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THE POWER OF KARMA “For they, being lovers of Wisdom more than worldly wealtb, drove at higher and more Excellent Operations : and certainly He to whom the whole course of Nature lyes open, rejoyceth not so much that he can make Gold or Silver, or the Divells to become subject to him, as that he sees the Heavens open, the Angells of God Ascending and Descending, and that his own Name is fairely written in The Book of Life."
This should convince us that the adept masters were not working exclusively with material substances of the physical plane, and in this respect lies the difference existing between Alchemy and modern Chemistry. The Hermetic Mysteries were Divine Mysteries, as was indicated by the Supreme Master Jesus Christ, when he said : “Unto you it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to others in parables, that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.”
To one who is in continuous and actively conscious sympathy with astral life, the physical plane appears an odd illusion with regard to such a quality as solidity; and those who have contacted the Spiritual state cannot find words in which to convey an adequate description of their experiences, nor can those experiences be understood by those who are restricted to the
