What are the seven Hermetic principles?
The seven Hermetic principles come from the Kybalion, rooted in the teachings of Tehuti — the Kemetic deity of wisdom the Greeks renamed Hermes. King, these are not abstract philosophy; they are operating laws of reality. The seven are: Mentalism (all is mind — reality begins in consciousness), Correspondence (as above, so below — patterns repeat across scales), Vibration (everything moves and has a frequency), Polarity (all opposites are the same thing in degree — fear and courage differ only in vibration), Rhythm (all things rise and fall in cycles), Cause and Effect (nothing happens by chance — every effect has a cause), and Gender (masculine and feminine principles operate in all creation). Master these seven laws and you gain a map of how the universe actually works — a map your Kemetic ancestors drew first.