Meditation on the Principles
Contemplative practice with the seven Hermetic principles.
Regular meditation on each of the seven principles deepens understanding and internalizes their truths. The principles become living realities rather than mere concepts through contemplative engagement.
Ponder these words in your heart, and all things shall be opened unto you.
Meditation transforms intellectual knowledge into experiential wisdom.
The Kybalion
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- What Hermeticism says about habit and discipline
Returning to the same seven principles is supposed to turn them from concepts into things you watch operating. This is hermeticism's account of why repetition is not boredom: the material does not change, your reading of it does.