• Hermeticism
• Consciousness

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All is Mental: The Hermetic Principle of Consciousness

The first Hermetic Principle declares: The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental. Everything—perception, experience, creation—arises from consciousness. Physical matter is crystallized thought, vibrating slowly. Before form, there’s idea; before movement, intent. The cosmos is intelligence.

You’re not a mind trapped in a body but a formless presence shaping reality through the mind. Your inner world architects the outer. The other Hermetic Principles—Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, Gender—flow from Mentalism, revealing how this mental universe operates:

• Correspondence: As above, so below; macrocosm mirrors microcosm.
• Vibration: Nothing rests; thoughts and emotions are in constant motion.
• Polarity: All truths are half-truths; love and hate share the same energy.
• Rhythm: Life moves in cycles, tides, spirals—never linear.
• Cause and Effect: Every action echoes, seen or unseen.
• Gender: All contains masculine (directive) and feminine (receptive) energies.

Applying these consciously empowers you. The mind isn’t a prison—it’s a forge. The masculine mind (logic, will) is the chisel; the feminine (intuition, emotion) is the clay. United, they spark the alchemical union—Christ Consciousness, the Remembrance Mind—where duality dissolves, and you awaken creativity, intuition, and divine potential.

In this harmony, ego serves soul, left and right brain dance, and you become a lucid creator within life’s dream. A living lighthouse, radiating love and humility, you help others remember: Unity is our power, diversity our strength.