The next series in the school reads a small book with a strange history, and the history is worth telling properly.
The Hermetic tradition is named for Hermes Trismegistus — 'thrice-great Hermes' — a legendary teacher who was never exactly one person. He is a blend: the Egyptian god Thoth, keeper of writing and wisdom, folded together with the Greek Hermes. The texts that carry his name, the Hermetica, were written in Egypt in the first centuries of the common era, by people asking the oldest questions: what is mind, what is matter, and why do they seem to answer each other?
The most famous Hermetic line — as above, so below — comes from the Emerald Tablet, a short cryptic text that alchemists treasured for a thousand years. Isaac Newton, the father of classical physics, kept his own handwritten translation of it among his papers. The man who gave us gravity sat up at night with the Emerald Tablet. That fact alone should soften the border we imagine between science and the older ways of knowing.
Then, in 1908, in Chicago, a small book appeared called The Kybalion, written under the pen name 'Three Initiates'. It distilled the sprawling Hermetic tradition into seven principles: Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, Gender. It is not an ancient text — it is a modern door into an ancient house. We will walk through it honestly, saying exactly that.
Why now? Because the community has spent six weeks with the quantum principles — attention, non-locality, entanglement, coherence — and the Hermetic principles point at the same territory from the other side of history. Where Series Two taught the lens (what observation does), Series Three begins with the forge: Mentalism, the claim that everything you have ever built was built in mind first.
Seven weeks. One principle at a time. The science where there is science, the history told straight, and every week landing on the same place all our work lands: what you're creating, and who you're becoming while you create it.
Series Three is in production now. Members will walk it together, Sunday by Sunday, the way we always do.