The Ten Commandments of Khemhotep the Aquarian

Ten Commandments of the Aquarian Age

1: Worship none other than all that is, with no exception, least it would not be all. To worship one thing over another makes separation, and thus trauma and pain. There is nothing but One, All, Tao, "God".
2: Worshiping idols, materials, and physical phenomenon will lead only away from oneness. The physical is the symbol of what is non-physical, true "divinity" can only exist as the entirety of the physical universal experience or as all there is, and is not. Materials are only as good as the thought you give them, the supernal is divine, only Oneness is truly omnipotent.
3: Work no more than six days of a week. Else is slavery and than your efforts should be turned to undoing the slave master and his works to bring freedom to yourself and all others being enslaved. Liberty and happiness above even life.
4: Honor Mother Earth and Father Creator. Not "god", but Earth for providing us all we have, a chance to know ourselves and The All. The Father here is The All, "father", and "mother", even to itself, the principal of energy in all its forms, the "seed" of creation.
5: Disturb, destroy, or kill nothing except in need, be it defense, sustenance, or any other requirement.
6: Disdain from committing emotional and mental assault and abuse. We all make mistakes, but strive ever to never harm others emotionally or mentally, and forgive those who fail to abstain from mentally and emotionally harming others, including, and most importantly, yourself.
7: Do not ever steal from anything, animal, man, or otherwise, unless you are starving and about to die, but this is in extreme cases. When you do steal you potentially harm someones financial stability, which could lead to emotional and mental pain, and suffering. "Robin Hooding" should even not be done. If you have a wealthy overlord who tyrannizes you and your people, don't steal from him to make yourselves better off, revolt, and put an end to the tyranny, and you will have freedom.
8: Do not be dishonest. Not knowing something is not dishonesty, its simply innocence. But knowing a thing and withholding it from others is dishonest. Information, unless life threatening, should be public domain for all beings who can make use of it.
9: Covet nothing. All happens for a reason, we learn what we must and we must pay attention to what we must learn from life, and not what others "have". This is also materialism, usually. Be happy for what you have, and if you aren't, change something.
10: Love all. "All" here is referring to all that there is and is not. Physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. Love all, all is one. Forgive all. Understand that if you were born by the same people, raised in the same life, and experienced the same things from the same perspective, you would have made the same choices and actions as everyone else in history. Love, unconditional, understanding, is all knowing. Love is Oneness. Love all, One love.

The Two. Black and White. (Duality)

There was nothing. Than there was one thing. This is the first dual, but unofficially. The nothing, zero, is negative, compared to the One Thing. But once the One Thing came from the Nothing, the nothing was something, and so these never split, they are the same. The One Thing, prior to creation, could be thought of as a single point in space. As the Nothing condensed into a Point it left a space, a circumference is made, the space the point sits in, so to say. This creates two things. The Point is the first "positive". But the space is now technically a new thing, and so the second true thing is made. You could think of a circle with a point in the middle.


Black and white are the same, but they differ in degree. Where does light end and dark start? Duality is required for our physical universe. Evil is but the lack of good. All of duality exists to create. The poles of existence are the dual's, reality is the space in between. Without the constant struggle, the backs and forths, reality would not be. Duality is the cause of motion, the lack of motion is oneness. All has a body and a soul. Duality is hard to see, as we only see the dual. But knowing this we can work around it, but that's for another time. All things have an opposite, everything is dual, and all things have both opposites within them. Like the yin yang, there is black in the white and white in the black. All archetypes have dual aspects  because they are above duality, so we must see them in a dual way, we must see the black and white. True knowledge comes from knowing the black and white and seeing the greater source, the greater, less specific thing. Duality is specific, oneness is general.

The following is a Verse from the Tao Te Ching about duality, it is also the second verse, funny huh?

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty,
only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Being and non being produce each other.
The difficult is born in the easy.
Long is defined by the short, the high by the low.
before and after go along with each other.

So the sage lives openly, with apparent duality
and paradoxical unity.
The sage can act without effort
and teach without words.
nurturing things without possessing them
he works, but not for rewords;
he competes, but not for results.

When the work is done, it is forgotten,
that is why it last forever.



Most of the Laws of the Kybalion deal with duality.

 THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY.

"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 but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled." — The Kybalion.

THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER.

"Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles Gender; manifests on all planes." — The Kybalion.

THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.

"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 Kybalion.

THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM.

"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 Seven Principals.

The Seven laws are taken from a book called the Kybalion. The Kybalion claims it is the first written account of the full essence of the Hermetic philosophies. I urge anyone who claims to seek truth read this book, but be aware of the writers arrogance, but remember, that does not take any truth out of it, the truth is for you to discern.        The following is an excerpt from The Kybalion on the Seven Laws.

The Seven Hermetic Principles, upon which the entire Hermetic Philosophy is based, are as follows:

THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION. THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER.

I. THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM.

"THE ALL is MIND; The Universe is Mental." — The Kybalion.

This Principle embodies the truth that "All is Mind." It explains that THE ALL (which is the Substantial Reality underlying all the outward manifestations and appearances which we know under the terms of "The Material Universe"; the "Phenomena of Life"; "Matter"; "Energy"; and, in short, all that is apparent to our material senses) is SPIRIT, which in itself is UNKNOWABLE and UNDEFINABLE, but which may be considered and thought of as AN UNIVERSAL, INFINITE, LIVING MIND. It also explains that all the phenomenal world or universe is simply a Mental Creation of THE ALL, subject to the Laws of Created Things, and that the universe, as a whole, and in its parts or units, has its existence in the Mind of THE ALL, in which Mind we "live and move and have our being." This Principle, by establishing the Mental Nature of the Universe, easily explains all of the varied mental and psychic phenomena that occupy such a large portion of the public attention, and which, without such explanation, are non-understandable and defy scientific treatment. An understanding of this great hermetic Principle of Mentalism enables the individual to readily grasp the laws of the Mental Universe, and to apply the same to his well-being and advancement. The Hermetic Student is enabled to apply intelligently the great Mental Laws, instead of using them in a haphazard manner. With tire Master-Key in his possession, the student may unlock the many doors of the mental and psychic temple of knowledge, and enter the same freely and intelligently. This Principle explains the true nature of "Energy," "Power," and "Matter," and why and how all these are subordinate to the Mastery of Mind. One of the old Hermetic Masters wrote, long ages ago: "He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery." And these words are as true to-day as at the time they were first written. Without this Master-Key, Mastery is impossible, and the student knocks in vain at the many doors of The Temple.

II. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE.

"As above, so below; as below so above." — The Kybalion.

This Principle embodies the truth that there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life. The old Hermetic axiom ran in these words: "As above, so below; as below, so above." And the grasping of this Principle gives one the means of solving many a dark paradox, and hidden secret of Nature. There are planes beyond our knowing, but when we apply the Principle of Correspondence to them we are able to understand much that would otherwise be unknowable to us. This Principle is of universal application and manifestation, on the various planes of the material, mental, and spiritual universe — it is an Universal Law. The ancient Hermetists considered this Principle as one of the most important mental instruments by which man was able to pry aside the obstacles which hid from view the Unknown. Its use even tore aside the Veil of Isis to the extent that a glimpse of the face of the goddess might be caught. Just as a knowledge of the Principles of Geometry enables man to measure distant suns and their movements, while seated in his observatory, so a knowledge of the Principle of Correspondence enables Man to reason intelligently from the Known to the Unknown. Studying the monad, he understands the archangel.

III. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION.

"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates." — The Kybalion.

This Principle embodies the truth that "everything is in motion"; "everything vibrates"; "nothing is at rest"; facts which Modern Science endorses, and which each new scientific discovery tends to verify. And yet this Hermetic Principle was enunciated thousands of years ago, by the Masters of Ancient Egypt. This Principle explains that the differences between different manifestations of Matter, Energy, Mind, and even Spirit, result largely from varying rates of Vibration. From THE ALL, which is Pure Spirit, down to the grossest form of Matter, all is in vibration — the higher the vibration, the higher the position in the scale. The vibration of Spirit is at such an infinite rate of intensity and rapidity that it is practically at rest — just as a rapidly moving wheel seems to be motionless. And at the other end of the scale, there are gross forms of matter whose vibrations are so low as to seem at rest. Between these poles, there are millions upon millions of varying degrees of vibration. From corpuscle and electron, atom and molecule, to worlds and universes, everything is in vibratory motion. This is also true on the planes of energy and force (which are but varying degrees of vibration); and also on the mental planes (whose states depend upon vibrations); and even on to the spiritual planes. An understanding of this Principle, with the appropriate formulas, enables Hermetic students to control their own mental vibrations as well as those of others. The Masters also apply this Principle to the conquering of Natural phenomena, in various ways. "He who understands the Principle of Vibration, has grasped the sceptre of Power," says one of the old writers.

IV. THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY.

"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 but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled." — The Kybalion.

This Principle embodies the truth that "everything is dual"; "everything has two poles"; "everything has its pair of opposites," all of which were old Hermetic axioms. It explains the old paradoxes, that have perplexed so many, which have been stated as follows: "Thesis and anti-thesis are identical in nature, but different in degree"; "opposites are the same, differing only in degree"; "the pairs of opposites may be reconciled"; "extremes meet"; "everything is and isn't, at the same time"; "all truths are but half-truths"; "every truth is half-false"; "there are two sides to everything," etc., etc., etc. It explains that in everything there are two poles, or opposite aspects, and that "opposites" are really only the two extremes of the same thing, with many varying degrees between them. To illustrate: Heat and Cold, although "opposites," are really the same thing, the differences consisting merely of degrees of the same thing. Look at your thermometer and see if you can discover where "heat" terminates and "cold" begins! There is no such thing as "absolute heat" or "absolute cold" — the two terms "heat" and "cold" simply indicate varying degrees of the same thing, and that "same thing" which manifests as "heat" and "cold" is merely a form, variety, and rate of Vibration. So "heat" and "cold" are simply the "two poles" of that which we call "Heat" — and the phenomena attendant thereupon are manifestations of the Principle of Polarity. The same Principle manifests in the case of "Light and Darkness," which are the same thing, the difference consisting of varying degrees between the two poles of the phenomena. Where does "darkness" leave off, and "light" begin? What is the difference between "Large and Small"? Between "Hard and Soft"? Between "Black and White"? Between "Sharp and Dull"? Between "Noise and Quiet"? Between "High and Low"? Between "Positive and Negative"? The Principle of Polarity explains these paradoxes, and no other Principle can supersede it. The same Principle operates on the Mental Plane. Let us take a radical and extreme example — that of "Love and Hate," two mental states apparently totally different. And yet there are degrees of hate and degrees of Love, and a middle point in which we use the terms "Like or Dislike," which shade into each other so gradually that sometimes we are at a loss to know whether we "like" or "dislike" or "neither." And all are simply degrees of the same thing, as you will see if you will but think a moment. And, more than this (and considered of more importance by the Hermetists), it is possible to change the vibrations of hate to the vibrations of Love, in one's own mind, and in the minds of others. Many of you, who read these lines, have had personal experiences of the involuntary rapid transition from Love to Hate, and the reverse, in your own ease and that of others. And you will therefore realize the possibility of this being accomplished by the use of the Will, by means of the Hermetic formulas. "Good and Evil" are but the poles of the same thing, and the Hermetist understands the art of transmuting Evil into Good, by means of an application of the Principle of Polarity. In short, the "Art of Polarization" becomes a phase of "Mental Alchemy" known and practiced by the ancient and modern Hermetic Masters. An understanding of the Principle will enable one to change his own Polarity, as well as that of others, if he will devote the time and study necessary to master the art.

V. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM.

"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.

This Principle embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion, to and fro; a flow and inflow; a swing backward and forward; a pendulum-like movement; a tide-like ebb and flow; a high-tide and low-tide; between the two poles which exist in accordance with the Principle of Polarity described a moment ago. There is always an action and a reaction; an advance and a retreat a rising and a sinking. This is in the affairs of the Universe, suns, worlds, men, animals, mind, energy, and matter. This law is manifest in the creation and destruction of worlds; in the rise and fall of nations; in the life of all things; and finally in the mental states of Man (and it is with this latter that the Hermetists find the understanding of the Principle most important). The Hermetists have grasped this Principle, finding its universal application, and have also discovered certain means to overcome its effects in themselves by the use of the appropriate formulas and methods. They apply the Mental Law of Neutralization. They cannot annul the Principle, or Cause it to cease its operation, but they have learned how to escape its effects upon themselves to a certain degree depending upon the Mastery of the Principle. They have learned how to USE it, instead of being USED BY it. In this and similar methods, consist the Art of the Hermetists. The Master of Hermetics polarizes himself at the point at which he desires to rest, and then neutralizes the Rhythmic swing of the pendulum which would tend to carry him to the other pole. All individuals who have attained any degree of Self-Mastery do this to a certain degree, more or less unconsciously, but the Master does this consciously, and by the use of his Will and attains a degree of Poise and Mental Firmness almost impossible of belief on the part of the masses who are swung backward and forward like a pendulum. This Principle and that of Polarity have been closely studied by the Hermetists, and the methods of counteracting, neutralizing and USING them form an important part of the Hermetic Mental Alchemy.

VI. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.

"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 Kybalion.

This Principle embodies the fact that there is a Cause for every Effect; an Effect from every Cause. It explains that: "Everything Happens according to Law"; that nothing ever "merely happens"; that there is no such thing as Chance; that while there are various planes of Cause and Effect, the higher dominating the lower planes, still nothing ever entirely escapes the Law. The Hermetists understand the art and methods of rising above the ordinary plane of Cause and Effect, to a certain degree, and by mentally rising to a higher plane they become Causers instead of Effects. The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; heredity; suggestion; and other outward causes moving them about like pawns on the Chessboard of Life. But the Masters, rising to the plane above, dominate their moods, characters, qualities, and powers, as well as the environment surrounding them, and become Movers instead of pawns. They help to PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE, instead of being played and moved about by other wills and environment. They USE the Principle instead of being its tools. The Masters obey the Causation of the higher planes, but they help to RULE on their own plane. In this statement there is condensed a wealth of Hermetic knowledge — let him read who can.

VII. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER.

"Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles Gender; manifests on all planes." — The Kybalion.

This Principle embodies the truth that there is GENDER manifested in everything — the Masculine and Feminine Principles ever at work. This is true not only of the Physical Plane, but of the Mental and even the Spiritual Planes. On the Physical Plane, the Principle manifests as SEX, on the higher planes it takes higher forms, but the Principle is ever the same. No creation, physical, mental or spiritual, is possible without this Principle. An understanding of its laws will throw light on many a subject that has perplexed the minds of men. The Principle of Gender works ever in the direction of generation, regeneration, and creation. Everything, and every person, contains the two Elements or Principles, or this great Principle, within it, him or her. Every Male thing has the Female Element also; every Female contains also the Male Principle. If you would understand the philosophy of Mental and Spiritual Creation, Generation, and Re-generation, you must understand and study this Hermetic Principle. It contains the solution of many mysteries of Life. We caution you that this Principle has no reference to the many base, pernicious and degrading lustful theories, teachings and practices, which are taught under fanciful titles, and which are a prostitution of the great natural principle of Gender. Such base revivals of the ancient infamous forms of Phallicism tend to ruin mind, body and soul, and the Hermetic Philosophy has ever sounded the warning note against these degraded teachings which tend toward lust, licentiousness, and perversion of Nature's principles. If you seek such teachings, you must go elsewhere for them — Hermeticism contains nothing for you along these lines. To the pure, all things are pure; to the base, all things are base.

The All (Oneness)

In Hermetic philosophy, the single largest, most important, unifying idea is that all is one. There is only one thing. (Uni)verse is a great term for it. If you subscribe to the Big Bang theory, which I do, than all was one point in the beginning, and most likely "before" it. Zero is not a number, but it is the source of all of them. Zero does not exist, because it is the lack of existence, it is nothing, or nothingness. When nothing becomes something, it is one thing. It was one thing before, if you want to say that nothing is one thing. From our perspective, using logic, the source of our existence is awareness. Once we are aware, we become aware of our surroundings, and than, due to our brain capacity, we become aware of ourselves. We cannot say when awareness started, or when it ends, we can only when self awareness starts and ends. So we can say that awareness is above time, relative to us at least. If awareness is above time, it is before creation, and therefore is the One Thing, The All, in us. Awareness, also, does not act, it simply is. Being is its nature, not being this or that, but being, and being is the root of all. The Thing I am describing has no word for it, but all words describe it. As the Tao Te Ching says:

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

The Tao is both named and nameless.
As nameless it is the origin of all things;
as named it is the mother of 10,000 things..."

The All is all there is. The All is in all, and all is in The All. It is the most inclusive, basic, general, archetypal idea of God. There cannot be anything outside of it. 

In Hermetic philosophy The All is thought of as Mind. That all mind is one mind, and all mind is The Mind. This does not mean a personality as the Abrahamic religions see it, as The All is all personalities and possibilities. The physical world could be thought of as the "body" of The All. In Hermetic philosophy everything is seen as a mirror image of The All, hence I say everything has awareness. Just as The All everything has a body and has Mind. Now there is Mind, and mind. Mind is The All Mind, mind is the limited physical mind we humans have. The only difference is that one is restricted and one is not, but we still have both. The Greater Mind, which could be thought of as the collective consciousness of all there is, is the higher self, super ego, holy guardian angel...but mind is the ego as we know it in psychology. It is the mediating space of mind through which awareness communicate to the body. When this mind/ego becomes aware of its own existence it usually identifies with the less subtle, and more superficial self, the body. When this happens the thing suffers as change is the only physical constant. But when we identify with the awareness, our true essence, we do not suffer with the body, and find true freedom. The mind is able to be clear and when we identify with the Mind, mind and Mind become one. This is Superconsciousness. So, in conclusion, Oneness can only be known by unspecifying, and peeling back the layers to the source, and there is only one source of everything, it is One.

Hermetic Philosophy

Hermetic philosophy is a branch of thought created in ancient Alexandria, around 300bc. At the time Alexander’s empire had stretched from India in the east, to Greece and Egypt to the west. Thinkers, philosophers, priests, monks, all kinds of learned questioners and seekers of truth gathered in the great libraries the city in known for and brought their knowledge, wisdom and understanding together to find a unified theory of all they knew. They synthesized their beliefs into a set of ideas and philosophies that encompassed all essential ideas of their religions. Calling it Hermeticism is not even realistic, as you will find these same philosophies in Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, all mythologies, Hinduism, druidism…..it is know as the perennial philosophy to many. The branches of hermetic philosophy, and I am here referring to ideas of specifically the western versions, are Alchemy, astrology, and kaballah. One Egyptian science, one Mesopotamian science, and one Jewish science. And these are not mere sciences in the sense of simple left brained studies, but rather they are more like science-arts, in that to truly know them, you must go beyond simply study and experience them, meditate on them, understand every aspect of the archetypes and concepts and how they all interrelate and and correlate into a cohesive whole. And than there is the practice of these science arts, which the only true purpose of is to gain knowledge and understanding of your higher self, super ego, holy guardian angel…of as Karl Jung says, it is individuation. This blog will be about the ideas, theories, and concepts that make up the hermetic philosophy.