Long ago, not knowing exactly when, arose in Egypt a great teacher, or teacher among teachers, which they called "three times bigger." Considered a god among them gave the name of Thoth, who ended up calling the Greeks Hermes. This is how we came to this day his name and all his knowledge.

His doctrine is known as Hermetic Doctrine, which was reflected in his major book, The Kybalion. From the earliest times there have been initiated into it, but was kept secret. Thus knowledge of the universe was only in the hands of elected initiated or who were prepared to understand.

The philosophical basis of these laws lies in mastering the forces of the mind and the transmutation of one kind of Mental Vibrations into others. Today they finally have come to light seven basic laws and are used in many beliefs, religions and sects.

It is for their esoteric significance, so we decided to explain them here. So we will be telling and commenting in a simple and direct the Seven Hermetic Principles contained in the Kybalion:

"The principles of truth are seven: one who understands this perfectly, has the magic key to which all the temple doors open wide."

1 º The Principle of Mentalism

This is the first principle tight and contains one of the basic truths about life and the universe. He says: "The ALL is Mind; the universe is mental."

To understand this principle we must understand certain points. To begin one must wonder what the ALL, to answer this question the Kybalion also gives us the answer: "Beyond the Cosmos, Time, Space, of everything that moves and changes, is the substantial reality, Truth Fundamental ". This substantial reality, that fundamental truth is ALL, which thus receives the name of the hermetic, but others call it God, or Eternal energy or Divine Source, etc ... turn that something that is perceived as being behind all things and beings.

But both the wise and the comment that started the whole inner nature is unknowable. This means that no one but himself can understand and see it all as a whole. It is like the icing on a cake that could be aware of who is on a cake and see part of it, but could never fully understand, while the cake itself can be aware of how to complete all ingredients, ... Man would therefore be the icing on the cake and with limited human mind and it would be impossible to understand the whole, precisely because it is only part of that Whole.

But humans can not understand all of the Whole, but it can perceive certain things related to it. For example, The Everything has to encompass all existence, for nothing can exist outside of it because otherwise it would not be the All or Total. Therefore it is infinite in space, since there can be nothing outside it that contains it, and in time, since nothing can exist outside that established it. At the same time is immutable, does not change, you should always have been and must be equal, identical to what it is today: the Whole. So in conclusion all that is finite and mutable can not be all, as nothing exists outside it, in fact it meets the above conditions is Nothing.

As a steering axle have to be present now two fundamental truths: the existence of the creative mind, as we possess it and the existence of life, for us the manifest. So given that we are part of all this is an important clue for us. So the whole matter can not be, because the material shows no life or mind, is also scientifically proven that matter is nothing but energy. On the other hand one wonders if everything is energy then, but not so the mind and life can not be born blind energy because nothing can go higher than its source, and the mind and life would be a more evolved manifestation of that energy.

Therefore the whole must be a Living Mind and infinite, that the enlightened call Spirit. But we can not go beyond defining spirit as it is set to All and Everything is impossible to define because the whole is unknowable except for himself. The unlimited can not be understood as limited. What we do know is that within the spirit is matter, which is nothing but a manifestation of the Spirit at very low vibrational levels of which more later on another principle.

Once you get here the Kybalion says "The universe is a mental creation held in the mind of everything." This means that our universe, everything around us, even we ourselves are not more than mental manifestations of the Whole. In the same way that we can create our own world in the mind Everything done with the Cosmos. Therefore the universe is fictional and illusory, but for a mortal laws are very real. So the man must understand that it is a dream of the Whole, but not to deny its existence.

Hence the power of thought, because with it we all we want if we can come to understand its mechanism. Hence it is said that we are God, or gods a small scale.

2 nd CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE

This is the second top seal. It is considered one of the auxiliary laws of the mind more important, since it helps to understand the organization of the universe even in the human planes are unaware of their existence by their limited mind. Thus the principle says: "As above so below, as below so above." This allows us to exemplify saying that studying the monad comes to understand the archangel.

So this principle embodies the truth that all planes of existence are in harmony, agreement and correspondence because they were all born from the same source: The All.

To understand then what follows from this principle, the hermetic existence has been divided into three levels or states of consciousness - dimensions, the various manifestations of life, without forgetting that a classification is quite arbitrary and that its purpose is to get the things a little clearer to understand what kind of relationship between them. Remember that life and all its manifestations differ only in degree of evolution, that is, are the same, but at different levels. For further against each of the three planes is intertwined with the other two, making it very difficult to establish a real division. To make things easier still, these three planes are divided into 7 other smaller planes and they turn on each other 7 sub-planes, but here we only report the first two levels.

So the first of the Great Planes is the Great Physical Plane and in it we find the following levels:

I. The map material A: here we find all forms solid, liquid and gas.

II. The map material B: here we find subtle ways that science begins to be known as radiation.

III. The Material Plane C: in it we find more subtle ways than before that the man has not learned to recognize with their science.

IV. The plane of etheric substance: in it we find what is called ether, which is the link between energy-matter.

V. The energy level A: what science calls energy as heat, light, electricity, etc..

VI. The energy level B: here we are faced with what has been called the subtle forces of nature caused by the mind.

VII. The energy level C is a plane can only be used by beings of the spiritual world, it is an infinitely powerful energy, and man is not prepared to contain it.

The second plane is the Great Great Mental Plane and in it we find the following levels:

I. The Plane of Mineral Mind: here we find those forms which we call minerals, chemicals, etc..

II. The Plane of Elemental Mind A: where we meet a number of entities unknown to man, but that bridge to the next level.

III. The plane of the vegetable mind: here we find those forms which we call plants.

IV. The elemental plane of mind B: where we find a series of beings unknown to man, but that bridge to the next level.

V. The plane of the animal mind: where we find such forms of life that we call animals.

VI. The plane of mind elemental C: where we meet a number of entities unknown to man, but that bridge to the next level.

VII. The plane of the human mind where we are human beings.

The third plane is the Great Great Spiritual Plane, and in him we are from the lower vibrations to the most superior where we meet with what we would call a spiritual master, then come the angelic hosts, then I would call gods and so on.

We must remember again that these planes are not exactly places but types of events ranging from less elevated, first, to the highest, last.

Thus all levels are interrelated so that what affects one will affect the bottom and vice versa.

3 º The Principle of Vibration

"Nothing rests, everything moves, everything vibrates." We all have a value system that help us distinguish things from one another, what we must do what we must do what is right and what is wrong , what is more important and what is worth less, and so on.

But this system is completely and utterly subjective, since only put it in terms of a number of things that can be measured by the mind and also through some guidelines that we try to fix society. In this case it is usually very typical that a person is worth more as more studies have, wealth, an important position, fame, ... Most people spend a lifetime fighting for a number of "material advantages" given that it will be better. How many people in the world that is undervalued only because it has no or very few studies?

It is true that to thrive in this society or world in which we live is necessary to struggle with the game and procure the greatest wealth as possible. But the absolute delusion is to think that prosperity makes us better people or us, therefore, be more valued before God.

In the dream of God there is only a scale measuring people. Although to God nobody is better than another, or worth more, because all life is valued either way, yes there is a scale that places all beings in what is called evolutionary ladder. In a very general pattern we saw in the correspondence principle. But what makes us human? The possession of a particular type of vibration. What is vibration?

Science has shown clearly that everything is in motion, all is formed by moving molecules, which in turn are composed of atoms which also move and in turn by ions and electrons also move. In some ways since the creation tiniest to the most immense that we can think of as galaxies, is in continuous motion. This movement, which is circular, is subject to a speed scale, ie, can be very slow, so slow that we are not able to perceive movement, or fast, so fast that we are not able to perceive the movement. So on an infinite scale of speeds all the divine creation moves.

In this sense we can place our body and our spirit. The matter is of low vibration, making it denser. And be low vibration means comprises an energy moving somewhat slow. Much lower the vibration of a moving slower setting. With regard to our spirit, this is a high vibration and therefore the energy particles that comprise it move faster, making it less dense.

Now the man has to share matter and spirit, and this is where the divisions begin to appear or levels within the same high level of human beings. Generally it is understood that those who are negative remain globally (subject + spirit) low vibration. While those who are globally positive, maintain a high vibration.

But what is meant by positive and negative people? "By their deeds you shall know them," said Jesus. Those individuals, who spend all day criticizing destructively to others, who are slaves to their egos, those who spend all day thinking about sad things or disasters or everything goes wrong, those who tend to hate someone, those who lie, living in a farce, they appear so they are not, to pass over others, etc.. In short, those individuals who have called DESTRUCTIVE behaviors, ie they are not useful to the spirit, maintain a low vibration. It means that only those who meet all the conditions or always behave well has a low vibration. For the mere fact of carrying out at some point one of these things and that is why our vibration suffer a decline. So the more destructive behaviors have more we will be lowering our vibration. What result do you have? When we let down our vibrations we become more vulnerable to disasters, to live fully stressed the dream world. To be drawn into everything that happens and we get lost in a sea of ​​confusion and doubts continued. We become more defensive, and in turn more to attack others. In conclusion, we are much more unhappy.

And how to maintain a high vibration? Performing all acts that are called CONSTRUCTIVE. Ie anything that does not seek to injure your neighbor, interfering with their free will, therefore, ceasing to be slaves of our ego. That is, begin to know and get rid of all that subjectivity within us to discover our true divine essence, that you really should take the lead in our lives. Why? Por qué entonces seríamos más felices, comprenderíamos el sentido de nuestra existencia, y la armonía se instalaría en nuestra casa. ¿Y cuál es la herramienta más poderosa para elevar nuestras vibraciones? El Amor. Por ello se dice que dios es Amor, que es el Creador. Pero el ser humano no está preparado para subir de vibraciones de forma demasiado brutal. Entendiendo por brutal, subir muy alto y demasiado rápido, porque nuestro cuerpo, como es de baja vibración no lo soportaría. Sólo unos pocos lo han conseguido, aquellos a los que los textos llaman “iluminados”. Los demás seres humanos debemos ir subiendo a ritmos más lentos y más dosificados, pues las purificaciones a las que nos tenemos que afrontar son inmensas.

Por eso a veces hemos escuchado de nuestros amigos un comentario como “ese individuo me da malas vibraciones” o “eso que me cuentas me produce unas fantásticas vibraciones”. Ahora ya estás en disposición de entender qué se esconde detrás de esos comentarios.

Las vibraciones también se traducen en música y en colores. Por ejemplo los colores que más opacos son nos dicen que hay bajas vibraciones, mientras que los que son más cristalinos y puros, nos hablan de que hay buenas vibraciones. La música más estridente baja vibraciones, mientras que aquella armoniosa las eleva.

Así que de una manera global podemos por el principio de correspondencia decir que a pequeña escala, por ejemplo en nuestras vidas hay bajas y altas vibraciones, ya gran escala podemos decir que también sucede así en la Creación. De esta manera aquello a lo que se llama “las tinieblas”, “seres diabólicos”, “la oscuridad”, “el mal”, etc posee una vibración muy baja, mientras que aquello a lo que llamamos “divino”, “el bien”, “la luz”, “seres angélicos”, “maestros”, “guías de luz”, etc son creaciones divinas de elevada vibración.

And as everything moves, all creations can go up and down vibration according to their behavior.

And how would each of these vibrations? Repel. Does this mean that those negative individuals only find people like themselves, while those positive individuals will be surrounded by good people. So if you wonder sometimes why you have friends that you, lean out and see. "God breeding flock together", by the law of vibration.

Usually we have around us individuals of our vibration, a vibration or a little less or a little higher. But never a huge difference.

Only very high beings such as angels are able to avoid the consequences of the lower vibrations of many people and approach them to help them.

4 ° THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY

"Everything is dual, everything has its pair of opposites; the like and unlike are the same, the opposites are identical in nature, differing only in degree, extremes meet, all truths are half-truths, all paradoxes may be reconciled."

How many times have we heard that opposites attract? What's all the same manifest in different ways? ... Many can really be wondering what they mean when they talk about it.

Humans are very used to classify the world around him through the apparent differences in it. Thus everything is pulling together and jerarquizándolo. But if we go to a deeper level, we see that really it comes down to the existence of duality or polarity positive or negative. The great example that is used to understand this principle is the temperature. If we take a thermometer and introduced it in cold water will get a certain degree of temperature, if we introduce it in a glass of hot water, the thermometer will reflect a very different one. So the man called "heat" to a type of degrees, and "cold" to others. But despite the difference of degrees, and demonstrate how different from each of the elements, only the bottom temperature. That is, is exactly the same, manifesting in different ways.

If we look around us we see that everything moves by this principle. Another example is the difference between white and black. Both are a reflection of vibrations that emit a certain color. In the white that all colors and in black does not lie either. Although seemingly very different, deeper levels are the same. And it is similar with light and dark, with men and women, good and bad ...

Now, if we really want to know this principle is its effect on the mental level. Because in our mind is also reflected continuously polarity. A clear example is the Love-Hate. There are several sayings that speak of hatred to love is a step, and vice versa. Although we all understand that they are completely different manifestations, a positive type and a negative type, there is no denying that both are in essence the same. Therefore, one can transmute (transform) in the other at any time. The same applies to the courage and fear, joy and sorrow ... Everyone is a kind of feeling that can manifest in many different ways, from the manifestation of lower vibration to the manifestation of higher vibration.

In conclusion why we want to keep in mind this principle in our behavior? If we recall that the duality is transmutable in essence similar and different, that is, love can be transmuted into hatred as we have said, but never in a black, cold, ... And if we recall that the negative poles are lower vibration than positive, we will be able to get our minds transmute into something much higher. And since we know that all is Mind, means we can make our world a much happier and harmonious.

And how is this accomplished? For a very easy and we all know: positive thinking. For example, if one morning we woke up very sad and listless, instead of allowing the low vibration affects us all day, we will strive to raise our mind, thinking about nice things that can happen or have happened. Ie transmute our mind to joy. So when you say you love your enemy, you are saying that transmutes negative thoughts toward that person hurt you because they are low vibration, high vibration positive ones such as love. Also as you know I hate and love are of the same essence, therefore you need proof that you really can transmute into one another.

And so with all facets of your life so that you have the key to your elevation. What you think is what defines you, and is what will draw near to you. So if you want things in your life start to get better, transmute your mind of negative thinking that everything is going wrong, to the positive that everything will be fine.

5 ° THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM

"It ebbs and flows, everything has its forward and reverse, everything rises and falls, everything moves like a pendulum, the measure of the swing to the right is the same measure of the swing to the left, the rhythm is compensation. "

To understand this principle must be very clear before. To try to convey things clearer we will put the following example: if we catch and we balance a pendulum to one side we see that after reaching the end of that side is gradually moving towards the opposite side. The most important thing is that the same route to the right place, after making what is left. Is this what the law refers when he speaks of "compensation". In the universe as the beings that inhabit it has to be a necessary balance is only achieved by this "compensation".

For example a physical level, day follows night and night day. If there is no compensation laws could have an imbalance that caused us to take random days and nights without a logical order. Another case is that of the seasons, the counterpoint of the summer is winter and vice versa, the counterpoint of spring is the fall and vice versa. The four stations maintain a logical balance. Also true in the lifetime of a star is born when it approaches its maturity period of its peak, and when he goes back again into a period without force and ends up dying. The climate also happens the same, significant periods of drought it is often the case significant periods of rain, ...

When human come as much of the same in their planes physical, mental and spiritual. That's why it is vital to get unveil what our cycles in order to neutralize them. That is, the rate law can not be destroyed, but that does not mean you can not escape it, in what is called the "law of neutralization."

The mental activity of man I am usually generally as shown in the graph. That is inevitably to be drawn into periods of suffering and depression which eventually replaced him as the same periods of joy and pleasure. It is true that joy and pleasure experienced is really wonderful, but inevitably comes after another period of suffering to the same extent.

But as we discussed there is the possibility of neutralizing the effects of the cycle moving at our higher self, that is, allowing the process only works at unconscious levels, but do not drag him conscious levels. Visually it would be like watching an approaching period of suffering and instead of attacking him we stand on top. Performing this type of process we adapting our mental strong sentimental wave a wave before becoming milder, so that serenity and peace be installed within us busy preventing the "mundane" drag us with him. But this can be said that brings an "inconvenience", ie, it is true that gradually got that suffering will affect us much less, but by the law of compensation is also true that the joys will be lower. It would be something like the graph.

The hermetic also apply this law of rhythm cycles even much higher. For them these cycles also suffer through the many incarnations of the soul. So if the had a previous life full of suffering, the following will be full of big dreams, and again the next great suffering, and so on. Therefore it is very important to learn as soon as possible to neutralize their effects, as well the successive lives will be much more balanced.

6 th THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE-EFFECT

"Every cause has its effect, every effect has its cause everything happens according to Law, the luck is that the name you give it to a law is not known, there are many planes of causation but nothing escapes the Law "

This is one of the best known laws of the hermetic principles perhaps because anyone who has dipped a bit of spiritual wisdom has it in mind, know the principles or not.

We have always been taught that whatever we do will have a reward. If we sacrifice and work hard to get long-term success, if we respect others across the board the rest of us will respect us, and so on. This is immersed in the depths of this Act, where living standards law is shallower which always helps us get those achievements that both pursue our lifetime or get those failures that most of us call with the qualifier "advertised".

But why are "announced" these failures and these successes? Because the person has been working, creating and building a number of causes that eventually reached the desired effect intended. What this law is so strong? Yes it is. It is a law that transcends everything that goes beyond these and other lives. This law says that absolutely nothing happens by chance, this law says that there is no chance but the "causality". Nothing in the universe is random, everything is perfectly organized and calculated. If there is the random effect of the All would be chaos and we know that it does not only look to the universal laws. What happens is that the man has a hard time seeing in the depths of his soul to really determine why this is happening what is happening. It's easier to blame fate or others of what life brings us back in disgrace to admit that we have had something to do.

We are beings endowed with free will. Gifted with a capacity for freedom of action in our lives. To us to know how to use in our favor or against us. Is the ideal time to remember the famous saying of Jesus that says "you reap what you sow". Nature gives us as the standard. If you sow negativity, dark thoughts, depressing, sad, or anything you see wrong, then gather all that you thought. But if you think positively, in love, the joy of life and you will see pick up also everything that you thought. It's time to tell you midas well your words, actions and thoughts because they are always giving rise to those causes that later will bring a number of consequences.

Generally, the human is able to discern when you know this law, the departure point misfortunes or profits are living now. But there are some effects which cause originated in past lives and so we fail to understand where we have emerged or more difficult to understand how it was. This can be very useful regressions deep meditation or conscious.

You could say that this law is that appeals to the law of Karma. Usually this law is learned through the "eye for eye, tooth for tooth", ie. To cure this negative karma, one of the most common, is to suffer in our "meat" in their day what we did wrong or you did wrong to others. It's supposed to learn a lesson and not do it again unless you want to suffer again. So it is very typical that whoever engages in hypocrisy after suffering in his own life the effects of it, and so on. Always remember that life is a theater where we set the script as guidelines to avoid chaos. Imagine what would happen if someone who has planted a long time love, I never would receive simply by a random factor. That would not be fair. So this is the righteousness of God: everything you do will have an effect and that effect their reward, either positive or negative, always depending on its cause.

7 ° THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER

"Gender is in everything, everything has its masculine and feminine principles, gender manifests on all planes."

Before addressing the latter explanation hermetic principle we make an important clarification. Do not confuse "gender" with "sex" because the latter is only one of the first physical manifestations. In itself, the term "gender" derives from the Latin root that means to create and produce.

Therefore, this principle refers only to a function to generate various forms visible through the union of male and female principles in any of the plans we studied.

The process itself is as follows: the feminine principle uses the energy that sends the male principle for creation, so that none of the two principles is capable of acting by itself, are needed urgently to each other. While it is true that in most of the creations the beginning male and female are separate, there are also ways of life that have both merging into a single agency.

But we will not even begin to analyze the manifestations of this principle in the physical plane because many of them already are obvious and others are being discovered by modern science. What really interests us is how does this principle in ourselves.

No doubt most of us will ring the ideas of "objective mind, subjective mind," "conscious and subconscious," "mind active, passive mind" etc ... It is therefore the existence of the split mind the manifestation of the principle of Gender in our mind. In fact the male principle of the mind is assigned the epithets of: conscious, active, objective, ... While the female is assigned the qualifiers: subconscious, passive, subjective ... But we should not be in these simple lines , so we will move towards the root of the matter.

Todos nosotros disponemos de dos partes muy claras, una es la conciencia del “mi” y otra es la realidad del “yo”. En el “mí” se encuentran reflejados todos aquellos pensamientos, ideas, sentimientos, etc. que corresponden al individuo y que puede estar más o menos identificado con ellos viviendo más o menos manejado por esos deseos, recuerdos, etc. Esta parte de nosotros mismos es inmensamente creadora, representa al principio femenino, y es la que nos permite desenvolvernos como personas. Mientras que el “yo” representa el principio masculino porque es una realidad dentro de nosotros mismos que generalmente emite grandes cantidades de energía al “mi” para que este pueda llevar a cabo lo que desea. Aunque hay momentos en los que prefiere ser un simple espectador de los vaivenes del “mi”. En este sentido se le suele conocer con el nombre de “SER”.

De ahí que se diga que todos somos creadores o dioses en potencia, pues si fuéramos capaces de poner en práctica ambos principios sin duda haríamos “grandes milagros”. La mayoría de la gente vive sin usar su principio masculino, es decir, piensa, sienten, intuyen, … pero no dotan a esas ideas o pensamientos de la energía necesaria para que puedan suceder.

El problema básico radica en que el ser humano vive demasiado tiempo o demasiado identificado con el “mi” y no se da cuenta de que tiene un “yo” o “ser”. De manera que se ha polarizado en el principio femenino dejando inerte su principio masculino donde reside la voluntad.