O CAIBALION, Sabedoria Egípcia Hermética - Lúcia Helena Galvão (Subtit. English/Español/Français)

NEW ACROPOLIS presents KYBALION - by Lúcia Helena Galvão, 2005 Today we are going to talk about the wisdom of Egypt. Obviously, we are going to do approximately a 50-minute lecture. So I hope to be concise and synthetic enough to give you an idea of this subject. Speak of Hermetic Laws in 50 Minutes is anything like a prodigy ... Because it's a subject to talk about all life. I remember when many years ago, when I began to know about Philosophy - I had heard of these Hermetic Laws, That Hermes Trismegistus - who was a great Egyptian

wise man - intended to explain how the Universe works through these laws. Honestly, I imagined it was an encyclopedia, because of all functioning of the Universe? is in fact, summarized in seven very small phrases. And of course, when it comes to such small sentences, the meanings are very deep. It is a direct relation - a hint, which may not always be correct, but many times I've checked. As for the great sages of the past, is proportional to their ability to synthesize their ideas. In general, they spoke very little and wanted to say a lot. Contrary

to some more modern authors, who are not so wise, who speak a lot ... And when we want to synthesize, they almost do not mean anything. So we cannot even come close to exhausting the Hermetic maxims in a 50-minute lecture! This is obvious! I will give you the first vision, the first approach, so that you have a notion of how great it is that which is to be known. Everyone knows that famous phrase of Socrates, the Greek philosopher, who says that "I only know that I know nothing". And we think that's funny, - what's the

point? To honestly say, "I only know that I know nothing", Requires a lot of wisdom! In general, our petulance and vanity make us think we know a lot! To say "I only know that I know nothing", you must have a sense of how much there is to be known ... which is no small thing! And to say it knowledgeably, means that you have glimpsed a universe of things to be known. Each time I discover a new author, every time I see a new aspect of the traditional Philosophy, I am amazed to see what there is

to know! And more and more we tend To realize that we know very little. So that "glimpse" is what we intend to do today. To talk a little - very basically - about Hermes Trismegistus. This is a figure of the Egyptian god Thoth, who is nothing more than the transformation of Hermes Trismegistus into a God. This is very common in various traditions A being who was very shocking, very special, is later included in a pantheon. India - it's actually funny - because India and Egypt bear a certain resemblance in what refers to the fact that

they are Civilizations full of gods where everything is sacred! And there are, among all these deities, beings that are intermediates between gods and men. They are human beings, but already of high degree. The Indian Rishis are like that too, Rishis are human beings almost divine. That is, they glimpse inside their pantheon a continuity, from man to God. Then we will know a little about this Hermes Trismegistus. Very little indeed! Because if you look, from the historical point of view, today most historians believe that he had not even existed. That this, perhaps, was a generic name

for several priests, several hierophants, various sages ... I believe it might be a generic name because this is very common. It happens everywhere! The name does not belong to a single character, it's a series of them. But even so, I believe that he existed for a very simple thing, for a principle, Our west Christian faith, very simple, which shows me this very clearly. "By your works, I will know you!" It is a very great historical impact to have come out of nowhere, for someone to leave something that has impacted so much the history of humanity,

the way Hermes Trismegistus left, it has to be someone of great stature. great historical revolutions are not born out of nothing ... From a compilation of opinions ... Man is the size of the trail he leaves in the world! It's very difficult for someone to tell me that so many fantastic works (Lao Tzu is another one that is questioned) So many fantastic works, for example, Lao Tzu, Taoism came out of nowhere ... Did the Tao Te King come out of nowhere? No, it must have been a man the size of that work! Just any man

would not conceive something so complex, and so delicate and deep. Then, particularly, from the point of view of Philosophy, One thing does not exclude the other. There must have been a lot of Hermes Trismegistus ... Because it's a generic name. Trismegistus means someone who was three times initiated, three times wise. But there must also have been one who was the great master. Today we say that, if something is completely closed, it is hermetically sealed. Curiously, this name came from the Hermetic mysteries. Because he was so careful of his knowledge, that it is said that it

only passed strictly the knowledge to those who had a solid moral basis to carry it. It's the kind of thing that gets complicated for us today, in our intellectual vanity to understand. It seems to be a knowledge restriction. Plato had already mentioned it. That absolute ignorance is better than knowledge in inadequate hands. Knowledge requires a moral basis that Guarantees what you are going to use it for. The Hermetic tradition has a phrase that is very famous Which says "The lips of Wisdom only open themselves to the ears of understanding". So it was a knowledge passed

on from mouth to ear, from master to disciple. This Hermes Trismegistus We can not even talk about date because there is no agreement if he really existed... Now there was a curious fact which was discussed a lot in the Renaissance period - anyone who knows some Italian Renaissance Cathedrals Notices that the figure of Hermes Trismegistus appears within these Cathedrals. In fact, sometimes even before, because there was a great relation between Medieval Alchemy and Hermeticism. And usually, the builders of the Cathedrals were Alchemists, the so-called Royal Architecture, Holy Architecture, were Alchemists. And they all cherished the

figure of Hermes Trismegistus very much. I myself have been researching, I have already found some three stained glass engravings of Christian Cathedrals with the figure of Hermes Trismegistus. In one of them, particularly in Italy, He can be seen talking to Moses. I do not know exactly what source this was based on, but they said that he has been the Master of Moses. If this has any foundation - I could not say - but the approximate date given to Moses is 1,250 years BC. So if there was a character, who I believe existed, maybe it was

around this date: 1,250 years BC. It is a curiosity, because if you imagine, throughout this period, the Egyptians themselves had no works of Hermes Trismegistus at all. This was reserved and passed on very secretly Until when the Christian period begins, at the beginning of the transition of the Middle Ages, somethings of the Hermetic tradition start to appears. Above all, two things, a set of hermetic texts called Corpus Hermeticus, which began to circulate, very secretly, in Europe by the 1st or 2nd century ... Curious, isn't it? Where was that? Considering from 1,250 BC to one hundred

after Christ ... How much time? 14 centuries! And even later, a material - which we will see very soon - which is called the Emerald Tablet. And this one began to be known by the VII century. So it's interesting. I'll tell you something - which I think many may have heard of - the medieval alchemists were Hermetists. You know that story that you see, which was even portrayed in children's literature, originated somewhat to the imaginary about the magician Merlin, which are those magicians with those pointy hats full of stars and from those strange laboratories which

intended to turn lead into gold? That was an image that was probably created by the alchemists themselves What for? To escape the inquisition. Why? Obvious reasons: turning lead into gold did not condemn anyone to death. The ambition was a perfectly acceptable thing. But the search for Egyptian wisdom was unforgivable. So the hermetism had to be hidden. Under the appearance of scientific studies. That was not a big problem, they did not face resistance. So, you will see that the lead they pretended to turn into gold It was the lead of ignorance in the gold of wisdom.

For those who know a little - I have a lecture about it on the YouTube Our lectures are all free on the YouTube I made a lecture about Medieval Alchemy - I really like this subject - You will see that they were all grounded in hermeticism. They were Hermetists and this knowledge begins to flourish in Europe, in the early Middle Ages, and bursts into the Renaissance period. Marsilio Ficino, imagine, one of the first books he translates is exactly The Corpus Hermeticum. It brings knowledge to the Corpus Hermeticum. The so-called Platonic Academy of Florence, in addition

to being Platonic, was Hermeticist too. In it, there is much information which was brought from Constantinople, Byzantium - you know that there was a strong contact at the time when the invasion of the Ottoman Turks occurred. Much of what came from there was hermetic. For what had been forgotten in the West, was still alive in the Middle East. Then there were several sources that brought up, From Alchemy itself, from the very contact with the Middle East, the Egyptian Hermetism. We can say that the Caibalion is an extract of the Corpus Hermeticum and especially of the

Emerald Tablet. Plenty of Emerald Tablet. That is a very small text. From where it was extracted, it was synthesized, the seven fundamental laws of organization of the universe, is very ambitious, right? Seven fundamental laws of the organization you know of what? Of everything, you can imagine. Hermes Trismegistus says: With these seven laws you will know everything that can be known. Obviously there must be several, several, several, multiple keys. Helena Blavatsky, who is a brilliant thinker of the nineteenth century, said: "A legitimate myth has at least seven doors, seven keys." And you see that. It's a

very curious thing. Get a very symbolic book, read it now. Then mark the date in your life. After 10 years, read it again. If you have, in the meantime, grown as a human being in 10 years, it will look like another book to you. I recommend including the same copy, so you do not think you are reading another translation Because the one you read did not have that ... It did, it's marked by you. Because it's amazing how we open doors outside when we open doors inside. The more in, the more out. And this is

a very curious principle that actually happens. So this is our friend. This is a very late sculpture, no one has the slightest idea of ​​what Hermes Trismegistus was like Sculpture already of the Christian era This is already a replica. It was not Christian, that is earlier. It's five centuries before Christ, but it's a replica. A replica of what would have been some remote remembrance of Hermes Trismegistus. Here we also have a replica of the Emerald Tablet. Where very enigmatic sentences are placed and some of Caibalion's maxims are there. As I told you, in the Corpus

Hermeticum, and it is also said that the book of the Egyptian dead would have been made with the profound influence of Hermes Trismegistus. Let's understand what is the book of the Egyptian dead ... That even that name did not have, by the way. Book of the exit of the soul to the light, The book of the hidden dwelling, It was not one book, was a set of knowledge and precepts more transmitted by the oral tradition, which said what happens to the man after disincarnating. But, the Egyptians had a vision which, we can have it too

because it remains very current, That the greatest evil of man is forgetfulness. They said, "It's doesn't matter for us to know all this, when it comes close to death, we will forget everything. " So every time a person had the need to remember he wanted to make sure he would not forget, he had his book of the dead written. So, what we know, when you take the edition of the book of the dead, which by the way has a nice introduction of Carl Jung - who really liked this book - The Book of the Dead

has a series of vignettes They are a compilation of various papyri, which have been found in mummies in general of scribes From Ani, Nu, a lot of people ... This has been compiled, the stories are alike, similar, but it's not a book, it's a compilation, of these papyri that were found at the breast of several of these mummified scribes. You had to have your book of the dead written To make sure you wouldn't forget What to remember before arriving before the weighing of the heart of the dead, That was the Aduat, What you had to

say in your negative confession, What you had to beg for your heart, For those who want, there is the in the entrance, a piece of one of these papyri That is that wonderful image of the heart's weight of the dead And then when it came before Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys The 72 judges of Amenti ... Summing up, a complex story with many, many, many details And after that what happened to those who reincarnated, to those who did not reincarnate ... It was a reminder that each one rewrote for himself. Because the book of the dead,

as a tradition - as well as the story of Isis, Osiris, and Horus - All this was an oral tradition. It was eventually compiled into walls of temples, papyri of particular persons who did not want to forget that Now it says that who organized the mysteries in Egypt was Hermes Trismegistus So this oral tradition - you must have heard, for example, (bridging India) That the Vedas, especially Rig Only had written documents about the VI century B.C. This was something that had to be memorized by the Brahmins In general, when there is a concern to write

a holy book, is exactly because people are afraid of forgetting, they no longer trust their memory so much. They are afraid of distorting knowledge. So it is better to reduce them to something written than to forget everything. Because sacred books, in the golden ages of these civilizations, it was a profanation to write. It was a reduction, the word can never reflect everything. And look, we're talking about a language much richer than ours. Languages nowadays are very poor. And it was a language, the hieroglyph was a very rich language, that could Express much that we can

not anymore Even so, it was considered a reduction Continuing, here a little of what we call the passage throughout history Of religious syncretism. Imagine you, Hermes Trismegistus, a man, a great sage, a hierophant, a priest, of the so-called Mysteries, of the Egyptian initiations. Do not worry that I will already explain this idea of ​​initiation. And the representation that was made of him after death, What is an ibis Exactly this aspect of the fine beak that is capable of entering an anthill, and choose the ant he wants. It is the capacity for discernment Intelligence comes from

"intelegere", "to choose from." Discern, separate the good grain, as it is popularly said. This discernment, this intelligence ... he is the scribe of the Gods, would be the one who wrote down the divine law for men. And always the representation of the Gods very similar, right? With the Ankh key in hand, that bat that is the staff of Anubis or Ash What he saw in the dark So that he could descend to men and pass on knowledge. So that was the representation of Hermes Trismegistus as a God. Within the Egyptian tradition it made perfect sense.

See how interesting, this God, this scribe, this lord of knowledge, Which transmits the laws of heaven to the earth. The Greeks had great regard for him, the Greeks had great regard for Egypt. You know Plato traveled through Egypt, a great philosopher, had to have passed through Egypt. It was a fundamental question, but the Greeks knew that if they placed a deity with that appearance, It would mean nothing to the Greeks. Because the mentality of a Greek is much more rational than the Egyptian that is much more intuitive Then the Greek adapts the spirit of Hermes

Trismegistus with a much more understandable figure. which is the figure of Hermes, the God who communicates, the messenger god. That communicates heaven and earth. That later becomes Mercury in Rome. The God who carries that bat or caduceus in his hand. This caduceus represents man himself. The physical, psychic and spiritual aspects which when aligned becomes a tool in the hand of a God. From our own inner God. Then you will see that Hermes or Mercury (among the Romans), is an adaptation to the Greco-Roman spirit, Thot. Because they knew the Greeks had a different mindset. Just that

could be another lecture . Why? Because we are very creative. But we do not create our own symbols. To have a symbol for knowledge, for discernment, we need to use some old symbols. We invented tools capable of simulating the first moments of the universe - That particle accelerator we know, that discovered the Higgs boson - We calculate approximately the distance that a comet will pass from the earth, we do fantastic things, but we did not know how to build our own symbols. in such a way that our society could understand them. So we work with

borrowed symbols ... That's funny, right? So it's the same God that later was passed on to an image more suited to a mindset. I love the Greeks, I love the Romans, but they certainly were not as intuitive as the Egyptians. They were more rational. They needed something that was more palpable to them. They would not understand a Thot. So this was adapted and recreated through the Orphic-Greek mentality The Thot was recreated in the form of Hermes and later of Mercury. Good, continuing ... Well, basically to understand the Middle Ages ... you know that even kings

- Charlemagne was illiterate, you know that? His scribes, his counselors, had to write his titles. Because he only knew how to do a scrawl. If even a king - perhaps the greatest king there was in the Middle Ages because the Middle Age practically had no kings - did not know how to write his own name, imagine the plebs, the serfs. Only the clergy knew something, even the nobility did not know much. So they knew almost nothing more about Egypt. But they knew that Egypt had mysteries. This was kept and echoed in a way that until

today there is still... It is said that every time a strange person appeared, looking like a wizard, surrounding the fiefs, they said, "He must come from Egypt" That is, "I do not know anything, but I know those people have something strange!" This echoed to such an extent that it comes to our day. Today when you want to get some idea that something is somewhat exoteric - Today we are so superficial that we do not understand really what exoteric is... We have the schizophrenic! So, if you want to make that little shop look exoteric, you're going

to lay hands on what? India and Egypt, it will be filled with Egyptian props and an Indian Raga playing in there. Huh? Those crazy semi-tones they use, anyway. Because we do not know anything, but you know there was different there. They had mysteries. And that has lasted throughout history and is still present in our days. Imagine how a civilization projects such an image throughout history! What a size they must have been! In Cairo, they say, "Man fears time, but time fears the pyramids." It is impressive, they will cease to exist, they have been partially destroyed.

But hey, the durability is impressive. Consider the number of stones that were taken from those pyramids, the Giza Plateau to build the city of Cairo, and they could not end them! Can you imagine the will of a man leaving such a trail? People could not destroy them. Egypt is amazing, very impressing! It's like a plane in the sky - you know that every plane leaves some trail of smoke - But if it's a hunt and it's already gone, its trail can still be seen. You look and say, "It was not any just any plane, it

was a hunt". And a man who leaves such a trail, a civilization. This was a great civilization! However some really tried, Egypt could not be extinguished. Nor the image that has been echoing throughout history. So, it is the seat of mysteries, it is the seat of initiations. And we will try to understand - to the extent of our possibilities - what would these degrees of knowledge be, which we call initiations. It is a word that is used from time to time, it is fashionable, I'm very afraid of words that come in fashion because in general,

they mean nothing. I really fear when one begins to take oriental concepts like Karma ... The karma became just anything, poor thing. What a pity! Some people ascribe their suffering to the Karma, they are passive, doing nothing: "Oh, it's my karma." Oh my God! An Indian sage would roll over the grave a thousand times. Thankfully they were cremated, they were not going to the grave. The concepts became meaningless and from time to time we talk about initiations. Very basically speaking, imagine the following: Recently - you must have seen it in the newspapers - it was

found in Spain It is not the first time this is commented - It was found a certain place, where probably hominids camped. They found something that I found very interesting, very impressing. They found remains of stones that certainly had no utilitarian purpose It was not for hunting, it was not for nothing It was probably a little altar. The purpose was ceremonial. In a being who was a hominid - I do not remember the particular name of this hominid - but he was probably the forerunner of humankind with very few resources, But he already knew how

to recognize and symbolize in some way the presence of the sacred in the universe Isn't it impressive? That is why great thinkers often say that man is not homo sapiens, man is homo religious. Sapiens ... For example, a chimp does awesome things! A gorilla. The difference from a chimpanzee to a man is a chromosome. It does amazing things sometimes. So man would be more homo religious because you will not see a chimpanzee placing one stone on top of another and reverencing it, seeing love, justice, brotherhood, or God, through it. you will not. This metaphysics is

especially human. So it is said that when the human being, at a certain moment, begins to perceive that nature has a level of complexity, which is not explained merely by reason, He begins to realize the sacred. I recommend to you - and I will give a lecture about it - An Arabic book, "The Self-taught Philosopher", which is a beautiful thing! It's about a man who was raised wild on an island among animals. He goes through these stages alone Observing the complexity of life he comes to the conclusion that there must be a God. It's impossible.

He begins to realize the harmonious law and those facts are not casual. There is something beyond what he sees. There is something beyond the physical, something metaphysical. And he starts to symbolize it. And he worships it. It is said that this is a very important first stage for a human being. He begins to realize the sacred in Nature. He thinks: "God is there. I am here" I recognize him and I bow before Him." So, he continues in this process, moving in that direction, he begins to realize that the sacred is not there and he is

here. The sacred is simultaneously here and there. Because there are divine attributes within himself. He sees this justice both in nature and in himself. Sometimes a flash of this justice manifests itself. He sees this wisdom out and within himself. He is sometimes surprised by the beauty of the ideas he is able to have. The beautiful acts of love and fraternity. He begins to realize: Well, if I know myself deeply I can understand a little about God. "Man, know thyself and you'll know the universe and the Gods." Delphi, in Greece. This is a philosophical stage. Where

there is no longer the pursuit of the sacred just outside, but also within. The search for self knowledge, man as a microcosmos, as Plato said. This search for self-knowledge and humanism is already a somewhat different stage At a certain moment, those very special and rare men in humanity, that is what the Egyptians say, as a philosopher, I make no assertions of absolute truths- But the Egyptians believed that some of these very special men, at a certain moment, It was no longer "God there and I here," It was no longer God there and God here. There

was no more there and here. Man merged consciously with the whole. He was in the world but perceived himself as a cell of divinity. He was in the world and he perceived himself as a digit of God. He surpassed the so called the "Heresy of Separation", in Tibet. I really like the Indian image of the Sutratma. which symbolizes all beings as the beads of a necklace through which passes a single thread which represents the divine, the sacred. When you realize your essence is the same as that of the universe you overcome the separatism. These were

initiations, it was something very difficult, because man feels like a drop in the ocean. He feels like the cell of a much greater being. This is a revolution of consciousness. Far beyond an ordinary man could reach. But it is said that by overcoming, along a philosophy trajectory, man would reach wisdom. This is similar to the initiation systems in the monasteries, which were a huge acceleration of the human evolution. But with only one reason To commit to leading mankind. The only reason had to be brotherhood, with no personal interest. So you realize it was not a

system for anyone. But it is said there were some who reached that degree. And reached full wisdom. These were the initiated masters. And Hermes Trimegistus would have been one of them. Greece inherited this. Eleusis was an initiation center, Samothrace, another initiation center, had also influenced Rome. It is said that Philip, the father of Alexander the Great and Olympia, his mother, met in Samothrace. The mystery of the Cabiros was in several places, especially in India. These initiation schools lasted long until there was no longer the historical setting for them. For those who like Christian-Jaques, who is

a very high-level historical novelist, in one of his books he talks about Philae - the last of the Egyptian temples, the last of the Egyptian initiation schools which were closed. When Egypt could no more resist so many invaders and so much historical decay. Then there comes a time when they are closed. But in certain civilizations this was public. In Greece everyone knew where Eleusis was. In Egypt everyone knew where Abydos was. But when there is a great level of materialism, knowledge has to be reserved so that human ambition does not desecrate it Great knowledge placed

in immature hands, is like a knife in a child's hand. It can only harm him. Then knowledge is reserved. It is an interesting thing. In Egypt there was no particular word, which referred to religion. Do you know why? Because there was not a section of your life that was religion. Everything was. You see this in the culture, in the habits of everyday life, in agriculture, everything was a form of reconnecting with the divine. "Religio" means getting closer to the sacred being. There were no borders. Everything was sacred. All life in Egypt was sacred! Thebes was

a very curious city, that there was on one side the city of the living and on the other, the city of the dead, where there were the tombs of the great kings, the great characters of history. It was an honor, to be born, to live, and to die in Thebes. When a person committed a particular crime, worse than being condemned to death was to be expelled from Thebes. Because to die in Thebes was a guarantee that your life would be sacred. Happy were those who were born in Thebes, happy were those who died in Thebes.

Happy those who are born, happy those who die. It was an honor, because everything was sacred in Thebes. It was better to die there than to be expelled. So this is a point of Egyptian mentality that is very difficult to understand It was difficult for the Greeks to understand, imagine to .us Pythagoras - who also had his training in Egypt - had to adapt himself to live there. The mindset in Magna Greece was complex, nobody could understand What he meant. There had to be an adaptation of painful and delicate thinking, because the Greeks could no

longer understand it. Imagine our civilization! Egypt is a world and it will take us a long time to understand it. Kaibalion Kaibalion is a set of maxims extracted from the Corpus Hermeticum and - "Corpus" means a set of hermetic texts- and from the Emerald Tablet. They were written and published in1908. Anonymously. Probably there have been some members of the Theosophical Society, who had a deep knowledge of this tradition. But the author is unknown. It is a compilation of the seven hermetic laws. It is a beautiful book. He translates it in a language easier to be

understood. But the laws are exactly the same as the ones in the hermetic tradition. Only the comments are from the twentieth century. It is published in 1908 and signed by "Three Initiates", the authors. Who were they? No one knows. But it is an excellent book. It's worth reading. The original texts are in normal patterns and the comments in italics, The word Kaibalion is originally from the Kabbalah (Cabala). Tradition or transmit. It describes what this hermetic wisdom was. It was a knowledge passed on orally. Principles applied to man and the universe. The Kaibalion can be astronomically

interpreted. It can be psychologically interpreted. It can be interpreted in many different ways. For example: "The twelve works of Hercules" it is an amazing psychological self-knowledge. It speaks of the trajectory of the sun passing by the twelve signs of the zodiac. This is an astronomic knowledge. and it has many other interpretations and possibilities. The psychological aspect is easier to be understood. So, as I was saying, "The lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears of understanding". And now, the laws. We will know the seven hermetic laws. The first: the principle of mentalism. "The Whole

is mind. The universe is mental". Clearly, it's Plato's theory of ideas. Plato was inspired by Egypt. When he says, for example, "Before making a chair, you must think about it." Before making a chair, the carpenter must have a model in mind. Every creation begins in the mind. Fritjof Capra, a contemporary thinker, who wrote about the holographic universe, mentions the impossibility of "creations" coming from nowhere. Every creation has its origin in a mental plane, the plane of ideas of the universe He gives a funny example. He says that if you throw your computer downstairs and the

computer crashes down on the steps And let's say it was an old computer. Please, tell me the brand of a new and an old computer. You had a Pentium and just because it fell down the stairs, it rearranged itself and turned into the last generation Apple a Macintosh. Of course, this will never happen And we know it will not happen. Do you think the universe is less complex than a Macintosh? And suffers variations to be increasingly more complex. And he has an interesting and hermetic conclusion. Our century will go through history as one of the

most dogmatized by the belief in chance". Things evolve in an orderly and increasingly complex manner. And of course, this has to be thought of in some plane That evolution would be the realization in the concrete world of what was already in the plane of ideas. The cosmic mind the Indians call the Mahat. The word evolution comes from "evolvere" "Evolvere" means to unfold the papyri to see what was inside. Evolution means to unfold the papyri of the divine mind. To see what he thought for the universe. The more we evolve, the more we unfold the papyri

of the human condition, To see what is written there and we shape it in the world. So, everything would come from this mental plan. And would project itself in the world. And to evolve would be to follow this archetype, this model. It is on the plane of ideas since the beginning of time. The plane of the human condition would exist, even if there wasn't a single man in the world The idea of "man" would exist. And this plane would come into existence as the man builds a bridge between heaven and earth. This would be the

idea of a pontifice, a priest. The head in the sky and the feet on earth. He captures these ideas and begins to realize them in himself. He begins the process of evolution. If he evolves, everything around him evolves too. Because his works follow his stature, his size as a human being. If a man doesn't evolve, nothing evolves. Things will become just more modern, more useful. But not deeply known. We will have more Know-how But we will not know what for. This is the idea of mentalism, so let's continue. The universe itself would be a creation

of the Whole's Mind. Nowadays there is this great discussion in the Astronomy field. The universe is in process of expansion, in a certain moment it'll stop expanding. Will it be condensed or not, will it expand indefinitely? Everything was on that horizon, that initial uniqueness. Then there was the Big Bang, which nowadays is called inflation. The universe inflated within a certain period of time and expanded and continues expanding, will it shrink again later? Well, if you consider the Pythagorean decade, Pythagoras is remembered in India as Yavânachârya, He traveled from India to Egypt. Pythagoras says that everything

begins from zero and goes to one and then goes back to one and to zero, which is the number ten. That is, things expand and contract. It's the heartbeat of the cosmos. This is interesting. It's one of the most profound things in the Indian tradition. It's said that the universe is similar to our heart, for it has systoles and diastoles. It expands and contracts. The universe would be this way. Isn't it curious and interesting? Then the universe would have its own plan of ideas in the mind of the universe. Long before a single molecule or

atom could be manifested. "The comprehension of this principle enables some to comprehend the laws of the Mental Universe. And to apply the same principle for his own happiness and evolution". How could that be? The practical philosophy says that inner life is mind control. What does it mean? If everything that will be, exists in a mental plan in nature and nature itself realizes it, Everything that will happen in our lives is also born in our mental plan? Easter Medicine affirms that disease starts in our mental plan. Some disease that generates body decomposition, are born of the

hate that breaks down. or of selfishness, heart problems maybe are born of grudges, resentments. Indian Medicine speaks constantly about it. If we feed our mental patterns. There will be a gap of opportunity where these patterns will generate facts in your life. If you don't want this to happen, change your mental patterns. Do not believe that only physical acts generate consequences. The mind generates real consequences, even more than the physical acts. Merely accidental acts don't generate so many consequences as the mental forms that you feed along with a reasonable term. They affect you and the world.

We are constantly being affected by the mental forms which hover around us. In a way, that we have to know which of them is ours and which is not. Otherwise, others will think for us. The same way the universe and our private universe are born in the mental plane. Your life is born the same way, so take good care of your thoughts. Because they will become your future. Everything that will be is born now in the mental plane. This is the first hermetic principle. Imagine how many dimensions this could be applied. The second principle is

the Correspondence. This is a constant, you find this law manifested in every tradition, that you can imagine. It says: "What's above is like what's below and what's below is like what's above" It's not identical but it's similar and it has a symbolic correspondence. What's in the micro and in the macro. The universe has its correspondence in all planes. This is interesting. Do you remember this stick, that is the stick of the God Mercury? It says the following: When you notice that the man is made of a physical, psychic, and spiritual body. When you notice certain

Nature laws. You see how they function and you extract the meaning of these laws, you can apply them in any other plane. It functions too. Plato speaks about it. In everything that goes right, you can extract a general law, which can be applied anywhere. In everything that goes wrong, you can extract the mistake that has overlooked a universal law. For example, I could tell you that Newton's law - Every action causes a reaction in reverse and of equal intensity. It applies to the psychological and spiritual plan and they are the laws of karma. Your thoughts

also cause this return. Your emotions also cause this return. A law abstracted from a situation in a plane finds similarity in any other. That is when I unfold a mystery in nature, I unfold in various planes because it can be applied everywhere. I'll tell you a silly story - I love silly stories because they are easy to remember. The sillier, the easier they are to be memorize. We are volunteers in New Acropolis. And we have worked in the majority of our branches, We have the main branch in Lago Norte. We have worked since its foundation.

When we had to plaster the walls, There were three masons working and laughing at us. They used to laugh more than work. We were a big group of volunteers, imitating what the masons were doing Plastering a wall is something initiatic. You throw the cement and it won't stick on the wall. It goes straight to the ground. And the mason did that very easily. That was a great difficulty, a trauma in my life. I still do Freudian psychoanalysis to cure it. I looked at the mason, he laughed at me and continued plastering the wall. I tried

and tried, till suddenly I concentrated and looked at him I saw his distance from the wall, how much plaster and the strength he used I memorized everything, then I did as the mason did The distance from the wall, I threw the plaster and it stuck on the wall. I toasted with champagne, Of course, I had another job, I have no way of doing that. But you see that in a situation like that, A mason will always be better than I to plaster a wall. But this situation taught me how to apply the principle in other

sectors of my life. Once I was talking to somebody who had an emotional problem. She was out of her mind. I listened to her and waited for her to calm down. I couldn't talk much, otherwise, she would be so involved in her mental forms And she wouldn't listen to me. I had to wait for the right moment to interfere. I had to say something that could change her mental cycle, but it should not be chocking. It was just part of the truth, not so much or not so little or it wouldn't have any effect on

her. If I was rude I would hurt her, but I had to be firm otherwise, it would not have credibility Then I found the right quantity, intensity, time and it "stuck". I can abstract things for life. A philosopher can get a law In a simple situation. Those we call technicians, connoisseurs in current society, they know one application - that in which they graduated. But they don't know the universal principle which could allow them to live better. This only a philosopher can do. The mason will always do his own work better than I could and many

other professionals will know the practical application of the principles better than us, but a philosopher learns from the experiences even to have a good relationship at home, in a traffic jam... Or even to have a good relationship with himself, he extracts laws that enable him in one situation that he can relate Intelligence is the art of relationships. An intelligent man relates things. We are exclusivists, specialists. We lost the capacity to relate things. Intelligence is a rare attribute in our historical moment. Because it demands practice, training. Intelligence is a great art of relationships. If you learn

something deeply, you will be able to use it in your whole life. This is the principle of correspondence. As I told you, it is very recurrent the principle of the Delphi temple school in Greece "Man know thyself and you will know the universe and the Gods" Isn't it the same thing? The principle of correspondence, what is above, is below? And the principle of Plato which says that the man is a microcosm inside a macrocosm? Isn't it the same? And the biblical principle, which affirms that God created man in his image and likeness? The same thing

The Kabbalistic principle, the name of God, Javé, represents, in a vertical position, the head, trunk, and limbs of man. That is, man is the name of God projected in the space-time. It's the same idea everywhere. It's not possible that so many civilizations made a plot to deceive us. Could that really be? There must be a universal truth that we can recover This is the principle of correspondence. The third principle is beautiful. It's vibration. Heraclitus, in Greece, said something very similar "Nothing remains still, everything moves, vibrates". A quartz watch works because the quartz vibrates. A civil

engineer knows he has to consider the expansion and the contraction of the materials when he is constructing. Everything vibrates. Have you ever heard of something called "internal name"? The internal name was frequently used in the more traditional civilizations. It's the level of your consciousness vibration, who you really are. When you start a motorcycle. The disturbing noise it makes. The noise disappears, right? No, it didn't. It simply left our hearing spectrum. It came out of the intensity of vibration that we can perceive. the same happens with the light. It reaches a certain spectrum of vibration that

we don't see it anymore, but it continues. The universe, the internal name of things is directly related to the vibratory parameter they have. In the Egyptian tradition it is something like this If you accelerate the matter, you will have energy, If you accelerate, you'll have light. If you accelerate, you'll have the mystery, the unknown. If you accelerate, you'll have the spirit. If you accelerate, you'll have God. The universe is measured by its vibratory level. Your consciousness vibrates at a certain level. It can be either accelerated or slowed down. It's your internal name that defines the

level of vibration your consciousness is. It says that matter is so dense, that it seems to be still, the spirit vibrates so quickly that it seems to be still. They are two extremes. and accelerate a being is simply to increase its vibratory level Plato, for example, in his Republic, dreamt of an ideal city, He used to say: ¨Be careful with the music the government provides to the people". Do you know why? He used to say: "I can recognize a State by the kind of music the government provides to the people¨. Because music is a pure

vibrational pattern Music can tune you into its pattern. In our lives nothing is unpunished. Somebody who listens to the music of low and aggressive vibrations. And says:."This has nothing to do with my life, I have principles but I like this kind of music¨. And forgets, and then sometime, when facing difficulties the consciousness of this person will turn to that vibratory pattern that it has an affinity That is why Plato referred to music as a fundamental element in education. Sri Ram, a philosopher from the last century, that used to say that evolution is nothing more than

the clearance of the taste. Be careful of what pulls your consciousness to gross vibrations. Nothing remains unpunished. Evolution is a vibrational acceleration. Vibrate more and more in face of subtler, noble and celestial, spiritual things. To accelerate your vibration is to grow. The internal name of each being is the vibrational level he is at The mantras tried to reproduce this. The mantras tried to reproduce this. In India, when they wanted to pronounce the Gods' names The mantras reproduced a vibratory pattern of the Gods' names. Only a Brahman could do it. It was, nowadays this doesn't happen

anymore. This is the principle of vibration. All thoughts, all emotions or mental states have a level and mode of vibration. An to evolve would be to accelerate, Search for subtle vibrations and tune into them Take care of what feeds your soul as with that which feeds your body. Nobody who eats rotten food will be unpunished. Eat something which has a low vibration in the mental and emotional plane Also won't remain unpunished either. Nothing remains unpunished. Every action has a consequence. We'll soon see that in another principle. Fourth principle: Polarity. Its expression is beautiful. Difficult, complicated,

but beautiful. "Everything is double, everything has two poles Everything has its opposed pair, the similar and the dissimilar are one. Opposites are identical in nature but different in degree; the extreme ends meet; all truth is a half-truth; All paradoxes can be reconciled." Beautiful, huh? But what does this mean? Imagine the following. Something simple, for instance, a thermometer. If you take a temperature gradient, The hot and the cold. They are identical in nature. But different in degree. Isn't it so? It's difficult to measure in a thermometer where the hot starts and the cold ends. There must

be a parameter. The temperature of a human being. So, 36,5 is ideal? This way is hot, that way is cold. The gradient itself doesn't have hot or cold. They're simply two gradients of a unique reality: temperature. And when things are within the same nature. When things belong to the same nature. The same substance. And they are only different in levels. It's not difficult to reverse one into another. Different things can't be reversed, but if they are of the same nature, they can. For instance, laziness into the mood, into activities Criticism into sobriety, hate into love.

Because they are of the same nature. Simply of a different gradient, vibrational gradients They belong to the same gradient, then they can be reversed The same way a medicine reverses the fever. There's a knowledge which can generate in the man What they call a neutralization. Things of the same nature can be transmuted into another; It's possible, for example, to change vibrations of hate into vibrations of love. We will soon see how it works. In the principle of polarity In the human society these swings are well known But neutrality that puts us to a higher degree

is rare. In general, it is unknown. We will see and understand this best in the Principle of Rhythm How can hate be transmuted into true love, not passion? Because into passion is easy, did you know? The soap operas do that very well, hermetic principles People start hating each other, in the end, they fall in love. Passion is easy, but true love. It's complicated but it's possible. It's possible And the next principle, you will see they are all combined, it will say a lot about it. It's the principle of rhythm. Everything has ebb and flow; everything

has its tides Everything is manifested by compensated oscillations; The measure of the movement on the right is the same as the movement on the left; the pace is the compensation. My grandmother, who was a simple person, had an interesting knowledge of life. She might never have heard of Hermes Trismegistus, I don't even think she knew that Egypt existed. But she used to say: "Day of laughter eve of little wisdom". Do you remember this popular saying? when we played and laughed too loud, she used to say "Laugh today, cry tomorrow". I couldn't understand that. What was

the point? And you realize that there is a gradient of euphoria and depression. If I oscillate a little here, It will oscillate a little over there. As compensation The soap operas as I told before, do that very wisely. For instance, a couple at the beginning of the dating If they demonstrate their passion very effusively. With much PDA. He throws pamphlets of "I love you" from a helicopter. This gradient of euphoria can become of aggression. Or of rejection in married life. Very rarely you'll see a couple that was very serene and later aggressive with each other.

Serenity has a small gradient of deviation. The deviation to the other side tends to be small Things have compensation. It's a mathematical law. the rhythm principle will say -it's very similar to Newton's laws - equal intensity but in reverse. Deviations tend to offset each other. So, someone who hates, will definitely not express love or passion. The day after tomorrow this person will express hate again. Have you ever noticed, Some people who make offensive jokes, cause a kind of euphoria? But in the end, this euphoria has a bitter taste? When the party is over you feel

a bitter taste in your mouth. This is the counterpart, the principle of polarity. The next time you have this feeling, you can say: "Hermes Trismegistus"! People will look at you and ask: "Who is Hermes Trismegistus?" You will have understood part of this mystery. The polarities offset each other. So, to overcome hate, it's not with passion it is with love. But love can't be in the middle of the way. Do you know why? If you pull the pendulum half the way, The pendulum in the halfway will be vulnerable and will vibrate again. You have to go

to the balance of the scale, which does not vibrate, you have to rise yourself You have to rise, to develop true love, which doesn't vibrate. You have to rise to form a triangle. Very similar to the Nativity Scene during Christmas. On one side, the donkey represents inertia. And on the other, the ox, representing passion and at the top the Christ, the balance, the serenity. Meaning, that balance is achieved in another level is pulled upwards. This is the principle of neutrality, a sub principle of the rhythm. "the rhythm is inexorable, but we can find a point

of stability which frees us from theses variations." If you believe there were men who really loved humanity, For Christians: Christ, for Buddhists, Budha Many other beings who nowadays are part of the history of humanity If these men loved humanity, which it's likely, how did they manifested this love? Wasn't this love serene, sober, and long-lasting? Didn't this love come from a higher place? Or have you ever saw a great master shouting out loud: "I love you, humanity!", throwing leaflets from a helicopter? It's sober, long-lasting, deep, guarantees itself, it doesn't suffer oscillations, doesn't contradict itself. it has

an accurate balance. We can't stop the oscillations, but we can minimize its influence under us, and neutralize it." We'll soon see how it woks. The principle of compensation, without excesses. These two kids show it. A boy and a girl. They are fighting for a Teddy bear. You try to reconcile the fight If you also want the Teddy bear, how can you reconcile the fight? You will be the third person fighting for the Teddy bear, there won't be reconciliation. But if you suppress your desires, this necessity of experience, you are an adult and behave accordingly, you

climbed a step then, you neutralized the desires of this level And now you can bring harmony to the conflict down there Do you understand this idea? Meaning, I don't want to possess the Teddy bear, I already got over this experience So my conscience climbed up one step, I can harmonize the oscillations down there. If my consciousness is on a higher level, if I got over But if all my necessity of experience is in that level, acting like a child I won't harmonize this conflict and reconcile the situation. I will be another force fighting for the

Teddy bear. This is the principle of neutralization. Because these conflicts and oscillations are part of the law, you can't cancel the law. But you can rise to another step. This way you won't be reached by that law, on that step. There will be other laws. Then you will achieve higher steps, and neutralizing your wishes until you have no more wishes. Then you'll have achieved wisdom. Neutralizing means to grow To master the factors you are facing on this level To reach another level of consciousness. Neutralization means: ¨There is nothing here which I desire¨. This overcoming allows

you to reconcile the conflicts. We had a professor - he died five years ago - He brought New Acropolis to Brazil, Professor Michel Echenique He used to say something interesting, that nature's geography has peaks and valleys. But above all, exists the sun. That at least from our perspective ins constant It doesn't oscillate, it is still watching the terrestrial geography. Your consciousness is both terrestrial and sunny If you identify yourself with the terrestrial things, you will wobble, there will be peaks and valleys But if you identify yourself with what is solar, your body will continue to

go up and down And you won't identify with your body anymore. You will wake up and say: I'm exhausted but I'm fine.¨ My psyche is crazy but I'm fine Which means ¨down there" When you don't pay attention to these low vibrations, you are turning then softer. Just like when you don't pay attention to a demanding child. If you look at the child it will get worse The scene the child is making get ay worse if you pay attention If you pretend you aren't listening it will calm down because sees that the scene is not effective

So, you identify yourself above, and down there you will serenade the oscillations Now the sixth principle. Cause and Effect It's typically the Law of the Karma. It has to do with polarity, in a certain way The law of Karma - in India it is somewhat defined in the same terms - It says: ¨Every cause has an effect; every effect has a cause.¨ Everything happens according to the law; Chance is simply a name given to an unknown law; There are many causal plans but nothing escapes the Law." If you intend to change the future, change now

different causes. Helena Blavatsky used to say: "."It is no use asking the Gods to save you from the consequences of the facts you have caused¨. Because if Gods exists, they became Gods because they respected the Law of Nature Even them, they cannot do anything against Karma. Even the most simple being can change the causes that won't make him suffer the same consequences again In the field of causes, we all have the power to change. In the field of the consequences, we don't anymore What does the Bible say about it? Sowing is free but the harvest

is mandatory. Isn't that so? If you sow wheat, don't cry when harvesting because you wanted soy It is wheat. But you are free to sow what you wish next time In the field of causes, we are free, in the field of the consequences we are conditioned If we understand that, we have a feeling of liberty and autonomy Because we are free to generate causes which the consequences are the ones we dream for our future And we can start to close circuits in our lives. This is very interesting, I don't know if this has ever happened

to you. When you're going through a difficult situation. You remember perfectly well when you generated that necessity of experience What was the posture, what tantrum, what stubbornness What was the attitude you had towards life that put you in that spot whose consequence is what you are experiencing now Notice that you asked to go through it in order to grow. It's nobody's fault. Don't blame others In fact, there's no guilt. You are living It as a pedagogical process, as the consequence of that attitude. Epictetus said that the extinction of guilt marks the beginning of moral progress.

Things are a natural consequence of what you freely generated. So, everything is chained, every idea, thought, feeling generate effects. Einstein used to say something interesting: ¨The same causes generate the same effects." I want to change my life. What are you doing? The same thing What will be the consequence? The same. Every New Year's we toast. We make the same project, we act the same way And again, we won't achieve our goals. You did not generate causes. You did not act on the causes. You generated a superstitious faith in consequences that came from nowhere. That's the

idea we have of "luck". Luck, how? We really believe in rabbits coming out of top hats. Unless you have put the rabbits in the top hat, they won't come out. This is fanatic, is childish. Rabbits will appear from where they have been put. If they were really put in the top hat. So, the same causes will generate the same effects. And to conclude, The seventh principle. The gender principle Gender that comes from to generate It brings life to everything in the three planes of the universe. The gender is in everything, everything has male and female

within it; the gender is manifested in all planes." Gender has nothing to do with sex. Gender means sex when it is projected in a human or animal body. The gender can be in the emotional or mental plane. Two ideas combined generate a consequence. Two emotions combined generate a consequence Yin and yang, the Tao They are a demonstration of the principle of gender. Everything that is generated is created this way. Gender means generate in the physical plane Procreate, in the mental plane, or create in the spiritual plane The principle of gender allows you to be original,

to have new ideas in the spiritual plane It allows you to generate new combinations from old ideas in the mental plane It allows you to generate new bodies in the physical plane But nobody creates anything unless they know how to use the principle of gender. We only know its physical application. Nothing can be created without this principle. Isis, Osiris, and Horus, a demonstration of the principle of gender. It's interesting. This principle reminds us of the mentalism, in the mental plane. We generate a lot of what we are going to live. The mental gender is interesting.

Do you know your mind "has" male and female? If you intend to create something new, you must pay attention to it? It uses the example of the cuckoo egg. This bird is very clever. It takes out the other bird's eggs and places its own in the nest. So others birds hatch the cuckoo's eggs. Then a strange little bird is born and the birds can't understand what happened. Really clever! In fact, it is said that man is a syntax of nature Everything that happens somewhere in nature happens in man. It is as if he was a

product. Teilhard de Chardin speaks about it. A product, a syntax of everything nature has elaborated. It synthesizes all that in human creation. Imagine the following. An idea comes to your mind, a flash. You get this idea and feed it, evolve it, work on it. Because you developed this idea you think you have created it. You are its mother. It grew in your uterus But the element that fertilized it wasn't yours. Sometimes it was an idea of the collective unconscious, or it has been manipulated by someone Very subtly fertilizes your mind with an idea. You make

a nest, feed, create, develop, and hatch the cuckoo's egg. And because you took care and gave birth You think you are its mother, you think it is your idea But it was fertilized by external elements. Where did this idea come from? If I'm not able to investigate the plane of ideas, the spiritual plane see some Law of the Universe and fertilize my own mind, I'll be hatching a cuckoo's egg. I'll be hatching ideas which aren't mine. This is called "male and female mind". Be aware! What are the ideas you receive and develop? Which thoughts are

really yours? Which of your creations are really yours? This is the most common mechanism to induce manipulation. Just an innocent idea. Then you get it, develop it and it seems to be yours. But instead, you develop another bird's egg. This happens in our society. People have political opinions that are not theirs. They feel love for some and hate for others. Public characters, you notice the ideas aren't theirs. They have no reason to love or hate. They don't think alike. They don't reflect on what generated that. They developed thoughts and opinions that were inflated by the

collective. Do you realize that? Very few of our ideas and feelings are really ours. This reminds me of an interesting joke. I was 10 years old. I already lived in Brasília. One day I went to school, but the school was closed because the president Juscelino Kubitschek had died on that day. As I was going back home, I met a classmate. I told him: "There won't be class today¨. He looked at me: "-Why not?" I said: "- Because Juscelino Kubitschek died." He looked amazed. He was dismayed He seemed to be suffering. Suddenly he asked me: "Was

he a friend of yours?" Whenever I see demonstrations of rejection, passion, hate for a public character, I remember Juscelino. The person doesn't know what he is saying, doesn't feel anything for anyone. People use feeling as entertainment. None of them is ours Not yours. And feelings are not a joke! If you play with feelings, you'll never have them, they will be superficial. What do you really love? What makes you feel pain? What do you really think about other human beings? Have you thought about it? Did you create that? If not, you only had the female mind.

The principle of generation has not worked yet. You haven't created or generated anything. None of the ideas you entertain is really yours. This way, you can't create your own identity. To give the world your message. To say why you are here. It is only possible when you create your own identity. When you fertilize your own mind. Do you understand what it means? This is an icon to me, collective feelings and thoughts remind me of the episode with ¨Juscelino¨. Because it is really like that. We have very little authenticity Very little communicate to the world what

we came to communicate, Our true identity. And lastly a recommendation from the Kaibalion, which I think is very pretty. It's a quotation by Helena Blavatsky: "Honor the truth with the practice." It says the following: ¨Beware of mental greed and express in actions what you have learned Study the axioms and aphorisms, but practice them too". We will only access the wisdom of the Whole when we integrate with it. Knowledge is like wealth intended for use." "The law of use is universal and one who violates it will suffer the natural forces of the conflicts with it." Knowledge

generates commitment. If you don't want to commit to life, to humanity or with your own life, You'd better not to know about it. It's as if you know how to swim and you see someone drowning. You must help that person. If you can't swim, it's not your responsibility to help that person. It would be unwise as both of you would be drawn. Knowlege generates commitment. If you desire knowledge, you must commit. Otherwise, it would be just vanity. You cannot really know the facts unless you commit to experiencing and live them. This is the warning Hermes

Trismegistus gives us. for future generations. "Be careful to live by what you know." "Honor the truth with the practice" Basically, as I said to you, this is what he means These 7 little sentences, According to Hermes Trismegistus, organize the manifested universe. Their deep knowledge enables us to understand the general laws. We interact with these laws which we call life. The universe is linked by laws. It is connected by logic. It is connected by intelligence, there is no chaos in the universe. There was a mathematician Henri Poincaré, who said: ¨Chance is the measure of our ignorance."

This is very hermetic. We call ¨casual¨ what we don't understand. Because there are laws acting there that we still don't understand. As we know it, we commit to it. Egypt is one of the subjects taught in the first Level at the Philosophy course in New Acropolis. It's volunteer work. We focus on living what we learn and teach. Our lectures are a small sample of the lessons given in our course. Those who study in our course will have the opportunity to learn about Egypt. The subject "Ethic". Egyptian ethics is very interesting. It helps to understand how

the Egyptians thought. I invite you to join the course ... We will open a new class this week. For those who haven't attended our classes yet, are welcome. You can come and attend the first class, as an experience. Philosophers love wisdom. Come to know what is about If you are here on a Friday night, it's because you have a potential for Philosophy. So you are welcome to attend one of our classes. That's all. If you have any questions, please, feel free to ask. -You said something about certain debilities... Some things make it difficult for us

to focus on the subject. The example of the children quarreling about a Teddy bear. Unless you aren't interested in the Teddy bear, you won't be able to solve the problem. But if we create everything - and I believe it is so. You haven't discovered the origin of the problem... If I have a migraine. That prostate me. It prevents me from reacting. If I can't get rid of my migraine, does it mean I am focusing too much on it? I am giving a very physical example, whatever is prostrating you Every situation is different... If you have

intense pain lie a migraine During a migraine, there is not much to philosophize, you have to take care But leaving that aside, if you see the problem from outside, you can try to understand what has caused certain mental forms to manifest. And develop the symptoms. I know many people who have a strong headache and some have come to the conclusion Some mental forms and emotions are a trigger to have a headache. I learned how to deal with it. And when they come, I avoid thinking about them and divert the attention Science has proved that the

majority of physical diseases have a psychological origin. Psychosomatic diseases can be avoided. Psychosomatic diseases can be healed without medicine. Ayurvedic medicine in India specializes in this. And on the psychic level even more. The emotional forms appear whenever we come across an obstacle. And because I don't know how to deal with this obstacle. The solution is: in the middle of a crisis we must survive. If you are choleric, you won't study philosophy. But once the cholera is over, think about what has caused it. And learn to have a suitable answer to that. Try to find the

trigger, because actually, you say: "I don't know why we have to face such situations." According to hermeticism, it's simple, it's because we need to go through certain situations in order to survive. You called these situations to your life In order to grow, these situations are an external representation of what you have to live within yourself. By doing so you can surpass the situation. Seraphis medicine after Asclepius, in Greece. Everybody slept in the Seraphis' temple and dreamt of the cause of their disease. If you don't search for the causes, it is useless to speak about the

effects. The causes will appear somewhere else and will cause another disease. Because they need to manifest themselves. Do you have a question? -The name of the Arab writer. His name's Ibn Tufail. He wrote "The self-taught philosopher". An interesting story, as a man reaches the mystical level of seeing God, by watching nature. What he shows seem to be a little longer, but the process is very intelligent It shows it's possible to be reached by everyone. To the highest degree of awareness that a human being can reach It's a very interesting book. I like to quote these

works so you see The philosophy, the love for wisdom has always been within man. Always. Everywhere. This is a 12th-century Arabic book. It's really very beautiful. Yes? On the question of gender, the mind having masculine and feminine. What would that be? It means the thoughts aren't yours. Someone has fertilized your mind. The seed isn't yours. And you developed it when the plant grows you say: "He's my son." You didn't plant the seed. The male is the seed, both mentally and astrally. The little seed. The female is the womb which feeds and give birth. Who fertilized

the womb? Sometimes a person talks to you for a minute and he infiltrates a bad feeling in you. A negative thought. And you spend days thinking it over. Sometimes it's just a little critic. Have you seen that? Have you seen that? And you spend the whole week thinking about it. Have you seen that?? A little seed. It was me. It wasn't you. You just fed the seed. The seed isn't yours. -There are theorists who say that our civilization is living a neurotic model. Relationships are getting psychotic. When the law depends on who watches it. What

do you think? I think it's possible. Because we tend to think everything is relative. Nowadays it's difficult to talk about certain subjects without being contested. Only the Egyptians thought like that, this doesn't count, this is relative. The ignorance of general laws, principles. Things are subjectively interpreted. And so, the human beings can't learn from the past . We learn how to make planes. to make cars and buildings. But not to build men. We think we can learn by ourselves. And we think that what was good for Hermes Trismegistus, isn't good for us. Once I commented with

my students Someone who went to one of my lectures, and I was talking about the virtues of the hero He said: "These virtues are relative, even gravity or a black hole is relative". I believe so, but I'm not a black hole, I'm a human being. The law of gravity is real to me if I jump from a window I will see it. Chaplin said: "A man is what he is". And there are laws which are absolute for us humans. Likewise, the principle of aerodynamics is absolute for an airplane. The hermetic principles for a human being.

These principles help to build man. Jung says something very interesting about this. "It's easier to start from scratch and build a spaceship to travel to the moon, then to start from scratch and build the knowledge to take man within himself." Everything is considered excessively relative, the human values Everybody wants to learn everything. To build a television you take a course. But to build your own life, even a 12-year-old boy thinks he knows everything. Isn't it so? Everything is relative. It's complex to build a human being. It will have to start every day from scratch. It

is as if man woke up every single day with amnesia. As if you had to rebuild your life every day. Without considering what you have lived before. It is as if our generations were like that. Woke up with amnesia and had to start from scratch. We deal with certain elements that perhaps have some inherited life experience. And we always start from scratch. With an animality, a brutality that we should have considered And we always start from the same point. This is a fact. We're almost going through a schizophrenic society. And everything revolves around itself. And

all things are made to hit you, particularly. It's all personal, it's all personal. Nothing is universal. We are not able to see anything that refers to humanity as a whole, everything is personal. This is an eccentricity, it's like the polarity principle, it's the loss of the center An eccentricity that the pendulum vibrates so much that it loses contact with the center. It is a kind of almost collective pathology in our historical moment. -Do you see it as architected by an entity or something? No, I see this as the need for human experience. They will have

to suffer a little. Nietzsche, in a book called The Genealogy of Moral He says that nature has only two ways to make you learn something. Or through reflection, you can... But if you do not want, through the pain. Pain is a way of burning with iron and fire the truths of nature you don't want to see. The need for human experiences writes history. You have to live very crude materialism, you have to live it, how are we going to avoid it? Those people who are a bit more mature sometimes realize this in relation to their

children. The mother arrives with a daughter at a party, the daughter has not even entered the party, she looks: "Oh, my daughter is going to be interested in that boy over there." And it will be bad. She didn't even get out of the car. You know, knowledge of human nature is predictable. The "halters" that will have to give. Imagine a wise man looking at humanity, saying that. "Oh, with these tastes, with this selfishness" - Because selfishness makes man very predictable. It's just like the puppy chasing its tail Selfishness makes man predictable. He will pursue personal

benefits. Until personality dissolves, it will pursue personal benefits. And as long as it doesn't run out of it. Do not move to another level of interest, do not neutralize, do not move to another step. It's more or less predictable what we're going to live. It is a law of human nature to evolve. It depends on when each of us will want to unwind this papyrus. - The interesting thing about it is that it regresses, then progresses, it's something that doesn't have much logic, right? Yeah, in quotes. You have to realize that we cannot be pessimistic

or optimistic. Imagine a big sinusoid. If you take the lowest point now and the lowest point behind. It looks like it went up a little bit, but the problem is that we are at a low point. Now, be careful that you don't consider that everything, for example, Egypt had wonderful sages But do you think everyone living in Egypt was wise? Greece had Socrates and Plato, do you think everyone was Socrates and Plato? If so, they would not have killed Socrates. So when we know a little bit of history, we realize that there was a level

of barbarism. That on average we grew a little bit. But the growth process is slow, do you grow fast? I grow up? No one grows up. Growing up as a human being is slow. Then it requires certain patience with the human being and with humanity because it is a very slow, well, sinusoid. But if you take an average of three thousand years of low, Attila was throwing little children at the pit so the wolves devour. Is there anyone who does this today? Yes, but not everyone, most would be outraged. It is already morally reprehensible, not

then. Kid of the enemy has to be thrown for the wolf. On average humanity would not be scandalized by it, back then But it's a little bit like that. At the same speed as we grow. But we cannot give up growing. You see? It's good from time to time to pick up good historical novelists, Christian Jaques himself is like that. Steven Pressfield has a beautiful book, it's called War Times. That he tells what Greece was like in Socrates' time. Guys, it was hard. Do not think that everyone was wise in Greece. There were wise men.

But not many. We have been through hard times. One must consider this and have a certain lucidity, not so much to the sea, not so much to the land. We have progressed, but a little like that is slow. “It's so hard to think because things end up blinding our eyes with such barbarity. So much cruelty, we see that only the pitiful side of humanity. Certainly, because even our indignation is already a positive symptom. It must not have been so many that were outraged by Socrates drinking the hemlock. Today you have a fair amount of humanity

outraged by the Islamic State, for example. A fair. We have to be patient, with ourselves and with humanity. Believe in humanity, believe in ourselves and not stop working. Because for that we came. That is our meaning on earth. Work for our evolution and the evolution of humanity. But losing hope in the human being is the worst that can happen to man, has no chance. It does not grow and does not help anyone to grow. So pessimism is a fallacy, you have to be careful about it. Any more questions, guys? I kept thinking like that about

the first principle, it seems to be the main one. And I wonder if he's stronger than the others, which is that of mentalism. In fact, in a way you are right. Everything can be compressed within mentalism. - It's just that I was thinking about the cause and effect - I have a cause but I can foresee the consequence. And then through the mental I can change the consequence because I already foresaw her. So is he stronger than the others? You will see that if you read the book, they spend a good time talking about it.

The only way you can understand is God, who was the One. Created the universe, is that it is a mental creation. In other words, illusory, because if he is the one, he could not create anything, because if he created something, If he created anything he would have two, he and the other. And he was no longer one. The only way he can create anything is to create a mental form within his mind. That then the mental forms appear, add up, appear, add up like all the things of the world. So every reality of the manifested

universe would be images within the divine mind, which the Indians call Mahat. Both the things and the laws that govern them. A purpose-created universe is not casual. But it is all illusory, the reality is eternal. Just the fact that things are transitory already proves that they are shadows, according to this tradition. Transience is a symptom of illusion. That which is, cannot but be in time and space. So all the other laws fit this, it's all happening inside God's mind. But to get you over ... when you were little, did you play War? I'm getting a

little out of fashion and I don't know. War is a bunch of little countries that you were playing, you were at war. You realize that this is an illusion, you were not at war with anyone, it's just a game. But for you to win the game, you have to obey his laws, otherwise, you will not get out of it victorious. It is a game within the mind of God, but a game that has laws. If you want to overcome it you have to understand them and triumph over them. Knowing how to fit in and overcome

them. It is a game, but an orderly game. A game within the mind of God. And the great illusion is Plato's cave myth. They are shadows. So in a way everything is there. This is mental, the universe is mental. Then you know how much your life is also mental. It arises from your mental postures before the world, then you find the cause of all the consequences that are facts in your life. In mental forms, you had at certain times. That called the need for that experience. Read the book, you'll like it, it's very interesting. From

the best books I've ever read, The Caibalion. Sensational. -As I understand all these laws, in fact, neither would work without the other, as if the seven were one thing, right? They are all nested and mixed. It's even hard until you explain the Rhythm without explaining the Polarity. And finally, they are all tied up and Polarity will generate Cause and Effect. They are all tied up. And all embedded within the mind of God. These are the principles with which divine thought works. The truth is this, it is the logic of God. That logic is not the

principle of human thought? These are the principles with which divine thought works. You can say who said that God would be a line that united, that unites ... It will be difficult to know who spoke because this is in the Vedas, which is the principle of Sutratma. And the Vedas, well, some say they were written by Vyasa, but who knows? The Vedas are a bit old for us to know the authorship. But it is a Vedic principle. It is a concept called Sutratma. It is the thread that goes through all the beads in the necklace.

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