Hermetic Principles and Notes on Theodor Schwenk
The Hermes' Temple, by Allison L. Williams Hill
1. All is Mind. The Universe in mental. Archimedes Principle stronger especially during full moon. Sensitive to stimulus. 2. As Above, So Below; As Below, So Above. Balance between air and water: “If carbon dioxide content of air increase, then water immediately begins to absorb the surplus; if it decreases, the eater releases it again until a balance is achieved between the content of the carbon dioxide in the water and, that in the atmosphere.” (1)
Asclepios Spiritual- “The etheric body takes part in the gradual changes in the heavenly processes, which hold sway in everlasting movement, creation and transformation of form in the eternal stream of time.” (2) “The brain…rests in the waters of the world and is to a great extent withdrawn from the earthly laws of gravity through the forces of buoyancy”; “…once it has been freed from actually forming the organ, should reappear in the flow of thought?” (3) “This spiritual activity too has its expression in the element, which envelops object from all sides, grasps and feels and goes thoroughly into every detail of a form.” (4)
Archimedes Principle apply to spirit? Water is a 3 dimensional substance. Spirit is 11th dimensional. The forces are as intelligent and support substance- 3rd or 11th dimension. Monroe wrote when he tripped, his fall was suspended by unseen forces. “The activity of thinking is essentially an expression of flowing movement. Only when thinking dwells on a particular content, a particular form does it order itself accordingly and create an idea. Every idea- wire every organic form- arises in a process of flow, until the movement congeals into a form.” (5) “An exercise suggested by Rudolf Steiner, to help thinking become fluent and mobile is to recreate and transform in thought for instance cloud formations. With this ability to enter thoughtfully into everything and to picture all things in form of ideas, the process of thinking partakes in the laws of the formative processes of the Universe. These are the same laws as at work in the fluid element, which renounces a form of its own and is prepared to enter into all things, to unite all things, to absorb all things.” (6) “The capacity of water in the realm of substance to dissolve and bind together reappears in thinking as a spiritual activity.” (7) 3. Everything is dual; everything has its poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same. Opposites are identical in nature but different in degrees; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; All paradoxes may be reconciled. “Not only does water give to the human being and to all living nature the basis for existence in a living body, but it pictures-as though in a great parable- higher qualities of man’s development. Qualities such as the overcoming the rigidity in thought, of prejudice, of intolerance; the ability to enter into all things and to learn to understand them out of their own nature and to create out of polarities a higher unity; all these are aims of human striving which we can recognize also in the qualities of water. They represent ways in which man may win through to selflessness in a pure, healthy and light-filled soul life. Just as water aids him in his entry into the earthly world, mediating to him Heavenly forces, so it can also lead him to a rebirth of this spiritual nature.” (8) 4. 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 left: rhythm compensates. Effects of the moon on water. “Breathing of the continents” changeover of stationary regions of the high and low pressure takes place during spring and autumn. “Summer and winter meet in rhythmical combat.” Air mass spirals caused by earth revolutions “We have already met with the picture of organism like this in water, in the interplay between sources and sinks, where forms and organic water are created. In the air the ascending and descending currents, as seen from a height, correspond to these sources and sinks. They translate the movement of the landscape below them into an interplay of ascending and descending movements in the air. In this way Earth, air and water are united in one great whole in which each preserves its own nature and yet moves together with the others becoming alive in the great and small rhythms of summer and winter.” (9) Day and Night Indeed, each movement in the air during the course of a day has a rhythm of its own; all the many ascending and descending movements take place not uniformly but in rhythmically repeated thrusts. It is as though, in separate delicate breaths, the landscape were to “speak” into the air around it.” (10) 9/29/92 Begins, according to A. Schmauss: the “dynamic year” per, observations between northern England and France. Climaxes 1/9/93 “The important stages in the rhythm of the dynamic year will be seen to correspond with the main festivals of the Christian year. Easter lies in the rhythmical events of the seasons between winter and summer, in battle between the extremes and is therefore not very prominent as a single event, as a “singularity.” (11) Certain times of the year have predictable weather patterns. 5. 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. The spiraling columns of air- horizontal and vertical music. Water flowing around obstructions. There are obvious effects. What about things we don’t perceive because we are not “open” to them? Do molecules of the object detach in the bombardment as occurs with light? The introduction of obstructions only have (cause) effects – per the desire of the viewer participant? As one limits possibilities, the limitations will exclude any opportunity of witnessing the possibilities’ new possibilities. Footnotes: 1. Schwenk, Theodor, Sensitive Chaos, p.100 2. ditto, p. 95 3. ditto, p. 96 4. ditto, p. 96 5, ditto, p. 96 6. ditto, p. 96 7. ditto, P. 97 8. ditto, P. 99 9. ditto, p. 107 10. ditto, p. 107 11. ditto, p. 109 The Hermetic Principles are from the The Kybalion by Hermes Trismigistus.
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