Correspondence

Posted on | November 17, 2008 | No Comments

Correspondence

“As above, so below; as below, so above.” is the simple statement of the principle of correspondence. You may have heard of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes. Authorship of the Emerald Tablet is attributed to the same Hermes Trismegistus discussed earlier. The easiest way to understand this today is to think about there being planes beyond our knowing, but when we apply the principle of correspondence to these planes, we can understand them by understanding the planes we DO know. As above, so below. If we understand the material plane, we can understand the mental plane. If we can understand the mental plane, we can understand the spiritual plane.

A discussion of the different planes quickly dissolves into labeling and semantics, as has been done throughout history from Dante’s discussion of the levels of heaven and hell in Divine Comedy, to our modern discussion of microcosmic atomic and quantum physics, and all the way to macrocosmic discussion of the big bang, string theory, and static state dimensions of cosmology.

The key point of this principle is that if you can “visualize” or “feel” something on a mental or emotional plane, you can and will manifest that image or feeling on a material or some other plane. This act of manifestation is exactly that – an act. Whether the act is conscious or subconscious, the manifestation happens somewhere. The challenge is getting control of your power to manifest results, and channeling that power to the appropriate plane of correspondence. This is done through the third principle: Vibration.

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