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function through them. The secret of Divine Al-
chemy is simply this ; train those organs in such
a way that gradually their functioning will be ele-
vated to that point where the powers of the Heav-
enly Man may directly function through them, so
that thou wilt be no longer the image of the Man
but wilt become the Living Vehicle in which he
directly lives and works through all of his imme-
diate functions. From this state, let the Manifest
God directly function through these organs and
in time let the Unmanifest God enter and func-
tion through them. It is not enough that He
should function through thy soul. He must also
function directly through the organs of thy phys- «
ical body. What else does it mean to make thy
body the Temple of the Holy Ghost? Come down
to the earth, stop thy star-gazing, and realize
that thy body is the temple of God, that every
part of it is a vessel of righteousness if thou wilt
but consecrate it to Him, and thou hast solved
the last element in the Great Work, this is our
Sacred Art. Thus do we see the perfect revela-
tion of the Manifest God. His highest mani-
festation is man. He dwells within thee. The
Sacred Chamber of the Temple is Veiled, and
hence we will not enter there.

LESSON IV

The Unmanif est God

7. Behold how many arts [employed] on
each material, how many labors on one single
sketch ; and all exceeding fair, and all in per-
fect measure, yet all diversified! Who made
them all? What mother, or what sire, save
God alone, unmanifest, who hath made all
things by His Will?

To get a clear conception of the greatness of
the works of God, we must avoid the erroneous
conception that things are spontaneously gen-
erated, or that they are created by one creative
effort. The facts in the case are there are hun-
dreds of separate arts employed on the plastic
material of the human foetus ere it has come
to approach with any degree of nearness to the
Image of the Man. This great number of arts
is essential owing to the fact of the diversity of
function that is required in the human individual.
Each separate force that is to function in the
new man must create for itself the organ through
which it is to function, thus in a certain sense
the creation of those separate organs are in them-
selves acts of functioning on the part of the forces
that are later to function through them. The
Power that is to create must, therefore, differ-
entiate itself into a number of diverse forces,
each of which is to act separately in its creative
operations, and yet the result must be a synthesis
of organs corresponding to the synthesis of forces
that has created them. All of these separate arts
must be brought to bear upon the material in
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fluence in such a way as to provide an instru-
ment through which all of these forces may find
perfect freedom of manifestation. Not only is
it essential that each of these several arts should
be employed upon the material, however; but it
is also essential that each of these forces should
work by stages. There is nothing in the nature
of an immediate creation here. It is one labor
after another, until the growth from the original
vibratory impulse has passed on to the perfect
consummation in the perfect organ. It is the
gradual drawing of the outline, and then the fill-
ing in of the sketch, one line after another, until
all has been made perfect. Slowly the center is
built up from the original conception to the per-
fect realization of the pattern residing in the
Divine Archetype. All is exceeding fair. Noth-
ing is out of line. Truly is the construction of
a human organism a work of art, the art of the
Divine Artificer. The measurements are per-
fect. All the lines must be of exactly the correct
length, so that the forces will have exactly the
correct play, and no more. There must be no short
circuiting in this matter. Also there must be no
open circuits, every circuit must be closed, and
the current must be exactly so much, and no more.
Also, there must be no duplicates. Each and
every part must have its separate work to per-
form. Not only this, but the body must provide
organs for the potential forces as well as for those
active at the time of its construction. It must have
rudimentary organs capable of later development
in case of the arousing of forces not yet active in
man. The future evolution of the soul must be
provided for, in case it should outstrip the type
to which it belongs. Seeing that the human organ-
ism is so perfectly constructed, who is capable of
such a work as this, save the Unmanifest God
alone? The intermediate Powers are merely act-
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the real source of those creative powers that do
this great work, is to be found in the Unmanifest
God alone. He makes all things that are made,
through the exercise of the spontaneous creative
potency of His Will Force. Man is made in the
image of God in the sense that it is the active
expression of the attributes of God that engender
the forces that act upon the matter of the foetus
in such a way as to evolve it into the complex
organism that it is. It is those powers expressed
through form, and all of its functions are but the
correspondents of those Divine Powers function-
ing through the diverse parts of the body. We
are the Will of God expressed in form, and could
not be other than what we are. This, however,
does not apply to man alone, but to everything in
existence. They are all the forms spontaneously
engendered by the activity of the dynamic Will
Force of God. The difference in the complexity
of the structure is merely the means of determin-
ing the difference in the degree of consciousness
which it is possible for the organism to manifest.
Thus we can see the living demonstration of the
Unmanifest God in all forms of life that we see
about us.

8. And no one saith a statue or a picture
comes to be without a sculptor or without a
painter; doth then such workmanship as this
exist without a Worker? What depth of
blindness, what deep impiety, what depth of
ignorance! See [then] thou ne'er, son, Tat,
deprivest works of Worker!

Nay, rather is He greater than all names, so
great is He, the Father of them all. For verily
He is the Only One ; and this His work, to be
a father.

The argument here introduced is that of causa-
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cause. We have shown that all things in the uni-
verse are works, that there is nothing but what
has been constructed by an operative force, that
nothing has come into being of itself, but that all
things have been constructed. Any work presup-
poses a worker. A human organism is just as
much a work of art as is a statue; hence until
statues come into being independent of sculptures,
it is illogical to assume that men will come into
being independent of that which constructs them.
We have already shown how illogical it is to
assume that the child is constructed by its parents,
seeing that all the creative functions work along
intelligent lines, and that every part of the body
is perfectly adapted to the functioning of some
force, and that it would be incomplete without
each and every part. Now, one of two things
must be true, either those functions are directed
by the intelligence of the parents, or else the
organs of the parents are made use of by a force
exterior *to them, and hence the directing intelli-
gence is outside of the parents. It cannot be the
former, because there is not a man or woman
upon the earth at the present time who knows the
functions of all of the diverse parts of the body.
This being the case, how can the human intelli-
gence construct an organ adapted to the function-
ing of some force, the function of which is abso-
lutely unknown to the man or woman? The intel-
ligence that directs the construction of a human
organism is an intelligence superior to that of any
man or woman who has ever lived, seeing that
not yet has the human intelligence been able to
master the mystery of human function. It will
not do to say that this guiding intelligence is that
of the soul about to reincarnate, for the simple
reason that the intelligence of the soul previous
to reincarnation is the same intelligence that it
has posterior to such reincarnation. As the soul
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follow that if it had an intelligence capable of
directing the formation of snch a body, it would
know the mystery of perfect human functioning
and would therefore be the master of the Art of
Creation while living in the world, and there are
no such beings, and never have been. If the intelli-
gence directing the creation of the organism is
not present in the father, the mother, or the soul
preparing to reincarnate, it cannot be that this
construction is wrought other than through the
sexual organs of the father and mother, acting
mechanically under the force of some super-
human energy that is acting through them. All
of our reasoning indicates that this force is in the
last analysis, the energy of the Will Force of the
TJnmanif est God, and hence His is the Intelligence
guiding it in all of its operations. As this work
of creation is a divine work, it follows of necessity
that there must be a Divine Worker to perform
this work, otherwise there would be an exception
to the rule that there can never be a work per-
formed without the operation of a worker adapted
to the performing of that specific work. We must
at all times realize that there can be no work
without its proper Worker, and God, the One and
Only One, is the worker in the final analysis of
all works of whatever kind they may be.

This God is the Father of all names, in that
they have all come forth from Him. All the
names have been generated within Ku and born
from her, and hence God being the Father-Mother
of all names is greater than them all, on the prin-
ciple that the cause must ever be greater than the
sum-total of all its effects. That which brings
forth is greater than all that is brought forth of
it. God is the Only One because there is naught
else save that which has come forth from Him.
That which has come forth from Him subsisted in
Him before it came forth, and therefore, is there
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therefore, that which was in Him, and came forth,
is still in Him, hence it is still a part of Him;
hence there is naught at all but Him ; hence is He
the Only One. His work is to be a Father, in the
sense that all of the motions of the Divine Essence
are motions of creation and generation. In fact,
the Essence of God is Pure Generation. No single
Thought of the Mind can possibly fail to generate
its counterpart, and hence all the Thoughts of the
Mind are Generative. Other beings generate off-
spring from time to time, but He is spontane-
ously, simultaneously and incessantly generative
throughout Eternity, and throughout the im-
mensity of His Essence. His essence is that of
absolute generation. His perpetual generation is
that which perpetuates the Universe. Therefore,
Fatherhood is not simply one of His attributes;
it is His absolute Essence. God is therefore the
Absolute Father-Mother of all that ever was, that
is now or that will ever be; from beginnings
boundless unto an endless end. The time never
was when He failed to bring forth, and the time
will never be when He will for an instant cease to
bring forth. He is the All Father- All Mother
through time and Eternity.

9. So, if thou f orcest me somewhat too bold,
to speak, His being is conceiving of all things
and making [them].

And without its maker it is impossible that
anything should be, so ever is He not unless
He ever makes all things, in heaven, in air, in
earth, in deep, in all of cosmos, in every part
that is and that is not of everything. For
there is naught in all the world that is not He.

He is Himself, both things that are and
things that are not. The things that are He
hath made manifest, He keepeth things that
are not in Himself.

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So, if thou forcest me somewhat too bold,
to speak, His being is conceiving of all things
and making [them].

The absolute being of God consists of a dual
function; in the conceiving of everything, and in
the making of that which has been conceived.
This dual function is the result of His dual nature,
Male-Female. These two natures are in the Mind,
the masculine principle, which is incessantly en-
gendering Thoughts, each one of which must con-
ceive its active expression, and in Ku, the Divine
Essence, Feminine. Thought acts upon Ku in
such a way as to impart to Her an Intelligent Im-
pulse, which is the act of conception, which is the
only direct effect possible for a Divine Thought.
Simultaneously with this conception or impulse
of Ku engendered by the Thought of the Mind,
the Divine Essence, or Ku responds to this im-
pulse, and proceeds to make of Her own Essence
that which corresponds to the Thought which has
impregnated her with this Mental Germ of Life.
When the Thought Conceived thing has been made
in Ku it is expelled through the Centrifugal
action of the Will Force, and thus being born
into the Manifestation through the making func-
tion of Ku the Mother, being, as it were, born out
of the womb of Ku, it in a certain sense impreg-
nates the Manifest God, and through the operation
of Sekhet, the Formative Mind upon Isis, the
Formative Hyle, it is given its highest form.
Thus we have three steps in the process — Crea-
tion, which is the Conception by the thought of
tlie Mind; Making, which is the gestation and
birth from Ku, and Formation, which is the mak-
ing manifest through the formative action of
Sekhet and Isis. In this way are all things made
manifest. It is this dual being, as the universal
Conceiver, masculine, Mind, and the universal
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the Unmanifest God. He is nothing apart from
this. This is He the Eternal Father-Mother.

And as without its maker it is impossible
that anything should be, so ever is He not un-
less He ever makes all things, in heaven, in
air, in earth, in deep, in all cosmos, in every
part that is and that is not of everything. For
there is naught in all the world that is not He.

The being of God consists absolutely in the
making of things. Divinity has absolutely no
other functions. The Esse of the Mind is in the
act of thinking. Were the Mind to cease to think,
no matter for how short a period of time, the
Mind would cease to be, for the Mind is nothing
other than the perpetual sequence of Thought.
The being of a Thought consists in its simultane-
ous contact with Ku, and in the Impulse which
It gives *to Her. It lives in that impulse, and
would immediately become extinct were it not for
that impulse in Ku in which it lives. The Esse
of Ku is in Her response to the impulse of
Thought, and in the simultaneous movement to
make. In other words, Ku subsists in the act of
making, and should She cease to make for the
most infinitesimal period of time She would sim-
ply become extinct. The Unmanifest God is,
therefore, nothing other than the perpetual
sequence of conceiving and making. That and
that alone is the very Esse of the Unmanifest
God. Everything, no matter on what Plane it may
be, is in reality made in Ku. Things are made
there and after being so made are projected or
born into the Manifestation. Their being made
manifest is in fact nothing other than their being
born out of Ku. The manifest God is nothing
other than the perpetual stream of such things
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into kosmos. The Manifestation is the Zone of
Formation. When formed in the Manifestation
they pass out into the kosmos. All that is, and
that is not, is made in Ku. Both the existent and
the non-existent She makes in the depths of Her
Maternal Essence. Hence there is naught in all
the world that is not the Unmanifest God. The
Manifest God is nothing other than the manifesta-
tion of the Unmanifest God, and the kosmos is
nothing other than the synthesis of the forms
assumed by this same Divine Ku. Hence the
world is not. It is the Unmanifest God made
manifest and visible. He-She is the Energy, the
Substance and the Form of the Universe and
apart from God the One-and-Only One there is
naught.