The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 70

In these lessons we have
followed the example of some
of the world's greatest
thinkers, both ancient and
modern - the Hermetic Masters
- and have called this
Underlying Power - this
Substantial Reality - by the
Hermetic name of "THE ALL",
which term we consider the
most comprehensive of the
many terms applied by Man to
THAT which transcends names
and terms.
We accept and teach the view
of the great Hermetic thinkers
of all times as well as of those
illumined souls who have
reached higher planes of
being, both of whom assert
that the inner nature of THE
ALL is UNKNOWABLE. This
must be so, for naught by THE
ALL itself can comprehend its
own nature and being.
The Hermetists believe and
teach that THE ALL, "in itself,"
is and must ever be
UNKNOWABLE.
They regard all the theories,
guesses and speculations of
the theologians and
metaphysicians regarding the
inner nature of THE ALL, as
but the childish efforts of

mortal minds to grasp the
secret of the Infinite. Such
efforts have always failed and
will always fail, from the very
nature of the task. One
pursuing such inquiries
travels around and around in
the labyrinth of thought, until
he is lost to all sane reasoning,
action or conduct and is
utterly unfitted for the work of
life. He is like the squirrel
which frantically runs around
and around the circling
treadmill wheel of his cage,
traveling ever and yet reaching
nowhere - at the end a
prisoner still and standing just
where he started.