"Mind (as well as metals and elements) may be transmuted¹, from state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration³ to vibration. True Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art."—The Kybalion.

 

As we have stated, the Hermetists were the original alchemists, astrologers, and psychologists, Hermes having been the founder⁴ of these schools of thought. From astrology has grown modern astronomy; from alchemy has grown modern chemistry; from the mystic psychology⁵ has grown the modern psychology of the schools. But it must not be supposed that the ancients were ignorant of that which the modern schools suppose to be their exclusive and special property. The records engraved⁶ on the stones of Ancient Egypt show conclusively⁷ that the ancients had a full comprehensive knowledge of astronomy, the very building of the Pyramids showing the connection between their design and the study of astronomical⁸ science. Nor were they ignorant of Chemistry, for the fragments of the ancient writings show that they were acquainted with the chemical properties of things; in fact, the ancient theories regarding physics are being slowly verified by the latest discoveries of modern science, notably⁹ those relating to the constitution of matter. Nor must it be supposed that they were ignorant of the so-called modern discoveries in psychology—on the contrary, the Egyptians were especially skilled in the science of Psychology, particularly in the branches that the modern schools ignore, but which, nevertheless, are being uncovered under the name of "psychic¹⁰ science" which is perplexing the psychologists of to-day, and making them reluctantly admit that "there may be something in it after all."

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