A brief discussion of Karma, Hermetic Principles and Being.
Karma: Understanding the process.
1) Karma happens “to” a person (a victim mindset).
2) Karma happens “for” a person (a challenge and/or opportunity).
3) Karma happens “by” a person (through learning and doing, i.e. the opportunity to change).
4) Karma happens “through” a person (by their thoughts, feelings and actions).
Hermetic Principles
The Hermetic principles are seven rules, laws or axioms of experience. Noted in The Kybalion. They help make sense of and provide an understanding of the opportunity of life.
- The Principle of Mentalism: “The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental.” Reality begins with consciousness.
- The Principle of Correspondence: “As above, so below; as below, so above”. Patterns repeat across different levels of the universe.
- The Principle of Vibration: “Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.” Everything is in constant motion.
- The Principle of Polarity: “Everything is dual and on a spectrum between the poles.” Opposites are the same thing with a 180 degrees difference.
- The Principle of Rhythm: “Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides.” Life moves in cycles, flows or swings.
- The Principle of Cause and Effect: “Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause.” Nothing happens by random chance.
- The Principle of Gender: “Gender is in everything; everything has both its masculine and feminine aspects.” Creation requires a balance of both energies and existence results from this dynamic flow.
Being and Free Will
However, there is a nominal experience “versus (and along with)” the omnipresent existence.
Everything can be a blessing and/or a curse. You are the being who decides whether your experience is a blessing or a curse. Choose wisely the nominal experience; for you are the multitude of omnipresent existence.
Blessings,
Tim