The Hermetic Principles were brought to us by Hermes/Thoth from the times of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. They are a set of Universal Laws innate to humanity and are meant to be used as a tool along the journey of life. You can liken our lifepath on Earth to the Heros Journey with all its beginnings and endings, rises and falls, challenges and opportunities. We are not without the necessary knowledge to traverse this experience; we just must be aware of how to tap into it. To do so is truly to know ourselves. Once we know ourselves and stop agreeing to the opinion of others about who we are, we can access our authentic power potential. This power lives within all of us. It exists in our physical bodies, energy fields, and within the grand design of the cosmos. We have all heard of the Law of Attraction, but what is the deeper story behind it? What is it that makes everything we experience resonant with whats going on within us? The Hermetic Principles allow us to investigate the inner harmonics which the Law of Attraction is based upon. Understanding that the Universe is Mental, or a thought in the mind of something much greater. Where everything corresponds to how we show up in the world, or whats known by the Hermetic axiom As Above, So Below. As Below, So Above. The Law of Attraction states that everything is vibration and where we place our vibration is what is reflected in our outer world. And when we think about polarity what we are really saying is that we choose one end of the same stick. Is there really hot or cold or there both hot AND cold? Is it dark or light or dark AND light? There is no hard stop, but a sliding scale of where we determine what is or isnt. That the Universe has a principle of rhythm. An in breath and an out breath. The ebb and flow. Everything in the Universe is based upon cause and effect. For everything that IS there is a cause to the outcome. Sometimes we cant even see or will ever know what the cause is, but there is always something which begets another. Finally, that the principle of gender is apparent in our feminine and masculine archetypes. Not based on sex, but on gender. That we all have the masculine and feminine energy within. The yin and the yang. It is about our self-awareness and how we choose to work with those archetypes.
