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:: the Etheric principle ::
" when describing the elements, i have mentioned several times that they originated from the Etheric principle. therefore, the Etheric principle is the highest, the mightiest, the most unimaginable, the primordial existence, the original cause of all things and everything created; it is the causal sphere. therefore, the Akasha is spaceless and timeless; it is uncreated, incomprehensible and indefinable. the different religions call it "God." it is the fifth energy, the primordial energy; it is that which created everything and keeps everything in equilibrium. it is the Source and purity of all thoughts and ideas; it is the causal world in which everything created maintains itself, beginning with the highest of spheres downward to the lowest. it is the quintessence of the alchemists. it is the All in All "
- Franz Bardon :: Initiation into Hermetics ::
< volume I of the holy mysteries >