The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 100

Strictly speaking, there cannot
be said to be any "Reason"
whatsoever for THE ALL to act,
for a "reason" implies a
"cause" and THE ALL is above
Cause and Effect, except when
it Wills to become a Cause, at
which time the Principle is set
into motion. So, you see, the
matter is Unthinkable, just as
THE ALL is Unknowable. Just
as we say THE ALL merely "IS"
- so we are compelled to say
that "THE ALL ACTS BECAUSE
IT ACTS". At the last, THE ALL
is All Reason in Itself; All Law
in Itself; All Action in Itself and it may be said, truthfully,
that THE ALL is Its Own
Reason; its own Law; its own
Act - or still further that THE
ALL, Its Reason, Its Act, Its Law
are ONE, all being names for
the same thing. In the opinion
of those who are giving you
these present lessons, the
answer is locked up in the
INNER SELF of THE ALL, along
with its Secret of Being. The
Law of Correspondence, in our
opinion, reaches only to that
aspect of THE ALL, which may
be spoken of as "The Aspect of
BECOMING". Back of that
Aspect is "The Aspect of
BEING" in which all Laws are

lost in LAW; all Principles
merge into PRINCIPLE - and
THE ALL, PRINCIPLE and BEING
are IDENTICAL, ONE AND THE
SAME.
Therefore, Metaphysical
speculation on this point is
futile. We go into the matter
here, merely to show that we
recognize the question and
also the absurdity of the
ordinary answers of
metaphysics and theology.

In conclusion, it may be of
interest to our students to
learn that while some of the
ancient and modern Hermetic