The Principle of Rhythm
Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides.
The fifth Hermetic principle reveals that all things move in cycles - rising and falling, swinging forward and back. Day follows night, expansion follows contraction, rise follows fall. Understanding rhythm allows one to work with rather than against natural cycles.
Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall.
Rhythm is visible in all natural phenomena from breathing to seasons to civilizations.
The Kybalion
Written about in
- What Hermeticism says about the pattern in things
Everything swings out and back. The practical use offered is timing: work with a tide rather than against it.
- What Hermeticism says about failure
The fifth principle holds that everything has tides, and that rise follows fall as reliably as fall follows rise. A downswing is then information about where you stand in a cycle, not a verdict on you.