Light up People’s Lives - Applied Hermetics

Written on 5/21/20

Light up People’s Lives! Regenerate the Earth! Create Abundance.

It’s easy, right? 

Bah! No. 

I am frustrated.

Why?

Because I just want everything to be awesome. All the time.

What would that take?

What would that look like?

Magic, huh?

Yes. Magic.

What is magic??

Well. Lots more playing. And time with my family.

And there would be mead in Harry Potter Land. And Grocery stores would be selling Affordable, delicious, better for the earth mead that helped bees and bee keepers and land stewards and ecosystems thrive and… we’d be making awesome specialty meads from awesome honeys and paying our employees and investors handsomely and people would be protecting the earth and we’d be showing each other how we make magic. 

What is magic really to you, Frank?

Magic is truth applied to reality.

What?  That sounds cool, but I’m not sure it makes sense.

Right.  Well, let me try to explain.

If reality is the experience that two individuals share, then truth is the actual underlying structure upon which the experience is based.  What is true, is. Therefore, truth is the underlying constant between the two individual’s different perspectives on the reality they each experience.

So, applying the truth to the reality is a way of saying that we’re only going to work with the underlying constant of reality.  We’re going to ignore illusion and falsehoods.

Okay, what is the underlying reality?  

It would appear, based off my years of inquiry, research and experimentation, that there is a fabric of intelligent, quantum energy that animates all material reality.

Like the Force. Like the Morphogenic Field. Like the Aether. 

Like God.

It is everywhere and nowhere at the same time- the dark energy and matter and plasma and dust through which all energy propogates.  

It enables the three dimensional reality that we know and share to operate, while existing beyond it at the same time. 

(It is the backstage of reality - entering it is a journey and a large part of the preparation is the desire to enter it, because when you’re there it is all there is, the experience we have heretofore called life is second to what is behind the curtain.)

This fabric/energy/non-material plane is the spark that animates matter while existing beyond and within it.

Time is a function overlaid onto it to make it make sense to linear, material beings but on the quantum level, time is nonlinear.  Things can vibrate and be still at the same time on its level. 

On it’s level, Light and Dark are variations on a theme.  As are all dualities.  In my experience, when approached with humility and honesty, it is abundantly flexible, generous and accommodating. It’s limits are potentially unbounded. 

They say that there are an infinite number of universes within its realm.

But, (One) the mind can hold it all. The mind can hold the absolute absence of it and the absolute everything. Therefore, the mind is pre-eminent.

(Two) What is above it is below it, and vice versa and the same for inside and outside. Like the legend of the phoenix… the end has no beginning...

(Three) Everything within it vibrates. Slow vibrations equal material reality.  Waveforms stacking until matter precipitates out. Starting with quarks and other subatomic particles popping out of the plasma when it is charged and collided, stacking up to electrons and neutrons and protons, then elements, then molecules, then compounds, then the macroscopic world: géologies, life forms, écologies, cultures and societies…. Planets, solar systems, galaxies, universes. Apparently even a universe of universes.

(Four) Within its infinite expanse, opposites are similar, just opposite poles, different in degree. Extremes meet. Every paradox can be resolved. Light is a shade of darkness, darkness a shade of light. They are unknowable without each other and therefore one. Loud and quiet. Zoom in, or zoom out.  They are relative.

But this is not relativism.  These things are part of the great wholeness.

With my mind, can I manipulate them?  Change what is, into what I wish for it to be?  

Endless success, joy, beauty and abundance? All creatures creating and thriving together?

(Five) Rhythm links the swing of things - Rest and Action. In and out. Back and forth. Up and down. Red and Violet. Sharp and Flat. The movement, pulls and pushes, making life grow. The in breath and out breath. 

(Six) Cause and Effect - everything is caused by something else. Anything called chance is misunderstood cause. 

Then what started it all?

The pleasure of the Divine Mind?

And, what then is its end?

Exactly. The pleasure of the divine mind. But it is a mind that is infinite in scope. And our minds' scope is limited. However, as we expand our mind and develop and broaden our definition of pleasure, we arrive at virtue/ideals/wholeness/unity/Love. The only pursuit that is complimentary to all other pursuits. The Highest Common Denominator.

Whoa. 

Yes. Aren’t we lucky to have those concepts?

Yes. How do we balance it all?

The last principle (of the Seven I have shared here - not my own inventions but the teachings of Hermetics, which seem to be the rule set that governs when Physics and Logic have lost their arena) is Gender and it appears relevant to say here that gender, masculinity and femininity, are a duality that keeps the flow of energy moving. And we humans acting in the physical and metaphysical realms can inhabit either and both genders and contrary to our default culture’s over simplification - it is in fact healthy to do so. If the feminine is nurturing and accepting among other things and the masculine is independent and initiating among other things, a healthy, balanced person has measures of both genders and all of their characteristics. This internal dynamic , rhythm, polarity and balance creates the flow of lived experience. Guiding our personal journey of this life, swinging from accepting to initiation, independent to interdependent, we can help the system to evolve towards greater Truth/Beauty/Love. Where we encounter blockages, we can relax a bit and surrender, or cogitate and resolve… there are an infinite number of ways to skin this cat as long as we apply our will in the right direction. 

Wow… so, what is our next step?

Perhaps we agree to work from these seven principles. What happens then?

Mmm, that sounds fun. Let’s see…

-Frank