The 7 Hermetic Principles: Embodying Spiritual Laws

The 7 Hermetic Principles are energetic truths that reveal how life moves, how consciousness creates, and how you can walk in harmony with what already is.

To live these principles is to participate consciously in creation. You stop pushing against life and begin to move with its deeper currents. You stop manifesting from effort and begin creating through alignment.

These teachings are not new. They are timeless. And when you begin to live them, your perception sharpens, your energy clarifies, and your ability to shape reality becomes rooted in divine law.

Let’s explore them, not as theory, but as lived experience.

1. The Principle of Mentalism

All is Mind. The Universe is Mental.

This is the first and most important principle. The only one I would call a law. Every principle is based upon those that proceed it. Which means the remaining 6 principles are based upon this first principle. If the All decided to change His Mind, the principles could change if the All wanted them to. What you are reading now is based upon what we are currently experiencing. That doesn't mean you can't change the principles in your own reality though.

Everything begins in consciousness. Your outer reality is a mirror of your inner world — your thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions form the blueprint of what shows up in your life. This doesn’t mean every challenge is your fault. It means you hold the power to shift your experience by shifting your relationship to it.

Embodied example: Holding a clear intention before a conversation and noticing how the energy shifts without needing to control the outcome. Choosing to change your self-talk and watching your body begin to relax in response. Witnessing how reality reorganizes when you change your internal state.

The mind is not just in your head. It’s the field you create with your awareness. And everything responds to it.

2. The Principle of Correspondence

As above, so below. As within, so without.

Everything is connected. What happens on one plane echoes through all others. The micro reflects the macro. The inner world ripples into the outer. The body reflects the mind. The world reflects the soul. When you work on one level; energetic, physical, emotional, spiritual, you influence all levels.

Embodied example: Cleansing your space and feeling your mind clear. Healing a relationship with a parent and suddenly feeling more confident in your work. Sitting with an emotional trigger and noticing your external life start to soften.

You don’t need to fix everything outside. Often, the shift begins within.

3. The Principle of Vibration

Nothing rests. Everything moves. Everything vibrates.

Everything is energy in motion. Emotions, thoughts, matter, sound — all vibrating at different frequencies. The higher the vibration, the more aligned you feel with flow, clarity, and truth. Your frequency is not fixed. You can raise it. You can refine it. You can use it to attract, shift, and heal.

Embodied example: Speaking from joy instead of fear and feeling your words land differently. Using breath or music to elevate your energy before stepping into a room. Noticing how people and experiences change as you choose thoughts that lift you.

When you become aware of vibration, you begin to move consciously between states, not reactively but with mastery.

4. The Principle of Polarity

Everything is dual. Opposites are the same in nature, differing only in degree.

Light and dark, hot and cold, joy and sorrow; they are not separate but two ends of the same spectrum. Understanding polarity is the key to transcendence. You stop judging one end as bad and instead learn to shift your position along the scale. This is the end of black-and-white thinking and the beginning of fluid, empowered awareness.

Embodied example: Meeting sadness not as failure but as love in a different costume. Feeling anger and choosing to transmute it into truth. Noticing judgment in yourself and alchemizing it into curiosity.

When you understand polarity, you reclaim choice. You remember that every state is movable. Nothing is fixed unless you hold it there.

5. The Principle of Rhythm

Everything flows in and out. All things rise and fall.

Life moves in cycles — inhale and exhale, high tide and low tide, expansion and contraction. This principle teaches you to work with the rhythm of life instead of resisting it. There is a time to act and a time to rest. A time to grow and a time to release. Honoring rhythm brings peace and divine timing.

Embodied example: Resting when your energy dips, trusting that the rise will come. Creating when inspiration surges and letting it move fully through. Releasing what no longer fits instead of clinging to past versions of success.

When you live in rhythm, you stop forcing. You start flowing.

6. The Principle of Cause and Effect

Every cause has an effect. Every effect has a cause.

Nothing happens by chance. Every action, thought, and vibration sends out a ripple. This isn’t about punishment. It’s about participation. When you understand this principle, you become a conscious creator. You stop reacting to life and start responding with intention.

Embodied example: Making a small shift in your morning routine and noticing how your whole day unfolds differently. Speaking a word of encouragement and watching someone open up. Choosing presence and seeing synchronicities increase.

You are always planting seeds. The question is, "are they conscious?"

7. The Principle of Gender

Everything has masculine and feminine energy. Both are required for creation.

This principle is not about biological sex but about energy. The masculine expresses as action, structure, direction. The feminine expresses as intuition, flow, receptivity.

In balance, they create. Out of balance, they fragment.

Embodied example: Holding space for emotion (feminine) while guiding it with clarity (masculine). Creating from inspiration (feminine) then building a container to hold it (masculine). Letting life move through you but also choosing when and how to respond.

When these energies dance in harmony, you become a fully expressed channel of divine intelligence.

Final Reflection

The Hermetic Principles aren’t mental tricks. They are laws of life. When you live them, you begin to feel reality move differently; more fluid, more responsive, more alive.

You stop trying to control the world and begin shaping your relationship to it. You stop resisting what is and start creating from what could be. This is mastery. Not from ego. But from union.

You don’t need to memorize the principles. Just start living them. Let them move through your breath, your choices, and your presence. The rest will unfold exactly as it should.

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