Trismegistos: "Reality is not upon the earth, my son, and it cannot be thereon ... Nothing on earth is real, there are only appearances ... He (man) is not real, my son, as man. The real consists solely in itself and remains what it is ... Man is transient, therefore he is not real, he is but appearance, and appearance is the supreme illusion.
Tatios: Then the celestial bodies themselves are not real, my father, since they vary?
Trismegistos: That which is subject to birth and to change is not real .... There is in them a certain falsity, seeing that they too are variable ...
Tatios: And what then is the primordial Reality?
Trismegistos: That which is one and alone, O Tatios; That which is not made of matter, nor in any body. Which has neither colour nor form which changes not nor is transmitted but which always is."
From H.P.B., The Secret Doctrine
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