🜂 The Seven Fires: A Personal Journey Through the Hermetic Teachings
By Shamsul Bahari
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“The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of understanding.” — The Kybalion
There comes a time in every seeker’s journey when what once whispered in dreams begins to roar like thunder in the heart. For me, the call returned through dreams of scrolls clutched under my arm in ancient Egypt—pursued, perhaps hunted—for truths I barely understood, yet knew were already within me.
I write this not as a scholar, but as a man whose life has been his laboratory.
From Kuala Terengganu to Alaska, from Green Gulch Zen Center to the kitchen where I made chicken soup for my children, these seven Hermetic principles have revealed themselves—not in theory, but in practice.
Let me pour for you now, cup by cup, the elixir I have gathered.
🜁 1. The Principle of Mentalism
“All is Mind; the Universe is Mental.”
Everything begins in consciousness.
When I stirred that pot of soup, I wasn’t following a recipe—I was aligning with a mental flavor I already knew.
Reality is thought made flesh. Dream made movement.
Creation begins in the stillness of your own awareness.
🜃 2. The Principle of Correspondence
“As above, so below; as within, so without.”
Whether chanting the Heart Sutra in a Zendo or hearing Zikrullah at dawn, I’ve felt vibrations in my chest echoing across planes.
Our breath matches the rhythm of stars.
Our minds mirror heavens we have forgotten.
A child’s laughter, a bell rung under pine trees—each a portal to divine symmetry.
🜂 3. The Principle of Vibration
“Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”
I once shouted "Buta!" in a dream from deep in my Hara—and the hillside crumbled into the Pacific.
Sound is not noise—it is power.
The body is a tuning fork.
Your thoughts vibrate. Your feelings hum. The soul listens.
This is not metaphor. This is law.
🜄 4. The Principle of Polarity
“Everything is dual; everything has poles.”
Love and pain danced in me when I let Sylvia go. I wanted to hold her, yet I knew healing demanded release.
Years later, I found Timo—my son, my legacy from that time—waiting in Switzerland.
Even separation contains reunion.
Even endings carry seeds.
🜁 5. The Principle of Rhythm
“Everything flows, out and in; all things rise and fall.”
There are days I feel like a spiritual lighthouse.
Others, I sink into a quiet melancholy that only the night understands.
But the tide always turns.
This too shall pass.
Rhythm is not cruelty—it is music. And music needs silence between the notes.
🜄 6. The Principle of Cause and Effect
“Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause.”
When I woke the bell that morning at Green Gulch, I did not know I would be made “Bell Master.”
But intention is never idle.
Every action is a seed. Every thought, a ripple.
We are not victims—we are participants in the symphony of karma.
☯ 7. The Principle of Gender
“Gender is in everything.”
I make soup. I sweep floors. I write and paint. I lead and surrender.
I am husband and housewife.
This is not a contradiction.
This is balance.
Masculine and feminine are not roles—they are forces.
In every breath, I carry both sun and moon.
✦ Epilogue: The Scrolls We Carry
I once dreamed of scrolls stolen in fear.
Now I realize—they were never stolen.
They were entrusted to me, as they are to you.
We are all children of Thoth, Isis, Buddha, and Christ.
We are not just readers of sacred texts—we are living pages, waiting to be read.
And if tonight you find yourself wandering the alleyways of your soul, clutching scrolls you don’t understand, know this:
You are not lost. You are being led.
Let the fire refine you. Let the sadness be sacred.
And when the bell rings—pause.
Take one breath.
Return to the center.
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