In a recent Akashic Records Insights session, I explored the origins of the seven hermetic principles through the Akashic Records, responding to the question:
What is the point of origin of the seven hermetic laws and where are they cultivated from?
These principles, like other spiritual frameworks, originate from humanity’s collective quest to understand existence and interconnectedness. They offer a static perspective rooted in linearity and a dynamic view transcending time and space, emphasizing integration of body, mind, heart, and soul. This evolving understanding reflects humanity’s shift towards empowerment and reconnection with mystical traditions.
Here’s the Transcript:
Student: As above? So below everything is vibration etc.
Cheryl Marlene:
Right from the Emerald tablet, right? That’s at least some part of the origin of some of that. They’ve become more specific over time. Okay. But let me ask about this. So something like the seven hermetic laws, and there would be other things like what are called the eight limbs of yoga or the eight limbs of not yoga, but of Buddha, not that those are the same things, right? That’s not what they’re getting ready to say. It could even go into say the 10 Commandments from the Bible and from the Torah.
What you have there is ideas and thoughts which in our modern sense may be identified with a particular source. They all come out of a collective energy of understanding of both what it means to be human and what it means to be connected in the way that we are as humans. With All That Is, with the universe, with whatever the broadest reach you want to think about and are reflective of the human desire to understand those typical questions:
- Who am I?
- Why am I here?
- Am I good enough?
Would be at least one way to generally summarize the primary motivations of a human being.
So something like the seven hermetic laws come out of a particular history of humanity, dealing with what it means to be alive on earth and dealing with the shifts and changes that happen energetically, both just in terms of the way human life is led to a perception of what both gives foundation to the vision quest of knowing yourself to know thyself.
And at the same time, it’s a framing of how one is also then connected through and across the social order. So it also then is dealing with that basically that fourth question in a sense, which is how do I live with all of these people and maintain a sense of who I am?
Part of the reason why those questions are there is because there’s always been a fundamental quest within humanity to understand how to deal with that, with the unknown, with what feels like is mystery, which is transcendent, which is more that sense that there is something more than me has been a part of humanity for a very, very long time.
And so for example, the seven hermetic laws make an attempt at quantifying that understanding, that ability to interact and understand the world and self.
Student:
So I would take that as a man or a woman’s construct of looking at the spaces between the spectrum of static energy and dynamic energy and putting a meaning behind each of these principles to make sense of the energetics and the principles that the universe both births and dies is that birth and death, birth and death. And then it lives within the realms of these different hermetic principles.
Cheryl Marlene:
Yeah, exactly. So for some people, this explains it all. For other people, it doesn’t quite get to it, because they take a different perspective on it. But overall, it’s meant to help give framework and foundation to your experience of being human and a way and a framework and a foundation to be able to answer those basic questions of who am I? Why am I here? Am I good enough? Can I get along with everybody else?
Student:
And would that apply to things such as chakras and all of that?
Cheryl Marlene:
Yeah. And essentially it also applies to what we would call religions and other kinds of spiritual traditions. I mean, all of that is focused on being able, at least minimally, to provide enough structure that you’re not worried about it, you’re coming into more of a comfort level. But they would also say that especially in the last two to 3000 years, a whole lot of that has been filtered through the power dynamics that we live within, which is that the mind and the body are deemed superior to the heart and the soul.
And there is the perspective that the best way to deal with all of this is to obtain control and power over everybody else. That’s the way you can set up an environment where those that are in control, those that are dominant, are able to get what they want while using their promise of protection as a reason to be able to do what they want to do when they want to do it.
So there’s a lot about current religious and spiritual traditions that actually end up being based on Power Over/Power Under dynamics as opposed to the possibilities of Power With and Power Within dynamics. So as you learn about stuff, part of it is to be aware of the potential for anything to come out of that concept of power dynamics. And it’s why a whole lot of it’s changing right now more and more as we move away from the dominance of the mind and the body over the heart and soul, and we move into the integration of body, mind, heart, and soul.
A lot of, let’s say spiritual ideas that might’ve worked for us, even just 50 years ago, 25 years ago, don’t really work now because as you become more conscious of what you can do to empower yourself and to choose consciously Power With and Power Within, it starts to break down the efficacy and the ability to control and manipulate that Power Over has been enjoying for quite some time. And then if you bring in the idea of a static versus the dynamic, so the static is basically always looking at things from let’s say a linear point of view. And so time is past, present, and future, and more or less, we’re talking about three dimensions of space. So you’ve got four dimensions there. You have essentially height, width and length plus time.
That perspective, while there’s a lot of good that comes out of it is, and it’s there mainly because that’s what our human agreements agreed to, is that we agreed to essentially arrange ourselves based on that linear perspective, let’s say from the transcendent point of view, from that which is beyond this physical environment and what most people would think of as the divine or God, it has a dynamic point of view. It’s not limited by the linear perspective, it’s not limited by three dimensions of space. It sees it from the point of view of the infinite and the eternal so that there’s no limit to time and there’s no limit to space.
And when you begin to look at things from that transcendent point of view, then there’s different things that will shift or different ways of looking at things. So even the laws, you could go through all seven of those and rework them within let’s say a dynamic point of view, and it would bring you to at least a slightly different understanding, if not a completely different understanding. But looking at them from a linear point of view is still, it’s not that that’s wrong or anything, it’s just that it’s a particular perspective. And that perspective is incredibly helpful for understanding who you are and how you are connected to the universe.
Student:
How would they suggest defining the seven hermetic principles? Saying humans look at it from a static view, how would you say they would explain it or field?
Cheryl Marlene:
So there’s a couple of ways that it could be done. One is simply just to ask the question, what is mentalism, is correspondence, what is vibration, you could do it that way. And I mean that’s asking the Records those questions, what you’re going to get. They’re saying from that, doing it that way is more of a dynamic interpretation of those seven ideas. Then what they would suggest that you do is you could ask the question, what is the dynamic perspective of this principle? Because part of it is that when you go from static to dynamic, one of the things that you’re doing is in a certain sense you’re going, I mean, I know this is a hierarchical description and it’s not really meant to be that, but we’re linear people.
So it’s the way you talk about it, which is when you go from static to dynamic in a certain sense, what you’re doing is you’re changing the level of your view. So the linear perspective, the static perspective can be like say at the thousand foot level. And the dynamic view is more up into the, say the hundred thousand foot level. And what you can see from that a hundred thousand foot level gives you a different perspective on what you see at the 10,000 foot level.
And that’s why from the dynamic point of view, it might not be the principle of mentalism, it may be the principle of something else, like the principle of soul clarity like they’re saying, for example, and that you describe that in a different way. That’s something that they’re more than willing to do, but it’s too much to do right now.
And I’m also, I’m saying for me personally, I find that incredibly fascinating and would be something that I would absolutely be excited and thrilled to do because part of it is, I mean, they can give definitions and stuff like that, but it would be helpful, say for me to do that for example, is to have a little more clarity on what is meant by each of those so that the questions that go back to the Records about it take in that understanding and then that creates the foundation in the format to be able to shift it into a dynamic expression.
Student:
Yeah, I love that. It’d be fun to do it as a class and take one a week.
Cheryl Marlene:
Yes, it would be. And it’s actually something I’ve thought about doing.
Student:
Cool. I appreciate that. And I like how you said soul clarity with the principle of mentalism because that’s essentially what it is. It filters in through the mind. It’s really what is our soul’s clarity on the situation, and I’d really rather look at the penthouse point of view of my life. I’d rather not be on the first floor anymore. So I like that as well.
Cheryl Marlene:
Yeah. Well, a couple of years ago I did this actually with the 10 Commandments, and part of it is because out there are several examples of the 10 Commandments in English. I just looked in English, didn’t look in other languages, but people already having started that process of translating them from a static to a dynamic point of view. And it’s really interesting what you get. And part of why that’s also interesting is because say the 10 commandments became a thing before, or, well, maybe slightly before, it depends on how they’re saying it depends on what you want to call the beginning of all of this. But it came from a time where that shift that I’ve talked about from that shift into the human agreements of the mind and body over the heart and soul began somewhere about, if we say it started 3000 years ago, then that’s approximately a thousand BCE, more or less.
And so part of it is to ask the question, well, what were we coming from when that shift began? And what we were coming from was a period of time where we enjoyed the integration of body, mind, heart, and soul. And from our current perspective, we would say that was a period that was much more mystical in characteristics than human experience has been over the last 3000 years.
So that the 10 Commandments, and the hermetic principles also can be traced back especially through the experience of Egypt. And so that means that those are things that are coming out of a mystical integrated perspective and then being brought into an environment that has that separation and that’s what moves it into a static point of view and why a lot of that has been lost because it lost its layers of meaning and understanding when it went through that.
And so partly what’s happening, part of what comes out of the motion of moving your awareness when you can into a dynamic point of view, it means that you’re adding back those layers that essentially have been lost. I mean, actually they weren’t really lost, but the esoteric forms of particularly say Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have esoteric traditions where a lot of that layered understanding ended up.
So we haven’t really lost it, it just hasn’t been a part of the mainstream of religion and spiritual traditions. So the Kabbalah would be that esoteric version in Judaism. Sufism would be that esoteric tradition in Islam. And the Christian esoteric things went in a couple of different places, but essentially are those groups that were called heretics, right? The word heretic was actually for a group of people who had the audacity to believe that they could interpret the word of God for themselves.
And so the word heretic became synonymous with those that reject Christianity. They’re not doing it. It also began the parts that developed some of what we think what are usually referred to as secret societies, like the Rosicrucians. That’s where a lot of the Christian esoteric strain went is into those things. Even the Freemasons had different developments over time. We could spend months just on that.
But anyway, they’re just saying that a lot of what’s happening right now and why there is so much interest in understanding who you are spiritually is that when you begin to really get into that integration and experience the integration of your body, mind, heart, and soul, you feel connection more than you feel division and separation. And so it’s like you end up kind of wanting to reinterpret for yourself what life’s about.
And that’s why there is all of this interest in all of these different, the seven hermetic principles or the four agreements, right? Stephen Covey’s The Seven Principles. I mean, even though that that was more of a business perspective, all of that is about bringing in a much broader perspective to understanding who you are, why you are here, if you’re good enough, and how you’re going to get along with everybody. So did that answer your question?
Student: Yeah, that was great. I kind of know the answer, but I’m just curious what are some other paint colors I can connect the dots on? So it was great. Yeah, it’ll be a fun glass sometime.
Cheryl Marlene:
Yeah, I will contemplate this. There’s just so much fun.
For reference:
The Seven Hermetic Principles are foundational concepts from Hermetic philosophy, rooted in the ancient wisdom attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. These principles aim to explain the nature of reality, the universe, and human experience, offering a framework for self-discovery and spiritual understanding. They are detailed in the Hermetic text, The Kybalion. Here are the principles:
- The Principle of Mentalism
“The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental.”
This principle suggests that everything begins in the mind, emphasizing the power of thought and consciousness as the basis of reality.
- The Principle of Correspondence
“As above, so below; as below, so above.”
This principle illustrates the interconnectedness of all levels of existence, from the macrocosm (universe) to the microcosm (individual).
- The Principle of Vibration
“Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”
This principle asserts that all things, whether material or immaterial, are in constant motion and have a vibrational frequency.
- The Principle of Polarity
“Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites.”
This principle explains the dual nature of existence and how opposites are extremes of the same essence.
- The Principle of Rhythm
“Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides.”
This principle highlights the cyclical nature of life and energy, with patterns of rise and fall, creation and destruction.
- The Principle of Cause and Effect
“Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause.”
This principle underscores the law of causation, emphasizing that nothing happens by chance.
- The Principle of Gender
“Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles.”
This principle is about the interplay of masculine and feminine energies in all aspects of life, symbolizing balance and creation.
These principles serve as tools for understanding the universe, personal growth, and achieving harmony through spiritual insight.
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