Thought Control
Mastery over the contents of one's mind.
The untrained mind is a chaos of random thoughts. The Hermetist learns to control what enters and remains in the mind, rejecting negative or useless thoughts and cultivating positive, powerful ones.
The mind can be trained like a soldier and will obey orders.
Thought control is necessary for all advanced Hermetic work.
Hermetic Tradition
Written about in
- What Hermeticism says about habit and discipline
Here hermeticism makes a claim worth doubting: that the mind can be trained like a soldier and will obey orders, rejecting useless thoughts at will. It sits badly beside self-observation, which asks you only to watch without interfering. The tradition holds both and never reconciles them.