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THE DUALITY OF TRUTH; 
 
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 The Occult Forces of Nature 
 Reviewed From the Stand- 
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 Philosophy. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The demand for the contents of this 
 book is the reason for its appearance be- 
 fore a reading public; therefore you are 
 asked to read it from beginning to end 
 before passing judgment. 
 
 Remember the Author recognizes your 
 right to differ from him on all he has 
 written, as the title of this book is "The 
 Duality of Truth." Your choice of either 
 of the positive or negative sides, or both 
 united as One Truth, dually expressed, 
 will be equally satisfactory to the Author. 
 
 No matter which view you hold, you 
 will be partially right, or wholly so, pro- 
 vided you recognize the Duality of Truth 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 as One Word, One Truth, One Principle, 
 One Law and One God, then my efforts 
 to instruct will not have been in vain. 
 
 With this consciousness I submit this 
 book to a critical public with the hopes of 
 realizing candor and truthfulness from its 
 readers, who are inclined to criticise its 
 contents. The Author. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In presenting this brief review of the 
 Occult Forces of Nature a few words are 
 thought necessary to make clear to the 
 reader the idea of the writer for this state- 
 ment of Hermetic Philosophy. The Kab- 
 alist and the Astrologer, as well as the 
 Alchemist, in writing upon Hermetic Phil- 
 osophy, have veiled, rather than revealed, 
 its true meaning under symbols and hiero- 
 glyphics that make it almost impossible 
 for the general reader to understand their 
 writings. The reasons that compelled 
 them to veil Truth having passed away, 
 with the past Cycle, from which the Earth 
 and its inhabitants of the Western Con- 
 
6 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 tinent are now emerging out of the mental 
 darkness that shrouded the past cycle of 
 humanity in mental night. Therefore, I 
 am persuaded the time has come to par- 
 tially lift the veil and speak in plain and 
 simple language that all may understand. 
 Therefore, the reader will excuse repeti- 
 tion of expression, as it was found neces- 
 sary to make clear the ideas the Author 
 wishes to express. 
 
 Nature is forever one, as a whole, but 
 infinite in expression; therefore I have 
 only copied Nature in my attempt to 
 make clear her operations as viewed from 
 the standpoint of a student of Hermetic 
 Philosophy. Hermetic means secret or 
 sealed and, in opening the seal of One 
 Law dually expressed, I have revealed 
 Isis and Osiris as the Motherhood and 
 Fatherhood of God; two expressions of 
 
INTRODUCTION. 7 
 
 Force and Intelligence, emanating from 
 one fountain of life as Positive and Nega- 
 tive — Darkness and Light, Time and 
 Eternity, Electricity and Magnetism, Mo- 
 tion and Rest, Reason and Intuition, Mind 
 and Spirit, Subjective and Objective, 
 Duality and Unity, Physical and Meta- 
 physical, Spirit and Matter, God and Na- 
 ture, Ignorance and Wisdom, Ideal and 
 Real, Human and Divine, God and Devil, 
 Philosophy and Religion, Analysis and 
 Synthesis, Involution and Evolution. Thus 
 we see Life is dually expressed, ad in- 
 finitum. 
 
 The Kingdom of God can never come 
 until "The two become as one." "Let 
 him who can receive it, so receive it." 
 This is the great mystery that has been 
 hidden for ages and from generations. 
 " He that hath an ear, let him hear." The 
 
8 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 spiritual Christ comes to seek and to save 
 that which is lost, it does not say man 
 which is lost, but that which is lost, and to 
 restore to man that Spiritual Intuition 
 which he lost when his dual forces became 
 sundered and he grew into the animal 
 objective world of sense and selfishness. 
 In the Books of Moses we read, "God, 
 in the manifestation of two opposites in 
 force, created the two heavens, i. e., the 
 upper or light, and the lower or dark, 
 signifying the equivalents of heat and 
 cold, day and night, expansion and con- 
 traction, summer and winter — in short, 
 the all-embracing cosmic relations. In- 
 volution and evolution of the two halves, 
 or male and female principles within the 
 man and woman, give them their new 
 birth, the growth of which leads to spirit- 
 ual life and wisdom, restored to their 
 
INTRODUCTION. 9 
 
 former original oneness as a Deific Ego, 
 expressing its dual nature outwardly in 
 the forms of man and woman. 
 
 This dual expression of the Father and 
 Mother God in man and woman, is God 
 manifested in his offspring. Therefore, 
 we are Godlings in embryo in the womb 
 of Nature called Isis, the mother of all, 
 and when developed into our fullness of 
 growth we become the perfect Man — God 
 or Christ. This knowledge is God's 
 eternal truth to his children of Earth and 
 will redeem them unto Himself as they 
 accept it and make it their own, each one 
 for himself or herself. There is no Vicar- 
 ious Atonement. The Christ within must 
 redeem from ignorance, which is sin 
 against the Father and Mother of our 
 being. Therefore, to remain in sin or 
 ignorance, or mental darkness of who 
 
IO INTRODUCTION. 
 
 God is and who we are, and our relation 
 to Him, is to grieve the Holy Spirit as 
 He would that all should know Him from 
 the least unto the greatest. If this volume 
 aids to this end its aim and object will 
 have been accomplished. Therefore, no 
 more need be said to introduce this book 
 to mv readers. The Author. 
 
THE DUALITY OF TRUTH. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE LAW OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Death, so called, will separate the liv- 
 ing from the dead, "the wheat from the 
 chaff, the goats from the sheep." In short, 
 all must be in harmony with the new in- 
 coming forces and those who cannot 
 adjust themselves to the requirements 
 of the new Cycle will be compelled to 
 change their polarity of vibration which 
 will necessitate death of their physical 
 organisms, precisely as the leaves drop 
 from the trees in the fall, because of the 
 life forces which animated them having 
 changed their polarity and caused the 
 
12 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 opposite appearance of life outwardly to 
 manifest that which is called death. This 
 change takes place mentally, on the plane 
 of mind in exact correspondence to that 
 on the plane of matter, the only difference 
 being in the periods, or cycles of its man- 
 ifestation — those of matter, once every 
 year; while those of mind are governed 
 by the cycles of seven, nine, twenty-one, 
 twenty-seven respectively, owing to the 
 Sun's vibrations in fire, water, air or earth. 
 The airy sign, Aquarius, symbol of the 
 astrological man, is in operation at the 
 present time. Therefore nine is the 
 number ruling the present cycle. Nine is 
 also the number governing mind in rela- 
 tion to Deity, repeated four times — once 
 in each triplicity, of earth, air, fire and 
 water — which proves Plato's statement to 
 be true, "that God geomatrizes." 
 
The Law of Progress. 13 
 
 God is actively at work in all parts of 
 his vast being. Wars, Pestilence, Famine 
 and Devastation of every kind can readily 
 be explained by the law of Polar Motion, 
 which regulates the mental fruitage of 
 each cycle of the mind's manifestations. 
 The wise man, as Prophet and Seer, 
 knowing this law of periodicity, can, in a 
 general way predict coming events and 
 give history of the past to verify his pre- 
 dictions, as Nature only repeats herself 
 on the planes of matter, mind and spirit; 
 he, being versed in her past history, can, 
 with certainty, know she will not vary 
 her operations except in degree as she 
 changes her pole of vibration from that 
 of solids to liquids, from liquids to ethers 
 and from airy to fiery expressions of her 
 spiral motions. This, in brief, is the Sil- 
 ver Key by which the Golden Lock is 
 
14 Ihe Duality of Truth. 
 
 opened and the seeker of truth is ad- 
 mitted within the Sacred Sanctuary — The 
 Holy of Holies. Only the Initiate of 
 Nature's mysteries can understand the 
 detail operations of her inner, higher and 
 spiritual laws. Therefore, we will not 
 attempt to explain them for the general 
 reader, as he would not be able to com- 
 prehend and realize their portents until 
 he has purified his soul in harmony with 
 their vibrative operations or manifesta- 
 tions. He can rest assured, however, 
 that God is present in all that he witnesses 
 on Earth and console himself that all is 
 well, no matter what appearances may say 
 to the contrary. 
 
 Change, eternal change, is the law of 
 progress, or shall I say that of Involution 
 and Evolution, or generation and mani- 
 festation, or that of sex — all meaning pre 
 
The Law of Progress. 15 
 
 cisely the same thing, differently ex- 
 pressed. 
 
 The present Cycle is one of great 
 moment to the children of Earth, espe- 
 cially so to those living on the Western 
 Hemisphere. We are entering upon the 
 most wonderful period of our Earth's life. 
 It has just passed its majority and maybe 
 said to be of age. Its acts and doings in 
 youth have been far from wise or good. 
 History tells us of the bloodshed, the wars 
 that have devastated the races of the past 
 in its march of growth up to its present 
 development. It is still fighting, but in a 
 more scientific way than in past rounds of 
 its history as it grows to maturity, and in 
 old age it will be less war-like and more 
 wise in council. Arbitration will succeed 
 its arms and great guns of destruction, so 
 necessary to its present development. 
 
1 6 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Death is only a change of the Ego's pole 
 Life manifests its vibrations on the men- 
 tal plane and those that are cut off in 
 battle, disease or famine are made to real- 
 ize the law of universal justice or equal 
 rights to all of God's children. As He is 
 our Father and Mother, and no respecter 
 of persons, we must see and realize the 
 Hand that guides us is divine. Man is 
 but an atom in Deity and the race is but 
 the aggregation of atoms comprising the 
 whole — all governed by the One Law, 
 One Truth, One Principle and One God. 
 The innocent suffer with the guilty. True, 
 but do we not know that innocence and 
 ignorance equally require to be unfolded; 
 therefore, justice is meted out to all. It 
 matters not to us as rays of light and love, 
 so long as justice is accomplished and the 
 will 01 God is fulfilled, the parts owe this 
 
The Law of Progress, 1 7 
 
 obedience to the whole in order that they 
 may have their consciousness of being in 
 God. Disobedience, or ignorance, of this 
 relation to God is followed by death or 
 polarization of the Ego in mortality, 
 which means unconsciousness. The cycle 
 of unconsciousness in darkness is neces- 
 sary to a higher and better or wiser ex- 
 pression of life on the next cycle of evo- 
 lution which follows in its turn as the dial 
 of Deity indexes his dual manifestations 
 in new forms of life. Higher and more 
 perfect growth is thus attained until per- 
 fection at last culminates in the union of 
 the two opposite forces into one. They 
 have learned their lessons of love to all 
 and obeyed the law of justice or wisdom 
 by doing to others as they would that 
 others should do to them. Their cycle of 
 necessity is ended, so far as Earth is con- 
 
1 8 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 cerned, and as a new-born creation they 
 enter upon higher cycles of Deific life, 
 known as the Angelic. Man and woman 
 reunited or restored to their former one- 
 ness of being, with wisdom added to love, 
 which qualifies them to co-operate with 
 Deity intelligently. Henceforth they know 
 themselves to be rays of life, light and love 
 — emanations from the Spiritual Sun, the 
 fountain of life, light and love. 
 
 God, Om, Brahm are only different 
 names given to this Sun of all life, and, 
 like a rose, it is just the same by any 
 other name ; therefore, it is not wise to 
 spend time and energy in disputes as to 
 which is the true name of all the many 
 thousands that have been given to the 
 Spiritual Sun by His different children or 
 offspring. The main thing for us is to 
 realize our oneness with It, in origin and 
 
The Law of Progress. 19 
 
 destiny and do all we can to harmoniously 
 co-operate with It in all its ways. Our 
 happiness and usefulness depend entirely 
 upon our recognition and obedience to 
 this law of our being; failure to recognize 
 this law leads to its opposite expression 
 as all laws operate dually, or positively 
 and negatively — the one leads us to con- 
 scious immortal life; the other, uncon- 
 scious mortal life. Choose you, this day, 
 which you prefer and you will surely re- 
 ceive that which you choose; justice will 
 be meted out to all; they will reap what- 
 soever they sow; none can sow for an- 
 other; therefore, my reader, there is no 
 Vicarious Atonement. This you must 
 work out for yourself in harmony with 
 your other self, before redemption can be 
 accomplished. In doing this you become 
 the perfect Man-woman, two in one, and 
 
20 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 are forever thereafter at one with God. 
 You have become your own redeemer and 
 saviour, and only so far as your example 
 and advice can help others can you be of 
 aid to their souls' salvation. This is 
 God's law and there is no escape or appeal 
 from it, no other way to be saved from 
 death or mortality. The Christ is born 
 from this union and the Kingdom of 
 Heaven is within the At-one-ment. It can 
 not be found without the human soul. All 
 must realize this for themselves, which 
 they will do in God's own good time; 
 therefore, my brother and sister, take new 
 hope and courage, for there is no eternal 
 death for any of God's children. He de- 
 sires all to live and enjoy Him forever. 
 He knows all; therefore, we can trust 
 Him and feel happy that we have our 
 being in Him either in full recognition of 
 
The Law of Progress, 21 
 
 the fact, or otherwise, if so it be. Uncon- 
 sciousness only means darkness or failure 
 to see the light. But rest easy for dark- 
 ness is only negation, the opposite mani- 
 festation of light; therefore, when you 
 desire the light it will surely come to you 
 simply for the asking. Desiring, longing 
 and praying for it will bring a response 
 from your higher self, which is also a God 
 in embryo, awaiting the development of 
 its latent attributes and potentialities. 
 This knowledge of who you are will, when 
 recognized, and used wisely make you a 
 king instead of a serf, a man instead of a 
 youth. You will no longer obey that 
 lower self, your animal soul, which we all 
 have in common with the beasts, but your 
 higher self. The God within you will 
 awaken to a full realization of his God- 
 nature. Then you will act God like and 
 
22 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 redeem yourself from ignorance and its 
 inherited thraldom from the dark ages of 
 past cycles. You will work out your own 
 redemption and rejoice in your ability to 
 do so, much more so than if you had in- 
 herited your At-one-ment as a free gift. 
 We all enjoy that which we earn by our 
 own efforts, much more than that which 
 is given to us. It is more manly and God- 
 like to earn a fortune than to have it 
 given to us. Those who depend upon 
 others for their support and development 
 of soul, are generally weakened thereby, 
 beside they lose that dignity of character 
 and individuality so necessary to a healthy 
 growth of the soul's senses. 
 
 To punish the fnnocent for the guilty 
 is a monstrous doctrine and had its birth 
 among the savage races of past cycles to 
 appease the wrath of their imaginary 
 
The Law of Progress. 23 
 
 Gods. To accept Vicarious Atonement 
 we put a premium upon crime, as can be 
 verified by the history of the past two 
 thousand years. We witness the effect of 
 this false doctrine as taught to-day in the 
 strife and bloody wars that are devasta- 
 ting the races that inhabit this globe. To 
 believe a falsehood is to cheat ourselves. 
 God is not mocked. We can not afford, 
 therefore, to remain blind any longer, my 
 brother and sister. Nature requires jus- 
 tice to be meted out to all. We can only 
 redeem ourselves by knowledge and wis- 
 dom, of our relations to God and our one- 
 ness with Him, in spirit, motive and pur- 
 pose to obey the higher self in co-operation 
 with Him. We are largely the arbiter of 
 our own destiny but, without knowledge, 
 salvation cannot be attained. 
 
 Those who say our Western civiliza- 
 
24 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 tion of to-day is due to Christianity know 
 nothing of occult laws or they would not 
 make such a claim. Look at Christianity 
 in its birth-place and see the degraded 
 state into which its followers have fallen. 
 They had Christianity before we of the 
 West and should be our superiors, men- 
 tally and spiritually, but are they? They 
 are sinking into mental night and mani- 
 fest our antipodal relation to them men- 
 tally, while we of the West are rising into 
 the glorious day of the Sun-God's efful- 
 gence. It is this law of God's Cyclic 
 manifestation that gave us our civilization 
 and mental growth in spite of Christianity. 
 The new day for our Western race has 
 just begun and, during the present sub- 
 cycle of the Sun's march through Aquarius, 
 we will witness the death of Christianity 
 as now taught. Out of its death shall 
 
The Law of Progress. 25 
 
 arise a new religion, namely, the Wisdom 
 Religion, not of Egypt nor the Orient, 
 but of the Occident. It will embrace and 
 embody all that is good and true of all 
 past ages and, in addition, all that modern 
 science can add to complete the dual ex- 
 pressions of the One Law, One Truth, 
 One Principle and One God in whom we 
 live, move and have our being. It will 
 not be a house divided against itself, em- 
 bodying false doctrines, false creeds and 
 false isms, but two poles of One Truth, as 
 negative and positive, male and female, 
 man and woman, the full embodiment of 
 the God-head, which embraces the broth- 
 erhood and sisterhood of man and the 
 Motherhood and the Fatherhood of God. 
 There will be no necessity of one saying 
 to another, " Know ye the Lord?" for all 
 shall know Him, from the least to the 
 
26 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 greatest. Knowledge and goodness will 
 fill the Earth, the millennial day will 
 dawn for the Western races of this West- 
 ern Continent. Prince Anael the Angel 
 of Love and Ruler of the Astral Light 
 must precede the next sub-cycle of the 
 Sun, which gives birth to Raphael, the 
 swift messenger of the Gods, which will 
 illuminate the minds of the Western races 
 to their full capacity, intellectually and 
 spiritually. During his reign, intellectual 
 greatness will remove most of our present 
 obstacles in political, social and religious 
 life. Inventions of scientific usefulness 
 will place all in the enjoyment of health, 
 happiness and heaven upon Earth, pro- 
 vided the truths herein taught are ac- 
 cepted and taught by the people of our 
 Western Continent. If they do not accept 
 it I will not hold myself responsible for 
 
The Law of Progress, 27 
 
 these predictions. There is no law of 
 compulsion — but one of persuasion. We 
 only appeal to your intellect and intui- 
 tions; therefore, the results are left with 
 the race. God will be glorified by His chil- 
 dren, and they sanctified by reason of their 
 oneness in origin and destiny with Him. 
 Immortality will be a realized fact in con- 
 sciousness, and death will be swallowed up 
 in victory, for all shall ultimately be saved 
 for ever more, world without end. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE DOOR TO THE DUALITY OF TRUTH. 
 
 We have asked, sought and knocked 
 upon the door to the Temple of Truth 
 and found it dually hinged, swinging in- 
 wardly and outwardly, esoterically and 
 exoterically. We are no longer barred 
 from Urania's grandeurs, the door of the 
 Sanctuary opens at our bidding, we are 
 welcomed by thousands upon thousands 
 that have preceded us. We hear our new 
 name and receive the white stone, Truth, 
 that the builders rejected. Without the 
 Silver Key to the door of the Temple, the 
 Sanctuary remains locked and can not be 
 opened. Love is the Silver Key which 
 unlocks the magic door to the Temple of 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 29 
 
 Truth, on every plane of life — -physical, 
 mental and spiritual. Man, the Micro- 
 cosm, is himself the Sanctuary wherein 
 God loves to dwell. He is the Temple of 
 the Sun-God Michael, built without ham- 
 mer or saw. Sol-o-mon is another name 
 for the Sun-God Michael. Truth, Knowl- 
 edge and Wisdom are his children — born 
 of love. 
 
 Harmony is his message to our planet 
 Earth. We welcome thee, Eros, thou 
 child of God's eternal love, vouchsafed to 
 the children of men. Speed on in thy 
 orbit. Draw near to Earth. Vibrate thy 
 love-messages free from lust or discord. 
 Let not love's opposite manifest out- 
 wardly upon Earth to the children of 
 men. Awaken, Universal Love, that God 
 may manifest divinity in humanity. Let 
 this be thy glorious mission upon Earth, 
 
30 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 that the Spiritual Sun — from whom and 
 to whom we owe all may be glorified and 
 his children sanctified. He is God of 
 Gods, and Lord of all. Blest be his name 
 forevermore. 
 
 Immortality is born — a new Cycle en- 
 tered upon — a new day dawns for man- 
 kind. Man realizes his relation to God as 
 His child — inheritor of Wisdom, Knowl- 
 edge and Truth — and, understanding him- 
 self, knowing himself with that conscious- 
 ness born from intellect ripened into intu- 
 ition which enables him to worship God 
 in spirit and in truth. No longer bound 
 by limitation he is free. His spirit can 
 not be chained or imprisoned forever. 
 Change, eternal change, brings light, love 
 and life out of darkness, death and decay. 
 Harmony out of discord. 'Eros out of 
 chaos, two in one, God manifested in 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 31 
 
 forms, male and female — positive and 
 negative. 
 
 Involution and Evolution are the dual 
 action of the One Law — One Life. Cycle 
 after cycle completes its orbit or spiral, 
 small or great. Globules or globes ap- 
 pear from this action and inter-action. 
 This is the circulation of God's nervous 
 fluid— the " Elixir of Life " -the " Philoso- 
 pher's Stone" — the " Deific Blood" or 
 " Astral Light" — which transmutes the 
 solids, liquids, gases and ethers from one 
 form or substance into another. Fire 
 into air, air into water, water into earth, 
 the matrix, or womb of Mother Isis in 
 which creation or manifestation takes 
 place. Cycles of time differ in each ele- 
 ment according to its nature. The fiery 
 cycles are rapid in their action. Vibra- 
 tion is quick as lightning on this plane. 
 
32 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Those of the air, next in rapidity. Next, 
 those of the water, and lastly, those of the 
 earth, corresponding to the colors of vio- 
 let, indigo, yellow, orange, red, blue, green 
 — which paint Earth's forms in variegated 
 hues or colors. All due to the circulation 
 of the " Elixir of Life," vibrating with 
 different degrees of intensity throughout 
 all kingdoms of spirit and matter. Invo- 
 lution, from fire to earth. Evolution is 
 the return manifestation or expression, in 
 exact correspondence of these involved 
 ideas, from earth to water, water to air, 
 air to fire — making the cycle of necessity 
 complete. 
 
 This circulation of the universal life- 
 fluid manifests first light, then love. 
 Knowledge and Wisdom, the offspring 
 thereof, when the cycles of Involution and 
 Evolution are completed. The conscious- 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 33 
 
 ness of Light, gives joy, bliss and happi- 
 ness. This garden of innocence, called 
 Eden, is the Soul's first awakening from 
 darkness. Love is born, through Light, 
 from Life. The cycle of necessity, or 
 three in one, three times manifested on 
 the planes of spirit, mind and matter, 
 evolves Light, Life and Love, or God in 
 action — motion or vibration — manifesting 
 his potentialities or latent attributes, cycle 
 after cycle from the infinitely large to 
 infinitely small, throughout the four ele- 
 ments — fire, air, water and earth. Oxy- 
 gen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Carbon, 
 Salamanders, Sylphs, Undines and 
 Gnomes. Each Kingdom correspond- 
 ing in its life's forms to the elements 
 expressing them. All related to each 
 other as bone to flesh, blood to brain, 
 from which thought emanates in con- 
 
34 The Duality of Truth, 
 
 sciousness, as light and love — knowledge 
 and wisdom. The full realization of the 
 above awakens the Egd into his conscious 
 immortal relation to Deity. He knows 
 himself henceforth as one ray of Light vi- 
 brating, circulating and pulsating through 
 the four elements of earth — air, fire and 
 water ; deathless as Deity, immortal as 
 the whole, circulating throughout Him in 
 correspondence with the great Macro- 
 cosm — his Father - Mother God, from 
 whom he has his being. He recognizes 
 himself as part of Deity — an epitome of 
 the Whole. In this sense is man created 
 in the image of his God. Time is swal- 
 lowed up in eternity, space annihilated, 
 my Father and I are One. 
 
 Intellect and Intuition, united as the 
 two halves of the Divine Ego, positive 
 and negative, co-operating throughout 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 35 
 
 the infinite ramifications of the One Life 
 or Deity. Man originally was like his 
 God — two in one. During his involution 
 into matter out of spirit, separation took 
 place in Libra, the bi-sexual sign — the 
 scales of justice. The Ego, no longer 
 had control of its dual nature; therefore, 
 separation gave rise to discord, disease, 
 suffering and death, to its manifested 
 forms, causing it to create a new expres- 
 sion of its latent potentialities, until re- 
 stored to its original self. This cycle of 
 necessity involved and evolved the at- 
 tributes of both halves of the Divine Ego, 
 giving it knowledge of the Tree of Life — 
 of good and evil, harmony and discord, 
 hell and heaven, love and wisdom. In 
 short, a knowledge of Self. This knowl- 
 edge is the first requisite. Man must know 
 himself as man and woman united into 
 
36 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 one being. This marriage produces 
 heaven and makes him — the Microcosm 
 — the exact counterpart of Deity — the 
 Macrocosm. He must realize his divine 
 origin as a child of God. Any protest 
 against this knowledge shuts him out from 
 his birthright. He is legal heir to God's 
 boundless creations and can, if he knows 
 himself, mount the Throne, as King, over 
 all the lower kingdoms of life. This 
 knowledge makes man a little lower than 
 the Angels. It deifies him in conscious- 
 ness as an immortal part of the immortal 
 whole. Death no longer has control over 
 him. He realizes his creative powers and 
 co-operates with God in all His works, as 
 a son of the Spiritual Sun. 
 
 The Bible informs us that Sol-o-mon, 
 the Spiritual Son, or wisest man that ever 
 lived, had seven hundred wives and three 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth, 37 
 
 hundred concubines. The meaning of 
 this statement is, he had gained wisdom 
 by experience in the ten kingdoms of uni- 
 versal life, which embrace all experiences 
 in matter and spirit. The septenary laws 
 are the completion of all forms in matter 
 which embrace mineral, vegetable, animal 
 and human life. Man being the septen- 
 ary expression of life, Solomon's relation 
 to his God in this department of his uni- 
 versal circulation, is symbolized by his 
 seven hundred wives, or legal relations to 
 the four kingdoms of earth, air, fire and 
 water. The three hundred concubines, 
 refer to his experiences in the triune 
 spiritual relations above matter. These 
 three realms are in constant action and 
 re-action, promiscuously, as the word con- 
 cubine would imply. Every Ego is re- 
 quired to experience all that is implied in 
 
$S The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Sol-o-mon's seven hundred wives and 
 three hundred concubines, in the cycle of 
 necessity, which relates his soul to the ten 
 kingdoms of universal life. Ten is the 
 symbol of the formless One, or Deity un- 
 manifest — the all in all of universal life. 
 Solomon, having gained all knowledge 
 and wisdom, his Cycle of Necessity was 
 complete, and the divine circulation of 
 Deity known by actual experience in its 
 infinite ramifications, made him the wisest 
 man that ever lived. This astrological 
 language has concealed this mystery from 
 all but the Initiates into the Duality of 
 Truth. Each Ego is destined to experi- 
 ence all that is expressed and implied by 
 Solomon's relation to the universal Sun — ■ 
 the Spiritual Sun of all life. The Sun 
 being the source of all Life, Light and 
 Love, the Ego has gained knowledge and 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 39 
 
 wisdom — the results of its personal ex- 
 perience in its circulation throughout the 
 ten kingdoms of matter and spirit. It has 
 become wise. It is also a King of its own 
 dominions, capable of ruling wisely and 
 justly. It knows itself. It is perfect, as 
 the Sun is perfect — its divine parents — 
 from whom it emanated, and to whom it 
 must return. It started in innocence, and 
 returns with knowledge and wisdom. It 
 has become its own creator and redeemer, 
 by reason of its differentiation from 
 the divine — One Life — and its complete 
 knowledge of itself in relation to the 
 whole — the Spiritual Sun. 
 
 This truth will make you free and the 
 results will be health, happiness and 
 heaven. The twelve manners of fruit will 
 be gathered from the twelve signs of the 
 Zodiac, which symbolize all the functions 
 
40 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 in every department of the Deific Life. 
 Every perfected Deific Ego is an epitome 
 of the Spiritual Sun, hence is a Sun, or 
 miniature universe. Self-illuminated it 
 expresses itself as Light, Lifeand Love, or 
 Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding. 
 The two — intellect and intuition — com- 
 bined, comprehend all — as understand- 
 ing — the foundation-stone upon which 
 Solomon built his glorious temple, without 
 the sound of hammer or saw. No sound is 
 heard, silently and noiselessly the temple 
 is reared in solemn grandeur with per- 
 fection in all its parts. O, what a deific 
 radiance hath Wisdom, when Love re- 
 sponds in anthems of creative praise — We 
 praise Thee, O God. This illumination 
 of grandeur unspeakable commands the 
 Ego's potentialities in praise and adora- 
 tion of Its divine nature. 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 41 
 
 Sol, Om, On — the three names of the 
 glorious Spiritual Sun, from which have 
 come all Life, Light and Love. Sol, the 
 Egyptian Father; Om, the Indian Mother, 
 and On, the Persian child. Sol, the 
 Father of the Egyptian Science; Om, the 
 Mother of Indian Philosophy, and On, the 
 child of the two in union — the religion of 
 the Soul and the Stars, or Wisdom Re- 
 ligion, symbolized by the sciences of As- 
 tronomy and Astrology — Alchemy and 
 Chemistry — the tw T in sciences of universal 
 life. Man doth not live by bread alone, 
 but, by every word that proceedeth out of 
 the mouth of Deity. The twelve signs of 
 the Zodiac symbolize the bread of life, 
 that is for the healing of the nations of 
 the Earth. By eating and assimilating 
 this esoteric food they will be speedily 
 restored to spiritual, mental and physical 
 
42 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 health. The twelve manners of fruit are 
 gathered each year as the Sun, Moon and 
 planets vibrate their electric and magnetic 
 influences throughout the twelve houses 
 or signs of the Zodiac. All expressions 
 of vegetables, fruits and animal life are 
 polarized into forms of an infinite variety 
 of foods for the physical sustenance of 
 God's masterpiece — man. 
 
 God hath made from one blood all 
 nations of men to dwell on all the face of 
 the Earth. It is this that makes the 
 Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood 
 of man. From this deific blood all man- 
 kind are born, nourished and fed, in every 
 department of their duplex organism, 
 from the granite rock to the Microcosmic 
 Deity — from mineral to man. Hence we 
 do eat of His flesh and drink of His blood 
 with every breath we breathe and with 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 43 
 
 every mouthful we eat or drink, as well 
 as by every thought we think or give ex- 
 pression to in form. Thoughts are sym- 
 bolic ideas and take forms according to 
 the use or function they subserve in Deity. 
 There being nothing but Deity, He nec- 
 essarily requires all that we witness in 
 nature to express his attributes or poten- 
 tialities. 
 
 Biogenesis, or life from life, is God's 
 mode of manifestation. Spirit, mind and 
 matter, the trinity of life-forces, as Life, 
 Light and Love, are forever interchang- 
 able, like solids passing into gases, gases 
 into ethers, to produce nature's tragedies, 
 comedies and operas. Each divine Ego 
 must, in making the Cycle of Necessity, 
 vibrate through all phases and expres- 
 sions of manifested and unmanifested life 
 forms; therefore, all are necessary, all are 
 
44 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 natural to the One Life, or the Divine 
 Whole. Viewed in this light justice is 
 meted out to all of God's children as they 
 pass through the circulation of the Zodiac 
 — the Cycle of Necessity, which rounds 
 out and develops the two halves of every 
 divine Ego into the At-one-ment with 
 Deity Himself. Each separate Ego can 
 and does co-operate with Deity to the end 
 of carrying out His will in the expressions 
 of His divine attributes or functions. "All 
 are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
 whose body nature is and God the soul, 
 all nature is but art unknown to Thee; All 
 chance, direction, which thou can'st not 
 see; All discord, harmony not under- 
 stood; All partial evil universal good." 
 This universal life-expression creates the 
 music of the Spheres. Each separate 
 Ego performs its vibrations, in unison 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 45 
 
 with the Whole, in solos of octaves, re- 
 peated in infinite variety of form and 
 function, tones and colors, which give rise 
 to every feeling and emotion that can or 
 will be experienced by the Ego in its de- 
 scent and ascent through its Cycle of 
 Necessity. No two Egos have the same 
 exact functions to perform. Diversity of 
 form and function, infinitely expressed, is 
 that which gives rise to all color and 
 sound in all their possible expressions. 
 The law of vibration, in wisdom and love, 
 as the two halves of each separate Divine 
 Ego manifest the visible and invisible at- 
 tributes of their united co-operation in 
 creating or manifesting their ideals into 
 forms and functions. Increase, multiply 
 and replenish the Earth was, and is, the 
 Deific fiat to each separate Ego. To obey 
 this fiat, the two halves of each Ego must 
 
46 The Duality of Tmth. 
 
 unite themselves, in love and wisdom, to 
 create their ideal children, or mental 
 progeny. Mind is spiritual vibration of 
 mental imagery — dynamic ideals ex- 
 pressed in form and function. There- 
 fore, each Ego is a separate creator of 
 life-forms, expressing its attributes of po- 
 tentiality, ceaseless in its efforts to imitate 
 its divine parents, on the three planes of 
 its expression, viz.: Spirit, Mind and Mat- 
 ter. On the plane of matter we witness 
 disease, discord and death, the result of 
 ignorance and limitation in knowledge 
 and understanding. Did the separate 
 Egos possess perfect knowledge, they 
 could produce perfection in their separate 
 departments of creative life-forms, but 
 perfection is wisdom and understanding, 
 which can only come from experience by 
 the Egos circulating throughout the Cycle 
 
The Door to the Duality of Trttth. 47 
 
 of Necessity, the Zodiac of Deific life. 
 Life and death succeed each other until 
 immortality is born of Love and Wisdom 
 to the Man- Woman or perfect At-one- 
 ment. 
 
 Through the Intellect and Intuition 
 each Ego experiences for itself the laws 
 of its being. This experience is necessary 
 to make it wise — knowing itself to be the 
 tree of life, of good and evil, capable of 
 producing either. Deity as spirit — mind 
 and matter — expresses a triune, or three 
 in one, as father, mother and child. This 
 law of His being is absolute and never 
 fails in its action to bring forth its kind. 
 On the spiritual plane, spirits are born 
 from spirits. On the mental plane, mind 
 from mind; and, on the material plane, 
 matter from matter. They are inter- 
 changeable in their Cycle of Involution 
 
48 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 and Evolution, by reason of their changed 
 polarity in making the Cycle of Necessity. 
 Each plane can give expression to its own 
 latent attributes or potentialities; hence 
 we witness three triunes, three times ex- 
 pressed in the deific manifestation of 
 Himself, which make nine — the number 
 of Deity — in operation. Nine is the high- 
 est digit we possess and includes within 
 itself all the potentialities and attributes 
 of Deity, hence nine is a sacred number 
 —the golden key that unlocks his creative 
 or manifested expressions of life. His 
 divine nature, unmanifested, is symbolized 
 by ten — the one and the cipher — the all in 
 all, or Deity as one — One Law, One 
 Truth, One Principle, One Life, One 
 Light, or One Word — which embraces all 
 expressions of Himself in the Fatherhood 
 and Motherhood of God and the Brother- 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 49 
 
 hood and Sisterhood of man, in so far as 
 His outward manifestations are concerned. 
 His Angelic, Celestial Hierarchies are 
 manifest on the interior planes of life. 
 Man being an epitome of Deity is the 
 Deity's highest ideal perfection of Him- 
 self in form and function — in matter. In 
 order for Deity to manifest himself in 
 form and function, it is necessary for him 
 to think; which is to will into motion, or 
 vibration, the triune laws of his nature, 
 on whatever plane He desires to manifest. 
 Thinking is active or positive will in 
 vibration, which results in impregnating 
 the negative or feminine nature with the 
 Ego's dual attributes — love and wisdom, 
 or male and female. If this dual nature 
 did not exist in Deity He would be unable 
 to externalize His potentialities, or latent 
 attributes, in the duality of sex. We 
 
50 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 know the tree by its fruits. Likewise, we 
 know Deity by His manifestations or crea- 
 tions; hence, knowledge of Deity, as ex- 
 pressed by the laws of His creation, are 
 all we can know of ourselves. This knowl- 
 edge of self, as an epitome of Deity, 
 makes man a God with divine possibili- 
 ties — ever evolving higher and higher as 
 he develops the inherent potentialities 
 of his deific nature. Man is a God. 
 There is no other solution to man. The 
 wise men, of all ages, have come to this 
 conclusion, in their serious study of man 
 and his destiny. 
 
 He is destined by Deity for perfec- 
 tion, even as Deity is perfect. Be ye 
 perfect, even as I am perfect, is the fiat 
 sent forth by Deity Himself. There is 
 not and can not be failure in the Divine 
 economy of the Infinite One. Blot the 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 51 
 
 word failure from your dictionaries. All 
 seeming failure is but undeveloped or 
 immature expressions of life, and in God's 
 own time He will accomplish His will, and 
 what to us seems a failure will become 
 perfect, even as God is perfect. Perfection 
 is the result of experience gained by the 
 knowledge of the laws of Deity in every 
 department of His being. These laws 
 can only be known to the Ego by its cir- 
 culating throughout the whole — One Life. 
 Wisdom can not be expressed through 
 an imperfect organism; neither can music 
 be vibrated from a broken instrument or 
 one imperfectly constructed. The Earth 
 and our Solar system are in the process 
 of being perfected and, until that day 
 manifest itself, we must not expect per- 
 fect men and women as the fruitage of 
 Mother Isis and Father Osiris. The 
 
52 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 planetary laws enter into man's physical, 
 mental and spiritual organism; there- 
 fore, he can not step forth in perfection 
 until the period of planetary vibration is 
 such as to express perfection outwardly 
 upon Earth. Ripe juice cannot be ex- 
 tracted from green and immature fruit; 
 neither can wisdom emanate from the 
 undeveloped brains of men and women. 
 Men and women are deific fruit, born 
 from the tree of knowledge of good and 
 evil. They must know both. They must 
 know both to become wise and perfect. 
 Hell, or discord, is only one side: while 
 Heaven comprises the knowledge of both 
 in their action and interaction, as positive 
 and negative expressions of One Law — 
 One Truth, One Life, One Principle, One 
 Deity, each deific Ego — has latent within 
 it all the qualities of the Whole, and will 
 
The Door to the Duality of Truth. 53 
 
 ultimately externalize them. Perfection 
 will then be attained, and the millennial 
 day, so much talked of, will become a re- 
 ality upon Earth. Michael, Anael and 
 Raphael will each have performed their 
 function as vice-gerents of the Most 
 High; and the children of man will stand 
 forth as the embodiment of God's will to 
 man, manifested in creative expressions of 
 usefulness in scientific inventions of all 
 conceivable kinds. The Air-ship will be- 
 come a reality, and transportation by this 
 means will be delightful, pleasurable and 
 enjoyable, as we glide with swift and 
 rapid motion through the air from one 
 portion of the Earth to another, and 
 from one continent to another, circum- 
 navigating the globe. All this by reason 
 of the vibrations set in motion by the 
 Sun's vibrations through the man — sign — 
 
54 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Aquarius. This could not have external- 
 ized through Pisces — the fisherman's sign 
 — which symbolizes the past sub-cycle of 
 the Sun in the watery forces. During 
 that cycle we perfected our huge ocean 
 steamers, and steam engines as motive 
 power, simply because mind was external- 
 izing itself through the watery sign — 
 Pisces — of the Grand Man of the skies, 
 or the Zodiac of Deity. All this goes to 
 prove the mathematical accuracy with 
 which we may relate ourselves intelli- 
 gently to our God and become co-opera- 
 tors with him in the unfoldment of His 
 purposes of universal life-creations, for 
 He is present in all His works, manifest- 
 ing His will, knowledge and wisdom 
 through us. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE SPHINX OR THE RIDDLE OF RIDDLES. 
 
 This oldest of Egyptian monuments — 
 symbol of the human soul, the fruitage of 
 man and woman, as man-woman or Horus, 
 the child of Isis, or universal mother — is 
 no longer mysterious to the student of 
 universal life. The Sun, symbolized by 
 the lion or man-deity. The virgin, or 
 woman, symbolized by virgo, or woman-de- 
 ity, united in one monument as the wom- 
 an's head and the lion's body, the male 
 and the female united in one, is variously 
 expressed as the Sun passed through the 
 different signs of the zodiac in making 
 the great Cycle of Necessity. 
 
 The Sun God — Osiris — the virgin 
 
56 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 mother, the womb of Isis, in which is con- 
 ceived and born the child Horus — sym- 
 bolizes all the progeny of Deity because 
 in it is concealed potentially the Deity 
 Himself, in his dual nature, man-woman 
 known as Adam, the symbolical first man. 
 Eve, the first symbolical woman, as 
 Adam's helpmeet, or negative half of his 
 divine Ego. The rays of positive and 
 negative — male and female potentialities 
 — are wrapt up in every Deific Ego. The 
 Sphinx is the symbol of man and woman 
 united, and their offspring as Horus, or 
 human soul, is the Riddle of Riddles. 
 The offspring are like their deific parents 
 ill essence, quality and function, capable 
 of self germination or renewal of them- 
 selves outwardly manifested in human 
 form, and of self-glorification, w r hen they 
 have unfolded and rounded out their la- 
 
The Sphinx or the Riddle of Riddles, 57 
 
 tent attributes and potentialities. Sex is 
 the sacred law of evolution and develop- 
 ment without which creation or manifes- 
 tation in form could not take place. This 
 law operates throughout all three king- 
 doms of the universal spirit, showing us 
 Deity in all His works. Thoughts are 
 sexed and impregnate each other on the 
 spiritual and mental planes of life and ex- 
 ternalize their potentialities in physical 
 forms and functions in exact correspond- 
 ence to their potential nature. Deity 
 thinks, and His thought-forms become 
 manifest as Suns, planets and Moons con- 
 taining the spiritual attributes and mental 
 potentialities. They are capable of ex- 
 ternalizing as the thought emanations of 
 Deity Himself. These emanations con- 
 tain within themselves the nature, quality 
 and attributes of their deific parents. 
 
58 The Dtiality of Truth. 
 
 They can only express the qualities, at- 
 tributes and potential nature involved in 
 them. Deity, being immortal, infinite, 
 without beginning or end, so likewise are 
 His manifestations as to their essence. 
 Forms and functions are all that perish. 
 Deity is forever progressive in His ideals 
 of creative manifestations. From crude, 
 undeveloped forms we witness, through 
 the process of involution and evolution, 
 gradual perfection of each form as it 
 evolves its latent attributes. The process 
 of involution, from the infinitely large to 
 the infinitely small, is the creation of mat- 
 ter, so-called, and the polar opposite, ex- 
 pression or evolution, from matter in its 
 infinitely small expression, as the atom, 
 back to the infinitely large, making the 
 Cycle of Necessity complete; thus per- 
 fecting the deific Ego into the Angelic 
 
The Sphinx or the Riddle of Riddles. 59 
 
 and Arch-angelic creations or manifesta- 
 tions of the Infinite Spirit as Its highest 
 and most perfect form of itself in form 
 and function. Births and deaths are alike 
 to the Ego as it circulates throughout De- 
 ity. New forms and new functions are all 
 it experiences which give knowledge and, 
 finally, wisdom as the result of its com- 
 plete understanding of the Cycle of Ne- 
 cessity, or its circulation throughout all 
 departments of the One Life, or Deity. 
 In no other conceivable manner could the 
 Whole impart a knowledge of Himself to 
 the separate Egos. This knowledge of 
 self of its own deific origin and nature. 
 
 Immortal spirit uncreated, alone, un- 
 manifest as the void or mighty deep, con- 
 taining all that is, that has been, or can or 
 will be, within itself. This knowledge ac- 
 quired by each separate Ego makes it con- 
 
60 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 scious of its origin and true worth, as an 
 immortal part of the immortal whole. 
 Immortality is born to its consciousness. 
 It realizes who it is ? and what the object 
 of the Cycle of Necessity means to it as 
 a perfected child or Angel of Light, know- 
 ing itself as an emanation from the foun- 
 tain of Life, Light and Love. Bliss, eter- 
 nal bliss, joy unspeakable, is thus attained 
 and in no other way is it possible for the 
 separate Egos to become conscious of im- 
 mortal life. This oneness with Deity, as 
 positive and negative expressions of its 
 own nature. The venous and arterial cir- 
 culation, symbolical of life and death, mor- 
 tality and immortality, conscious and un- 
 conscious life, appearance and reality, 
 knowledge and wisdom, gained by reason 
 of their dual circulation in the life of Deity. 
 Day and night, winter and summer, are 
 
The Sphinx or the Riddle of Riddles. 61 
 
 equally necessary. They are polar oppo- 
 sites and can not exist apart. We can not 
 know the one without the knowledge of 
 the other. The realization of this law — 
 the dual opposites — by polarizing the Ego 
 in the scales of Libra, or justice or equi- 
 librium. From this divine center all is 
 One, radiating in every conceivable direc- 
 tion as the spiritual Sun — the source of all 
 Life, Light and Love. Worlds and sys- 
 tems of universes infinite in number be- 
 yond the power of mind to comprehend. 
 As it is above, so it is below; therefore, 
 each differentiated Ego likewise has its 
 center, from which it radiates in every 
 conceivable direction, in imitation of its 
 Sun parents. From its center they must 
 ascend and descend in their spiral orbits. 
 This is the Solar Cross, upon which every 
 deific Ego is crucified — purified of all 
 
62 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 dross and imperfections. When its' Cycle 
 of Necessity is complete and its spiritual 
 attributes rounded out in its deific zodiac, 
 it becomes the perfect man-woman, re- 
 united in its original, deific Ego — the cen- 
 ter from which it originated and from 
 which it was differentiated before descent 
 into material conditions took place. It is 
 the Enoch of Jewish history — the man 
 whom God took and was not, the Jesus of 
 the Gospels, the Buddah of India, the 
 Zoraster of Persia and, in short, every 
 perfected Ego that has or will be restored 
 to its divine parents. There is no other 
 way under the Sun to become perfect. 
 Perfection requires the whole of anything 
 to be harmoniously united in all its parts 
 and functions. Therefore, the reunion of 
 the two halves of every deific Ego restores 
 it to its angelhood. 
 
The Sphinx or the Riddle of Riddles. 63 
 
 It has entered into its heaven, in which 
 there is neither marrying nor giving in 
 marriage, for the simple reason that this 
 union is the heavenly marriage, spoken of 
 by St. John, as the marriage of the Lamb. 
 The Lamb is an astrological symbol of the 
 intellect and intuition, united; symbolizing 
 the perfect child. Therefore, except ye 
 become as little children ye can not enter 
 the kingdom of heaven; or, in harmony 
 with universal life. Aries — the Lamb — 
 astrologically symbolized, the intellect or 
 reason, void of the intuition or the symbol 
 of wisdom without love. Love lies at the 
 foundation and must be wedded to wis- 
 dom to perfect the Ego in its dual nature. 
 Deity speaks to man through his dual 
 nature and in this way only can He make 
 known to His children His will- 
 Imitation is the highest compliment 
 
64 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 that can be paid to the Creator. To re- 
 produce themselves is the holiest act of 
 which the Egos are capable. The most 
 sacred function is the creative, and each 
 Ego, when engaged in worshipping its 
 Deity, should realize this first, highest and 
 holiest function of its nature by creating 
 its ideas in thoughts and forms worthy of 
 its deific parents. To think, is to create 
 thoughts — to give birth to ideas. Increase, 
 multiply and replenish the Earth was 
 God's fiat to Adam, the dual man. This 
 first fiat has been misunderstood by the 
 human family and interpreted to mean 
 physical generation only whereas the 
 original and true meaning was the gener- 
 ation of ideas born from Love and Wis- 
 dom. To give birth to spiritual and 
 mental imageries, or mental children, as 
 new ideas of thought-forms or mental- 
 
The Sphinx or the Riddle of Riddles. 65 
 
 creations, as thought-pictures, to inspire 
 the intellect to nobler aspirations and 
 higher creations of ideals, spiritually, men- 
 tally and physically expressed. The Ego's 
 desire to express its latent or potential 
 attributes called into being this material 
 Earth, and finailly clothed itself in a 
 material body in order that it, too, might 
 have knowledge of the Tree of Life of 
 good and evil as expressed in matter and 
 spirit. Deity can not be blamed for this 
 as He is not responsible for the acts and 
 creations of His offspring, any more so 
 than each Ego is responsible for the cre- 
 ations of its offspring. He is powerless 
 to create otherwise than He has; there- 
 fore, each separate Ego must hold itself 
 responsible for its own creations and know 
 itself as its own creator by obeying the 
 fiat of Deity himself, to multiply and re- 
 
66 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 plenish the Earth in thoughts and ideals 
 of mental imagery. This is the bread of 
 life to nourish the souls of men. Man 
 doth not live by bread alone but every 
 word that proceedeth out of the mouth of 
 Deity. In order to develop spiritually we 
 require mental food as much so for the 
 soul as for the body. The perfect assim- 
 ilation of spiritual ideas, on the mental 
 plane, develops the intellect and intuition 
 and rounds out the Ego in its dual nature. 
 Health, happiness and heaven will thus 
 be restored to Earth. Deity will be satis- 
 fied with His microcosmic creations called 
 man. All will be perfection and the 
 golden age restored as that Garden of 
 Paradise, recorded in mythological his- 
 tory. The Wisdom-Religion restored to 
 Earth, and science and religion blended 
 as One Truth and One Law, dually ex- 
 pressed. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 SYMBOLISM AND CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 Where mind is not, there are no sym- 
 bols, no ideas, no manifestations — for 
 everything that is, is the outcome of 
 thoughts, human or divine and expresses 
 within itself the symbol of its being. This 
 is the Law of Correspondence. " As it is 
 above, so it is below " The infinite worlds 
 that float serenely in space are but the 
 scintillating reflections of Light, Life and 
 Love of Deity and give us some faint idea 
 or conception of the awful resources within 
 Nature's star-making laboratory. The 
 Solar systems, infinite in number, are but 
 expressions of mental action. Symbols 
 are objectified ideas and possess a real 
 
68 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 meaning; originally there was but one 
 great Astro-Religion, fragments of which 
 are found in every country all over the 
 globe. The numerous books called Bibles, 
 or sacred writings, are the productions of 
 serious men endeavoring to explain their 
 own origin and destiny. They are similar 
 in many particulars, as they one and all 
 drew from the same fountain, or source for 
 their knowledge, viz.: the starry heavens; 
 hence astronomy and astrology were the 
 first original bibles written in symbolical 
 language. The Golden Lock and Silver 
 Key to their esoteric meaning have been 
 hidden for ages and lost to all but the few 
 esoteric students of Nature's mysteries. 
 
 Sun-worship, Serpent- worship and Sex- 
 worship all have their foundations in this 
 oldest of religions. Deity, as the Spirit- 
 ual Sun of all Life, Light and Love, is 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 69 
 
 sexed, and can only manifest His nature 
 by the law of dual opposites. Symbols 
 are ideas in objectified form; therefore, 
 are real and never have or will be de- 
 stroyed, nor can they be obliterated by 
 man, for Deity Himself is back of them, 
 expressing His Light, Life and Love 
 through them. This is our hope for the 
 glorious triumph for the lovers of Nature's 
 language — Symbolism and Correspon- 
 dence. Spirit can not deceive when this 
 divine key is turned with a wise hand. 
 Her secret operations reveal themselves 
 in symbolical language to those capable 
 of interpreting her symbols aright, for 
 the material universe is but the mental 
 imagery of the Ueific Mind and expresses 
 His ideas in every manifested creation. 
 Therefore, symbolism is the one Deific 
 language of Mother Nature that defies 
 the vandalism of man to destroy. 
 
70 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Astro-Theology and Astro-Mythology 
 are the records of the past in which this 
 language was used by the wise men of old 
 to convey their ideas of Deity to their 
 fellow-man. Every religion under the 
 Sun has back of it Symbolism and Corre- 
 spondence to veil the truths of Isis and 
 Osiris — the Spiritual Sun — as man and 
 woman. 
 
 Buddhism, Brahmanism, Chaldean, 
 Chinese, Persian, Egyptian, Scandina- 
 vian, Druidic, and Mexican, as well as 
 Jewish and Christian, each and all 
 are derived from the Spiritual Sun — 
 different drapery to suit each country 
 and its people is all we witness. Back 
 of their symbols is the everliving Spir- 
 itual Sun, from whom we derive all 
 Light, Life and Love. The septenary 
 laws of Nature, that symbolize the 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 71 
 
 seven planets of our solar system, sym- 
 bolize the seven colors of the rainbow. 
 The seven notes in music are all repre- 
 sented in the diamond, which also sym- 
 bolizes the seven divine rays of Deific 
 crystallization, as the dual vibrations of 
 positive and negative, male and female, 
 as they become blended into the One 
 Law, One Life, One Word and One Truth, 
 which embraces and embodies w T ithin itself 
 the whole of every conceivable expression 
 of the visible creations or manifestations 
 of Deity. Simple at its center, but very 
 complex and contradictory in its infinite 
 ramifications, as evolved into form, color 
 and function in an infinite variety of 
 organs and organisms. On the spiritual 
 plane the Egos manifest Identity. On 
 the mental plane, Individuality, and on 
 the physical plane, Personality; hence, 
 
72 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Persona, or mask, is the outward appear- 
 ance of things, while the individual is the 
 real image or ideal entity that works 
 through the physical or outward form. 
 The mind, or mental imagery, has back of 
 it the Ego or Sun. or the Identity. The 
 two in one as positive and negative of 
 every outward expression of mind, in its 
 manifold manifestations or creations, from 
 the granite rock to an Astral system of 
 worlds. All creation takes form through 
 this same law of polar opposites in vibra- 
 tion. The Egos' desires to manifest their 
 latent potentialities cause effects to come 
 forth according to their knowledge and 
 will-ability in understanding not only 
 themselves but all about them. The 
 knowledge that they are divine emana- 
 tions from Deity, with the possibility of 
 imitating his ideals on the planes of men- 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 73 
 
 tal imagery and also of externalizing those 
 ideals into forms of concrete matter. It is 
 this law in operation which gives freedom 
 to the Egos and holds them subject to 
 themselves for the use or abuse they make 
 of it. Knowing good and evil, positive 
 and negative, they choose their associates 
 in all operations or creations; enjoying or 
 suffering for all acts performed, whether 
 on the spiritual, mental or physical planes. 
 This realm of their ideals is their book of 
 life out of which they judge themselves. 
 It is their heaven or hell, of their own 
 creation. Their happiness or misery de- 
 pends upon the mental imagery with 
 which they have surrounded themselves. 
 If they have been selfish, lustful, avari- 
 cious, or cruel — unjust tyrants — these im- 
 ages will be their accusers, and they are 
 self-condemned for creating such a state 
 of disease, discord and misery. 
 
74 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Before' the Egos, thus situated and 
 polarized, can restore themselves to a 
 state of happiness, they must learn charity, 
 forbearance, mercy, generosity, kindness, 
 justness and love for all conditions of 
 God's creations. Each Ego, as it circu- 
 lates throughout the whole organism of 
 the Macrocosm must experience both 
 poles of its vibratory law of good and evil 
 — of love and hate, of wisdom and igno- 
 rance, and harmony and discord. It be- 
 comes master of itself only as it controls 
 the dual operations of its nature. On the 
 three planes of Identity, Individuality and 
 Personality — where all illusions and de- 
 lusions of the mind and its creations, in 
 ideals, material forms and colors, are 
 nothing but appearances, due to the angle 
 of vision and plane of vibration upon 
 which they temporarily manifest. It is 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 75 
 
 this knowledge of self which enables them 
 to scan the whole of God's vast universe 
 in analysis and synthesis. Having the 
 knowledge of good and evil within them- 
 selves, and having mastered self hence- 
 forth they know the tree of immortal life 
 and have become Gods by reason of their 
 development of their God-given attributes 
 or potentialities. These divine potenti- 
 alities are wrapped up in each deific Ego 
 and await their unfoldment to manifest 
 their God-nature, which culminates on 
 the plane of Identity, as the reunion of 
 man and woman into the Angel of Light, 
 Life and Love — a trinity of Deity in form, 
 physical, mental and spiritual. This is 
 the symbol of the Sphinx — the Riddle of 
 every age — and will remain a Riddle until 
 all deific Egos have solved it for them- 
 selves. 
 
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 The Gods are charged with burning 
 the bridge behind them so that no mortal 
 has been able to cross the rivers Lethe 
 and Styx, but this destruction of the 
 bridge is more an appearance than a re- 
 ality. To the true lover of Divine Wis- 
 dom his intuitions tell him he, too, has an 
 opposite half and the desire for the One- 
 ness of life that will bring the missing link 
 to him in love and a balanced justness of 
 mind in which he sees the law of polar 
 opposites in everything. He is no longer 
 critical, in mental bias, condemning this, 
 that or the other. He sees both sides and 
 is just both to his enemy, and to himself. 
 Henceforth, all truth to him is a paradox, 
 It has two aspects — the one of appear- 
 ances, while the other is real and the two 
 united become One Law, One Truth, One 
 Word and One God. He realizes that he 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 77 
 
 is the dual expression of that One Law. 
 This knowledge of himself, in conscious- 
 ness of his male and female nature — his 
 love and wisdom — crowns him with under- 
 standing as the epitome of Deity — the 
 Microcosmic Man. O, what profound wis- 
 dom and knowledge are concealed in 
 Symbolism and Correspondence. The 
 interpretation of it becomes a revelation 
 and a flood of light pours in upon the 
 mind as the curtain is drawn back for 
 modern generations to see the scenes be- 
 hind the veil. There is nothing new in 
 all this spectacular panorama of Nature's 
 laws dually expressed. They are as old 
 as Deity Himself — without beginning and 
 without end. They only appear new to 
 each generation of Egos as they review 
 them from their angle of vision. But this 
 optical illusion soon vanishes when the 
 
78 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 united Egos sum up their conclusions — 
 the results of their separate experiences 
 through the Cycle of Necessity of involu- 
 tion and evolution. 
 
 This is the knowledge that makes 
 them free. No longer bound by appear- 
 ances, or conventional rules, their divine 
 nature realized supplies their every want 
 in harmony, happiness, health and heaven. 
 Their thoughts and acts are just. Heaven 
 is of their own creation. Henceforth 
 they enjoy the fruits of their spiritual, 
 mental and physical relations — even as 
 Deity does — having obeyed the law to be 
 perfect, even as Deity is perfect — two in 
 one, forever more. 
 
 • Before the foregoing can be realized 
 by the dual halves of each Ego what I 
 now relate must be experienced. Each 
 separate half has, during its evolution 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 79 
 
 from the animal soul into the human 
 magnetically contacted those that ema- 
 nated from its own divine center. The 
 time for separation or divorce has come. 
 Before they can ascend the throne, as 
 king and queen, they must be changed in 
 their polarity of vibrative law. Their own 
 desires and aspirations are obeyed; hence, 
 they encounter all kinds of troubles, trials, 
 vexations, disappointments, even unto 
 death. They must give up the lower in 
 order to possess the higher. The tangled 
 skeins of their former lives are here un- 
 wound and it is this experience that 
 causes the strangest and most unlooked 
 for events. Social ties are broken up; 
 religious beliefs are thrown to the wind; 
 false friends are bidden adieu forever; 
 false philosophies and false religions must 
 likewise be abandoned before the truth 
 
80 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 can be realized. It is this which gives 
 the tragedy and comedy to life — that 
 seems so mysterious, at times, in the shock 
 of sudden death, suicide, murder and 
 divorce. 
 
 Nature's laws can not be thwarted in 
 their operation. Complex and compli- 
 cated, though they be the law of sequence, 
 or cause and effect, is back of every phe- 
 nomenon. This is the knowledge which 
 gives wisdom to obey the divine com- 
 mand of our higher nature — to be just, 
 truthful, upright, moral, virtuous — which 
 results in harmony and heaven. It real- 
 izes the difference between seeming, or 
 shadow, or the real and absolute. The 
 illusions of its lower senses or animal soul 
 — the delusion of its false ideals — vanish 
 forever as the truth shines out at last, 
 which makes it free. It knows itself as 
 it is, not as it seems to be. 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 81 
 
 Charity covers a multitude of sins, or 
 errors that, after all, were only illusions 
 and false ideals of appearances, due to 
 the angle of vision from which the Ego 
 was, for the time being, experiencing its 
 vibrations or sensations. The sorrows of 
 Satan are equally real with those of the 
 Christ. Both are the necessary outcome 
 of their relative relations to the One Life, 
 One Law, One Truth, One Principle and 
 One God. 
 
 The Winged Globe of the Egyptians 
 — symbol of the two halves of every deific 
 Ego consciously united — relates them to 
 the polar star, which is the finger of des- 
 tiny to point out to them their relation to 
 their divine center as they circulate over 
 the trackless ocean of universal life. 
 They never can be lost to each other, nor 
 separated. Like the magnet, they attract 
 
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 to themselves all they require for their 
 life's completeness. At every turn of the 
 Zodiacal wheel, or wheel of destiny, cycle 
 after cycle, eon upon eon, forever more. 
 Henceforth they have the Silver Key to 
 the Golden Lock that will admit them 
 into the Holy of Holies — the Temple of 
 Two Truths. The profound revelation 
 herein disclosed, however, can never be 
 explained to any but themselves. It is 
 here they worship God in spirit and in 
 truth. He desires such angelic beings to 
 worship Him, and it is here He enters into 
 them and they become filled to repletion 
 with the joy and peace that passeth under- 
 standing. My Father and I are One. 
 
 The mystery of Godliness is here felt 
 and realized by all those who attain the 
 Crown. The esoteric laws of the inner 
 mysteries can never be revealed on this 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 83 
 
 outer plane of life. They are too trans- 
 cendent for the general reader to com- 
 prehend; therefore, we will not attempt 
 to describe them, as words fail to convey 
 our ideas and thoughts. Symbols alone 
 are able to convey their true meaning, 
 and Correspondence translate the sym- 
 bolic language into ideas and words of 
 comprehension to those who possess the 
 knowledge and wisdom to interpret and 
 understand them aright. If the Deity is 
 not ashamed of His own creations or 
 manifestations there certainly is no just 
 reason why we, as His children, should 
 be. Our false education — the false theo- 
 ries and ideas regarding sex and its laws 
 — are responsible for the misery and suf- 
 fering generated through this function of 
 our being. We cheat ourselves into the 
 belief that by ignoring sex we live above 
 
84 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 body, forgetting that spirit is sexed also 
 and must be recognized on the mental 
 and spiritual planes of our ideal crea- 
 tions. Purity is symbolized by a little 
 child — the symbol of perfect love and 
 chastity. Those only are partakers of 
 Love's fruits who plant and nourish it. 
 To the pure in heart, God is pure in all 
 His functions. 
 
 Freedom to think and act in the rela- 
 tion of the part to the whole as co-oper- 
 ator with it makes man a God. This 
 wisdom and understanding makes them 
 responsible to themselves for every 
 thought and act; therefore, become wise 
 and plant only the seeds of goodness that 
 you may inherit the joys of immortal life. 
 The law of correspondence, " As it is be- 
 low, so it is above," is true on all planes 
 of our relation to Deity. The laws gov- 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 85 
 
 erning the spiritual plane only transcend 
 those of the physical in vibrative expres- 
 sion and function, which is due to a 
 changed polarity of the Ego. Each plane 
 is governed by its own laws; hence, there 
 is perfect harmony between them, in there 
 action and reaction, which gives rise to 
 innumerable pictures of mental and spir- 
 itual imagery. Identity means the same; 
 therefore, on the spiritual plane all are 
 one. The Egos that gain their identity 
 in consciousness have made the Cycle of 
 Necessity and are conscious of their one- 
 ness with Deity. The wisdom of Egypt, 
 as revealed to us by their mighty monu- 
 ments and temples, built in solid masonry, 
 that have stood the ravishing hand of 
 vandals as w r ell as the effects of cime, 
 symbolize to us the Sun's passage through 
 the Zodiac. Each Sphinx symbolized the 
 
86 The Ditality of Truth. 
 
 dual relation of the sign through which 
 the Sun was passing; hence, long avenues 
 of these stony records of time prove con- 
 clusively the hoary past. We know it 
 takes 2,160 years for the Sun to pass 
 through one sign of the Zodiac, and, as 
 there are twelve signs, it takes 25,920 
 years to make one complete revolution. 
 By this we see the wisdom of their stony 
 monuments as a record of time. In no 
 other way could they have preserved, for 
 future generations, a record of their 
 knowledge of astronomy and astrology. 
 The Sun, Moon and planets, with the 
 twelve signs of the Zodiac, in their rela- 
 tion to each other, form the basic founda-' 
 tion of their Wisdom-Religion, and it is, 
 indeed, wonderful when we become famil- 
 iar with this symbolic language — the pro- 
 found wisdom concealed therein. The 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 87 
 
 whole of Nature is herein symbolized in 
 imagery and correspondence. Earth, Air, 
 Fire and Water — Oxygen, Hydrogen, 
 Nitrogen and Carbon — are herein sym- 
 bolized physically and metaphysically. 
 Every phenomenon of life, visible as well 
 as invisible, stands out before us in sym- 
 bolical ideas as realities of living beings. 
 Living entities on every plane of life are 
 plainly revealed to the astrological mind. 
 The Alchemist understood how to trans- 
 mute the different elements back into 
 their original forms of ideals; this, with 
 him, was magic; hence, he was justly 
 called magician, because he was familiar 
 with Nature's laws of polarization and de- 
 polarization of matter and spirit. These 
 laws can not be explained in words intel- 
 ligently — they can only be symbolized to 
 our intelligence. It would be useless, 
 
88 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 therefore, to attempt to describe that 
 which is magical in Nature's operations. 
 We know the tree grows and bears its 
 fruit, but how? Who can answer? Na- 
 ture's silent workings are very mysterious 
 and only the wise can understand. The 
 modern chemist of to-day can make a 
 grain of wheat, but can he put the life- 
 principle in it that will make it grow? 
 No, he can not. It is this principle — life 
 — with which the magician deals. It is 
 The Elixir of Life — The Philosopher's 
 Stone. But these terms convey no intel- 
 ligent idea to the mind of the general 
 reader because he thinks of them in the 
 letter which kills. They require the spirit 
 to electrify and vivify them to conscious- 
 ness in the mind of the alchemist or ma- 
 gician. Thus he becomes a creator, cre- 
 ating life from life. Manifesting his ideals 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 89 
 
 outwardly in visible forms. This is magic, 
 as explained by Symbolism and Corre- 
 spondence. The Pyramids of Egypt are 
 symbolical monuments in honor of the 
 Spiritual Sun, whom the Egyptians wor- 
 shiped. They embody within them their 
 knowledge and wisdom of the starry 
 heavens. The Suns, Stars and planets 
 speak in silent eloquence through those 
 stony monuments. The symbolical lan- 
 guage, therein contained, has never been 
 revealed other than to Initiates of Na- 
 ture's occult laws. They symbolize the 
 four elements — Earth, Air, Fire and Wa- 
 ter — the East, West, North and South; 
 also, the harmony as revealed by the 
 trinity of Nature's elements as they relate 
 to the whole; likewise, the duad as father 
 and mother ; also, the monad as One 
 Law, One Truth, One Principle and One 
 
go The Duality of Truth. 
 
 God. The circle with a dot in the center 
 —the symbol of the Spiritual Sun — whose 
 center is everywhere — and whose circum- 
 ference is nowhere. Omniscience and 
 Omnipresence is thus symbolized, for all 
 eternity, can not bring us any nearer to 
 Deity other than in consciousness of our 
 oneness with Him in essence — in thought, 
 in knowledge and wisdom — all of which 
 will continue to grow forever; therefore, 
 we are in duty bound to add our store of 
 increased knowledge to the stone monu- 
 ments of Egypt, that symbolize to the 
 world their understanding and wisdom — 
 the sum total of their knowledge during 
 the Sun's passage through the Zodiac in 
 their cycle of time. As He is repeating 
 Himself in the present cycle, on the plane 
 of mind, we must spiritualize the ideas 
 embodied in the stony monuments, not in 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 91 
 
 masonry built in granite but in masonic 
 imagery, in thought-forms and ideals to 
 correspond on the plane of mind. 
 
 We can admire, with just pride, the 
 wisdom of the ancient Egyptians and 
 credit them with their due for what they 
 have done for the race. Avenues of 
 Sphinxs— symbols of the Sun's passage 
 through every sign of the Zodiac, and 
 pyramids innumerable, all symbolic of the 
 material, mental and spiritual ideas they 
 had in mind when building for future gen- 
 erations. They knew perfectly well the 
 utter impossibility of transmitting in writ- 
 ing the truths of Nature they possessed. 
 They were acquainted with the animal 
 man, the old Adam, in whom resides sel- 
 fishness, lust, pride, vanity and ambition, 
 love of power, earthly rule and glory. 
 They dare not trust him to transmit the 
 
92 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 knowledge and wisdom they possess to 
 future generations, as they knew it would 
 be lost, destroyed and forever obliterated 
 from the fair face of our beautiful planet 
 Earth, during the night-time of the Sun's 
 sub-cycle. Therefore, at great cost, 
 financially and enormous cost physically, 
 they designed and executed the silent 
 monuments out of solid masonry to em- 
 body their ideas of the Sun, Moon and 
 planets in their revolutions around the 
 Spiritual Sun of all Life, Light and Love. 
 They are thus made to speak the wisdom 
 of creation in symbols of immortal life. 
 Vandals and thieves have done their best 
 to destroy their works, but without avail; 
 for they live and will continue to live so 
 long as our Earth shall remain, for the 
 symbolic language is God's silent elo- 
 quence expressed in Symbolism and Cor- 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 93 
 
 respondence to the children of men. The 
 time has come to reveal the mental im- 
 agery concealed within them, by their 
 builders, as they must have had the ideals 
 before they could embody them into ma- 
 sonry. The Law of Correspondence — "as 
 it is above, so it is below" — was the law of 
 Hermes, the father and founder of Her- 
 metic Philosophy, in whose honor I quote 
 the following poem: 
 
 HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. 
 
 Still through Egypt's desert places 
 
 Flows the lordly Nile; 
 And from its banks, the great stone faces 
 
 Gaze with patient smile; 
 Still the Pyramids imperious 
 
 Pierce the cloudless skies; 
 And the Sphinx stares with mysterious, 
 
 Solemn, stony eyes. 
 
94 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 But where are the old Egyptians, 
 
 Demi-Gods and Kings? 
 Nothing left but an inscription, 
 
 Graven on stones and rings; 
 Where is now that mighty Priesthood, 
 
 Whose actions were by Gods impelled ? 
 Where is Hermes Trismegistus 
 
 Who their awful secrets held? 
 
 Who shall call his dreams fallacious? 
 
 Who has searched and sought 
 All the unexplored and spacious 
 
 Universe of thought? 
 Who! in his own skill confiding, 
 
 Shall with rule and line, 
 Mark the border land dividing 
 
 Human and Divine? 
 
 Trismegistus! three times greatest, 
 
 How thy name sublime 
 Has descended to this latest 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 95 
 
 Progeny of time. 
 Happy they whose written pages 
 
 Perish with their lives; 
 If amid the crumbling ages 
 
 Still their name survives. 
 
 Thine, O Priest of Egypt, lately, 
 
 Found I, in the vast, 
 Weed-encumbered, sombre, stately, 
 
 Graveyard of the past, 
 And a presence moved before me 
 
 On that gloomy shore, 
 As a waft of Wand that o'er me 
 
 Breathed and was no more. 
 
 H. W. L 
 
 The lidless Sarcophagus, in the King's 
 chamber, has an esoteric meaning of the 
 soul's flight out df matter, its material 
 body, into the realms of spirit. Likewise, 
 the Queen's chamber symbolizes their 
 
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 wisdom of woman's relation to man, spir- 
 itually. No sarcophagus is found in that 
 chamber, for woman enters into man oc- 
 cultly, like the Sun into vegetation. "She 
 becomes the spiritual aroma of his Soul: 
 the celestial flora of his spirit," which 
 teaches, in symbolic language, the immor- 
 tality of the soul, as the two rays of the 
 Divine Ego. Hence, only one sarcopha- 
 gus is found — lidless and empty — to sym- 
 bolize the idea of the spirit's resurrection. 
 Before the below can become as the above, 
 the material must become ideal, as it pre- 
 ceded the material, hence spirit is dual — 
 male and female, or positive and nega- 
 tive — united as one. Thus corresponding 
 to matter and spirit, as Alpha and Omega, 
 the beginning and the end. The Sun's 
 rays, encircling this material monument, 
 at mid-day, throwing a halo, which formed 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 97 
 
 a circle around the Great Pyramid, called 
 Cheops, in honor of its founder. 
 
 The Universe is based upon a geomet- 
 rical figure included in a mathematical 
 sum. The ancient Theosophists taught 
 that there existed throughout all being 
 this universal law of Correspondence. 
 Life, Light and Love are symbolized as 
 mind in action from the Spiritual Sun; 
 every sound in the universe, every shade 
 of color, must combine to produce the 
 pure, white light. Every creature must 
 be a definite part; every thing an organ 
 or organism belonging to the vast whole, 
 all interpreted by the Law of Corre- 
 spondence. The Key Stone which binds 
 and combines all the separate parts of the 
 grand temple of humanity into one mighty 
 whole is the Key Stone that the builders 
 rejected which becomes the head of the 
 
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 corner. This great Pyramid, Cheops, is 
 this rejected stone. Long has it waited 
 for recognition. The builders of science 
 threw it away, not knowing that it was 
 the arch-stone of the Universe itself. 
 To the Masonic Lodge of the Divine 
 Mason, in which all the principles of 
 science are found, from an atom to an 
 Astral System. In its combinations are 
 expressed the truths of astronomy, astrol- 
 ogy, mathematics, geometry, by which the 
 Universe is mapped out in lines, angles, 
 squares and circles, arranged in just rela- 
 tions to each other, and united together 
 in the grand circle of Infinity. The Great 
 Pyramid was built to symbolize these 
 great truths and to preserve its mysteries 
 and perpetuate its meaning from genera- 
 tion to generation. "My soul is at one 
 with the Universe, and my spirit an ema- 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. gg 
 
 nation from Deity." This knowledge the 
 Egyptians symbolized, over and over 
 again, in their stony monuments. There- 
 fore, there is nothing new under the sun, 
 saith Solomon. The soul of man, in con- 
 * scious relation with his Divine parents, 
 awakens to the realization that as a part 
 of the whole it, too, has its responsibilities 
 in proportion to its knowledge of self and 
 its environments. Evolution is the means 
 of development, growth or unfoldment, of 
 its latent potentialities. Its desires, aspi- 
 rations and longings for knowledge and 
 wisdom attract it and relate it to the very 
 circumstances and conditions that will call 
 into active use every faculty of its being 
 to round out and develop its latent attri- 
 butes. O, for knowledge and wisdom to 
 write the truths that will aid mankind to 
 rise superior to their present environment. 
 
ioo The Duality of Truth. 
 
 May it please the Gods to give this knowl- 
 edge as mental food, to inquiring man- 
 kind, that will assist their soul's growth to 
 maturity, that they may be so nourished 
 as to perfect their latent faculties into 
 perfect man and womanhood. 
 
 We implore, Thee, O Michael, thou 
 present ruler of the sub-cycle of the Sun, 
 to inspire us with fire, energy and zeal, 
 and kindle within us that divine spark 
 which will, when awakened, make us real- 
 ize our possibilities as a nation. The past 
 history of our book of life is ours to read, 
 study and understand. Help us to in- 
 terpret its every page correctly and profit 
 by the lessons recorded on the monu- 
 ments and ruins now found all over its 
 surface. The science of geology, miner- 
 alogy, botony, zoology, astronomy and 
 astrology, archeology, astro-mythology 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 101 
 
 and astro-theology, as well as modern 
 science in all its various departments, all 
 lend us their aid; but, we feel the neces- 
 sity of more Life, more Love, more Wis- 
 dom, to enable the soul of man to solve 
 the mystery of his being and rise to the 
 full completeness that will alone be satis- 
 factory to him. He intuitively feels that 
 all Nature is his in every department 
 thereof, as he is capable of its analysis 
 and synthesis; he must not only know 
 himself, but all else about him, that he 
 may aid the race to which he belongs to 
 work out its destiny. Life is a mystery 
 to the struggling monad, and its solution 
 alone can satisfy the hungry soul. To 
 know it always has been, and that it always 
 will be, is a solid foundation on which it 
 can build its temple of truth in architect- 
 ural designs worthy of its divine parents. 
 
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 To co-operate with Deity we must become 
 alive in body, mind and spirit. The goal 
 leads us on as our faculties enlarge and 
 expand. The demand grows for more 
 light, more knowledge, more wisdom, that 
 it may rise into its God-nature and aid the 
 race to evolve all its latent possibilities — 
 spiritually, mentally and physically. Per- 
 fection will thus be attained, Adeptship a 
 realized fact and Hermes Trismegistus 
 will not be ashamed of the numerous fol- 
 lowers of his teachings. Truth alone shall 
 make you free; therefore, love it, cherish 
 it and acquire it, as in it, resides all time 
 and eternity. No atom had a beginning, 
 and can not have an end. All are related 
 to the whole. Periods of time, measured 
 by the Sun, in its cyclic revolutions 
 through the Zodiac, repeat themselves the 
 same as day and night, winter and sum- 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 103 
 
 mer, and as each revolution gives results 
 natural to its cycle so there can only be a 
 repetition with the variations due to the 
 cycle or season manifesting itself. These 
 differences are infinite in their detail re- 
 sults on the different cycles and rounds of 
 evolution and involution, and are the 
 cause of Nature expressing herself so infi- 
 nitely diverse. No two days have the same 
 exact relation. No two years are the 
 same in their cyclic path. No two cycles 
 of time manifest exactly the same fruitage. 
 Therefore, we witness diversity in unity. 
 It is this law of life, or being, that mani- 
 fests the dual opposites, w T hich proves the 
 Law of Correspondence to be true, u as it 
 is below, so it is above." 
 
 Deity, manifested in matter and mind, 
 on the different planes, on the different 
 spirals, manifesting His presence in all 
 
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 His works. Astral systems of universes 
 manifest intelligence and wisdom through- 
 out the whole. As spirits, in making our 
 Cycle of Necessity through the whole, we 
 become familiar with the appearances and 
 realities of every expression of spirit and 
 matter, as it changes its forms and func- 
 tions from the infinitely large to the infi- 
 nitely small. Suns, and their attendant 
 planets, peopled with their ideals or men- 
 tal creations, which take form and become 
 crystallized into material expressions of 
 animal and vegetable plant and tree, with 
 an infinite variety of fruitage which cor- 
 responds to mind in its imagery. There 
 is, therefore, no hard and fast lines that 
 can not be deviated from in Nature's 
 operations. But, on the contrary, one 
 Law, that is as infinite as Deity for it is 
 His Law or Will manifesting in every 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 105 
 
 thing. He is the all in all, and nothing 
 can, or will, be manifested apart from 
 Him. To realize this law and conform 
 to its operations, is the highest knowledge 
 attainable by the differentiated atoms of 
 the one Spirit, we call God or Deity. By 
 whatever name He is called He is ever 
 the same, yesterday, to-day, and will be 
 forever. Therefore, we can get no nearer 
 to Him, except in consciousness of recog- 
 nition of His wonderful power, majesty 
 and wisdom, displayed in what we witness 
 about us on every hand. The heavens 
 declare to us in their glory His absolute 
 knowledge of every Sun and its offspring. 
 They obey the triune law of matter, mind 
 and spirit in their relations to each other, 
 as well as in their manifested life forms, 
 which are graded from the highest Arch- 
 Angel to the protoplasmic jelly like sub- 
 
106 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 stance in which motion is the only expres- 
 sion of being or life. Yet here is visible 
 the same wisdom manifested in the lar- 
 ger substance, called Earth, only differing 
 in degree. Life, therefore, is Deity, and 
 all expressions thereof, whether large or 
 small, whether Suns or planets, or their 
 offspring, are under the One Law of Life, 
 expressing one, and only one, deific intel- 
 ligence, divided into an infinite number of 
 subordinate intelligences, graded in wis- 
 dom, knowledge and power from world- 
 builders to house-builders; each, in his 
 relative relations, actively at work crea- 
 ting, co-operating with Deity as parts of 
 the whole. World-builders are spiritual 
 intelligences, invisible to this plane of 
 life, and are related to the Universal 
 Spirit as parts of the whole the same 
 as we of this material Earth are parts 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 107 
 
 of it, living on and of it. They are infi- 
 nitely wise in their knowledge of Deity, 
 obeying His will, co-operating with Him, 
 to carry out and perfect the Deific crea- 
 tions on the interior planes of life, while 
 we, of the material Earth, co-opera;te 
 through the laws of matter to build up 
 ideals upon the plane of matter. We are 
 all related together as bone to muscle, 
 nerve to brain, the highest material sub- 
 stance through which the Universal Spirit 
 manifests Its intelligence, through the Law 
 of Correspondence. In this way, matter is 
 moved, moulded, formed and manifested 
 in creative designs to correspond to the 
 mental imagery created on the plane of 
 mind. In the Cycle of Necessity each 
 atom experiences its deific nature as 
 spirit, soul and matter; or, in other words, 
 it becomes solids, liquids, gases or ethers 
 
108 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 alternately. The knowledge thus accu- 
 mulated by actual experience becomes 
 wisdom or understanding, self-knowledge 
 — one with Deity — co-operating with Him, 
 obeying His will as naturally as gravita* 
 tion or levitation — two expressions of One 
 Law — that are everywhere manifesting 
 themselves without beginning and with- 
 out end — cycle after cycle — forever and 
 forever — alternately expressing night and 
 day, mentally and physically, as polar op- 
 posites of the Deific life. Deity is in no 
 hurry. Slowly, imperceptibly, but surely, 
 He accomplishes His work. There are 
 no failures. That which seems so to us 
 is equally necessary as that which we 
 know to be so. If Nature is thwarted in 
 one direction or creation, she soon evolves 
 another in a new direction. Light shines 
 and darkness disappears. The Sun is the 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 109 
 
 great source of all Life, Light and Love. 
 It contains all within itself potentially and 
 radiates from its surface in every conceiv- 
 able direction the rays of Life and Love 
 that externalize every form of flora and 
 fauna; in short, life in all its grandeur, 
 owes its manifestation to the Sun. 
 
 Love is divine fire — the moulding, ger- 
 minating, fructifying agency — that evolves 
 the latent potentialities hidden in the soil, 
 plant, tree or animal or man. The soul of 
 man becomes illuminated and is aglow 
 with heat, fire, zeal, energy and ambition. 
 In short, it is full of ideas, plans, concep- 
 tions for the promotion, development and 
 perfection of the race. How best it can 
 aid Nature to evolve the powers and 
 potentialities in soil and brain; to feed 
 and clothe the people physically and 
 mentally, for they require both physical 
 
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 and mental nourishment to satisfy their 
 dual nature of soul and body. This phys- 
 ical growth and development depends as 
 much upon his soul's nourishment as his 
 physical body does upon the proper phys- 
 ical food. There must be a daily gym- 
 nastic exercise of the mind as well as of 
 the body. How best to do this will now 
 be considered, as no two individuals are 
 alike, and no two require the same sub- 
 stances for food or the same physical 
 exercise, it is reasonable to infer that a 
 variety of both would be necessary for 
 the soul's highest development. Experi- 
 ence has demonstrated this theory to be 
 true. All must study their requirements 
 and obey their higher selves in supplying 
 the requisites necessary for their soul's 
 development. The desire for unfoldment 
 is the first requisite and until this desire 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 1 1 1 
 
 has taken control of the mind or soul no 
 amount of artificial work can or will avail 
 to evolve the soul's higher senses. To 
 force food upon our associates, whether 
 of a mental or physical nature, is wrong 
 and will only result in disease, either 
 mental or physical or both; therefore, 
 only feed the hungry and only give them 
 such food as they can readily assimilate. 
 Much real harm is done by indiscrimi- 
 nately trying to force upon others what 
 they do not want or require. We have 
 no right to do this and will find in the 
 long run that it is not wisdom to do so. as 
 Nature will hold us responsible and make 
 us pay to the uttermost farthing before 
 our own development can be accom- 
 plished. Nature has a great variety of 
 moods. She requires the storms, tem- 
 pests, cyclones and earthquakes, as well 
 
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 as the sunshine and shade. All are re- 
 quired to accomplish the dual action and 
 results of the One Law, dually expressed. 
 Hell and heaven go side by side, as polar 
 opposites, on every plane of being. Ac- 
 tion is followed by reaction, which fre- 
 quently kills. Life is followed by death, 
 which is only a new birth on another 
 plane of vibration. Hard, indeed, is it 
 for the struggling atom to realize the 
 meaning of this constant change of form 
 and function. Experience is its only 
 guide to truth. It knows only what it 
 has experienced, whether of happiness 
 or misery, and as no two atoms have the 
 same functions to perform, no two have 
 the same experience. Diversity in every- 
 thing is the outcome of this law of change, 
 and man the culmination of its action, is 
 the knower. He has become wise through 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 113 
 
 association and assimilation of all the 
 vibrations forced upon him by planetary 
 relation and his own chosen field of oper- 
 ation. He has a free will in this sense, 
 only. He can do, think and act on either 
 side of his equatorial line of march within 
 certain limits. His knowledge thus gained 
 enables him to realize how very small and 
 feeble he is when brought face to face 
 with the Universal Force or Will. All he 
 can do is obey its sweep of spiral mo- 
 tion. Like the tide of the ocean, he 
 moves in and out, up and down, through- 
 out the whole. To relate oneself in 
 quietude and tranquillity of mind and 
 body is to experience health, happiness or 
 heaven. Man, in his ripeness of experi- 
 ence thus gained, learns to know himself, 
 and this knowledge causes him to ignore 
 himself — not that he despises his minia- 
 
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 ture relation to life, but he realizes the 
 truth of his bei'ng as an atom in the whole, 
 indifferent to what relation he may be in 
 at the time, knowing it will be but a brief 
 moment when he must experience a dif- 
 ferent relation to the whole. He becomes 
 reconciled to his fate, whatever it may be, 
 and takes all things as they come, both 
 harmony and discord, happiness or mis- 
 ery, heaven or hell, life or death. 
 
 In this state of mind he is said to ignore 
 himself and think only of the whole. He 
 dies to self and is born to God, as his 
 child, co-operating in every way he can 
 to assist the necessary evolution of all 
 with whom he is related. To kill selfish- 
 ness is no small task, as it implies over- 
 coming the animal soul and subordinating 
 it to the human or divine soul. The Ego 
 has changed its polarity to one of immor- 
 
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 tality. It has become aroused from ap- 
 parent death to conscious life, and holds 
 itself responsible for its thoughts and acts. 
 It is this that separates it from the mere 
 animal man. Its God-nature becomes the 
 dominating factor in all it does — not for 
 self, but for Deity, in whom it lives, 
 moves, and has its being. Love enters 
 into all its relations to life, as it no longer 
 lives for its personal gratification. Its 
 will has become polarized by the universal 
 will — its mind by the universal mind — and 
 it sees with the spiritual and mental, as 
 well as with the physical sight. It has 
 become a triune being like its God. This 
 consciousness of its relation to the whole, 
 is borne in upon the soul, as an image of 
 itself, an exact counterpart of the whole 
 as a miniature universe, complete within 
 itself. It is a center of life, vibrating to 
 
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 all its organs and they to it, in exact cor- 
 respondence of the Sun and planets of 
 our solar system. 
 
 The heart is symbolical of the Sun. 
 The different organs of the body all per- 
 form their separate functions, and thus the 
 whole is sustained and health and happi- 
 ness maintained. Without this co-opera- 
 tion, discord and dissolution would be 
 inevitable. Therefore it is easy to see 
 that we sustain a similar relation to Deity. 
 If we obey the divine law of heaven, equi- 
 librium or justice — health and happiness 
 — is the result; but disobedience to this 
 law results in discord and death, on every 
 plane of our being. No other result can 
 follow; therefore, it is our duty to do all 
 we can to maintain health and harmony 
 in ourselves and all about us, as by this 
 means we assist to the health of the 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 117 
 
 whole. To "realize our responsibility to 
 Deity and obey it, is all we can do as in- 
 dividual atoms, and if all atoms did like- 
 wise, all would be healthy and happy. 
 But here comes in the free-will to choose 
 wrong and suffer and cause others to suf- 
 fer with us until we are sick unto death 
 with its folly and ignorance. The knowl- 
 edge, thus gained, causes us to resolve 
 and return to obedience of the One Law 
 — of the One Life, dually expressed — and 
 obey its every mandate, by balancing its 
 relation between the two extremes of its 
 dual life, and thus serve Deity instead of 
 self. It has become wise through expe- 
 rience in suffering and dying — being born 
 again under new and different relations 
 to life — until it has the knowledge of the 
 tree of life of good and evil. And, obey- 
 ing the injunction to live forever, it has 
 
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 created immortality for itself. It hence- 
 forth recognizes the Gods or individual 
 beings like itself that have obeyed the 
 same law and inherited their birthright 
 equally with its own inheritance. Self is 
 swallowed into the whole, as an atom of 
 water into the great ocean. All atoms 
 contain their separate shape and individ- 
 uality forever, but their identity is that 
 quality or function that they have fitted 
 themselves to fill, by reason of their 
 knowledge and wisdom of themselves and 
 their relation to the whole. No two have 
 the same knowledge or wisdom — all are 
 different in power and beauty, and it is 
 this diversity that makes God or Deity 
 absolute and immortal. Each atom im- 
 proves itself and becomes wiser and all 
 acting together in wisdom, knowledge and 
 understanding, is the cause of the Deific 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 119 
 
 progression in forms and functions, cycle 
 after cycle, ad infinitum. 
 
 The souls, being male and female, pos- 
 itive and negative, perfect each the 
 other as well as themselves individually; 
 and thus, perfection is attained for the 
 whole. The universal spirit, called Deity, 
 has evolved its latent attributes and per- 
 fected its potentialities. The Cycle of 
 Necessity has been traversed. Spiritual 
 and mental universes created, destroyed 
 and recreated into higher and into more 
 perfect organisms to satisfy the ever-long- 
 ing demands of the deific souls for per- 
 fection. Without this spirit of unrest no 
 such results could have been accom- 
 plished; therefore, awake, O souls, to thy 
 responsibility and realize thy possibilities 
 in harmonious relation with the brother- 
 hood and sisterhood of man. Build up the 
 
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 fatherhood and motherhood of God. We 
 have each created our selfhood — an ideal 
 of our Creator in evolving our God-nature ; 
 it is this which has cost us so much pain 
 and sorrow, as well as ultimate happiness 
 and heaven. We have gone through hell 
 in order to appreciate heaven and learn 
 justice to all and ourselves alike. Only in 
 this knowledge and wisdom applied can 
 heaven or harmony be sustained. Hence 
 we have war in heaven when this dual 
 law is disobeyed. The wrath of man shall 
 praise God. 
 
 Be ye angry and sin not; that is, do 
 not act or speak in an unreasonable man- 
 ner. Excitement is that state of mind 
 that gives the fullest expression to the 
 soul's attributes and, if guided aright, 
 and not allowed to guide or rule us, en- 
 ables the soul to accomplish work while 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 121 
 
 under the benign influence that it could 
 not accomplish otherwise. Like a steam 
 engine, with a full head of steam, it can 
 pull more than when the steam is low in 
 the boiler. Some things can not be ac- 
 complished by us until we become en- 
 thused; then the work is done, and well 
 done, as it should be for all concerned, 
 "Sin not" does not enter into our work, 
 for the motive that caused the excite- 
 ment was the polar opposite; we, there- 
 fore are made to realize the proper use 
 of the soul's every function and attributes 
 in its dual action. The use, and not the 
 abuse, is what we should desire of every 
 organ of body and brain. Combative- 
 ness, constructiveness and amativeness 
 must be used aright; then they are our 
 most useful organs, as they aid us to 
 create, build and destroy that which 
 
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 must be destroyed before the new 
 can take its place whether in thought 
 or material creations. The iconoclast, 
 or God-destroyer, is necessary to the 
 healthy growth of religion, philosophy 
 or science, Idolatry, of every kind, must 
 be destroyed, that the true God may be 
 worshiped in spirit and in truth. Whom 
 the Gods wish to destroy, they first make 
 mad, then disintegration is easy, because 
 the degree of heat and fire that consumes 
 having been kindled. It is a species of 
 insanity, the polar opposite of sanity. 
 The middle line between the two ex- 
 tremes is the only safe path for the soul's 
 healthy, normal expression. This rule 
 will apply to every relation of life, to 
 every plane of life. Equilibrium is jus- 
 tice, harmony, health, heaven. 
 
 Love lieth at the foundation of every 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 123 
 
 creation of the most high. Love of life, 
 light, truth, knowledge, wisdom, happi- 
 ness, harmony, heaven. This love-law, 
 being dual in its action, we witness hate, 
 jealousy and revenge as its opposite action; 
 here, again, the two poles of the One 
 Law manifest the exact opposite results. 
 Love must express itself by kindness, 
 benevolence, charity, forbearance, gen- 
 erosity — in short, must act justly in order 
 that its exercise may bring forth, normal 
 healthy fruitage. The right use of and 
 exercise of all our organs and functions 
 are necessary to health and happiness. 
 Their abuse can only result in disease, 
 discord and death, which means a new 
 birth on another plane of life. Here, 
 again, we witness that both poles of the 
 dual law are necessary to the higher ex- 
 pression of life, in thought and form, to 
 
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 evolve the latent potentialities of the soul. 
 Wisdom is displayed in all God's laws, 
 when they are understood in their fullness 
 and completeness of operation. Creation 
 is only manifestation, but before mani- 
 festation can be accomplished on this out- 
 ward plane of matter the spirit atoms 
 must die by changing their polarity of 
 vibration. This polarity of the spirit is 
 the birth of matter. 
 
 The invisible spirit has become visible 
 and the material universe is the result. 
 Hence, evolution is necessary for the 
 spirit's return to its original life. Before 
 it can return its involved attributes must 
 become manifest in material form and 
 ideal conceptions on the planes below its 
 original state. Ideas must become ex- 
 ternalized, in material form, in order that 
 the cycle of necessity may become com- 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 125 
 
 plete: this involution and evolution of the 
 spirit's potentialities, or hidden attributes, 
 is the whole of nature externalized, out of 
 the Spiritual Sun, into matter — in granite 
 rock, soil, vegetation, plant, tree, animal 
 and, lastly, man, who contains in his com- 
 plex, duplex nature, the whole as seven 
 rays of spirit, giving him a universal re- 
 lation to all below him as the compound 
 out of which he is made, so far as his body 
 and brain are concerned. While his soul 
 and spirit relate him to God, as His off- 
 spring, in the likeness of the Sun, selfi- 
 illuminated, as a miniature Sun. This 
 knowledge of ourselves is necessary to 
 our happiness and usefulness. Without 
 it, there is no satisfactory reason why we 
 exist or what we exist for. Did all man- 
 kind equally realize the above truth, re- 
 garding their God and themselves, wars,, 
 
126 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 famines, diseases, suffering and misery 
 would forever be banished from off the 
 fair face of our Earth, and the dream of 
 every noble soul that has died to save the 
 race or who has consecrated his life's 
 blood and energies to this end would be 
 realized. Heaven would be restored to 
 earth, as in the former Eden of the golden 
 age, where all were one race and one 
 people. This, however, can not be until 
 by evolution the involved spirit has 
 evolved its potentialities universally for 
 the whole race. Individuals only can ex- 
 perience this who are evolved on this 
 plane in advance of the race. Evolution, 
 which is governed by the cycles of time, 
 aided by the planetary evolution, with the 
 nicety and exactness of polar, solar and 
 diurnal motion, is the key to this golden 
 lock of universal life. We, therefore, 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 127 
 
 must not become mentally disturbed be- 
 cause of this, to us, slowness of Nature's 
 processes in accomplishing her work or 
 undertakings. She knew before spirit 
 was involved what was in store for the 
 atoms in their descent and ascent to com- 
 plete the Cycle of Necessity, and will, in 
 her own good time, restore every one of 
 them back to its Eden of rest and happi- 
 ness with a reason and knowledge and 
 wisdom and understanding for every 
 step of the way required to make this 
 long journey, which should of itself sat- 
 isfy all of God's children, and it will 
 satisfy all as they are made to see and 
 know for themselves the meaning of 
 life as they experience it. The works 
 of Deity require a great variety of 
 laborers of different degrees of knowl- 
 edge and skill, until the whole is com- 
 
128 T-he Duality of Truth. 
 
 pleted. Hod-carriers, masons of stone 
 and brick, will be equally necessary as the 
 architects, carpenters and smiths in tin, 
 iron and copper, as well as in gold and 
 silver, all are necessary that steam and 
 electricity may find their proper uses in 
 modern creations or habitations for the 
 souls of men and the Deific spirit. All is 
 right for the use for which it was intended. 
 All its various members are but atoms, 
 organs or organisms, performing func- 
 tions necessary to the complete whole. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 SYMBOLISM AND CORRESPONDENCE. 
 {Continued.) 
 
 We are so bound up together that the 
 different parts are necessary in our social, 
 religious and political relations, as much 
 so as the different parts of our bodies are 
 necessary to its form and functions. 
 
 God is all in all, and we, His offspring, 
 can only obey his will by becoming con- 
 scious of it as it manifests through us as 
 parts of the whole. We are His circula- 
 tion of Life-fluid, as blood, and are drink- 
 ing it with every breath we breathe. We 
 eat and drink his flesh and blood, because 
 there is nothing else to eatr and drink. 
 This may not be known to all my readers 
 
130 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 but they must be told the literal truth, in 
 order that they may become free men and 
 women. It is my purpose, in giving these 
 thoughts to the world, to do my part of 
 the work required by the whole. I am to 
 write that others may read what I have 
 thought. This will entitle me to their 
 productions, whether of the brain or 
 muscle. In this a fair exchange is but 
 justice, which is required from all. The 
 thought that we are immortal spirits, 
 without beginning or end, clothed for a 
 time in fleshy garments in order that we 
 may learn the lessons of material crea- 
 tions and aid the Universal Spirit to 
 evolve its latent potentialities or attributes 
 is not new, for Plato and Socrates taught 
 similar ideas. In one sense there is noth- 
 ing new under the Sun. As we can under- 
 stand, without beginning and without end, 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 131 
 
 implies all that is, can, or will be as to the 
 essence or substance called spirit. It 
 always existed in some form or forms or 
 as the formless Universal Spirit. Only 
 change in form can take place from 
 one expression or existence to another, 
 whether consciously or otherwise. The 
 present moment is all that we can call our 
 own. The past is gone and can not be 
 recalled. The future is ever before us 
 and recedes as we advance. We should 
 use every moment aright, as in so doing 
 we will build for ourselves the mansions 
 in the skies we will occupy after leaving 
 these bodies. Our thoughts are things of 
 shape and color, formed by us in all we 
 do, whether we know it or not. They 
 surround us as our thought-sphere the 
 same as the air does the globe we live 
 upon. This picture gallery of our own 
 
.32 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 creations is our book of life, out of which, 
 we are judged by others and from which 
 we also judge ourselves. As judges of 
 our creations we acquit or condemn our- 
 selves. Before we can be satisfied with our 
 work it must be just and as near perfect 
 as it can be. The imagination is our cre- 
 ative faculty. The higher our conception 
 of beauty, usefulness and justice to all, the 
 finer will be our work in thoughts, acts 
 and deeds. Perfection can only come 
 from perfection. Therefore, strive to be- 
 come perfect in spirit, soul and body, as 
 the three are related to each other in such 
 a manner as to require an even, harmo- 
 nious development of all, in order that 
 health and happiness may be attained. 
 In this age of transition from material to 
 spiritual thoughts, we require a knowledge 
 of Nature's Universal Laws before we can 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 133 
 
 become reconciled to our destiny. When 
 it is pointed out to us that we are the re- 
 sults of evolution, through countless ages, 
 the epitome of Deity in spirit, soul and 
 body, that we never had a beginning, as 
 to spirit, except in differentiation from the 
 whole. That the countless forms in every 
 kingdom of life beneath us have served 
 us in the past as stepping-stones for our 
 soul's growth and development to its 
 present state or stage. That it is des- 
 tined to grow and evolve its deific nature 
 through Angelic, Celestial and God-like 
 forms, as co-operators with their Father- 
 Mother God for all eternity. Who can 
 imagine what is in store for the perfected 
 human soul. Eye hath not seen, ear hath 
 not heard, neither hath it entered into the 
 hearts of men to conceive what God hath 
 in store for those that love and serve 
 
134 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Him. Worlds within worlds, electrical 
 worlds peopled with electrical beings, 
 living in an electrical universe, governed 
 by thoughts flashed with lightning spred 
 in their operations. Imagination fails us 
 from this material plane of life to picture 
 out what such a world must be like. 
 Those glorious Adepts in a knowledge of 
 Nature's spiritual laws, who are in advance 
 of us intellectually and spiritually, assure 
 us the above statement is a veritable real- 
 ity. Modern scientists have also arrived 
 at the same conclusion and claim to have 
 demonstrated to their satisfaction that 
 man lives beyond the grave. The goal 
 leads us on to grandeurs, beauties and 
 achievements. Little do we know, in- 
 deed, compared to what there is to be 
 known. "Ask and ye shall receive, seek 
 -and ye shall find, knock and it shall be 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 135 
 
 opened unto you," is just as true to-day, 
 regarding spiritual truth, as it has been in 
 every round of the past of the mind's 
 manifestation, outwardly expressed, dur- 
 ing the daytime of the sub-cycle of the 
 Sun. If it were not so serious a matter 
 we might be inclined to laugh at modern 
 scientists for their presumption in the in- 
 vestigation of the spiritual forces of Na- 
 ture. To read their productions 'one 
 would naturally think that these truths 
 were their discoveries and of recent date; 
 whereas, the truth is they are as old as 
 time or the human race at least and were 
 better known to the golden age of mytho- 
 logical history that ante-dates by many 
 thousands of years modern history. We 
 must accept the occult chronology of the 
 Bibles and not confine ourselves to the 
 modern interpretation of time as students 
 
136 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 of universal history. Otherwise we will 
 fail to see the light and realize the truth: 
 that Nature repeats herself in cycles, 
 which express themselves alternately as 
 day and night, on the mental plane in ex- 
 act correspondence to the day and night 
 of our physical plane. When this law is 
 understood all will be revealed to us as 
 we are capable of appreciating, enjoying 
 and using aright the knowledge and wis- 
 dom of our inheritance, handed down to 
 us from our great progenitors of pre-his- 
 toric ages. Immortality, what is it? We 
 live forever and forever, not in idleness 
 but in active co-operation with God as His 
 children, loving Him with all our soul and 
 mind for having endowed us, His atoms, 
 with His own nature, capable of usefulness 
 and enjoyment — happiness and heaven. 
 What can we say but, We praise Thee, O 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 137 
 
 God. Words are incapable of expressing 
 our gratitude. Silence, alone, in awe of 
 His majesty and power compels our rev- 
 erence in thoughts and deeds, in imita- 
 tion of His works. To create, is our 
 noblest aspiration. In this, we should be 
 wise and obey God's command to replen- 
 ish the Earth with our kind spiritually, 
 mentally and physically, in order that 
 heaven may reign supreme upon Earth, 
 as it does in the spiritual skies. The 
 Astral skies or purgatorial regions are but 
 little, if any, better than on our Earth, so 
 far as harmony and health are concerned, 
 as they embody all imperfections and dis- 
 cords found upon Earth. Seek, there- 
 fore, the spiritual heavens and by aspira- 
 tions of soul relate yourself to the mighty 
 spiritual Hierophants who guide and 
 guard our Earth's destiny. By doing so, 
 
138 The Duality of Truth, 
 
 you will be made aware of the truth as 
 to your origin and destiny. We reap as 
 we sow. It is the law of our being — like 
 attracts like and begets like. Evolution 
 of thought-ideas must follow the same 
 law as the evolution of material forms, 
 for the reason that the ideas were in- 
 volved into matter out of spirit, and in 
 making the Cycle of Necessity they must 
 return through evolution out of matter, 
 through mind or mental imagery, back to 
 spirit. Therefore, as we have been re- 
 lated to material in its manifold functions, 
 likewise, we are related to mind or ideas 
 and evolve them in thought-forms back 
 into spirit. Deity, the all in all, is a 
 trinity expressed as spirit, mind and mat- 
 ter. Spirit is formless, motionless, void; 
 mind is spirit in motion or vibration; 
 while matter, the negative pole of spirit, 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 139 
 
 is only active as mind evolving its attri- 
 butes that have become crystallized into 
 material forms. When mind is active in 
 matter we witness great changes in form 
 and function of every grade — from gran- 
 ite rock to the highest material form — the 
 human. Growth and decay — life and 
 death — are manifest through vegetable, 
 animal and human planes of life out- 
 wardly expressed and on the Angelic and 
 Arch-Angelic, and still higher spiritual 
 planes, completing the evolutions of 
 spirit's potentialities; therefore, ideas must 
 be expressed in an infinite variety of 
 words in order to evolve them back from 
 matter, in its infinite forms, into the uni- 
 versal spirit — the formless ocean from 
 which they originally had their birth. 
 
 Identity is the One Law of this plane 
 of spirit, as One God, One Principle, gov- 
 
140 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 erning all; therefore, when motion, or 
 mind, or vibration, is manifesting its law 
 diversity is the opposite pole of unity. 
 The duad, as Father and Mother, express 
 the trinity on the three planes of spirit, 
 mind and matter; therefore, nine is all 
 that can express itself outwardly. Hence, 
 nine is the highest digit we possess, and is 
 the symbol of Deity, in manifestation. 
 While ten is the symbol of unmanifest 
 Deity, as One, whose center is everywhere 
 and whose circumference is nowhere. 
 How simple and easy to understand and 
 comprehend, in its universal aspects, but 
 how difficult in its complex, complicated 
 manifestations, as expressed by polar, 
 solar and diurnal motion in spirit, mind 
 and matter. Yet, these three motions 
 must be mastered by us before we can 
 comprehend the laws of involution and 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 141 
 
 evolution, or those of polar opposites, or 
 those of sex, as they are all one in origin, 
 but three in their expression on the three 
 planes of matter, mind and spirit, each 
 meaning the exact same functions of gen- 
 eration, physical, mental and spiritual. It 
 is this which confuses and confounds the 
 uninitiated man and woman; to them the 
 duality of truth, or polar opposites, are in- 
 comprehensible. They can not realize 
 that every truth is a paradox. Hence, 
 they fail to know themselves as spirits 
 clothed in matter. As growth of the soul 
 goes on, however, this knowledge is forced 
 upon their consciousness and the new 
 birth into spirit takes place in spite of 
 their ignorance of its operation. Marvel 
 not that I say unto you, you must be born 
 again. No such thing as death for any 
 creation of the most high. Worlds and 
 
142 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 universes of worlds are projected into be- 
 ing out of the Spiritual Suns as centers 
 of Life, Light and Love. They perform 
 their allotted task and return again into 
 the spiritual Sun-parent out of which they 
 were evolved. The Hermetic Law, "as it 
 is above, so it is below," is the Silver Key 
 with which we can unlock all nature's 
 mysteries on every plane of life. We wit- 
 ness the birth of all material forms from 
 our earth's substances and the atmosphere 
 surrounding her, and their return thereto. 
 Likewise, the spirits, being emanations of 
 the Suns, must return again to them after 
 their Cycle of Necessity is completed. 
 Space is boundless, infinite, eternal, alone. 
 This is God unmanifest. He cannot be 
 fenced in or circumscribed. The same may 
 be said of time. One is measured by miles, 
 yards, feet and inches, the other by cycles, 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 143 
 
 eons, years, months, weeks, days, minutes 
 and seconds of time. A day is as a thou- 
 sand years to Deity. Eternity and time 
 to Him are two poles of the same law of 
 measurement. The spirit returns to spirit 
 and matter to matter. This law takes 
 possession of the soul and time is swal- 
 lowed up in eternity. There is but One 
 Life to the spirit, infinitely expressed. 
 This knowledge should make us charita- 
 ble towards all forms of matter and mind 
 as witnessed in animal and human kind; 
 also, tolerant of their beliefs in religion, 
 science and philosophy. Truth, of all is 
 necessary to enable us to judge correctly, 
 and as they all exist in Deity and He ex- 
 presses Himself under two modes of ex- 
 pression as male and female, or positive 
 and negative, we realize the sublime fact 
 that they are all one under two heads of 
 motion or vibration. 
 
144 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Science, on the plane of matter or visi- 
 bility, philosophy and religion, embody- 
 ing the facts of the material as well as 
 the spiritual or metaphysical expressions 
 of thought. The time for reunion of all 
 schools of worship has come or rather is 
 coming to the children of men in order 
 that all may worship God under their 
 own vine and fig-tree, symbols of their 
 own souls and bodies, as the tree of life 
 and death. There will be no need for 
 one saying to another, know ye the Lord, 
 for all shall know Him from the least 
 unto the greatest. The Fatherhood and 
 Motherhood of God, and the brotherhood 
 and sisterhood of man, will then be a 
 reality, and not, as it is now, a theory only. 
 Wars will cease after man recognizes this 
 law of his being and universal peace and 
 happiness will prevail. The millennium 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 145 
 
 on Earth will be a recognized and real- 
 ized fact. May these writings find those 
 ready to receive them who can and will 
 aid in this glorious work of educating and 
 illuminating the whole race of mankind 
 to the fact of their common origin and 
 destiny. We realize that darkness pre- 
 cedes the day, mentally, as well as physi- 
 cally. That our western races are just 
 beginning to emerge from mental night 
 to the most glorious day our Earth has 
 ever before experienced. She has had to 
 perfect herself through many cycles of 
 time to give expression to what she is 
 now spreading forth in splendor of intel- 
 lectual knowledge and spiritual wisdom. 
 The Earth is in its prime and, like a 
 strong healthy man, realizes her strength 
 as never before. During the present sub- 
 cycle of the Sun through Aquarius, sym- 
 
146 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 bol of the man, mankind will become per- 
 fect — physically, mentally and spiritually 
 — beyond any manifestations that have 
 existed in previous rounds or cycles of 
 time, on our Earth, before. The accumu- 
 lated knowledge of all past ages will 
 shine out on the written page and speak 
 in tones of music and expressions of art, 
 and scientific inventions, innumerable, to 
 bless the race. Philosophy and Religion 
 will gradually realize their twin sister, 
 Modern Science, and the two become as 
 one. They will become gradually perfect 
 compared to what they are now and have 
 been in the past history of our race. 
 Aquarius, the man-symbol, is an airy, 
 philosophical, scientific, metaphysical and 
 humane sign, and the Sun and planets will 
 manifest their latent attributes and poten- 
 tialities through this sign for the next 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 147 
 
 2,160 years, counting from 1881. There- 
 fore, take courage, my co-workers; put 
 your shoulders, arms and hands, as well 
 as your brains and souls, to work that the 
 race may reap the glorious fruitage during 
 this most glorious cycle of man upon 
 Earth. It is a great privilege to be born, 
 and a greater privilege, to be capable of 
 intelligently co-operating with Deity to 
 do the work required to be done, in order 
 that we may develop and round out our 
 soul's latent possibilities in harmony with 
 the whole. God requires our assistance, 
 otherwise we would be mere machines 
 controlled by His will alone. We realize, 
 however, that we are not controlled in any 
 such a manner. That He has endowed us 
 with freedom to choose the wrong, as well 
 as the right, and to suffer or enjoy, for 
 our ignorance or wisdom of choice, is the 
 
148 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 experience of every one. How could He 
 give us this liberty of choice without this 
 inevitable consequence. He could not 
 do so, as we are immortal spirits, differ- 
 entiated from Himself, possessing His 
 nature of infinite knowledge and wisdom 
 in an undeveloped state; hence, expe- 
 rience is necessary to develop us and un- 
 fold our latent potentialities. This ex- 
 perience we are receiving in our earthly 
 schools of life. Light is beginning to 
 illuminate the mental and spiritual path. 
 New ideas, new thoughts, new emotions 
 of the soul arid spirit are awakening us 
 to realize our responsibilities and inherit- 
 ance from the dead past. Ignorance and 
 superstition have done their work during 
 the night time through which our race 
 has passed. Much of it will have to be 
 destroyed and burned up as chaff. Life 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 149 
 
 is many sided and has many planes of ex- 
 pression and only by seeing it in all its 
 aspects and moods can we become Na- 
 ture's expert scholars or graduates from 
 Nature's University in occult knowledge 
 and wisdom. Those who see, must in- 
 struct those who do not. The blind do 
 not see and can not be held responsible 
 for not seeing, any farther than they are 
 responsible for their blindness; which is an 
 individual problem, and can only be diag- 
 nosed and treated skillfully, after a careful 
 examination of individual cases. There- 
 fore no specific remedy will be offered, as it 
 would be useless. Each one must ascertain 
 for him or herself just what their duties and 
 responsibilities are to their God and fel- 
 lowman; each human being has that with- 
 in them which tells them the truth from 
 the falsehood regarding self. It is the "I 
 
150 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 am that I am/' which is a reality as in 
 very truth is this knowledge requisite to 
 our development of our higher or human 
 nature out of the mere animal which we 
 are in outer form only. We must realize 
 our inner spiritual nature and allow it to 
 speak instead of the animal soul which 
 would keep us in darkness, groveling in 
 the mire of materiality. Desire to know 
 ourselves is, therefore, the first requisite, 
 and this vibration is forced upon every 
 soul in its revolutionary relations to the 
 whole as the Cycle of Necessity is trav- 
 ersed; so, in spite of all appearances to 
 the contrary, light will shine ultimately 
 for every human monad, and it shall see 
 and know for itself that it is an immortal 
 part of the whole, as deathless as Deity, 
 from whom it was evolved. It will know 
 itself to be responsible to itself and to the 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 151 
 
 whole, in exact ratio of its capacity and 
 ability to know and understand. Abso- 
 lute justice will be realized in demanding 
 fulfillment of its nature of good and evil, 
 or positive and negative; for the evil is 
 only ignorance, and vanishes into good, 
 as fast as knowledge and wisdom are at- 
 tained. God is goodness as a whole, and 
 His individual atoms can likewise say it is 
 good to be born into separate conscious- 
 ness — to know and realize for itself the 
 tree of knowledge of good and evil — of 
 light and darkness. Onward and upward, 
 forever, is the order of God's law of prog- 
 ress. There is no return to mortal birth, 
 such as reincarnation would imply or ex- 
 press. After we have attained to the 
 human state, all our rebirths take place on 
 the interior and spiritual planes of life; 
 from plane to plane our progress is ac- 
 
152 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 complished. On every cycle there are 
 awakened into active life the slumbering 
 souls that are ready for further growth on 
 higher spirals and they become teachers 
 to those left behind in the evolutionary 
 march of nature, in unfolding the unde- 
 veloped crop of human souls, that are 
 being prepared for their next spiral of life 
 and so on forever. If the truths herein 
 stated appeal to the reader, before accept- 
 ing them he should apply the Hermetic 
 law, " as it is below, so it is above." This 
 law of Duality of Truth enables us to 
 arrive at the truth of Nature's operations 
 for ourselves, to the full extent that we 
 know this plane of life. The two planes — 
 the within, and the without — the above 
 and the below — the visible and the invis- 
 ible — comprise the whole of matter and 
 spirit. The ideal or mental, and the ma- 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 153 
 
 terial or visible planes, must correspond 
 as the ideal preceded the visible or mate- 
 rial. It can not express itself contrary to 
 this law; therefore, each one may re-as- 
 sure themselves of the truth regarding 
 their every relation by actual experience 
 to the whole as they circulate throughout 
 Deity in every department of His vast 
 being. " My soul is one with the universe, 
 and my spirit at one with Deity." This 
 must be fully realized to become conscious 
 of our oneness with the whole in its dual 
 aspects of spirit and matter — body and 
 soul. The Duality of Truth is its own best 
 test of its worth and reliability. Every 
 truth is a parodox and has an esoteric 
 and an exoteric meaning, and when the 
 two are united as One Law, One Truth, 
 and One Principle, Deity is manifested as 
 all in all, under ideal and material mani- 
 
154 TJie Duality of Truth. 
 
 festations of himself in ever} T conceivable 
 expression of mind and matter. Embryol- 
 ogy informs us that we are an epitome of 
 the whole, matter and spirit, which makes 
 every individual a miniature universe or 
 microcosm, and as we were evolved out 
 of the whole it must be the Macro- 
 cosm in essence and ideas; therefore, we 
 have proven the truth of our oneness and 
 likeness of Deity. Likewise, we can prove 
 to ourselves the self-evident facts of im- 
 mortality and mortality as they apply to 
 consciousness of the soul or its uncon- 
 sciousness. It must, apply to both in turn 
 as it circulates through matter and spirit. 
 Therefore, the soul or spirit senses are 
 related in correspondence as sensor and 
 moter nerves to the brain while the sym- 
 pathetic plexus of nerves corresponds to 
 the Solar Plexus and binds us together in 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 155 
 
 one whole organism as expressed in our 
 solar system. All organs of our solar 
 system, called planets, perform their func- 
 tions in exact correspondence to the 
 organs of our body in their relation to the 
 heart, from which the life-blood, called 
 arterial, and the black blood, called venous 
 flows, which symbolizes night and day — 
 life and death. It is here that we are 
 made to appreciate astrology as it is the 
 only science that teaches man his universal 
 relation to the whole of nature — both vis- 
 ible and invisible — material and spiritual. 
 The four occult elements of fire, earth, 
 air and water comprise both the spirit 
 and matter in all its potentialities and 
 symbolize to the astrological mind man's 
 relation to Deity, here and hereafter. 
 The wheel of destiny or fortune called an 
 horoscope, is a chart of birth, giving the 
 
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 exact relation of the Sun, Moon and plan- 
 ets, which symbolizes who has been born 
 and what maybe expected of and for him 
 — his personal appearance, his disposition - 
 and character, his intellectual ability and 
 tastes; his fortune, whether by inheri- 
 tance, by marriage, or by personal indus- 
 try if at all; his health, probable length 
 of life and possible accidents; his love 
 affairs and marriage, children, friends and 
 enemies; his travels, speculations; his 
 business or vocation, are all revealed in 
 his horoscope. All the astrologer requires 
 10 know to answer the above queries and 
 many more, is the sex, place of birth, date 
 of birth, year, month, day of month, hour, 
 A. M. or P. M., to the moment, if possible, 
 which enables the astrologer to ascertain 
 all the above facts and if he or she be 
 versed in spiritual astrology the destiny 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 157 
 
 of the soul incarnated in that wheel of 
 fortune, the physical body, the human 
 organism, or microcosmic Deity. Its de- 
 gree of soul evolvement and its latent at- 
 tributes to be evolved while in its physi- 
 cal body and the chances of its success or 
 otherwise in fulfilling its relation to life 
 on this material earth, are likewise the 
 knowledge of the perfectly developed 
 astrologer, and can be read by him for 
 any individual, no matter who or where, 
 that will supply him with the above de- 
 scribed data. Plato's statement, thac 
 God geometrizes, is proven to be true by 
 the science of astrology. It was this 
 knowledge and wisdom of our ancient 
 Sages and Priest Kings who embodied 
 their profound learning of Nature in a 
 system of thought known as the "wisdom 
 religion." 
 
158 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 This wisdom has been concealed in 
 symbolism, allegory and parable, and 
 metaphor from the profane. In this way 
 only could the priest-hood make it ex- 
 clusively their own. Every bible under 
 the Sun has for its foundation this astro- 
 logical knowledge, but astrology has be- 
 come so perverted and misunderstood 
 that only the exceptional few occult 
 initiates are in possession of its real 
 truths. Hermetic Philosophy embodies 
 within a nutshell the truths of Nature, 
 symbolically expressed, and as the word 
 Hermetic implies, sealed or secret. Occult 
 students can rest assured that the wisdom 
 of the ancients has been entrusted to their 
 keeping. There is, however, in these 
 days false representatives of Hermetic 
 Truth, and false disciples who profess to 
 be Hermetic Initiates; but this is only 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 159 
 
 saying what we have so frequently re- 
 peated, that every thing is dual — the sub- 
 stance and its shadow — the genuine and 
 the counterfeit — the false and the true. 
 The Naronic Cycle or "Naros" is an as- 
 tronomical cycle of six hundred years and 
 produces its fruitage, mentally and spirit- 
 ually, in exact correspondence with the 
 law of fruitage on the material plane of 
 life. Some cycles are favored with good 
 crops and the fruitage is almost perfect. 
 Likewise, with the Naronic Cycles, on 
 the spiritual and mental planes. We 
 have history to prove that about every 
 six hundred years there is a spiritual and 
 mental fruitage of the Naronic Cycle. 
 We are witnessing its fruitage to-day all 
 over the western continent. Numbers of 
 men and women realize the Christ-prin- 
 ciple within themselves, as children of 
 
160 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 God, born to a conscious oneness with 
 Him. 
 
 All such persons are the culmination, 
 or fruitage, of the Naronic Cycle, known 
 to astronomers and astrologers as the 
 "Naros." It does not refer to individ- 
 uals, whatsoever, as it is purely an astro- 
 nomical Cycle of the Sun and Moon in 
 their relations to each other, and the in- 
 dividuals who mature under its influence 
 are the fruitage of the Cycle; that is, they 
 are the offspring or effects manifested in 
 physical forms by reason of its influence. 
 Buddha of India, Zoraster of Persia, 
 Pythagoras of Europe, Appolonius of 
 Tyanna, Jesus of Nazareth, Mohammed 
 of Arabia, the hosts of reformers that 
 came upon the scene of history during 
 the reformation, such as Luther, Calvin, 
 Knox, Wesley and hosts of others less 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 161 
 
 noted, were the fruitage of that cycle. 
 Again we witness its fruitage manifested 
 in the revival of occultism. Under a multi- 
 tude of heads, too numerous to mention, 
 all the results of this Naronic Cycle mani- 
 festing outwardly, through humanity, this 
 mental influence or fruitage to the west- 
 ern races. i\ll as natural as the fruitage 
 of apples, pears, peaches or other fruits in 
 their season. We all know some fruit is 
 nearer ripe and more perfect than others; 
 also that some seasons mature their crops 
 better than others. As it is in matter, so 
 it is in spirit; or, in other words, "as it is 
 below so it is above." Truly are the 
 words of prophecy verified, all shall be 
 revealed, nothing shall be hid ; the crooked 
 shall be made straight; that is, new mean- 
 ings and interpretations shall be put 
 into God's works and words, that will give 
 
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 them the spiritual interpretation which 
 gives light, instead of the letter which 
 kills: instead of crystallizing His ideas 
 they must be spiritualized. Theythenbe- 
 come the bread of life instead of stones. 
 The last Naronic Cycle terminated in 1881. 
 "Naturally all eyes are looking for 
 another Saviour. The Shakers, Advent- 
 ists, Mormons and Christian Scientists all 
 claim the modern Messiah. It is not, of 
 course, necessary to say that all of these 
 earnest and doubtless well-meaning sects 
 are wrong, outrageously in error, because 
 no such Messiah will appear to them. 
 The teacher of the present Naronic Cycle 
 will move in the world quite unsuspected 
 as to his true and real greatness. He 
 will do his work comparatively unknown 
 to the world at large. He will be looked 
 upon as an ordinary individual to those 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 163 
 
 who know him. He will suffer the vilest 
 kind of persecution at the hands of the 
 inversive elements, w r ho dread the force 
 of the principles he will leave behind him. 
 His greatest friends, though mystified as 
 to his real nature, will never grasp in 
 reality his true w r orth until he is beyond 
 their purview 7 . The Messianic messenger 
 of the present Naros will not be fully 
 known until he has passed through the 
 shadow of the valley of death and is be- 
 yond the power of the world to flatter or 
 condemn. The Jews were looking for a 
 monarch and a sign from heaven. The 
 sign came, but the monarch materialized 
 under a very different form from that 
 w r hich they expected. So the Christians 
 of to-day are looking for the pomp and 
 glory of a Celestial King. They, too, are 
 looking for a sign from heaven. The 
 
164 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 sign came with the great perehelion of 
 the planets in 1881, and we may depend 
 upon it that the teacher was there ready 
 and willing, but the world knows him not, 
 nor will it. The time has passed and he 
 can only be known by the generations 
 which are to follow. Hope, Faith and 
 Charity were the symbols of the Nazarene. 
 They were needed in His day and time; 
 but Life, Light and Love are the great 
 requirements of to-day. They are the 
 pressing needs of the hour." 
 
 The above quotation I copy from the 
 writings of one of the prominent authors 
 of the present Naronic Cycle. Time only 
 will prove the truth of his statements. 
 
 Solar, Polar and Diurnal motion of 
 the Sun, Moon and planets must be un- 
 derstood before the triune laws of Deity, 
 as taught by the wise men of old, can be 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 165 
 
 appreciated in all their relations and in- 
 ter-relations. When these laws are com- 
 prehended there will be no more man- 
 worship, as all will know God, from the 
 least to the greatest. The monopoly of 
 spiritual truth, like the monopoly of mate- 
 rial substances, must be abolished, that all 
 of God's children may enjoy their natural 
 inheritance — their birth-right. How many 
 thousands and tens of thousands have sold 
 their glorious birth-right for a mess of 
 pottage — their soul's liberty to spiritual 
 bondage — slaves to a creed of idolatrous 
 worship. Awaken O thou children of the 
 ever-living God, to a conscious recogni- 
 tion of your oneness with the whole of 
 matter and spirit in all its operations in 
 its three-fold relation to time and eter- 
 nity. Know thyself to be an immortal part 
 of the whole — that is, that was, or ever 
 
1 66 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 can or will be. This knowledge will make 
 you free and you will no longer be the 
 slave to the creeds of man-made theology. 
 Salvation can not be attained without 
 knowledge. 
 
 " Of all means, there is but one, Knowl- 
 edge, that is efficacious for obtaining De- 
 liverance. 
 
 " Even as there is no cooking without 
 fire, can one not arrive at Deliverance 
 v/ithout Knowledge." 
 
 "In reading the above we at once feel 
 that it is true and all arguments, as to its 
 truth or falsity, immediately vanish. 
 
 " But, nevertheless, in accepting it as 
 an axiom, we see or rather feel that the 
 generally accepted definition of the two 
 principal words, Knowledge and Deliver- 
 ance, will not do without some qualifica- 
 tion. 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 167 
 
 "It therefore remains but for us to give 
 bur conceptions of these words and to 
 state in what the Knowledge and Deliver- 
 ance consist. 
 
 "We think it is quite evident that the 
 Knowledge here referred to consists not 
 in a mastery of the many and varied 
 masses of classified facts, called material 
 sciences; nor does it consist in an ac- 
 quaintance with all the literature, art and 
 histories of the race. 
 
 " Likewise we believe that the Deliv- 
 erance here mentioned does not refer to 
 a deliverance from material cares and 
 duties in any shape or manner. 
 
 " In what then does Knowledge and 
 Deliverance consist? 
 
 " Assume as a truth the statement of 
 our teacher 'That there are but three 
 things in Nature — Ether, Motion and In- 
 
1 68 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 telligence.' Also, assume the proposition, 
 that the Human Ego is an atomic part of 
 the Universal Ether, compelled into mo- 
 tion by blind force, through a cycle of in- 
 volution, guided by Intelligence. 
 
 " Now, it is self-evident that an atomic 
 part can never know the Whole; there- 
 fore, our Knowledge does not consist in 
 knowing, Who, What or Why — Ether, or 
 God, is; and we are compelled to accept 
 this existence as a fact. 
 
 "Then we are finally left to conclude 
 that Knowledge consists only in an under- 
 standing of the Laws or motions of the 
 latter — an understanding of the motions 
 of our atom in its relation to the Whole. 
 
 " With this conception of Knowledge, 
 what conceptions do we get of the term 
 Deliverance? 
 
 " The idea that Deliverance consists 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence. 169 
 
 in annihilation is at once abhorrent and 
 absurd; and, since we exist, we can not 
 be Delivered out of eternal motion. What 
 then is Deliverance? 
 
 " After a moment's reflection we are 
 forced to the conclusion that Deliverance 
 is not an immunity from motion or law; 
 but that Deliverance lies in the possibility 
 that the Human Ego, by the accumula- 
 tion of Knowledge, may gain that Intelli- 
 gence which will enable it to consciously 
 direct the motion of its atom, instead of a 
 blind obedience to law. 
 
 " With this conception, we see that 
 Deliverance does not necessarily mean 
 happiness; but, after a certain stage in 
 the process of evolution, happiness de- 
 pends upon the Knowledge and Free-will 
 of the Atom in directing, in so far as it is 
 able, its movements in harmony with the 
 eternal laws of Divine Motion. 
 
170 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 " Having arrived at a conception 
 (though perhaps a very imperfect one) of 
 what knowledge consists, let us see how it 
 differs from the generally accepted defi-. 
 nition; as we said before, Knowledge does 
 not mean, as generally defined, an under- 
 standing of a mass of experiments and 
 observed facts. 
 
 " But, suppose that out of this immense 
 mass, man was to discover a law to which, 
 not only the material atoms, but he him- 
 self was subject — this Law is Knowledge. 
 Immediately all the facts, like the scaffold- 
 ing of a building, may be discarded so as 
 to let the Law shine out in all its majestic 
 power and beauty. 
 
 " In conclusion, then, we see that the 
 Human Ego, man and woman, are the 
 centers about which radiate the infinite 
 spokes of Intelligence, and that a knowl- 
 
Symbolism and Correspondence, 171 
 
 edge of one or many of its branches is 
 useful only in so far as it teaches man his 
 relation to himself and his God." 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY, AND THE OCCULT 
 FORCES OF NATURE. 
 
 The Eternal Now is all we can know, 
 it becomes ours as we become conscious 
 of our oneness with all life — as the pres- 
 ent becomes the past, as day succeeds 
 night, or night precedes day in the dual 
 operation of Deity. The Temple of Two 
 Truths, becomes radiant with Love and 
 Wisdom. They are spirit and matter 
 dually expressed on all planes of their 
 manifestation, as appearances and reali- 
 ties. The visible universe and the invis- 
 ible are inter-changeable. We witness 
 this in the birth and death, growth and 
 decay of all forms of life. Mighty forests 
 
Hermetic Philosophy. 173 
 
 are built up out of the soil and air and 
 death and decay transmute the same ele- 
 ments back again into their respective re- 
 lations with the mighty whole. The same 
 remarks are applicable to animal life, in 
 all its infinite forms. Life is ever active 
 even in decay, as the nearer dead, or de- 
 composed a substance is, the nearer is it 
 in manifesting its opposite expression of 
 life, which is birth on a higher plane. 
 Change, eternal change, is all that can 
 take place, for there is neither beginning 
 nor end; for the substance or spirit es- 
 sence, it is, was and will ever be, world 
 without end. Love lieth at the founda- 
 tion and manifests itself on every plane 
 of creative life. Learn to love God in all 
 his operations and creations alike. Small 
 and great are equally important to the 
 life of the whole. Love is life; life is 
 
174 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 motion and vibration; which means activ- 
 ity in thought. 
 
 Heat, or mechanical force, as electric- 
 ity, or light and heat, are expressions of 
 force infinitely manifested on different 
 planes of life, as zeal, energy and will- 
 ability, to evolve the mind's dormant 
 qualities into active expressions outwardly 
 —into ideas and mental conceptions or 
 images of thought-creations. Thus, does 
 nature proceed in spiral form throughout 
 all kingdoms of universal life — simple and 
 complex — one in many. These spheres 
 are not permanent, but the temporary 
 homes of those who pass through them. 
 Spheres of love and every shade of mental 
 life and ideality. Knowledge and wisdom 
 are represented as a means of soul devel- 
 opment. Worlds permeate worlds, thou- 
 sands and millions of them, filling space 
 
Hermetic Philosophy. 175 
 
 with the infinitely fine, as cosmic dust, to 
 the infinitely dense, as granite rock. Won- 
 derful and marvelous, indeed, is Nature's 
 works. Words fail us in our endeavor to 
 give a word painting of Nature's grand- 
 eurs as they are revealed to our conscious- 
 ness in all life's ramifications. Spirits of 
 every grade and shade of thought are 
 found as inhabitants of the spheres of the 
 invisible worlds. Hermetic Philosophy 
 deals with the hidden, secret and occult 
 forces of Nature. It does not confine 
 itself in its researches to any one division 
 or department of Nature. It accepts the 
 truth wherever found, from every system 
 of thought, from every religion — no mat- 
 ter by what name it is known; it includes 
 them all and accepts the truth of each 
 and harmonizes them under One Law, 
 One Truth, One Principle and One God. 
 
176 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 This Wisdom-Religion is the religion of 
 Nature in all her beauty and grandeur, as 
 published to us by Deity Himself in His 
 creations and manifestations on every 
 plane of His being — spiritual, mental and 
 physical. Modern science and Hermetic 
 Philosophy are twin sisters, and go side 
 by side in their investigation of Nature's 
 laws, and, when properly understood, they 
 are two poles expressing the positive and 
 negative — the masculine and feminine — 
 synthesis and analysis of the whole of 
 Nature. The whole of a thing is all there 
 is of it. There can not be anything out- 
 side of it, nor within it that has not its 
 recognition in its right relation to every 
 thing or part as dual opposites which im- 
 ply each other and compliment each other 
 in expression but from different planes. 
 One as spirit, the other as matter. One 
 
Hermetic Philosophy. 177 
 
 as light, the other as darkness. When 
 this dual law is properly understood it 
 explains all there is or can be; therefore, 
 it is the truth itself, and is self-evident, 
 and, like our existence; it does not admit 
 of an argument, for, "I am that I am," 
 This knowledge must become common 
 property, alike to all lovers of truth, if 
 they are ever to know, even as they are 
 known, and worship God in spirit and in 
 truth as one Wisdom-Religion embracing 
 all science and philosophy. The Occult 
 Forces of Nature are infinite in their ex- 
 pressions, as one force dually expressed. 
 First one, the Divine Ego, as first differ- 
 entiated as the two halves, which com- 
 prise the duad; then the trine — the posi- 
 tive and negative forces and their off- 
 spring — the results of their dual relation; 
 then, the quartile, where the two souls 
 
178 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 have related themselves to the four ele- 
 ments of Nature — earth, air, fire and 
 water; next, the quintile, where the five 
 senses have become evolved, enabling the 
 Ego to contact greater knowledge and 
 wisdom; next, the sextile relation or 
 double trine, where each soul has well- 
 developed, within itself, both attributes — 
 the positive and negative, and their own 
 power of creation, which manifests the 
 sevenfold or septenary, where the double 
 trine is harmoniously related to the 
 Adonai. This completes form in its rela- 
 tion to the whole, where the septenary 
 laws are active and potent and may have 
 an equal influence. The next step, or rela- 
 tion, is the double quartenary, or eight- 
 fold aspect, which symbolizes death, or 
 that state of rest or polarization where 
 the soul awaits its transition from the 
 
Hermetic Philosophy. 179 
 
 plane of matter to that of spirit. The 
 occult student, by studying causes, soon 
 learns their effects; for an effect to a 
 developed soul will suggest the cause. 
 We can only understand the occult forces 
 of Nature by studying ourselves — our own 
 universe of matter and spirit. The num- 
 ber seven is the law of form; eight, of 
 rest ; nine of spirit ; and ten of formless Dei- 
 ty, The human family alone are governed 
 by the full and complete septenary laws 
 of Nature. There are seven planets of 
 our Solar system; seven colors of the 
 rainbow; seven notes in music; seven 
 days in the week — all symbolical of com- 
 pleteness of form and function. When 
 Nature wishes to express herself upon a 
 higher plane, a higher note is struck, viz.: 
 the octave — then she repeats herself on a 
 higher scale of vibration. There is a 
 
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 center to all forms of life, to which the 
 septenary influence vibrates in order to 
 present matter and spirit in tangible ex- 
 pressions to our consciousness. The re- 
 sults of the vibratory currents may be 
 seen by the eye, heard by the ear, or 
 sensed by the smell or touch, and when 
 the septenary being is complete intuition 
 and thought transference is added. We 
 are all aware of the many, many degrees 
 of vibration — the harmonies and the dis- 
 cords — these are regulated by the degree 
 of development, density and fineness of 
 the object vibrated to. That which, at 
 one stage of development, would be ex- 
 quisitely beautiful and harmonious, be- 
 comes its opposite upon a higher plane. 
 Consequently upon every plane, and at 
 all stages of growth and progress, the 
 dual forces are found to exist — co-eternal 
 
Hermetic PhilosopJiy. 181 
 
 they are present. But with man, it lies 
 in his power, to a certain degree, to enjoy 
 or suffer either one of these two forces 
 throughout eternity. 
 
 A thought — man's most potent occult 
 force — can instantly change his own and 
 also another's condition, mentally or spirit- 
 ually, which will, as soon as the orbit of 
 its action has become completed, change 
 also the physical body. These occult 
 forces are expressed in forms through the 
 law ot vibration, attraction and repulsion 
 — instinct or affinity — reason and intui- 
 tion; and thought transference, to cor- 
 respond to the four planes — mineral, vege • 
 table, animal and man. In the lowest 
 expression of life it is attraction and re- 
 pulsion or respiration — inspiration and 
 expiration. The fourth dimension of 
 space providing the necessary space for 
 
1 82 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 the expansion and the contraction in 
 simple breathing, for the atoms confined 
 in dense matter. In the lowest form of 
 inorganic matter, such as the stone and 
 mineral, where the Divine spark has sunk 
 to its lowest possible state, and only one 
 force is expressed. Life there is the un- 
 conscious vibration of the higher forces of 
 nature, and life is sustained and progress 
 attained only through merely breathing, 
 or obeying the lowest expression of these 
 forces — attraction and repulsion. As the 
 divine atom progresses on its evolutionary 
 journey, these laws become more active 
 and positive. The inspirations and expi- 
 rations are deeper and longer, until it 
 reaches the vegetable kingdom, where a 
 higher degree of this same law is ex- 
 pressed through the laws of affinity — sen- 
 sation has been developed; here is the 
 
Hermetic Philosophy, 18 
 
 j 
 
 first, faint glimmering memory of the 
 conscious duality manifested. Higher, 
 stronger and more sensitive does the in- 
 carnated soul become that in some forms 
 of vegetable life we behold the next de- 
 gree of evolution, that of instinct — the 
 avenue through which these occult forces 
 govern the animal kingdom. Although, 
 in the lowest forms of animal life, known 
 as protoplasm, we find them only with 
 sensation, which corresponds to the lowest 
 degree of the mineral; each kingdom 
 commencing at the lowest and evolving 
 up. Instinct governs the animal, while in 
 the higher forms we witness a degree of 
 reason, as manifested in the life of ani- 
 mals, showing that animal forms have 
 become more sensitive to the septenary 
 laws, and greater power and force is ex- 
 pressed through them, with a certain de- 
 
184 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 gree of intelligence. It is in the animal 
 kingdom that the five avenues of the 
 physical senses are evolved, thus enabling 
 a more varied demonstration of the laws 
 governing form. As instinct is the con- 
 trolling force, we always see one sense 
 dominant; the organism is not complete 
 until it reaches the human form, where 
 the individual universe becomes complete 
 as to form, but imperfect in the full un- 
 foldment of his potentialites. At the 
 human stage only, is form capable of re- 
 ceiving the full influx and potency of the 
 occult forces of nature in their septenary 
 aspect, making this stage of the soul's 
 Cycle of Necessity the first possible con- 
 dition where the individual soul can intel- 
 ligently and consciously choose and form 
 its own environment, and map out a path 
 for itself. Here are the first conditions 
 
Hermetic Philosophy. 185 
 
 presented that the soul can change its 
 vibratory currents and relate itself to the 
 different spheres of knowledge. All con- 
 ditions, form, size, color, quality, and 
 properties, are due to vibration. From 
 whence these vibrations to the infini- 
 tesimal, unconscious atoms — struggling to 
 live, grow and experience — that lie im- 
 prisoned in the dense inorganic matter. 
 Far away, back in the dim vista of the 
 past, where these divine sparks had their 
 differentiation, or birth and origin, as sep- 
 arate atoms they still retain their relation 
 to their divine parents — a relation that 
 can never be broken nor changed in its 
 primary quality. The Divine Fiat was 
 light, and light means motion; motion 
 means life; life means growth; growth 
 is progress; progress means unfolding, 
 developing and externalizing to conscious- 
 
1 86 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 ness the latent possibilities of the Divine 
 Ego, and thus imitate God by becoming 
 the Lord of a universe of his own. While 
 lying imprisoned in the granite rock a 
 change of polarity of the atoms is created, 
 and disintegration takes place to form the 
 necessary provision for a new birth, and 
 life in the vegetable kingdom begins; the 
 forces of destruction and construction are 
 ever at work. Nature is ever dissolving 
 the old forms and conditions to make 
 room for the new. In the vegetable king- 
 dom the vibrations become more intense 
 and excite into action other and higher 
 occult forces until the climax is reached in 
 the rose where the whole of the septenary 
 forces are active to a certain degree and 
 their effect is observable in the beauty of 
 its form, colors and the delicate fragrance 
 which is only discernible to the higher 
 
Hermetic Philosophy. 187 
 
 developed senses of man. At this point, 
 the necessary conditions have been pro- 
 vided for the soul's next step of unfold- 
 ment into the animal kingdom. The full 
 expression of the septenary influences are 
 latent until, in each kingdom, the climax 
 in form is reached. As in the mineral, 
 only in the Gold, is the whole to be found 
 by the chemist and alchemist. The same 
 law holds good in each of the four king- 
 doms — mineral, vegetable, animal and 
 man. In the perfected human form alone 
 does the soul find the necessary conditions, 
 attributes and qualities to relate itself per- 
 fectly to the whole. Merely a human 
 form does not imply a harmonious rela- 
 tion to the Macrocosm. Far from it, 
 many in human form are only guided by 
 the higher instincts of the animal. The 
 avenues for the higher senses of reason 
 
1 88 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 and intuition are closed to such and there 
 is no response. Even a child, what ever 
 its possibilities may be, is not born with 
 these higher senses developed. Only one 
 or two senses, at most, are awake and 
 active — taste and feeling, breathing and 
 assimilation— the corresponding condition 
 in the first expression of life in the lower 
 kingdom. The other qualities are in 
 embryo and await development by educa- 
 tion — experience is necessary to call them 
 forth. Here is called forth the highest 
 powers of the soul or rather the Divine 
 Ego. Intuition and reason make the hu- 
 man-man not content to merely live. His 
 intuitions tell him that this present life is 
 noc all; every individual atom of ms being 
 is calling for light, life, motion, growth, 
 progress, which spurs him on to seek, 
 know, and understand all beneath him; 
 
Hermetic Philosophy. 189 
 
 that which is on the plane beside him, and 
 then, to harmoniously relate himself to 
 the forces above, where thought-transfer- 
 ence takes possession of the soul and re- 
 lates him intelligently to the invisible 
 realms of Angelic beings. Who would 
 not aspire to become a culmination, or 
 the perfected expression, in the human 
 kingdom. One can not achieve this alone; 
 there must be the union of the double 
 trine, as each alone expresses only one- 
 half of the Divine Ego, and it is through 
 the union of the two rays and the perfect 
 at-one-ment with the Adonai that the 
 septenary law becomes complete; the law 
 of form rounded out; the Microcosm at 
 one with the Macrocosm. It may be an 
 unconscious relation on the physical plane, 
 but the development of the divine possi- 
 bilities will enable the Adonai to con- 
 sciously say, while yet animating material 
 
190 The Duality of Tmth. 
 
 form, " I am that I am." These same 
 forces are also manifested on the mental 
 and spiritual planes of the Ego's conscious 
 relation to life. The first independent 
 life of a child, although the highest mani- 
 festation of God, corresponds to the low- 
 est and first action in matter, viz.: breath- 
 ing. It is at this stage that the first 
 vibration of the mental is excited. So 
 soon as the first vital breath is taken, the 
 brain is stimulated into action, and the 
 mind begins to think, to create wants and 
 desires, and the process of perfecting its 
 development can more easily be imagined 
 than described. Also, the first manifesta- 
 tion of the spiritual attributes in man is 
 breathing — that unconscious obedience to 
 the divine law of attraction and repulsion 
 — expressing in all mankind that innate 
 desire to worship. Why, few can tell, 
 because of their soul's unconsciousness. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE SOUL'S AWAKENING TO CONSCIOUSNESS! 
 
 This consciousness is the gradual 
 awakening of the soul from its material 
 sleep. This takes place very slowly and 
 almost imperceptibly to the Neophyte 
 seeking initiation. It requires a long 
 course of training to bring the material 
 body and every animal passion, appetite 
 and desire within it to the undisputed 
 harmonious control of the divine self- 
 hood. Until this is accomplished, the Ne- 
 ophyte is but the helpless medium of 
 matter. Until the body is brought under 
 the command of the will, and stands in 
 absolute subjection to the soul, can he 
 hope for the soul's conscious awakening 
 
192 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 under the guidance of the spiritual mas- 
 ters, who have been attracted to the Ne- 
 ophyte by reason of his earnest aspira- 
 tions for soul-consciousness; for, when 
 the soul is ready, behold the Master will 
 appear. Then, under the divine will of 
 the Masters, the spiritual ceremonies 
 commence that will, in due time, external- 
 ize to the outward consciousness of the 
 Neophyte, the knowledge of who he is 
 and his divine possibilities. 
 
 The Macrocosm comprises all that is. 
 Let us contemplate for a moment the 
 sum of all the force, actual and potential 
 which is necessarily always one and the 
 same in the whole universe. To grasp in 
 thought this idea, we disolve the whole 
 of the macrocosm into its ultimate or 
 primal condition, our of which all forms 
 necessarily have their being. This One 
 
The Sotcl's Awakening. 193 
 
 Force is God: it cannot be increased, 
 and it cannot be diminished. But while 
 this force is indestructible, it is change- 
 able infinitely. As one force disappears 
 under one manifestation it reappears un- 
 der another. Light runs into heat, heat 
 into electricity, electricity into magnetism, 
 magnetism into mechanical force; and 
 mechanical force back into light and heat. 
 A close study of nature will prove that a 
 multiplicity of separate forces does not 
 exist, but that all forces are but modifica- 
 tions of One Force, which is God him- 
 self. This Divine Force or Being pro- 
 duces within himself all action and pas- 
 sion, all permanence and change. I be- 
 lieve with Faraday that all force is will 
 force, and that the will of the Supreme 
 Being is manifest in the infinitely varied 
 perfections of his power, his knowledge, 
 
194 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 his wisdom, his love. He makes the sun 
 to rise, the seasons to revolve, and food 
 to spring out of the earth, which is but 
 one of his numerous organs: the whole 
 starry heavens, with their hosts of sen- 
 tient beings, equally proclaim his will 
 operating in all. He bids us see that one 
 force and intelligence is over all, in all, 
 blowing in the breeze, sparkling in the 
 stars, animating us as we bound along in 
 the felt enjoyment of health, consciously 
 alive to our relation to this great and 
 mighty One Force, not as something 
 apart from God or independent of Him, 
 but as the power and will of God himself, 
 operating in and through us. To fully 
 realize the above is to be at one with 
 God. "I and my father are one," for the 
 Microcosm to relate himself consciously to 
 the Macrocosm as he can do by reason of 
 
The Souls Awakening. 195 
 
 the oneness of essence, oneness of law, 
 wisdom and will that permeates the Great 
 Being, is all that is necessary to obtain 
 that peace that passeth understanding. 
 All sacred writings, all systems of scien- 
 tific thought, all philosophy is at once set 
 forth clearly, repeatedly, and in almost 
 every varied form of expression to him 
 who thus clearly comprehends his relation 
 to this One Force, One Being, although 
 appearing temporarily in a divided form 
 and shape. But if the individual mind is 
 one with the Universal Mind, he does not 
 require to go out of himself to ascertain 
 any truth, because everything that exists 
 is a manifestation of the Universal Mind, 
 himself included. Hence the two are 
 only one, and the idea of his mind, as a 
 separate mind, is only an illusion. By 
 mind we mean that faculty which wills, 
 
196 The Duality of Truth, 
 
 thinks, perceives, judges, and understands. 
 The magnet is the symbol of mind in all 
 so called inorganic elements of nature. 
 Its positive and negative mind, so to speak, 
 is variously manifested in minerals and 
 metals. How varied are the relations and 
 combinations of inorganic elements to the 
 functions of life; how tremendous are the 
 issues depending upon their right adjust- 
 ment? The same elements in different 
 combinations produce nutritious food, or 
 deadly poison. Here is the law of good 
 and evil. It manifests itself throughout 
 all the kingdoms of life forms, from the 
 mineral to man, and has its origin in the 
 duality of God as Positive and Negative 
 or Male and Female principle; seen in 
 the gases, ethers, minerals, vegetables and 
 animals, as well as in man to produce or 
 create sex with its multiplicity of life 
 
The Soul's Awakening. 197 
 
 manifestations. This dual action or force 
 is operative in the imperceptibly small, to 
 the immensely large. It pervades and 
 embraces and holds together the whole of 
 the universe. Without this dual force 
 there could by no possible means be gen- 
 eration, or what is called creation. Death 
 or change of one substance into another, 
 is only the positive mind acting in opposi- 
 tion to the negative mind. Birth or cre- 
 ation results from this force in action, 
 manifesting the will, power, intelligence 
 and wisdom of the One Universal Mind, 
 which governs and controls the separate 
 divisions of life force in all the kingdoms 
 of life, from the highest to the lowest. 
 
 With the above explanation of good 
 and evil, of Death and Life, Heaven 
 and Hell, we recognize the necessity of 
 this dual force in order to have God mani- 
 
198 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 fest Himself to each part of himself; or, 
 in other words, motion and sensation are 
 absolutely essential to each separate part 
 of the divine whole — bound together in 
 sympathy: the results of this dual force in 
 action, which creates a sympathetic force, 
 which corresponds to the offspring or 
 child, who necessarily has the same na- 
 ture complete within himself as the parent 
 (from whom he was evolved), hence he is 
 the Microcosm, with will-power to evolve 
 all his latent faculties of intelligence back 
 into harmony with the whole by reason 
 of the dual force, motion and sensation, 
 which ultimately evolves sympathy as the 
 highest manifestation of wisdom, which 
 is harmony, health, happiness, heaven, 
 love, or God himself. This evolution 
 process is the positive and negative; the 
 father and mother; the acid and alkali; the 
 
The Soul *s Awakening. 199 
 
 motor and sensor; the male and female; 
 the hate and love; the attraction and re- 
 pulsion; the pull and push; the action and 
 reaction, that manifests itself throughout 
 the Macrocosm, which proves beyond all 
 doubt that one and only one intelligence 
 permeates and governs the whole. Suns, 
 planets, moons and earths, with their 
 countless hosts of animated beings are all 
 to be found in man: his heart is a Sun, 
 his different organs correspond to the 
 planets of our solar system, his blood 
 globules correspond to remote globes; his 
 leucocytes or white blood globules cor- 
 respond to moons. The number of white 
 or red globules of blood is about the same 
 as moons to pianets. The seasons of the 
 earth are represented by the circulation 
 of man's blood; the arterial circulation 
 symbolizes seed time and harvest, springs 
 
200 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 and summers. The venous circulation 
 symbolizes fall and winter. The blood's 
 circulation corresponds to the oceans, lakes, 
 rivers and creeks of our planet, and fer- 
 tilizes the soil of our continents, moun- 
 tains and valleys, as the blood does the 
 bones, flesh and viscera of our bodies. 
 The processes of life and death are car- 
 ried on in each. The sun is the dis- 
 penser of light and heat necessary to the 
 earth's productions of plants and animals. 
 The heart in man may be said to dis- 
 pense love, or light and heat, as its anal- 
 ogy creates plants and animals in man. 
 The sun sways the whole planetary sys- 
 tem by his magnetic influence upon its 
 every member. The heart of man does 
 the same with every organ of his body. 
 We all acknowledge by the blushes of the 
 cheek, the feeling of love and pride, that 
 
The SouPs Awakening. 201 
 
 the heart possesses dominion over the 
 citadel of life, and permanently influences 
 the changes of our blood, by its relation 
 to the nervous, magnetic influences, dis- 
 tributed among the minute blood-vessels, 
 creating the chemical action in the blood. 
 We call life mind, intelligence. Here it 
 is that life, mind and chemistry meet to- 
 gether as positive proof of one eternal 
 mind, as the sun from which all life, light, 
 heat, electricity, magnetism, air, ether, 
 liquids, and solids are evolved. Diversity, 
 multiplicity and change are manifest 
 within and without ( Esoterically and Ex- 
 oterically). It seems to me foolish for 
 men of scientific pretensions to quarrel 
 and fight over their differences of opinion 
 on any subject, as they are due to causes 
 inherent in the essence of their being, 
 which gives one man dark skin, eyes and 
 
202 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 hair; another red or light skin, blue eyes 
 and brown hair. This diversity of life 
 forms, shapes, species, etc., necessarily 
 and inevitably manifests this one mind as 
 we see it, and feel it, within and without. 
 "What life and beauty, when, in all that 
 breathes, or moves or grows, His Hand is 
 viewed at work! Unfolding every bud, 
 each blossom tingeing, shaping every leaf, 
 rolling each billow. Moving every wing 
 that fans the air, and every warbling 
 throat/' 
 
 By permission the following poem is 
 given as a conclusion to this book: 
 
 THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. 
 
 It begins in ocean caverns, 
 
 Whose depths to depths resound; 
 It rises on the glittering spray, 
 
 Till the the Sun attracts the sound, 
 "We praise Thee, O God." 
 
The Soul's Awakening. 203 
 
 The dullard Earth booms slowly out, 
 
 Those words of import high, 
 Till the sound, too huge for confined space, 
 
 Breaks forth into the sky; 
 And the nearer orbs repeat it, 
 
 And the far-off spheres beyond; 
 And the world's yet uncreated, 
 
 From the unmade space respond, 
 
 "We praise Thee, O God." 
 
 The Suns lead forth the solos, 
 
 And their Earths the chorus take, 
 The tremblings of whose atmosphere, 
 
 Cause the fullest chords to shake; 
 Whilst the angel of each orb 
 
 Takes the burden of the song 
 And repeats it through the ages 
 
 Its echoes to prolong, 
 
 "We praise Thee, O God." 
 
 Like bells that chime at sunrise, 
 
 The stars of morning brightness 
 
204 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Peal forth their tale of joy, 
 
 In endless songs of gladness — 
 
 And the orbs of evening twilight, 
 More sombre and more calm, 
 
 Add tones of silvery sweetness, 
 To this love-inspired psalm, 
 
 "We praise Thee, O God." 
 
 The life waves, ever circling round, 
 
 Revolve with but one word, 
 And in every phase of action, 
 
 This anthem will be heard. 
 The souls that hoped and struggled, 
 
 The hearts that quailed and fell, 
 Those souls, that seemed forever lost, 
 
 Live again these words to tell, 
 
 "We praise Thee, O God." 
 
 And the tongues that ne'er before could 
 speak, 
 
 All the hosts that had no voice, 
 
The Souls Amakening. 205 
 
 The souls that died without a hope 
 
 Shall, in one tone, rejoice, 
 
 And adore that mighty, boundless Provi- 
 dence, 
 
 In whose glorious mighty sway 
 
 The revolving Suns and systems, 
 
 In tones of rapture say, 
 
 "We praise Thee, O God." 
 
 The strugglers after truth, 
 
 Who had failed in earthly years, 
 The philosophy of the schools, 
 
 The science of the spheres; 
 The intellects of ages, with 
 
 Their reverend thoughts now one, 
 Arch-Angels bright and Cherubim, 
 
 To that triumph march, "Move on," 
 "We praise Thee. O God.'' 
 
 These take the rolling bass, 
 Ascending line by line, 
 
206 The Duality of Truth. 
 
 Till faith the treble fills, 
 
 And leads the air divine. 
 Whilst Love! that Master Spirit 
 
 Of the only-living God, 
 Beats the time through space and ages 
 
 Till they pulsate in one throb, 
 "We praise Thee, We praise Thee, 
 
 " We praise Thee, O God. 
 
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 By BELLE M. WAGNER. 
 
 This is an Occult Novel of rare value, as it contains 
 a vast deal of Occult lore on many subjects. Soul- 
 Transfer and Soul-Marriage are especially dealt with in 
 a scientific manner. Everybody should read it. — 
 
 Zanoni. 
 CLOTH, PRICE 75 CENTS. 
 
 THE ASTRO -PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING C0. y 
 
 1609 Downing Ave., Denver, Colo. 
 
1899 
 
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