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Welcome to another Philosophy

for All program

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Recently, on the channel, we released

a video talking about more

fundamental mimicry and discussing the Kybalion. The

Kybalion is a book published in

1908, and it's considered, in the

study of Hermeticism, a Hermetic book. That

is, it's a book that uses some

Hermetic concepts, but it comes from

another philosophical school called

Newton, which is a school of

thought, a positivist school of thought

that believes if you think

positively, everything will work out. This generated some

controversy, because many people said, "

Oh no, how so? But the balloon falls down!"

People defending work almost like

evangelicals defend their Bible,

like Jews defend their Torah, like

Muslims defend their Quran. But look,

first,

a disclaimer, as

we say... This isn't about throwing your

work in the trash, it's not about... Oh, but it's

a book that helped me, great, everything's fine.

The important thing is for you to know what it is so you do

n't fall into the trap of thinking, "No, what I'm

practicing here is pure Hermeticism." It's not,

but that doesn't mean it's bad, that it does

n't work, that the way it

was constructed is

false. It's sold as a

Hermeticism book because it was one of the things of the

time; it was a marketing ploy that the editor of the

Penguin publishing house, who was Attikinson, found to

sell his book well.

Look how cool, how interesting,

if we were to take the book, Maria das

Editoras would publish it as having the

author "The Three Initiates," and there's only one

publisher here in Brazil that publishes it with

Attikinson's name. But look how

cool, when it was

first published, the French version of the book

came out with Attikinson's name. Then

the publisher went there and removed the name and

put "The Three Initiates." Why three

initiates? Another interesting fact: because he

wrote books with three pseudonyms, one

pseudonym that was, in fact, two.

Pseudonyms and his name, so he had

books under his name, another pseudonym

that was Indian, and another that was

like a doctor or something like that. So

he wrote with three different names,

different books by thinkers with

different lines of thought. That's why when He

chose the three initiates, he's

talking about himself, him and

his two pseudonyms. I think these

curiosities are interesting because they bring a

historical context to us. But let's

talk a little about magnetism, which is what I meant in

that other video, because there are

concepts in the work that are

discordant with the philosophical body of

dermetism, which is the Hermetic Corpus, as

I already said in that video. So, I want to

study mimicry, I'm going to study the

Hermetic Corpus, I'm going to study the Greek magical papyri,

which have a lot of information on

food practices, I'm going to study some authors

who studied and did work

based on the Hermetic Corpus and not on

the Kybalion, because there we

have someone who started from the most

original source. We have some good

traditions here in Brazil of the

Hermetic Corpus; I advise you to seek them out. There are

two

in particular, one of which is... The Polar publishing house,

translated by Américo Soube, isn't the

other one by Professor Davi Lira, who

recently translated it from the Greek, right?

He brought it directly from the Greek. Anyway, I have

two suggestions for you,

but I'll talk a little about being pretentious or

more traditional. So, since last time I

talked about what it wasn't, today I want to bring

a little more to light on one of the

central points that differentiates Kabbalah

from Hermeticism. As I

said in the other video, it's the

capacity that Hermetic philosophy

proposes to us to reach the whole, to reach the Divine through

our expansion of consciousness.

The work says that it's not

possible to get there, and all this... I remember

that it generates a controversy in the comments, with

some people saying, "Oh, it's

very presumptuous of us to think that

we're going to reach the Divine."

So let's go, let's first understand

this concept better. This Divine within

Hermeticism, both from the Oak and

the Germic body, this Divine is a

great Universal being that created everything. That's why it's

said that the whole is mind, the

whole is mental, and this kind of

corroborates the other in this sense. So

this whole is a great mind where everything

that has been thought is... Inside, that is,

this whole, it is such an

expanded consciousness that it is everything.

Our consciousness is limited to

our space-time. My consciousness

at this moment, nourished by my body, is

limited to my five senses that

are around me, perceiving everything that

happens. So, limited as far as

my imagination, my thoughts, can

reach, as far as my consciousness

goes. And my consciousness can reach,

it can go as far as my memories, for

example, so that I remember things

I learned many years ago and that I can

share with you here, for example. So,

realize that the consciousness of each

human being is different. Someone who was

raised locked inside a tower their

whole life will have a

very

diminished consciousness because that

person's universe is the room they lived in within that

tower, the people they had contact with, and

perhaps something they read or learned. Those who

travel, who read, who are constantly learning and

becoming acculturated end up expanding

their consciousness because they know many

different things. So, I wanted to make

this analogy so we understand that

reaching the whole is not about becoming God.

That is a very bad understanding that

people have of Hermeticism. It is not that.

It proposes that you

expand your consciousness. ...to the point that

you are not limited only to what you are

limited to today. And then when Hermeticism

proposes reaching the Divine, reaching that

Universal mind, it's about expanding your consciousness

to the point where you

can perceive the entire universe. Wow,

Leo, but is it possible to do this while

incarnated with a physical body?

Hermeticism says that our mind has an

infinite capacity to enable this

growth, this expansion of consciousness.

Perhaps

we can even believe in something about

reincarnation to think about how much

we expand our consciousness through

this model. Cognitivism tells us

that we should be empty vessels because

an empty vessel isn't

truly empty; it's full of availability

to receive things, and this

availability to receive things is what

allows us to always have the

capacity to learn and expand

our consciousness. So, you see,

Hermeticism is telling

us

not to stop learning, not to stop expanding, not to stop

expanding our

consciousness because our consciousness

is not limited by anything except your own

beliefs. And if you can

perhaps spend your entire existence

expanding your consciousness, that

consciousness will be a mind that is

within the whole.

I always joke about it. What does it mean to

dissolve into the Divine, for your

consciousness to become the Divine because

you dissolve into it? I call this

moment the Divine Alka-Seltzer. You throw

the Alka-Seltzer into the water, it

dissolves and becomes the water. So think

of this mind of the whole as the water, and when

you throw it there, you

dissolve into that whole, but you're still there,

you're part of it, you constitute it. Do you

understand? This is the proposition of

mimicry. And it's very, very funny

when we... I remember a

comment I saw, those comments

say, "Oh, that's so arrogant,

thinking you have to be God." Cai Bali is

a book that people don't understand

properly. And I said, "But come on,

all the people who have studied magic for

years, in academia, in orders, in the

international world of magic, everyone looks

at the work I'm talking about, what is all this

really all about?" Look, they say, "

No, it's not a Kabbalistic book, it's a

meticulous book, it uses

some concepts, but it deviates from

tradition." So, let's research, let's look at

these studies, give a... Look at this and you'll

see that this whole thing about the mind is already a

contradiction, and it's an

important contradiction. If we're studying

a philosophical school that has another

school that contradicts it, it ceases to be

that philosophical school, or it becomes

a dissident group. And then it usually

gets a different name, which is why

we call it Hermeticism. Okay, so

I wanted to bring up this experience because there are

many people—

I remember once I gave a class

to a group of people

about this whole Kybalion issue—

I started telling the story from

Professor Queen Beybla, from

Newton's positivism. I showed

all the documentation, everything properly,

to the group,

and some people looked at it and said, "Wow,

I had no idea about this! Wow,

how do we sometimes accept something

and not question it?" And another person said, "

My God, but you! How dare you bring

logic into the house of the Lord? How dare you

destroy my beliefs?" And they were

really shaken by that, and I was

worried because Hermeticism is a

foundation, Hermeticism, philosophy, is

a foundation of Western magic, many of the...

Orders of magical practices that you do

today, even if you give the

witchcraft, given shamanism, it's very difficult

not to have some Amethyst influence

on the Western practices you practice.

Okay, even if you don't recognize them, they

are there when we say, for

example, "Ah, I can shape my

external reality based on what I

feel inside, what I do inside,"

we are bringing in a

Metamorphic idea of ​​what is inside is outside, and that just as

what is inside I can

transmute what is outside, I will transmute

based on what is inside

me. So, if I'm an example of

how we have Hermeticism there, well, if

we take, for example,

Blavatsky's philosophy, which will talk a lot about how

Hermeticism would be the mother of philosophies, it was

Hermeticism that created everything, Hermeticism

that permeated everything. So, it's not

true that Hermeticism permeates

everything, but it is present in many

things. So, if we understand that it

's there, it would be good for us to truly understand it

because in some way it

influenced us, and then

understanding it will help us. To help you follow or

not follow this philosophy, and you can turn

to me and say, "Leo, I like

Carvalho, I prefer Hermeticism,

Hermeticism is the work, it

works better for me." I mean, Hermetic bodies,

I didn't understand that part correctly, it's

really not a problem, it's

just that in magic we need to

know things because magic,

esotericism, Western magical practices

propose a liberation from

dogmas, they propose a liberation of

thought so that we can

expand our consciousness to wherever

we want, including saying, "Ah, I understand what

Carvalho is, but Leo, I'll continue

using it, okay, that's great, no problem."

That's the point. That's the point, but

when someone says, "No, you did

n't understand the book correctly, no, you're

talking about something you don't know, no, that's

not true."

That person is so trapped in a belief, so

trapped in that, that they can't

free themselves from it.

And then they didn't realize it, but they failed

and became the idea, they stopped being

a person who uses ideas to

be greater and became smaller because they

became a single idea, and then when

someone attacks that idea, that person...

She recognizes so much in the idea that she feels

attacked,

she feels the attack is directed at her, and it isn't. It's

not an attack when you talk about

a tradition and speak with respect, but it

comes from a certain place. I'll make an

analogy here: when we talk about

Christianity, Christianity is a

religion that was born based on the idea

that a person born in the

Middle East was the Messiah, and he brought God, and

he was the son of God. And then, over

time, because of church councils,

he became God incarnate. And at the same

time, you have a guy named Paul of

Tarsus who takes this idea of ​​this

Messiah to Rome, puts on the

guise of the Roman god Apollo,

and then he becomes the great Sol Invictus,

the great solar god, the Great Christ.

So there's a whole lot

of influence for Christianity to have been

born. There are Christians who know this and

for them it doesn't change anything about Christianity, and there are

Christians who, when they hear this, don't

understand, don't want to accept it. I'm not

saying they have to accept it, that's not

it, but study a little, even the origin of

your own religion, see how it was

formed. It's important for us to have an

open mind. And again, you... You don't need to

change your beliefs, everything's fine, but

understand your beliefs a little better,

because otherwise you'll be in a place

where there are a lot of people who studied, who researched

things, and you'll be

saying, "No, it wasn't like that,

so look here, there's this document,

this fact, this historian who said

this at the time, no, none of that

exists, it's all a lie," and then

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you wo

n't allow any

dialogue. If there's no

dialogue, there's no growth,

because I'll tell you, if you're

living locked inside your tower,

your universe will be so repressed, so

restricted, so closed, that

why are you learning more

things? Because you've already built your

tower, you've already built your

crystallization of knowledge there, so why are

you talking to other people,

why are you socializing? It doesn't make

sense because we human beings are

social animals, we socialize, we

do this because we

like to exchange, we are curious,

we like to learn. So why

not take this innate capacity of yours

and let it flow naturally? Do

n't find it, because when you believe

strongly in something and someone brings you

solid, rational arguments for

you to think about it,

and you shut yourself off. That hurt, that was already

anguish, that was already fear, doubt.

Why is what I'm believing

true or not? I believe in this, how could

that person say that? I hate

that person for bringing me this

kind of thing, I don't want to hear this. This

kind of person becomes

very obtuse, very closed off, and is the kind of

person who sometimes can't even be in

a group of people to talk anymore. I

ask you honestly, are you

listening to me, are you watching me? Do

you prefer to learn, to have

people around you who are always

happy to share knowledge, to

talk, to exchange ideas about

different things? Do you prefer to arrive somewhere and

vomit everything you know? That's it, that's the

truth, that's the truth, that's it? And

everyone looks at you and says, "

Okay, nobody talks to you," and

people start to distance themselves because they

say, "This person is always the owner of the

truth, you can't talk to them."

You don't live in a medieval age of

fanaticism anymore, do you? Even though there are still

many fanatical people, please don't

be one of them. Humanity grows,

we grow, our

consciousness expands when we

can learn from others, and that's

one of the cool lessons of Hermeticism.

Much of the manifestation of others around

us is seen as manifest symbols of the

mind of this whole, allowing us to

exchange ideas and learn, to

expand our consciousness.

This learning from this exchange expands

our consciousness, allowing us to

hear the other's point of view, even if

we don't agree. But I'm

listening, I understand. The person is

easily bringing up arguments, and even if, I don't know, that

seems absurd to my

reality, I begin to understand why

the person constructed that argument. We

live, for example, in a

time of

political polarization,

and I've seen many people on both sides of

this polarization with

very closed, very

polarized thoughts, not listening to the other,

not wanting to listen. This becomes a clash,

a fight, and people

offend each other, insult each other, and there's no conversation.

Sometimes I've seen people sit down to

truly talk, to understand why

they arrived at those thoughts, in an open-

minded way, without offense, without imposing

ideas. It was very interesting to see how

much these two learned from each

other as they understood that

certain types of thinking the other

had were reasonable because they

understood the construction of those

thoughts. Of course, there are people...

Fanatical people who are unreasonable, who

preach certain types of hatred disguised

as anything else, like "Oh, it's not my

right, my freedom," or "It's my

love,"

are actually hate in every way. And

when a person starts with hate, the other

person reacts with hate.

This is one of the things I

teach people: if I

manifest certain types of energy in the universe through my expression,

I will end up

becoming that type of energy; I will

become a symbol of hate. And if I become

a symbol of hate, I will receive a lot of

hate.

If I become a symbol of love, I will

receive a lot of love. Besides, are you saying

that it has to be all love? That the

person who is a symbol of love doesn't

receive hate? No, they receive it too. They

will receive it too because sometimes this

love that they give is perceived by

other people as something: "Oh, this person

feels superior. How can they love

everyone? How can they be so detached?"

This generates discomfort and ends up

generating hate. There are many people who

hate, hate, hate. There are people who, look,

I said, hate the same thing as that

person, so I'm going to love this person who

somehow expresses the hate that I...

I feel it in a way with a megaphone,

but what we want for ourselves...

Forget these people, forget these

spokespeople, forget these symbols that

manifest in our universe.

Hermeticism teaches us to look inside

ourselves and see who we are, to understand

what we want, and from who we

are and want to manifest what

we want in the universe, to expand our

consciousness not only to attract what

we are, but to be able to realize what

we are.

And then, when I realize what I am, I

feel fulfilled. I no longer feel

anguish, I no longer feel emptiness, I no

longer feel unhappiness because it doesn't

matter, these things no longer make

sense. I am what I am, and when I

am who I am, nothing can offend me

because I know who I am. No praise

will inflate my ego because I

know what I am and what I am not. If

someone praises me for something I am not, I will say, "Thank you,

but I am not that." If someone praises me for something I am not, I will only say, "Thank you, I

truly recognize that." If

someone insults me for something, I will

truly say, "Thank you." So, what I'm going to say is,

I am the person who's insulting me because

they realized this thing I'm hiding, and

I am who I am. Or if they were to insult me ​​with something

I'm not, I wouldn't

feel offended. They're insulting me with things they don't even

know, calling me things

they don't even know. Imagine having what we have

here in humanity, we have a channel with a lot of people

commenting, a lot of people commenting,

someone here depending on us for

free. I read a certain number of

comments and I look and say, "Ah, this

person is right." Maybe this video...

I really went down this path,

I need to think a little about this.

Sometimes someone writes something there that

I look at and say, "You won't offend me,

this person doesn't know me, they don't know

what they're talking about."

Hermeticism brings this, it brings this

thing of self-knowledge, but not this

self-knowledge of Coaching that we

have today. This is true self-knowledge,

a self-awareness based on

certainty about who I am, independent of

what the coach or anyone else tells me. I know

who I am, and I manifest that in the

universe.

My final provocation for today, my little bit

of anguish that I like to

leave at the end of the videos for you

here on Philosophy for All: if you

realize in your actions, in your

achievements, that it is you

who harmonizes your life,

think about it. We'll see each other on next week's program

again, this Friday

at 6:30 PM here on Radio Vai Mundial, or on the

Vibe channel, or here on Knowledge of

Humanity. A kiss and hermetic esfihas

for you all.