Atargatis the Aramaic mermaid is symbolic of the energies of the land and of the sea. Sign for the constellation Ophiuchus and Phoenician traders. Many years ago the fertility of the land was of great concern; so it is today. As is also the fertility of our lives. Anciently assured by ritual, people ate seasonally. As is well known most food is intensively farmed and peoples fertility is on a decline. The seasons of the earth give us a natural rhythm by which we can lead our lives. Rhythm is one of the hermetic principles listed and expounded in the Kybalion.
1. The Principle of Mentalism.
2. The Principle of Correspondence.
3. The Principle of Vibration.
4. The Principle of Polarity.
5. The Principle of Rhythm.
6. The Principle of Cause and Effect.
7. The Principle of Gender.
Everything is dual, everything has poles, everything has its pair of opposites, like and unlike are the same, opposites are identical in nature but different in degree, extremes meet, all truths are half truths, all paradoxes may be reconciled. ( The Kybalion ) This is the Principle of Polarity and using dialectic measures all paradoxes can be reconciled. Thesis / anti thesis are resolved into a new form embodying both, a new thesis is produced, manifested.
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 right is the measure of the swing to the left, rhythm compensates. ( The Kybalion ) The Hermetist using appropriate formulas and methods learned how to escape the effects in themselves to a certain degree; instead of being used by it. ( The Principle of Rhythm and the law of Compensation )
Developing self mastery one can neutralize the rhythmic swing of the pendulum which would carry one to the other pole. This is done more or less unconsciously the mastery of self one does this consciously, by the use of the Will to attain poise, mental firmness. Quite unbelievable to the masses who swing back and forth like a pendulum. Adrift on a sea of decadence.
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity and reasoning. Hermetic philosophy summarized in The Kybalion by The Three Initiates is part of the master key that can reconcile divergent views along with Dialectic psychology and Analytical thinking. There have always been a few initiates in each generation, in various lands of the earth and sea who kept the sacred flame of hermetic teaching a light. Tending the altar of truth upon which was kept alight The Perpetual Lamp of Wisdom. A labor of love which the poets, like Rumi, alchemists like Zarathustra call the light. Others call The Beloved. Sacred energy in alchemist, poet terminology are pearls of great wisdom, reserved for the elected, initiates, who recognize their value, ready for the truth. Hence the saying of casting pearls before swines this is not wisdom to do so.
Thus the lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of understanding. ( The Kybalion ) Picture from Goddesses book by Sue Jennings.
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