Preface: I have used some Sanskrit terms below, I hope these (fonts) show on browsers. I have used Sanskrit because it best fits, and my native English needs sentences rather than words to fulfil the same objective.
As Above So Below.
That Hermetic proverb defining the macrocosm and microcosm as being reflections of each other, though I would beg to differ and offer, As Is Out So Is Within.
I could argue that the saying As Above So Below, describes the illusion that reality is arranged vertically about a plane that reflects itself.
It is of course conjecture and splitting hairs.
However I would give cause to say, As Within, Is So Out, this encompasses the observer and the observed, viz: form from the expression of it, reality is created from the structure of perception.
Another form of the proverb would be ~ As Is within, As So Suchness :(अन्तः बहिः तथता) ~ Within~Without~Suchness. (Suchness being a term used to convey reality as it truly is—before concepts, judgments, and distinctions)
And in same tone;- यदन्तः तत् बहिः, तत् एव तत्त्वम् ~That which is within, that is also without; that alone is the principle/reality.
Imagine the mind expanding to encompass the entire universe, until it reaches the furthest boundary of perception—where expansion and nothingness are no longer distinct. At that point, it does not break or end, but continues as a continuous emanation, arising from the smallest possible point of being.
Nothing has ever truly begun or ended; there is only a continuous loop of appearance. The mind does not perceive this loop because it unfolds all at once, beyond sequential time. This is consciousness and the manifest establishing itself as both eternal and immeasurable. Consciousness and the manifest are one reality appearing as two perspectives.
The Western Gate 
Leave a comment