As above in consciousness, so below in matter

The phrase "As above in consciousness, so below in matter" is a trademarked phrase first coined by Michael Sharp in 2002 while writing The Book of Life. The term is the proper completion of the "veiled" and easily (and often) misinterpreted hermetic phrase "As above, so below."

The phrase represents the same principle of creation as the so-called law of attraction and the new age phrase, "energy follows intent." The phrase "As above in consciousness, so below in matter" is superior to other representations inasmuch as it shrugs off Vestigial Materialism, emphasizes active and willful creation, and provides a specific and unequivocal statement of the primacy of Consciousness over matter. The phrase can also be read as a strong philosophical statement of pure idealism, and as a strong statement of the ontological and causal primacy of consciousness .

"We live in a conscious universe and consciousness determines the nature and shape of this universe. This is true in a practical sense, as for example when the consciousness of an engineer creates a bridge plan that is then implemented by contractors and workers. This is true in a social sense, as when our ideas about who we are and what we can do determine who we are and what we can do. This is also true in a mystical sense, as for example when the potentials of our experience are fundamentally altered because of the way we think about the world." GA

See Also

Cosmology

As above in consciousness, so below in_matter

Consciousness | Creation

First Creation

→ Unfolding of Creation | Breath of God | Outbreath | Problem of Ennui | Problem of Daath | Great Cosmic Death

→ Dimensions of Creation Fundamental Factors of Creation

Second Creation

→ Great Cosmic Death | Acceleration | Orgasm Cosmic File Pointer | Akashic Records Perspective | Metaperspective | Playground Metaphor | Playground Perspective | Parental Perspective | Creation's Equation The One | the Old One | New Ones (a.k.a Shiny New Ones

Third Creation

→ Day One Singularity | Big Bang/The Watershed/Third Creation | Point of Entry/Point Zero/Point of Separation| Experience | Oroborous

→ Day Two | Flood | Cacophony | Cosmic Womb

→ Day Three | Expansion | Music of the Spheres | Suns of God

→ Day Four | Coalescence (Tuning/Cosmic Tuning)

→ Day Five | Dance of Creation | Rhythm

→ Day Six | The Body

→ Fundamental View of Creation | Dimensions of Creation

→ Vibration | | Light | Experience | Feeling

→ Elements of Creation | Creative Idea | Creative Position | Creative Relationship | Creative Expectation | Force+Formation | Fundamental View of Creation

→ Ladder of Creation

Fourth Creation

life

Fifth Creation (also Fifth Kingdom))

→ Ascension

Consciousness | ( Structure of Consciousness | Levels of Consciousness)

Creation

As above in consciousness, so below in_matter

First Creation

Problem of Ennui | Unfolding of Creation | Dimensions of Creation | Breath of God | Fundamental Factors of Creation | Problem of Daath

Second Creation

Great Cosmic Death | Acceleration | Orgasm

Third Creation

Vibration | Point of Entry (Point Zero)| Point of Separation Oroborous | Big Bang/The Watershed/Third Creation | Light Experience | Feeling

Elements of Creation | Creative Idea | Creative Position | Creative Relationship | Creative Expectation | Force+Formation | Fundamental View of Creation

Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day Five | Day Six