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d_redant · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:23 am Post subject: HERMETIC LAWS

The Hermetic Laws are from Esoteric teachings and are one set of explanations for "how It All works" here is a standard set of the Hermetic Laws. These are often attributed to Thoth and are found in the Alice Bailey Teachings and various Mystery schools .

HERMETIC LAWS

1. The Law of Mentalism: The Universe is mental. We exist in the mind of the All. That part of us which is deity makes up the world and everything in it.
''The All Is Mind; The Universe Is Mental.''

2. The Law of Correspondence: We exist in all planes, astral as well as physical. Or rather planes independent of the physical.
''As Above, So Below;As Below, So Above."

3. The Law of Vibration: Everything is in motion and vibrates with its own rate of the vibration. ''Nothing Rests; Everything Moves; Everything Vibrates''

4. The Law of Polarity: Polarity = Power. All things are dual, everything contains its opposite. ''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.''

5. The Law of Rhythm: All things are in some way circular, spiral, cyclic, and in order to function the best way, you must adapt to live in harmony with natural rhythms. ''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; Ryththm Compensates''

6. The Law of Gender: The law of polarity, applied. Everything has both masculine and feminine components and energies. ''Gender Is In Everything; Everything Has Its Masculine And Feminine Principle; ''Gender Manifests On All Planes.

7. The Law of Cause and Effect: There are no coincidences, nothing happens by chance. Everything is a cycle. For every effect, there is a cause, and every cause is an effect in something else. ''Every Cause Has Its Effect; Every Effect Has Its Cause; Everything Happens According To The Law; Chance Is A Name For The Law Not Recognized; The Are
Many Planes Of Causation, But Nothing Escapes The Law.''

(comments from Peggy Jentoft )
Other esoteric traditions such as Huna and Taoism and Buddhism have simular but not identical expressions of universal law.
I think the principle of yin and yang is perhaps an easier to grasp explanation of several of these same principles . I also like the concept of Myo-Ho which while encompassing these same ideas of polaritiy and gender reminds us that these qualities are inseperatable from the whole and that everything is interconnected .

Peggy Jentoft from solarraven.com

Zygos · Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 207

T.T orach · Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 9

Zygos,

<Do you not find that there are exceptions to the law of polarity?>
No.

<Though I mostly do consider myself a duelist, if one exibits two opposites simultaneously,>
One cannot exhibit two opposites simultaneously no more than one can think of two things simultaneously. There is always a dominant, passive and neutral existing simultaneously.

<and maybe further embodies two opposite elements simultaneously>
One can do that, we all have both opposites within us, one is always dominant, and that changes back and forth.

<doesn't this 'created state' not have a duality at all; but instead represent the element found between all opposites? >
Yes, there is a neutral state, if that is what you mean.

Just because there is a Law of Polarity does not mean there can be no center point, state of neutrality. You know the center path is what most eastern religions and philosophies try to attain.

The law of polarity is simply a state of being, example; water is water when in the neutral state, ice in the negative state and steam in the positive state. In all cases it is water, the polarity of water changes what we call it. Everything existing has all three states within itself, some more easily defined than others. Smile

Hope this helps.

T.T orach

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T.T orach · Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 9

I think of fire and water from a gender viewpoint, water being femine and fire as masculine. Combined they produce something totally different from themselves; steam- which is water in a positive polarity. It all depends on how strong the vibrations are in each element on exactly what you get as a result.

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