing to get
n
back t o its a cient mystic teachings .

But there were always a few faithful

souls w h o kept al ive th e Flame tending it ,

carefully and not allowing its l igh t to b e

,

come extinguished And thanks to these

.

staunch hearts and fearless mind s we

, ,

h ave the truth still with us But it is not

.

fou nd in books t o any great extent It has

, .

been passed along from Master to Student ;

from Init iate t o Hi erophant ; from lip t o
ear When it w a s wr itten do w n at all its
.
,

meaning was veiled in terms of alchemy

and astrology so that only those possess
,

ing the key could read it aright This was .

made necessary inorder to avo id the perse

cu t ions of th e theologians of the M i ddle
 The H e r m e t ic Philosop hy 21

Ages , who fought th e Secret Doctrine with

fi re and sword ; stake gibbet and cros s
,
.

Even to this day there will be found but

few r eliable books on the Hermetic
Philosophy although there are countless
,

references to it in many books written on

various phases of O ccult i sm And yet the .
,

Hermetic Philosophy is the only Master

K ey which will open all the doors of th e
O ccult Teachings !
In the early days there was a comp ila
,

tio nof certainBas i c Her metic Doctr ine s ,

passed on from teacher to student which ,

“ ”
was known as T HE K YB ALI ON the ,

exact significance and meaning of th e term

having been lost for several centuries Thi s .

teaching however i s known t o many t o

, ,

whom it ha s descended from mouth to ear

, ,

on and on throughout th e centuries I ts .

precepts have never been wr itten down or ,

p rinted so far as we know It was merely

,
.

a collect ion of maxims axioms and pre

, ,

c ept s
,
which were nonunders tandable t o
-

outs iders but which were re a d ily unde r

,

stood by students afte r t he ax io m s

, ,
22 The K yb alion

maxims and precep ts ha d been explained

,

and exemplifi ed by the Hermetic I n itiates

to th ei r NeOphyt e s These tea chings really
.

constituted the basic p rincipl es of Th e

Art of Hermetic Alchemy which con , ,

t r ary t o the general be lief dealt in the ,

mastery of Mental F orces rather thanMa ,

—
t e r is l Elements the Transmuta tion of on e

kind of Mental Vibrations into others in ,

stead of the changing of one kind of metal

“
into another Th e legends of the Philoso
.

p h ’
er s Stone ’
whi ch would turn base metal
int o Gold was an allegory relating to Her
,

metic Philosophy readily understood by

,

all students of true Her metici sm .

I n thi s l ittle book of whi ch thi s is th e

,

F i rst Lesson we invite our students t o ex

,

amine into the Hermetic Teachings as set ,

forth i n TH E K YB ALI ON and as ex ,

p lained by ourselves humble students

, of
the Teachings who while bearing the title
, ,

of Initiates are still student s at the feet

,

of HE R ME S the Master , We herein give.

y o u m a ny of t he max ims axioms and pre

,

c e p t s o f TH E K Y B AL I ON a c c o m p ani ed .
 The H e r m e tic P hilos op hy 23

by exp lanations and illustrations whi ch we

d eem likely to render th e teachings more
easily comprehended by the modern stu
dent p articularly as the or iginal text is
,

purposely vei led inobscure ter ms .

The original maxim s axioms and pre , ,

“
cep t s of T HE K YB ALI ON are printed
herein in quotation marks the proper
, ,

credit being given O ur own work is .

printed inthe regu lar way in the body of ,

the w ork We trust that the many stu

.

dents to whom we now o ff er thi s li ttle work

will derive as much benefit from the study
of its pages as have th e many who have
gone onbefore treading the same Path to,

Mastery th roughout the centuries that have

passed s ince the times of HE R ME S TRI S
—
MEGI S TUS the Master of Masters the —
Great Great In the words of TH E K Y
-
.

BALI O N
Wher e fall t he f oot st e of t he Mas t er the ears o f
ng open wide —The
,
t hose ready f or his c achi .

K yb a lio n .

When t he ears of
t he s tud t
en a re r e ad t o
he a r then
co m e th t he lp
i s t o itll
'
he t m
Wi t h isdom ’
.
—Th
,
e

g oa lion .
24 The K yb alion

Sothat according t o the Teachings the ,

pa ssage of this book to those ready for

th e instruction will attract the attenti on of
such as are prepared to receive th e Teach
ing And likewise when the pupil is ready
.
, ,

t o rece ive th e truth then will this l ittle

,

book come t o him or her Such is The

, .

Law The Hermeti c P rinciple of Cause

.

an d E ffect in i ts aspect of The Law of At

,

tract ion will bring lips and ear together

,

pup il and book in company So mote it be !

.
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VI . TH E PRIN CIPLE O F C AUS E

AND E F F E C T .

VI I . TH E PRIN CIPLE O F GE N DE R .

Th ese
Seven Principles w ill be discussed
and explained as we proceed with these les
sons A short explanati on of each how
.
,

eve r may as well be given at this point

, .

TH E PRIN C IPLE LIS M

OF M EN TA .

“T
HE ALL is M ND ; The UnI
iv erse is Ment al .
”
The K yb a lion .

This Principle embodies the truth tha t

”
All is M ind It expla ins that TH E
.

ALL ( which is th e Subs tant i al Re a l ity

underlying all the outward manifes tations
and appearances which we know under th e
terms of The Ma terial Univer se th e ’

“
Phenomena of Life ; Matter ; Eu
” ”

”
e rgy ; and in short all,
t ha t is apparent
,

t o our material senses ) is SPIRIT which ,

in it self i s UN K N OWABLE and UNDE

FINABLE but which may be considered
,

an d th ough t of as AN U NIVERS AL I N ,
 S even H e r m e tic P r incip les 27

FINIT E , LIVING MIND It also explains .

tha t all the phenomenal wo rld o r universe

is simply a Mental Creationof TH E AL L ,

su bjec t t o the L aws of Created Things and ,

that the u n iverse a s a whol e a nd in it s

, ,

pa rts or u nits has its existence inthe Mind

,
“
of TH E ALL in which M ind we live and
,

move and have our be ing This P rinci

.

ple by establishing the Mental Nature of

,

the Universe easily explains all of the v a

,

r ied m ental and p sychi c phenomena tha t

occupy such a large p o rtionof the pu bli c

attention and which withou
, t such explana
,

tion a re non understandable and defy

,
-

scientific treatment Anunderstanding of

.

thi s great Hermetic Principle of Mental

ism enables the indivi du al to rea dily grasp
the laws of the Mental Un iverse and t o ,

a p ply the same t o hi s well being and a d -

vancement The Hermetic Student is e n

.

a bl ed t o apply intell igently the great Men

tal Laws instead of us ing them in a hap

,

hazard manner With th e Master K ey in

.
-

his possession th e s tudent may unlock th e

,

many doors of the mental and psychic tem

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ple o f knowledge and enter the same freely

,

and intelli gently Th i s Principle explains

.

“ ” “ ”
the t rue nature of Energy Power , ,
“ ”
and Matt er and why and how a ll these
,

are subord inate t o the Master y of Mind .

O ne of the old Hermet ic Masters wr ote ,

“
long ages ago : He w ho grasp s the truth
o f th e Men t al N a ture of the Un iverse is
well advanced on The Pa th t o Master y .

And these words are as true to d ay as at

the time they were first written Without .

this Master K ey Mast er y is impossible

-
, ,

and the s tudent knocks in vainat the many

doors of The Temple .

II . TH E PRIN CIPLE OF E
C ORR S POND NC E E .

“ As a o e, bv so below ; as below , so a bove —The

.

K yb a lio n .

This Principle embo dies the truth that

there is always a Correspondence between ,

the laws and phenomena of the various

planes of Being and Life The old Her .

metic axiom ran in these words As

above so below ; as bel ow so above And
, ,
 S euen H e r m e tic P r incip les 29

th e g ra sp ing of this Principle gives one

the means of solving many a dark p aradox ,

and hidden secret of N ature T here are.

planes beyond ou r knowing b u

, t when we
apply the Principle of Corresp ondence t o
them we are able t o understand much that
wou ld othe rw i se be unknowable to us This
.

Principl e is of u niversal application and

manifestation onthe various planes of the
,

ma te ri al mental and spiritu

, , al universe
it is an Un iversal Law Th e ancient Her
.

metiste considered thi s Principle as one of

the mo st im p o rtant mental instruments by
which manw as able to p ry aside the obsta
cles which hid from view the Unknown .

I ts u se even tore aside the Ve il of Isis to

the exte nt tha t a glimpse of the fa ce of the

goddes s might be caught J ust a s a knowl
.

ed ge of the Principles of Geomet ry enables

man t o measure distant suns and thei r

movements while seated in hi s observa
,

tor y so a knowledge of the Principle of

,

Correspondence enables Man to reason in

t elligen t ly from the K n own to the Un
 Th e K y b a lio n

kno w n S tudying the monad h e under

.
,

stands th e arch angel .

TH E PRINC IPLE OF VIB RATIO N .

o”
N thing rests ; everything move s ; everything vi
br t
a es. —The K yb a lion
.

This Princ iple embod ies the t ruth th a t

everything i s in mo tion ; everyt hing
” “

” “ ”
vibrates ; no thing i s a t res t ; facts
which Modern Sci ence endorses and which ,

each new sci ent ific di scovery t ends t o ver

ify An
. d ye t this Herme tic Principle w a s
enunciated thousands of years ago by the ,

Ma ste rs o f Anci ent Egyp t Thi s P r inci .

ple e xplains that the difl e r enc e s be tween’

di ff erent manifes tations of Ma tter Eu ,

e r gy Mind and even Spirit resul t largely

, , ,

from varying rates of Vibration From .

TH E ALL which is Pure Sp i rit down t o

, ,

the grossest form of Matter all is in vibra ,

—
ti on the higher the vibrati on the high er ,

the position in the scale The vibrati on o f

.

Spiri t i s at such an infinite rate of int en

c it y and rapid ity th at i t is pra c ti c a lly at
 S ev en H e r m e t ic P r inc ip le s 31

—
rest jus t a rapidly moving whee l seems
as

t o be mo tion less And at the oth er end of

.

the scale there are gross forms of matt er

,

whose vibra ti ons are so low as t o seem a t

res t Between these poles there are mil
.
,
e

li ons upon m illions of varying degrees of

vibrati on From corpuscle and electron
.
,

atom and molecule t o worlds and u

, ni
verses everyt hing i s invibrat ory motion
, .

Thi s i s also true on the planes of energy

and force ( which are b u t varying degrees
of vibrati on ) ; and also on the men t al

planes ( whose states depend u pon vibra

tions ) and even onto the spiritual planes .

An u nderstanding of this Principle with ,

the appropriate formulas enables Her ,

metic s tudents t o control th eir own mental

vibrations as well as those of others The .

Mas ters also apply this Principle t o t he

conquering of N atural phenomena in vari ,

ou s ways . He w ho u nderstands the Prin

c ip le of Vibra ti on ha s graspe d the s ceptr e
,

of power says one of the old writers

”
, .
32 The K yb a lion

Iv . TH E PRINC IPLE or P OL ARI I Y

' ‘
.

E verything is Dual ; everything has poles ; every

thing h as it s pair of opposites ; like and unlike are t he
sa m e ; oppo sit es ar e ide nt ica l in natur e but difl eren
, t in
degree ; ex tremes meet ; all truths ar e but half truths ; all
—
-

p do es may be reconciled
ara x The K yb alion
. .

This Principle embodies th e truth that

” “
everyt hing i s dual ; everyt hing has
” “
tw o po les ; everyt hing has i ts pa i r of
opposites all of which were old Hermetic
,
’

axi oms I t explains the old paradoxes

.
,

th at have perplexed so ma ny which have ,

b een sta t ed as follows Thes i s and ant i

thesis a re identi cal in nature b u t diff erent
,
” “
i n degree ; op posites are the same dif ,

fe r in g onl y in degree ”
;
“
the p a i rs of op
p o s it e s may be re conc i led ’
extremes ‘

” “
meet ; everything is and isn t at th e ’
,

same time all truths are b ut h alf

truths ; ” “
every tr u th is half false -

“there a re tw o sides t o eve ryt hing ” etc

, .
,

e tc . etc It expla ins tha t in everything

, .

th ere are tw o poles or oppos ite aspec ts

, ,
”
and that opposites are really only the
‘

tw o ext remes of the same thing with many ,

34 The K yb a lion

” “
Hard and Soft ! Between Black and
White ! Between Sharp and D u
” “ ”
ll !
Bet ween Noise and ! uiet ! Between
“ ”

” “
High and Low ! Between Pos itive
and Nega tive The P rinciple of Pol a r
ity explains these paradoxes and no oth er ,

Principle can supersede it The same Prin

.

c ip le operates on the Ment al Plane Le t .

us take a radical and ext reme example

“ ”
that of Love and Ha t e , t w o ment al
s ta tes apparent ly totally di ff er en t And .

yet there are degrees of Hate and degrees

of Love and a middle point in whi ch we use
,
“ ”
the terms Like or Dislike which sh ade
,

int o each o ther so gradu ally tha t some

times we are at a loss to know whether we
“ ” “ ”
l ike or di slike or neither“ ”
An d .

all are simply degrees of the same thing as ,

y o u will see if y ouwill but think a moment .

An ,d more than thi s ( and cons idered of

more impo rtance by the Hermeti sts ) it i s ,

possible to change the vibrations of Ha te

t o the vibrations of Love in one s ow n
,
’

mind and in the minds of others Many

, .

of you w ho read these lines h ave had per

, ,
 S e v e n H e r rice t ic P r inc ip les 35

sonal experiences of th e involuntary rap id

tr ansition from Love t o Hate and the re ,

verse in your ow ncase and tha t of others

, .

An d you will th erefore realize the poss i

b ility of th is be ing accompl i sh ed by the
use of the Will by means of the Herme tic
,
”
formulas Good and Evil are but th e
.

poles of the same thing and the Hermeti st ,

unders tands the art of t ransmuting Evil

int o Good by means of an applica tion of
,

th e Principle of Polarity In sh ort th e .

,
”
Ar t of Polari za ti on bec omes a ph ase of
Mental Alch emy known and practiced ’

by th e ancient and modern Hermetic Mas

ters An unders tand ing of the Principle
.

will enable one t o change his own Polari ty ,

as well as th at of others if he will devote ,

th e time and study necessa r y t o master

th e art .

V . TH E PRIN C IPLE OF RH Y TH M .

E v e rything fl o w s o ut and in; eve ryt hing h as it s

,
tides ; all things rise and fall ; t he pendulum swing -

ma nifest s ineverything ; t he me asure o f t he swing t o t he

right is t he ”mea sure of t he swing t o t he left ; rhythm
co mpensa t es —The K yb alio n
. .
36 The K yb alion

Thi s Principle embodies the tru th that

in ever ything there is man ifested a mea s
ure d motion t o and fro ; a flow and in
,

flow ; a swing backwa rd and forward ; a

pendulu m e movement ; a tide like ebb
- -

and flow ; a high tide and low tid e ; b e

- -

tween th e tw o poles which exist in accord

ance with the Principle of Polarity de
scribed a moment ago There is always .

an action and a reaction ; an advance and

a retreat ; a ri s ing and a sinking This is .

in the aff ai rs of th e Un iverse su ns worlds , , ,

men a nimals m ind energy and m atter

, , , , .

This l a w is mani fest in the creation and

destruction of worlds ; in th e rise and fa ll
of na ti ons ; in the life of all things ; and

finally in the mental states of Man ( and it

i s w ith this latt er th at the Herm eti sts find
th e u nderstanding o f the Principle most
impo rtant ) The Hermetis t s have grasped
.

thi s Principle finding its unive rsal applica

,

tion and have also discovered certa in

,

means to overcome i ts e ff ects in themselves

by the use of the appro priate formulas and
methods They apply the Mental L aw of
.
 S even H er m e tic P r inc ip les 37

Neu t ralization They cannot annul the

.

Principle or cause it to cease i ts operation

, ,

but they have learned how t o escape it s

e fi ec t s upon themselve s t o a certa i n degree

depe nding upon the Mas tery of th e Prin

c ip le
. They have learned how to USE i t ,

instea d of being USED BY i t In this and .

sim ilar methods cons ist the Ar t of th e

,

Her metists The Master of Hermetics p o

.

la r ize s himself at th e po in t a t which he

des i re s to rest and then neutralizes the
'

Rhyt hmic swing of the pendulu m which

wou ld tend t o ca r ry him to the o ther pole .

All individu als w ho have a ttained any de

g re e of Self M a stery
-
do this t o a certa i n
degree more or less unconsciously but the
, ,

Ma ste r does this consciously and by th e ,

use of his Will and atta ins a degree o f

,

Poise and Mental Fi r mness almost im p os

sible of belief on the part of the masses

w ho a re swu ng backward and forward l ike

a p en dulum This Principle and th at of
.

Polarity have been closely s tudi ed by th e

He rmetists ; and the meth ods o f co u '

nter
a ct in g neu
, t ralizin g and USIN G them form,
38 The K yb alion

an important part of the Hermetic Mental

Alch emy .

TH E PRIN C IPLE OF CAU S E AND EF F EC T .

E very Cause h as it s B fl ect ; every Efl ec t has it s

Cau se ; ev eryt hing h a ppens according to Law Chance is
but a nam e for Law n ot reco gnized ther e are m”a ny
pla ne s of causa tion but no thing esca pes the Law
,
.
,
The K yb alio n .

This Principle embo dies t he fact that

there i s a Cause for ever y Efi ect ; an
Efi ec t from every Cause It explains that .

”
Eve rything Happens acc ording to Law ;
“ ”
that nothing ever merely happens ; that
th ere i s no such thing a s Chance ; that
while th ere are various planes of Cause
and E ff ect the highe r dominating th e
,

lower planes still nothing ever enti rely

,

escapes the Law The Hermeti sts under

.

s tand the a rt and method s of rising above

the ordinary plane of Cause and E ff ect ,

t o a certain degree and by mentally ri sing

,

t o a highe r p lane they become Causers m

stead of E ff ect s The ma sses of people
.

a re ca rried along obedient to envi ron,

 S even H er m e tic P r incip les 39

ment ; the wills and desires of others

stron ge r th an th em s el ve s ; here di ty ; sug
gest ion ; and other outward ca uses moving
them about like p awns onthe Chessboard
of Life Bu t the Masters rising t o the
.
,

plane above d ominate thei r moods char

, ,

act e rs qu alities and powers as well as the

, , ,

environment surrou nding them and b e ,

com e Movers in ste a d of p awns They help .

t o PLAY TH E GAME O F LI F E instead ,

of be ing p l ayed and mo ved abo u t by oth er

Principle inste ad of being its tools The .

M asters obe y the Causation of the highe r

planes b ut they help t o RUL E on their
,

ow np lane I nthis statement there is con

.

dense d a wealth of He rmetic knowledge

let him read who can .

v n . rHE PRIN CIPLE or G ENDER .

Ge nd er is in everyt v
e er ything has it s Masen
line and F emi i e n n P n p es ;
r i ci Ge nder m n f t on
a i es s a ll
p la n es
.
- Thc K yb a lio n .

VI I PRIN CIPLE O F GE ND E R
. TH E .

This Principle embodi es the t ruth tha t

40 The Kyb alion

there is GE NDE R manifested in every

—
thing the Mascu line and Feminine Prin
c ip le s ever at work Thi s is tru
. e not only
of the Phys ical Plane but of the Mental ,

and even the Sp i ri tual Planes O n th e .

Phys ical Plane the Principle mani fests as

,

S EX on the higher planes it takes hi ghe r

,

forms but th e Principle is ever th e same

, .

No creati on phys ical mental o r spiritual

, , ,

is possible wi thout this P rinciple Annu .

de r st an ding of its laws wi ll th r ow light

on many a subjec t that has per plexed th e
minds of men The Principle of Gender
.

works ever inthe di rection of generation ,

regeneration and creation E verything

, .
,

and every p erson contains the two E le

,

ments or Principles o r this great Prin ,

c ip le withi n it hi m o r he r
, ,
Eve ry Male .

thing has the Female Element also ; every

Female contains also the M ale Principle .

If you would understand the philosophy of

Mental and Spiritual Creation Generation , ,

and Re generation you mu st u

-
, nder stan d
and study this Hermetic Principl e It c on .

tains the solution of many myste ries of

 C HAPT E R III .

M ENTAL A
TR NS M U T TI A ON .

Min
d ( as w ll
e metals and elements) may b e
as
t un -mu t ed from sta te to st at e ; do to degree ; con
dition t o condition ; pole t o pole ; vi ration to vibration
,

Tr ue H e rmet ic Tra n smut a tio n is 9 Me

. nt al A rt — Thc .
.

K yb alion.

As we have stated , the He rm etist s were

t he o riginal alchemists a strologe rs and
, ,

p sychologists Hermes having been the

,

founde r of these schools of thought F rom .

as trology has grown modern astronomy ;

from alchemy h a s grown mod ern chem .

ist r y ; from the mystic p sychology has

grown the modern p sycholo gy of the
sc hool s But i t mu
. s t not be supp o se d t hat

the ancients were ignorant of that which

the mo dern schools suppose to b e thei r
exclusive and sp ecial p rop ert y The rec .

o rds engraved on the stones of Ancient

Egypt show conclusively that the ancients
43
44 The Kyb alion

had a fu ll comprehens ive knowledge o f

astronomy the very building of the Pyra
,

mids s howing th e connec tion between their

des ign and the study of astronomical
science No r were they ignorant of Chem
.

ist r y for th e fragment s of the ancient

,

writings s how that they were acquainted

with the chemical properties of things ; in
fact the ancient theories regarding phys
,

ics are being slowly verified by the latest

discoveries of modernscience not ably ,

those relating to the constituti on of matter .

No r mus t it be supposed th at they were

ignorant of the so called modern discov
-

—
eries in p sycholo gy on the contrary the ,

Egyptians were e specially skilled in the

science of Psychology particu larly in the
,

branche s that th e mode rn schools i gnore ,

but which nevertheless are be ing unc ov

, ,

ered u nder the name of psychic s cience ‘ ’

which is p erplexing the p sychologists of

to day and making them reluctantly admit
-
,

that there may be something in it after

“

all
.

The t r uth is that beneath the mate rial

,
 Ment al Tr ansm uta tion 45

chemistry astronomy and psychology ( that

,
“
is the psychology in its phase of brain
,

the ancients p os sessed a knowl

edge of tran s cendental a stronomy called ,

astrology ; of transcendental chemi stry ,

called alchemy ; of transcendent al p sychol

ogy called mystic p sychol o gy
, They pos .

sessed the Inner K nowledge as well as the

O uter K nowledge the latter alone being
,

possessed by modern scientists Among .

the many secret branches of knowledge

po ssessed by the Hermetists was that ,

known as Mental Transmutation which ,

fo r m s the subject matte r of this lesson .

T ransmut ation is a term usu ally em

ployed to designate the ancient art of the
—
tr ansmutation of metals part icu larly of
the ba se metal s into gol d The word .

Transmute means to change from one

’ ‘

nat u re form or sub stance into another ;

, , ,
”
t o tr ans fo rm ( Web ster ) And .a c c ord
in gyl Mental Transmutation means the
,

art of changing and transforming mental

state s forms and conditions into others
, , , .

So you may see that Mental Transmuta

46 The Kg ha lian
“ ”
tion is the Ar t of Mental Chemi stry if ,

y o u l ike the term — a fo rm o f p ra c tical

Mystic Psychology .

But thi s means far more than app ears

on the surface Transmutation Alchemy
.
, ,

or Chemistry on the Mental Plane is im

,

portant enough in its e ff ects to be sure , ,

and if the art stopped there it wou ld sti ll

be one of the most imp ortant branches o f
study known to man But thi s is only the
.

beginning Let u . s see why !

The first of the Seven Hermetic Prin

c iple s is the Principle of Mentalism t h e ,
“
a xiom of which is T HE ALL is M ind ;
th e Universe is Mental which means tha t ,
’

the Underlying Reality of the Universe is

Mind ; and the Universe itself is Ment al
that is ,
“
existing in the M ind of TH E
ALL . We shall consider thi s Pr inciple
in succeeding les sons but let us see the ,

e ff ect of the principle if it be a s sumed to

be true .

If the Universal i s Mental ini ts nature ,

then Mental Transmutati on mus t be th e art

of CHAN GIN G THE C O ND ITIO NS O F
 Ment al Tr ansm uta tion 47

TH E UNIVERSE along the lines of Ma t

,

ter Force and Mind So you see there

, .
,

for e that Mental Transmuta tion is really

,

the Magic of which the ancient writers

ha d so much to say in their mystical works ,

and about which they gave so few p ractical

inst ructions If All be Mental then the
.
,

art which enables one to transm ute mental

conditions must render the M a ste r the
controller of material conditions a s well a s
those ordinar ily called mental ’ ‘
.

As a ma tter of fact none but advanced ,

M ental Al ch emists have been able t o a t

tain the degree of p ower necessar y to con
tr ol the gro sser phys ica l conditions such ,

as the control of the elem ents of Nat u re ;

the production or cessation of tempests ;
the p roduction and cessation of earth
qu akes and other great physical phenom
ena B ut that such m enhave existed and
.
,

do exist to day is a ma tter of earnest b e

-
,

lief to all advanced o ccu lti sts of all

schools That the Masters exist and have
.
,

these powers the best teacher s a ssure their

,

s tudent s h aving had exp er iences which

,
48 The K yb a lion

justify them insuch beli ef and statements .

The se M a ster s do not make publ ic ex hib i

tions of thei r powers but seek sec lusion
,

from the crowds of men inorder to better

,

work their way along the Path of Attain

ment We mention their exi stence at this
.
,

p oint merely to call you r attention t o the

,

fact that their p ower is entirely Mental ,

and operates along the lines of the higher

Mental Transmutation u nder the Her
,

metic Princip le of Mentalism The Uni

.

verse is Mental — The K yb alion

’
.

Bu t stu dents and Her metists of lesser

—
degree than M a sters the Initiates a n d
—
Teachers are able to freely work along
the Mental Plane, in Mental Transmuta
tion In fact all that we call p sychic
.

phenomena mental influence men

tal science ’
new thought phenom ena
-
,

etc , op erates along the same general lines

.
,

fo r there is but one principle involved no ,

matter by wh at name the phenomena b e

called .

The student and p ractitioner of Mental

Transmutation works among the Mental
50 The K g ha lian

may be changed o r transmuted in acco rd

ance with the ea rnest desire will and, ,
”
‘
treatments of person des i ring changed
conditions of life The publ ic are so gen
.

e r a lly info r med regarding these things at

present that we do not deem it necessary

,

to mention the s ame at leng th our purpose

,

at this p oint being m erely to sh ow the

Hermetic Principle and Art underlying all
of these va rious forms of practice good ,

and evil for the force can be used in oppo

,

site directions accord ing to th e Hermet ic

Principles of Polari ty .

I n this l i ttle book we s hall state th e

b a sic p rinciples of M ental Transmutat ion ,

that all who read may grasp the Unde r

lying Principles and thus po ssess the
,

Master K ey that will u

-
nl ock the many
doo rs of the Principle of Polarity .

We shall now p roceed to a consideration

of the first of the Hermetic Seven P r in

i
c ple s — the Prin ciple of Mental i sm in ,

which is explained the truth that TH E

ALL is Mind ; the Universe i s Mental ,

in the words of The K yb alion We ask the

.
 Ment al Tr ansm ut a tion 51

clo se attention, and careful study of this

great Principle on the part of our stu
,

dents for it is really the B asic Pr inciple

,

of the whole He rmetic Philosophy and of,

th e Her metic Ar t of Mental T ransmu ta

tion.
 CHAP TER I V .

TH E ALL .

“
Under and back of th e Univer se of Time Sp ace
, , ,
and Cha nge is ev er to b e fo und The S u bstantial Reality
t he F u
,
ndamental Trut — The K yb a lion .

Substance means : that which u

’
nder

lies all outward manife stations ; the os

sence ; the essential real i ty ; th e thing in
itself etc, Substantial means : actu
.
’

ally exi sting ; being the e ssenti al element ;

being real etc
” “ ”
Reality means : the
, .
“

state of being real ; true endur ing ; valid ; ,

fixed ; pe r manent ; a ctual etc , .

Under and behind all outward appe ar

an ces or manife stations th ere mu st always ,

be a Substantial Reali ty Thi s is the Law . .

Man considering the Universe of which he ,

is a unit sees nothing but change in matter

, ,

force s and mental states He sees that

, .

nothing really IS but that everything is ,

53
54 Th e K y b a lion

BE CO MIN G and CHAN GIN G Nothing .

—
stands still everything is being bo rn ,

—
growing dying the very instant a thing
,

reaches its height it begins to decline

,

the law of rhythm is in const ant op eration

—there is no reality enduring quality fix
, ,

—
ity or subs t antiality in anything nothing
,

i s permanent but Change He sees all

.

things evolving from other things and r e ,

solving into other th ings — a const ant ao

tion and reaction ; inflow and outflow ;

b uild ing up and tearing down ; creation
an d destruc ti on ; b irth growth an d death
, .

No thing endures but Change And if he .

be a thinking man he realizes that all of

,

these changing things must be but outward

a ppearances or manifes t ations of som e

Un —
de r lymg Power some Substantial Re
al ity .

All thin kers in a ll land s and inall times

, ,

h ave assumed the necessi t y for p ostulating

the exi stence of thi s Substantial Reality .

All philosophies worthy of the name h ave

been ba sed upon this thought Men have.

given t o thi s Substantial Reality many

 The All 55

—
names some have ca lled it by the term of
D eity (u nder many titles ) ; others have
called it The In
“
fin ite and E ternal Eu
e rgy
’
others have tried to call it Mat
ter — but all have acknowl edged its exist
ence .
- —
It is self evident it needs no

I n these lessons we have followed the

exa mple of som e of the worl d s greatest
’

thinke r s both ancient and modem the

,
—
—
Hermetic M aster s and have called this
—
Underlying Power thi s Substantial Real
—
ity b y the He r met ic n ame of TH E
”
ALL which term we consider the m ost
,

comp rehensive of the many terms applied

by M an to THAT which tr anscends names
and t e rms .

We accep t and teach the view of the

grea t Her meti c thinkers of all tim es as ,

well as of tho se illum ined souls w ho have

reached higher planes of being both of ,

whom asser t tha t the inner nature of THE

AL L is UN K NO WAB LE Thi s must be
.

so, for naught by THE ALL itself can

comp rehend it s ow nn a ture and be ing .
56 The K yb a lio n

TH E ALL, in it se lf , is a nd nms t e ver

b e UNK NOWAB LE The y r e ga r d

. all t he
t he ori es , g nes ses a nd sp e c nla t ions Of t he

t he im er m tm e Of TH E ALL as b u t t he
childish e fi o r ts o f m or ta l m inds t o g ra sp
the se cr et of t he I nfinit e . Su
ch e ffo r ts

fr om the v er y na t ur e of t he t a sk One pur .

su ing s uch in quir ies t r av els ar ou nd and

arou nd in the labyrint h of th ought u ntil ,

he is lost t o a ll sa ne r easo ning ac tion or ,

c onduct and is utterly unfitt ed for the work

,

frantica lly r uns arou nd and ar ound the

circling treadmill wheel of his cage travel ,

—
ing ever and yet reaching nowhere a t the
end a p risoner still and standing j u
,
st

where he started .

And still more p resu m p tuous are those

who attempt to a scribe t o TH E AL L the
pe rsona lity qualities pr o per ties charac
, , ,

t erist ic s and attribut es of themselves ,

a scribing to THE ALL t he hu man emo

58 The K y b a lion

re gions unknowable and unthinkable a nd ,

w ith the sa m e ten dency a s that of Th eo l

o gy . And c onsequently both Religi on and
,

Phi lo sophy m e a n to us things h aving roo t s

in Re al ity while Th eology a n
,
d Meta
physic s seem like broken ree ds rooted in ,

t he qu icks ands of i gnorance a nd a ff ording

,

naugh t but th e mos t insecure support for

th e mind or soul of Man We do not ins i st
.

upon our students accepting th ese defini

—
tions w e menti on them merely t o show
our pos iti on At any ra t e youshall hear
.
,

very l ittle about The ology and Meta

physics inth ese lessons ) .

But while the essential nature of TH E

ALL i s Unknowable th ere are certa in
,

truths connect ed with its existence wh ich

the human mind finds i t self compelled to
accept And an examina ti on of th ese t e
.

ports form a proper subject of inqui ry ,

particularly as they agree w ith th e reports

of the Illumined onh igher planes And to .

this inqu iry we noes invite you

r
.

THAT which is t he F u n dament l Tru —

th the Sub
t is l Reality—
a
at a n is beyon d true n ming baut t he Wise
M n c ll it TH E ALL —The K y b al on
,
” i
e a . .
 The All 59

I n it s Esse nc e
,
TH E ALL is UNK NOWAB L
The K yb a lio n
r po rt o f Reason must be hospitably
.

“
Bu t , t he e
—
re
c eived, an d eatr te d with re pect
s Thc K yb a lion
.
’
.

The human reason whose rep o rts we ,

must accept so long as we think at all in ,

forms us as follows regarding TH E ALL ,

and that w i thout att empting t o remove the

veil of th e Unknowable :
( )
1 T H E ALL must be ALL that RE
ALLY I S There can b e n
. othing existing
out side of THE ALL else TH E AL L ,

wou ld not be TH E AL L .

( )
2 THE ALL must b e I NFIN I T E fo r ,

the re is nothing else t o define confine , ,

bo u nd limit or restric t T HE AL L It
, .

must be Infinite in Time or E TERNAL ,

it mu st have always continu ously exi sted ,

for there is nothing else t o have eve r cre

a ted it and something c an never evolve
,

from nothing a nd if it had eve r not

,

been even for a moment it wou

, ld not ,
‘ —
be now it must continu
, ously exi st for
ever for there i s nothing to destroy it and
, ,

it can never not b e evenfor a moment-

, .

because something c annever become noth

60 Th e K yb a lion

ing . u fi i —
It m st be In te inSpace it must
n
be Everywhere for there i s no pl ace out
,

—
side of TH E ALL it cannot b e otherwise
than continuous in Sp ace without b r eak , ,

cessati on separation or interrup tion for

, , ,

there is nothing t o break separate or in , ,

t er r up t i ts continuity and nothing w ith

,
“
whi ch to fill in the gap s It must be .

Infinite in Power or Absolute for the re

, ,

is nothing t o limit restrict restrain con

, , ,

fin e di sturb or condition it
,
—it is subject
t o no other Power for the re is no other
,

P ower .

( )
3 TH E A L L must be IMMU TA B LE ,

or not subject t o change init s real natu re ,

for there is nothing to work changes upon

it ; nothing into which it could cha nge nor ,

from which it could have changed It can .

not b e added t o nor subtracted from ; in

crea sed nor diminished ; no r become
greater or lesser in any resp ect whatso
ever I t must have always been and must
—
.
,

always remain just what it is now THE

—
,

ALL the re ha s never been is n ot now , ,

 The All 61

it nchange
ca .

THE ALLbeing In fin ite Absolute , ,

E ternal and Unchangeable it mu s t follow

that anything fin ite changeable fleeting

, , ,

and conditioned cannot be THE ALL And .

as there is Nothin g outside of THE ALL ,

in Reality then any and al l such fin

,
ite
things mu st b e as Nothing in Reality Now .

do n ot bec ome befogged nor frightened,

w e a re not trying t o lea d you in to the

Christian Sci ence field u nder cover of Her
metic Philo sophy There is a Reconcilia
.

ti onof thi s apparently contradicto r y state

of a ffa i rs Be p atient, we w ill reach it in
.

We see a rou nd us tha t which is called

Ma tter , which fo rms the physical
fo undation for all fo rms I s THE AL L .

merely M a tter ! Not a t all ! Matt er can

not manife st Life or Mind and as Life and ,

Mind a re ma nifested inthe Universe TH E ,

ALL can not be Matter for nothing rises

,

—
highe r than it s ow n source nothing i s
ever manifested in an e fi ec t that i s not in
62 The K y b a lion

t he —
cause no thing is evolved as a co us e
quent th at i s not involved as an antecedent .

And then Modern Science informs us that

there is really no such thing as Matt er
“
that what we call Matter i s merely inter
ru
”
p t e d energ y or forc e t h at
, is ener gy ,

o r force at a low rate of vibration As a .

recent writer ha s said Matter has melted

into Mystery . Even Material Sci ence has
abandoned the theory of Matter and now ,
“ ”
rests on the basis of Ene rgy .

Then is THE ALL mere Energy or

F o rce ! Not Energy or Force as th e ma t e
r ia list s use the term s for t h e i r energy and
,

fo rc e are blind mechan ical things devo id

, ,

of Life or M ind Life and Mind can never

.

evolve from blind Energy or Force for the ,

rea son given a moment ago : “

Nothing
can rise highe r th an it s sou —
rce not hing
is evolved u —
nless it is involved no thing
manifests in the e fi ec t u nless i t is in the
,

ca use . An d so THE ALL ca nno t be mere

En e rgy or Fo rc e for if i t were then t here
, , ,

wou ld be no s u c h thing s as L i fe an d M ind

inexisten ce an
, d w e kn ow be tt er t hantha t .
 The All

for w e are Alive and using Mind to con

sider this very question and so a re those
,

w ho cl aim tha t Energy or F o rce is Every

What is there then higher than Matter

or E nergy tha t we kn ow to be existent in
the Universe ! LIF E AND MIND ! Life
an d Mind inall their va rying degrees of
unfoldment ! “
Then,
” “
you ask do you
,

mean t o tell us th at TH E ALL is LIFE

an d MIND ! ”
Yes ! and No ! is our an
swer If youmean Life and Mind as we
.

poor p etty mortal s know them we say N0 !

,

TH E ALL is not that ! Bu‘

t what kind of
Life and Mind do you mean ! youask
”
.

“
The answer is L IVIN G MIND a s far ,

above that which mortal s know by these

words as Life and Mind are higher than
—
,

mechanical forces or matter INFI NITE

,

LIVIN G MIND a s comp ared t o fin ite Life

and Mind . We mean that which the
illum ined souls mean when they reverently
p ronou “
nce the word : SPIRIT l ”

TH E ALL is Infin ite Living Min d

th e Illumined call it SPIRI T !
 Th e K yb a lio n

M ind at the same tim e a c kno w le dgi ng th at

,

we cannot fully understand it We must .

either do thi s or stop thinking of the mat

ter at all .

Let us now proceed to a cons ideration of

the nature of th e Univer se a s a whole and ,

in its parts What i s th e Universe ! We

.

have seen th a t there can be nothing outside

o f TH E AL L Then i s th e Universe TH E
.

AL L ! N 0 thi s cannot be because the Un

, ,
i
verse seems t o be made up of M ANY and ,

i s constantly ch anging and in oth er ways

,

it does not measure up to the ideas th at we

a r e compelled t o accep t regard ing TH E

ALL as sta ted i n our last lesson Then i f

,
.

the Universe be not TH E ALL th en i t ,

—
must be N o thing such i s th e inevit able
conclus ion of the mind at first thought .

But this will not sati sfy the ques tion fo r ,

we are sensible of th e exi stence of the Un i

verse Then i f the Universe i s neith er
.

TH E ALL n o r Nothing wh at can i t be !

, ,

Let us examine thi s question .

If th e Universe exi sts at all o r s e ems t o ,

e x i st it m u s t proce ed in so m e w a y from
,
 The M ent a l Univ e r s e 67

TH E —
AL L it must be a creation of TH E
ALL . But as something can never come
from nothing from what could TH E ALL ,

h ave created it ! Some philosophers have

answered thi s question by saying th at TH E
ALL c r ea t ed t he U niverse from I TS E LF
'

— th a t i s from the being and substance of

,

TH E AL L But th i s will not do for TH E

.
,

AL L canno t be subtrac ted from nor di ,

v ide d as we have seen and th en again i f

, ,

thi s be so would not each particle in th e

,

Un iverse b e aware of it s being TH E ALL

TH E ALL c ould not lose its knowledge
of itself nor actually B E C OME an atom
, ,

or blind force or lowly living thing Some , .

men indeed realizing that TH E ALL i s

, ,

indeed ALL and also recognizing th at ,

th ey the men exi sted have jumped t o the

, , ,

conclus ion th at they and TH E ALL were

identical and they have filled th e air with
,
”
shouts of I AM GOD t o th e amusement
“
,

of the multitude and the sorrow of sages .

The claim of the co rpuscle that I am ‘

”
Man ! would be modest in comparison .

But what indeed is the Universe if it

, ,
68 The K yb a lio n

be not TH E ALL not yet c rea t ed by TH E

,

ALL h aving sepa rated it self into frag

—
ments ! What else ca n it b e of wh at else
can it b e ma de ! This i s th e great quest i on .

Let u s examine i t carefully We find .

here that the Principle of Correspond

‘

ence ( see Le sson I ) c omes t o our aid

.

here The O ld Hermetic axiom As above

.
,
”
so below ,
may be pressed into service a t
this point Let us endeavor t o get a
.

glimpse of the workings onhigh er p lane s

by examining those on our ow n The .

Principle O f Correspondence must apply

to this as well as t o oth er problems .

Let us see ! O n his own plane of being ,

h ow does Man c reate ! Well first h e may , ,

create by making something out of outs ide

materials But thi s will not do for th ere
.
,

are no materials outsi de of TH E ALL with

which it m ay create Well th en secondly
.
, , ,

Man pro c reates or reproduces his kind by

-

the p rocess of begetting which i s self

,

mu ltiplication accomplish ed by transfer

ring a portion of h i s substanc e to h i s
O ff spring But this wi ll not do becaus e
.
,
 The Ment a l Univer se 69

TH E AL L can not transfer or subtract a

po r tion of itself nor can it rep roduce or
,

—
multiply itself in the fi rst place there
would b e a taking away and inthe second
,

ca se a mu ltiplication or addition to THE

ALL both thoughts being a n abs u
, rdity .

Is there no third way in which MAN

—
creates ! Yes there i s he C R EAT E S
,

MENTALLY ! And in so doing he uses

no outside mater ials nor doe s he rep ro
,

duce himself and yet his Spi rit pe rvades

,

the Mental C reation .

Foll owing the Principle of Correspond

ence we a re just ified in cons idering that
,

TH E ALL c reates the Unive rse ME N

TALLY ina man
, ner akinto the process
whereby Mancreates Mental Images And .
,

here is where the report of Reason tallies

preci sely with the report of the Illu mined ,

a s shown by their teachings and writ ings .

Such a re the teachings of the Wi se Men .

Such was the Teaching of Hermes .

TH E ALL can create in no other way

except mentally wi thout either using mate
,

r i al ( a nd there is none to use ) or else

,
70 The K yba lion

reprodu cing itself ( which is also imp os

sible ) There is no es cape from this con
.

c lusion of th e Re ason which a s we have , ,

said agrees with the highest teachings o f

,

the Illumined J ust as you stu dent may

.
, ,

create a Universe of your own in your

mental ity so does TH E ALL create Uni
,

verses in it s own Mentality But your .

Universe is the mental creation of a Finite

Mind whereas that of TH E ALL is the
,

creati on of an Infinite The tw o are S imi .

lar in kind b u t infinitely di fferent in de

,

gree We sh all examine more closely into

.

the process of creati on and manifestation ,

as we proceed But thi s is the point to .

fix in your minds at th i s stage : TH E UNI

VERSE AND AL L I T CO N TAINS IS
, ,

A ME N TAL CREATI O N O F TH E ALL .

Verily indeed AL L IS MI ND !
, ,

ALL creat es in it s I nfinite Mi nd count less

Univ er
TH E
w h i
se s,ch e ist fo r —
on of me and t to
T i x ae s
TH E ALL t he c reatio n devel opment decline an death
,

t he time of t he twi nkling

, , ,
f millio”n Univ r i
of “ neye —
o a e se s s as
a The K yb li n a o
The Infinite Min
. .

d of THE ALL is the womb of

Univ r —Th K yb lion
e ses . e a .
 The M ent a l Unive r s e 71

The Principle of Gender ( see Les son I .

and other les sons to follow ) is manifested

on a ll plane s of l ife mate rial mental and
, ,

s pi ritual But as we have said before

.
, ,
” —
“
Gender doe s not mean
” “
Sex sex is
merely a material mani festation of gender .

Gender means relating t o generation

’

or c rea tion An .d wherever anyt hing i s

generated or c reated on any plane the , ,

Principle of Gender must be manifested .

An d thi s is true even in the creation of

Un iver ses .

Now do not jump to the conclus ion that

w e a re te achin g that there is a male and
female God or Creator That idea i s
, .

merely a di stortion of the ancient teach

ings onthe su bject The true teaching is
.

tha t THE ALL in i tself is above Gender

, , ,

a s it is above every other Law includ ing ,

tho se of Time and Space It is the Law .

,

from which the Laws proceed and it is not , ,

subj ec t to them But when TH E AL L

.

manifests on the plane of generation or

creation then it acts acc ording to Law and
,

Principle for i t is moving on a lower plane

,
72 The Kybalion

of Being And consequently it manifest s

.

the Principle of Gender init s Masculine

,

and Feminine aspect s on the Ment al Pla ne

, ,

of course .

Th is idea may seem sta rtlin g t o some of

you who hear it for the first tim e but you ,

have all reall y pa ssively acc epted it in

your everyday conc eptions You s pe ak .

of the Fatherhood of God and the Mother ,

—
hood of Nature o f God the Divine ,

Fathe r and Nature the Universal Mother

,

—and have thus instinctively acknowled ged

the Pr inciple of Gender in the Unive rse .

Is thi s not so !
But the Hermetic teaching doe s not im
,

—
ply a real dual ity TH E ALL is ONE
the Two Aspects are merely a spe ct s of
manifestation The teaching is tha t The
.

Mas culine Principle manife sted by T HE

ALL stands in a way apart from the
, ,

actual mental creation of the Universe It .

projects its Will toward the Feminine

Principle ( which may be called Nature ’

wh ereupon th e latt er begins the actual

w ork of th e evoluti on of the Un iverse from ,
74 The K g halian

examines the thoughts ideas and images of

,
“ “ ”
the Me . As above so below ,
remem ,

ber and the phenomena of one plane may

,

be employed to solve the riddles of higher

or lower planes .

Is it any wonder that You, the child feel ,

that instinctive reverence for TH E AL L ,

which feeling we call religion tha t r e

’ -

spect and reverence for TH E F AT HE R

,

MIN D ! Is it any wonder that when you ,

consider the works and wonders of N atu re ,

you a re overcome w ith a mighty feel

in g which has it s roots away down in your
inmo st being ! It is the MOT HE R MIND
that youare pressing close up to like a ,

babe to the breast .

Do not m ake the mistake of suppos ing

that the little worl d you see around you
the Earth which is a mere grain of dust in
—
,

the Univer se is the Un iverse itself There .

a re millions u pon millions of such worlds ,

an d greater And there are mill ions of

.

millions of su ch Universes in exi stenc e

within the Infin ite Mind of TH E ALL .

An d even in our ow n l ittle solar system

 The Ment a l Univ er se 75

there a re regions and planes of life far

higher th an ours and be ings compared to
,

which we earth bound mortals a re as the

-

slimy life forms that dwell on the ocean s

- ’

b ed when comp ared to Man There are b e .

ings with powers and attributes higher

than Man has ever dreamed of the gods ’

posses sing And yet these beings were

.

—
once a s you and sti ll lower and you will
,

be even a s they and still higher in time

, , ,

fo r such is the Destiny of Man as rep orte d

And Death is not real even inthe Rela

—
,

tive sense it is but B i rth to a new life

an d You shall go on and on and on to , , ,

higher and still higher planes of l ife for ,

aeons u pon a eons of time The Universe .

i s your home and you shall explore its

,

farthest reces ses before the end of Time .

You are dwelling in the Infinite M ind of

TH E ALL and your po ssibil ities and op
,

p or t unit ie s a re infini t e both in time

, and
s p ace And at the end of the Grand Cycle
.

o f A eons when TH E ALL shall draw back

,

—
into itself all of its creations youwill go
76 The K yba lion

gladly for , yo uwill thenbe able

know to
the Whole Truth of be ing At On e with

THE ALL Su ch is the repo rt of the

.

Illu —
mined those w ho have a dvanced well
along The Path .

And in the mean time rest calm and

—
, ,

serene youare safe and protected by the

Infinite Power of the F AT HE R MOTHE R -

Wit hin Mo ther Mind, mort al children ar e

—
t he F at he -
r
at o
h me . Ths K yb alion .

is not one w ho is F a therless, nor Mot herless

There
n
inthe U iverse .
—1 h
'
e K yb alion
.
 C HAPT E R VI .

TH E D IVINE Pasan
ox .

l f w r ogn ng
Th e ha -
ise, ec omp t v unr ty
izi t he c ar a i e eali
of nv n t tt y
t he U i erse, imagi e h a d fy Lwh e m ay e it s a s
u
s ch ar e vai n pr umptu ou fool
an d es t y s s, a n d he a re
brok n g n
e ro k
a ai st t he torn nd r by
c s an d a su e t he ele
m nt by
e s n of
r easo folly tr ly w
t h eir kn w The u ise , o
g t l w
.

in g tn t of
h e a ur e nv r t he U i e se u se L a w a a in s a s;
g lwr
,
g
t h e hi her a ain by A rt o f l my
st t he o e ; a n d t he A c he
tr n mut t t w
a s e ha und r bl nto t t w
hic h is esi a e i ha h ic h is
wort y h , ant u t mp
d h s riu h t ry o n t no t
. Mas e c sis s in ab
norm l a on f nt t m g ng or
dr eams, Visi s an d a a s ic i a in i s liv
in g but u ng in si g r for
t h e g nt
hi h e c es a ai s t h e lo w s
lo w r pl n by v br t ng on
,
esca p in t h e of s in s t he e a es i a i
t h e hig e r an not pr umptuo u d n l
smu t a t ion i i
—
e s s e a s
w pon o f
.
, ,

t he ea tr
t h e M as e . The K yb a lion .

This is the Paradox of the Universe ,

r esulting from the Principle of Polarity

which man ifests when THE ALL be gins
—
to Create hearken to it fo r it points th e
difi er enc e bet w een half wisdom and wis -

dom While to THE INFINI TE ALL

.
,

the Universe its Laws it s Powers i ts

, , ,

Life its Phenomena are a s things wit

, ,

17
78 The Kyb alion

neesed in the state of Meditation o r

Dream ; yet to all that is Finite the Uni ,

verse must be trea ted a s Real and l ife , ,

and acti on and thought must be based

, ,

thereu pon acc ordingly although with an

, ,

ever understanding of the Higher Truth .

Each according to its ow nPlane and Laws .

Were TH E ALL to imagine that the Uni

verse were indeed Real ity then woe to the ,

Un iverse for there would be then no es

,

cap e from lower to higher divinew a r d ,

then would the Universe become a fix it y

and progress would become imposs ible .

And if Man o wi ng to half wisdom acts

,
-
,

and lives and think s of the Universe a s

merely a dream ( akin to hi s own finite
dreams ) then indeed does i t so become for
him and like a Sleep walker he stu
,
-
mbles
e ver a round and around in a c i rcle making ,

no p rogress and being forced into an

,

awakening at last by his falling bruised

and bleeding over the Natural Laws which
he ignored K eep your mind ever on the
.

Star but let your eyes watch over your

,

footsteps lest you fall into the mire by

,
 The D ivine P a r a dox 79

rea son of your u pward gaze Remembe r .

the Divine Paradox that while the Uni

,

verse IS N O T s till I T IS Remember ever

, .

—
the Tw o Poles of Truth the Absolute and
the Relative Beware of Half Truth s
.
- .

“
What Hermetists know as the Law of
Paradox is an aspect of th e Principle of
Pola rity The Hermetic writings are filled
.

with references to the appearance of th e

Paradox inthe consideration of the prob
lems of Life and Being The Teachers are
.

constantly warn ing their students against

“ ”
the error of omitting the other s ide of
any question And their warnings are
.

particularly directed to the p roblems of

the Absolute and the Relative which per ,

plex all students of philo sophy and which ,

cau se so many to thin k and act contrary to

wh at is generally known as ‘
common
sen se
.
”
And we cauti on all st udent s to be
su re to grasp the Divine Paradox of th e
Absolu te and Relative lest they bec ome en
,
.

tangled in the mire of the Half Truth -

.

With this in View thi s particular lesson has

b een written Read i t caref u
. lly !
80 The K yb a lion

The first thought that comes t o the think

ing man aft er he realize s the truth t ha t t he
Universe is a Mental Creation of THE
AL L i s that the Un
, iverse and all tha t it
c onta ins is a mere ill usion ; a nu nreality ;
against which idea his instincts revolt .

But this l ike all other grea t truths must

, ,

be cons idered bo th from the Absolute and

th e Relative points of View From the .

Absolute Viewpoint of course the Uni

, ,

verse i s in the nature of an illusion a ,

dream a phantasmagoria as compa red to

, ,

TH E AL L in i tself We recogn
. ize this
even in our ordinary View for we Spe ak ,
“ ”
of the world a s a fleeting show tha t
—
comes and goes is born and dies for the
,

element of impermanence and cha nge ,

finiteness and unsubstanti al it y mu st eve r ,

be connected with th e idea of a created Uni

verse when it is contrasted wi th the idea
of TH E ALL no matter what may b e our
,

bel iefs concerning the nature of bo th .

Philosopher metaphys ician scienti st and

, ,

theologian all agree upon thi s i dea and ,

the thought is found inall forms of philo

82 The K yb alion

concep tions and see whethe r this be not

,

true of them .

Bu t the Ab solute poin t of View shows

merely one side of the pict u —
re the other
side is the Relative one Ab solute Truth .

has been defined a s Things as the m ind

“

of God knows them while Relative Truth ,

“
i s Thi ngs as the highest rea son of Man
understands them An d so while to TH E
.
’

ALL the Universe must be u nreal and

illusionary a mere dream or result of
,

—
meditation nevertheless to the finit e ,

minds forming a part of that Universe ,

and Viewing it through mortal facu lties ,

the Universe is very real indeed and must ,

be so considered In rec ognizing the Ah

.

solute view we must not make the mistake

,

of igno ring or denying the fact s and phe

nom ena of the Universe a s they present
themselves t o our mortal fa cu —
lties w e are
not TH E ALL remember , .

To take familiar illus trations we all ,

“ ”
rec ognize the fact that Matter exists to
—
our senses w e will fare badly if we do
not And yet even our finite minds u
.
, nder
 The D ivine P a r a dox 83

stand the scientific dictum that there i s no

such th ing as Matter from a scientific po int
of View — that which we call Matter i s h eld
to be merely an aggregati on of atoms ,

whi ch atoms th emselves are merely a

group ing of units of force called electrons ,
“ ”
or ions Vibrat ing and in constant ci r
,

cu la r mot i on We kick a stone and we feel

.

—
th e impact it seems to be real not w ith ,

standing that we know it to be merely what

we have s t ated above But remember th at
.

our foot which feels th e impact by means

,

of our brains i s likewi se Matter so con

, ,

sti tuted of electrons and for th at matter

,

so are our brains And at th e best i f it

.
, ,

were not by reason of our M ind we would ,

not know the foot or st one at all .

Th en again th e i deal o f th e arti st or

,

sculptor which he i s endeavoring t o r e

,

produce in stone or on canvas seems very ,

real to him So do th e ch aracters in the

.

mind of th e a u th or or dramati st which

, ,

he seeks to express so th at others may rec

ogn ize th em And i f th i s be true in th e
.

case of our finit e minds wh at must be the,

84 The Kyb alion

degree of Reality in the Men tal Ima ge s

created in the Mind of the Infinite ! Oh ,

fri ends to mo rtal s this Universe of Men

,

—
tal ity is very real indee d it is the only
one we can ever know thou gh we rise from
,

plane to plane higher and higher in it

,
.

To know it oth erwi se by actual exper ience

, ,

we must be TH E ALL itself It is true .

that the higher we rise in the scale the —

“ ”
nearer to the mind of the Father we
—
reach the more apparent become s th e il
lusory nature of finite things but not until ,

TH E ALL finally w ithdraws us into itself

does the vi sion actually vanish .

So we need not dwell upon the feature

,

of illu sion . Rather let u s reco gnizing the

,

real nature of the Universe seek to u nder

,

stand its mental laws and endeavor to use

,

them t o th e best eff ect in our upward prog

ress thro u gh life a s we travel from plane
,

to plane of being The Laws of the Un i

.

“ ”
verse are none the les s Iron Laws b e
c ause of the mental nature All except .
,

TH E ALL are bound by them What i s

, .

IN THE I NFINITE MIND O F TH E AL L

 The D ivine P a r adox 85

is REAL in a degree second only t o that

Reality itself which is vested in the nature
of TH E AL L .

So do not feel insecure or

,
—
afraid w e
are all HELD FIRMLY IN TH E IN FI N
I TE MIN D O F TH E ALL and there i s ,

naught to hurt us or for us to fear There .

i s no Power outside of TH E ALL to a ffect

us So we may rest calm and secure
. .

There is a world of comfort and security

in thi s realization when once attained
. .

Then calm and peaceful do we sleep ,

”—
rocked in the Cradle of the Deep rest
ing safely on the bosom of the O cean of
Infinite M ind which is TH E AL L In
, .

TH E ALL indee d do we live and move

, ,
‘

and have our being .

Matter is none the less Matter to us ,

while we dwell on the plane of Matter al ,

though we kn ow it to be merely an aggr e

g a t ion of “
elec t r ons ”
or particles
, of
Force vibrating rapidly and gyrating
,

around each other in the formations of

atoms ; the atoms in turn vibrating and
gyrating forming molecules which latter
, ,
86 The K yb alion

in turn form larger m asses of Matter .

N or does Matter become less Matter when ,

we follow the inqui ry t ill further and

cf
,

learn from th e Hermetic Teachings that ,

the Force of which the electrons are

but units i s merely a manifestation of the
Mind of TH E AL L and like a ll else in the
,

Universe is purely Mental in its nature .

While on the Plane of Matter we m ust ,

—
reco gnize its phenomena w e may contro l
Matter ( as all Masters of higher or les ser
degree do ) but we do so by applying the
,

high er forces We c ommit a folly when

.

we attempt to deny th e existence of Matter

in the relative aspect We may deny its
.

—
mastery over us and rightly so b ut we —
should not attempt to ignore it in its rela
tive aspect at least so long as we dwell
,

upon its plane .

Nor do th e Laws of Natu re become less

constant or e ffective when we know th em
, ,

l ikewise t o be merely mental creations

,
.

They a r e in full e ffect onth e vari ou s planes .

We ov e r c o m e th e lo w er laws by applying
,

s t il l h ig h e r on e s— and in thi s w a y on ly .
 Th e D ivine P a r a d ox 87

But we cannot escape Law or rise above it

entirely Nothing but TH E AL L can e s
.

—
cape Law and that because TH E ALL is
LAW itself from whi ch all Laws emerge
, .

The most advance d Masters may a cqui re

the p owers usually attributed to the gods
of men ; and there are countless ranks of
being in the great hierarchy of life whose
, ,

being and power transce nds even th at of

the highest Masters among men t o a de
gree u nthinkable by mortals but even the ,

highest Master and the highest Be ing

, ,

must bow to the Law and be as Nothing in

,

the eye of TH E AL L So that i f even.

these highest Beings whose powers exceed

,

even those attributed by men t o their gods

— if even these are bound by and are sub
ser vient to Law then imagine the pre
,

sumption of mortal man of our race and ,

grade when he dares to cons ider the Laws

,
“ ”
o f N ature a s unreal vi sionary and
,

illusory bec ause he happens t o be able t o

,

g r asp the truth that the Laws are Mental

in nature and simply Mental Creations
,

o f TH E ALL Those Laws which TH E

.
88 The K yb alion

ALL intends to b e governing Laws a r e not

to be defied or argued away S o long as .

the Universe endures will they endure

,

for the Un iverse exists by virtue of these

Laws which form its framework and which
hold it together .

The Hermetic Prin ciple of M entalism ,

while explaining the tr u e nature of the

Universe u pon the p r inciple tha t all is
Mental does not change the scientific con
,

c ep t ion s of th e Un iverse Life or Ev olu

, ,

ti on In fact science merely co rroborates

.
,

the Herm etic Teachings The latter merely

.

teach es that th e nature of the Universe is

Mental while modern science has taught
,
“ ”
that it i s Material ; or ( of late ) that it
“ ”
is Energy at the last analysis The .

Hermetic Teachings have no fault to find

with Herbert Spencer s bas ic principle
’

which postulates the exi stence of an I n “

finite and E ternal Energy from which all ,

”
things proceed . In fact the Hermetics,

recognize in Spencer s philosophy the high

’

est out side statement of the workings of

th e N atur al Law s th at have ever been p r o
90 The K yb alion

c ip le of THE ALL is Mind ; the Un iverse

—
i s Menta l held in the Mind of TH E
ALL ”
. He will find that the other six of
“ ”
the Seven Principles will fit into his
scientific knowledge and will ser ve to bring
,

ou t obscu re points and to throw light in

dark corners Thi s is not t o be wondered
.

at when we reali ze the in

, fl uence of the
Hermetic thought on the early philoso
p he r s of G ree ce up on whose
, fo undations
o f thought the theories of modern science

largely rest The acceptance of the First

.

Hermetic Principle ( Mentalism ) i s t he

on ly great point of difl er en c e between
’

Modern Science and Hermeti c student s ,

and Science is gradually moving toward

the Hermetic position in its grop ing in t he
dark for a way out of the Labyrinth int o
which it has wandered in its search fo r
Reality .

The pu rp ose of this lesson is t o impress

upon the minds of our students the fact
tha t to al l intents and p u
, rposes the Un ,
i
verse and its laws and its phenomena are
, ,

j ust as RE A L so far
,
as Man i s concerned ,
 The Divine P a r a dox 91

as they wou ld b e u nder the hypotheses of

Mater ialism or E nergism Under any .

hypothesis the Unive rse inits outer aspect

is chan ging, eve r flow ing and transito ry
-
,

and the re fore devoid of su b stantiali ty and

reality B u . t ( no t e the othe r pole of the
t ru th ) under any of the same hyp otheses ,

we a re compe ll ed t o ACT AND LIVE as

i f the flee ting things were rea l and sub
s t antial With this difi er en
. ce alway s b e , ,

tween the va riou s hyp othese s — that u nder

the old views Mental P ower w a s ignored
as a Na tura l For ce whil e u nder Mentali em
,

i t bec omes the Greate st Natural Force .

And this one difi er en ’

ce revolutioniz es Life ,

t o those w ho u nderstand the P rinciple and

its resu lting laws and p ractice .

So finally students all gra sp the a d

, , ,

vantage of Mentalism and learn t o know, ,

use and apply the laws resulting there

fro m B u
. t do n ot yield to the temptation

which a s The K yb alionstates overc ome s

, ,

th e half wise and which causes them to be

-

h y pnotized by the app a rent unreal ity of

things the consequence be ing that they
,
92 The K yb a li on

wander ab o u t l ike dream people dwelling-

in a world of dreams ignor ing the p r ac

,

tical work and life of m an the end being ,

tha t they are broken aga inst the rocks

‘

and torn asunder b y the elements by reason ,

of their foll y Rather follow the example

.

of the wise which the same aut hority

,

states use Law against Laws ; the higher

,

against the lower ; and by the Art of

Alchemy transmute that which is u nde
s i rable into that which is worthy and thus ,

trium ph Following the authority let us

.
,

avoid the half wi sdom ( whi ch is folly )

-

which ignores the truth that “

Mastery
consi sts not in abnormal dreams vis i ons , ,

and fantastic imaginings or l iving but in ,

using the higher forces against the lower

escaping the pains of the lower planes by
vibrating on the higher ”
Remember a l
.

ways student that Transmutati on no t

, , ,

presum ptuous den ial is th e weapon of th e

,

Master .The above quotations are from

The K yb a lion and are worthy of being
,

committed to memory by the student .

We do not l ive in a world of dreams but ,

 The D iv ine P a r a dox 93

inan Universe which while relat ive is real

, ,

so far as our lives and actions are c on

ce rn ed Our business in the Universe is
.

not to deny its existence b u t to LIVE , .

us ing the Laws to rise from lower to high er

—living on do ing the best that we can
,

unde r the ci r cumstances arising each day ,

and living so far as is possible to our

, ,

highes t ideas and ideals The true Mean .

ing of Life is not known to men on this

— —
plane if indeed t o any but the highest
, ,

authorities and our own intu itions teach

, ,

us that we w ill make no mistake in liv ing

up to the best that is in us so far as i s ,

p ossibl e and realizing the Universal ten

,

den cy in the same directi on in sp ite of

apparent evidences to the contrary We .

—
are all on The Path and th e road leads
upward ever with frequent rest ing places
,
.

—
Read the Message of The K yb alion and
“ ”
follow the example of the wise avoid
”
ing the mistake of the half wise who ‘ -

pe ri sh by reason of their folly .

 C HAPTER VII .

”
TH E ALL IN ALL .

While A ll is in TH E ALL it is equally true th t

,
a
TH E ALL is inAll ly under tands this
T him w ho tru
truth hath come grea t knowledge —
. o s
The K yb ali n
. o .

How often have th e majority of people

heard repeated th e statement that their
“
De ity ( called by many names ) was All in
All , and how little have they s usp ec ted
the inner occult truth concealed by these
carelessly uttered words ! The common ly
used express ion is a survival o f th e ancient
Hermetic Maxim quoted above As t he .

K yb a lionsays To him who tr u ly u nder

stands this truth hath come great knowl
,

edge . An’
d this being so let us seek thi s
, ,

truth the u , nderstanding of which means

so much —
In this statement of truth thi s
.

—
Hermetic Maxim is concealed one of the
95
96 The Kyb alion

grea test philosophical scientific an , d te

ligiou s tru t hs .

We ha ve given youthe Herm etic Teach

ing rega rding the Menta l Na tur e of the
Un —
ive rse the tr u th that the Univer se is
—
Mental held in the Mind of THE AL L .

As the K yb a lion sa ys in the pa ssa ge ,

quoted above : “
All is in TH E AL L ”
.

But note al so the co related statement -

,

that : It is equally tr u
“
e tha t TH E ALL is
inALL . This apparently c ontradict ory
s tatement is reconcilable under the Law of
Paradox It is moreover an exact H e r
.
, ,

metic statement of the relations ex isting

betw een TH E ALL and it s Men tal Uni
“
verse We have seen how All is in TH E
.

AL L — now let u s e x amin e the othe r

aspec t of the subject .

The Hermetic Teachings are t o the e fl ec t

’

that TH E ALL is I mminent in rema in

ing within; inherent ; abiding withi n its ’

Universe and in eve ry part particle u

,
nit , , ,

or combination within the Universe This

,
.

statement is usually illustrated by the

Teachers by a reference t o the Principle
98 The K yb a lion

giving them their vitality spirit and , ,

“ ”
action Whose is the spirit of the char
.

actors that we know as Mica wber O liver ,

,
—
Twist U riah Heep is it Dickens or have ,

each of the se characters a p ersonal spirit ,

independent of thei r creator ! Have the

Venus of Medici the Sistine Madonna the
, ,

App ollo Belvidere spirits and reality of

,

their own or do they repre se nt the spir

,

it ual and mental power of the i r creators !

The Law of Paradox explains that both

propo siti ons are true viewed from the
,

proper viewp oints Micawber is both

.

Micawber and yet Dickens And again

, .
, ,

whil e Micawber may be said to be Dickens ,

yet Dickens i s not identical with Micawber .

Man l ike Micawber may exclaim : The

, ,

Spirit of my Creator i s inh erent within me

— and yet I am not HE ! H ow difl er en
’
t
’

this from the shocking half truth so vocif-

er ou sly anno unced by certain of the half

wise who fill the ai r w i th th ei r raucous
,
”
cries of : I Am God ! Imagine poor
Micawber or the sneaky Uriah Heep cry
, ,
“ ”
ing I Am Dickens ; or some of the
 in All
“ ”
The A ll 99

lowly clods in one of Shakespeare s plays ’

,
“
grand iloquently a nnouncing that I Am
”
Shakespeare ! TH E ALL is in the
earth worm and yet th e earth worm is far
-
,
-

from being TH E ALL And still th e .

wonder remains th at though the earth

,

worm ex i sts merely as a lowly thing ,

created and having it s being solely within

—
the Mind of TH E AL L yet TH E AL L i s
imma nent in the earth w o rm and in the
-
,

particles that g o t o make up the earth

w orm . Canthere be any greater mystery
“
th an this of All in TH E AL L ; and TH E
AL L in All !
The student w ill o f course realize that
, ,

th e illustrations given above are n ec e s

sa r ily imperfect and inadequate for they ,

represent the creation o f mental images in

fini te minds while th e Un iverse is a crea
,

—
tion of Infinite M ind and th e d i fference
betwee n the two poles separates them .

An d yet it is merely a matter of degree

—
the same Principle i s i n Operation th e
Principle of Correspondence manifests
1 00 The K yb a lion

each— “
As above, so Below ; as Below so ,

above .

An d in t he degree tha t Manrealize s th e

,

existence of the Indwelling Spirit imma

nent within his being so will he rise inth e,

spiritual scale of life Thi s is what spir .

it ua l develo pm ent mean s — the recognit ion ,

realization and manifes t ation of the S pir it

,

w ithin u s Tr y to remember thi s las t

.

defin —
it ion that of s piri t ual development .

It contains the Truth of True Rel igi on .

There are many planes of Being many —

—
sub planes of Life many degrees of exist
-

ence in the Universe And all d epend upon

.

th e advancement of beings inthe scale of ,

which s cale the lowest p oint is the grossest

matter the highest being separated only
,

by th e thinnest division from the SPIRIT

of TH E ALL And upward and onw ard
.
,

along this Scale of Life everything is ,

moving All a re on the Path whose end

.
,

is TH E AL L Al l progress is a Returning
.

Home All is Upward and Onward in

.
,

sp ite of all seemingly contradictory ap

1 02 Th e K yb a lion

p e rha p s we will give a better idea of wh at

i s meant .

Thi s Involuntary stage of Creation i s

“ ”
s omet imes called the Outpouring of th e
Divine Energy just as the Evolut iona r y
,
“ ”
s tate is called the Indrawing Th e .

ext reme pole of th e Creative pro cess is

c ons idered t o be th e furthest removed from
TH E ALL while the beginn , ing of the
Evolutionary stage is regarded a s the
beginning of the return swing of the p en
— “
dulum of Rhyt hm a coming home idea ’

being h eld in all of the Hermetic Teach

ings .

The Teachings are that during the O ut

pouring the vibrati ons become lower and
,

lower until finally the urge ceases and the ,

return swing begins But there is this dif

.

“ ”
fe rence that while in the Outpouring
,

th e creative forces man i fest compactly and

as a wh ole yet from the beginning of the
,
“ ”
Evolutionary or Indrawing stage there ,

is mani fes t ed the Law of Individualization

—that is the tendency t o separate into
,

Unit s o f Force so that finally th at w hich

,
 ”
in All
“
The All 1 03

left TH E AL L as unindivi du alized energy

returns to its source as countless highly
developed Units of Life having risen ,

higher and higher in the sca le by means

of Physical Menta l and Spiritual Evolu
,

tion.

The ancient Hermetists use th e word

Medita t i on in descr ibing the process
,

of t he menta l creation of the Un iverse in

the Mind of TH E AL L the word Con ,

tem plation ’
also being frequently em
ployed But the idea intended seems t o be
.

th at of the employment of th e D ivine

Attention . Attenti on is a word derived
from the La tin root meaning to reach,
‘

out ; to stretch out and so the act of

,

Attention i s really a mental reaching

”
out ; extens i on of mental energy so tha t ,

the underlying idea is readily understood

when we examine into the real meaning of
Attention .

The Hermetic Teachings regarding the

pro ce s s of Evolution are that TH E AL L , ,

having meditated upon the beginning of

—
the C reation having thu s es tabli sh ed th e
1 04 The K yb alion

material foundations of the Un ive rse

having thou —
ght it into existe nce t hen
gradually awakens or r ou se s fro m it s

Meditation and in so d oing sta rts into

manifestat ion the process of E volution on ,

the material mental and spi ritu

,
a l p l anes ,

suc cessively and in orde r Thu . s t he u p

—
ward movement begins and all begins t o
move S pir itw a r d Matte r becomes less
.

gross ; th e Units Spring into being ; the

combinat ions begin t o form ; Life appea rs
and manifests in higher and higher fo rm s ;
and M ind becomes more and more in evi
—
dence the vibrations constantly becoming
higher In sho rt the entire p roces s of
.
,

Evolution in all of it s pha ses begins, and

, ,

p roceeds according t o the e stablished Law s

“
of the Indrawing p roc ess All of this
.

occup ie s ae ons up on aeons of Mans time

’
,

each ae on containing countle ss millions of

yea rs but yet the Illumined info rm u
, s that

the entire creation includin , g Involution

and Evolution of an Unive rse is but as
,
“
,
”
th e twinkle of the eye t o THE ALL At .

the end o f c ountless cycles of none of t it he ,

1 06 The Kyb a lion

Me t a phy sic al field o f specul a tion , alth ough

o ur purpo se i s merely to sh ow th e futility
o f such spec u lat i on We allude t o t he
.

questi on which inevi tably comes to the

mind of all thinke rs w h o h av e ventured t o
seek the Truth The question Is
.
“
WH Y
”
does TH E AL L create Universes ! The
quest ion may be asked in di ff erent fo rms ,

but the above i s the gist of the inqui ry .

Men have striven h ard t o answer this

question but still there is no answer
,

wo rthy of the name Some h ave imagined

.

that TH E AL L had something t o gain by

it but this is absurd for what could TH E
, ,

AL L gain that it did not already possess !

O th ers have sough t th e answer in th e idea
“
that TH E ALL wi sh ed something t o
love ; and oth ers that i t created for pleas
“
ure or amusement ; o r because it was
,
”
lonely ; or t o manife st it s power all —
puerile explanations and ideas belonging
,

to th e childish period of th ough t .

O thers have sought t o explain the

myste ry by assum ing th at TH E ALL
“ ”
found itself comp ell ed t o creat e by ,
 ”
in All
“
The All 1 07

reason of its own inte rnal nature —its

creative instinct Thi s idea i s in ad
.

vance of the others but its weak point l ies

,
“
in the idea of TH E AL L be ing com
;

p e lle d by anyt hi ng inte r nal o r external

, .

”
If it s internal nature or creative in
“ “
,

st in ct , compelled i t to do anything then ,

the “
internal nature or creative in
” “

st in ct
”
wou l d be the Absolute instead o f ,

TH E AL L and so accordingly that part

,

of the propos ition fall s And yet TH E .

, ,

AL L does create and man ifest and seems ,

to find some kind of satisfaction in so

doing A d it is difficu
. n lt to escap e the
conclusion that in some infinite degree it
must have what wou ld corresp ond t o an
“ ” “ ”
inner nature or creative instinct in
, ,

man with correspondingly infinite Desi re

,

and Will It could not act un

. l ess it Willed
to Ac t ; and i t wou ld n ot Will t o Ac t un less ,

it Des i red t o Ac t ; and it wou ld n ot Desire

t o Ac t unless it obtained some Sati sfact ion

thereby And all of these th ings would
’

“
belong to an Inner N ature and migh t ,

be postulated as exi sting according to th e

KB The K yb alion

La w of Co r r espondence But, st ill, w e .

p r e fe r to t hin k of THE ALL as ac tin g

te r nal as w e ll as e xt e rn
That is the
al .

p ro bl em w hich lies a t t he roo t o f diffic ulty

—and t he difi c ulty tha t lies at the root of

Str ict ly sp eaking t he re ca nn o t b

, e sa i d
t o b e an y
“
R easo n”
w h a t so ev e r f or TH E
ALL t o ac t for a “
reas on implies a
,
”

“
ca use
”
and THE ALL is above Cau
,
se

and Efi ect except w henit Wills t o become

,

a Cau se at which time the Pr in

,
ciple is se t
into motion So you see the matter is
.
, ,

Unthinka ble jus t as THE ALL is Un

,

knowable J u st as we say THE AL L

.

merely IS — so we are compe lled t o say

“
that T HE AL L ACTS BECAUSE I T
ACTS . At the last TH E AL L is All ,

Rea son in Itself ; All Law in Itself ; All

—
Action in Itself and it may be said truth ,

fully that THE AL L is Its Own Reason ;

it s ow nLaw ; its ow nAc t —o r still further
,

that TH E AL L ; Its Re ason; Its Ac t ; is

Law ; are O NE all being names for t h ,
1 1 0 The K y b a lion

Inne r N ature —
conclusion, s till
the
legends h ave it that HE RME S the Great , ,

when asked this question by his advanced

students answered them by PRESSIN G
,

HI S LIPS TI GHTLY T OGE T HE R and

saying not a word indica ting that there
,

WAS N O AN SWER But then he may .

, ,

have intended to apply the axiom of h i s

philosophy that , The lip s of Wisdom
are closed except to th e ears of Under
,

standing believing that even his a d

,

v an c e d students did not possess th e Under

standing which entitled them t o the Teach

ing At any rate i f Hermes possessed the
.
,

Secret he failed to impart it and so far a s

, ,

the world is concerned TH E LIPS O F

HE RME S ARE CLO SED regard ing it .

And where the Great Hermes hesitated t o

speak wh at mortal may dare t o teach !
,

But remember that whatever be the

, ,

answer to this problem if indeed there be ,

an answer the truth rema ins th at

“
Wh ile All is in TH E AL L it i s equally ,
”
t rue th at TH E AL L is in All Th e .

Teaching onth i s point i s emph atic An d .

,
 “ ”
The All in A ll 1 1 1

we may add the concluding words of the

quotati on To him who truly u nder
stands thi s truth hath come great knowl
,

edge .
7
1 14 The K ybalion

nomena , knownas t he Thr ee Great Planes,

I . The Grea t Physic al Plane .

II I . The Great S pir itual Plane .

These division s a re mo re or less ar ti

ficial an d a rbit rary for the tr u

, t h is t ha t
all of the three divisions are but ascend
ing d e gr ee s of t he gr e a t sca le of Life the
,

lowest point of which is u ndifi e r ent iat ed

Matte r, and the h ighest point that of
Spi rit An. d moreover, the difl e r ent
,

Planes shade into each other so that no ,

hard an d fast divi sion may be made be !

tweenthe higher phenomena of the Physi

cal an d the l ower of the Mental ; o r b e
tween the highe r of the Mental and the
lower of the Physical .

I nsho rt , the Th ree Great Planes may b e .

regarded as th ree great gr ou p s of degrees

of Li fe Man ifesta tion While the purposes
.

of this l ittle book do n ot allow us to enter

into anexten ded discussion of or explana

,
 P la nes f
o C or r esp ondenc e 1 1 5

tion of the subject of these di ff erent

,

planes still we th ink it well to give a gen

,

eral descripti on of the same at th i s po int .

At the beginning we may as well c on

sider the questi on so often asked by the
neophyt e who desi res to b e informed r e
,

garding the meaning of the word Plane

“ ”
,

which term has been very freely used and ,

very poorly explained In many recent ,

works upon the subject of occult i sm The .

questi on i s generally about as follows

“
Is a Plane a place having dimensions or ,
”
i s i t merely a condition or state ! We
“
answer No not a pl ace nor ordinary
, ,

dimens ion of space ; and yet more than a

state or condition It may be considered
.

as a state or condition and yet the state ,

or condit i on is a degree of dim ens i on i n ,

a scale subjec t to measu rement Some .

what p aradoxical is it not ! But let us

,

examine the ma tter A dimension you

“ ”
.
,

know is a measu
,
re ina straight l ine r e
‘
,

lating to measu re etc The ordinary, .

dimensions of space are length breadth , ,

and height or perhap s length breadth

, , ,
1 1 6 The K y b a lion

height thickness or circumference B u

, t .

th ere is another dimensi on of crea ted

things or mea su
”
,
“
re ina straight l ine ”
,

known to occ u ltists and to scientists as

,

well although the l atter have not as yet

,
“
applied the te rm dimension to it and —
thi s new dimension which by th e way is
, , ,

the mu ch speculated about Fourth Di -

m en sion i s the standard used in deter

,
“ ”
mi ning the degrees or planes .

Thi s Four th Dimens i on may be called

the D imens ion of Vibrati on It i s a .

fact well known to modern sci ence as well ,

a s to th e Hermet i sts who h ave embodi ed

the truth intheir Third Hermetic Prin

” “
c ip le ,that everything i s in moti on ;
everything vibrates ; nothing i s at rest .

From the highest manifestation to the ,

lowest everything and all things Vibrate

, .

Not o nly do they vibrate at di ff erent rates

of motion but a s in di ff erent di rect ions
,

and ina di ff erent manner The degree s of .

the rate of vibrations constitute the

’

de grees of mea surement on th e Sc ale of

—
Vibrations inother words the degrees of
1 18 The K yb a lion

and have their existence solely withinthe

Infinite Mind of TH E ALL .

The Hermet i sts sub divide each of the -

Three Great Planes into Seven Min or

Planes and each of these latter a re also
,

sub divided into seven su

-
b planes all di -
,

vis ions being more or les s arbitrary shad ,

ing into each oth er and adopted merely ,

for conven ience of scient ific stu dy and

though t .

The G reat Physical Plane and it s Seven ,

M inor Planes is that division of the phe

,

nom ena of th e Universe which includes all

that relates t o phys ics or material things, ,

forces and mani festati ons It includes all

, .

forms of th at wh ich we call Matter and ,

all forms of th at which we call Energy or

Force But youmu
. s t remember that the

Hermetic Philosophy does not recognize

“ ”
Matter as a thing i n itself or as having ,

a separate exi stence even in the Mind of

TH E ALL The Teachings are th at Mat
.

—
ter i s but a form of Energy that is En ,

e r gy at a low rate of vibrations of a ce r

tain kind And accordingly th e Hermetists

.
 P la nes f
o C o r r esp onde nce 1 19

class i fy Ma tter u
nder the head of Energy ,

and give t o it three of th e Seven Minor

Planes of th e Great Physical Plane .

These Seven Mino r Physical Plane s are

as follows

Th ePlane of Matte r ( A) .

The Plane of Matter ( B ) .

The Plane of Matter ( C ) .

The Plane of Ethereal Substance .

The Plane of Energy ( A ) .

The Plane of Energy ( B ) .

The Plane of Energy ( C ) .

The Plane of Matter ( A ) comp rises the

forms of Matter in it s form of solids ,

liquids and gases as generally reco gn

, , ized
by the text books on physics The Plane
-
.

of M a tter ( B ) comprises c e rtain higher

and more subtle forms of Matte r of the

existence of wh ich modern science is but
now reco gnizing the phenomena of Ra di
,

ant Matter init s phases of ra dium etc

, ,
.
,

b elonging to the lowe r sub divis ion of this

-

Minor Plans The Plane of Matte r ( C )

.
1 20 The K yb a lion

comp rises forms of the mo st su btle and

tenuous Matter the existence of which is
,

not sus pected by ordina ry scientists The .

Plane of E thereal Substanc e comp rises that

“ ”
wh ich sci ence speaks of as The E ther ,

s substance of ext reme tenuity and ela stic

ity pervading all Univer sal Sp ace and
, ,

acting as a mediu m for the transm ission

o f waves of energy such as light hea t
, , ,

electricity etc Th i s Ethe real S u

, . bstance
forms a connecting link between Matter
( s o
-
c alled ) and Ener gy an d p artakes
, o f
th e nature of each The Hermetic Tea ch .

ings however instruct that this plane

, ,

has seven sub divi s ions ( a s have all of the

-

Minor Planes ) and that infact there a re

,

s evenethers instea d of but on

, e .

Next above the Plane of E thereal Su b

stance comes the Plane of Energy ( A ) ,

which compri ses the o rdina ry forms of

Energy known to science it s seven su b,

planes being respectively Heat ; Light ;

, ,

Magneti sm ; Electr icity and Attraction ,

( i ncl u d i n g G ravi tat i on Cohe sion C,h emic a l ,

Afi n ity etc ) and several other forms of

, .
1 22 The K yb a lion

The la ssificat ion of the Seven Minor

c

Ment al Planes is more or less satisfact ory

an d arbi trary ( unless accompanied by elab
C r a t e explanati ons which are foreignto the

purpo se of thi s p arti cu lar work ) but we ,

may as well mention them They are as .

follows

The Plane of Miner al Mind .

The Plane of Elemental M ind

Th e Plane of Plant Min d .

Th e Plane of Elemental Mind

The Plane of Animal Mind .

The Plane of E lemental M ind

The Plane of Hu man M ind .

The Plane of Mineral Mind comp rises

“
the states or conditions of the uni ts or
’

entities or groups and combinations of the

,

same which animate th e forms known t o

,
“
us as minerals chemicals etc
,
These
, .

entities mu st n ot b e conf ounded with the

molecules atoms and corpuscles th em
,

selve s the latter bei ng merely the materia l

,

bodi es or fo rm s of these entities j ust as a

,
 P la nes f
o C o r r esp ondence 1 23

ma n s body is but his material fo rm and

’

not h imself
“
These entities may be
.

c alled
“
souls in one sense and are l iving
”
,

beings of a low degre e o f development l ife , .

an —
d mind just a l i ttle more th an the units
“
of l iving energy which comprise the
higher sub d ivi si ons of the hi ghest Phys
-

ical Plane The average mind does not

.

generally attribute the po ssession of m ind

soul or l ife to the M ineral kingdom but
, , ,

all occ ulti sts recogn ize the existence of the

same and modern science is rapidly m ov
,

—
ing forward to the point of View of th e -

Hermetic in th i s respect The molec ules

,
.
,

atoms and corpuscles have their loves ‘

” “
and hates ; likes and dislikes ; attrae
tions and repulsi ons ; aflinit ies and non
” ‘

afi n
”
it ie s etc and some of t he more dar
,
.
,

ing of modern scientific mind s have ex

pressed the op inion that the des i re and
w i ll emoti ons and feel ings of the atoms
, ,

di ff er only in degree from those of men .

We have no t ime or space to arg u e thi s

ma tter here All o ccultists know it t o b e
.

a fact and other s are referred t o some of

.
 1 24 The K yb alion

t he more rece nt sc ientific w orks fo r out side

c o r r o b o ra ti on
. Ther e a r e t he usua l sev e n

su b divis i ons t o th i s pla ne

-
.

The Plane o f Ele menta l Mind ( A ) com

pri ses th e s ta te o r condition and de gr e e of
,

menta l and vita l dev elopment o f a class o f

entiti es unknown t o th e a ver age man but ,

rec ogniz ed t o oc cultists Th ey are invis

.

ible t o the ordinary se ns es of ma n but , ,

nevertheless exi st and play their part of

,

th e Drama of the Univer se Thei r degree

.

of intell igence i s be tw een tha t of the min

eral and ch emica l entiti es on the one hand ,

and of the entities of the plant kingdom on

th e oth er There are seven sub—
. divisions
to thi s plane also
, .

The Plane of Plant M ind in its seven ,

sub divis ions compri ses the sta tes or con

-
,

dit ions of th e ent i ti es compris ing the king

doms of th e Plant World th e vital and
,

mental phenomena of which i s fai rly well

u nderstood by the average intelligent pe r
son many new and in teresting scient ific
,
“
works regarding M ind and Life in
”
Plants having been published during the
1 26 The Kyb a lion

and in cer ta in combinati ons The highes t .

forms are semi human i n intelligence

-
.

The Plane of Human M ind in it s seven ,

sub d ivi s ions compri ses those mani fe st a

-
,

tions of l ife and mental ity which are c om

m ont o Man in his various grades degrees
, , ,

and divi sions In thi s connection we wi sh

.
,

to po int out the fact that the average m a n

of t o da y occ up i es but the fourth su
- —
b d i vi
s i on of the Plane of Human M ind and only ,

the most intell igent have crossed the b o r

ders of the F i fth Sub D ivis ion It h as -
.

taken the race mill ions of years to reac h

thi s sta ge and it will take many more years
,

for th e race to move on t o the s ixth and

—
seventh sub d ivi s ions and beyond But ,
.
,

remember th at there have been races b e

,

fore us which have passed th rough these

degrees and th en ont o higher planes O ur
, .

own race is th e fifth ( with stragglers from

the fourth ) which has set foot upon The
Path And then there are a few advanced
.
,

souls of our ow nrace w ho h ave outs t ripp ed

th e masses and who have passed onto the
,

sixth and seventh sub divi s i on and some -

,
 Pla nes f
o C or r esp ondence 1 27

few being still further on The man of the .

S ixth Sub Division will be The Sup er

-

” “
Man ; he of the Seventh will be The
O ver Man
-
.

In our consideration of the Seven Minor

Mental Planes we have merely referred to ,

the Three Elementary Planes in a general

way We do not wish to go into thi s sub
.

j c et 1 1 1 deta i l in this work for it does not ,

belong to this pa rt of the general philos

Ophy and teachings But we may say this .

much in order t o give youa little clearer

,

i dea of the relati ons of these planes to the

more familiar ones the Elementary
Planes bear the same relation to the Planes
of M i neral Plant Animal and Hu
, man,

Mental ity and Life that the black keys on ,

the p i ano do t o th e white keys Th e white .

keys are su flic ient to produce music but ,

there are cer tain scales melodies and har , ,

monies in which the black keys play thei r

,

part and in which their presence i s nec e s

,
“
sary They are also necessa ry as con
.

nect ing l inks of soul condition ; entity -

s tates etc between the several other

, .
,
1 28 The K yb a lion

planes certain fo rm s of development be ing

—
,

a ttained therein this la st fact giving to

“
the reader who can rea d be tw ee n the
”
l ines a new l ight upon the processes of
Evolut ion and a new key to the sec ret doo r
,

o f th e
“
leaps of l ife be tween kingdom
”

and kingdom The great king doms of E le

.

m ent a ls are fully recogni ze d by all o ccult

i sta and the esoteric wri tings are fu
, ll of
mention of them The readers of Bu
. lwer s ’

‘
! anon i and similar t ales will reco gnize
’

th e enti ties inhabiting these planes of l i fe .

Pass ing on from the Great Menta l Plane

t o the Great Sp i ritual Plane what shall we
,

say ! How can we explain these higher

s tates of Being Life and Mind to minds
, ,

as yet unable to grasp and u nderstand th e

higher sub divi si ons of th e Plane of Human
-

Mind ! The task is impo ssible We can .

sp eak on ly in the most general terms H ow .

may Light be described t o a man born blind

-
how sugar t o a man w ho has never ta sted
,

—
anything sweet how harmony t o one born ,

dea f !
All that we c an say is that the Seven
1 30 The Ky b a lion

w ho may without i rreverenc e be called

“
The Gods ”
so high in the scale of Be ing
,

are they their being int elligence and

, ,

power being akin to those a tt ributed by

the races of men to thei r concepti ons of
Deity These Be ings are beyond even the
.

highes t flights of the human imaginat i on ,

the word Divine being the only one ap

“ ”

plicable t o them Many of these Beings as

.
,

well as the Angelic Host take the greatest ,

interes t in the a fi air s of the Universe and

’

play an important pa rt init s a fi airs These ’

.

Unseen D ivini ties and Angel ic Helpers ex

t end the i r influence freely and powerfully ,

in the process of Evolution and Co smic ,

Progress Thei r occas ional intervention

.

and ass i stance in human a fi air s have led

to th e many legends bel iefs religions and
, ,

t raditions of the race past and p resent,

.

They have super impo sed their knowledge

-

and power upon the world again and again , ,

all under th e Law of TH E AL L of course ,

.

But yet even the highest of these a d

, ,

ve nced Beings exi st merely as creations of ,

and in the M ind of TH E AL L and are

, ,
 Pla nes o f C or r esp onde nc e 1 31

subject to the Cosmi c Processes and Uni

versal Laws They are s till Mortal We
. .

may call them gods if we like but s till ,

they are but th e Elder Breth ren of the

—
Race th e advanced souls w ho have out
,

stripp ed th ei r brethren and w ho have fore

,

g one t he ecstacy o f A bsorption by T H E

AL L in order t o help th e race on its u
, p
wa rd journey along The Pa th But th ey .
,

belong to th e Universe and are subject t o

,

— —
i ts conditions th ey are mo rtal and th eir
p lane is belo w that o f A bsolute Sp i rit .

On ly the most advanced Hermeti sts are

able to grasp th e Inner Teachings regard
ing th e sta t e of exis t ence and the powers
,

manifested on the Sp i ritual Planes Th e .

phenomena is so much higher than that of

the Mental Planes that a confus ion of ideas
would surely result from an attempt to de
scribe the same Only those whose m inds
.

have be en carefully tra ined along th e l ines

of the He r metic Philosophy for years yes — ,

those w ho have brought with them from

oth er incarnations the knowl edge acqui red
—
p reviously c an comprehend just what is
1 32 The K yb alion

meant b y the Tea ching rega rding these

S pir it ual Plan es And much of these Inner
.

Teachin g s is held by the He r metis ts a s

being t oo sacr ed importa nt and even dan

,

g e rou s for ge ne r al p ubl i c d i ssem i n a tion .

The in telligent st u dent ma y recognize what

w e mea n by this when we s ta te tha t t he
mean ing of Sp i rit as us ed by the Her
“ ”

metist s is akinto Living Power

“ ” “
An i ,

mat ed F o rc e ” “
Inner Es sence “
Es
sen ce of Life etc which mea ning must
,
.
,

not b e confounded with th at usually and

commonly employed in connection with t he
term i e
, . .religious ; eccles ias tical ; spir it
,

uelle ; ethe real ; holy etc etc To oc cul t

, .
, .

ist s the wo r d Spirit is u

“ ”
sed in the sense
of The Animating Principle carrying ,

with it the idea o f Power Living Energy , ,

Mystic F orce etc And occ ulti sts know

, .

t hat th at which is kn own t o them as Sp ir

itu al Power may be employed for evil as
well as good ends ( in acco rdance with the
Principle o f Polarity ) a fact which has ,

been recogniz ed by the majority of reli

gions in th eir concep tions of Satan Res lze ,
1 34 The K yba lion

—and such souls make the return journey ,

p aying th e terrible penalty according t o

the invariable Law .

In conclusion we would againremind you

tha t according to the Principle of Corre
sp on den ce which embodies the truth :
, As
Above so Below ; as Below so Above , a ll ,

of the Seven Her met i c Principles are in

full operation on all of the many planes ,

Physical Menta l and Spiritual The Prin

, .

c iple of Menta l Substance o f course a pp lies

to all the p lanes for all are held in the

,

Mind of TH E ALL The Principle of Cor

.

respondence manifests in all for there is a

,

correspondence ha r mony and agreement

,

between the several planes The Princip le

.

of Vibration manifes t s on all planes infact ,

the very d ifferences that go t o make the

‘
p la n’
e S a ri se from Vibration as we ha
, v e
exp lained The Principle of Po la rity ma n
.

ifest s on each plane the extremes of the

,

Poles being apparently oppo site an d con

t r a dic t or y The Princip l e of Rhythm ma n
.

ife st s oneach Plane the movement of th e

,

phenomena having it s ebb and flow rise ,

 Pla ne s f
o C o r r esp o nde nc e 1 35

and flow incoming and outgoing The

, .

Principle of Cause and Efi e ct m anifests on

each Plane ever y Efi ec t having its C ause
,

and ever y Caus e having its c fi ec t The .

Principle o f Gender ma nifests on eac h

Plane th e C reative Energy be ing always
,

m a nifest and ope rating along th e lines of

,

it s Mascu line an d Femin ine Aspects .

“
As Above so Below ; as Below so ,

Above . Thi s cent u ri es old Her metic

axiom embo dies one of the gr eat Principles
o f Un iversal Phenomena As we proceed.

wi th our cons iderati on of the remaining

Principl es we will see even more clearly
,

the tru t h of the universal na ture of thi s

g rea t Pr in cip le o f Corr es p ondence .
1 38 The Kybalion

The Her metic Teachings are that not

only is everything in c ons tant movement
an d vibratio n but th at the difi er ences
’
,

be tween the various manifestations of the

universal power are due entirely to the
varying rate and mode of vibrations Not .

only t his but that even TH E ALL in itself

, , ,

manifests a cons tant Vibr ation of such an

infinite degree of int ensity and rapid mo
t ion that it may be p ractically cons idered
as at rest the teachers directing the atten
,

t ion of th e students t o the fact that even on

t he physica l plane a rap idly moving object
( such as a revol ving wh e el ) seems t o be
at rest The Teachings are t o th e efi ec t
.
’

that Spi rit is at one end of the Pole of

Vibra tion the other Pole being certa in ex
,

t r em ely gros s forms of Ma tter Between

.

th ese tw o poles are millions upon millions

o f difi e r ent rates and modes of vibrati on
’
.

Modern Science h as proven that all that

we c all Matter and Energy are but mo des
”
o f vibratory motion and some of the
,

more advanced scientists are rap idly mov

ing t oward t he posi tions of th e occultists
 Vib r a t ion 1 39

who hold that the phenomena of Mind are

lik ewise modes of v ibration o r moti on Let .

us see what science has t o say regarding

the question of vibrations in matter and
energy .

In the first place science teaches that all

,

matter mani fests i n some degree the

, ,

vibrations ari s ing from temperature or

—
heat Be an object cold or hot both being
.

—
but degrees of the same things it mani
fests certain heat Vibrations and in that ,

sense is inmotion and vibration Then all .

particle s of Matter are in circular move

ment from corpuscle t o suns The planets
, .

revolve around suns and many of them

,

turn on thei r axes Th e suns move arou

. nd
greater central points and these are b e
,

liev ed t o move around still greater and ,

so on ad infinit u
, m Th e molecu
. les of which
the particular kinds of Matter are c om
posed are in a state of constant vibration
and movement around each oth e r and
against each other The molecu
. les a re com
posed o f Atoms which l ikewi se are ina
, , ,

state of constant movement and vibra tion .

1 40 The K ybalion

The a toms are c omposed of Co rpu scles,

e le ct r on ion
“ ” “ ”
somet imes ca lled s, s, etc ,
.

which also a re ina st a te of ra pid m otion,

man ifest a ve ry ra pid sta te and mode of

vibra tion And so we se e tha t all fo rms
.
,

of Ma tt e r manifest Vibra t ion in accor d

,

t ion .

And it is with the variou

so s fo rms of

En ergy Science teaches that Light Hea t

.
, ,

Magnetism and El ectricity are b u t fo rms

of vib ra to ry motion connected inso me way

w ith, an d probably eman ating from the

Ether Scien. ce d oes not as yet attempt to
explainthe n a tu re of the phenomena known
as Cohesio n which is the p rinciple of Mo
,

lecu lar Attractio n; nor Chemica l Aflin ity,

which is the p rinciple of Atomic At t rac

tion; nor Gravitation ( the greatest mys
tory of the th ree ) which is the p rinciple
,

of a tt ract io n by which eve ry particle or

mass of Matter is bou nd t o every o the r

p a rt icl e o r ma s s These. three fo rms of
En ergy are n ot a s yet u nderstoo d by sci
1 42 The K y b alio n

S c ient ist s ha ve ofi e r e d t he illu s t ra t ionof

a ra p idly m ov in g w h e e l, t o p, or c yli n d e r ,

t o show t he efi e ct s o f in c re a sing ra t e s of
vib r at ion The illust r at ion su
.
pp o ses a

whe el , t op , or rev olving cylinder , r u nning

a t a low ra t e o f spee d — w e w ill call t his
re v olving thing t he object in follow ing
“ ”

ou t t h e illu s t rat ion Le t u

. s su ppose the
objec t moving slowly I t ma y b e seenr ea d
.

i ly, but no sou nd of its movement reaches

th e ear The speed is gr adually incr e ase d
. .

In a few moments it s movement bec omes so

rapid tha t a deep growl or low note m a y b e
hea rd Then as the rate is increase d the
.

note r ises one in the mus ical sca le Then .

,

the mot ion being s til l furth er increa se d the ,

next highest note i s distinguished Th en .

,

one after another all the note s of t he

,

mus ica l scale appear ris ing higher and ,

higher as the motion is increased Finally .

when the motions have reached a certain

rate the final note percept ible to human
ears is reached and the shrill piercing ,

shriek dies away and s ilence follows N o

,
.

so und i s h eard from th e revolving object ,

 Vib r a tion 1 43

the rate of motion being so high that the

human ear cannot register the vibrations .

Then come s the p erception of rising de

grees of Heat Then after quite a time the
.

eye catches a glimpse of th e object b ec om

ing a dull dark reddi sh color As the rat e .

increases the red becomes brighter Th en

,
.

as th e speed is increased th e red melts into ,

an orange Th en th e orange melts into a

.

yellow . Then follow successively the , ,

shades of green blue indi go and finally, , ,

violet as the ra t e of speed increases Th en

, .

the vi olet shades away and all color disap ,

pears the human eye not be ing able t o

,

register th em But there are invi sible rays

.

emanating from the revolving object the ,

rays that are used in pho tographing and ,

oth er subtle rays of l ight Th en begin t o .

manifest the pecu liar rays known as th e

“
X Rays etc as th e constitution of the
, .
,

object changes Electricity and Magnetism

.

are emitted when the approp riate rate of

vibration is atta ined .

When the object reach es a certain rate

o f vibr a ti on it s molecules di s in t egra t e and ,
1 44 The K ybalio n

re so lve themselves into the o riginal ele

ments or atoms Then the a toms follow
.
,

in g th e Prin c ipl e of Vib r a tion , a re se p a

rated into the cou ntless co rpuscles of which

they are comp osed And finally event he
.
,

co rpuscles disappea r and the obj ect may

be said to b e compo sed of The E the real
Substance Science does not dar e t o follow
.

the illu s tration furthe r but the Herm etist s

,

teach tha t if the vibra tions b e continu a lly

increased the object wou ld mou nt u p t he

successive sta tes of manifes ta tion and

woul d int u rn manifest the variou s me nta l
s ta ge s and then on S piritw ar d, u
, ntil it
wou ld finally r e enter THE ALL which is
-
,

Absolu te Spi rit The object how ever

.
, ,

wou ld have ceased to b e an obj ect l ong ‘ ’

be fo re the stage of Ethereal Substance w as

reached b u , t othe rwi se the illu st rationis

c o rrec t in asmu ch as it shows the efi ect of

const antly increa sed rates and modes of
vib ration It mu. st be remembe red inthe ,

above illustra tion that a t the stages at

,

which the obj ect throws ofi vib rations

of light heat etc it is not actu
, , .
,
“
ally r e
1 46 The Kyb alion

phenomena of telepathy mental influ

ence and oth er forms of the action and
,

power of mind over mind with which the ,

general public is rapidly bec oming ac

q u a int ed owing
,
to th e wi de d i ssemina tion
o f occu lt knowledge by the various schools ,

cu lts and teachers along these lines at this

time .

Ever y thought emoti on or mental sta te

,

ha s its corresponding rate and mode of

Vibration And by an e ff ort of the will of
.

the person or of other p ersons th ese

, ,

mental states may be reproduced j ust as a ,

mus ical tone may be reproduced by causing

aninstrument t o Vibrate at a certain rate
—just as color may be reproduced in the
same way By a knowledge o f the Pri nci
.

ple of Vibrati on a s applied t o Mental Phe

,

nomens one may polarize hi s mind at any

,

degree he wishes thus gaining a perfec t

,

control over his mental states moods etc , , .

In the same way h e may a ff ect th e minds

of others producing the des ired mental
,

states in them In short he may be able

.
,

t o produce on the Mental Plane that which

 Vib r a tion 1 47

science produces on the Physical Plane

“ ”
namely Vibrations at Will
,
This power
.

o f course may be acquired only by the

proper instruction exercises practice etc

, , ,
.
,

th e science being th at of Mental Tr ansm u

t at ion one of th e branche s o f the Hermetic
,

Ar t.

A little reflection on what we have sa id

w ill show th e student that the Principle of
Vibration underl i es the wonderful phenom
ena of the power mani fested by the Mas
ters and Adepts who are able to appar
,

ently set as ide the Laws of Nature but ,

who in real ity are simply using one law

, ,

against anoth er ; one principle aga inst

others ; and who accomplish their results
by changing the vibration s o f material oh
jeeta or form s of energy and thus perform
, ,
“ ”
wh at are commonly called mi racles .

A s on e of th e old Hermet i c wr i ters h a s

“
truly said : He who understands th e Prin
cible of Vibrati on has grasped the sceptre
,

o f Power .
1 50 The K yb alion

tru
a llth s a re b u t half t ru ths
-

” “
every truth is half false ; there a r e tw o
-

” “
s ides to everything ; there is a reve rse
”
si de to every s hield etc etc
,
.
, .

The Hermeti c Teachings are t o the e ff ec t

that the diff erence between things seem
in gyl di ametrically op p os ed t o e a ch othe r
i s merely a matter of degree It teaches .

that the pai rs of oppo sites may be reco n

“

“
ciled and th at thesis and anti the sis a r e
,
’
-

identic al in nature but di ff erent in de

,

gree ; a nd th at th e universal reconcilia

” “

tion of oppo si tes is e ff ected by a r ec ogn i

ti on o f thi s Principle of Polarity The .

te a c h e rs cl a im tha t illustrations of this

P r inc ipl e m a y be h ad on every h and an d ,

fr o m an ex a m ina ti on into th e real nature

of an y thi ng Th
. ey be g i n by show ing tha t
S p i r it a nd M a tt e r a r e but th e two p oles of ,

the same thing the intermediate planes

,

b e ing m e rely de g rees of vibrati on They

.

they Sh ow that TH E ALL and The Many

a r e th e sa m e th e di ff e r e nce be ing merely
,

a m a tt e r o f d e g r e e o f Ment a l Man i fes t a

t ion Thus the L AI V a nd L a w s a r e th e
.
 P ola r ity 1 51

tw o opposite poles of one thing Likewise .

,

PRI N CIPLE and Principles Infinite Min . d

and finite mi nd s .

Th en pass ing on t o the Physical Plane ,

they illustrate the Principle by showing

that Heat and Cold are identical in nature ,

the diff erences being merely a matter of

degrees The thermometer shows many
.

degrees of tempe rature the lowest pole,

being called cold‘

and the high es t
,
‘
hea t Between these tw o poles are many
.

“ ” “ ”
degrees of heat or cold call th em,

either and you are equally correct The .

“
higher of t w o degrees i s always warmer ,
“
while the lower is always colder There
—
i s no absolute standard all is a matter of
degree There is no place onthe the rm om
.

eter wh ere h eat ceases and cold begins It .

i s all a matter o f higher or lower vibra

“ ”
tions The very terms high and low
.
’ ‘
,

which we are compelled to use a re but ,

poles of the s ame thing the terms are rel

-

“ ” —
a tive So with East and West
. travel
a ro und the world in an eas tw a rd direction ,

an d youreach a po int whi c h is c a lled w e s

1 52 The K yba lios

at you r sta r ting point and your et ur nfrom

,

t ha t w es tw ard poin t Travel far en

. ou gh
No r th and youw ill fin
, d yourse lf tr a veling
So uth or Vice ve rsa
,
.

Light and Da rkness are poles of t he

them The mu . s ica l sc ale is t he sa me

startin g w ith “
C ”
y ou m o v e up w ar d un t il
y ou rea c h a nothe r
“
C ”
a nd so o
, n t h e
, di f
fc renees be tweenthe tw o ends of the b oa rd
being th e same w ith ma ny de gr ees bet w een
,

the t w o extremes The sc ale of c olo r is

.

—
th e same higher and lower Vib r ations
being the only di ff erence be tw eenhigh Vio
let and low red Large and Sm all a r e rel a
.

t ive So are N oi se and ! uiet ; Hard and

.

Soft follow the r ule Likewise Sha r p an

. d
Dull Pos itive and N ega tive a r e tw o poles
.

of the same thing with cou , ntless degr ee s

between them
Go od and Bad are n —
.

ot absolute w e ca ll
one end of the scale Good and the other
Bad or one end Good and the other Ev il
, ,

ac cording to the use of the terms A thing .

“ ”
is less good th an th e thing higher in the
1 54 The K ybalion

where Where youfind one thing youfind

—
.

it s opposit e the tw o poles .

And it is this fact that enables the Her

metist to transmute one mental sta te into
another along the lines of Polarization
,
.

Th ings belonging t o difi e r ent cla sse s can

not be transmuted into each othe r b ut ,

th ings of the same cla ss may b e changed ,

th at is m ay have their p ola rity change d

,
.

Thus Love n ever becom es East or West ,

o r Red o r Violet — but it may and O ften

does turn into Hate and likewise Ha te
may be t r ansform ed into Love by changing ,

it s polarity Courage may be transmuted

.

into Fear a nd th e reverse Hard things

, .

may be rendered Soft Dull things become

.

Sh arp Ho t things bec ome Cold And so

. .

on th e transmu t a t ion always b eing b e

,

tween things of the same kind of d i ff erent

degrees Take the case of a Fearful man
. .

By rais ing his mental vibrations along the

line o f Fear Courage he can be filled with
-
,

the highest degree of Courage and Fea r

lessness And likewi se the Slothful man
.
, ,

m ay c h a nge himself int o an Active Ene r ,

 P ola r ity 1 55

getic individual simply by p ola rizing along

,

the l ines of the desired quality .

The student w ho is familiar with the

p rocesses by which the various schools of
Mental Science etc p rodu ce change s in
, .
,

the mental states of tho se following their

teachings may not readily u, nderstand the
principle underlying m any of these
changes When however the Principle of
.
, ,

Polarity is once grasped and it is seen that ,

the mental changes are o cca sioned by a

change of polarity a sliding along the
same scale — the matter is more readily nu
de r st ood Th e change is not in the n
. a ture
of a transmutation of one th ing into an
other thing entirely d iff erent but is
merely a ch ange of degree in the same
things a vastly important diff erence F o r
, .

instance borrowi ng an analogy from the

,

Phys ical Plane it is imposs ible to change

,

Heat into Sh arpness Loudness Highness , , ,

e tc
.
,but Heat may readily be transmuted
into C old simply by lowering the vibra
,

ti ons In the same way Hate and Love are

.

mu tually t ransmutable ; so are Fear and

1 56 The K yb a lion

Courage But Fear cannot b e tran

. sfo rmed

into Love nor can Cou

, rage b e transmuted
into Hate The mental sta tes belong t o in
.

numerable classes each cla ss of which ha s

,

its opposite poles along which transm u

, ta
ti on i s possible .

The student w ill rea dily reco gnize t ha t

in the mental states as well a s inthe phe
,

nom ena of the Physica l Plane the tw o ,

pole s may b e classified as Po si tive an d

Negative res pectively Thus Love is Pos
, .

it iv e to Hate ; Co urage to Fear ; Activity

t o NonAct ivity etc e tc
-
, An d it wi ll also
.
, .

be noticed that even t o th ose unfamilia r

with the Principle of Vibrati on the Posi ,

tive pole seems to be of a high er degree

than the Negative and readily domina t es
,

it The tendency of N ature i s in th e dir ec

.

tion of the dominant activity of the Posi

tive pole .

In addition to t he changing of the poles

o f on e s ow nmental states by the operat i on
’

of the art of Polari zation the phenomena ,

o f Mental Influence in its m anifold phases

, ,

shows us that the p rinciple may be e x

1 58 The K yb alion

t ransmuted to Courage and simil ar p osi

tive mental states A little study will Show
.

you that these m enta l changes are nearly

all along the line of P olarization th e ,

change being one of degree rather than

of kind .

A knowledge of the existence of this

great Hermet ic Principle will enable the
student to better unders t and his own
mental states and th ose of other people
,
.

He will see th a t these states are all mat

ters of degree and seeing thus h e will b e
, ,

able t o ra i se or lower the vibration at will

-
to change hi s mental poles and thus b e ,

Mas ter o f hi s mental states instead of ,

being their servant and slave And by his .

knowledge he will be able to aid h is fellows

intelligently and by the appropriate meth
,

ods ch ange the polarity wh en the same is

desirable We advi se all s tudent s to famil

.

ia r ize themselves with thi s Pr inciple of P0

la r ity for a correct u
,
nders tanding o f the
same will throw l ight onma ny difficult sub
j ec t s
.
 CHAP TE R XI .

RH YTH M .

Ever hiyt ng o
fl ws ou t an d in; eve has it s
td t n
i es ; all hi gs rise an f ll
d a ; t he e p nd lum 5 g n
u ma i
f v yt ng
est s in e e r hi ; t he e asu
mre of w ng t o
t he s i t he
gt
ri h , is t he m u
eas r e of
t he s i w ng to ft yt m
t he le ; rh h
comp n t
e sa es .
- The K yb alion .

—
The great Fifth Hermetic P rincipl e the
—
P rinciple of Rhyt hm e mbodies the truth
that in ever yt hing there is manife sted a
measu r ed motion ; a t o and from move - -

ment ; a flow and inflow ; a swing forward

an d backward ; a p endulum like movement ; -

a tide l ike ebb and flow ; a high tide and a

- -

low tide ; between the tw o poles manifes t

- -

onthe physi cal mental o r sp i r itual p lanes

,
.

The Principle of Rhyt hm is closely con

ne ct ed with the Principle of Polarity de
scribed in th e preceding chapter Rhythm .

m ani fests between the t w o poles establ i shed

1 59
1 60 The Ky balion

by the Principle of Polarity This does .

not mean however that the pendu

, , lu m of
Rhythm swings t o th e extreme poles for ,

thi s rarely ha ppens ; in fac t it is difficult ,

t o e stablish the ext reme polar opp os i tes in

‘

the majority of ca se s But the swing is

.

ever toward first one pole and then th e

o ther .

There i s always an action and reacti on;

an advance and a re t reat ; a ri s ing and a
s inking ; manifested in all of the airs and
p henome n a of the Un iverse Suns worlds
.
, ,

men animals plants minerals forc es

, , , , ,

energy mind and matter yes even Spi rit

, , , ,

manifes t s this Principle The Princ iple

.

manifests in the crea tion and destr uction

o f worlds ; in the r ise an d fa ll of nat ions ;

in the life hi story of all things ; and fina lly

i n the mental sta tes of Man .

Beginning with th e manifestations of

— —
Spirit of THE ALL it w ill be no ticed
that there is ever th e O utpouring and th e
Indrawing ; t he Outbre athing and I n
”
brea thing of Brahm a s th e Brahm ans
,

word it Universes are created ; reach t he i r

.
1 62 The Kyb alion

a toms molec ules and all masses of ma t ter

, , ,

swing arou nd the circle of their nature .

There i s no such thh g a s absolute rest or ,

cessat ion from movement and all move ,

ment partakes of Rhythm The p rinciple .

i s of u niversal appl ication It may be ap

.

pli ed to any question or phenomena of any

,

o f th e many planes of l i fe It may be ap

.

pl ied to all ph ases of human activi t y .

Th ere i s always th e Rhythmic swing from

on e p ole to th e oth er The Universal Pen
.

dulum i s ever in moti on The Tides of.

Life flow in and out according to Law

, .

The Principle o f Rh ythm i s well u nder

s t ood by modern sci ence and i s cons idered
,

a un iversal law as appl ied to material

things But th e Herm etists carry th e pr in
.

c ip le much furth er and know th at its man

,

ife st a t ions and in fluence extend to the

m ental act iviti es of Man and th at i t a o
,

c ounts for th e bew i lder in g succession of

moods feel ings and other annoying and

,

perplexing changes that we notice in our

selves B u
. t th e Herm eti sts by studying
the Operations of thi s Principle have
 Rhy thm 1 63

learned to escape some of its activities b y

Tran smutation .

The Hermetic Masters long sinc e d i s

covered that while the Principle of Rhyt hm
was invariable and ever in evidence in
,

m ental phenomena still there were t w o

,

planes of i ts manifestati on s o far as menta l

phenomena are concerned Th ey discov .

ered that there were tw o general planes

of Consc i ousness th e Lower and the
,

Higher th e understanding of which fac t

,

enabled th em to ri se to the higher plane

and thus escap e the swing of th e Rhythmi c
pendulum which mani fested on the lower
plane In other words the swing of th e
.
,

pendulu m occurred on th e Unconscious

Plane and th e Consciousness was not a f
,

fec t ed This th ey c all th e Law of N eutrali

.

z a t ion Its operat i ons cons i st i n th e ra i s

.

ing of the Ego above th e vibrati ons of th e

Unconscious Plane of mental activity so ,

that the negative swing of the pendulum i s

-

not mani fested in consciousness and th ere

,

fore th ey are not a ffec ted It i s akin to

.

ri s ing above a thing and letting i t pass b e

 The Kyb ah on
'

1 64

nea th you The Hermetic Maste r or a d

.
,

van c ed stu dent polarizes himself a t the

,

des ired pole and by a process akin to

,

refusing to participa te inthe backw ard

sw ing or if youp r efe r, a denia l of it s
, ,
“ ”

influence over him he sta nds firm in hi s ,

pola r ized position, and allow s the menta l

pendu lum to swing back along the u ncon
sci ous plane All individu . a ls w ho h ave at
t a in ed any degree of self mast e ry aec o m -
,

p lish this mo r
, e or le s s u
n k n o w ingly , an d
by refusing to allow th eir moo ds and nega
t ive mental sta tes to a fi ect t hem they ,

a pply th e Law of Neutraliz a t ion The .

Master howeve r ca rries this to a mu

, , ch
higher degree of proficiency and by the ,

use of hi s Will he atta ins a degree of Poise

and Ment al Fi rmness almo st impos sible of
b el i ef on th e p art of tho se w ho all o w them
selves t o be swung back ward a nd fo rward
b y th e menta l p endu lum of moo ds and
fe el ings .

The importance of t his will b e appro

c ia t e d by any thinking pers on w ho rea lize s

what creatures of moods feelings and emo ,

1 66 The Kyb alion

swings although we may escape be ing car

,

ri ed along with it .

There are other features of th e o p erati on

of thi s Principle o f Rhythm of which we
wish to speak at thi s point There c ome s .

into it s operations that which is knowna s

th e Law of Compensation One of the defi .

nit ions or meanings of the word Com pen

sate i s to cou
”
,
‘
nterbal ance which is th e
”
,

sense in which th e Hermeti sts use the term .

It i s this Law of Compensati on to which

th e K yb a lion refers wh en i t says “
The
measure of th e swing t o the right is th e
measure of the swing to the left ; rhythm
compensa t es .

The Law of Comp ensati on i s th at th e

swing in one di rec tion determines the swing
in the oppos ite di recti on o r to th e oppos it e
,

—
pole th e one balances or c ount er b a l ,

an c e s th e oth er
, On th e Phys i cal Plane
.

we see many examples o f thi s Law Th e .

pendulum of the clock swings a certa in d is

tance to the right and th en an equal dis
,

tance to the left The seasons balance each

.

othe r in th e same way The t ide s follow.

 Rhy t hm 1 67

the same Law And the same Law i s m a n

.

ife st ed in all the phenomena of Rhythm .

The pendulu m with a short swing in one

,

direction has but a short swing in th e

,

oth er ; while the long swing to th e righ t

invariably means the long swing to th e left .

An objec t hurled upward to a certa i n

height has an equal di stance to traverse on
i ts return Th e force with which a p r o
.

j ec t ile is sent up ward a m i le is reproduced

when the p rojectile returns t o the earth on
i ts return journey This Law i s constant
.

o nth e Physic al Plane as reference to t h e

,

standard authorities will sh ow you .

But t he Hermetists carry it still further .

Th ey teach that a man s mental states are

’

subject to the same Law The man w ho .

enjoys keenly i s subject to keen su ff ering ;

,

while h e w ho feels but li ttle pain i s capable

o f feel ing but l i ttle joy Th e pig su ffers
.

but little menta lly and enjoys but little

,

he i s co mpens a ted And on the oth er h and

.
,

there a re other animals w ho enjoy keenly ,

but whose nervous organism and tempera

m en t cau se th em t o suff er exqui site de gre e s
1 68 The Kybalion

of pa in And so it i s with Man There a r e

. .

t emperaments which pe rmit of but low de

g r e es of enjoyment and eq uall

, y lo w de
grees of suffering ; while there ar e others
w hich permi t th e most inte nse enjoyment ,

but also th e most intense sufl er ing The .

rule i s th at th e capacity for painand pleas

ure in each individual are bal anced The
, ,
.

Law of Compensation is in full ope ra tion

here .

But the Hermetists go still further in

thi s m atter They teach that before one is
.

able t o enjoy a ce rtaindegree of pleasure ,

he must have swung a s fa r p ropo rtion ,

ately toward the other p ole of feeling

, .

Th ey hold however that the Negative is

, ,

prec edent t o the Positive in this matter ,

th at is t o say th at in exp eriencing a cer

tain degree of pleasure it does not follow
“ ”
that he will have to pay up for it with
a corresponding degree of pain ; on the c on
t r a r y th e pleasure i s the Rhythmic swin
, g ,

according to the Law of Compensation fo r ,

a de gree of pain p reviously exp erienced

e ither in the present life or in a previous ,
1 70 The Kybalion

it s pleasant and u npleasant sides : The

things tha t one ga ins are al ways paid for
by the things t hat one loses Th e rich pos .

se ss much t hat the poor lack while the ,

poor often posses s things that are beyond

t he rea ch of the rich The milli onai re may
.

have th e inc linati on toward feasting and ,

the wea lth whe r ewith t o secure all the dain

ties an d luxuries of the ta ble while he lacks,

the appetite t o enjoy the s ame ; he envies

the appe tite and digest i on of th e labo rer ,

w ho lacks the wea l t h and inclinati ons of

th e millionaire an
, d who gets more p leas
ure from his plain food thanthe mill ionaire
co u ld obtain even if hi s appeti te were not
jaded nor his digestion ruined for the
, ,

want s habits and inclinations diff er And

, .

s o it i s through l ife Th e Law of Com p en

.

sation i s ever in operati on s t riving t o bal

,

ance and counter balance and always suc

-
,

ce edin g in time even

, th ough several l i ves
may be required for the return swing of
the Pendu lum of Rhythm .
 CHAPTER XII

Ever y Cau
se has it s ever y
Efl sct has it s
to Law ; Chance is
bu
t a t ar e ma ny
planes of u ca sati on , but p
esca es t he Law .

The K yb alion .

The great Six th Hermetic Principle— the

—
Principle of Cause and E ff ect e mbodies
th e t r uth tha t Law pervade s t he Universe ;
that nothing happens by Ch ance ; that
Ch ance is merely a te rm in dicating cau se

exi sting b u t not recogn ized or p erceived ;

th at phenomena is continu ous withou t ,

break or exception .

Th e Prin ciple of C ause and Efi ect n u

d er lie s all scientific though t an cient and ,

m odern and w as enu

, nciate d by t he Her
metic Tea che rs inthe earliest days While .

m a ny and var ied disputes b e tw een the

1 71
 The K y b ah on
’

1 72

many school s of thought have since arisen ,

these di sputes ha ve be en p rincip ally upon

the details of the operations of the P rin
c ip le and still more often u
, pon the mean
in g o f certa inw ord s The
. unde rl ying Prin
c ip le o f Cause and E ff ect has beenaccep t ed

as correc t by p ractically all the thinkers of

the world worthy of the na me To think .

otherwise wou ld be t o take the ph eno men

'
a
of the u niverse from the domain of Law
and O rder and to relega te it to the control
,

of the imaginary something which men

have ca lled Chance .

A l i ttle consideration will show anyone

that there is in reality no su ch thing a s
pure Chance Webs t er define s the word
.

“
Chance a s follows : A supp o sed agent
” “

or mode of activity o t h er than a force l aw ,

or pu rpo se ; the o pe ration o r activity of

such agent ; the supposed efi ect of such

an agent ; a happening ; fo rtuity ; ca sual t y ,

etc. But a little considerationwill show

you that there can be no such agent as
Ch an ce inthe sense of something out
—
,

s ide of Law something outside of Cause

1 74 The Kyb alion

r ela ted to any cau se An d this is the sense

.

in which the ter m is generally employed .

But when the matter is clo sely examined ,

it is seen that there is no chance what

soever about the fall of the dice E ach .

t ime a die falls and displays a certai n

,

number it obeys a law as infallible as that

,

which governs the revolution of the planets

around the su n Back of the fall of th e
.

die are causes or chains of causes running

, ,

back fu rther than th e mind can follow The .

pos it ion of the di e in th e b ox ; th e amount

of mus cular energy expended in the th row ;
th e condition of the table etc etc all are
, .
, .
,

causes th e e ff ect of which may be seen

,
.

But back of these seen causes there are

cha ins of u nseen preceding causes all of ,

which h ad a bearing upon the number of

th e die which fell uppermost .

If a die be cast a great number of times ,

it will be found that th e numbers shown

will be about equal that i s there will b e
, ,

an equal number of one spot two spot etc

-
,
-
, .
,

coming uppermost Toss a penny in th e

.

“ ”
a i r and it may come down ei th er heads
,
 C ausa t ion 1 75

“ ”
or tails ; but make a suffic ient numbe r
o f tosses and the heads and ta ils will about
,

even up This i s the operation of the law

.

o f average But both the average and th e

.

single toss come u nder the Law of Cause

and E ffect and if we were able t o examine
,

into the p receding causes it would be ,

clearly seen that it was sim ply imposs ible

for the die to fall other than it did under ,

the same circumstances and at the same

t ime Given the same causes the same r e
.
,

su lt s wil l follow There i s always a .

“ ” “ ”
cause and a because to every event .

Nothing ever happens without a cause ‘

,

or rather a chain of causes .

Some confusion has ar i sen in the minds

of persons cons idering this Pr inciple from ,

the fact that they were unable to exp lain

how one thing cou ld cause another thing
“ ”
that is be the creato r of the second
,

th ing As a matter o f fact no thing

.
“ ”
,
“
ever causes o r creates another thing ‘
.

Cause and E ff ect deals merely wi th

events ”
An event
“
.
” “
is that which
c omes arri ves or happens as a result or
, ,
1 76 The Kybalion

consequent of some preceding event N0 .

”

even t creat es another event b u t is

,

merely a preceding link inthe grea t o rde rly

chain of event s flow ing fr om t he creat ive
energy of TH E ALL There is a cont in
.

uity between all events precedent conse ,

quent and subsequ ent The re is a relation

.

existin g between everything that has go ne

before and eve rything that follows A
, .

s tone is dislo dged from a mountain side

an d c rashes through a roof of a cottage in
the valley belo w At first s ight we rega r d
.

this as a chance eff ect but whenw e exam

,

ine the matte r we find a grea t chain of

causes behind it I nthe first place t here
.

was the rain which softened the ea rth su p

p orting the stone and which allowed it t o
fall ; then back of that w as the influence of
th e sun other rains etc which gradually
, , .
,

disintegrated the piece of rock from a

larger p iece ; then there were the cau s es

which led t o the forma tion of the mo u ntain ,

and its upheaval by convu ls ions of nature ,

and so onad infinitu m .Th en we might fol

low up th e causes behind the ra in etc , .
1 78 The Ky balion

events hu ndreds of years from no w One .

o f t he se rie s of ev ent s a rising from t he tiny

bit of soot w as the writing of these lines ,

which caused the typ esetter to p erform

certainwo rk ; the proofreader to do like
wise ; and which will a rouse ce rtain
thou ghts inyou r mind and tha t of others
, ,

which in turn will afi ect others and so on , ,

and on and on beyond the abili ty of m an

, ,

—
to think fu rth er and all from the pass age
of a tiny bit of s oot all of wh ich shows
,

the relativit y and associati on of things ,

and the further fact that there is no

great ; there is no small ; in the mind that
”
causeth all .

Stop to think a moment If a ce rtain

.

manha d n ot met a certain maid away back

,

in the dim p erio d of the Stone Age you —

w ho are n ow rea ding the se l ines wo u ld not
now be here And if perhaps the s ame
.
, ,

cou ple had fa iled to meet we who now

,

write these lines wou ld not now be here .

And the very act of writin g onour part

, ,

and the act of reading on yours will a ff ect

, ,

not only the respective l ives of yourself and

 C au
s a t io n 1 79

ourselves b u t will also have a di rec t or

, ,

indi rect afi ect u

, pon m any other pe ople
now living and who will live in the ages to
come Ev ery tho u
. gh t we think every act ,

we perfor m has its direct and indir ect t e

,

su lts which fit into t he gr ea t chainof Cau se

and Efi ec t .

We do not wish to enter into a cons ider

ation o f Free Will or Deter min ism in this
-
, ,

work for variou

, s reas ons Among the .

many reas ons is the principal one that ,

neither s ide of the cont rove rsy is entirely

—
right in fact both sides ar e partia lly ,

right ac cording to the Hermetic Teach

,

ings The Pr inciple of Polari ty s hows

—
.

tha t both a r e b ut H alf T ru s the oppos

th -

ing poles of Tru th The Teachings are .

that a manmay be bo th Free and yet bo und

by Necessity depending upon the meanin
, g
of the te rms and t he height of Truth from
,

which the matter is examined The an .

cient wr iters express the ma tter thus

The fu rther the creation is from the
Centre t he more i t is bound ; the nearer
,

the Centre it reaches the nearer Free i s ,

it
.
1 80 The K yba lion

The ma jority of peop le ar e mo re or less

the slaves of he redity envi ronment et c
, , .
,

and mani fe st ve ry litt le Freedom They .

are swayed by t he opinions cu sto ms an

, d
thoughts of t he ou tside world and al so by ,

their emotion s fee lin

, gs moo ds etc They , , .

ma ni fest no Mas tery wor thy of the nam e

, .

They indignan tly repu dia te this asse rtion ,

saying Why I certain

“
ly am fre e t o ac t
—
, ,

an d do as I plea se I do j u st wha t I wa nt

t o do , but they fail t o explain whence

“ ” “ ”
a r ise the want to and as I please .

What makes them want to do one thing

“ ”

in p reference t o ano ther ; what makes them

“ ”
pl ease to do this and not do that ! I s
,

the re no becau
“
se
’
to their plea sing
“ ”

and wanting i The Maste r can change

’’

these pl eases and wants into othe rs

“ “ ”

at the oppo site end of the mental pole He .

“
is able t o Will t o will ”
ins te ad of t o w ill
,

becau se some feelin g m ood , emotion or , ,

environ mental suggestionarouses a tend

en cy or desire withinhim so to do .

The majori ty of p eople a re carried alon g

like the fall ing st one obedient to environ
,
1 82 The Ky b alion

But, n higher and on lower the La w

o ,

is alw ays inope ra tion . Th ere is no su ch

things as Chanc e The blind goddess has

.

beenabolished by Reason We are able to.

see n ow ,wit h eyes made clea r by knowl

edge tha t eve r ythin g i s gove r ned by Un
,
i
—
ver sal Law that t he infinite numbe r of
l aws a re b u t ma n if esta ti ons of the One
—
Grea t Law the LAW which is THE AL L .

It is true indeed that not a sparrow dr op s

unnoticed by the M ind of TH E ALL that —
even the hairs on our head are numbered
a s the scrip t ures have said There is noth
.

ing outside o f Law ; no thing that happe ns

contra ry to it And yet do not make the
.
,

mistake of supp osing that Man is but a

—
blind automaton far from that The H er .

metic Teachings are that Man may use

Law to overcome laws and that the higher
,

will always prevail against the lower until ,

at last he has reached the stage in which

he seeks refuge in th e LAW it self and ,

lau ghs the phenomenal laws to scorn Ar e .

y ou able to grasp the inner meaning of

this !
 CHAPT E R XIII .

Ge n deris in everyt hin , ever ything h as it s Mas cu

line an nn P n p
d F emi i e r i ci es Ge nder manifest s on a ll
planes .
- The K yb a lio n
.

The great Seventh Hermetic Principle

—
the P rinciple of Gender embo dies the
truth that there is Gender mani fested in
—
everyt hing that the Mascu l ine and Femi
nine p rinciples are ever p resent and active
in all ph a ses of phenomena on eac h and ,

every plane of life At this point we t hink

.

it well to ca ll your attention to the fact

that Gender in it s Hermetic sense and Sex
, ,

i n the ordinarily acc epted use of the term ,

are not the sam e

x
.

“
The word Gender is derived fr om the
Latin root mean ing “
to beget ; to pro
c reate ; to
gen erate ; t o cr e a t e ; to p r o d uce .

1 88
1 84 The K y b a lion

A moment s c on sidera t ion w i ll show yo u

’

tha t the wor d has a mu ch broa de r and m o re

genera l mean ing t hanthe te rm Sex , the
“ ”

la tt er r e ferr ing t o the physica l distinctions

is merely a manifesta t ionof Gende r ona

cer t ain plane of the Grea t Physica l Plane
t he plan e of organ ic life We wish t o im
.

p ress this distinctionu ponyou r minds for ,

the reason that ce r t ain w riters who have ,

acq uired a smatte ring of the Herme tic Phi

losophy have sought to iden
, t ify this Sev
en th Herme ti c Principl e with w ild and fan
c ifu l and often reprehensible theo ries an
, , d
tea chings regarding Sex .

The oflice of Gende r is so lely that of or e

a ting producing generating etc and its
, , , .
,

manifes tations are visible on every plane

of phenomena It is somewha t difi cu
. lt t o
produce proofs of this along sc ientific lines ,

fo r the reason that science ha s not a s yet

recognized this Principl e a s of u nive rsa l
application But still some proofs a re
.

forthcoming from scientific sources I nthe .

fir st place w e fin ,d a d istinct manifestation

1 86 The Kyb alion

Negative Poles of Elect ricity ( ao

ca l led )
.

N ow a word at this point regarding this

identification The public mind has formed
.

an entirely erroneous imp ression regard

ing the qualities of the so called N ega
-
‘

tive pole of electrified or magnetized

Matter The terms Pos itive and Nega tive
.

are very wrongly appli ed to th is phenom

en nonby science The word Pos itive means
.

something real and strong as compared ,

with a N egative unreali ty o r weakness .

N othing i s further from the real facts of

elec trica l phenomena The so c alled N ega
.
-

tive pole of the ba ttery i s really the pole in

and by which the generation or p roduction
of new forms and energies is manife sted .

“
There is no th ing negative about it The
’
.

best scientific authori ties now use the word

“ ” “ ”
Cathode in place of Negative the,

word Cathode coming from th e Greek root

“
meaning descent ; the p ath of generat ion ,
”
et c
. From the Cathode pole emerge the
swa rm of electrons or corpuscles ; from the
”
same pole emerge those wonderful rays
 Gender 1 87

which have revolutionize d sc ientific concep

ti ons during the past decade The Cathode.

pole i s t he Mo ther of all of the strange

phenomena whic h h ave rendere d u seless the
old t ext bo oks and whi ch have c au
-
, sed many

long accepted theories to be relegated to

th e scrap p ile of scientific spec ulation The
-
.

Cathode or Negative Pole is the Mo th er

, ,

Principle of Electrica l Phenomena anJ of ,

the finest forms of matte r as yet known to

science So you see we are justified in
.

refusing to use the te rm N egative

“ ”

our considerati on of the subject and in ,

insist ing upon substituting the word

“ ”
Feminine for the old te rm The facts .

of the cas e bea r us ou t in this without tak

,

ing the Hermetic Teachings into c onsid

e r a t ion
. An d so w e shall u se t he word
“
F em m ine inthe place of Negat ive in
” “ ”
'

speaking of that pole of activity .

The latest sc ientific teachin gs a r e that

the creative corpuscles o r electrons are
Feminine ( sc ience says they a r e com
po sed of negative e lectricity ”
w e say -

they are co m po sed o f Feminine energy ) .

1 88 The Kyb alson
'

A Feminine c o rpu sc le becomes det ac he d

from or ra the r leaves a Masc u

, , lin e c or p u s

c le an
, d sta r ts ona n ew c ar ee r
. I t a ct iv ely
seeks a u nionw i th a Masc u lin e c o rpu sc le,

being urged the re t o by the na t u r al im pu lse

t o c rea t e n ew for ms of Ma tt e r or En e rgy .

On e w rit e r goes so far as t o u se the t e r m

‘
i t a t onc e seeks of its ow n volition a
, ,

union etc This detac hm ent and u

, . niting
fo r m the bas is of the grea t e r pa r t of the
activit ies of the chemical world Whenthe .

Femin ine corp usc le unites w ith a M asen

line co r puscle a ce rtain p rocess is begu
, n.

The Feminine pa r ticle s vibra te ra pi dly

unde r th e influence of th e Masc u line en
orgy and circl e ra pi dly a ro u
, nd the lat te r .

The result is t he birth of a n ew at o m .

This new atom is really composed of a

u nionof the Ma sc uline and Feminine ele c
t rons o r corpuscles b u
, , t whenthe u m on1 8
fo rmed the atom is a sepa rate thing hav ,

in g ce r t ain p ro p e r t i e s
, but n o lon g e r ma n i
festing the p rope rty of free electricity .

The p rocess of detachm ent or separa tion

of the Feminine electrons i s called ion ‘
iza
1 90 The Ky b alion

garding the ope rationof t he tw o p rinciples

of Gende r in the producti on and manifesta
tion of various fo rms of energy etc b ut
, .
,

we do not deem it exp edient to go into

detail regarding the same at this po int ,

becaus e we are u nable to back u p the same

with sc ientific proof fo r the reason that
,

scien c e ha s not a s yet progressed thu s far .

But the example w e have given you of the

phenomena of the electrons or corpuscles
will show youthat science is on the right
path a nd will also give you a genera l idea
,

of the u nderlying p rinciples.

Some leading scientific investiga to rs

have announced their belief that in t he
forma ti on of crystals there w as to be found
something that corresponded t o sex

activity which is another straw showing

,

the d irection the scientific winds a re blow

ing And each yea r will bring othe r facts
.

to corroborate the correctness of the Her

metic Principle of Gender It w ill be found
.

that Gende r is in constant operation and

manifestation inthe field of inorganic mat
ter and int he field of Energy o r Force
, .

E lec tricity is now gene rally regarded as

 Gender 1 91

th e “
Something into which all o the r
forms of energy seem t o melt o r dissolve .

The El ect rical Theo ry of the Universe ’

is the latest scientific doctrine and is grow

,

ing rapidly inp opu la rity and general ao

c ep t ance
. An d it thus follows that if w e
are able to discover in the phenomena of
—
electricity even a t the very root and
—
source of it s manifestations a c lea r and
unmistakable evidence of the p res ence of
Gender and its activit ies we are jus tified
,

in asking youto bel ieve that science at l ast

has o ffered p roofs of the existence in all
universal phenomena of that great Her
r —
metic P inciple the Principle of Gender .

It is not necessary t o take up your time

with the well known phenomena of the
attraction an d repulsion of the a toms ;
’

chemical affinity ; the loves and hates

‘

of the atomic particles ; the attraction or

cohesion between the molecules of matter .

These facts are too well known to n eed

extended comment from us But have you
.
,

ever considered that all of these things are

ma nifestations of the Gender Principle !
1 92 Th e Kyb alion

C a n you not see that the phenomena is

onall fo u
”
rs with that of the corpuscles
or elect rons ! And more th an this can you
,

not see the reasonableness of the Hermet ic

Teachings which asse r t th at the very Law
—
of Grav ita tion tha t st range attraction by
reason of which all par ticles and bodies of
matte r in the u niverse tend towa rd each
—
other is but another manifestation of the
Principle of Gende r which op erates in the
,

direc tion of attracting the Mascu line to the

Feminine energies and vice versa l We
,

cannot ofi er yousc ientific p roof of this at

—
this time bu t examine the phenomena i n
the light of the He rmetic Teachings onthe
subject and see if youhave not a better
,

working hyp othesis than any ofi er ed by

physical science Submit all physica l phe
.

nomens t o the test and you w ill discern

,

the Principle of Gender ever in evidence .

Let us now pas s on to a consideration o f

the operation of the Principle onthe Men
tal Plane Many interesting features are
.

there awaiting examination .

1 94 The Ky b a lion

minds the active and pass ive minds ,

e tc etc The theori es of the various

.
, .

w r it ers di ffer from each o ther but there ,

remains the underlying principle of th e

”
duality of mind .

The student of th e Hermet ic Philosophy

is temp t ed t o smile when he reads and hears
“
o f th ese many new theor ies regarding
’

the dual ity of m ind each school adh ering

,

tenaciously t o it s ow n pet theori es and ,

“
each cla iming t o h ave di scovered the
”
truth . The s tudent turns back th e pages
o f occult h i s t o r y and away back in the dim
,

beginnings of occult t eachings he finds ref

e r en ce s t o th e a nc i ent Hermet i c doctrine

o f th e Pr inc iple of Gender on the Mental

—
Plane the manifes t ation of Mental Gen
der And examining furth er h e finds t hat
.

the ancient p hilosophy took cognizance of

“ ”
th e phenomenon of th e dual m ind and ,

accounted fo r it by th e theory of Mental

Gender Thi s i dea of Mental Gender may
.

be expla ined in a few words t o student s

w ho are fami li ar with th e modern th eor i e s
just alluded t o The Mascul ine Principle
.
 M ent a l G ender 1 95

of Mind corresponds to the so c alled Oh -

j e c t iv e M i nd ; C onsc i ous Mind ; V oluntary

Mind ; Active Mind etc And the Femi , .

nine Principle of Mind corresponds t o the

so called Subjective Min
-
d ; Sub conscious -

Mind ; Invol u ntary Mind ; Pass ive Mind ,

etc O f course the Hermetic Teachings do

.

not agree with the many modern theories

regarding the nature of the two phases of
mind no r does it admit many of the facts
,

claimed for the two respective a spec ts

some of the said theories and claims being
ve ry far fetched and incapable of standing
-

the test of ex p eriment and demonstration .

We point to the phases of agreement

merely fo r the purp ose of helping the stu
dent to assimilate hi s previously acqu ired
knowledge with the teachings of the Her
metic Philosophy Stu dents of Hudson will
.

notice the statement at the beginning of h i s

“
second chapter of The Law of Psychic
Phenomena ,that The mystic ja rgon
of the He rmetic philo so phe r s di sclose s th e

same genera l idea — i e the duality of

’
. .
,

m ind If Dr Hud son had t aken the time

. .
1 96 The Kyb alion

and trouble to decipher a little of the

mystic jargon of the Her metic Philoso
phy he might have received much lig ht
,

upon th e subject of the dua l mind —b ut

then pe rhap s his m ost interesting work
, ,

might not have been written Let u . s n ow

cons ider the Hermetic Teac hings regard

ing Mental G ender .

The Hermetic Teache rs impa rt their in

struction regarding this subjec t by bidding
thei r students exam ine the repo r t of their
consciousness regar ding thei r Self The .

students a r e hiddento tu rn their attention

inward upon the S elf dwel ling within eac h .

Each student i s led to see that his con

sc iousn e ss gives h im first a repo r t of the
—
existence of his Self the repo r t is I
Am ”
. This at first seems to b e the final
words from the consciousness but a li ttle
,

further examination di scloses the fact tha t

“ ”
this I Am m ay be separated o r split
into two distinct p a rts or aspects, which
,

while working in unison and in conj u nct ion

,

yet nevertheless may b e separated incon

, ,

sc iou sne ss .
1 98 The Kybalion

as being certa in knowledge gathered to

gether inhis mind and t hus forming a pa rt
,

of him self Thi s is the Me of a man

.
“ ”
.

But we have proceeded too hast ily The .

Me of many men may be said to consi st

”

largely of thei r consciousness of the body

an d th eir physical appetites etc Their
, .

conscio u sness being la rgely bound u p with

thei r bodily nature th ey practically live
,
‘

there .
”
Some m en even go so fa r a s to
regard their personal apparel as a p art of
their Me and actually seem to consider
,

it a pa r t of themselves A writer has hu.

m orou sly said that men consi st of three

‘

—
p arts sou l body and cloth es
, Th ese .

”
clothe s co nscious people would lose
thei r personali ty if divested of thei r cloth
ing by savages upon the occas ion of a ship
wreck But even many who are not so
.

closely bound up with the idea of personal

raiment stick clo sely to the consciousnes s
“ ”
of their bodies being t hei r Me They .

can not conceive of a Self independent of

the body Thei r mind seems t o them to be
.

practically a something belonging to

 M ent a l G ende r 1 99

—
their body which in many cases it i s in
deed .

But as man ri ses in the scale of con

sc iou sne ss h e is able to disentangle h i s
“ ”
Me from his idea of body and is able ,
“ ”
t o think of his body as belonging to th e
mental part of him But even then h e i s
.

very apt t o ident ify the Me entirely

w ith the men t al sta t es feelings etc which
, , .
,

he feels to exist within him He is ver y ap t

.

t o consi der th ese internal states as iden

tical wit h himself instead of thei r bei ng
,
”
simply things produced by some part of
‘

hi s mental ity and exi s ting withi n him

,
“
o f him and in him but still not
, ,
himself .

He sees that h e may change these internal

s ta t es of feelings by an e fi or t of will and ,

tha t he may produce a feel ing or s tate of

an exactly oppos ite nature in the same ,

way and yet th e same Me exists And

,
“ ”
.

so aft er a while he is able t o set a side

these various mental states emoti ons , ,

feelings habits qualiti es characteristic s

, , , ,

and other persona l mental belongings he —

“ ”
is able t o set them aside in the not me -
2 00 The K yb alion

co llectionof cur iosities and encu mbrances ,

as well as va lu able possessions This r e .

qu i res mu ch mental conc entration and

powe r of ment al analysis on the part of
the stu dent B u. t still the t a sk is p o ssibl e
for the advanced student and eventhose ,

not so far advanced a r e able t o see inthe ,

imagination how the p rocess may b e per

,

formed .

After this laying a side proc ess has bee n

-

performed the student w ill find him self in

,
“ ”
conscious possess ion of a Self which
may be considered in its I and Me“ ” “ ”

dual aspects Th e Me will be felt t o be

.
“ ”

a Something mental in which thoughts ,

ideas emotions feel ings and othe r mental

, , ,

states may be produced It may b e consid .

as the an
“
ered a s the mental wom
cien —
t s s tyled it capable of generatin g men
tal ofi sp ring It reports t o the conscious
.

ness as a Me with latent powers of crea

‘ ’

tion and generation of mental p ro geny of

all sorts and kin ds I t s powers of crea tive
.

energy are felt to be enormous B u t still .

it seems to be conscious that it mu st r e

202 The K y b alion

t ion and ge ne ra t ion . Th e r e is t his dual

asp ect in t he m ind y person The
of e v e r .

“
I re p r esents the Mascu
”
line P r incip le of
—
Menta l Gende r t he Me re pres ents the ’

Fema le Pr inc iple The I represents the

.

“ ”
Asp ec t of Be in g ; t he Me the Aspec t of
Bec oming Y ouw ill no tice that the Pr in
.
.

c iple o f Co r r e spo nd ence oper ate s on thi s

plane just as it does upon the grea t plane
upo n which the crea ti on of Universes i s
per for med The tw o a re similar in kind
.
,

a l t ho u
g h vas tly difi e r ent in deg ree A s .

a bo ve so below ; as below s o above

, , .

These a spec ts o f mind—the Mascu l ine

—
and Feminine Principles the I and th e
Me — considered in connec tion with th e
well known mental and psychic phenomena
-
,

give the master key t o these dimly known

-

regions of menta l oper ati on and man ifes ta

tion The principle of Mental Gender gives
.

the truth underlying the whole field of th e

phenomena of menta l influenc e etc , .

The tendency of the F eminine Principle

i s always in the di rec ti on of receiving im
press i ons while th e tendency of the Mas
,
 Ment al G ender 2 03

culine P rinciple is always in the direction

of giving out or expressing Th e Femi
, .

nine Principle has a much more varied field

of operati on than has the Masculine Prin
c ip le . The Feminine Principle conduct s
the work of generating new though ts con ,

capts ideas including the work of the im

, ,

agin a t ion
. The Masculine Principle con
tents itself with the work of the Will ‘
,

inits vari ed phases And yet wi th out the

.

active a i d of the Will of the Masculine

Principle the F eminine Principle i s apt t o
,

rest content with generating mental im ages

whi ch are the result of impress i ons re
c eiv ed from outs i de instead of producing
,

original mental creations .

Persons who can give continued att ention

and thought to a subject actively employ
—
both of the Mental Pr inciples the Femi
nine in the work of active mental genera
tion and the Ma scul ine Will ins timulating
,

an d energizing the crea tive portion of the

mind The majority of persons really em
.

ploy the Mascul ine Principle b ut li ttle and,

a re content to live according t o th e

204 The K yb alion

thought s and ideas instilled into the Me

from the I of other minds B u
“ ”
t it is
.

not our purpo se to dwell u pon this phase

of the subject which may b e stu
, died from
any good text book u
-
pon psychology with ,

the key that we have givenyourega rding

Mental Gender .

The stu dent of Psychic Phenomena is

aware of the wonderfu l phenomena classi
fied under the hea d of Telepa thy ; Thou ght
Transference ; Mental In fluence ; Su gg es

ti on ; Hypnoti sm etc M any have sought

, .

for an explanation of t hese varied pha ses

of phenomena under the theories of the
various dual mind teacher s And in a
“ ”
.

measure they are r ight for there is clea rly

,

a manifestation of tw o distinct phases of

mental activi ty But if such stu
. dents will
consider these dual minds in the light
“ ”

of the Hermetic Teachings r ega rding Vi

b r a tions and Mental Gender they will see
,

that the long sought for key is at hand .

In the phenomena of Telepathy it is seen

how th e Vibra t ory Energy of the Mascul ine
Principle is projec ted toward the Feminine
206 The K yb alion

minds a n d wills of o t her pe rson s, w hom

they allow to do their thinking and willing

for them . H ow few o r igin a l t h oughts or
o ri ginal actions a re per for med by the a ver
age pe rson ! Ar e not t he majori ty of pe r
sons mere shadows and echoes of others
hav ing stronge r w ill s or m in ds thanthem
selves ! The tr ouble is tha t the a vera ge
per son dwells a lmo st altogether in his
Me consciou s ness, an d does n ot re a lize

th at he ha s su ch a thing a s an He i s
pola rized in his Feminine Principle of
Mind, and the Masculine Principle , in
which is lodged the Will , is allowed t o r e
maininactive and not employed .

The strong men and women of th e world

invariably manifest the Mascul ine Princi
ple of Will and their stre ngth depends
,

materially upon this fact Ins t ead of l iv

.

ing upon t he impressi ons made upon thei r

minds by others they dominat e the ir ow n
,

minds by their Will obtaining the kind of

,

mental images desired and moreover dom

,

ins t e the minds of others likewi se in th e

,

same manner Look at the st rong people

.
,
 M ent a l Ge nde r 207

how they manage t o implant thei r seed

th oughts in the minds of the masses of th e
people thus caus ing th e latter to think
,

thought s in accordance with the desires

and wi lls of the st rong individuals This i s .

why th e masses of people are such sh eep

l ike creatures never originat ing an idea of
,

th ei r ow n nor using their ow np owers of

,

mental activity .

Th e manifestati on of Mental Gender may

be noticed all around us in everyday life .

Th e magneti c persons are those who are

able to use the Mascul ine Principle in th e
way of impress ing th eir ideas upon o thers .

The actor who makes people weep or cry

as h e will s is employing this principle
,
.

And so i s the successful orator statesman , .

preach er writer or other people who are

,

before th e public attention The peculiar .

influence exerted by some people over oth

ers i s due to the manifestation of Mental
Gender along th e Vib r a t or ial l ines above
,

indic ated In this princip le l i es the secret

.

of personal ma gnetism personal influence , ,

fascination etc a s well as the ph enomena

, .
,
m The K yb alion

gene ra lly groupe d unde r t h e name of H yp

”
o f as p y
s c hic w ill have discove red the

Sugg e stion ,
by w hi ch t e r m is mea nt t h e

pr oc ess or method w hereb y an idea is

t ransfe rred t o or impres sed upon the
“
,
”

mind of another cau sin g the second mind

,

to act inacco rdan ce ther ewith A corr ect .

in order t o int elligently compr ehend the

varied psychical phenomena which Sugges
t ion underl ies But still more is a knowl
.
,

edge of Vibration and Mental Gender nec

essar y for the student of Suggesti on F or .

th e whole p rinciple of Suggestion depends

upon th e principle of Menta l Gender and
Vibra t ion .

It is customar y for the writers and

teachers of Suggest ion to explain tha t it i s
the objective or voluntary mind which
‘ ’

make the mental impress ion or suggestion, ,

21 0 The Kybalion

c apable of intelligent classification and

s tudy instead of being very mu
, ch in the
dark The principle works out in p r ac
.
“ ”

tice because it is based u

, p on the im m ut a
ble universal laws of life .

We shall not enter into an extended di s

cu s sion of o r des c ription of
, the varied ,

phenomena of mental influence o r p sychic

activi ty There are many books many of
.
,

them quite good which have been written

,

and published onthis subjec t of lat e years .

The main facts stated in the se var i ous

books are correct although the several ,

wri ters have attempted t o expl ain the phe

nom ena by various pet theories of their
ow n . The student may acqua int himself
with these matters and by using the theory
,

of Mental Gender he will be able t o bring

order out of the ch aos of conflict ing theory
and teachings and may moreover readily
, , ,

make himself a master of the subject if he

b e so incl ined The purpo se of thi s work
.

i s not to give an extended account of p sy

chic phenomena but rather t o give t o th e
,

student a master key whereby he may nu

-
 Ment a l Gende r 21 1

lock the many doors leading into the part s

Of the Temple Of K nowledge whi ch he may
wish t o explore We feel that in thi s c on
.

s ideration Of the teachings Of The K yb al

ion one may find anexplanati on which w ill
,

serve to clear away m any perplexing difli

cu —
lties a key th at will unlock many doors .

Wh at is the use Of going into detail r e

garding all of the many features of psychic
ph enomena and mental science provi ded ,

we place in the h ands of the student the

means whereby he m ay acquaint himself
fully regarding any pha se Of the subject
which may interest him With the aid Of
.

The K yb alion one may go through any

occult library anew the old Light from
,

Egyp t illuminating many dark pages and ,

obscure subjects Tha t is the purpose Of

.

thi s book We do not come expou

. nding a
new philosophy but rather furnishing the
,

outlines Of a gr eat world Old teach ing

-

which will make clea r the teachings Of

—
others which will serve as a Great Recon
c iler O f difi erin theorie s and O pposing
g ,

doctrine s
.
21 4 The K yb a lion

from The K yb alion which sta tes it forc i

,

bly K nowledge wi thout Use and Expres

.

s ion is a va in thing br inging no goo d t o

,

it s possessor or to the rac e Be ware Of

, .

Menta l Miserl iness and expres s int o Ao

,

ti on th at which youh ave lea rned Study .

the Axi oms and Aph orisms but p ractic e ,

them also .

We give below some Of the more impo r

t ant Hermetic Axioms from The K yb alion , ,

with a few comments added t o ea ch Make .

these your ow n and pra cti ce and use them

, ,

for they are not really your ow nu ntil you

h ave U sed them .

TO change your mood or menta l sta te

change your vibra tion — The K yb alion . .

One may change hi s mental vibrations

by an e fi ort Of Will in the direction Of ,

deliberately fixing the Attention upon a

more desirable state Will directs the At .

tention and Attention changes the Vibra

,

tion Cultivate the Art Of Attention by

.
,

means Of the Will and you have solved

,

the secret Of the Maste ry Of Moods and

Mental States .
 H er me tic Ax ioms 21 5

To destr oy an u ndesir able rat e of

m en ta l vib rat ion put in t o ope rat ion t he
,

Pr inciple of Polarity and con cen tr at e upon

the opposit e pole t o t hat which youdesire
to suppress . K ill out the u ndesirable by
c h ang ing its polarit y — The K yb alion
. .

Th is is one Of the most importa nt Of t he

H ermetic Formulas It is based u . pontr u e

scientific principles We h ave s how n you
.

that a mental state and its oppos it e were

merely the t w o poles Of one thing and ,

that by Menta l Transmuta tion the polarity

might be reversed Thi s principle is known
.

t o modern psychologists w ho apply it t o ,

the breaking up Of u ndes i rable habits by

bidding their students concentrat e upon the
opposite qualit y If youare possessed Of
.

Fear do not waste tim e tr ying to kill

,
“

ou t Fear but instead cu

, ltivate the qu al
ity Of Courage and the Fear w ill disap
,

pear Some wri ters have exp ressed thi s

.

i dea most forcibly by using the illustration

Of the dark room Y ou do not h ave t o
.

sh ovel ou t or swee p ou t the Darkn ess but ,

b y merely opening the shutters and l

21 6 The K yb a lion

ting in th e Light the Darkness has disap

pe e red TO kill out a Negative qual i ty
.
,

c oncentrate upon the Posi tive Pole Of tha t

same qual ity and the vibra ti ons will grad

,

ua lly change from Negative t o Pos itive ,

u nt il fina lly youwill become p ola rized on

the Pos itive pole ins t ead of the Negative .

The rever se is also true as many have ,

found out t o their sorrow when they have

,

allowed themselves t o vibrate t oo con

st an t ly on th e Nega tive pole Of th ings By
.

changing your p olarity you may mas t er

your moods change your mental sta t es r e
, ,

make your disposition and buil d up char

,

acter Much Of the Mental Mas tery Of the

.

advanced Hermetics i s due t o this appl ica

ti on Of Polarity which is one Of the impor
,

tant aspects of Mental Transmutation .

Remember the Hermetic Axiom ( quoted

previ ously ) which says
,

Mind ( as well a s metals and element s )

may be transmuted from s tate t o state ;
degree t o degree ; condition t o condition ;
”
pole to pole ; vibration t o vibration .

The K yb a lion .
21 8 The K yb a lion

The Hermetis t s also teach that the Law Of

N eutralization enables one t o a great ex
,

t ent t o overcome the operation Of Rhyt hm

,

in consciousness As we have ex plained

.
,

th ere is a Higher Plane O f Consciousness ,

as well as the ordina ry Lower Plane and ,

the Master by rising mentally t o the Higher

Plane causes the sw ing Of the ment al pend
ulum t o manifest on the Lower Plane and ,

he dwelling onhis Higher Plane escapes

, ,

the consciousne ss o f the swing backw ard .

This is e fi ec t ed by polarizing onth e Higher

Self and thus ra i sing th e mental vibra
,

tions Of the Ego above tho se Of th e ordi

na ry plane Of con sci ousness It is akin t o
.

rising above a thing and allowing it t o

,

pas s beneath you The advanced Herme t

.

ist pol arizes himself at the Positive Pole

Of his Bein — “
g the I Am ”
pole rather
than the p ole Of personal it y and by r e
,
” “ ”
fusing and denying th e operation Of
Rhythm raises himself above its plane Of
,

consci ousness and standing fir m in hi s

,

Statement Of Being he allows the pendulum

t o swing back onth e Lower Plane without
 H e r m e tic Ax iom s 21 9

cha nging his Pola rity This is a ccom

.

p li sh ed by all in dividuals w h o h ave a t

tain ed an y de gree Of self mas t e
-
ry whether
,

they understand the law or not Such .

persons simply refuse t o allow them

s elves t o be swung back by the pendulum

Of mood and emoti on and by steadfastly

,

afi rm in g the superiority they ,remain p o l

a r ized onth e Posit ive p ole Th e Master
.
,

Of course attains a far greater degree Of

,

proficiency because he u
, nderstands the
law whi ch he is overcoming by a higher
law and by the use Of his Will he atta ins
,

a degree Of Poise and Mental Steadfa st

ness almost impossible Of belief on the
part Of those who allow themselves t o b e
swu ng backw ard and fo rward by the men
tal pendulum Of moods and fee lings .

Remember always however that you

, , ,

do not really destroy the Principle Of

Rhyt hm for that is indestru
, ctible Y ou .

simply overcome one law by c ou nte r bal -

an cin g it with an other a nd,th u s ma in t a in

an equilibriu m The laws O f balance and
.

counter bal ance ar e in ope rati on on the

-
2 20 The K yb a lion

menta l as well a s on the physical planes ,

and an u ndersta nding O f these l aws on

ables one t o seem t o overth row laws ,

whereas he is merely exerting a cou nter

balance .

Nothing es capes the Principle of Cau se

and Efi ec t but there a re many Planes Of

,

Causati on and one may use the laws Of

,

the higher t o overcome the laws of the

lower .
— The K yb alion .

By an u nderstanding O f the practice Of

Polarizati on the Hermetists rise t o a
,

hi gh er plane Of Caus ation and thu s coun

ter balance th e laws Of the lower pl anes Of

-

C ausation By ri sing above the plane Of

.

ordinary Causes they become themselves ,

in a degree Causes instead Of being merely

,

Caused .By being able t o master thei r

ow nmoods and feelings and by being able ,

t o neutralize Rhyt hm as we h ave already

,

ex plained they are able t o es cape a gre at

,

pa rt Of the operations Of Cause and E ff ect

on the ordinary plane The ma sses Of p eo
.

ple are ca rried along obedient t o their en

,

v ir onm ent ; t he wills and de si res Of others

222 The K yb a lio n

rul e on the lowe r They Obey the l aws

.

co m in g from above them but ontheir ow n ,

plane an d tho se below them they rule and

, ,

give o rders And yet in so doing they

.
, , ,

form a part of the P rinciple instead of ,

Opposing it The wise man falls in with

.

the Law and by understanding its move

,

ments he Operates it instea d Of being its

blind slave J ust as does the skilled swim
.

mer turn this way and that way going ,

and coming a s he will instead Of being as,

the log which is carr ied here and there

so is the wi se man as comp a red t o the or

din a r y ma n— and yet both swimm er and

log ; wise m an and fool are subject t o ,

La w . He who understands this is well on

” —
the road to Ma stery The K yb alion
. .

In conclusion let us againcall your at

tention t o th e Hermetic Axiom
Tru e Hermetic Transmutation is a
Mental Ar t — The K yb alion
. .

In the above axiom the Hermetists teach

,

that the great work Of influencing one s en ’

v ir on m en t is accomplish ed by Mental
Power The Universe being wholly mental
.
,
 H er m e tic Ax iom s 223

it follows th a t it may be ruled only by

Mentality And in this truth is to be
.

found an explanation of all the phenomena

and manifestations of the various mental
powers which a re attracting so much at
tenti on and study in these earlier years
o f the Twentiet h Century Back of and .

under the teachings of the various cults

and schools remains ever constant the
,

principle of the Mental Substance Of the

Universe If the Universe be Mental in
.

it s substanti al nature then it follows that

,

Ment al Transmutation must change the

conditions and phenomena Of the Universe .

If the Universe is Mental then Mind mus t ,

be the highest power a ff ecting its ph enom

ena If this be understood then all th e
.

so called miracles and wonder work

‘
- -

”
ings are see n plainly for what they are .

“
THE ALL is MI ND ; The Universe is
Menta —The K yba lion .

F I N! !