The conceptual framework
The Seven Hermetic Principles
A map for studying mind, relationship, movement, contrast, cycles, consequence, and generation.
The Principle of Mentalism
Reality is fundamentally mental; experience is shaped through consciousness, attention, and interpretation.
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Relationships found on one level can illuminate another: “As above, so below; as below, so above.”
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Nothing rests absolutely; differences often emerge from rate, rhythm, intensity, and state.
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Many apparent opposites are differences of degree within the same underlying category.
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Systems exhibit recurring movement: advance and retreat, expansion and contraction, effort and recovery.
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Every effect has causes, and every cause produces effects within conditions too complex to see completely.
Read the guide →07The Principle of Gender
The Kybalion describes complementary projective and receptive functions involved in creation and development.
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