THE
SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES
I.
THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM - "THE ALL is MIND; The Universe
is Mental."
II. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE - "As above, so below;
as below, so above."
III. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION - "Nothing rests; everything
moves; everything vibrates."
IV. 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 half-truths; all
paradoxes may be reconciled."
V. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM - "Everything flows, out and in;
everything has its tides; 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."
VI. 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." [also
see Emerson's Essay on Compensation,
free eBook on my site]
VII. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER - "Gender is in everything;
everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests
on all planes "
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Here
are some recommended resources. Please report any broken links
[email].
RESOURCES
- excellent academically sound sources
Esoterica
from the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University
is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the transdisciplinary
study of Western esotericism: Western esoteric traditions including
alchemy, astrology, Gnosticism, gnosis, magic, mysticism, Rosicrucianism,
and secret societies, and their ramifications in art history,
history, literature, and politics.
Marie Louise von Franz's book Alchemy:
An Introduction available from Inner City Books.
J.
R. Ritman Library Bibliotheca
Philosophica Hermetica, a Hermetic collection in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
RITMAN
PAGES
Take
a Virtual Tour of the Ritman Library
The
Library's Collections - includes Hermetic, Alchemical, Rosicrucian,
Knights Templar, Kabbalah, Cathars, Grail, Krishnamurti and
Sufi.
In de
Pelikaan, the in-house publisher, including several texts
available for purchase
Ties
between Hermeticism and other "religions"; and a
short list of Hermetic
Writings from a student at Roanoke College.
Original
pages from a Medieval manuscript scanned: Hermes
Trismegistus: Mercurii Trismegistis liber de potestate et sapientia
dei/Marsilium Ficinum traducdturs ad Cosmum Medicem. "Book
of the Power and Glory of God, Allegedly by the Magus Hermes Trismegistus,
translated by Marsilius Ficino for Cosimo Medici" (Venice,
1491). 8.5" x 6" page. Special Collections, University
of Saskatchewan.
The
Alchemy Website Alchemical Texts, a comprehensive listing
with other good resources on the site
Alchemical
Galleries, the best on the web. We are so fortunate to have
the internet. It used to take a lot of money and ingenuity to
get the texts to see this many alchemical images.
Alchemical
and Hermetic Emblems CD-Rom Volume 1, 276 images coloured
by Adam McLean - I wish he hadn't colored them, but it's an amazing
collection.
Alchemical
and Hermetic Emblems CD-Rom Volume 2, 280 images coloured
by Adam McLean. Same as above. Adam McLean has worked on these
collections for over ten years and began making them available
on the internet in 2000.
The
Alchemy Web Bookshop. I certainly wouldn't recommend actually
doing these experiments, although it seems some people on this
website have tried. I recommend this site for the visuals and
for symbolic purposes only.
Searchable
Database of Alchemical Symbols - Categories such as red lion,
green lion, hermaphrodite. etc.
RESOURCES
- intuitively developed sources [use good judgment]
About
the Hermetica
The
Golden Tractate of Hermes Trismegistus from A Suggestive
Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery written in London in 1850.
Hermetic
Arcanum - good alchemy and interesting from the point of view
of the development of alchemy which was the precursor to chemistry|
Book
and tapes by Manly P. Hall,
a popular writer in the first half of the 20th century. Here is
the cover of his book on Alchemy.
These
are other topics are covered in the Online
Tarot Class. Also please visit the Hermes
page.
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