The Arcane Teaching Author:William Walker Atkinson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: The Arcane book concern Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where... more » you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LESSON VL INVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION. In order to understand the Arcane Teaching regarding the processes whereby the Cosmic Will manifests in the universe of life and action; shape and form; change, appearance, and variety; let us seek the wisdom of the Aphorisms. Listen to the Aphorisms: APHORISM VIII. By the Law of Analogy the Manifest Cosmos may be known. "Ex TJno disce Omnes" -- From One know All. Like unto a WORLD-BRAIN is the Cosmos. Its brain-substance is the Substance-Principle; its thought- energy is the Motion-Principle; its Mind is the Consciousness-Principle. Its will is the Cosmic Will. Its spirit is the Cosmic Spirit. Its laws are the Seven Laws. Its Sovereign is The Law. Many philosophies have held that the universe is mental, in its last analysis, and that the Universal Mind is the reality behind the appearances. Others have held that the universe is merely an imagination, illusion, or dramatization, in the mind of aSupreme Being. But all of these conceptions use the terms "mind" or "mental" as something having no connection with material substance, the latter being an illusion. But the Arcane Teaching recognizes Substance as being as real and actual as Mind or Motion -- the three being but aspects of the same thing -- the Three Principles which are really One. And in giving to Substance and Motion equal places with Mind, the conception is seen to be rather more like a "World-Brain" than a "World-Mind," for like the brain it contains the principles of Substance, Motion and Consciousness. Thought is the product of these three -- the action ...« less