THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES/ LAWS - EMERALD TABLETS OF THOTH.

1. The Principle of MENTALISM - (MIND/SPIRIT).

Everything is Spiritual. The Source of LIFE is CREATIVE SPIRIT, without bounds and limitations.

THE UNIVERSE IS A MENTAL CREATION/ CONSTRUCT.

Spirit / Mind stands above matter = rules matter.

2. The Principle of Cause and Effect - KARMA

Each cause has an effect - each effect has its cause.
Each action has a certain energy which requires that the like energy returns to its source, to its creator.
The effect equals the cause in quality and quantity. 'Equal creates equal'.
Every ACTION has an equal and opposite REACTION.

3. The Principle of Correspondence or Analogy

As above - so below, as below - so above.
As within - so without, as without - so within.
As in great - so in small, as in small, so in great.
For everthing there is in this world, there exists an analogy on EVERY plane of BEING.

4. The Principle of Resonance or Attraction

Like attracts like and will be enforced by like.
Unlike repels each other.
Your personal behaviour determines your personal conditions and the total conditions of your life.
NEGATIVITY ATTRACTS MORE NEGATIVITY, darkness attracts more darkness, aggression attracts aggression, hate attracts hate, sorrow attracts sorrow, addiction attracts addiction, so if you do not stop, reconsider and reverse your path, your negativity will increase, leading into a downward spiral that - at a certain point - cannot be stopped and leads into depression, desperation, disaster and death.

5. The Principle of Harmony and Balance.

Harmony is the flow of life.
Everything strives for harmony, for balance. The stronger determines the weaker and makes it equal to itself.

Life is harmonious togetherness, the GIVING and TAKING of elements and powers being active in CREATION. By grasping and holding on we create a blockage which in turn is leading to sickness and death as a result of ERROR:
LIFE supports only what furthers LIFE, and anything causing a blockage weakens and must go, because it is a hindrance to LIFE itself.
LIFE is a mutual balance or compensation, eternal movement. Different effects are finding a balance, so that as soon as possible harmony is restored. Life is continuous GIVING and TAKING. The universe lives by dynamic balance in EASINESS, HARMONY and LOVE.
GIVING and TAKING are different aspects of the Cosmic Energy Stream.

6. The Principle of Rhythm or Vibration.

Everything flows in and flows out again. Everything has its tides. Everything rises and falls.

EVERYTHING IS VIBRATION.
EVERYTHING IS IN CONSTANT MOTION, NO-THING IS STATIC.

The even movement of the pendulum is evident in everything. The swing of the pendulum to the one side equals the swing of the pendulum to the other side. Rhythm equalizes.
Overcome rigidity and live flexibility. Whatever is rigid must break apart

7. The Principle of Polarity and Gender.

Everything has a pair of poles, a male and a female counterpart.
Everything has a pair of contrasting aspects.
Like and unlike are the same, only differing by degree.

Contrasts are the same by their nature.

GOD'S TRUTH IS ONE.

Only in the lower vibrating worlds, such as the 3rd dimension, the aspects have different signs marking them as "contrasts", and thus have different vibrational frequencies. The human brain is three-dimensionally orientated; for that reason the ONE-NESS or SAME-NESS appears PARADOXICAL to the polaric mind. But each PARADOXON should be brought together - in the middle, only this way we can approach TRUTH. Or else our truths are only half truths.
We cannot understand TRUTH - only grasp it with the HEART!