Know Thyself-

The effort of the esoteric student is not so much to know as to become, and herein lies the tremendous import of the Delphic inscription, “Know Thyself”, which is the keynote of esoterism.
The esotericist understands that true knowledge can be attained only through self development in the highest possible sense of the term, a development which begins with introspection and the awakening of creative and regenerative forces which now slumber in man’s inner protoplasmic nature, like the vivicic potency in the ovum, and which when aroused into activity transforms him ultimately into a divine being bodied in a deathless etherial form of ineffable beauty.

This process of transcendental self-conquest, the giving birth to oneself as a spiritual being, evolving from the concealed essence of ones own embryonic nature of self-luminous body, is the principal subject matter of the story which is endeavored to present to the readers in as interesting and understandable form as possible, commensurate with the great theme expounded.

The world of true Being is that of Nous, the real or divine ideas, or archetypes, which are the eternal patterns, so to say, of all things in the manifested universe.

By a paradox which defies the reasoning faculty, but which is readily resolved intuitively, the God is said to be apart from and independent Universe, and yet to permeate every atom of it.

One of the greatest powers possessed by man, when properly developed and used, is the Power of Constructive Imagination, it being the faculty by which we can form a mental image of anything, and bring absent objects and perceptions to the mind, this being the greatest of the mind forces, according to the Natural Laws or Universal Consciousness.

Rightly conceived imagination is the power of the mental representation, and is measured by the vividness and truth of this representation.

If we desire success, happiness, strength and power, the only way is a wise, enlightened use of the power of this representation.
“As a man thinketh, so is he”-as we use our power of mental representation, so will our condition be.

What is Mind?