Hermes-Thoth and the Seven Great

Universal Laws
Written by Dr. Joshua David Stone
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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. Hermes-Thoth
Hermes also known as Thoth, lived in Atlantis and Egypt for over two thousand years, according
to the channelings of Djwhal Khul and Vywamus. He was known at the time he lived throughout
the world, as the Master of the Masters.
Egypt was one of the highest spiritual civilizations that has ever existed on planet Earth, and
Hermes played a key role in its flourishing. Hermes was known as Hermes Trimegistus. He was
the father of occult wisdom and one of the founders on Earth of astrology and alchemy.
The Egyptians were so amazed by the profundity of this man and his teachings they deified him
under the name Thoth, and He became one of their Gods. In later times, the civilization of
Greece made Him one of their Gods also, calling him, Hermes, the God of Wisdom. He was
considered the messenger of the Gods.
The term Trimegistus means thrice great, or great/great, or greatest/great. Hermes name became
synonymous with the Fount of Wisdom. In His later incarnation as the Buddha, he would be
known in a similar way, for Buddha embodied wisdom, and Christ embodied love and wisdom.
The Lord Maitreya, in our present day, embodies wisdom, love, and power. Hermes was also
called the scribe of the Gods.

The Hermetic teachings are found in all lands and all religions, because of the universality of its
appeal. In early days there was a compilation of certain basic hermetic maxims, axioms, and
precepts, which were passed from teacher to student, which is called the Kyballion.
Later in the civilization of Rome he was again Deified and His name was Mercury, usually
imaged with a winged cap and sandals. The other book besides the Kyballion, which is the
most important of the Hermetic writing, is called the Divine Pymander. This sets forth a
complete system of metaphysical theology and philosophy.
Before sharing with you the seven great Hermetic principles of Hermes, I would like to share a
couple of quotes from His writings to give you a flavor and feel for this great Avatar.
O people of the Earth, men born and made of the elements, but with the spirit of the Divine man
within you, rise from your sleep of ignorance! Be sober and thoughtful. Realize that your home
is not in the Earth but in the Light. Why have you delivered yourselves over unto death, having
power to partake of immortality? Repent, and change your minds. Depart from the dark light and
forsake corruption forever. Prepare yourselves to climb through the seven rings to blend your
souls with the Eternal Light. Where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for
His teaching, open wide. When the ears of the students are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to
fill them with wisdom.
The Seven Great Hermetic Principles

The principles of truth are seven; He who knows these, understandingly, possesses the magic
key before whose touch all the doors of the temple fly open. The Kyballion
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The principle of mentalism

The principle of correspondence
The principle of vibration
The principle of polarity
The principle of rhythm
The principle of cause and effect
The principle of Gender

These seven Hermetic principles are the basis for the entire field or Hermetic philosophy. I will
now go through each one of these seven Hermetic principles and give a more in-depth
explanation of their meaning.
I. The Principle of Mentalism

The all is mind; the universe is mental. The Kyballion

This principle embodies the understanding that everything in the universe is created by thought
or mind. There is nothing that exists in the material universe where this is not the case.

The great Edgar Cayce, in his Universal Mind channelings, would over and over again say
thoughts are things. The entire universe was created by the thought of God. We, as Gods sons
and daughters, create our reality both metaphysically and physically by the power of our minds.
The great law of spiritual psychology is that it is our thought that create our reality. Everything
that exists is spirit. Matter is just densified spirit. Spirit is just refined matter. All is just energy.
II. The Principle of Correspondence

As above so below: as below, so above. The Kyballion

This famous aphorism was created by Hermes. I have mentioned it many times in my books
because it has such wide application. What this law means is that the thoughts and images that
we hold in our conscious and subconscious mind will manifest its mirror likeness in our external
circumstance. The outer world is a mirror of our inner world. If we hold thoughts of poverty we
will have no money. If we hold thoughts and images of lack of good health, this will manifest
within our physical bodies.
The thoughts and images we hold in our mind will attract their physical likeness to us in our
external circumstance. This law works unceasingly for the good or the bad. By understanding
this law we can use it for our benefit instead of our detriment. The most profound application of
this law is seen in the life of Sathya Sai Baba. Whatever he thinks instantly manifests, even on a
material level. He creates physical objects with the wave of his hand, and he says he does this by
just thinking and imaging upon what he wants to create. This is the same law just speeded up.
Earth is a school for practicing these laws of mind and spiritual control. Imagine what would
happen if the average person on the street were manifesting his thoughts instantly as Sai Baba
does. If he had a negative thought about someone at this level of vibration it might actually
physically kill this person.
Imagine what all the negative thoughts and emotions would instantly do to ones health. For
most of us it is a good thing that things dont manifest that quickly yet, or we would be in a lot of
trouble. The higher we go in vibration and initiation, the quicker your manifestation of your
thoughts will occur. That is why the spiritual path at these higher levels has been called the
straight and narrow path, and is visualized like a pyramid that gets narrower as you move
towards the apex.
III. The Principle of Vibration

Nothing rests; Everything moves; Everything vibrates. The Kyballion

This principle explains the difference between the different manifestations of matter and spirit.
From pure spirit all the way down to the grossest level of matter is a continuum of varying
degrees of vibration. Every atom and molecule is vibrating in a certain motion, speed, vibration,
and frequency. It is the combination of these frequencies that determine the form of any given
object, be it of a physical or metaphysical nature. Everything is in motion, and is vibrating and
nothing is at rest. Even a physical object, as for example a chair, is really in a state of motions.
The atom, and electrons are vibrating and there is space between these atoms and molecules.

This is true of the atom as it is true of the solar system, galaxy, universe, and super universes.
For the omniuniverse is nothing more than a large atom. The microcosm is like a macrocosm.
Sai Baba can take a physical object and transform it into a new object in a physical sense by just
changing this motion. We do the same thing, for example, with our bodies by how we think. The
entire universe is in a state of motion evolving about the great central sun.
Every atom is a mini-universe within every molecule of our physical bodies. How we think will
manifest our feelings, emotions, action, health, and what we attract to ourselves because energy
follows thought. The ideal is to create a motion that is determined by your Higher Self, rather
than by the lower self, or negative ego. Each of the seven initiations is a higher level of vibration
and motion. God is the highest pinnacle of vibrational frequency for which we are striving.
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. The Kyballion
This is a fascinating principle and law, as stated above. Take, for example, heat and cold.
Though they are opposites they are really the same thing. It is merely a matter of degrees of the
same things. The same could be said of spirit and matter. They are really the same thing. They
could be likened to water. Freeze water and it becomes ice (matter). Boil water and it evaporates
and becomes gaseous fumes (spirit). They are identical in nature, but different in degrees.
If you look at a thermometer where does heat terminate and cold begin? In actuality it is totally
relative to ones body type and individual preference. This same principle applies to all pairs of
opposites, light and dark, large and small, hard and soft, positive and negative.
The same principle also applies on the mental plane of reality. Take, for example, love and hate.
They are the same thing but different degrees. The importance of this law comes in the
understanding of ones ability to transmute and change the vibrations from one extreme to
another. This, in reality, is the study of alchemy.
The alchemists of the middle ages were preoccupied in changing base metals into gold. This is
possible as Sai Baba demonstrates so clearly and instantly. However the real meaning of this
comes in the understanding of changing ones base thoughts and emotions into spiritual gold or
soul realized energies.
Hate can be transformed by the power of your mind into love (gold). Your lower self can be
transformed into your higher self. Your physical body can be transformed into your light body
(ascension). Separation can be turned into oneness. Guidance by your negative ego can be turned
into guidance by your soul, using the art of polarization. An empty bank account can be
transformed in a full bank account. We just need to polarize our consciousness differently. A
person who is run by the emotional body needs to become polarized in their mental body. A
person who is identified with their mental body or intellectual self may need to become polarized

to the soul. A person merged with soul will need to become polarized to the monad. A person
merged in the monad will need to become polarized to God. All varying degrees of the same
thing.
The science of attitudinal healing is working with this art of polarization. This is why psychics
were predicting a shifting of the physical poles of Earth, because the poles of humanitys
consciousness were not shifting from fear to love.
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. The Kyballion
This law stated above, we see manifesting in every aspect of our lives. We see it in the tides of
the oceans. We see it in our need for sleep after a day of work. We see it in the creation of a star
and sun and its eventual collapse. We see this law operating in the rise and fall of nations, and
even in the operation of omniuniverse. For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.
We see this in our breathing, and we see it in the way God breathes. God breathes out creation
and then He breathes in creation. We see this in the movement of stars and in the science of
astrology. As the earth moves through the different signs of the zodiac. We also see this law
operating in the mental states of man, where the Hermetic practitioner finds its greatest and most
useful application. The Hermetists apply the mental law of neutralization.
The Hermetist cannot annul or cause this principle to cease operation, however, they have
learned to escape its effects upon themselves to a certain degree. The degree to which this is
obtained depends upon ones application of this law and upon ones level of initiation at later
stages.
Hermetists have learned how to use this law instead of being used by it. The Hermetists
understanding the previous law of polarity, polarizes himself at the point at which he desires to
rest, and then neutralizes the rhythmic swing of the pendulum which would tend to carry him to
the other pole. I am speaking of this now on the mental and emotional level.
The Master does this by the use of will and detachment to create a state of consciousness that is
not swung backwards or forward like a pendulum. The masses of humanity live on a mental and
emotional roller coaster. The ideal is to attain a state of consciousness of divine indifference,
evenmindedness, equanimity, inner peace, joy, unceasing happiness and bliss.
This is best explained by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, which is the same teaching of the
Hermetists. The idea is to stay even minded, whether you have profit or loss, pleasure or pain,
sickness or health, victory or defeat, rejection or praise.

This is just a matter of where you polarize your mind and state of consciousness. There is a point
of neutrality or objectivity, or divine detachment, that is not caught up in the pendulum swing
between these rhythms and polarities.
There is a state of consciousness called God consciousness where you dont have to have a bad
day. At the highest application of the use of this principle of neutrality, it is even applied into the
physical body as well, for example, Sai Baba never sleeps. He doesnt need food. He never gets
tired. He can bilocate and be at two places at the same time.
This is the Ascended state of consciousness, when the monad or spirit merges completely with
the physical vehicle as well, and the physical body is turned into Light. The duality becomes
transcended. Whether you are on an emotional roller coaster or evenminded and have unceasing
equanimity and joy is determined by your attitude and the polarization of your mind. This is why
the understanding of these principles are so important.
Hermes later life as Buddha expounded on this further when He said, all suffering comes from
ones attachments, and wrong points of view. Exact same teaching. Part of the purpose for
writing this book is to show how these principles are the same in all religions, whether you study
the Egyptian teachings, or Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Taoism, the Koran, or others. The
same principles all express in slightly different forms. The other interesting thing, of course, is to
see how it is often the same person who started two or three different religious movements.
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. The Kyballion
There are no accidents in the universe. Everything in the universe is governed by laws. There are
physical laws, emotional laws, mental laws, and spiritual laws. By understanding these laws we
can learn to operate in grace instead of karma. Many times we dont know the cause for the
reason things happen to us. This is because there are seven dimensions of reality in which
causations can occur. As Edgar Cayce said, over and over again in his Universal Mind readings,
Every jot and tittle of the law is fulfilled. No one escapes anything, even though it may appear
like some people are, in truth, they are not.
The Hermetists understand the art of rising above the ordinary plane of cause and effect, to a
certain degree. They do this by rising to a high plane of consciousness and, hence, becoming
masters instead of victims, and causes instead of effects.
The average person on the street is an effect, not a cause. They are an effect and victim of
thoughts, moods, emotions, desire, appetites, lower self, other people, biorhythms, the physical
body, past lives, subconscious programming, heredity, the weather, astrological influences, vital
forces, disincarnate spirits, glamour, maya, illusion, and the environment, to name a few. The
Master rises above and has a great deal of mastery over these things the higher one evolves.

By the time of the sixth initiation and ascension, all of them are transcended. The Masters obey
the causation of the higher planes, but they help to rule them on their own plane. At each level of
initiation one goes up another plane of consciousness, and hence, can even become a greater
cause.
The key for most people of the earth plane is to gain mastery over your mind, which will lead to
mastery over your emotions and desires, and also mastery over your physical body and appetites.
Djwhal Khul has called this mastery over your three lower vehicles (physical, astral, mental
bodies).
The basic cause of your life are the thoughts and images you hold in your conscious and
subconscious mind. By learning to be absolutely vigilant and only allowing into your mind
thoughts of God, love, perfection, perfect health, prosperity, joy, oneness, and equanimity, then
this is all you will create both inwardly and outwardly. For your thoughts cause your reality.
Your thinking must be subservient to your soul and monad (spirit), instead of your lower self and
negative ego. When these lessons are mastered then there really is no reason to attend this school
called Earth life, except for service to our brothers and sisters who have not learned these
lessons.
In summary, be the cause, be the master, be the co-creator with God that you truly are, and then
you are using this law and principle instead of allowing it to use you. If you are not a master, you
are a victim. This is the law of polarity. Change your polarization with the power of mind and the
power of your God given free choice.
VII. The Principle of Gender

Gender is in everything; Everything has its masculine and feminine principles; Gender
manifests on all planes. The Kyballion
Everything has a yin and yang. On the physical plane each person has a male or female physical
body, however psychologically each person is androgenous with male and female qualities. Each
person has a left brain and right brain.
In Chinese philosophy, the physical foods a person eats are divided into yin foods and yang
foods. This law not only applies on the physical plane, but also on the emotional, mental and
spiritual planes. Father God and Mother Earth, Yin types of emotions and yang types of
emotions. Yin types of thoughts and more yang type of thoughts. I have listed the yin and yang
qualities at the close of this section for your study and contemplation.
The key point here is that the spiritual path is the path of balance and integration. Buddha called
this the middle way. He demonstrated that the path to God was not the path of self indulgence or
asceticism. It is the path of balancing the male and female aspects within self and also balancing
the heavenly and earthly aspects within self. The spiritual path is also the balancing of the three
minds, the four bodies, and the seven chakras. It is also the proper balance between the soul and
the ego. This is done by transcending negative ego, and hence, keeping the ego in its proper

balance and relationship to soul, which is to let it take care of the physical body, but not interpret
your life.
As mastery is achieved this balanced state becomes more habitual and wont take as much work,
time, and energy to try and stay in balance. This is achieved by knowing thyself, and
understanding these universal laws and balances that govern our being. To know God, we must
understand Gods laws.