Past Teaching Present
The Ancient Hermetic Wisdom of Unity and Multiplicity
The ancient Hermetic saying ‘As Above so Below‘ is, in fact, a kind of shortcut in the acquisition of wisdom. Man mirrors the worlds around him. The more conscious he is, the deeper he perceives this unity in seeming multiplicity, and the more each of his lessons will affect the entirety of his learning. He can apply whatever he learns from below to the above, and whatever he sees without to the within.
This hermetic principle also explains why ancient wisdom is so often expressed through metaphor. Taking advantage of the similarity between cosmoses, a myth of the creation of the world simultaneously teaches of the creation of consciousness in man. An Ark myth of surviving a cataclysmic flood teaches of man’s efforts to sustain his lofty aims from moment to moment. Metaphors are possible only because wisdom manifests similarly on all cosmoses.
Below are listed the posts on expressions of As Above so Below in ancient wisdom:
