The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 66

which they gave so few
practical instructions. If All be
Mental, then the art which
enables one to transmute
mental conditions must render
the Master the controller of
material conditions as well as
those ordinarily called
"mental".

Attainment. We mention their
existence, at this point, merely
to call your attention to the
fact that their power is
entirely Mental and operates
along the lines of the higher
Mental Transmutation, under
the Hermetic Principle of
Mentalism.

As a matter of fact, none but
advanced Mental Alchemists
have been able to attain the
degree of power necessary to
control the grosser physical
conditions, such as the control
of the elements of Nature; the
production or cessation of
tempests; the production and
cessation of earthquakes and
other great physical
phenomena. But that such men
have existed and do exist
today, is a matter of earnest
belief to all advanced
occultists of all schools. That
the Masters exist and have
these powers, the best
teachers assure their students,
having had experiences which
justify them in such belief and
statements. These Masters do
not make public exhibitions of
their powers, but seek
seclusion from the crowds of
men, in order to better work
they may along the Path of

"The Universe is Mental" -The
Kybalion.
But students and Hermetists of
lesser degree than Masters the Initiates and Teachers - are
able to freely work along the
Mental Plane, in Mental
Transmutation. In fact all that
we call "psychic phenomena";
"mental influence"; "mental
science"; "new-thought
phenomena," etc, operates
along the same general lines,
for there is but one principle
involved, no matter by what
name the phenomena be
called. The student and
practitioner of Mental
Transmutation works among
the Mental Plane, transmuting
mental conditions, states etc,
into others, according to
various formulas, more or less
efficacious. The various
"treatments," "affirmations,"
"denials" etc, of the schools of