O CAIBALION, cap. 5 - O Universo Mental - Lúcia Helena Galvão

Good evening everyone, welcome. Just a detail before we get into today's subject, for those who followed or would like to follow via YouTube the last series we did, the last commented reading about Sri Ram, a book called In Search of Wisdom, today the last chapter came out on YouTube. Yes, today, finally, we are with the complete series. Logically, it is not as famous as Kybalion, but as good as it certainly is. Certainly. A wonderful book, and today it is already complete on YouTube. I insist with you that a very simple act, like sending a link

from this, by email or Facebook, whatever it is, to a friend, a friend that is, helps us a lot in terms of advertising. We are a voluntary group, you know that. So an initiative like this, a lecture you watched and liked, send a link to someone, that already helps us a lot. Today, then, we are moving on to chapter 5 of the book. The Kybalion book. The book, everyone knows it, there is even a sale here at the Asa-Sul branch. This is it. It's a green cover book, I don't know the other edition, I think

almost everyone already has it. The idea is that it is a reading group. So it's very interesting that you have the book, read it, follow it. In my last reading, at another branch, we managed to create a climate, a little, of a reading group, that is, with a certain debate, with a certain interaction, with a certain type of dialogue. And I think, from that point of view, it is that we are making a book, and I think this is what we are doing. Do you think it is interesting? It is interesting. Yes, it is interesting.

Yes, it is interesting. with the public. To have a lecture, we already had, because there is a lecture about the Kaibalion complete on YouTube. The idea is to do chapter by chapter, without rush, so that we can try, I'm not going to say that we will understand all of the Kaibalion, because that would be an irrational ambition, but try to understand what is possible for us. So today he will talk about the first chapter of the seven laws, fifth chapter of the book, but you remember that the first four, he only announces and speaks by

the laws. Here he will enter the first of the laws, which is the law of mentalism, the universe is mental. Well, I always put this verse for you at the beginning, today I have a novelty about it, this is a verse that is placed in the introduction of the book, that he places as if it were a symbol of what the book proposes, which is a verse, a stanza, let's say, five verses, a small stanza, and he puts it as a transmission of the idea that the book is trying to convey, not to let the

flame of wisdom be lost. But I never knew who this stanza was. He says, as the poet says, and I was good, what poet is that? Then a student made me the great favor of turning the internet around, through the four corners of the world, look, because I turned it only three, he turned it four. And discovered that this is a poem by an English author named Edward Carpenter. Therefore, who is interested in locating it, he says it is a huge poem, with several pages, and it is only a stanza, five verses, beautiful. And excuse

those who have already heard it, but I always like to repeat it, because it gives the spirit of reading, what he intends with this book. Look, do not let the flame go out, kept, century after century, in this dark cavern. this sacred temple, supported by pure ministers of love. Do not let this divine flame go out. In other words, translating into clear Portuguese, do not let knowledge get lost. You need knowledge for yourself and have a commitment to future generations. There is an extremely complicated concept in India, in fact, I think this is a bit

redundant, what is the concept that is not complicated in India? But this is one of the particularly complicated ones, which is something called future karma. Have you ever heard of it? You walk at speed x towards the future, using all the potential you have, striving to be the best you can be. So you are going, happy and content, towards a certain point. Towards this same point, someone who is also looking for a more humane sense of life, and has already tried several things, and has already been disappointed many times. And you do not know, but

maybe this crossing at this point is the last chance for that person. And nature is not asking you to be more than you can be. It is simply asking you to keep the pace, without hurry, without pause. And then, in the middle of the way, you lose time for any personal whim. And this person gets there and you are not in this meeting marked with the future. Maybe there is an abyss ahead. Maybe you are one of the last chances for that person. So this person, without even knowing that you exist, calls you to the

future. Her need calls you to the future. Do not be silly, do not waste time. Do not be so attentive to personal whims. I need you. This need pulls you to the future. And sometimes it seems like pain to us. I feel a pain. It is not a pain, it is actually a appeal, that we do not know how to interpret, because our current psychological knowledge in relation to ourselves, to the voices of our psyche, is very primary. We classify everything as discomfort, and discomfort has to be relieved. Anything that is not pleasant and uncomfortable

has to be relieved. Forgetting that popular saying, so prudent, from my grandmother, who said that the need is what teaches the frog to jump. So understand that we do not have only the commitment to keep the flame lit for us, but also for the future. Sometimes, when you remember the future karma, when that morning voice comes, I am not saying that this should happen to you. Evidently, here it should not happen to anyone. But some people, sometimes, hear a voice in the morning that says, do not get up now, it is early. There is no

one who needs you at this time of the morning. And things of this nature, this is the simplest of all. Voices of this kind, that pull for a pleasure, at the expense of commitment, at the expense of achievements that could meet the need of someone, it is common that we make concessions to this. That we open windows to this. That is, without haste and without pause. That is what nature expects of us. Continuing the cover of the book, you have already seen, it is a book that talks about Hermitism. It puts the study of Hermetic

philosophy of ancient Egypt and Greece. I already told you that it is not just this time. It is also the Middle Ages, because the alchemists were Hermitists. It is also the Renaissance, because Marsilio Ficino is the translator of the Hermetic Corpus to Latin in 1463. And it is later the Modern Age, the Contemporary Age, in isolated focuses. But it is a knowledge that someone kept this flame lit until our days. And it is this unknown author from 1908 who wrote this book. An anonymous, who took this and said, well, let me give this here, because

no one will understand this. Let me explain. He took each of the principles, each of the laws, and gave an explanation that was really plausible. Let's say, almost plausible. What we are trying here is to make it a little closer to our possibility to bring this to our lives. So, this is what we are proposing. And remember, today we are going to talk about principle number one. The Kaibara, in the last instance, comes from an idea of Hermit and Magistrate that the universe could be all of it reduced to seven laws. Behind everything. This expression

is complicated. What is all of it? All of it is what you think, what you feel, what you do, what you don't do, but would like to have done, what everyone is doing, what no one is doing, what happened, what will happen, all of it. Behind all of it, that exists in the manifested universe, you can unfold and discover seven laws. And these seven laws, when respected, things flow. When they are not respected, things get stuck. And then comes that concept that we have seen just now, of negative and positive karma. Which is not a

concept of Hermit and Magistrate, it is an Indian concept. You will see this very well within the Indian tradition. But nothing else is positive karma and negative karma than a fulfillment or an overrun of the law. And we could see, in what is right and in what is wrong, what was the law we obeyed, what was the law we disrespected. And take the universal principle that allows us to get it right in several other things. Even in your personal relationship, even in the way you flow in the middle of traffic, in anything. So today we

go to chapter 5. The universe is mental. The first law of Hermit and Magistrate. In fact, everyone likes to quote this. It is one of the most difficult. I've seen it, it's only in t-shirts. Seriously, I've seen the principle of mentalism stamped on t-shirts. I've seen the so-and-so, the yin and yang stamped on t-shirts. On one side were little flowers and on the other, little balls of pink. I find it funny the way we deal with the ancient symbols, because it's a bit fashionable, right? So it's cute to put it on a t-shirt. But what

does that mean? That if the person had a glimpse of what that is, probably his life would be something else. There is not. But it is very interesting to quote. Orientalist intellectualism, in our historical moment, gives a good ibope. So this principle says, the universe is mental. It is inside the mind of everything. In general, we have a platonic vision. Do you know what the platonic vision is? Look, I'm sorry, Plato, because it's too deep. We almost don't understand it. It's all true. But Plato, near Hermes Trismegistus, is a drop of Hermes Trismegistus diluted in

a glass of water. In a big glass of water. Put water in it. Because there is no comparison that Plato speaks in the myth of the cave with the mentalist principle. Because Plato says that the light of truth, of the sun, is the light of the universe. The light of truth, of the being, of God, reflects and generates the shadows of the manifested world. But the manifested world exists. For Hermes Trismegistus, the manifested world does not exist. Physical plane, energetic plane, emotional plane, all stories of the little car. A world set up so that you

live an experience, but there is no reality at all. So much so that it came from the dust. Remember? Christianity, Judaism, and back to dust. Because, in fact, it is not even dust. Because dust would have some reality. Microscopic, I don't know, on some scale, but it would have. That is, it is a stage set up for the human being, for beings in general, to live an experience. I told you to look at that Egyptian figure in which the sky and the earth lie down and in the middle of time, in the middle of space,

time separates the two. To create a stage where beings can pass through there. So, sky and earth, nut and gebe, are there united. The opposite, in fact, gebe and nut, united so that, in the middle of the path, a space arises for beings to live their experience. This space is the mind of God. And things never left there. Never ever. I already commented with you on an occasion, just to provoke you to do the philosophy course, because you will only see this if you do the philosophy course and there is no talk. The Pythagorean decade

says exactly that. Things come out of the void, open in 1, 2, 3, then everything goes back to 1 and everything goes back to 0 in 10. That is, it was an illusion, reabsorbed, and became just a point, which is the only reality. The only reality is the one that is behind it. I confess to you that Pythagoras left me a little contradicted when I discovered this. You have a huge job to understand what 2 is, because each algorithm for him means the moment of the moment of the moment. And the moment of the moment

is the moment of the moment. It means the moment of the universe. The birth of man is 5. Each algorithm is the moment of the universe. It is a huge job for you to understand this. When you finish understanding the last one, which is 9, it is as if he came to you and said, just kidding, forget it, it was all an illusion, there is only 1. Thank you, you could have told me that at the beginning. But it's more or less that. It is all a development, which is like a fiction, so that the

conscience lives an experience. But it never stopped being 1. Never. When I explain Pythagoras, I tell a story, because he says that the 1 in movement gives the impression of the forms, of the numbers. And this is something that never came to my mind. One day I went to that fair, so familiar to us Brazilians, that gaúcha fair, where there was a citizen doing the dance of the boleadeiro. Do you know that? It's a ball at the tip of a cord that makes shapes, an 8, a circle. Suddenly the lights went out, and the ball

had 1. And I didn't see the ball, or the cord, or anything, I saw a stopped circle, or an 8, as if it were an object, that you could get. I shouted, Pythagoras! Everyone looked at me, who is Pythagoras? Is it the boy? I said, I understood! This is the 1 vibrating, and giving the illusion of all the forms of the universe. There is only 1. When they light up, we will see the boleadeiro, that is, it is the whole, there is nothing, there is only 1, there is only the ball. This is another element,

for very complicated that Pythagoras is, for much that there is almost nothing left of him, but Pythagoras helps to understand what is behind, which is even more complicated, which is the Egyptian world. So, the whole universe would be inside the mind of God. They would be illusions created so that beings can live an experience. Let me be attentive so as not to get lost, because this subject is complex. Imagine, an example that I have given several times, that one of you, let me take a victim, is a collector of works of art, a hypothesis, and

you dream of having a wonderful Chinese vase, beautiful to die, from the dynasty, I do not know the accounts. Then one day she will do a personal accounting, and comes to the conclusion that for some time she will have to stop buying works of art, because the crisis is difficult, very expensive, and in a while she will start again. The day she makes this decision, is the most propitious day in the universe, for her to find this blessed vase in liquidation. Don't you think so? She will find it, in the shop window, dividing it into

enesimum benefits, very low interest rates, you will find this blessed vase, on this day or never, you will find it. At this moment, this vase is of a reality, indisputable, it seems that only you and the vase exist, it is a case of love at first sight, there is nothing else in the universe. From this moment, it will start to dissolve in the corridors of life, it will start to turn into a shadow, because it was never anything else. So the hypothesis that I work, not wanting to doubt the will and the determination of anyone,

but I think that in most cases, the person would postpone this economy and buy the vase. This is an opportunity. I know how it is. Not because I do this, but I've heard cases like this. Anyway, take the vase home, put it in the middle of the table. This weakening has weakened our will. It is likely that you will buy something else in a little while, so it is no longer a new object, it goes to the corner of the room, and goes to another room. And when you go out, the vase goes to the

space. Go to your mother and don't fight with me. Hide it, put it in the trash. You don't even notice it, it turned into dust. It didn't turn into dust, it was always dust. The reality of that vase, for you specifically, was the opportunity it gave you to weaken or strengthen your will. That point was a point of reality. It may have meant other things to other beings who interacted with it, but for you, the point of reality was there. Then it was diluting in the back of life. Do you realize that? Neither you nor

they are real. This will also disappear, as much as the vase. But there was a consciousness that had contact with an opportunity to know yourself better. To know, to dominate yourself, because that's the idea. Know yourself, dominate yourself, transform yourself. These were the complete maxims of Eleusis in Greece. This situation gave you the opportunity. Besides, it's not real. It may have taken some point of reality to another person, to you, but not much more than that. The universe would be all this, an opportunity for all beings who are in evolution to live the experience and

develop. But all this is a mental stage. The Indians called it Mahat, the Great Cosmic Mind. They said something interesting, that everything that has to be created in the universe was created as an idea in the Cosmic Mind at the beginning of time. When a being makes an exceptional creation, it is because he had a lot of spiritual stature. His head hit the Library of God and his feet down here. Then he made a bridge, he was a pontiff. A genius scientist, a genius musician, whatever the area you are in. Creation is not absolute. It

is, in fact, a capture. The greats are the ones who are in the middle. When you put a spiritual nannico there, he looks up and does not see anything. He just recombines what the others have already done. That is the majority of cases. The great creators are, in fact, intermediaries. Between the ideas that have always existed, in the year of Plato's ideas, and this illusory world that we think is concrete, that we think is real. It is the world where things appear and disappear all the time. Like a movie passed before your eyes to generate

an experience. The Greeks said, sit down in this theater, I'll show you a play. You will pay close attention to this play and it will be equivalent to a living experience. You will leave here knowing something. People said, are you crazy, Sophocles? This is not real, it's just a play. Do you think your life is more than that? Do you think? But here there are more spectators and it is more interesting, the person interprets better. What do you think, my dear? That your life is more than that? It's a play. Much better than you have

learned. They say that the great writers, talented writers, do exactly that. They create a story that if you perceive it, taste it in depth, it is equivalent to a living experience. The good writers, who today are not so numerous, will stay among us. Everything that happens, happens within the divine mind. These concepts are just to remind us that everything is synonymous. The infinitely living is equal to the real essence, which is equal to the whole, which is equal to the spirit. You can also call it Uno. It is also a name that several authors in

history used, in the pre-Socratic environment and in other places. Uno, the whole, the spirit, the infinitely living, which is an hermetic nomenclature, are talking about the same being, abstract, who is above everything, at the beginning and at the end of everything, and that everything that happens, is somehow the cells of him, the parts of him, are trying to become self-conscious, and then they come back home with their arms full of fruits, that is, with more knowledge of themselves. But there is nothing beyond him. We think that the infinite, the whole, is the universe. It is

not. The universe is much less than the infinite, than the whole. The infinite and the whole, as I put it there, are incognito. It is not possible to know, to round up, it does not fit within our mind, because our mind is finite, limited, it has resources, it is made to work in multiplicity. So we cannot understand his mind with ours. He is not synonymous with the universe, do you know why? The universe, think about it, the solar system, think about that little arm that we have inside the Milky Way, think about the other galaxy,

it is right there, close. Think about it all, revolving around the Venus cluster, the super-cluster to which we belong. Think about it all inside a galaxy wall. Keep thinking. You will realize that there are pieces. There is one galaxy here, another galaxy there, there is a little nest to stick on the horizon of possibilities, it seems that there are a lot of galaxies. It is made of parts and it is changeable. Sometimes a little star appears, it is born, it died, it must have died a long time ago because the light takes time to get

here, but things are changing in the universe. If it is made of parts and it is changeable, it cannot be the whole. If the whole had parts, it was not the whole, it was a part. It has it and another part, it is not divided, it is one. The whole cannot change, because if it changed, it would create something different from what it was, remember the whole, the one, the God, the Spirit. If you want to call it something, he says that the Spirit is an ornament that we have to be careful to use, because

when you say Spirit, you think the matter is on the outside, and it is not true. This whole, this one, has nothing outside of it, it does not change, neither in time nor in space. In the symbolism of Pythagoras, it was the eternal, empty, immutable zero. We started with one problem, we knew what the whole was. Now we have 12, we do not know what the whole is or what the universe is. It got a little worse, but it will get better. So if the universe is not the whole, probably this whole must have created

the universe. But how did he do that? Third problem that we did not have when we got here. We do not know how the universe was created. And he will talk about it exactly in this chapter. He will say, if the universe is not the whole, if the axis cannot be divided, fragment or create something outside of itself, because the universe is not the whole. If there is something outside of it, there is the whole. He has already fallen into duality, he is no longer the whole, he is a part. He cannot change at all.

So how does he create things? That's where the deduction that I find very beautiful and interesting comes from Hermitism. First he opens a parenthesis, which is very interesting, because many times the misunderstanding, this happened in 1908, today it is much worse, the misunderstanding of the traditions that come from the East, when you realize the principle of correspondence, what is above, what is below, the man realizes that he has similarity with God, he thinks he is God. It is the same as the wheel of the car saying, I am the car. Well, you are not the

car, you participate in it, you are part of it. That is, his logic participated in his creation. The cell saying, I am the man. No, you are not a man, you are part. Be careful, go slowly. If we take it very seriously, even to say, I am the man, we would have to be careful. Because much of the human condition we have not yet consciously realized. We are human beings more in potential than we are realized. This is not to degrade oneself, it is to have a goal. To say, I am the human being, there

is still a good advance of consciousness. This kind of boldness, sometimes it generates in the man an anthropocentrism and to want things to revolve around him. So the universe was made to serve me. So he says, be careful with this mentality. Know that you are part of the divine good. But be careful not to think that God made the world for his amusement park. That sometimes it feeds this selfish feeling that the world is a great human playground. Continuing within the logic, how was the human being born? Sorry. The human being is not part of

this chapter. We'll go there later. How was the universe born? How did the whole create the universe? Then he will throw the hand of the principle of correspondence. Do you want to know how the universe creates? Let's see how the whole creates. Let's see how man creates to see if it works. Let's try to use the principle of correspondence to see if we get some logic. How does man create? He creates materially. So I'm going to make a chair. I'm going to make a saw, a saw, a drill, a drill, imagine me making a chair.

It would be a disaster. But I think it's more or less around there. A saw, a pickaxe, takes all that. How is the whole going to get something out of him to create if there is nothing outside of him? He is the whole. That is, the whole will not be able to create like man creates chairs. He can throw a bunch of external materials. There is no external. He has no limits. He is the whole. So he can't create like a mercenary creates. Nothing outside of him. It's not easy. There is another way that the

human being creates. He procreates. Boom! He has a child. He takes a little of his substance and generates another being. I think it will not work for the whole to do that. First, he can't take anything from him, otherwise he will be the whole. And he can't generate anything outside of him because he becomes two. So you can't have the whole and the child of the whole. It will not work. Procreation for the whole will not work either. So what if the whole creates something? For God's sake, what is the whole? How does he create

this? It will not work. Then he comes up with a third alternative. You create mentally. You create huge stories mentally. Imagine. With beginning, middle and end. That is part of you. It is impregnated with your energy, but it is not you. And an experience will unfold there. It is valid. It has a value. But it is only within your mental plan. And then there is all the logic. What we said a little while ago. That the part is a creation of the whole, but it is not the whole. For example, Shakespeare created Romeo. A very

popular character. Shakespeare can perfectly say I am Romeo. Everything that happens with this character is something I thought of and exists in my mind. But Romeo cannot scream inside the novel I am Shakespeare. Do you realize that it is not possible? There is a lot in Shakespeare besides Romeo. So we are like Romeo inside Shakespeare's mind. The universe is a creation inside the mind of the whole. But only inside the mind. Romeo never had a fleshy body. He never really lived among the Capulets or the Bontecs. He was just a mental creation of Shakespeare. And

Shakespeare was much more than him. But through this mental creation, Shakespeare must have learned a lot of things. He must have made a lot of reflections. Do you understand that? It must have been useful for him. It was useful for the whole humanity. We are learning this today. In fact, they say that if we learned well from Romeo and Juliet, there would not be as many disastrous novels as we have in real life. Because it is a relationship manual. Because Shakespeare is a great writer. Anyway, the fact is that mentally, you can create everything. It

does not change itself and penetrates into your mental creation. That is, his mind is like the human mind. The only difference is that ours is finite. His mind is infinite. This reasoning he makes is pure logic. Classic logic. There is only one way that man creates and that the whole could also create. Through the mind. So this is almost a logical proof that the universe cannot be anything else. That it is not a mental form of everything. Do you understand? It was a lot of travel. A lot of travel, little travel, average travel. No palpitation.

And this is the logical deduction that we are mental forms. And everything you see around you. So much so that in a little while, it's over. Where was it? Where? Where are the objects? Where are the beings? But they must have taught you something. If they did not teach you, it is because you lost the lesson. Because they came to the world for that. And we came to the world to be a lesson for someone too. And if it was not learned, you lost the lesson. Because their existence, they were taught by that essence that

they wanted to tell you. If you did not hear their existence, it was in vain for you. You will have to live the experience again. Repeating of experience. Like a boys' school. Do you think we imitated boys' schools? We learned from life. Repeating. Dependence. You have to live this experience again because things communicated to me your essence. And I did not hear. I did not learn. Well, continuing. The whole creates the universe in your mind. Then he comes with this beautiful phrase, which is an original phrase by Kybalion. The infinite mind of the whole is

the matrix of the universes. He will explain this soon. He is not trying to say that there are a lot of universes at the same time. He is not trying to say the opposite. But he is trying to say that there is one after the other. He will talk about the pulsar of the cosmos heart. Very interesting. It is so crazy to imagine someone talking about this 2700 years before Christ. Think that after that we went through a medical age and did not even know that the earth was round. Put yourself in the place of

a human being talking about this for 4700 years. He talks about the universe as manifesting and collecting. And manifesting again and collecting. This is something that until today we have not reached this whole conclusion. We are still studying how it was that he manifested there in the particle accelerator. Of course he will not go into detail. But he gives the general law and even the logic of the process. In 2700 years, perhaps, it is an estimated date, but it is estimated that 2700 years before Christ. That is, it gives the 4,700-year-old bagatella. It is possible

that someone may have spoken before and they have only copied. You know that law that in nature nothing is created, everything is copied, it works many times. I think it's impossible. The infinite mind is the matrix of all universes that have already been, that will exist, and everything that this universe contains. And it is still much more than it. Just like Shakespeare is much more than Romeo. The whole is above space, time and laws. But when it manifests, its acts agree with the law. That is, when manifesting this illusory universe inside his head, it creates

the laws that will rule this illusory universe. And he is the first to respect them. I created the universe, I put laws, and I will not respect them? There is an Indian classic, Ramayana, that the whole story is the story of the creator seen Narayana suffering the karma of having disrespected a law that he himself created. They do not joke. It's like you imagine that example that I gave a thousand times, that little game, War. I played that a lot in life. The new generations do not even know what it is. I think it was

a war game. There were some pieces, some planes, some tanks. It was a little fun. If I invented War, and I'm going to play, I will respect the laws. I will not say, I invented this game, I can change the game whenever I want. Nobody plays with me, it's not funny. If I invented the game, I invented the laws and I want to play with you, you have to respect them. Otherwise, it does not work. The universe creates laws to take one from the beginning to the end, which India calls the arms of God extended

over the cosmos. These are the laws that govern this universe. And he is the first to submit them. Plato has a passage, Plato simplifies hermeticism a lot, as I already told you. A book called O Politico. Very, very interesting. He says the following. You have a doctor, he gives you a medicine to take for a month. In a month I'll be back. Then he decides to come back before. He comes back 15 days before. He, as the great creator of his medical prescription, can come and take your prescription and say, no, now you've taken this

medicine for 15 days, let me change it for something that fits you better, because you've improved. But he has this ability to see the great law, which is medicine, and adapt your prescription. You, who are the patient, follow the prescription, don't change it, because you're not a doctor. Plato said about this about the politicians of the world, those who manage the world. They say there would have to be some politicians who understand the great laws of the universe. So that when historical circumstances change, they go there and adapt these great laws to these circumstances. So

this law is no longer useful for this moment, because this moment has the internet. In this time of this law, there was no internet. This moment has such things. So I adapt this law to a prescription for a temporary time. Because I see the laws, so I can adapt. He says, these men are rare. This is 2400 years old. He says that. These men are rare. Then there is a second type of man, who is not seeing anything, but at least follows the prescription of the doctor. He says, even these are getting rare. Then everything

ends. He says, there are those who come and invent their own prescription and force others to take it. These are the most common. Do you see any coincidence of this? He says, if society does not have, even if there are few, a half dozen doctors who understand these laws of the whole, there is no way. You have to have those who at least follow the laws, those who really see something of the laws, and those who obey those who know. Otherwise it will not work. This will be an epidemic. Just so you have an idea

of Plato's political vision of the world. It is based on this idea of the laws of Hermes and Megistus. I find it very interesting. Continuing. The principle of gender, which says that everything is created with the combination of the masculine and the feminine. We understand this on the material plane. But when Hermetism talks about it, it speaks at a mega level. It is not talking about sex. He will say the following. The masculine impulsions the feminine, which is nature, what does that mean? He is not talking about the union of man and woman, male and

female, to create a baby. He is talking about the spirit, uniting the matter to generate all creation. This is also masculine and feminine. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters. The virgin matter, which is fertilized by the Spirit, and the combination of these two are born in all beings. All beings are similar to the Father and the Spirit and to the mother and the matter. You need the junction of these two for the universe to turn. The union of the Spirit with the matter is the principle of gender. This happens on the material plane.

He says that one of the fundamental errors that happens in history and that still happens, is to desacralize one of the two. Up there is one. People will say, but in Egyptian polytheism it was not. And in Greek polytheism it was also. Up there, all dualities concentrated on one. In an absolute God, unknown, in a Hindu Parabrahman, on one. A Kabbalist sof, was a one. Inside him was the Spirit and the matter. They united in both. Do you know what is the problem of thinking that both are opposite? In a historical cycle you like one

and deny the other. In another historical cycle you like the other and deny the other. Take the medieval inquisitor's book. The matter was literally the devil. You couldn't deny the devil. You didn't have any material pleasure. You were sinning. Some religious brotherhoods used a hood to avoid the breeze. The pleasure of the breeze was sin. The matter was all sinful. It was not divine. It was only the divine Spirit. It doesn't work. Everything becomes fanaticism. We are with a withdrawal of the Middle Ages. We will do something different. We will completely deny the Spirit and

dive headlong into matter. We will deny the things we have, the things we use, the things we have. That's it. What did you do? The Spirit is fiction. If there is, no one proves it. No one photographed it. It is an illusion. What is worth is matter. I am worth for what I have. For titles, for ostentation, for vanity. Sometimes it is not even material objects. These are still easier to fight. It is the worst there is. What happens then? Another type of fanaticism. That is what we are living. No one is very concerned in

developing an essence, virtues, values for the next generations. But in leaving an apartment. No one exaggerates. There are healthy exceptions. But the rule is to leave material things for the future. Not to leave values. This is another type of fanaticism. He says, look, both things are divine. And this has a symbol. It is used in the Kabbalah, in Pythagoras. I don't know if you can see it, but it's very simple. It is a six-pointed star. The Spirit interlaces with matter. And they find a common center. The divine. That is, both emanate from a common center.

Divine. Spirit and matter. Both are aspects of this primordial duality. Which is the 2 of Pythagoras. This primordial duality, which combined, unites the whole universe. And then it brings everything together again. It brings everyone back to the beginning. So, in the last instance, it is still 1. The 1 has always been hidden in the middle. As it is hidden in the center of a circle. There is no need to deny neither spirit nor matter. Principle of correspondence. He will say, until now we talked about the principle of correspondence. Male fertilizing the female. On the physical

plane. You will say, but what a waste of time. Didn't you just say that the physical plane does not exist? Why are you telling me this whole story? And then he will say, but all this is an illusion, it does not exist. He will say, but the principle of correspondence, male and female, also works in the mental plane. In fact, they start there. The rest is a consequence. You see that there is a chapter in the book, which is the mental gender. All the time talking about it. We already gave some tips in other chapters.

And here it will also be very brief, because it is not the moment. But in the book, we have a very important point. The idea of ​​fetalization. In other words, someone fertilized and someone developed it. Like a body. And gave light to it. So if I come to one of you, I always take our friend João as a victim. And I say, look João, I think Denise doesn't like you. I don't know why, but I have this impression. I think she looks at you like this, a little crossed, from time to time. But it doesn't

take me into consideration. Just an impression. And I'm leaving. I'm going to the other side of the world. Do you realize that I fertilized his mind? Then he will start. Well, yesterday she didn't greet me. I had already noticed this last week. Look at the way she goes. She doesn't even look at me, or tell me good night. That is, he is developing the egg, the embryo, the fetus, the seed I put there. But the idea is mine. The egg of the cuckoo. Do you know that the cuckoo is a bird with a stick face?

He takes the egg of the other birds and puts his there. Then you stay a while fertilizing the egg, and when it is born, the cuckoo is born. Most of our thoughts are born in cuckoo. Look at their faces. And we don't know, we think they are our children, because we have been shocked for so long. Do you realize? You are shocked for a long time, and an idea is yours when the male and female of it are yours. Everyone has it inside of them. He will talk a whole chapter about it. That is, the

principle of gender also governs the development in the mental plane, which is the only real plane. When we admire nature, we feel instinctive reverence for the whole. Religare, which is the origin of the word religion, is the mother mind that tightens us in the arms. So everyone knows, it's not new to anyone, sometimes you are stressed, tired. A good tip is contact with nature. We don't know why. There is a passage, by the way, by Immanuel Kant, that says that admiration for natural beauty is a symptom of a good moral structure. Because it seems like

a recognition. It's like she is in your arms. Nature is our mother. You feel as if she took care of all your creation, because she will not take care of you. You feel in a way received, as if it were a return to the parents' house at Christmas. Go to the bosom of nature, observe it, understand it. Knowing how to read it in nature is already a symptom of moral development. You recognize her as a mother. She is the great mother, in fact. Nature is a visible aspect of matter. The great mother, the great father,

the spiritual. Understanding it helps you to recognize the father, reflected in her. And the two together are your origin, your return to home. The idea of the family is a very good idea. The only problem is that it needed to be extended. It is good to recognize our physical family. But it would be very good if we recognized all our families. It is even cosmic. And if we had a Christmas that we would go back home, of the father and the mother, the spirit and the matter. And if we could contemplate both as our family.

Because then the children of the two would be all our brothers. Wouldn't that be nice? A thing called fraternity, and I think it only works like this. Continuing. The universe is much more than the solar system. And even in this solar system, there are beings much more evolved than us. He says this to introduce an idea that the universe is like a ladder. It is like the Hebrew Kabbalah says, the Jacob's ladder, which goes from the most infamous being to the most developed being. Then he says something super bold. You think, I am a human

being. You are a human being. You are a human being. You are a human being. Just as the Hermetic tradition says. Anything, complain, you know. www.hermestrimengist.com He says it the same way you say to a boy. You are in high school. You don't say it. He is a high school student. It is a temporary thing. He is going through it. He was already in elementary school, then goes to a graduation or post, I don't know. He is going through it. It is a momentary experience. His essence is not a high school student. The human nature,

in fact, we copied it from her, from nature. The human nature is like that too. You are going through the human condition. It is passing. It says we are simpler things and we will be more advanced beings. You must have heard that silly story that says there was a man who looked for a Tibetan master and when he got to the house where he lived, there was nothing inside. There was nothing inside the house. The man turned to him and said, Master, where are your furniture? He turned to the traveler and said, Where are your

furniture? Master, how so? I am in the middle of a trip. What a coincidence! I am in the middle of a trip too. Do you realize? We are in the middle of a trip. He will say interesting things. If you are in a difficulty, you may not believe in anything consciously. But if you are in the middle of a very acute difficulty of your life, almost impulsively, you ask, is there anyone there? If there is someone higher than us, you have the obligation to help us. Rarely do we have the intuition that everything that comes

after us we have the obligation to help it. We understand the part of history that interests us. Do you remember that passage that Saramago, when asked what he thought of the Declaration of Human Rights, he said, it's great, but what day are we going to invent the Declaration of Human Rights? He said, it's a great day, but it's not one of the duties of man. It would be very cool. Everyone has to help me. The universe is all interconnected, a full of beings ladder. This makes each one accept what it is and have a great

satisfaction in what it is and try to live it in fullness, without anxiety, but without attachment too. And know that you will always be walking to be the best of yourself. But it will not always be the same thing. Now you are again with the face that this is a trip. No? Yes, more or less. I'm sorry, it's Hermes Trismegistus. It's all his fault. This is a very famous principle that is the principle of transfer and responsibility. It makes things much easier. It's not Hermes Trismegistus, it's mine. Here is the most beautiful thing that is

almost finished. The penultimate screen. He says, death is not real. We will go up in the universe from the beginning of the first step until the whole collects in itself all its creations. Pulsar of the heart of the cosmos. Let me tell you something that I don't know if it will make you sad or happy, but maybe it will surprise you. Do you know eternity? Prepare yourself. Eternity is not eternal, it ends. Eternity is more fragile. Eternity is not made as it used to be. But that's how it is. Eternity ends. Helena Blavatsky says that

eternity is the age of the ether. Eternity is a very subtle element that is above material elements. Eternity ends, but it takes so long to end that it leans towards the endless. But it ends. And what happens when it ends? All things are reabsorbed within the whole, taking that degree of consciousness that they managed to develop throughout the journey. At a certain moment, everything emanates again and the story starts again. All beings evolving, running after light, running after discovering who they are, running after the feet of the Father, with arms full of fruit, and then

it reabsorbs everything again. It reabsorbs everything within itself, in non-matter, non-spirit, in totality. And at another moment, it re-manifests again. So, what did the hermeticists say? They were very imaginative beings. The only attribute of the whole that you can perceive is that it is like a heart. It pulsates, it has systoles and diastoles. It re-manifests, it reabsorbs. Then they say something that I think is the wonder of wonders. Your heart is like yours. Do you remember another Egyptian phrase in the book of one of the viziers? Massimo Aspitalo Tepe, if I'm not mistaken. My memory

is getting weak. He said, the heart of man is the greatest mystery of the universe. It bathes your thought, your word, your action in the waters of the heart. This pulsating heart of the whole is similar to ours. All hearts belong to one family. It's like if you, when you understand your heart, opened a corridor that leads you to God, that leads you to the whole. Because the two are similar. That's what we say about the voice of the heart, that little pain that you feel at night before going to bed, when you realize that

at some point during the day you have run over a principle, you have run over a virtue, it was careless, cruel, selfish, that you have to go back there and commit yourself to rehabilitate yourself the next day, because otherwise it doesn't stop hurting. I already told you about it at a lecture, people looked at me and said, this is crazy. But it happens that way. Do you remember Chicó? I don't know, I just know it's like that. Before going to bed, sometimes, it's a moment that I think stops the rush, it's a good moment for

reflection, the mind is arguing with the heart. You feel that pain, you ask, what was it? You realize that moment when you were cruel to a person. The mind says, no, you didn't do it, you are exaggerating. And the heart doesn't argue, it continues to hurt. No, but that person didn't even greet you, why did you have to greet him? And the heart hurts. You are wanting to be too good, that's vanity. And the heart hurts. It's no use, the heart doesn't argue. You have to enter it as if it were an intimate temple, and

say, I came, I commit myself, I will improve. Then, puff, the pain passes. Have you ever seen that? Talk to your heart to ask, what was the moment of the day when you betrayed yourself, when you ran over the laws? This will make you go on the road, tracking the laws. And you understand that it is a corridor that leads directly to the laws. Because it knows when you ran over and when you didn't. It is a necessary road police. It knows when you disrespected the roads, when you ran over a law on the road.

And talking to it is a form of communication, the only attribute of the whole. It is a big heart, of which we only know, which has systoles and diastoles, like our own heart. I think this is very beautiful. And finally, as beautiful as this chapter ends with these phrases of Hermetism. This is pure poetry of the highest level we can imagine. We have a safe walk in the arms of the parents. Hermetism says, within the father-mother mind, the mortal son is in his home. No orphan, father or mother, is in the Universe. Do you want

a more beautiful thing than that? There is no orphan, father or mother, inside the universe. In the father-mother mind, the mortal son is in his home. You just need to recognize this. And feel it in the arms of the father. Because this is exactly where we are. We are in harmony with the warmth the acclamation of this mother. With this song of Ninar that she sings for us, that the Light of the Way calls the song of life, the song of Ninar of the Great Mother, you enter into her rhythm, you notice, you dance with

the universe, find your place. There is no orphan of father and mother within the universe, within everything. As long as you recognize that. I remember once, I've already told you, in fact, I think more than once, I like to tell silly stories. You will understand that it is not for nothing. It is because we are simply philosophers. And the stories that happen to us are silly. The magician Merlin never knocked on my door, did he knock on yours? I found it unlikely. His GPS does not locate itself in the 21st century, it will not knock

on our door. What happens to us are small things. But on top of these things, you will have to reach the reflections that correspond to you, which are relative, or that are expected of us at this moment. I was by the beach one day, many years ago, and a boy passed by with a child on his lap. He must have been one year old. He was sleeping on his arms. He was a very well dressed boy. Probably middle class, something like that. And the child slept absolutely relaxed. Imagine a one-year-old child sleeping on the arms

of a father. The feeling you have for her body posture, legs, legs, head, is that she is in the safest place in the world. But she is deceived, because that father is not the safest person in the world. It's almost a child like her. You look in the eyes, and that's what I did, in the eyes of that boy, you realize that he was a tremendously insecure person, and perhaps even distressed at that moment. Because he was looking for someone to pick him up on his lap. In other words, deep down we are looking for

this, an arm that catches us on the lap and gives us a sense of security. The whole society, in need of this. And this exists. The understanding of the laws, in a certain way, is to take the arm of the extended father in the cosmos. It is the understanding of the logic, of the rules of the house, of the house of whom? Of our parents. And you will see that several traditions talk about this. They say compassion is a great human attribute. But it is better when it is more rekindled. So it is worth it

when you pass by the street and see a person starving and cold. It has obvious value, and a lot. That you go there and help. But this is a need on a physical level. You recognize that a person, who from the physical point of view is very well, but from the metaphysical point of view is lost, is already a greater requinte of compassion. Have compassion for people that sometimes the whole society envies and thinks they are very well. And you look into their eyes and feel that they are completely lost. Needing a father and mother's

lap. This is a degree of compassion, of perception of human needs. Because it is this kind of need that will supply you from below. And not the opposite. Only the innocent, the naive, thinks that the causes of misery on the physical plane are on the physical plane. The causes of physical misery are in the psychological, moral and spiritual misery of man. Deep down it is a lack of a father and mother. Which is reflected down here. Like in the cave. And the more we purify our compassion, the more we get to feel a deep compassion

of beings that apparently, according to the standards of society, are very well, but that are not at all well. They desperately need a father and a mother. And they exist. And they can be seen through the banal appearance of life. Well, this is our last screen. Our message today. Complicated, right? I keep imagining, because the lectures are open. There are people who are coming here today for the first time. Please, people who are coming for the first time, do not despair. Life is like this. Not all chapters are as complicated as this one. And even

this one, you can read the book, it will be easier. So do not be discouraged. The effort to be able to understand more subtle things qualifies our life. Do not forget that phrase from Confucius. The vulgar man speaks of people. The ordinary man speaks of things. The truly human man speaks of things. The truly human man speaks of ideas. So, to strive together to understand these things, helps us a lot to be more human. Do not be desperate. It is true that when I read for the first time, I was a little desperate too. But

I insisted. And I am insisting again here with you.