VI – THE 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.” – The Kybalion This Principle embodies the fact that there is a Cause for every Effect; an…
V. THE 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.” — The Kybalion. This Principle embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion,…
IV. THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY “Everything is Dual; everything has poles; 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.” — The Kybalion. This Principle embodies the truth that “everything is dual”; “everything has two poles”;…
II. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE. “As above, so below; as below so above.” — The Kybalion This Principle embodies the truth that there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life. The old Hermetic axiom ran in these words: “As above, so below; as below, so above.” And the grasping of…
I. THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM. “THE ALL is MIND; The Universe is Mental.” — The Kybalion. “This Principle embodies the truth that “All is Mind.” It explains that THE ALL (which is the Substantial Reality underlying all the outward manifestations and appearances which we know under the terms of “The Material Universe”; the “Phenomena of Life”; “Matter”; “Energy”; and, in…
Aureus or the Golden Tractate of Hermes Section I Even thus saith Hermes: Through long years I have not ceased to experiment, neither have I have spared any labour of mind And this science and art I have obtained by the sole inspiration of the living God, who judged fit to open them to me His servant, who has given…
The secret work of the hermetic philosophy Wherein the secrets of nature and art concerning the matter of the philosophers’ stone and the manner of working are explained in an authentic and orderly manner. The work of an anonymous author, penes nos unda tagi. 1. The beginning of this Divine Science is the fear of the Lord and its end…