Three Initiates

The Hermetic Teachings are that Man may use Law to overcome laws, and that the higher will always prevail against the lower, until at last he has reached the stage in which he seeks refuge in the LAW itself, and laughs the phenomenal laws to scorn. Are you able to grasp the inner meaning of this?

"THE LIPS OF WISDOM ARE CLOSED, EXCEPT TO THE

EARS OF UNDERSTANDING"

Our intent is not to erect a new Temple of Knowledge, but rather to place in the hands of the student a Master-Key with which he may open the many inner doors in the Temple of Mystery through the main portals he has already entered.

there are in each generation who are ready for the truth, or who would recognize it if it were presented to them.

When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom."

The Art of Hermetic Alchemy," which, contrary to the general belief, dealt in the mastery of Mental Forces, rather than Material Elements-the Transmutation of one kind of Mental Vibrations into others, instead of the changing of one kind of metal into another.

Philosopher's Stone" which would turn base metal into Gold, was an allegory relating to Hermetic Philosophy, readily under

Mind (as well as metals and elements) may be transmuted, from state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to vibration. True Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art."--The Kybalion.

The word "Transmute" means "to change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform" (Webster). And accordingly,

Mental Transmutation" means the art of changing and transforming mental states, forms, and conditions, into others. So you may see that Mental Transmutation is the "Art of Mental Chemistry," if you like the term--a form of practical Mystic Psychology