The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 88

the lords of men and there are
countless ranks of being, in
the great hierarchy of life,
whose being and power
transcends even that of the
highest Masters among men to
a degree unthinkable by
mortals, but even the highest
Master and the highest Being,
must bow to the Law and be as
Nothing in the eye of THE ALL.
So that if even these highest
Beings, whose powers exceed
even those attributed by men
to their gods - if even these
are bound by and are
subservient to Law, then
imagine the presumption of
mortal man of our race and
grade when he dares to
consider the Laws of Nature as
"unreal!" visionary and
illusory, because he happens
to be able to grasp the truth
that the Laws are Mental in
nature and simply Mental
Creations of THE ALL. Those
Laws which THE ALL intends to
be governing Laws are not to
be defied or argued away. So
long as the Universe endures,
will they endure - for the
Universe exists by virtue of
these Laws which form its
framework and which hold it
together.

The Hermetic Principle of
Mentalism while explaining the
true nature of the Universe
upon the principle that all is
Mental does not change the
scientific conceptions of the
Universe, Life, or Evolution.
In fact, science merely
corroborates the Hermetic
Teachings. The latter merely
teaches that the nature of the
Universe is "Mental" while
modern science has taught
that it is "Material"; or (of late)
that it is "Energy" at the last
analysis. The Hermetic
Teachings have no fault to
find with Herbert Spencer's
basic principle which
postulates the existence of an
"Infinite and Eternal Energy,
from which all things
proceed." In fact, the
Hermetics recognize in
Spencer's philosophy the
highest outside statement of
the workings of the Natural
Laws that have ever been
promulgated and they believe
Spencer to have been a
reincarnation of an ancient
philosopher who dwelt in
ancient Egypt thousands of
years ago and who later
incarnated as Heraclitus, the
Grecian philosopher who lived