Good evening everyone, welcome. Here we are, the heroic survivors of the Kybalion, entering chapter 9 of this our dear book. I promise you that the next one I'm going to do will be very simple and much more plausible for the modern Western mind. I don't know what it will be, but it will be simpler. We need to relax. The idea is to do until chapter 15, that is, the whole book. Remember you if we are already with the first three released on YouTube. In fact, I always ask you, as a voluntary movement that we are,
our best propaganda are the lectures on YouTube. So if you send the link to a friend, it already helps a lot to promote our work. And starting over as we always do, I always put this initial poem by an English poet named Eduard Carpenter, where it talks about our responsibility to keep knowledge alive. Understand, when we have a little boldness and start reading things from the East or the very ancient West, we have to settle for leaving there with a percentage of understanding that is never 100%. At the point of our vanity, we are used
to entering the book and leaving with 100% to take off at the end. Kybalion is not for those who have this kind of pretension. I could not commit myself to giving 100% to you for a very simple reason. I don't have. It's a very complex book. We have to do it. We take something and that something is already very useful, it already precipitates reasoning, logical processes that help us understand life better. But it is not the kind of book that you go out understanding everything you read. It is complicated. Even though it is, as we
know, a book written in 1908 that aims to simplify the Egyptian tradition. Simplifies, as it is popularly said, peronomutu. Simplifies within what is possible. There are people on YouTube, who come to do Tao Te King. You don't know what you're asking for. Another complicated story. Anyway, I love to enter this kind of book, I'm an adventurer. But you have to enter consciously. You won't be able to understand everything that is written there. We will get something. And I hope that in that sense you are following, being useful and practical for you. We are a classical,
practical philosophy school. That this may be useful in your practical life in some way. We are already adventuring in chapter 9, which will talk about the principle of rhythm. Another element that is important for you to notice. Do not expect that when the title is the principle of rhythm, it will only talk about the principle of rhythm. Because the principles are all entangled, concatenated. So when he talks about correspondence, he talks about rhythm. When it comes to talking about rhythm, he talks about polarity. There is no way to separate these seven principles. Because they work
in a way that is not very useful. And that is why we are talking about the principle of rhythm. They always work together. It is impossible for a principle to work without the support of the other six. So in every chapter he is talking practically about everything. And that's right. It is another particularity. Within our Western mentality, we are used to something very explained, that corresponds to what was promised. This is one of the things, for example, I have already done several times, reading books by Plato, especially the Republic. The book is called The Book
of the Most Close to Us, from Greece. And it already leaves the person a little disconcerted. Several times the student comes to me, after the first, second chapter of the Republic. Teacher, I loved this book. It's really cool. But there is no book of someone who has read this, that summarizes and says something simpler. It is customary to call this Platonic fast food. Hasn't there been someone who chewed and passes this simpler? We are used to it. In fact, we are not used to it. It is very important. It is not just that we are
used to it. We are not used to it. It is very important. It is a symbolic language. But this little effort, this slight headache that gives is beneficial. It means moving our intellectual plan. It is moving and generating ideas. This is interesting. Well, then, as always, the poem that is in the book, is in the introduction of the book. Do not let the flame go out. Maintained from century to century, in this dark cave, in this sacred temple. Supported by pure ministers of love. Do not let this divine flame go out. That is, two recommendations.
Have the knowledge. Second recommendation. Go ahead. Do not let this get lost in the middle of the way. If any of you watched that lecture I did, which is called the evolution of man according to the Eastern tradition, which talks about the parable of the ten towers, who did not watch it, it is worth it, it is interesting. It even has a relationship with this here, in many things. In this lecture there is a sutra, which is the only text, let's say, one of the few texts that the Zen tradition uses, which is the Maha
Prajna Paramita. This text says the following. Go, go together, beyond the beyond, until the ultimate realization. Go together, beyond the beyond, until the ultimate realization. What is this text so tiny, is trying to say? That you must walk. The human being must not walk alone. You must worry about taking humanity with you. So it is interesting to realize that all traditions have this idea that this poem expresses. Do not let the flame go out, go ahead, go to the next generations. It is the human commitment to walk towards unity. Fraternal, more and more united, inside
and outside of us. Remember, if we are climbing the pyramid, we are more and more together. If we are more and more separated, it is a sign that we are descending. It is an undeniable geometric truth. So let's go. Today we are on the 9th theme. This is the book, as I have already shown, Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt, Greece, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and in 1908, resumed by this anonymous author, who publishes this work. On the 9th theme, he will talk about vibration. He is very interesting because he talks, in the last instance,
about the question of human identity. What is vibration? Nothing is stopped, everything moves, everything vibrates. This principle of the Kybalion, reminds a Greek citizen, pre-Socratic, called Heraclitus, who said, no one bathes in the same river twice. Do you know why? Because the second time you are not the same river, you are not the same, anyway. There is a continuous mutation in the universe. The same event does not repeat itself identically, because beings are not identical. They are identical to themselves in two given moments. Everything vibrates, everything changes. Evolution, in the last instance, is to try
to accelerate your vibration, to make it subtle. Because up there, the whole, the whole, is the maximum vibration. It is the most subtle vibration in the universe. So, to evolve is to raise your vibrational plane. I told you that Plato, all the time, I put the poor man of Plato in the time machine. Put Plato in the time machine. He is 2017. And he asks you, who are you? You will have to tell him your vibrational address. I am a person who vibrates in front of acts of honor, in front of a beauty that makes
me feel sensitive to human nature, in front of acts of justice. Ah, now I know who you are. I know what your affinity is, I know what makes you happy, I know what makes you feel bad, I know what you are. You know? You know? So, what is your interest in the vibrational scale of the universe? I told you that the Indians called this a mantra. It is the verb. The verb of the way it is being pronounced. The subtlety of how it is being pronounced. It symbolizes your inner name. The ancient Indian tradition used
to say that when you know the inner name of someone, you have power over that someone. You can pull him to you. That is the intimate nature of beings. Even the name of the gods, the internal name of the gods, their prayer, was nothing more than an invocation to the gods. Invocation, imagine! This is a time that has already been... There are times when we no longer have the power to be sure if these gods exist, and even more to invoke them, as the Indians did. But the mantra pronunciation had to be precise, in rhythm
and intonation, because it consisted of touching the ultimate reality of something. At the last moment, you also have an internal name. Your ultimate reality. Just making a point, which I find very, very, very beautiful, this passage. Bardotodol, when he talks about the dead in Tibet, the Tibetan book of the dead, he says that the man who disembodies confronts all the shadows that he has generated during his life. He calls it the Lord of Death. And then he says, If you have in life knowledge of your internal name, which was communicated to you by some master,
invoke your internal name before the shadows, and they will open a passage for you. I think this is wonderful! It is the formula par excellence to banish shadows. For those who are disembodied, and for those who are incarnate, I doubt that too. That is, the principle of correspondence applies well. It is the magic formula to banish shadows. Know your internal name. At what level do you vibrate? And once you know, commit to perfection. Which is also one of the Indian prayers, traditional Indian prayers. I commit myself to everything I am today, but I commit myself
to be more tomorrow. Do you understand that? I commit myself to good, justice, beauty, with all the strength I have today. But I also commit myself to having one millimeter more strength tomorrow. That's what corresponds to me. It is not simply to use everything I have today, but to have more tomorrow. To whine more, to donate more, to serve more of the thirst of the world. So this vibrational expansion is the internal name. We are going to talk a little about it, because he was an optimist. This man who wrote this book in 1908, he
said that science had reached a metaphysical level very quickly. Things were not as fast as he imagined. But anyway, he already said that at that time, science already engaged the first steps towards the principle of vibration. Today it engaged the second steps. It was not as far as he imagined. At that time, in this metaphysical aspect, no. Although in the physical plane we have made fantastic advances from a scientific point of view. Unprecedented in history in the last 50 years. Impressive! You know that we have evolved more from a scientific point of view, from the
middle of the 20th century to here, than in the previous 1950 years. It was a real technological burst, above all. But from a human point of view, it was a little paralyzed, it was a little behind. It was very predominant on itself and was very far behind. We are well infantilized from the human point of view. It is like a child who developed only one arm. It is that huge adult arm in a child's body. It is more or less what we live. He says that science from the 20th century is starting to realize that
matter is not a solid block. Did you play as a small builder when you were little? Those solid blocks that you put on top of each other. She is realizing that inside the block there is vibration, there are atoms, there are particles, there are subparticles, everything is vibrating. This is already a great advance. That solidity, that density that matter had before, that heavy, immobile thing, is no longer there. Matter is making a bridge with the next field, which is the energy field. This is already an advance. But science is still far from conceiving a mental
plane independent of the physical plane. He very optimistically estimated that in 100 years it would have come to this. It didn't. It's a sign that we have accelerated a lot, but not much at a single level, in the metaphysical. In the metaphysical we have decelerated. That is, from the point of view of conception of other planes beyond matter, we haven't advanced much. But he said that at a certain moment it will make a bridge with increasingly more subtle planes. This will still come. But we already know that matter vibrates. And we know that these different
potentials of vibration have a lot to do with the identity of the matter you are dealing with. Including energy too. We talked about this in the last class. He says, Hermeticism also knows that everything vibrates. But it is not only in the energy matter plane. It goes to the emotional plane, the mind plane, to the spiritual plane. And he says that the name of things is given by the vibrational level it has. Therefore, notice what you are vibrating against. Important self-analysis. To know who you are. Notice what you are vibrating against. And repel your gross
vibrations. Very important. Know what your soul comes from. What brings your soul to the surface? What kind of word? What kind of text? What kind of music? What kind of work of art? What brings your soul to the surface? Because this will inform you a lot about yourself. I already gave you an example. But I always insist. Because I'm a little stubborn. Which is the example of how we symbolically interpret matter. And we see through it a lot of what is behind. For example, when we meet a person in the first second of the presentation.
You assume a lot of things. You realize. It's not that you're assuming. You realize a lot of things symbolized in that personality. Now, at the next moment, the mind falls on top, made of a stone. And says, he dresses well, he dresses badly, he has a new car, he has an old car. It spills a whole package of social prejudices. Life software. Then it's over. You don't remember anything. If you are curious to observe this first impression and write it down, you will see that sometimes life makes a curve and you go back there. Isn't
that right? That guy had this point that I noticed when I looked at him for the first time. Because it is symbolically expressed in your gestures, in your look, in the way you move. There are a lot of things expressed. We don't trust our intuition. But that's not why it stops manifesting. The first impact is intuitive. And he says things, but we don't hear. Then, in the second, we massacre with our prejudices. Then I suggest to my students, who suddenly look in front of the mirror in the closet, that long one. Close your eyes and
think. I will be introduced to someone new, someone new, someone new. You will notice a lot of things. It's a person who is very balanced. It's a person who is very confident in what he is doing. You will notice a lot of things. Even the way you stand, standing, the way you look. Those who study oratory know that. With the look you define a lot of things. The physical posture, then, is the same. You don't even talk. You are touching things, or a little unbalanced. Or almost at the tip of your feet. Or kind of
leaning back, saying, I don't want to go. Life is dragging me. That is, there are many symbolic elements expressed. And when you look, you discover things, messages that are sending to the world. And that you yourself are not seeing. So, all these symbolic elements are very interesting, because they denote, on the physical plane, what level of vibration you are on the psychic plane. The beliefs you have. Would a very confident person position himself like this? I don't think so. Would a very confident and very balanced person look like this? I don't think so. Would a
person who is frankly facing the difficulties of life look like this? I don't think so. So, it denotes the vibration that you are there on the mental plane and on the psychological plane. Which sometimes, in general, we don't realize. I told you that we have no idea what goes on in our head at a time, for example, of 18 hours of a day of vigilance. There is no such thing. I already told you about that cerebral chaos, as the Mineros say, of the day I sent my students to spend the whole day writing down how
many times they had had a critical thought. And no one considered themselves critical. The next week everyone came super critical in the classroom. They did nothing but scratch that little paper. And then they realized something interesting, which was the effect I wanted to generate. You know what scratch I'm talking about, right? That scratch that makes a little house, a scratch in the middle. They said, I didn't do anything else. I stopped the car to scratch that little paper. Horrible thing. I didn't know I criticized so much. And they realized that they, in general, don't know
what they think. We don't know what we think. We don't know where our mind goes, where it wanders throughout a day. Where it predominantly settles. The level of superficiality that we usually have, the level of depth, how scarce. Remember that phrase by Confucius? The vulgar man speaks of people. The common man speaks of things. The noble man speaks of ideas. How many times do we stop to think about ideas? What is life trying to tell me with all this I've lived so far? Where will I get with all this? What is the deepest meaning of
loss, of pain, of suffering, of such a difficult coexistence? Of always falling into the same mistakes? What is the meaning behind all this? It can't be a sadistic God who is playing house here below. There must be some meaning in it. The experiences that occur to me in life, what is life trying to tell me? What is the meaning of all this? How many times do we think about these terms or about something equivalent, something equivalent of the same plan? So this is very important because it is our vibrational level. Find the things that are
beautiful for you. And realize that, in general, we have an affinity with things that are attractive and not with those that are beautiful. Those that are beautiful force you to raise your consciousness. They are an invitation that pulls your consciousness up. And going up is hard work, going up is tiring, going down is easier. As the popular saying goes, down, all the saints help. Finally, realize where we are vibrating. It is very important. And learn to purify your own vibration. And one thing that today Kybalion will talk a lot about, you don't vibrate impunementally. Your
vibration contaminates everyone around you. Whether you want it or not, no one vibrates impunementally. Whatever is there. It is in the world, it is vibrating, it is influencing. It is repercuting. And do you know what the Hindu tradition said? They talk about karma, which is responsibility. You are responsible for the influences it generates, both for good and for evil. It generates karma. It is responsible for the contagion of your vibration. It is no longer enough for us to be responsible for what it is. We are also responsible for the example it gives. Yes. This has
responsibility, it generates responsibility. So, for Hermeticism, as we have already talked about, I gave this example to you already on occasion, here in a more methodical way, you leave matter for energy, for light, for emotions, for mind, for spirit, for God, it accelerates a lot of steps, it is possible that we do not know exactly how many they are, but the fact is that you leave the denser matter and go to the most subtle spirit, accelerating the vibrations. Because the denser matter, it vibrates so slowly that it seems to be stopped. And the most subtle
spirit vibrates so intensely that it seems to be stopped. Then comes that story of the principle of polarity, that similar and dissimilar are equal to nature, in different degrees. The extremes seem to be stopped, so slow and so accelerated. The whole has an intense vibration, and the coarse matter has a minimum vibration. Both seem to be stopped. Among them, a huge range of variations. Simply the whole universe. A range of variations. A range of variations. And it is even said that we always have the responsibility that what we are is an invitation to elevate the
vibration of others. Remember what I commented with you, that Helena Blavatsky usually says that an animal, you should not catch it for a utility and make it, for example, more ferocious. Because by making it more ferocious, you decelerate it in the evolutionary scale of the animal. By making it more intelligent, with more discernment, with more perception of your language, you accelerate it. So, by utilitarianism, we use animals, pushing them down. Or nature as a whole, pushing down. This would also be a negative karma. On all planes we can generate a negative karma. And negatively influence
the evolution of nature. And then he repeats what we have already spoken about. Science works with matter and energy. In our days this did not vary much. In the future it will work with the mind. Today we still consider that the mind, the emotions, are a subproduct of the physical brain, of the hormonal functioning of the body, of certain hormones like oxytocin and I don't know what else. Today we still consider that everything comes from the physical plane. Which is a limitation. We can't explain, for example, that two univital twins, who were created by the
same family, have the same physical and environmental conjunction, are two beings so different. So absolutely different. We still think, for example, that we can clone a human being and the other be exactly identical to him. We don't know that the human being is not simply a body. We can even clone the body. But what will inhabit this body is not the same. It's the same thing as building a radio device, exactly like the first one. The radio that will capture the first one is not identical. Because it is not the radio that produces the waves.
It is not the TV that produces the waves. It only captures them. Just like the human body, like the human brain, would simply be a decoder of the mental plane. It is not a creator of the mental plane. But we are still far from this moment of recognizing that there is a plane, called the mental plane. Where does everything that manifests itself come from down here? Continuing, it will say something that we have already talked about several times, and it is a constant in the Kybalion . This is the moment of, we are already in
chapter 9, start to put together the pieces. Several things, it is reiterative, so that they will deepen. Traditional pedagogy, people, is a spiral. It is cyclical and reiterative. It returns to the same point and adds a little more. What we, within the philosophy course of New Acropolis, we try to do is exactly that. So you have the first level of studies, where you see for the first time, a Roman historical teaching, for example. You will go back there in the second, and you will add something more. The pedagogy of nature is the most effective we
have ever known. And it is cyclical and reiterative. You climb the mountain taking steps that are very similar to each other. But ascending, each time stepping on new surfaces. Each time higher. So he will come back here, he begins to gather the tips of everything that has been said so far. Deepening many things we have already seen. So this idea that the universe has a center and revolves around it, is an extremely reiterative thing in almost all the ancient tradition you have seen. And today science confirms that we have a super-agglomeration of galaxies whose center
is Virgo. It revolves around the constellation of Virgo. And it seems that today there is a suspicion that the walls of galaxies have a center in the cosmos. And we know that the galaxy has a center, that they say there is a black hole there, I don't know if there is. We know that the solar system has a center. That an atom has a center. That the cell has a center. And that everything that is perfect, revolves around a center that supplies it, that illuminates it and that gives it meaning. It would be this mysterious
and occult center of the universe that would be the whole. That radiated this illusory periphery. And that would then reabsorb it. That is, the whole universe would be a simile. It would be corresponding to creation. To the initial moment. And that this center emanated this illusory periphery. And then everything will be reabsorbed there. And the defect of man would also be that which is equidistant to the center. Which are your principles. If something is further away from the center, defect. What is equally attended by the center, means a coherent life. All points illuminated by the
central sun. This idea of the universe as a sphere. With a center that is spiritual. Very constant this. He will talk about energies that are spoken at that time. Vibrations of light, heat, magnetism, electricity. That is, we already know that all types of energy vibrate. They are vibrations. He will talk a little about gravitation. I put here, for you, the Newton's law. Which speaks. Matter attracts matter in the direct reason of the product of its masses. And in the reverse reason of the square of the distance between them. That is, gravitation is attraction between bodies.
In relation to your mass and your distance. You realize that this principle of Newton. He's saying what happens. But he's not saying why. Why does this happen? What is the mystery? What is the essence? What is the meaning? The purpose by which it was created? Why does this happen? Why does matter and distance attract beings? There must be a reason behind it. Things are not just like that. It is curious. I think that when we know how things happen. We think we know things. Why? What is the meaning of who created all this? Can you
imagine a boy liking a girl and saying. I feel attracted to you because your mass is so much. And we are so far apart. I don't think so. I feel attracted to you. Why do you look like a person like that? Ok, the distances are equivalent. They are plausible. But there is a reason. In our human relationships, no one accepts that things are without a reason. Only how? I like you because we are five meters away. And your mass is equivalent to mine. Have patience. I don't believe that even Newton would call someone to date.
We don't know the reason for the laws. We only know how they work. And it's curious in our historical moment. It's the civilization of know-how. Know how? Why? What is the purpose of all this? Who created this? Where did it want to go? And me, in all this? Where do I want to go? Because this lack of finality is crazy. We are constantly throwing the conversation away, as it is popularly said. So we don't realize that we don't know what is happening here. Deep down, we don't know. So we use distractions. So we don't pay
attention to this great void, which is the center. Because there is something there that I don't know what it is. I don't know what my life revolves around. Remember what I told you? That I was 13, 14 years old? This was a silly episode. I think it must have happened similar things to all of you. Don't say that to make me grow. But I found this reflection curious. Watching the afternoon session. Do you remember this story? The Indians doing a dance to invoke the rain. I was there, going down, getting up, rolling, hitting that stomp
on the ground. My mother next to me, watching that epic Hollywood. Then, at the end, I said to her, I'm just like these Indians. What do you mean, my daughter? Of course, they do these repetitive acts, walking around the fire to invoke the rain. I get up in the morning, brush my teeth, go to school, go back to school, do homework, watch the afternoon session, dinner, go to sleep, get up. In other words, I also do repetitive, circular gestures. But they are invoking the spirit of the rain. What am I invoking? Because one hour appears
and I don't know that I was the one who invoked. What am I invoking? I find it funny because this is something that we have as teenagers. We have an idea that someone explained to us, that we have exactly the moral of the story. But then comes survival, comes the vestibular, comes something else. You don't remember any of that anymore. You don't waste any more time. This is bullshit, this is a teenager thing. Who thinks about this nonsense? What is serious? Is this nonsense? And what is serious in life? We have this habit of know-how,
of knowing how. And we don't know why. What he puts here is very interesting. Okay, you gave me the law of how gravity works. But what is gravity for? It's that ancient authors said it was a form of love that expresses itself between the stars. It is a form of love that keeps them together. Because what unites inevitably is associated with good and love. Finally, a doubt, a curiosity that he puts to show how we think we know things. But in fact we are well loose, well in the utilitarian terrain. We know how to use
them. Well, imagine this electromagnetic spectrum, which is something scientific, of our time. A pawn spinning fast. The first thing you would hear would be a note, first a low note, then it would get higher. Then it passes to emit heat. After it emits heat, it starts to emit colors. You are accelerating the pawn, spinning. It first emits a color that is orange, red, and then it varies to purple. After that, it starts to emit types of rays. Electric energy, magnetism. And at some point it disintegrates. This is our electromagnetic spectrum as we see it today.
An acceleration of a wave to a certain point that matter disintegrates and releases its electrons. Hermeticism stops. This point does not stop. We simply stop perceiving. We only perceive the energetic field. It would keep vibrating and enter an emotional dimension. It would enter a mental dimension. It would enter a spiritual dimension. Until it reaches the feet of unity. Then the physical body disintegrates. And consciousness continues to travel through more intense vibrational levels. The process would continue. The plane that we recognize simply stopped. There is a plane that we recognize from the point of view of
the auditory, a plane that we recognize from the point of view of the visual, and there is a plane that we recognize with intelligence. Plato has a certain moment in the Republic, that he is talking to Socrates, who is the main character, he is talking to a disciple, Glauco, who says the following. We need to learn the order of the universe, the order of human life through the order of the universe. Glauco says, look up, right Socrates? Socrates, who did not have so much patience, he says, look up, it's the same as looking at the
ceiling of your room. I'm telling you to look not with physical eyes, but with the eyes of intelligence. Physical eyes only go to a certain point. I want you to look at the order of the universe with the eyes of your intelligence. Reduce what physical eyes are not seeing. Then you will have laws that apply to the whole. Principle of correspondence, the way of Plato. But it's interesting, it would be the same thing, only entering a plane that the electromagnetic spectrum no longer sees, because there is no more matter, there is no more energy, enters
more subtle planes. Then you start to approach metaphysical planes, to there of matter. He says, in the same way that science of our time, this in 1908 already said that all matter, that is, volume, mass, matter, has within itself a possibility of energy, and when you accelerate matter, it releases this type of energy, which is its own. The material body has within itself a potential of energy. And he says that when you accelerate the mind, you accelerate emotions, they also release things. They also release a type of energy that is their own. They emanate something.
And this emanation will invariably reach someone. That is, if matter is accelerated and produces heat, and someone puts his hand, it burns. If you accelerate your emotions, it produces an emotional influence that also hits the other. Your mind also hits the other. Plato said, a person who has a very serious moral defect, even if she is isolated, it contaminates humanity in some way. Because she vibrates, and this vibration hits. So all beings, came to the world to release what is their own. The seed of the hose came to generate a tree that will give us
sleeves. We, as human beings, our body came to deliver something, our emotions and our thoughts came to deliver something, to the cosmos as a whole, but more specifically to humanity. The more we accelerate, the more we fulfill this role. That is, a being that vibrates here, it adds much more to humanity than a being that vibrates here. So when you accelerate your vibration, it subtly your thoughts, it elevates your feelings, you are fulfilling a role not only with yourself, but with humanity. You are giving a message, even if it is not with words. Because we
are more intuitive than we imagine. We pass several messages without saying anything. For what we are, for what we believe, for what is valuable to us. We pass messages, we transmit, for what you are. You have to learn to perceive people around you, people. To perceive how certain people, rare in fact, but exist, just because they are in an environment, people position themselves better in the chair. And it's not because they are the boss and they will lose their jobs, no. Because they inspire respect. Just the fact that they are there, the person gets ready
and tries to do his best, speak properly, behave properly, because they inspire something. What is inspiring? Do they inspire or do they expirate something? Do they throw some energy into the air, which requires a counter-measure of height? The Pythagoreans said this, that when they passed, a Pythagorean disciple, just by passing, people became a little better. So if by chance there was a condemned, at that time in Crotona, a person who had been condemned to death, that the system at the time implied this kind of grief, and passed a Pythagorean disciple, he was forgiven just because
the disciple passed there. It meant something very good, to have passed a Pythagorean disciple there at that time. It was something very noble that this being had evoked. So he shouldn't be so guilty. The presence of a being was of absolute authority. People say, there goes a Pythagorean. That is, we inspire, maybe because we also expirate something, by the simple fact of being what we are, at the level we are. So elevate, purify the taste of thoughts, of feelings, of the things we live, of the things we taste in the art plan. Increase the taste,
more and more human. More and more, to be responsible for what we are, and for what it entails. It is interesting, he will say, just like the string of an instrument, any mental degree can be produced, polarizing the mind in it. The own mind and the mind of others. This is an interesting thing, this is already the principle of polarity. I told you that we are in vibration, but he was going to talk about polarity. He really speaks. He is not talking about things squarely. He says, just like a musician, a musician knows how to
go there on the guitar and make, hit that string that wants to produce that note, and produce exactly the note he wants. A person who has discernment of all the possibilities that exist within himself, can go there right and hit that string he wants. That's why he says, of the need to know yourself, to master yourself. Do you know what that is? To know all the strings that are inside you, to see what you can hit. Know that there is within man, the possibility of the fool and the possibility of the wise. Because you choose
what you hit, do not be chosen. Remember, for those who usually attend my lectures more, I always give an example, that in fact there is time that I do not do this, it is missing to practice again. It was the time of curiosity X. I was curious to know one thing. Then I would read everything that appeared in front of me, every time I took something that spoke about love, I copied, copied, copied, copied. Then I put it in some horrible cards, green, yellow, white, in the door of my closet. And I would read it
every day, to have an idea of what that concept was. I used to read good books, of course, classics, for the formation of taste, classics are important, classics are important. And then I would make a collection of that, in very bottle letters, to be able to assimilate. I remember that at one time, I had a mania of wanting to know what a sage was. I wanted to see the sage, I didn't just want concepts, I wanted to gather a lot of things that would allow me to imagine how a sage walks, how he crosses the
street, how he greets people. Like that, sage, from the flesh and bone, I needed to believe that they existed. Because it's hard in the current world, right? I needed to believe that they existed, and apply them in the current world. Can you imagine how a sage is, passing through the little treasures of the ground, when it rains? How will he behave? What will his reaction be, in front of the boring boss, of Brazilian economic policy? How does he react? How does he respond to life? How would that be? I need to see, to be able
to believe that this possibility exists inside me. Because every now and then I want to go there and, I want to hit that note, to prove to myself that it exists inside me. Know yourself and master yourself. Know human possibilities, and then choose what you want to be. And build yourself for a willful act. Because there is no other way to build yourself. There is no other way. Choose all the strings that are inside you, and play the melody that you decided, for a willful act, that will be you. That will be your identity. Remember
that I told you that Plato said that the worst thing that can happen in a society, is a man losing faith in a man. He no longer believes that there are possibilities, very subtle melodies inside him. And then he does not play. No one plays. And sometimes when a person plays, no one understands anymore. He has grown so fond of it that he no longer understands. And that's terrible. You take away the possibility of expansion of the human conscience. Continuing. Hermetism produces in the mind what science does in matter. It makes you vibrate wherever you
want. The idea of hermetism is that you become really the builder of yourself. Choose your melody. Know what your universe of possibilities is like as a human being. The human being is a dazzling thing, people. And at the same time, terrible. And we would have to know the two gradients of the principle of polarity. Sometimes it's good to stop reading today's newspaper, and listen to, I don't know, the tearful Mozart. I always remember this one because I think it's too much. I think it's the end of the pickaxe. How can someone get something like that?
Or a beautiful painting. Or read a excerpt from Gibran. See where the human being is able to get the thing. Unimaginable. Unimaginable. Touch a level that seems to be no longer a human being. And that's all inside of us. All these possible variations. Because if you always choose the lowest, because they convinced us that there are only the lowest. And in fact, man today believes in that. Then the power of the masters, which he says, which is called miracles. There are no miracles according to Hermetism. Then it is said that Hermetism is esotericism in the
wrong sense. Hermetism speaks of a science. Do not take the rabbit out of the cart. First you did not put the rabbit in the cart. Remember that. Magic, magnetism, science. So the miracle of a master is nothing more than to dominate a law that at this moment you still do not know. Practical example. This blessed computer of ours here. In the 15th and 16th century, what would it be? Witchcraft. Terrible. Guaranteed fire. Guaranteed your money back. There would be no chance. Isn't that it? Witchcraft. And today you know that this was a law. That they
simply did not dominate. Now we dominate. And how many do we not dominate yet? That is, it says that this, that in tradition the great sages of humanity did, was simply the domain of laws that are still unknown to us. Especially in subtle plans. But they are laws. The universe is all structured according to the law. Right? The mystery, the magic, nothing more is than a law that we still do not dominate. He who understands the principle of vibration has reached the center of power. Power over himself. Power over the circumstances of life. Being able
to be. Once again I reiterate with you. We have prejudice against the word power. Because within our chaotic political system, they put in our heads that power corrupts. And then we think that power is bad. Let's go who doesn't like power, like what? Debt? Don't you think it's a bit weird? The idea of God. Does anyone conceive a weak God? Isn't God the maximum power? Power is being able to do, is being able to transform, is being able to realize, is being able to act on the medium, on oneself. Power is one of the noblest
virtues. Because from power comes all the others. The cult that we make of weakness today is at least bizarre. So remember that phrase that I always tell you. From a citizen named Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. When he worked in a newspaper that had a very curious name, the Fluminense Marmota. He said the following. The popular saying is wrong that the occasion makes the thief. The occasion makes the crime. The thief is already born. That is, politics corrupts. The citizen is already corrupt and politics falls into his hands at the right time. Anything that falls
into his hands, he would do the same thing. How can power corrupt someone? There is the weakness of character and power has been enhanced. It was a mistake of society to have put power in the hands of a person who has no character. But it is not the problem of power. Power is a virtue. That is, to apprehend. Realize that it is too stupid to be obvious. To apprehend simple things. First, we are beings in evolution. Second, we have a point to reach, which is the human ideal. The fullness of values, virtues and wisdom. And
to get close to that point, we have to vibrate at increasingly noble levels. Final point. Three little things out of nothing. But think about the difference it makes. And it's not obvious. Does everyone know that nowadays? No, we are here for nothing. We came here to have things, to do things, not to be things. And it is not possible to be better than we are. We do not change. Gabriela's syndrome, remember? I was born like this, I grew up like this, I am still like this, you are always like this. That is, no one changes.
And change where? For what? Why? What is the meaning? Basic knowledge. That from the classical point of view, it was necessary that everyone had. And today we no longer have. So the principle of vibration makes sense for men who know what the potential of the human condition is and want to get there. And they know. That getting there is to make life more noble. In all senses. And that's it. Today we stay here. It was short today, we were fast. Almost English punctuality. And today there is time for you to ask questions. It's a good
question. If you recognize that in history there were good men, take this as a reference. More and more it creates a gradation. Well, today I have feelings more similar to theirs. Today I have thoughts more similar to theirs. Tastes more similar to theirs. The seeds of greatness in man need an image to flourish and germinate. This is epithet. If we don't have an image, how is it? It is difficult for a painter to take, for example, a painting totally from his head. In general, he has a model. The seeds of greatness in man need a
reference. Hence this tradition of good men that there were on earth is a heritage. Otherwise we doubt that we can be good. We believe that we can be effective, but good? No. Noble. This reference of human nobility is very important. Because more and more you are measuring. This level of feelings, this level of feelings, this level of meaning of life, this clarity in relation to my goals, this level of altruism. It's all like that. I'm going to pull this point up. Even in nobility of taste I'm more or less. But in altruism I'm far away.
Let me pull this level. Then I pull this here and I grow with everything harmonized. One more step, one more step, but having references. That's why it is said that the tradition of humanity is a heritage that every human being should receive. A good man guarantees how great we can be. A good man gives hope to the whole humanity. And we've had good men. We can't deny that. The end. If you've enjoyed the interview, please comment, like, and share. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to go. Good night. Bye-bye. Good night. Good night. Good night.
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