Hermetic Principle 2 Correspondence, As Above So Below, Change Your Patterns

2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health

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🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we break down the second Hermetic Principle, Correspondence, and translate “as above, so below, as within, so without” into real life, practical language. You’ll learn how your inner standards, beliefs, and nervous system show up in your habits, your communication, your boundaries, and your results, and why the same “fractal” patterns repeat across marriage, masculinity, parenting, discipline, finances, and self respect. This isn’t mysticism for the sake of sounding deep, it’s a clear lens for spotting the hidden structure beneath your daily choices, then making small corrections that compound.

You can expect direct examples that hit home, like how “the straw that broke the camel’s back” is never about the straw, it’s about the load you ignored for too long, and why conflict is usually about trust, safety, respect, appreciation, power, and fear of abandonment, not the trash, tone, sex, budget, or in laws. The episode also gives you a simple framework to “upgrade the pattern” by naming the cycle without blame, identifying the belief driving it, and repeating the correction until it becomes your new default, plus a real talk segment on why change is hard, how familiar pain protects identity, and how self respect becomes the fuel for transformation.

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0:00.0	Grand Rising family. Today is day two of the Hermetic Principles. It's Christmas. So Merry Christmas. I know that some of you,
0:22.1	a lot of you probably won't watch this on Christmas, but just know that it is Christmas day for me and I am wishing the best for you and your family. So even if it's not Christmas, I hope that whatever day it is today that you find joy and love and that you remember that this day may not happen next year for the people in your life or for you. So live in the moment and have a good day.
0:40.2	With that being said, the second Remember that this day may not happen next year for the people in your life or for you.
0:39.3	So live in the moment and have a good day.
0:43.3	With that being said, the second hermetic principle is correspondence.
0:46.4	I'm going to refer to this as the pattern moving forward.
0:49.8	And the pattern is as above so below, as within so without.
0:59.0	This speaks to the hidden harmony between planes of reality, the macroism and the microism, the invisible and the visible. What happens in the higher patterns, echoes in the lower forms, and what unfolds in the small reflects in the order of the great.
1:06.0	I am reading on a giant-ass TV because I'm kind of blind and this is easy, but I'm probably going to move into a teleprompter moving forward so that I can read on the screen and it makes it look like I'm looking at you guys because this is actually doing really well on the internet and you guys are fucking with it. So it would make sense for me to actually unbox the teleprompter that I bought two years ago and never opened. I have a gear acquisition problem.
1:28.6	So what happens in the higher patterns, echoes in the lower forms, and what unfolds in the
1:32.5	small reflects in the order of the grade. Put plainly, this is a pattern principle. So again,
1:38.7	the law is correspondence, but I will be using the term of the pattern. The same structures repeat
1:44.0	at different levels of life.
1:45.3	What's happening in your inner world shows up in your outer world.
1:48.2	And what you tolerate and practice in small places becomes big in your life over time.
1:53.4	Your life has fractals.
1:54.8	And for those of you who don't know what fractals are, fractals are infinitely complex, self-similar patterns
1:59.7	that where small parts resemble a
2:01.7	whole and it just repeats, right? You see this a lot in like psychedelic patterns or kaleidoscopes.
2:07.9	Your fractals are your habits, your communication style, your conflict patterns, your excuses,
2:12.2	your standards, your avoidance. They replicate across all facets of your life. If you're chaotic
2:16.6	in your mind, you'll be chaotic in your schedule. If you're unclear in your standards, you'll be unclear in your boundaries. If you dodge discomfort at one area, you'll dodge discomfort everywhere. It might look a little different from situation to situation. You may give it a different label, but it is the same thing. It happens and deep down you fucking know it. The pattern is not everything is a sign, it's everything as training. The small is never small. The way that we do dishes, the way that we respond to a text, the way that we handle a disagreement, the way that we speak to our kids when we're tired. Those are micro expressions of the same character that shows up when it's time to lead, repair, apologize, or make hard choices. We love to believe that we will rise to the occasion, that when times get tough, that
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