The Seven Mighty Principles

The Messenger of the Gods

In Greek mythology he was identified as the messenger of the gods. Hermes Trismegistus, “three times great.”

The Romans called him Mercury and pictured him with winged shoes and hat. Known as the father of science, eloquence, and cunning, Hermes was also the protector of boundary lines and commerce.

He founded alchemy, which ultimately became the art of chemistry and medicine; astrology, which formed the basis of astronomy, and mathematics, philosophy, and virtually all of the modern sciences.

Hermes, reputed to be a contemporary of Abraham, developed much of what was to become the basis for all esoteric teachings.

The “Hermetic principles” can be found in both the most ancient of the Indian teachings and in the scrolls of the ancient Egyptians. Wise men came from all lands to sit at the feet of the Master Adept.

For more than a millennium his teachings have remained hidden, known to very few.

They became enshrouded in the mysteries of occultism when the dark ages settled over Europe and the land was rife with the guardians of the faith who would torture and kill all who dared investigate the “dark secrets.”

Today much is written about the knowledge of Hermes and especially about the seven principles he posited, which form the keystone of all knowledge.

The rediscovery by scholars unearthing ancient manuscripts in the quest for the age-old wisdom has brought the seven principles widespread interest in recent years.

We offer the principles to you in the hope they will serve to help you too to grow and mature.

The Seven Mighty Principles

To gain the most benefit from the Seven Principles you should go to your center and meditate on each one.

As you do, your sense of awareness will rise and you will be a step further on the road to enlightenment.

Do not expect understanding to come as a flash of inspirational lightning; rather, it comes gradually as each principle is thought about, digested and used.

The Seven Principles influence all things and are immutable. They cannot be changed, modified, or destroyed.

Their function can be likened to the rules of the road. Because they are universal rules, they govern all things, from the smallest particle to the expanding universe itself. An understanding of these rules gives you a step up on the game of life.

These principles are the rules of life.

 

The First Mighty Principle is Mentalism.

The principle of Mentalism states: The universe is a mental creation of
God.

Now immediately we run into the great problem with this principle: it is generally misunderstood by most people.

Does it mean that we are a dream of some infinite entity so far removed from us that we may never hope to gather a glimmer of understanding of the nature of God, and therefore ourselves?

Are we powerless robots of some omnipotent lab scientist? Not so.

Just as the character in a novel is a creation of the novelist and is, therefore, an aspect of the novelist, so are we and everything else in the universe a part of the Creator.

We are aspects of the totality of Creation.

As we are relative to God, so is our universe relative to us. Your world is
very real and very much yours. But it may not be my world at all, for in the
relative sense, my world is a mental creation of my mind, just as yours is of
your mind.

This principle can lead to a better understanding of our own minds
and how they work.

Mental power, or as we call it works because the universe is mental. All things are seen from the relative position of your mind and what you think you see. You may think you see a tree, whereas a squirrel thinks it sees a home. Your friend may think that a Picasso is a fine wall decoration and you may think that it’s a great investment.

You may see a situation as a problem and your spouse may think that it’s a
challenge and see the solution. Of course, everyone is correct for what you
think you see, you do see.

Our class is based on the fact that the mind can control forces and events outside oneself.

This is a fact only because the world we see is our own mental creation; that being so, if we created it, we can recreate it. Power of Self Mind Control graduates use their minds to change and to control their world.

The Second Principle is the Principle of Correspondence.

The principle of Correspondence states, “As above, so below; as below,
so above.”

As it is on the physical plane, so it is on the mental plane, as it is on the
mental plane, so it is on the spiritual. To understand the mental, study the
physical.

To better understand the spiritual plane, study the mental. Just as your brain waves may be in high Beta at forty cycles per second, so is your emotional experience one of extreme agitation.

Just as the universe is a mental creation of God, so is your personal world a mental creation of your own.

Understanding this principle will help you to unlock many emotions both positive and negative. It also helps you to tackle any problem area that has a range of manifestations: by dealing first with the easier, less intense manifestation of your problem, you will be solving, in some measure the same problem in its most extreme form.

There are many ways the principle of correspondence applies to your everyday life.

The Third Principle is that of Vibrations.

The principle of Vibrations states: All things are in constant and neverending
motion.

Energy is a manifestation of the principle of vibrations. A change in the vibration causes a change in the manifestation.

Health has a vibration. Illness has a vibration. Success has a vibration and failure has a vibration.

By changing the vibration you change the manifestation.

Water at a high vibration is steam. Water at a low vibration is ice. But water, ice, and steam are the same, differing only in the vibratory note, which causes the change in the manifestation.

The first note on the musical scale is A. On the piano, the A just above middle C vibrates at the rate of 880 cycles per second (if the piano is properly tuned).

Therefore 880 CPS represents A. Every single time. If you had a guitar and loosened the A string so that it vibrated at 870 cycles per second, 39 the sound would be a bit off. A fine ear would say that it’s flat.

The A, you might say, would have a slight cold; it would be a bit ill. Loosen the A string still more so that it vibrates at 860 CPS and it would be way off.

Even if you do not know an A from a G, you would know that it doesn’t sound right.

The A is now very ill; it has pneumonia. Loosen the string more and the A is no longer recognizable; it died. But not to worry, it’s easy to resurrect an A. You simply tighten up the string.

As above, so below; as below, so above.

As it is with a guitar string, so it is with your body. When you are ill, your vibrations are off.

Adjust the vibrations to the proper level and a healing takes place.

That’s what healers do, raise the energy level (the vibrations) to health and transmit that to the person with the problem.

The Fourth Principle is the Principle of Polarity.

The principle of Polarity states: All things are dual. Everything has its
opposite.

Opposites are the same, differing only by degree. Tall and short are the same. There are tall little people and there are short basketball players.

There is no such thing as tall or short, only as it is relative to you.

Hot and cold are the same, as seen in the principle of vibration. A hundred degrees Fahrenheit may be hot when you are outside and that is the temperature of the weather but cold if that is the temperature of your
oven and you are cooking a turkey.

We use polarity to swing from dislike to like, from fear to faith, from hate to love It helps us to go from guilt to self-forgiveness, and from anger to forgiveness.

We use this principle frequently to shed light on the meaning of words like love, fear, and anger, defining the word by examining its opposite.

Take the word fear, for instance. What is it? A negative, certainly. But a negative what? If you were to draw a scale of polarity with a negative on one end and a positive on the other, you would place fear on the negative side.

After some thought you would conclude that it was an expectation. Keeping
within the nature of the word, you would place expectation on the negative end and also on the positive side.

Fear is a negative expectation; you are expecting something bad to happen.

Faith is a positive expectation; you are expecting something good to happen.

Therefore fear and faith are the same, differing only by the degree of positiveness or the degree of negativeness. Change the degree and you change the emotion.

The Fifth Principle is the Principle of Rhythm.

The principle of Rhythm states: All things are born, grow, peak, diminish
and die.

All things rise and fall. There is a rhythmic cycle of birth, growth, deterioration, and demise in all things.

There are cycles and rhythmic functions that affect us constantly, every moment of the day.

When you wake up, your day is born. You begin the cycle of the day.

When you eat breakfast, you start a cycle that concludes when you finish
breakfast. Your day dies when you go to sleep, at which time your nighttime
cycle is born.

Your dreams are a cycle. Everything you do during the day is a cycle. You never know where you are on that cycle except in retrospect.

Things taken at the flood are more likely to be successful. We all have a high point in our cycles, and a low point. This includes the sleep cycle, health cycle, energy cycle, success cycle, luck cycle, and so on. Each cycle has a different time period to run.

The cycle of the moon, like the menstrual cycle, runs twenty-eight days; the sleep cycle runs ninety minutes.

Most of the other cycles, however remain hidden from us. If you were to chart your life with respect to colds, energy, luck, romance, enthusiasm, and lethargy, you would find a rhythm just as you will in all things.

To discover more about your life cycles, go to the alpha level and tell yourself that you wish to examine and become more aware of whatever cycle of activity you want to know more about.

Gambling during the high point of your luck period would bring you good luck.

Shopping for a house at the height of your success period will find you the best house.

Salespeople will find there are certain periods of the month when they can do no wrong.

And so it goes.

The Sixth Principle is Cause and Effect.

The principle of Cause and Effect states: Every cause has its effect and every effect has its cause. All things happen according to law. Accident and
coincidence are the result of unrecognized cause.

A brief story will illustrate third principle. One day a leaf fell in a California forest. It landed on the forest floor, and a fat green caterpillar that was inching along had to make a sharp turn to avoid it.

The caterpillar came to a log and crawled up the side. Just as it reached the top of the log, a man came by and sat down, squishing the caterpillar. The man jumped up and felt the goo on the seat of his pants.

On returning home, he changed clothes and took the pants to the local cleaners. While there he met a young woman and they began a conversation, which continued at a nearby coffee shop.

They began to date, fell in love, married, and had a child. Their son, being very clever, did well in school, became an attorney, and then went into politics, rising in his party.

And so, because a leaf fell in the forest one day, Richard Nixon became the thirty-seventh president of the United States.

Cause and Effect. From insignificant cause, great effects take place.

Through many of the our techniques, you instigate insignificant cause for desired effects.

The Seventh Principle is the Principle of Gender.

The principle of Gender states: All things have a masculine and
feminine aspect.

Gender manifests on the physical plane, on the mental plane, and on
the spiritual plane.

The masculine force is the outgoing, the positive, the instigative, The feminine force is the incoming, the receptive, the negative, the creative.

This has nothing whatever to do with the male and female sexes, although they are manifestations of the principle of gender on physical planes.

A dynamic speaker, for instance, is producing a masculine force while speaking, whether the speaker is male or female.

The Seven Principles are Immutable Laws of Nature. They cannot be changed or destroyed.

However, law can be used against law, the higher against the lower, the lower against the higher. A log being swept down a stream is at the mercy of the current.

A person swimming in the stream can use the principles of cause and effect, action and reaction to gain the shore.

It is not necessary to have an understanding of these laws to be able to reach the shore; you simply swim there.

However, an understanding will enable you to think at the shore what could be done if you were to fall into the river. Carrying the metaphor forward, we might say that the universe is a river, the planet is a river, the mind is a river.

These principles are for you to meditate on, to understand, and to work with so that they can help you in all aspects of your life. The usefulness will unfold as you continue to grow and to evolve.

Many of the manifestations of the principles are obvious. Others are more difficult to see.