THE MASTERY OF BEING

This carefully crafted ebook: 'THE MASTERY OF BEING - A Study of the Ultimate Principle of Reality & The Practical Application Thereof' is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
'The conscious recognition of Identity with Spirit, by the intellect, constitutes the Perception of Truth; its conscious realization by the intuition, constitutes Illumination; its conscious manifestation and demonstration by volition and ideation, constitute the Mastery of Being.' - William Walker Atkinson
William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was a prolific writer. His works treat themes related to the mental world, occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. They constitute a basis for what Atkinson called 'New Psychology' or 'New Thought'.

This carefully crafted ebook: 'THE MASTERY OF BEING - A Study of the Ultimate Principle of Reality & The Practical Application Thereof' is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
'The conscious recognition of Identity with Spirit, by the intellect, constitutes the Perception of Truth; its conscious realization by the intuition, constitutes Illumination; its conscious manifestation and demonstration by volition and ideation, constitute the Mastery of Being.' - William Walker Atkinson
William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was a prolific writer. His works treat themes related to the mental world, occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. They constitute a basis for what Atkinson called 'New Psychology' or 'New Thought'.

Résumé
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE MASTERY OF BEING - A Study of the Ultimate Principle of Reality & The Practical Application Thereof" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
 "The conscious recognition of Identity with Spirit, by the intellect, constitutes the Perception of Truth; its conscious realization by the intuition, constitutes Illumination; its conscious manifestation and demonstration by volition and ideation, constitute the Mastery of Being." - William Walker Atkinson
 William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was a prolific writer. His works treat themes related to the mental world, occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. They constitute a basis for what Atkinson called "New Psychology" or "New Thought".

Échantillon de lecture
Chapter IV.
Axioms of Reality-Continued.
Table of Content AXIOM OF INCLUSIVENESS.
SECOND AXIOM OF REALITY: REALITY is All that is in actual Being; all that is in actual Being is REALITY.

THIS AXIOM announces the inclusiveness of REALITY. REALITY is perceived to include within its content and being All that actually is in BEING-all that really is. REALITY is perceived actually to BE ALL-there-is. Likewise, it is perceived that all that occurs, appears, or is presented in the form, shape, state, or condition of "Becoming" is not in actual BEING, and therefore is excluded from the content and being of SPIRIT.

ACTUAL BEING.

"Actual BEING" is that which is existent in truth, in verity, and in fact; that which has a fixed, unalterable, eternal existence; that which is the same yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow. Nothing that changes in Time can be said to be in actual BEING, for it does not exist in its original state even for the briefest moment of consideration in thought. Even if we reduce the period of thought-consideration to the infinitesimal point of a second of time, the phenomenal thing under consideration undergoes change during that consideration-this from the fact that Time itself is but a record of change, and the smallest period thereof must be a record of change. A thing which changes even in the infinitesimal moment of time when it is under consideration by the mind cannot be said to have been in actual Being at all. All that has been perceived as in apparent existence is a series of changes of form, shape, state, or condition; a procession of such and no one real, abiding thing; there has been no actual Being at all, merely a series of states of "Becoming." The only actual Being is vested in the essence, nature, substance, and principle of the Thing.

"BECOMING."

"Becoming" is a term used in philosophy to designate the ever-changing state of phenomenal things. The term means "passing from one state to another." Many philosophers, ancient and modern, from Heraclitus the Ephesian (500 b.c.) to Bergson of to-day, have held that to the universe there is no BEING but only an eternal "Becoming." If the universe be conceived of as simply an eternal series of changing things, with no unchanging background or continuous essence, then this theory holds good, for there can be no BEING in a series of infinite changes, for nothing would persist long enough to Be; even at the instant of its birth it would have begun to change into something else. Everything in the phenomenal Universe is undergoing this eternal change. As Bergson says: "Though we may do our best to imitate the mobility of 'becoming' by an addition that is ever going on, 'becoming' itself slips through our fingers just when we think we are holding it tight." The idea of "Becoming" is that there are no things, but only actions; no fixed thingness, but only changing events. Bergson compares the universe to a great moving picture which is never in actual BEING for a single moment but which is always "Becoming"- the rapid motion giving to the "Becoming" the appearance of actual BEING. Unless we grant the unchanging Essence or background of REALITY, then, indeed, there is no actual BEING.

This axiom includes in the content and being of REALITY all that is in actual BEING. Likewise, it excludes from the content and being of REALITY all that is merely "Becoming." Thus we see the actual existence of all "Becoming" is denied; the appearance of such must be accounted for in another way.

AXIOM OF INVARIABLE IDENTITY.
THIRD AXIOM OF REALITY: REALITY is always and invariably itself, and never other than itself.

This axiom announces the invariable identity of REALITY. It accords with the Primary Laws of Thought which hold that a thing is always itself, and never other than itself, in spite of the forms, shapes, states, or conditions under which it occu