The duality of truth

Dedication

To AH Looers of T™%

WHEREVER FOUND, THIS WORK IS BESPECTFULEY DEDICATED.

BY THE AUTHOR.

Preface

The demand for the contents of this book is the reason for its appearance before a reading public; therefore you are asked to read it from beginning to end before passing judgment.

Remember the Author recognizes your right to differ from him on all he has written, as the title of this book is "The Duality of Truth." Your choice of either of the positive or negative sides, or both united as One Truth, dually expressed, will be equally satisfactory to the Author.

No matter which view you hold, you will be partially right, or wholly so, provided you recognize the Duality of Truth

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as One Word, One Truth, One Principle, One Law and One God, then my efforts to instruct will not have been in vain.

With this consciousness I submit this book to a critical public with the hopes of realizing candor and truthfulness from its readers, who are inclined to criticise its contents. The Author.

Introduction

In presenting this brief review of the Occult Forces of Nature a few words are thought necessary to make clear to the reader the idea of the writer for this statement of Hermetic Philosophy. The Kabalist and the Astrologer, as well as the Alchemist, in writing upon Hermetic Philosophy, have veiled, rather than revealed, its true meaning under symbols and hieroglyphics that make it almost impossible for the general reader to understand their writings. The reasons that compelled them to veil Truth having passed away, with the past Cycle, from which the Earth and its inhabitants of the Western Con-

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tinent are now emerging out of the mental darkness that shrouded the past cycle of humanity in mental night. Therefore, I am persuaded the time has come to partially lift the veil and speak in plain and simple language that all may understand. Therefore, the reader will excuse repetition of expression, as it was found necessary to make clear the ideas the Author wishes to express.

Nature is forever one, as a whole, but infinite in expression; therefore I have only copied Nature in my attempt to make clear her operations as viewed from the standpoint of a student of Hermetic Philosophy. Hermetic means secret or sealed and, in opening the seal of One Law dually expressed, I have revealed Isis and Osiris as the Motherhood and Fatherhood of God; two expressions of

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Force and Intelligence, emanating from one fountain of life as Positive and Negative — Darkness and Light, Time and Eternity, Electricity and Magnetism, Motion and Rest, Reason and Intuition, Mind and Spirit, Subjective and Objective, Duality and Unity, Physical and Metaphysical, Spirit and Matter, God and Nature, Ignorance and Wisdom, Ideal and Real, Human and Divine, God and Devil, Philosophy and Religion, Analysis and Synthesis, Involution and Evolution. Thus we see Life is dually expressed, ad infinitum.

The Kingdom of God can never come until "The two become as one." "Let him who can receive it, so receive it." This is the great mystery that has been hidden for ages and from generations. " He that hath an ear, let him hear." The

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spiritual Christ comes to seek and to save that which is lost, it does not say man which is lost, but that which is lost, and to restore to man that Spiritual Intuition which he lost when his dual forces became sundered and he grew into the animal objective world of sense and selfishness. In the Books of Moses we read, "God, in the manifestation of two opposites in force, created the two heavens, i. e., the upper or light, and the lower or dark, signifying the equivalents of heat and cold, day and night, expansion and contraction, summer and winter — in short, the all-embracing cosmic relations. Involution and evolution of the two halves, or male and female principles within the man and woman, give them their new birth, the growth of which leads to spiritual life and wisdom, restored to their

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former original oneness as a Deific Ego, expressing its dual nature outwardly in the forms of man and woman.

This dual expression of the Father and Mother God in man and woman, is God manifested in his offspring. Therefore, we are Godlings in embryo in the womb of Nature called Isis, the mother of all, and when developed into our fullness of growth we become the perfect Man — God or Christ. This knowledge is God's eternal truth to his children of Earth and will redeem them unto Himself as they accept it and make it their own, each one for himself or herself. There is no Vicarious Atonement. The Christ within must redeem from ignorance, which is sin against the Father and Mother of our being. Therefore, to remain in sin or ignorance, or mental darkness of who

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God is and who we are, and our relation to Him, is to grieve the Holy Spirit as He would that all should know Him from the least unto the greatest. If this volume aids to this end its aim and object will have been accomplished. Therefore, no more need be said to introduce this book to mv readers. The Author.

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Chapter I. The Law Of Progress

Death, so called, will separate the living from the dead, "the wheat from the chaff, the goats from the sheep." In short, all must be in harmony with the new incoming forces and those who cannot adjust themselves to the requirements of the new Cycle will be compelled to change their polarity of vibration which will necessitate death of their physical organisms, precisely as the leaves drop from the trees in the fall, because of the life forces which animated them having changed their polarity and caused the opposite appearance of life outwardly to manifest that which is called death. This change takes place mentally, on the plane of mind in exact correspondence to that on the plane of matter, the only difference being in the periods, or cycles of its manifestation — those of matter, once every year; while those of mind are governed by the cycles of seven, nine, twenty-one, twenty-seven respectively, owing to the Sun's vibrations in fire, water, air or earth. The airy sign, Aquarius, symbol of the astrological man, is in operation at the present time. Therefore nine is the number ruling the present cycle. Nine is also the number governing mind in relation to Deity, repeated four times — once in each triplicity, of earth, air, fire and water — which proves Plato's statement to be true, "that God geomatrizes."

God is actively at work in all parts of his vast being. Wars, Pestilence, Famine and Devastation of every kind can readily be explained by the law of Polar Motion, which regulates the mental fruitage of each cycle of the mind's manifestations. The wise man, as Prophet and Seer, knowing this law of periodicity, can, in a general way predict coming events and give history of the past to verify his predictions, as Nature only repeats herself on the planes of matter, mind and spirit; he, being versed in her past history, can, with certainty, know she will not vary her operations except in degree as she changes her pole of vibration from that of solids to liquids, from liquids to ethers and from airy to fiery expressions of her spiral motions. This, in brief, is the Silver Key by which the Golden Lock is

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opened and the seeker of truth is admitted within the Sacred Sanctuary — The Holy of Holies. Only the Initiate of Nature's mysteries can understand the detail operations of her inner, higher and spiritual laws. Therefore, we will not attempt to explain them for the general reader, as he would not be able to comprehend and realize their portents until he has purified his soul in harmony with their vibrative operations or manifestations. He can rest assured, however, that God is present in all that he witnesses on Earth and console himself that all is well, no matter what appearances may say to the contrary.

Change, eternal change, is the law of progress, or shall I say that of Involution and Evolution, or generation and manifestation, or that of sex — all meaning pre cisely the same thing, differently expressed.

The present Cycle is one of great moment to the children of Earth, especially so to those living on the Western Hemisphere. We are entering upon the most wonderful period of our Earth's life. It has just passed its majority and maybe said to be of age. Its acts and doings in youth have been far from wise or good. History tells us of the bloodshed, the wars that have devastated the races of the past in its march of growth up to its present development. It is still fighting, but in a more scientific way than in past rounds of its history as it grows to maturity, and in old age it will be less war-like and more wise in council. Arbitration will succeed its arms and great guns of destruction, so necessary to its present development.

Death is only a change of the Ego's pole Life manifests its vibrations on the mental plane and those that are cut off in battle, disease or famine are made to realize the law of universal justice or equal rights to all of God's children. As He is our Father and Mother, and no respecter of persons, we must see and realize the Hand that guides us is divine. Man is but an atom in Deity and the race is but the aggregation of atoms comprising the whole — all governed by the One Law, One Truth, One Principle and One God. The innocent suffer with the guilty. True, but do we not know that innocence and ignorance equally require to be unfolded; therefore, justice is meted out to all. It matters not to us as rays of light and love, so long as justice is accomplished and the will 01 God is fulfilled, the parts owe this obedience to the whole in order that they may have their consciousness of being in God. Disobedience, or ignorance, of this relation to God is followed by death or polarization of the Ego in mortality, which means unconsciousness. The cycle of unconsciousness in darkness is necessary to a higher and better or wiser expression of life on the next cycle of evolution which follows in its turn as the dial of Deity indexes his dual manifestations in new forms of life. Higher and more perfect growth is thus attained until perfection at last culminates in the union of the two opposite forces into one. They have learned their lessons of love to all and obeyed the law of justice or wisdom by doing to others as they would that others should do to them. Their cycle of necessity is ended, so far as Earth is concerned, and as a new-born creation they enter upon higher cycles of Deific life, known as the Angelic. Man and woman reunited or restored to their former oneness of being, with wisdom added to love, which qualifies them to co-operate with Deity intelligently. Henceforth they know themselves to be rays of life, light and love — emanations from the Spiritual Sun, the fountain of life, light and love.

God, Om, Brahm are only different names given to this Sun of all life, and, like a rose, it is just the same by any other name ; therefore, it is not wise to spend time and energy in disputes as to which is the true name of all the many thousands that have been given to the Spiritual Sun by His different children or offspring. The main thing for us is to realize our oneness with It, in origin and destiny and do all we can to harmoniously co-operate with It in all its ways. Our happiness and usefulness depend entirely upon our recognition and obedience to this law of our being; failure to recognize this law leads to its opposite expression as all laws operate dually, or positively and negatively — the one leads us to conscious immortal life; the other, unconscious mortal life. Choose you, this day, which you prefer and you will surely receive that which you choose; justice will be meted out to all; they will reap whatsoever they sow; none can sow for another; therefore, my reader, there is no Vicarious Atonement. This you must work out for yourself in harmony with your other self, before redemption can be accomplished. In doing this you become the perfect Man-woman, two in one, and are forever thereafter at one with God. You have become your own redeemer and saviour, and only so far as your example and advice can help others can you be of aid to their souls' salvation. This is God's law and there is no escape or appeal from it, no other way to be saved from death or mortality.

The Christ is born from this union and the Kingdom of Heaven is within the At-one-ment. It can not be found without the human soul. All must realize this for themselves, which they will do in God's own good time; therefore, my brother and sister, take new hope and courage, for there is no eternal death for any of God's children. He desires all to live and enjoy Him forever. He knows all; therefore, we can trust Him and feel happy that we have our being in Him either in full recognition of the fact, or otherwise, if so it be. Unconsciousness only means darkness or failure to see the light. But rest easy for darkness is only negation, the opposite manifestation of light; therefore, when you desire the light it will surely come to you simply for the asking. Desiring, longing and praying for it will bring a response from your higher self, which is also a God in embryo, awaiting the development of its latent attributes and potentialities. This knowledge of who you are will, when recognized, and used wisely make you a king instead of a serf, a man instead of a youth. You will no longer obey that lower self, your animal soul, which we all have in common with the beasts, but your higher self. The God within you will awaken to a full realization of his God-nature. Then you will act God like and redeem yourself from ignorance and its inherited thraldom from the dark ages of past cycles. You will work out your own redemption and rejoice in your ability to do so, much more so than if you had inherited your At-one-ment as a free gift. We all enjoy that which we earn by our own efforts, much more than that which is given to us. It is more manly and God-like to earn a fortune than to have it given to us. Those who depend upon others for their support and development of soul, are generally weakened thereby, beside they lose that dignity of character and individuality so necessary to a healthy growth of the soul's senses.

To punish the fnnocent for the guilty is a monstrous doctrine and had its birth among the savage races of past cycles to appease the wrath of their imaginary

Gods. To accept Vicarious Atonement we put a premium upon crime, as can be verified by the history of the past two thousand years. We witness the effect of this false doctrine as taught to-day in the strife and bloody wars that are devastating the races that inhabit this globe. To believe a falsehood is to cheat ourselves. God is not mocked. We can not afford, therefore, to remain blind any longer, my brother and sister. Nature requires justice to be meted out to all. We can only redeem ourselves by knowledge and wisdom, of our relations to God and our oneness with Him, in spirit, motive and purpose to obey the higher self in co-operation with Him. We are largely the arbiter of our own destiny but, without knowledge, salvation cannot be attained.

Those who say our Western civilization of to-day is due to Christianity know nothing of occult laws or they would not make such a claim. Look at Christianity in its birth-place and see the degraded state into which its followers have fallen. They had Christianity before we of the West and should be our superiors, mentally and spiritually, but are they? They are sinking into mental night and manifest our antipodal relation to them mentally, while we of the West are rising into the glorious day of the Sun-God's effulgence. It is this law of God's Cyclic manifestation that gave us our civilization and mental growth in spite of Christianity. The new day for our Western race has just begun and, during the present sub-cycle of the Sun's march through Aquarius, we will witness the death of Christianity as now taught. Out of its death shall arise a new religion, namely, the Wisdom Religion, not of Egypt nor the Orient, but of the Occident. It will embrace and embody all that is good and true of all past ages and, in addition, all that modern science can add to complete the dual expressions of the One Law, One Truth, One Principle and One God in whom we live, move and have our being. It will not be a house divided against itself, embodying false doctrines, false creeds and false isms, but two poles of One Truth, as negative and positive, male and female, man and woman, the full embodiment of the God-head, which embraces the brotherhood and sisterhood of man and the Motherhood and the Fatherhood of God. There will be no necessity of one saying to another, " Know ye the Lord?" for all shall know Him, from the least to the greatest. Knowledge and goodness will fill the Earth, the millennial day will dawn for the Western races of this Western Continent. Prince Anael the Angel of Love and Ruler of the Astral Light must precede the next sub-cycle of the Sun, which gives birth to Raphael, the swift messenger of the Gods, which will illuminate the minds of the Western races to their full capacity, intellectually and spiritually. During his reign, intellectual greatness will remove most of our present obstacles in political, social and religious life. Inventions of scientific usefulness will place all in the enjoyment of health, happiness and heaven upon Earth, provided the truths herein taught are accepted and taught by the people of our Western Continent. If they do not accept it I will not hold myself responsible for these predictions. There is no law of compulsion — but one of persuasion. We only appeal to your intellect and intuitions; therefore, the results are left with the race. God will be glorified by His children, and they sanctified by reason of their oneness in origin and destiny with Him. Immortality will be a realized fact in consciousness, and death will be swallowed up in victory, for all shall ultimately be saved for ever more, world without end.

Chapter II. The Door To The Duality Of Truth

We have asked, sought and knocked upon the door to the Temple of Truth and found it dually hinged, swinging inwardly and outwardly, esoterically and exoterically. We are no longer barred from Urania's grandeurs, the door of the Sanctuary opens at our bidding, we are welcomed by thousands upon thousands that have preceded us. We hear our new name and receive the white stone, Truth, that the builders rejected. Without the Silver Key to the door of the Temple, the Sanctuary remains locked and can not be opened. Love is the Silver Key which unlocks the magic door to the Temple of

Truth, on every plane of life — -physical, mental and spiritual. Man, the Microcosm, is himself the Sanctuary wherein God loves to dwell. He is the Temple of the Sun-God Michael, built without hammer or saw. Sol-o-mon is another name for the Sun-God Michael. Truth, Knowledge and Wisdom are his children — born of love.

Harmony is his message to our planet Earth. We welcome thee, Eros, thou child of God's eternal love, vouchsafed to the children of men. Speed on in thy orbit. Draw near to Earth. Vibrate thy love-messages free from lust or discord. Let not love's opposite manifest outwardly upon Earth to the children of men. Awaken, Universal Love, that God may manifest divinity in humanity. Let this be thy glorious mission upon Earth, that the Spiritual Sun — from whom and to whom we owe all may be glorified and his children sanctified. He is God of Gods, and Lord of all. Blest be his name forevermore.

Immortality is born — a new Cycle entered upon — a new day dawns for mankind. Man realizes his relation to God as His child — inheritor of Wisdom, Knowledge and Truth — and, understanding himself, knowing himself with that consciousness born from intellect ripened into intuition which enables him to worship God in spirit and in truth. No longer bound by limitation he is free. His spirit can not be chained or imprisoned forever. Change, eternal change, brings light, love and life out of darkness, death and decay. Harmony out of discord. 'Eros out of chaos, two in one, God manifested in forms, male and female — positive and negative.

Involution and Evolution are the dual action of the One Law — One Life. Cycle after cycle completes its orbit or spiral, small or great. Globules or globes appear from this action and inter-action. This is the circulation of God's nervous fluid— the " Elixir of Life " -the " Philosopher's Stone" — the " Deific Blood" or " Astral Light" — which transmutes the solids, liquids, gases and ethers from one form or substance into another. Fire into air, air into water, water into earth, the matrix, or womb of Mother Isis in which creation or manifestation takes place. Cycles of time differ in each element according to its nature. The fiery cycles are rapid in their action. Vibration is quick as lightning on this plane.

Those of the air, next in rapidity. Next, those of the water, and lastly, those of the earth, corresponding to the colors of violet, indigo, yellow, orange, red, blue, green — which paint Earth's forms in variegated hues or colors. All due to the circulation of the " Elixir of Life," vibrating with different degrees of intensity throughout all kingdoms of spirit and matter. Involution, from fire to earth. Evolution is the return manifestation or expression, in exact correspondence of these involved ideas, from earth to water, water to air, air to fire — making the cycle of necessity complete.

This circulation of the universal life-fluid manifests first light, then love. Knowledge and Wisdom, the offspring thereof, when the cycles of Involution and Evolution are completed. The consciousness of Light, gives joy, bliss and happiness. This garden of innocence, called Eden, is the Soul's first awakening from darkness. Love is born, through Light, from Life. The cycle of necessity, or three in one, three times manifested on the planes of spirit, mind and matter, evolves Light, Life and Love, or God in action — motion or vibration — manifesting his potentialities or latent attributes, cycle after cycle from the infinitely large to infinitely small, throughout the four elements — fire, air, water and earth. Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Carbon, Salamanders, Sylphs, Undines and Gnomes. Each Kingdom corresponding in its life's forms to the elements expressing them. All related to each other as bone to flesh, blood to brain, from which thought emanates in consciousness, as light and love — knowledge and wisdom. The full realization of the above awakens the Egd into his conscious immortal relation to Deity. He knows himself henceforth as one ray of Light vibrating, circulating and pulsating through the four elements of earth — air, fire and water ; deathless as Deity, immortal as the whole, circulating throughout Him in correspondence with the great Macrocosm — his Father - Mother God, from whom he has his being. He recognizes himself as part of Deity — an epitome of the Whole. In this sense is man created in the image of his God. Time is swallowed up in eternity, space annihilated, my Father and I are One.

Intellect and Intuition, united as the two halves of the Divine Ego, positive and negative, co-operating throughout the infinite ramifications of the One Life or Deity. Man originally was like his God — two in one. During his involution into matter out of spirit, separation took place in Libra, the bi-sexual sign — the scales of justice. The Ego, no longer had control of its dual nature; therefore, separation gave rise to discord, disease, suffering and death, to its manifested forms, causing it to create a new expression of its latent potentialities, until restored to its original self. This cycle of necessity involved and evolved the attributes of both halves of the Divine Ego, giving it knowledge of the Tree of Life — of good and evil, harmony and discord, hell and heaven, love and wisdom. In short, a knowledge of Self. This knowledge is the first requisite. Man must know himself as man and woman united into one being. This marriage produces heaven and makes him — the Microcosm — the exact counterpart of Deity — the Macrocosm. He must realize his divine origin as a child of God. Any protest against this knowledge shuts him out from his birthright. He is legal heir to God's boundless creations and can, if he knows himself, mount the Throne, as King, over all the lower kingdoms of life. This knowledge makes man a little lower than the Angels. It deifies him in consciousness as an immortal part of the immortal whole. Death no longer has control over him. He realizes his creative powers and co-operates with God in all His works, as a son of the Spiritual Sun.

The Bible informs us that Sol-o-mon, the Spiritual Son, or wisest man that ever lived, had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. The meaning of this statement is, he had gained wisdom by experience in the ten kingdoms of universal life, which embrace all experiences in matter and spirit. The septenary laws are the completion of all forms in matter which embrace mineral, vegetable, animal and human life. Man being the septenary expression of life, Solomon's relation to his God in this department of his universal circulation, is symbolized by his seven hundred wives, or legal relations to the four kingdoms of earth, air, fire and water. The three hundred concubines, refer to his experiences in the triune spiritual relations above matter. These three realms are in constant action and re-action, promiscuously, as the word concubine would imply. Every Ego is required to experience all that is implied in

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Sol-o-mon's seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, in the cycle of necessity, which relates his soul to the ten kingdoms of universal life. Ten is the symbol of the formless One, or Deity unmanifest — the all in all of universal life. Solomon, having gained all knowledge and wisdom, his Cycle of Necessity was complete, and the divine circulation of Deity known by actual experience in its infinite ramifications, made him the wisest man that ever lived. This astrological language has concealed this mystery from all but the Initiates into the Duality of Truth. Each Ego is destined to experience all that is expressed and implied by Solomon's relation to the universal Sun — ■ the Spiritual Sun of all life. The Sun being the source of all Life, Light and Love, the Ego has gained knowledge and wisdom — the results of its personal experience in its circulation throughout the ten kingdoms of matter and spirit. It has become wise. It is also a King of its own dominions, capable of ruling wisely and justly. It knows itself. It is perfect, as the Sun is perfect — its divine parents — from whom it emanated, and to whom it must return. It started in innocence, and returns with knowledge and wisdom. It has become its own creator and redeemer, by reason of its differentiation from the divine — One Life — and its complete knowledge of itself in relation to the whole — the Spiritual Sun.

This truth will make you free and the results will be health, happiness and heaven. The twelve manners of fruit will be gathered from the twelve signs of the Zodiac, which symbolize all the functions in every department of the Deific Life. Every perfected Deific Ego is an epitome of the Spiritual Sun, hence is a Sun, or miniature universe. Self-illuminated it expresses itself as Light, Lifeand Love, or Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding. The two — intellect and intuition — combined, comprehend all — as understanding — the foundation-stone upon which Solomon built his glorious temple, without the sound of hammer or saw. No sound is heard, silently and noiselessly the temple is reared in solemn grandeur with perfection in all its parts. O, what a deific radiance hath Wisdom, when Love responds in anthems of creative praise — We praise Thee, O God. This illumination of grandeur unspeakable commands the Ego's potentialities in praise and adoration of Its divine nature.

Sol, Om, On — the three names of the glorious Spiritual Sun, from which have come all Life, Light and Love. Sol, the Egyptian Father; Om, the Indian Mother, and On, the Persian child. Sol, the Father of the Egyptian Science; Om, the Mother of Indian Philosophy, and On, the child of the two in union — the religion of the Soul and the Stars, or Wisdom Religion, symbolized by the sciences of Astronomy and Astrology — Alchemy and Chemistry — the tw T in sciences of universal life. Man doth not live by bread alone, but, by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Deity. The twelve signs of the Zodiac symbolize the bread of life, that is for the healing of the nations of the Earth. By eating and assimilating this esoteric food they will be speedily restored to spiritual, mental and physical health. The twelve manners of fruit are gathered each year as the Sun, Moon and planets vibrate their electric and magnetic influences throughout the twelve houses or signs of the Zodiac. All expressions of vegetables, fruits and animal life are polarized into forms of an infinite variety of foods for the physical sustenance of God's masterpiece — man.