Essence
Mentalism proposes that experience is shaped in and through mind. In modern terms, cognition, attention, and narrative act as lenses that structure how we inhabit the world.
Hermetic practice invites ‘mental transmutation’: observing thought-forms and deliberately re‑composing them into clearer aims, kinder speech, and coherent action.
Practice
Journal one limiting script. Re‑write it in present tense as an enabling truth you can act on today.
Guard inputs: curate what you read, watch, and rehearse—attention is the furnace of transformation.
Context
The 1908 Kybalion popularized Mentalism for modern readers. Scholars note it as a modern Hermetic synthesis rather than an ancient text, but the practice remains useful as a contemplative discipline.
Sources & References
Further Reading
Explore serpentine patterns in nature (meanders, fractals, helix) and alchemical color in our essay: Serpentine Motion: Trees, Rivers, and the Double Helix in Color.
See also
Correspondence
As above, so below; as within, so without. Patterns rhyme across scales—learn one, apply many.
Vibration
Nothing rests. Tune your habits and attention; coherence emerges from rhythmic, embodied practice.
Polarity
Opposites are gradients. Integrate tensions to find synthesis where argument dissolves.