The Arcane Teaching

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The Arcane Teaching is based upon the fundamental principle of the existence of an Absolute Supreme Power, which is the Cause and Reason of the Cosmos and all the manifestations contained therein — all that men call “the universe." This Absolute Supreme Power is known in the Arcane Teaching as "THE LAW."

The Law is regarded as an Abstract Principle of Power, impossible of being represented by words or even by symbols. It is not a Pantheistic Deity, or Being — It is an Absolute Principle, beyond definition or description. It does not manifest Itself in a universe of shapes and forms, by separating Itself into the Many as the Pantheistic Being is held to do in certain philosophies. Instead of this It causes Universal Being to proceed from Infinite Not-Being — causes the Cosmos to arise from Chaos — causes Manifestation to arise from the Unmanifest — causes Everything to arise from Infinite Nothing. The Law is not Being — but the Cause of Being. It cannot be said to "Be," in the ordinary sense — It causes the verb "To Be" to have a meaning.


The Arcane Teaching has come down to the present age through the corridors of time, from the dim ages of past eras, races, and schools of thought. Even those highest in the councils of "The Custodians of The Scroll," are unable to trace the Teaching, in an unbroken direct line, further back than the time of Pythagoras (about 500 B. C), and a little later in Ancient Greece, although they find many references to, and extracts from, the teachings of ancient Egypt and Chaldea, which serve to show that the Pythagorean and Ancient Grecian Arcane Schools were founded on occult instruction still more remote, received in a direct line of succession of teachers and pupils extending over centuries. Investigators have found traces of the Arcane Teaching in the records of Persia and Medea, and it is believed that the inspiration for the original philosophical teaching of Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, was received from Arcane sources. Traces are also to be found in the Hebrew Esoteric Teachings of the "Kabballah" and the "Zohar."

Contents:

PART I. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.
Lesson I. The Arcane Teaching.
Lesson II. Absolute Law.
Lesson III. Infinity of Nothingness.

PART II. THE COSMOS.
Lesson IV. The Manifestation.
Lesson V. The Cosmic Will.
Lesson VI. Involution and Evolution.

PART III. THE LIFE OF THE EGO,
Lesson VII. The One and The Many.
Lesson VIII. Metempsychosis.
Lesson IX. Survival of The Fittest.

PART IV. FATE OR FREEDOM?
Lesson X. Fate and Destiny.
Lesson XI. Law, Order and Sequence.
Lesson XII. Dominant Desire and Sovereign Will.

PART V. THE ASTRAL PLANE.
Lesson XIII. The Astral World.
Lesson XIV. Astral Beings.
Lesson XV. Astral Phenomena.

PART VI. OCCULT FORCES.
Lesson XVI. Psychic Phenomena,
Lesson XVII. Mentalism.
Lesson XVIII. Invocation and Evocation.

PART VII. ARCANE SECRETS.
Lesson XIX. The Secret of The Opposites.
Lesson XX. The Secret of Rhythm.
Lesson XXI. The Secret of Balance.