THE KYBALION

Seven Hermetic Principles

(Attributed to Hermes Trismegistus – a pre-historic Egyptian Seer)

PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM: The ALL is MIND: The Universe is Mental.

PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE: As above, so below; As below, so above.

PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION: Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.

PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY: Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pairs 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.

PRINCIPLE OF 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.

PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; Everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; There are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.

PRINCIPLE OF GENDER: Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes.

HERMETIC AXIOMS

1. The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and expression in Action, is like the hoarding of precious metals – a vain and foolish thing. Knowledge, like Wealth, is intended for Use. The Law of Use is Universal, and he who violates it suffers by reason of his conflict with natural forces.

2. To change your mood or mental state – change your vibration.

3. To destroy an unfavorable rate of mental vibration, put into operation the Principle of Polarity and concentrate upon the opposite pole to that which you desire to oppress. Kill out the undesirable by changing its polarity.

4. Mind may be transmuted from state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to vibration.

5. Rhythm may be neutralized by an application of the Art of Polarization.

6. Nothing escapes the Principle of Cause and Effect, but there are many planes of Causation, and one may use the laws of the higher to overcome the laws of the lower.

7. The wise ones serve on the higher, but rule on the lower. They obey the laws coming from above them, but on their own plane – and those below them – they rule and give orders. And yet, in so doing, they form a part of the Principle, instead of opposing it. The wise man falls in with the Law, and by understanding its movements he operates it instead of being its blind slave. Just as does the skilled swimmer turn this way and that way, going and coming as he will, instead of being the log which is carried here and there – so is the wise man as compared to the ordinary man – and yet both swimmer and log, wise man and fool, are subject to Law. He who understands this is well on the road to mastery.

8. True Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art; The ALL is MIND.

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