Hermetic History and Introduction

         The Universe is mental and promulgated by the conscious mind of the ALL or one source of all things. In actuality the universe IS the Mind of God and we are living within his mentally projected manifestations as in an eternal Lucid dream. God is an infinite living mind and a "negative" intrinsic essence which permeates the entirety of the cosmos with its life giving principles and emanations. In actuality, humanity resides within the Source God's being and essence due to the immutable fact that since the Source is everything then nothing could possibly exist outside of it, thus all things reside within it and are "of it". 

       An Aphorism employed by the secret mystery school of the Rosecrucians is to title the All as the Infinite Unmanifest due to the necessity of "it" existing as everything prior to actual manifestation, polarity, density, creation, causes or effects, and gendered affinity. Thus it is neither male nor female and should not be thought of as any sort of anthropomorphic divinity due it being far beyond such naive and inadequate conceptualizations  of its nature. 

        Contrary to the mainstream scientific establishment's partial understanding, the universe is manifested through the mental vibrations of this ALL with consciousness manifesting first and physicality proceeding after, and this completely dissolves scientific materialism and its notions that the brain creates consciousness, it is rather a processor or containment field for our endowment of consciousness allocated to us by the One Primordial Essence. The mental nature of the Universe, if one ponders the notion, will ontologically elucidate and delineate the varied mental and psychic phenomena which have eternally eluded concrete understanding by scientific communities for generations, and this includes paranormal manifestations such as ghosts, telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience,  telekinesis, levitation, astral projection, and remote viewing. Once an individual consciousness commences to ascertain and comprehend this profound conceptualization of the innate mental nature of the Universe, it will inevitably initiate a burgeoning perception and realization of the immense impact our thoughts, ideas, and intentions can have upon the psychic fabric of the world around us. Furthermore, the individual will indubitably discern the potential of their mentality manifesting affects upon other individual's conscious states that are not actually separate or disconnected from us, but are in fact vibrantly linked to one another through this all permeating etheric stream of collective consciousness. 

       "As above so below, as below so above."-The Kybalion.  The nature of the universal manifestation of the Infinite Unmanifest or the ALL is akin to the concept of fractals. Fractals are self-similar energetic geometric patterns that exist within the natural world and the Universe at large easily represented by the Fibonacci Sequence, the Seed of Life Pattern, and the Flower of life Pattern respectively. They are the spiral of spiritual prismatic energies manifesting the ALL into a plethora of differential, individuated, yet paradoxically mirroring sequences to create the varied forms of life and matter existing in the cosmos. Furthermore, if one seeks to ascertain an understanding of the subtle planes residing unseen and superimposed upon our material existence, I.E. the astral plane and archetypal plane, then one must endeavor to apply the law of correspondence in their efforts to garner information from these elusive levels of the cosmic meta-structure. 

      The microcosm and the macrocosm are essentially energetic refractory reflections of each other creating what has been termed the Holographic Universe Theory with renowned scientists such as the late Steven Hawking proposing this theory, as well as technological engineering master Elon Musk as well subscribing to and publicly acknowledging the potentiality of this theory's existence.

      It has been stated by esoteric spiritual masters such as William Walker Atkinson and Dion Fortune that the law of correspondence, when applied to the schematic of the universal conceptualization of the cosmos, would allow the practicing Hermeticist or Kabbalist, in Fortune's case, to unveil mysteries about the various higher planes of existence and the Universe at large through its proper application. These mysteries that would have otherwise been obfuscated through the confines of normal conscious investigative methodologies then become demystified by the parallelism existent between the Macrocosm and the Microcosm.  Which is why the axiom of "as above, so below, as below so above' IS THE ESSENCE OF THE LAW. The physical environment in which we reside and the material body we in inhabit are structured, in a microcosmic fashion, after the energetic, archetypal blueprints of the macrocosmic patterns which structure the higher realms of existence.

      The Universal manifestations of the One Mind are in perpetual motion ever vibrating with nothing in existence at rest. At the most fundamental levels of the constructed universe everything has an individuated frequency comprised of a pure vibratory spiritual essence which emanates the plethora of spiritual, mental and material geometric forms found throughout the universe and natural world, which is inherently the mind of the ALL.  Thus, the conceptualization of the apparent solidity of the universe is only an illusion with everything actually being a vibration at a specific energetic density which produces the perceived 3d world of "matter". 

      The highest plane is where the highest rate of vibratory states  are inherently linked with matters of a spiritual nature and the energetically endowed spiritual essence that resides in the core of our being allows us to exist as super-conscious, moral men and women; thus, the spirit is the vibration which is intrinsically resonating at the most elevated degrees of vibratory potentiality within the framework provided by this cosmic structure of the Universe. Since spirit is the manifestation of the One which resonates most closely to the frequency of the One itself raising your spiritual vibration or resonance level through internal, not external, self-work and mastery is the path a Hermeticist; and this path must be resolutely tread if one desires to definitively, consciously, and energetically tap into a stream of connection with The One not to mention his states of Divine Genius and Higher Self. 

           The secondary plane of vibratory existence is the mental arena of manifested phenomenon  where humanities thoughts, ideas, thought-forms, conscious and unconscious states, and psychic abilities arise and have their being( so to speak). This planar construct of the etheric reality is where one can seek to master the varied phases of mentalism and hyper-consciousness inherently endowed upon the human race. However, due to modern bias based in material fixation, this generally has been inadequately explained, studied, and researched by modern scientism thus leaving the contemporary human being ignorant and unaware of their latent transmutational restructuring potential of mental states which  then routinely inflict a plethora of preventable psychological issues upon his or her psyche. 

        It is imperative for an aspiring Hermeticist to devote himself routinely and determinedly to the mastery of his consciousness and mental states which can often arise unbidden to thwart his efforts of psychic self-discovery or engaging the latent psychic capacities which reside just below the surface of everyday consciousness. Once one attains a degree of self-mastery in this arena he becomes increasingly capable  of consciously transmuting one vibrational mental state into another almost at will and with extensive discipline do it with ease.  A master adept of the Hermetic Art of mental transmutation will never be the slave to his mental or emotional states always being the one inducing the transformation of one state into another. Therefore, one will be performing this oscillation in conjunction with one's inherent psychic fortitude to maintain the desired mental state he has attained without allowing the energetic psychological thrusts from other members of the human species to topple or disintegrate his current state.  

      The Hermetic axiom that "everything is dual, Everything has poles, everything has its pairs of opposites" underlies the nature of emanated reality by decisively expressing the logical absolute innate to the dualistic precept or law which immutably  requires this archetypal  schematic to enable existence to be manifested  at all. Thus, the prescribed requirement for any manifestation is the creation of harmonic essences involving an equilibrium between diagrammatically and diametrically constructed poles or  energetic archetypes. The Monad, the One, Infinite Unmanifest emanates reality into existence through the use of these poles so that equalization is intrinsically abiding throughout all aspects of cosmic archetypal superstructures including galaxies, solar systems, planets, and even to people on down to the atomic level. 

     Thus, according to Hermetic law, the entirety of any given spectrum in the cosmos is by its very essence manifested with its two opposites or poles simultaneously, thus enabling the said spectrum to be capable of sliding from one pole to another yet both poles being degrees of the same manifested essence of its kind providing balance to its structure. This being the case, all opposites have differences in their density or magnitude or degree but exist of the same energetic nature with all extremes meeting in the middle and all paradoxes becoming reconciled through the innate equilibrium written into its coded primordial state of generation.  Examples of such manifested polarities are hot and cold, light and darkness, hard and soft, wet and dry, etc. 

      The fifth law of Hermetics is the Law of Rhythm which is the cosmic cause of the cycles which arise within the Universal nature of reality and allow nothing to ever remain in a constant state without evolving or involving before returning to its primal form within the Monad and then remanifesting into a new or future cycle of reality. The Law predicates that all manifestations must have their tides and be required to rise before falling and subsequently rising again in accordance with cosmic equalization. Furthermore, the measure of the pendulum paradigmatic swing to the right  is the reciprocal measure of the swing to the left with the Law of Rhythmic compensation perpetually active in all existent manifestations. 

        Thus in accordance with this primordial law all galaxies, worlds, planets, suns, stars, peoples, and civilizations must inherently face inevitable energetic dissolution with cycles upon cycles upon cycles of consequent rising and falling into eternity thus allowing a consistent and constant state of destruction followed by energetic renewal to properly maintain vibrant and fresh cosmic or microcosmic structures for the enabling of a healthy cosmic blueprint. If the old and degenerating manifestations were not allowed to over time disintegrate and then become regeneratively reconstructed with renewed health and vitality the cosmic structures would eventually become so laden with dead, stale energy as to inhibit the emergence of thriving viable worlds, suns, civilizations, peoples and etc. 

           The aspiring Hermeticist must at all times seek to remain aware and mindful of this rhythmic Law due to the fact that it remains perpetually active and the pendulum swing will inevitably polarize and if he is not adequately skilled in mental transmutation or fortitude he will be subjected to the energetic push to the opposing pole. Once becoming an adept Hermetic practitioner the individual is able to engage in the Art of Polar Avoidance in which he or she deliberately polarizes their internal state in such a manner that when the time arises for the swing to manifest they will be capable of technically standing above the swing allowing it to pass beneath their polarized state in an act of mental adroitness that disallows the energetic change to occur in its entirety essentially mitigating the majority of the effects that manifest during the pole shift.

       The Hermetic axiom "Every cause has its Effect and Every Effect has its Cause, Everything happens according to Law" summarizes the intrinsic planar structuring of the entirety of the cosmos. Accordingly, there are a plethora of planes of causation but nothing can escape the law of karmic reciprocity on the plane of Effects which is generally considered by esotericists to be the "3d" materialistic Plane in which we reside as physically manifested individuated consciousnesses in a tangible "hard' reality. If one is unable or incapable of deducing the root cause of an effect in our material world reality its happening is in no way by "chance" which exists not and only indicative of a Law not recognized by the person effected with its origins almost certainly emanating from the various planes of causation or higher energetic planes of existence than the material. 

       Therefore, since the origins of effects arises from planar causation if one seeks to alter manifestations in the plane of effects one must seek such alteration in the higher planar arenas to effectuate the desired energetic change in the material realm of effects and never the other way around for one cannot transmute effects into differentiated effects within its own plane of existence since it would violate the causal imprint of the Law itself. Of course this engenders a difficult situational paradox for those with aspirations to alter the world structures in which we reside, live, and have our being for one must dig deeply into the higher causes of manifested phenomenon to effect beneficial transmutation of it.  

        The nature of existence is a bifurcated manifestation of gendered polar energies which attract and repel each other in a reciprocal dance of affinity from the macrocosmic level down to the lowest microcmosmic level. Everything has these masculine and feminine principles infused into there basic archetypal, spiritual, mental, and material(atomic) fractal blueprint with it immutably intrinsic to all planes of existence.  Even in the realm of the Gods, the Infinite Unmanifest, Unknowable One, allocates his Luminous life-force of emanative intentionality to gendered pairs of Aeons, Gnostic Gods, who are archetypal aspects of the One Source that once endowed and infused with the life-generative capacity subsequently cocreate in divinic couplings systematically engineering  bio-energetically viable life-forms to seed emergent worlds with harmonic genomic templates innately formed through the masculine and feminine resonance frequency equilibrium. 

        Respectively, the bigendered nature of creation is far beyond the conceptualization of typical sexual, physically manifested types of gender inherent to the materialistic planes of existence with it permeating into the nature of atoms, molecules, spirits, mental states, body parts, and entities ad infinitum.