7-Seven Hermetic Principles Explained
The Governing Universal Principles
“There are seven Hermetic principles; he who knows these,
understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open.”
The Seven Hermetic Principles, upon which the entire Hermetic Philosophy is based, are as follows:
These are the seven hermetic principles explained with the meaning behind them.
1. The Principle of Mentalism — First Hermetic Principle
“THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental.”
This First Among the Seven Hermetic Principles embodies the truth that “All is Mind.” It explains that THE ALL (which is the Substantial Reality underlying all the outward manifestations and appearances which we know under the terms of “The Material Universe”; the “Phenomena of Life”; “Matter”; “Energy”; and, in short, all that is apparent to our material senses) is SPIRIT which in itself is UNKNOWABLE and UNDEFINABLE, but which may be considered and thought of as AN UNIVERSAL, INFINITE, LIVING MIND.
