The Teachings / Hermetic Dictionary

Automatism:

• Automatic, uncontrolled reactions individuals have when faced with a specific or repeated circumstances.
• It describes the behavior that has been conditioned on the person, either emotionally or physically.
• It is a mental mechanism, which activates without the participation of the conscious will.

To Awaken:

• To awaken from the somnambulistic sleep that has been created through sensorial stimuli.
• To be more alert, conscious of yourself and your surroundings.
• The awakened state is a state of higher vigilance that permits one to see the world in a more objective and real manner.
• To be in the present moment.

Cause and Effect:

• For every cause there is an effect, for every effect there is a cause.
• Everything you do, internally or externally will have repercussions.

To Comprehend:

• The moment when the “essence” of what is being understood is obtained.
• To comprehend oneself means to understand ones place in the universe (not as phantasmagoria)
• Having the true significance of something.
• Understanding the live aspects of that knowledge; how it relates to other things.
• It is the highest form of knowledge.

To Be Conscious:

• Is to be the owner of your mind.
• To control oneʼs attention and direct it at will.
• To not be above the mass hypnotism created by the environment in which one lives.
• To have the body and the mind together in the present moment.

Consciousness:

• It is the capacity to see reality as it is.
• Comprehending essential truth.
• Mental clarity.

Defects:

• A personal internal challenge.
• Defects are a source of energy if placed under control.
• They raw material needed to work on yourself.
• A defect is a quality if left uncontrolled could damage.

Deprogramming:

• Has to do with dismantling and restructuring the mechanisms that cause the individual to always do the same thing without conscious intention.

Entropy:

• Disorder.
• Chaos, inoperativeness.
• A natural phenomenon that guarantees that the most probable event will place.
• A law that manifests on the physical plane and represents the degree of disorder of things.

Gender:

• Gender is manifested in everything.
• Masculine refers to that which is procreative.
• Feminine refers to that which is nurturing, or fertile

Hermes Trismegistus:

• Philosopher from ancient Egypt and the founder of Hermetic Philosophy.

Hermeticism:

• An Operative Philosophy (A philosophy about doing, not just thinking) and practice founded in ancient Egypt by Hermes Trismegistus.
• It operates within a personʼs life; it is an attitude; it is a way of life.
• The Seven Hermetic Principals or Laws of Nature are the basis of it.

Identification:

• The phenomena of losing self-awareness.
• A temporary loss of the “I” when one projects oneʼs attention and thus loses control over it.
• When one becomes “identified” with a situation, becomes part of the action, and does not have the power to separate himself from it.ç
• To loose your individuality and become one with the object being observed.
• Inability to observe something objectively without attachment.

Internal Dialogue:

• Automatic internal voice that never stops talking.
• Thoughts that repeat themselves as fixed ideas.

Internal World:

• What the individual feels and thinks – oneʼs impulses, goals, yearnings, fears, anguish and anxieties, and everything that drives or represses a person. It is what permits a person to do things or to stop doing them.

Level of Vigilance:

• The level of attention given to what one does, thinks, or feels.
• The capacity to see oneself while carrying out an action.
• Awareness.

Limits:

• Emotional aspects or beliefs that stop someone from aspiring to a higher goal.
• Cognitive hurdles that hinder spiritual development.
• Unconscious internal boundaries.

Mentalism:

• Everything is Mind.
• For humans, accessing the volitive I.

Mental Digestion:

• Mental activity that permits one to extract the “significance” of every experience, situation, and circumstance of our life.
• To assimilate, comprehend and capture the essential nutrients of intellectual data.

Morality:

• To act in accordance with the Laws of Nature. Laws which are no relative, but absolute.

Nature:

• Universal intelligence; Nature is the feminine side of God.
• The material manifestation of God.

Negentropy:

• Order.
• Doing that which is not probable.

Polarity:

• Everything is dual, everything has two poles, positive and negative.
• There is no absolute positive or absolute negative.
• All poles are simply opposing views of the same thing.
• Heat and cold are opposite manifestations of temperatures.

Program:

• The information that is engraved within a person; the program is something one cannot get away from unless one makes a super-effort.
• Conditioned behavior.
• A series of unconscious mandates that govern our lives.

Quintessentialize:

• To obtain the essence of knowledge through a process of profound comprehension.
• To extract experience and lessons from oneʼs daily life and use them for oneʼs spiritual development.

Rythm:

• In all things there is a measured like motion of equivalence. Like a pendulum.
• All actions have an equal and opposite reaction.

Significance:

• True meaning.
• The essence of a concept or action.

Sleep:

• A deficient state of vigilance or awareness; the ordinary state of everyday existence of human beings.
• The state when one is hypnotized by environmental stimuli.
• Stupor and dulled attention that hinder the objective and impartial observance of oneʼs reality.

Sleepwalking:

• A low level of consciousness.
• Being governed by the hypnotic external stimuli and having no self awareness.
• A state of deficient vigilance.
• Somnambulism.

Somnambulism:

• Sleepwalking while thinking we are awake.
• Being controlled by forces that govern ones direction without awareness.

Spirit:

• What one really is.
• Oneʼs essence.
• What we are trying to grow.
• The only things that comes with us when we die.
• The reason one was born.

Super-effort:

• A great effort that is willfully carried out, with a high level of awareness; an effort that the individual is not obliged to do, but still does.
• It is an effort that is dedicated to a specific goal; it involves non-mechanical and conscious actions.

Vigilance:

• It is the level of attention that an individual has about his or her actions, emotions or thoughts.
• It is the capacity that permits one to foresee the effects oneʼs actions will have.
• The moment where an individualʼs senses are at maximum alertness.

Volitive "I":

• It is that part of oneself that permits one to go beyond oneʼs limits, oneʼs laziness, comfort, fears, or habits.
• It has to do with volition or willpower, which permits one to advance beyond difficulties and obstacles.
• The unified director of oneʼs own internal world.
• The sole General of the emotional, sexual and intellectual intelligences.

Willpower:

• Energy, strength, decision, commitment.
• An internal force permitting one to do the things one wants to do.
• A conscious force directed at overcoming inertia and disorder.

Vibration:

• Nothing rests, everything moves and vibrates.
• Ones energetic density.