Quotes from Three Initiates

The All is Infinite Living Mind—The Illumined call it SPIRIT!" —The Kybalion

With tire Master-Key in his possession, the student may unlock the many doors of the mental and psychic temple of knowledge, and enter the same freely and intelligently. This Principle explains the true nature of "Energy," "Power," and "Matter," and why and how all these are subordinate to the Mastery of Mind.

One of the old Hermetic Masters wrote, long ages ago: "He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery." And these words are as true to-day as at the time they were first written. Without this Master-Key, Mastery is impossible, and the student knocks in vain at the many doors of The Temple.

THE ALL creates in its Infinite Mind countless Universes, which exist for aeons of Time — and yet, to THE ALL, the creation, development, decline and death of a million universes is as the time of the twinkling of an eye.

Mastery consists not in abnormal dreams, visions, and fantastic imaginings or living, but in using the higher forces against the lower—escaping the pains of the lower planes by vibrating on the higher.

by establishing the Mental Nature of the Universe, easily explains all of the varied mental and psychic phenomena that occupy such a large portion of the public attention, and which, without such explanation, are non-understandable and defy scientific treatment.

there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life.

Within the Father-Mother Mind, mortal children are at home.

There is not one who is Fatherless, nor Motherless in the Universe.

The Kybalion as follows: "Where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for his Teaching open wide." And again: "When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom." But their customary attitude has always been strictly in accordance with the other Hermetic aphorism, also in The Kybalion: "The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.

To destroy an undesirable rate of mental vibration, put into operation the Principle of Polarity and concentrate upon the opposite pole to that which you desire to suppress. Kill out the undesirable by changing its polarity.

Knowledge without Use and Expression is a vain thing, bringing no good to its possessor, or to the race. Beware of Mental Miserliness, and express into Action that which you have learned. Study the Axioms and Aphorisms, but practice them also.

Transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of the Master.

The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open.

A materia não e mais que a força mental coagulada.

El Universo y todo lo que él contiene es una creación mental del TODO; todo es mente.

A mudança não é da natureza de uma transmutação de uma coisa em outra coisa inteiramente diferente, mas é simplesmente uma mudança de grau nas mesmas coisas, uma diferença muito importante.

A mente (tão bem como os metais e elementos) pode ser transmutada de estado em estado, de grau em grau, de condição em condição, de pólo em pólo, de vibração em vibração.

Para el puro, todo es puro; para el ruin todo es ruin.

El conocimiento que no se usa y expresa es una cosa vana que no aporta ningún bien a su poseedor o a la raza. Guárdense de la tacañería mental y expresen en la acción lo aprendido. Estúdiense los axiomas y aforismos, pero practíquense también.

Para cambiar tu humor o estado mental, cambia tu vibración." El Kybalión.

Si estás poseído por el temor no pierdas el tiempo tratando de "matar" el temor; en cambio, cultiva el valor y el temor desaparecerá.

en todo hay dos polos o aspectos opuestos, y que los "opuestos" son realmente sólo los dos extremos de la misma cosa, con una variación de grado entre ellos.

Bien y mal no son sino los polos de la misma cosa