"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." Hermes-Thoth
Hermes also known as Thoth, lived in Atlantis and Egypt for over two thousand years, according to the channelings of Djwhal Khul and Vywamus. He was known at the time he lived throughout the world, as the Master of the Masters.
Egypt was one of the highest spiritual civilizations that has ever existed on planet Earth, and Hermes played a key role in its flourishing. Hermes was known as Hermes Trimegistus. He was the father of occult wisdom and one of the founders on Earth of astrology and alchemy.
The Egyptians were so amazed by the profundity of this man and his teachings they deified him under the name Thoth, and He became one of their Gods. In later times, the civilization of Greece made Him one of their Gods also, calling him, Hermes, the God of Wisdom. He was considered the messenger of the Gods.
The term Trimegistus means thrice great, or great/great, or greatest/great. Hermes name became synonymous with the "Fount of Wisdom". In His later incarnation as the Buddha, he would be known in a similar way, for Buddha embodied wisdom, and Christ embodied love and wisdom. The Lord Maitreya, in our present day, embodies wisdom, love, and power. Hermes was also called the scribe of the Gods.
The Hermetic teachings are found in all lands and all religions, because of the universality of its appeal. In early days there was a compilation of certain basic hermetic maxims, axioms, and precepts, which were passed from teacher to student, which is called the "Kyballion".
Later in the civilization of Rome he was again Deified and His name was Mercury, usually imaged with a winged cap and sandals. The other book besides the "Kyballion", which is the most important of the Hermetic writing, is called the "Divine Pymander". This sets forth a complete system of metaphysical theology and philosophy.
Before sharing with you the seven great Hermetic principles of Hermes, I would like to share a couple of quotes from His writings to give you a flavor and feel for this great Avatar.
"O people of the Earth, men born and made of the elements, but with the spirit of the Divine man within you, rise from your sleep of ignorance! Be sober and thoughtful. Realize that your home is not in the Earth but in the Light. Why have you delivered yourselves over unto death, having power to partake of immortality? Repent, and change your minds. Depart from the dark light and forsake corruption forever. Prepare yourselves to climb through the seven rings to blend your souls with the Eternal Light." "Where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for His teaching, open wide." When the ears of the students are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom."
"The principles of truth are seven; He who knows these, understandingly, possesses the magic key before whose touch all the doors of the temple fly open." - The Kyballion
I. The principle of mentalism
II. The principle of correspondence
III. The principle of vibration
IV. The principle of polarity
V. The principle of rhythm
VI. The principle of cause and effect
VII. The principle of Gender
These seven Hermetic principles are the basis for the entire field or Hermetic philosophy. I will now go through each one of these seven Hermetic principles and give a more in-depth explanation of their meaning.
"The all is mind; the universe is mental." - The Kyballion.
This principle embodies the understanding that everything in the universe is created by thought or mind. There is nothing that exists in the material universe where this is not the case.
The great Edgar Cayce, in his Universal Mind channelings, would over and over again say "thoughts are things". The entire universe was created by the thought of God. We, as God’s sons and daughters, create our reality both metaphysically and physically by the power of our minds. The great law of spiritual psychology is that it is our thought that create our reality. Everything that exists is spirit. Matter is just densified spirit. Spirit is just refined matter. All is just energy.
This famous aphorism was created by Hermes. I have mentioned it many times in my books because it has such wide application. What this law means is that the thoughts and images that we hold in our conscious and subconscious mind will manifest its mirror likeness in our external circumstance. The outer world is a mirror of our inner world. If we hold thoughts of poverty we will have no money. If we hold thoughts and images of lack of good health, this will manifest within our physical bodies.
The thoughts and images we hold in our mind will attract their physical likeness to us in our external circumstance. This law works unceasingly for the good or the bad. By understanding this law we can use it for our benefit instead of our detriment. The most profound application of this law is seen in the life of Sathya Sai Baba. Whatever he thinks instantly manifests, even on a material level. He creates physical objects with the wave of his hand, and he says he does this by just thinking and imaging upon what he wants to create. This is the same law just speeded up. Earth is a school for practicing these laws of mind and spiritual control. Imagine what would happen if the average person on the street were manifesting his thoughts instantly as Sai Baba does. If he had a negative thought about someone at this level of vibration it might actually physically kill this person.
Imagine what all the negative thoughts and emotions would instantly do to one’s health. For most of us it is a good thing that things don’t manifest that quickly yet, or we would be in a lot of trouble. The higher we go in vibration and initiation, the quicker your manifestation of your thoughts will occur. That is why the spiritual path at these higher levels has been called the straight and narrow path, and is visualized like a pyramid that gets narrower as you move towards the apex.
This principle explains the difference between the different manifestations of matter and spirit. From pure spirit all the way down to the grossest level of matter is a continuum of varying degrees of vibration. Every atom and molecule is vibrating in a certain motion, speed, vibration, and frequency. It is the combination of these frequencies that determine the form of any given object, be it of a physical or metaphysical nature. Everything is in motion, and is vibrating and nothing is at rest. Even a physical object, as for example a chair, is really in a state of motions. The atom, and electrons are vibrating and there is space between these atoms and molecules. This is true of the atom as it is true of the solar system, galaxy, universe, and super universes. For the omniuniverse is nothing more than a large atom. The microcosm is like a macrocosm.
Sai Baba can take a physical object and transform it into a new object in a physical sense by just changing this motion. We do the same thing, for example, with our bodies by how we think. The entire universe is in a state of motion evolving about the great central sun.
Every atom is a mini-universe within every molecule of our physical bodies. How we think will manifest our feelings, emotions, action, health, and what we attract to ourselves because energy follows thought. The ideal is to create a motion that is determined by your Higher Self, rather than by the lower self, or negative ego. Each of the seven initiations is a higher level of vibration and motion. God is the highest pinnacle of vibrational frequency for which we are striving.
This is a fascinating principle and law, as stated above. Take, for example, heat and cold. Though they are opposites they are really the same thing. It is merely a matter of degrees of the same things. The same could be said of spirit and matter. They are really the same thing. They could be likened to water. Freeze water and it becomes ice (matter). Boil water and it evaporates and becomes gaseous fumes (spirit). They are identical in nature, but different in degrees.
If you look at a thermometer where does heat terminate and cold begin? In actuality it is totally relative to one’s body type and individual preference. This same principle applies to all pairs of opposites, light and dark, large and small, hard and soft, positive and negative.
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