Hermetic Magick: The Hermetic Principles

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Hermetic Magick: The Hermetic Principles

For those who are interested in Hermetic Magick. Rowan Pendragon shares the Hermetic principals and their connection to magick. Enjoy!

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The Hermetic Principles

by Rowan Pendragon

I had a moment of “Oh my Gods, what was I thinking” the other day when I realized I needed to post a magickal law post for the week (well, OK, technically two weeks). I should have started off with the Hermetic Principles but I didn’t. So I’m going to go back a little bit and we’ll start with those and then jump into the Universal Laws and all that fun stuff. Again, I’m doing these posts because I was surprised to find after talking to a few people through emails and on Facebook that it seems a lot of people who are new or new-ish to magick and the Craft are completely unaware of these Laws and Principles. These are really the cornerstones of successful magick so when you want to know how to cast effective spells you’ll find those answers in these posts.

So what are the Hermetic Principles? These are esoteric teachings that can be found in The Kybalion, a book first published in 1908, which presents what is believed to be ancient teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, or Thrice-Great Hermes. Who this is or was is not clearly known or understood and how the works of Hermes Trismegistus has been presented and accepted has varied over the years. Hermes refers to the the Greek God Hermes who is associated with the Egyptian God Thoth and the God Mercury to the Romans. One suggestion has been that Hermes Trismegistus actually refers to the God Hermes in his three different associations seen here or that this name was used by the Egyptians to try and differentiate from the Greek God Hermes.

It’s hard to say if Hermes Trismegistus was actually a human or a myth, but the teachings that developed as a result of this persona are considered to be some of the most important esoteric and magickal writings. The Hermetic writings that were the basis for The Kybalionare said to have been inscribed on green stones, referred to as “emerald tablets”. The Emerald Tablet opens with the following:

That which is above is like that which is below, and that which is below is like that which is above, to achieve the wonders of the one thing.

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