Nature’s laws are subservient to the sum total of one’s own wisdom and no further, although through magical rites and ceremonies we can evoke a still greater power; but this is not permissible. This was the cause of the destruction of Atlantis.
You Cannot Serve Two Masters
Few students realise that if they wish to contact their own inner systems of government it is necessary for them to ally themselves to Nature, and if they first prefer to accumulate a fortune and succeed in business then afterwards study the secrets of Nature it will be more difficult for them. Possessions beyond the amount that will give us a clean, healthy life in clean surroundings often accumulate passions and desires that will govern the brain and shut us out from our sovereignty in Nature’s higher counterpart.
The law of Proserpine (Persephone) is needed so that man will first acquaint himself with his own inner possessions ere entering the world of Mammon.
Ancient Teachings
As we pass through each division of Nature we are taught the laws and customs of each sphere. From these we learn what is known as Nature’s magic. The elementals working with us can manipulate mind-stuff and produce illusions that to the beholders would seem miracles. These helpers are our subjects and can give us the secret formulas of their magic. To distort the vision is one.
The True Nature of Nature
In the great sealed book of Nature I have read these words: “In everything there rests an absolute Presence,” and in other books of the Initiates we read similar thoughts. In everything rests the presence of the Absolute, or as the more developed Brothers have written: “The name of a body of matter if spelled or spoken correctly will evoke an answer; for in all substance there lies an intelligence that replies to the note in a spoken word, and this intelligence is not of the nature of its matter but of the objective minds that bind it to Nature.”