The Hermetic Principles

1. 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 “Material Universe”, “Phenomena of Life”, “Matter”, “Energy”, and in short all that is apparent) is Spirit which in itself is unknowable and indefinable, but which may be considered as a Universal, Infinite, Living Mind.
It also explains that all the “phenomenal” world or universe is simply a Mental Creation of the All, subject to the Laws of Created Things; that the Universe, as a whole, and in its parts, has its existence in the Mind of the All, in which mind we “live, and move and have our being.”

2. Correspondence

“As Above, so Below; as Below, so Above.”  

This Principle embodies the Truth that there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life. Continue reading