The Kybalion / Seven Hermetic principles

cal. 170 (130 - 170)

I list the so-called principles, really new age mumbo-jumbo, here so you know what to refuse or surrender on your way to realizing functional reality-testing. As much as you believe this stuff, it does not serve your spiritual evolution, and you cannot take it with you on a true spiritual journey. Quoted from Wikipedia:

1. The principle of mentalism
"The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental."^[5]

cal. 140, thus narcissism. The mind is actually an endless phantasmagoria.

2. The principle of correspondence
"As above, so below; as below, so above.” [...] This principle embodies the truth that there is always a correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of being and life.^[6]

cal. 155, lower mind, which makes specious correlations and false conclusions.

3. The principle of vibration
"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."^[7]

cal. 150, level of juvenile, it resists a practical point of observation.

4. 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."^[8]

cal. 130, level of puerile. "Like and unlike are the same?" Are you insane?

5. 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."^[9]

cal. 150

6. 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."^[10]

cal. 170

7. The principle of gender
"Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; gender manifests on all planes."

cal. 135