So over the last three weeks I have been working with learning the principals of the Kybalion. I have tried several different methods. I started out reading a book and boy was that a mess.  I tried to listen to it via audio books.  You can find a chapter by chapter listing here.

Pretty soon I began to feel like I was in a Charlie Brown cartoon.




Next I found several different "teachers" if you will on YouTube to try to understand the message here.  Here is just a few of the thousands of hits that were returned on this search.















While I intended this blog series to outline the seven principals and then give my interpretation of them, the best I have right now is:







I just don't get it.  Maybe it is smarter than me, maybe I'm not at my spiritual level to fully understand this but for now, it is complete confusion.  And frankly I really tried to get it. If anyone would like to reach out to add a bit of clarity I am completely open to hearing your thoughts on this but for now, I'm just setting this aside.

My path has pretty much wondered away from deity worship and leads back more towards science, energy and learning about alchemy. Perhaps this is why I'm having issues with it. The repeated references to God and so forth are a bit of challenge for me.

In any event those following at home, please feel free to have a hand at reading this and feel free to come back and post your comments or even message me directly.  I'm intrigued at how many have re-shared, re-blogged and vlogged about this topic yet it is still so difficult to understand.

After having a listen to these things I finally found this video.  Not related to our topic but really actually higher than our topic.  The statement - everyone consumes more than what they need.  YES. This.  To me this is so much more understanding than these other videos.

Till next time...
Sosanna

"The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before who touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open." ~The Kybalion.

The Hermetic Philosophy is based on seven principals. I'm going to focus on the third this week. The Principle of Vibration.

"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates" ~The Kybalion



Sound is vibration. Light is vibration. We are vibration. Nothing is permanent. Even death is a channel or a vibration to another place.





We want to stay in one place but everything changes.  I sit back and listen to this and think how simple this is but then it is so complex. Sometimes just when I think I have it figured out I hear another line or verse and then boom, I'm back at the beginning.

I found it really interesting how the separation from News, TV, adding exercise and eating meat help raise your vibrations.  Hubby mentioned how calm I seemed to be lately.  This resonated with me.

What do you think, what is permanent? What is vibration?  

"The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before who touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open." ~The Kybalion.

The Hermetic Philosophy is based on seven principals. I'm going to focus on the second this week. The Principle of Correspondence.

"As Above, so below; as below, so above." ~The Kybalion





One way to think about this is to think about our solar system and the structure of an atom.  In several of the videos and books I researched for this post, this was by far the most understandable example.  Our universe has the same structure of an atom. The same forces run each just on a very different scale.

My very first contact with this concept was the tree of life.  The branches above mimic the tree roots below. I was so taken with this that I tattooed myself with this image.  As the tree puts out oxygen, our lungs take in the oxygen whose structure corresponds with that of the tree.

"The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before who touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open." ~The Kybalion.

The Hermetic Philosophy is based on seven principals. I'm going to focus on the first this week.  The Principle of Mentalism.

The All is Mind; The universe is Mental."  ~The Kybalion

So what does this mean?  Everything is thought.  Thoughts lead to events. We create where we are in our world with our thoughts. Even if it is subconscious it is still thought.

As I started reading this part of the book I went out to the web to get some insight from others who might be a bit more informed on the topic than I.  Here are a few videos I found.








The second one listed here was to me, the most understandable. I agree that it is difficult to understand the process of thinking.  What thoughts do you have about the Principal of Mentalism?

So this week I thought I would take a look at a book I picked up recently.  It's called The Kybalion - A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece. By Three Initiates.

The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding. - The Kybalion

Chapter one takes us through the physical locations of this philosophy and shows how it is found in many organized religions today.  It talks about the sharing of the doctrines passed from teacher to student over the years to avoid persecution in the middle ages. The exact meaning of the Kybalion however was lost.  The first chapter makes a clear distinction between the author's opinion and the direct text from the Kybalion. I like to see that in a book. I want to know what the actual source is not just what the author's opinion of it is.

"Where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for his Teaching open wide." - The Kybalion.

According to this, when you're ready to learn (to hear) the teachings the laws of attraction will bring you together with a teacher.   Are you ready?

Here's a link to the audio book that is under public domain on YouTube.  You can also download the file here.




I'm going to spend the next few weeks reading this book and sharing my thoughts here.  Feel free to jump the comments and add your commentary or link to your own blog with your journey through these same pages.