Hermetic Principles and Spiritual Science

use them for anything, NEWTON used some of these principles to formulate the foundations of his physical theory, others for financial speculation, others to have a guide in biology, in historical interpretation etc... however the Purpose is to provide the basic axioms to be able to operate according to a SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. This of Spiritual Science is an important discourse because Archeosophy proposes itself precisely as spiritual science. –These principles direct you in finding an answer to the questions "Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?" which were the questions of the Sphinx. Why is it important for a spiritual science to direct you in answering these questions? –It does not mean to give you the answer from a notionistic point of view because it means nothing to us. Yet there is a fact: all of us given that we experience a life, we have an experience of consciousness from a subjective point of view and we live as relative centers (relative, not absolute) of the cosmos our life. This alone would suffice as authorization to have the right and duty to answer these questions in first person. –In fact if something is given to you, you are authorized to understand what is given to you, who gave it to you and what to do with it. So the simple fact that we find ourselves with a consciousness and with a life, already by itself authorizes us to say that all of us have the right and honor to answer these questions. Nor can we pretend that someone else, anyone else answers them for us. –Instead we have a series of complexes that have been instilled in us so that one cannot answer these questions, in adolescence one abandons the hope of answering these questions, represses them then the years pass and at a certain point one realizes that they will die and enters into crisis Why is it important for a spiritual science to provide the way and techniques to answer these questions? Because a person as we conceive them, a body cannot answer these questions. It is not possible to answer these questions if one has a consciousness purely of the physical body. –The physical body in fact is born at a certain point, dies at another point, how can it know where it comes from? –So as long as we identify with a body in the end we are like a postal package that is sent from parents to the grave, express courier. –Sender? unknown. –Recipient? Unknown. So the physical body has no hope of answering these questions. To answer these questions it is necessary to find instead a state in which one's consciousness is free from the body, it means being able to find a nucleus outside of time that can answer these questions. Here then is that the answer to these questions means the realization of the Immortal Man. WHO WE ARE So we now see these Principles whose main purpose is to provide you with the keys to answer these questions The first principles that we will see are part of that fundamental nucleus that goes back to Hermeticism and that essentially describe who Man is and who we are One of the most famous hermetic principles during the entire Renaissance and on which Abbot Trithemius wrote extensively and on which Paracelsus founded all his medicine is the Principle of Analogy. 1.«Law of analogy or correspondence»: The microcosm is analogous to the macrocosm in the three planes of unitrinity; as it is above so it is below, as it is below so it is above. In what way can Man microcosm be equal to the Macrocosm? It is analogous that is to say that there is a correspondence between the forces that act in the individual soul and the forces that act in the cosmos and that we perceive as natural forces. It is that these authors had a conception of the Cosmos and Man very different much more informal because for them external reality did not have this absolute character that it has for us. For us matter has an absolute character: I believe what I touch. But in the dream matter and the world exist in the same way. I do not realize that I am dreaming has the same degree of reality -once I am there of this world here-. But then is reality a dream that I can change at my pleasure? No reality is not the dream of a man but the dream of Man, not of the microcosm but of the macrocosm that is of Universal Man. Fundamental heuristic instrument of investigation. This provides an interpretive key of reality, of the Natural world because as in the individual dream the images that form are the fruit of the forces that act in the individual and provide us with a key to interpret our inner nature, so the natural realities that are before our eyes every day are the symbol of the forces that act in the cosmic consciousness of Man and give us indications on what is the general condition of all men –As first thing for example we notice that Man finds himself on earth, he is not in intersidereal spaces, nor is he immersed in the light of the Sun. Tommaso Palamidessi for example describes some experiences in which he does not have the earth under his feet but finds himself in ethereal worlds where men come from a Sun, etc... Therefore we deduce that man (physical, psychic, biological etc...) is not independent and autonomous. –All this life however is made possible not by what is found on earth, but all depends on the Sun. The Sun is the source of all physical life as Christ is the source of all psychic and spiritual life. –And this life takes place on a frontier on one side the Sky, transparent, superior to Man, which Man sees but on which he cannot act or interact, while on the other side there is the earth, dark, material, corporeal, on which he can move and act and whose task is precisely to act on this earth to dominate its forces and transmute it according to a divine project. Transmute nature into Beauty,