HERMETIC PRINCIPLES

“These words of wisdom, although written by my decaying hand, shall remain imperishable through time. May they be imbued with the medicine of immortality” – Hermes Trismegistus

Novumists follow the 7 Hermetic Principles. These principles were compiled in The Kybalion (1908) and are said to originate from Hermes Trismegistus, a sage and a god, who may have once been a man. He is a blending of the Greek Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth.

Even though the compilation of these principles may originate recently, the foundation they stand on comes from the ancient past and were carried forward since then by initiate to initiate. Isaac Newton himself studied the Hermetic texts from which these principles claim descent.

These principles are individual windows into how our reality operates. Many of these principles overlap but are also distinct in their own right. Let’s begin.

ALL IS MIND

Everything that happens comes about from a state of mind. Our emotions come from these states which influence how we perceive the world. Our minds hallucinate our reality from our sensory organs. Our consciousness is what allows us to act and react to the world.

Our entire existence may in fact be merely the thought of The One. When we return to The Source, our mind is melded with all the minds before us.

Because of our emanation from The Source, everything that exists within the framework of materialism and the mind are interconnected. We are all one. We all come from The One.

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW

Just as a tree’s roots mimic the trees branches, one set in the ground and one outreaching to heaven, so too is reality. As we exist here in our physical reality we also exist within higher and lower dimensions outside of our visual perspectives. What we manifest from our minds influence reality. Harmony exists when we are in balance. Balance is within the center of duality.

EVERYTHING IS DUAL, EVERYTHING HAS OPPOSITES

Black-white. Good-bad. Happy-sad. Alive-dead. Everything has an equal and opposite reaction. Yet, at the same time these opposites may be subjective from an individual’s point of view: Hot-cold for example. Our emotions exist on such a spectrum, and it is up to us to hone the degree. Just as the Yin-Yang symbols blends into one another, so too does everything else.

NOTHING RESTS, EVERYTHING MOVES, EVERYTHING VIBRATES

Although you can not see it, the atoms in these very words are moving. The quantum strings that make up the nuclei of those atoms exist as vibrations, which give rise to matter. Your emotions are even said to be vibratory: happiness is energetic while sadness is depressed. When you change your mind you change your vibration.

GENDER IS IN EVERYTHING

All things exist as both masculine and feminine. A duality once again. You, me, and the universe could not exist without gender conceiving and birthing the mechanisms for life. Every person within them exists both feminine and masculine. Our role in the greater aspects of society is determined by the sex given to us at birth and our duty is the joining of that gender with the opposite as to create a coupling of the androgynous.

EVERYTHING HAS RHYTHM

Years turn over from Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. We are born, we age, and we die. The Sun gets warmer, then cooler, then warmer again. One day you are happy, the next you are sad, and the next after you are happy again. Civilization rises and falls and rises again. Everything has rhythm. Everything has a cycle.

EVERY CAUSE HAS AN EFFECT

What began first does not matter but the continual progression does. As one thing exists it causes an effect on another thing. Just as two atoms existing in a vacuum will seek one another out, so do all things. When you throw a rock in the river the stream diverts slightly. In that diversion you could have made a place for fish to lay eggs or when throwing the rock, you could have killed a fish that would have spawned a new species. Every cause has an effect, every effect creates a cause.