Grand Rising, good afternoon, good evening, whatever time of day that you're watching this.

Still, teleprompter's not working. Every time I

plug in and try to make my mouse work to scroll, my mouse stops working and I get weird like

crossover with my screens. I don't know. I'm going to have to sit down and really try to figure

out the teleprompter situation when I'm not getting ready to record or just give up on it.

Maybe he'll get up to a laptop.

I don't know. Anyways, today is the sixth hermetic principle. This is cause and effect.

This is one of those principles that I think really, really change your life. And I'm going to just jump into this normally, although normally at the end of these videos, I have like a rant or a speech or whatever. I don't have one of those today. I sat around last night trying to think of something to talk about and I got nothing. Today is December 31st. It is New Year's Eve 2025. And there's a part of me that feels like I should talk about the new year. But I know that by the time you watch this, it will not be the new year. It'll be into January. And if you're watching this

later, it won't be relevant to you at all because shit fucking passed. So I don't know. We may

just wrap this up at the end of this video and may not have a follow-up conversation.

So on this principle, being cause and effect, there's going to be a follow-up conversation. So on this principle being caused and effect,

there's going to be a tie-in versus victim mentality that I put together.

And depending on how long it takes me to record,

I may tie this into I versus you statements and marriage kind of heavily.

I really think that this principle says a lot about life, right?

So the sixth hermetic principle is cause and effect. The short version is nothing happens by accident. Every effect has a cause.

Every cause produces an effect. Most people hear that and immediately think that it means fate,

some rigid cosmic scoreboard, but the reality is more confrontational and more empowering.

It's saying that life is not random, it's patterned. And if we keep getting the same results,

we're participating in the causes, even if we don't like that, even if we don't want to

admit it. In spirituality, cause and effect is the idea that reality has order. Actions,

intentions, words, choices, they ripple. Sometimes the consequences are immediate. Sometimes it takes time. Sometimes it shows up sideways. But the principle says the universe is not chaotic and the way our excuses want them to be. It's responsive. If we live with integrity, there's a kind of internal alignment that builds momentum. If we live in lies,

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