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7 Hermetic Principles

Mentalism

Correspondence

Vibration

Polarity

Rhythm

Cause And Effect

Gender

The Teachings Of Hermes Trimegistus Thoth

(A Study Of The Hermetic Philosophy Of Ancient Egypt And Greece.)

The Lips Of Wisdom Are Closed, Except To The Ears Of Understanding... ''The Kybalion''

Where Fall The Footsteps Of The Master, The Ears Of Those Ready For His Teaching Open Wide

When The Ears Of The Student Are Ready To Hear, Then Cometh The Lips To Fill Them With Wisdom

The Principles Of The Truth Are Seven...

He Who Knows These Understandingly, Posses The Magic Key Before Whose Touch All The Doors Of The Temple Fly Open.

Mind As Well As Elements And Metals May Be Transmuted From State To State,

Degree To Degree, Condition To Condition, Pole To Pole, Vibration To Vibration,

True Hermetic Transmutation Is A Mental Art.

The All

Under, And Back Of, The Universe Of Time, Space And Change, Is Ever To Be Found

The Substantial Reality, The Fundamental Truth...That Which Is The Fundamental Truth, The Substantial Reality Is Beyond True Naming, But Wise Men Call It The All

In Its Essence 'The All' Is Unknowable

It Is Spirit (?)

The Animating Force...(?)

The Living Mind...

The Universe Is Mental... Held In The Mind Of The All

The All Creates In Its Infinite Mind, Countless Universes Which Exist For Aeons Of Time, And Yet To 'The All', The Creation, Development, Decline, And The Death Of A Million Universes Is As The Time Of The Twinkling Of An Eye.

The Seven Hermetic Principles

Mentalism

''The All Is Mind; The Universe Is Mental.''

Correspondence

''As Above, So Below; As Below, So Above.''

Vibration

''Nothing Rests; Everything Moves; Everything Vibrates''

Polarity

''Everything Is Dual; Everything Has Its Pair Of Opposites; Like And Unlike Are The Same; Opposites Are Identical In Nature, But Different In Degree; Extremes Meet; All Truths Are But Half Truths ; All Paradoxes May Be Reconciled.''

Rhythm

''Everything Flows Out And In; Everything Has Its Tides; All Things Rise And Fall; The Pendulum Swing Manifests In Everything. The Measure Of The Swing To The Right Is The Measure Of The Swing To The Left; Rhythm Compensates''

Cause And Effect

''Every Cause Has Its Effect; Every Effect Has Its Cause; Everything Happens According To The Law; Chance Is A Name For The Law Not Recognised; The Are Many Planes Of Causation, But Nothing Escapes The Law.''

Gender

''Gender Is In Everything; Everything Has Its Masculine And Feminine Principle;

''Gender Manifests On All Planes.

The Paradox

The Half Wise, Recognising The Comparative Unreality Of The Universe, Imagine That They May Defy Its Laws...Such Are Vain And Presumptuous Fools, As They Are Broken Against The Rocks And Torn Asunder By Reason Of There Folly. The Truly Wise, Knowing The Nature Of The Universe, Use Laws Against Laws; The Higher Against The Lower; And By The Art Of (Mental) Alchemy Transmute That Which Is Undesirable Into That Which Is Worthy, And Thus Triumph. Mastery Consists Not In Abnormal Dreams, Visions And Fantastic Imaginings Or Livings, But In Using The Higher Forces Against The Lower, Escaping The Pains Of The Lower Planes By Vibrating On The Higher. Transmutation Not Presumptuous Denial Is The Weapon Of The Master.