Hermetic Principles and Mental Alchemy
Like Duolingo, but for Hermetic Principles and Mental Alchemy. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
21 levels across 4 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Architecture of Mentalism, Navigating the Oscillations, Causality and Creative Power, and The Paradox of the Absolute.
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Key ideas in Hermetic Principles and Mental Alchemy
- The individual mind is a microcosm of the Universal Mind
- Identify the polar opposite of the current state on the same mental scale
- Malleability of reality is achieved by aligning the individual will with the laws of the mental plane
- Concentrate the will on the desired higher vibratory rate
- External phenomena are 'mental images' that respond to shifts in the observer's internal vibration
- Induce the new vibration through rhythmic mental focus until the lower state is displaced
- The application of the Principle of Mentalism to reality manipulation
- The process of shifting mental states via vibration
- The 'I' as witness and willer
- The 'Me' as repository
- Mental Gender
- Microcosm of the Universal Mind
- Vibratory induction
- Distinguishing 'I' and 'Me'
- Indirect suggestion
- Mental insulation
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Hermetic Principles and Mental Alchemy the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When you want to change a feeling, what should you look for on the mental scale?
Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.
Where Hermetic Principles and Mental Alchemy takes you
Master the hidden mechanics of the universe through the advanced application of the Seven Hermetic Principles. Move beyond theory into the practical transmutation of mental states and the navigation of universal laws.
- 1
The Architecture of Mentalism
- Advanced Mental Transmutation
- Fractal Correspondence
- 2
Navigating the Oscillations
- The Mechanics of Polarity
- Rhythm and the Art of Neutralization
- 3
Causality and Creative Power
- Escaping the Plane of Effects
- Mental Gender in Manifestation
- 4
The Paradox of the Absolute
- The Divine Paradox
4 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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