74 RealityBites #15 The 7 Hermetic Principles of Reality Series #6 "The Principle of Cause and Effect"

 

Welcome to the sixth episode of a 7 part RealityBites Series featuring and exploring the 7 Hermetic Principles as told in The Kybalion -  In The Kybalion, a book first published in 1908 by the “Three Initiates” the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus are conveyed in the study of hermetic philosophy.

A 7 part RealityBites Series featuring and exploring the 7 Hermetic Principles as told in The Kybalion.

My hope and intention with these series of podcasts is that you can become aware and familiar of how these principles show up in your own reality - and how you can best utilise, take advantage or co-create your experience in accordance with these universal laws. 

The idea is to start noticing how these principles or laws if you like govern the universe, and therefore influence our reality - 

To recap we have introduced the Hermetic wisdom in our first episode in the series- and we’ve explored the principle of mentalism, correspondence, vibration and polarity. I encourage you to check out the previous episodes to know more about these principles

On the last episode we talked about 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.

6. The Principle of Cause & 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.

This principle embodies the fact that there is a ’Cause for every Effect;’ and an ‘Effect for every Cause.’ Meaning, that nothing merely ‘happens for no reason' and that there is no such thing as ‘chance.’

The old saying everything happens for a reason or things are happening for you.

This also implies you have some control over your life, that you can cause or initiate the effect.

This also relates to karma and the law of action.

Karma as a past experience, good or bad.

(in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.

"a buddha is believed to have completely purified his karma"

Every action has some form of consequence.

“The Hermetists understand to a certain degree to rise above cause and effect, they become causers instead of effects”.

This means we can with awareness, shift how we react to certain situations, and come from the perspective that things happen for us, by us - that  karma can reside on a higher realm or dimension, as the hermeticists believe.

In our own lives we can transcend our karma by becoming aware of our own internal triggers or cause to situations that keep re-appearing in our lives to be addressed

Old wounds or patterns or behaviours, relationship dynamics etc 

It comes to to whether our lives are fated and to what degree we can exert our free will to alter the effect, by addressing the cause - by changing the way you look, or act to a certain cause we can therefore change the effect our outcome.

In some wisdom traditions and teachings, this reality is seen as a soul cauldron where souls come for purification and rectification- a school of life, to transcend life challenges - and come back to “holiness”

Or Moksha - 1. (in Hinduism and Jainism) release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma.
the transcendent state attained as a result of being released from the cycle of rebirth.

Also freedom from samsara - The Sanskrit term samsara translates as “wandering through,” or “aimless wandering.” Samsara is the concept of reincarnation, a cyclic existence where our spirit or individual soul is trapped in an endless wheel of life, death and rebirth.

7. The Principle of Gender:

Gender is in everything; Everything has its masculine and feminine principles; Gender manifests on all planes.

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