The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 64

Ancient Egypt show
conclusively that the ancients
had a full comprehensive
knowledge of astronomy, the
very building of the Pyramids
showing the connection
between their design and the
study of astronomical science.
Nor were they ignorant of
Chemistry, for the fragments
of the ancient writings show
that they were acquainted with
the chemical properties of
things; in fact, the ancient
theories regarding physics are
being slowly verified by the
latest discoveries of modern
science, notably those relating
to the constitution of matter.
Nor must it be supposed that
they were ignorant of the socalled modern discoveries in
psychology - on the contrary,
the Egyptians were especially
skilled in the science of
Psychology, particularly in the
branches that the modern
schools ignore, but which,
nevertheless are being
uncovered under the name of
"psychic science" which is
perplexing the psychologists
of to-day and making them
reluctantly admit that "there
may be something in it after
all."

The truth is that beneath the
material chemistry, astronomy
and psychology (that is, the
psychology in its phase of
"brain-action") the ancients
possessed a knowledge of
transcendental astronomy, of
transcendental chemistry,
called alchemy; of
transcendental psychology,
called mystic psychology.
They possessed the Inner
Knowledge as well as the
Outer Knowledge, the latter
alone being possessed by
modern scientists. Among the
many secret branches of
knowledge possessed by the
Hermetists, was that known as
Mental Transmutation, which
forms the subject matter of
this lesson.