The Kybalion’s Seven Principles

Seven lenses for how reality behaves. Not beliefs. Operating rules.

The Kybalion presents seven principles attributed to Hermetic teaching. They aren’t meant to be admired or debated. They’re meant to be used to understand patterns in mind, behavior, cause and effect, and change.

They function as a diagnostic framework:
If something feels confusing, unstable, or repetitive, one of these principles is usually being ignored or misunderstood.

This framework comes from The Kybalion, written by the Three Initiates, drawing on earlier Hermetic philosophy.

The Seven Principles (plain):

Mentalism – Mind precedes form.

Correspondence – Patterns repeat across levels.

Vibration – Nothing is static.

Polarity – Opposites are degrees of the same thing.

Rhythm – Movement swings back and forth.

Cause and Effect – Nothing is random.

Gender – Creation requires complementary forces.

Used together, they explain why things move, repeat, flip, or manifest the way they do.