[Music] we take great pleasure in presenting to the attention of students and investigators of the secret doctrines this little work based upon the world old hermetic teachings there has been so little written upon this subject not withstanding the countless references to the teachings in the many Works upon occultism that the many Earnest Searchers after the Arcane truths will doubtless welcome the appearance of this present volume the purpose of this work is not the Ann I iation of any special philosophy or doctrine but rather is to give to the students a statement of the truth that
will serve to reconcile the many bits of occult knowledge that they may have acquired but which are apparently opposed to each other and which often serve to discourage and disgust the beginner in the study there is no portion of the occult teachings possessed by the world which have been so closely guarded as the fragments of the Hermetic teachings which have have come down to us over the tens of centuries which have elapsed since the lifetime of its great founder Hermes trism magistus the Scribe of the Gods who dwelt in Old Egypt in the days when
the present race of men was in its infancy contemporary with Abraham and if the Legends be true an instructor of that venerable Sage Hermes was and is the Great Central son of occultism whose Rays have served to illumin the countless teachings which have been ProMag since his time all the fundamental and basic teachings embedded in the esoteric teachings of every race may be traced back to Hermes even the most ancient teachings of India undoubtedly have their roots in the original hermetic teachings the life workor of Hermes seems to have been in the direction of planting
the great sea truth which has grown and blossomed in so many strange forms rather than to establish a school of philosophy which would dominate the world's thought but nevertheless the original truths taught by him have been kept intact in their original Purity by a few men each age who refusing great numbers of half-developed students and followers followed the Hermetic custom and reserved their Truth for the few who were ready to comprehend and master it from lip to ear the truth has been handed down among the few there have always been a few initiates in each
generation in the various lands of the earth who kept alive the sacred flame of the Hermetic teachings and such have always been willing to use their lamps to relight the Lesser lamps of the outside world when the light of Truth grew dim and clouded by reason of neglect and when the Wicks became clogged with foreign matter for this reason in this little book of which this is the first lesson we invite our students to examine into the Hermetic teachings as set forth in the kealan and as explained by ourselves humble students of the teachings who
while bearing the title of initiates are still students at the feet of Hermes the master we herein give you many of the maxims axioms and precepts of the kalian accompanied by explanations and illust ations which we deem likely to render the teachings more easily comprehended by the modern student particularly as the original text is purposely veiled in obscure terms the seven hermetic principles upon which the entire hermetic philosophy is based are as follows the principle of mentalism the principle of Correspondence the principle of vibr vibration the principle of polarity the principle of Rhythm the principle
of cause and effect and the principle of gender these seven principles will be discussed and explained as we proceed with these lessons a short explanation of each however may as well be given at this point the principle of mentalism the all is mind the universe is mental one of the old hermetic Masters wrote long ages ago he who grasps the truth of the mental nature of the universe is well Advanced on the path to Mastery and these words are as true today as at the time they were first written without this master key Mastery is
impossible and the student knocks in vain at the many doors of the temple the principle of Correspondence As Above So Below as below so Above This principle embodies the the truth that there is always a correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various Plains of being and life the grasping of this principle gives one the means of solving many a dark Paradox and hidden secrets of nature the principle of vibration nothing rests everything moves everything vibrates this principle embodies facts which modern science endorses and which each new scientific Discovery tends to verify and yet
this hermetic principle was enunciated thousands of years ago by the masters of ancient Egypt this principle explains that the differences between different manifestations of matter energy mind and even Spirit result largely from varying rates of vibration the principle of polarity 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 halft truths all paradoxes may be reconciled this principle explains that in everything there are two poles or opposite aspects and that opposites are really
only the two extremes of the same thing with many varying degrees between them the principle of Rhythm everything flows out and in everything has its ties 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 Rhythm compensates this principle embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion to and from a flow and inflow a swing backward and forward a pendulum like movement a tide likee e and flow a high tide and low tide between
the two poles which exist in accordance with the principle of polarity described a moment ago there is always an action and a reaction an advance and a retreat a rising and a sinking this principle and that of of polarity have been closely studied by the hermetist and the methods of counteracting neutralizing and using them form an important part of the Hermetic Mental Alchemy the principle of cause and effect every cause has its effect every effect has its cause everything happens according to law chance is but a name for law not recognized there are many planes
of causation but nothing escapes the law this principle embodies the fact that there is a cause for every effect an effect from every cause it explains that everything happens according to law that nothing ever merely happens that there is no such thing as chance that while there are various planes of cause and effect the higher dominating the lower PLS still nothing ever entirely escapes the law the prin principle of gender gender is in everything everything has its masculine and feminine principles gender manifests on all PLS this principle embodies the truth that there is gender manifested
in everything the masculine and feminine principles ever at work this is true not only of the physical plane but of the mental and even the spiritual planes on the physical plane the principle manifests as sex on the higher planes it takes higher forms but the principle is ever the same no creation physical mental or spiritual is possible without this principle now that we have gained a basic understanding of what each principle stands for in our next video we will move our focus on the first principle and discover how one may obtain the master key
