"33rd DEGREE KNOWLEDGE" : Video Advice
Introduction:
This video from Video Advice delves into the teachings of "The Kybalion," an ancient wisdom book that has captivated curious readers for over a century. This newsletter will provides an overview of the subjects discussed in the video and how they can be applied to our daily lives.
Essence of The Kybalion:
The Kybalion is a compilation of what are called Hermetic teachings, believed to be based on principles originally explained by Hermes Trismegistus. The video talks about the book’s presentation of the seven Hermetic principles. They aim at providing the readers an understanding of the fundamental laws governing all of existence.
The Seven Hermetic Principles:
- Mentalism: Everything in our reality, including our material surroundings, is a manifestation of thought and energy. Our perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes color our experience of reality.
- Correspondence: The laws of our reality are consistent across all planes of existence. The patterns we observe in the macrocosm are reflected in the microcosm, and vice versa. “As Above, So Below”
- Vibration: Everything is in constant motion. From atoms to galaxies, everything vibrates. Our emotions and energies also vibrate, affecting our experiences and perception of the world around us.
- Polarity: Everything has its opposite. Understanding the illusion of duality can help us recognize the oneness in all things and stabilize our emotions.
- Rhythm: Everything follows a rhythmic cycle. Recognizing these natural rhythms can help us work in harmony with them, leading to a more balanced life. Everything cycles back and forth even those we don’t yet recognize.
- Cause and Effect: Nothing happens by chance. Every event has a cause, and understanding this principle can empower us to enhance control over our lives.
- Gender: Everything gets perceived through masculine and feminine energies. Recognizing and balancing these energies can lead to a more harmonious life.
Application to Everyday Life:
- Self-awareness: By contemplating and practicing the principle of mentalism, we appreciate the power our thoughts play in shaping our perception of reality. When we weed the garden of our minds, we can more effectively envision and build up the life we desire. “We become what we think about”
- Perception: The principle of correspondence indicates to us that our inner world reflects our outer world. By cultivating proper inner thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions, we influence our external experiences in a more upward spiral. “Believe and Achieve”
- Emotional Balance: Regularly recognizing the principles of vibration, polarity, and rhythm can help us stabilize our emotions, leading to a more contented life. Ohmmmm…
- Empowerment: The principles of cause and effect are the laws of reality and we can leverage that framework to shape our own destiny. By taking conscious actions, setting achievable goals, envisioning ourselves taking those steps, and then achieving them. We more actively participate in the manifestation of outcomes we desire. Hold in your heart a vision of the person you must become, and what you’d be doing to get to the future you envision.
- Harmony: Understanding masculine & feminine energy embedded in our personality, often called “gender”, can allow us to balance those energies, leading to more harmonious relationships and an increasingly fulfilling lifestyle.
The teachings of The Kybalion offer prophetic insights into the nature of our reality and how we place ourselves within it. By learning about and applying these principles, we have the opportunity to lead more balanced, harmonious, and fulfilling lives. Whether you're seeking spiritual enlightenment or practical wisdom, lessons from ancient text are timeless and universally applicable. If you’re willing to extract the teachings that elevate you to your next level. You’ll find nearly immediate improvements in your outer experience.
How can this ancient knowledge contribute to our everyday lives?
The Kybalion is shrouded in mystery and speculation, claiming to offer ancient and fundamental principles of personal enlightenment philosophy. These principles are not just theoretical exercises but are ritual practices relevant to our daily lives. Let's explore how we can implement them.
The Principle of Mentalism
The first principle, Mentalism, posits that everything in existence is a manifestation of thought. This principle insists that if we practice understanding our own mental processes, we can significantly improve our experience of life.
Application: By aligning our thoughts with our desires and vision, we will manifest a life that is more in keeping with what we personally resolve it should be.
The Principle of Correspondence
"As above, so below," this principle is to remind us that the laws governing our reality are consistent across all different planes of existence. The solar system has similarity to what an atom might look like at different scales.
Application: Practicing observation of our multi-layered existence can help us recognize that our inner world is a reflection of our outer world. Changing our inner perceptions and beliefs can directly impact our outer experiences.
The Principle of Vibration
Everything being in constant motion, vibrating at different frequencies, especially our thoughts and emotions, allows us to routinely synchronize and tune into our naturally occurring bio-physiological cycles.
Application: Being aware of our emotional state in terms of cycles can help us tune into more pleasant or productive frequencies that are more aligned with our goals and well-being at the ideal points in which they’re needed.
The Principle of Polarity
The principal of opposites, like hot and cold, love and hate, joy and depression as sliding measures of the same internal experience.
Application: Recognizing the illusion of duality can help us regain balance and further reduce the volatility in our inner lives, reducing the outer turmoil in our everyday life.
The Principle of Rhythm
Everything in existence follows its natural rhythms and cycles.
Application: By pausing to regularly observe our inner experience, especially when it is of high amplitude, we get to better understand our existing rhythms. By practicing the observations as if outside ourselves allows for us to live more and more harmoniously as we gain inner insight into our own rhythms.
The Principle of Cause and Effect
Nothing happens by chance; physical demands there's always a cause and an effect. Even if you cannot currently see them.
Application: By practicing conscious actions, we gain better control over our perception and the outcomes of our own lives.
The Principle’s of Masculinity and Femininty
This principle refers to what is often called gender, the masculine and feminine energies present in each individual.
Application: Recognizing and balancing these natural energies within ourselves can lead to a more fulfilling life.
Take Away
The Kybalion offers esoteric wisdom that can be highly applicable in our daily lives. By practicing and applying these Hermetic principles, we create regular opportunities for ourselves to gain greater insight and control over our experience & destiny. Living more harmonious and fulfilling lives.