9 Immutable Universal Laws
“Rain happens; the water evaporates, rises to the heavens, and returns once more as rain. What you send out, you draw back.”
Wise Cultivator
Universal laws can explain why things happen to you. Mankind cannot create laws. Mankind can only make rules and regulations and follow the laws of creation that are above them.
The laws can reveal how the Creator becomes the Creation, the invisible becomes the visible, and the seeker becomes the truth.
The truth seeker transforms lead into gold not for wealth. He/She lives in harmony with the Law or the Way.
1. The Law of Virtue
Do you know why one is born lame and the other fully capable? One is born into a rich family and the other into a poor one?
It’s because of someone’s virtues that determine the quality of their life.
Where do virtues come from? Christianity has 7 heavenly virtues; the Greeks have their virtue ethics; the Daoists cultivate virtue (de) by aligning themselves with the Dao; the Islamic virtue is based on righteousness; Buddhists consider dharma as divine virtue, etc.
Most religions, faiths, and teachings tell you to cultivate virtue. They encourage you to do good deeds, but they don’t tell you why.
So why do we need to become good people? Why shouldn’t we fight for our benefits at all costs, even at the expense of others?
Because being good creates virtue, which attracts good things and circumstances to your life, while being bad produces karma, which causes you to suffer from the wrongdoings you create for others.
In “How Humankind Came To Be“, Master Li Hongzhi explains: “Everything that happens in one’s life—whether it seems warranted or not—is, in reality, the karmic consequence of what one did in one’s past lives, for better or for worse.
The amount of blessings and virtue that one built up in one’s past lives determines what fortune is in store in this lifetime, or perhaps the next.
If one lives a blessed and virtuous life now, it can translate in one’s next lifetime into a high position and salary, or it might translate into different kinds of wealth and fortune. And this would also include whether one has a happy family, or even how one’s children turn out, and so on.
This is the fundamental reason why some people are wealthy and others poor, why some hold positions of high rank while others are destitute and homeless. […]
The universe is fair. Those who do good are blessed for it, while those who do wrong will face payback—if not in this life, then in the next. For this is an immutable law of the universe!”
2. The Law of No Loss, No Gain
Note: To understand this law, you should first read the Law of Virtue.
In the spiritual book of Falun Dafa, Master Li Hongzhi indicates: “In the past, the elderly had this saying, ‘One should accumulate virtue, and one’s ancestors have accumulated virtue. This person is giving away virtue and abusing virtue.’ That was said very correctly. Nowadays, ordinary people no longer listen to this saying.
If you tell those young people about losing virtue or lacking virtue, they will not take it to heart at all. Actually, its meaning is indeed very profound. It’s not just some concept that comes from recent generations’ thinking and mindset. It is something of actual material existence.”
Master Li Hongzhi explains further: “One loses virtue (de) when one commits wrongdoing. How does a person lose virtue? When a person swears at another, he thinks that he has gained the upper hand and feels good.
There is a principle in this universe called ‘no loss, no gain.’ To gain, one has to lose. If you do not want to lose, you will be forced to lose. Who plays such a role? It is precisely the characteristic of the universe that assumes this role.
Thus, it is impossible if you only wish to gain things. What will happen then? While swearing at or bullying another person, he is tossing virtue at this other person. Since the other person is the party that feels wronged and has lost something and suffered, he is compensated accordingly.
While one person is here swearing, with this swearing, a piece of virtue from his own dimensional field leaves and goes to the other person. The more he swears at him, the more virtue he gives him.
The same is true with beating up or bullying others. As one hits or kicks another person, one will give one’s virtue away according to how badly one beats up the other person.
An everyday person cannot see this principle at this level. Feeling humiliated, he cannot put up with it and thinks, ‘Since you hit me, I’ve got to return the same.’
‘Wham,’ he gives that person a punch back and returns virtue to him. Neither have gained or lost anything. He might think, ‘You have hit me once, so I should hit you twice. Otherwise, I won’t feel avenged.’ He will hit him again, and another piece of his virtue will be given away to the other person.”
3. The Hermetic Law of Mentalism
“The All is Mind; The Universe is Mental.”
The Kybalion
The Hermetic Law of Mentalism indicates we are living in a mental universe. What exists in our mind exists physically, and vice versa.
For example, science has proved that mental illnesses can manifest physically. The spot that causes pain in your body is related to your mental patterns. If you have any diseases, you need to check the “dis-ease” of your mind.
You are what you eat because of what you think. You select your food based on your mental appetite.1
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God, He created him; male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1:27
When God created man in his own image, he imagined man in His Mind. From his imagination comes image-nation.
Most of us believe we can only create something out of something, but can you create something out of nothing?
Yes, you can, from your own mind. What you imagine, you create. Your thoughts materially exist in another dimension. They can move things around the world based on your Will.
According to the law, the universe is mental, which manifests the physical. What you see in your external reality reflects your internal thoughts.
Indeed, you can “feel the fire” when you have lower thoughts (greed, jealousy, anger, etc.) because these correspond to the realms of hell. Higher thoughts such as love, compassion, and kindness correspond to heavenly realms.
But your thoughts are not the Truth. People often do wrong because they think they’re right. The problem is you don’t even know you have a problem.
4. The Hermetic Law of Correspondence
“As above, so below; as within, so without.”
The Kybalion
The Hermetic Law of Correspondence indicates you are a small human being in a vast universe. You are a vast universe in a small human being. You are the Creator of the Creation and the Creation of the Creator.
What is above is below. You are made of the same atom and essence that create the stars, planets, and galaxies. All animals, trees, cities, and mountains are within you (Y.O.U = Your Own Universe).
What is inner is outer. Life is not only what you see as the outer world; life is inner because every experience is inner. Inside your physical body, there is a soul. Without the soul, your body is just a corpse.
The Law of Correspondence can explain how astrology, face reading, and palm reading work. What is in your birth chart corresponds to the activities of your life. What is in your face is in your character. What is in your hands can tell you a lot about your fate.
No one can predict your future unless it already happened. The choices you make in the future already happen now. The Law indicates that everything currently taking place in our human society already occurred in the plane above.
As above, so below. What affects the Heaven (the macrocosm) will affect the Earth (the microcosm). What affects the planets will affect your life.
For example, when magicians make use of Saturn in their magical rituals, they want to bring tangible outcomes to our physical planet.
5. The Hermetic Law of Vibration
“Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”
The Kybalion
The Hermetic Law of Vibration indicates that everything is in motion; everything vibrates; nothing is at rest; everything changes.
If you leave a plastic bottle on a table, you may think the bottle is not moving, but in reality, the bottle is moving, because its atoms are moving.
As we’ve learned in science, at the solid level, the atoms stay very close to each other. They vibrate/move but at a slow rate.
When you burn the plastic bottle, this increases the speed of the atoms, separating them apart, but the atoms are not destroyed – they’re still living. Similar to human beings, your true essence is still intact when you die, only your bodies are disintegrated.
In the Bible, Adam is a secret code for Atom. When God puts a deep sleep upon Adam, God slows down the atom so it becomes denser in this physical plane. As the atom becomes slower and denser, it becomes solid (visible). As the atom vibrates faster and higher, it becomes air (invisible).
Hence, the air that you breathe in is as materially real as your phone, house, and car, yet you can’t see the air. As God puts a deep sleep upon Adam (or Atom), you drop from a higher plane to a lower plane, from a being of light to a being of matter.
The Law of Vibration can also explain that spirit and matter can occupy the same space; they are just different in terms of degrees of vibration. For example, the light of the Sun can go through your body as much as the sounds of music can go through your ear.
This indicates aliens are right beside us. They are just operating in different vibrations in the same space because the time-space concept is different for each dimension. You can only enter another time-space through true spiritual cultivation.
When your eyes are open, you will see that rocks, trees, soil, and water are in fact all alive. They are all moving. Nothing rests. If they notice you can see them, they will even greet you.
This is why it is said in Islam that: “Whenever the Noble Messenger came across rocks and trees, they would prostrate before him, that is, demonstrating obedience to him, they would declare: ‘Peace be upon you, O Messenger of God!’”2
As everything is moving, the Law of Vibration also suggests that change is a natural course of nature. To grow, you must change. For new doors to open, old things must cease.
When you move from one action to another, you change. When you’re in the same situation but make different choices, you change. If you don’t want to change, stop breathing, because the moment you breathe, you change. You can’t keep doing the same things over and over again while looking for different results.3
6. The Hermetic Law of Polarity (or Duality)
“Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half‑truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.”
The Kybalion
The Hermetic Law of Polarity indicates everything in this world has a dual nature: soft-hard, young-old, masculine-feminine, life-death, etc. Life isn’t the opposite of death; it’s a part of death. Without life, there is no death. Without death, there is no life.
Duality is essentially One, just as a coin has two faces, but it is still a coin. Your human body has a left side and a right side, yet it is still a human body. There are two different extremes of the same one thing.
The Law of Polarity/Duality can be seen clearly in the yin-yang symbol of the Daoist system.
Although yin and yang are opposite to each other, inside yin we have yang and inside yang we have yin. In strength, there is weakness. In weakness, there is strength.
Nothing is absolute. When you are absolutely sure about something, that thing becomes unsure.
Things are subject to the Law of Duality on this earth unless you spiritually cultivate yourself above the Three Realms of existence. There, you will be free of reincarnation, and this is where you finally return “home”. You will not be born so you will not die.
In this physical world, duality is actually an illusion. Why? Light and darkness are not equal. A person can have all the darkness around the world, yet with all of this power, he cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.4 Therefore, goodness always overcomes evil as much as the divine always governs the devil.
The Law of Duality is relative, too: What is considered good for material men (money, fame, power) may not be considered good for spiritual men. A hot and sexy lady may be highly valued among low-level men, while high-level men value chaste and elegant women.
7. The Hermetic Law of Rhythm
“Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum‑swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.”
The Kybalion
The Hermetic Law of Rhythm is the rhythm that swings you back and forth between the two polarities: a powerful swing to the right is equivalent to a powerful swing to the left.
To succeed, you have to overcome your failures. To get what you love, you have to be patient with what you hate.5 To enjoy pleasure, you have to suffer pain.
If you’re currently facing hardships, you can be confident that it’s a blessing from the universe, because the universe will have great things in store for you in the future. The stronger you are, the harder the tests life throws at you.
A king once asked a queen how far is the distance between happiness and sadness?
The answer is: A powerful swing to happiness is equivalent to a powerful swing to sadness. Rhythm counterbalances so that you can always reach the point of balance. As happiness and sadness are made of the same substance (we learned this in the Law of Duality), what makes you happy will one day cause you pain.
This is why Confucius came up with the Doctrine of the Mean, indicating wise people stay centered and seek nothing. Wise people follow the Way and don’t act in excess.
The Law of Rhythm also indicates that everything in the universe moves in cycles or patterns. Between every high and low tide, systole and diastole, day and night, there is a rhythm or pattern that keeps recurring. History repeats itself.
8. The Hermetic Law of Cause and Effect
“Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.”
The Kybalion
According to the Hermetic Law of Cause and Effect, every cause has an effect, and that effect in turn becomes the cause of something else in an infinite cycle of events. Cause produces effect, and effect also produces cause. Trees bear fruits, and fruits also bear trees.
The Law indicates nothing in this world happens by accident. All the good and bad things occurring in your life are because of you – the Cause and the Effect, the Creator and the Creation.
Even something seemingly “random” can be traced back to previous circumstances that allowed it to manifest. “Chance” is simply a term for a cause you fail to recognize. You will reap what you sow and you will not receive unfair retribution. So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.6
While you may think the Law of Cause and Effect only works on the physical level, it works on the mental level as well. If you pay attention, you will see that 90% of your thoughts today are similar to those of yesterday.7
It’s also important to understand that not all karma is active at once. Sometimes, your karma is “on hold” so that you can pay it back later.
If you don’t learn the lessons the universe is trying to teach you now, the same events and situations will happen again in your life. You might have to reincarnate again and again to learn the same lesson, the lesson you should have learned.
9. The Hermetic Law of Gender
“Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes.”
The Kybalion
The Hermetic Law of Gender indicates everything in this world has a gender. The sun is male while the moon is female, for instance. If you take a look at the atom itself, it is made of proton (+) and electron (-), which are the masculine and feminine principles that create the whole universe.
The word ”gender” is derived from the Latin root meaning “to beget; to procreate; to create; to produce.” “Sex” is merely a manifestation of the Law of Gender on the physical plane.
In the spiritual book of Falun Dafa, Master Li Hongzhi reveals: “You may have seen Tibetan Buddhist statues or paintings depicting a male and female figure conjoining as a means of practice.
In some cases the male figure has the look of a Buddha and will be embracing a woman who is unclothed; in others the figures are transformations of Buddhas, such as warrior deities with oxen or horse heads, which are similarly embracing an unclothed female figure. […]
Then how does it serve a spiritual purpose, you might be wondering? Tantric union practices strive to achieve a balance of yin and yang by gathering yin to supplement yang and vice versa, through mutual supplementation and refinement.
As you might know, both Buddhist and Daoist thought hold that the human body innately has both yin and yang; this is especially apparent in the Daoist concept of yin-yang. And it is the presence of both yin and yang in the body that makes it possible for you to develop higher powers, an angelic body, cherubs, spiritual bodies, and other supernatural beings.
Yin and yang are what make these possible with spiritual practice; this holds true for the male as well as the female body. These supernatural beings can be generated in the energy center of either gender’s body. […]
This tells us, then, that we can progress to great spiritual heights without adopting Tantric union practices. What’s more, using them runs the risk of falling prey to evil and lapsing into a dark practice, if it’s not handled well.
These practices are normally used by a monk or lama only at a very advanced stage of Esoteric Buddhist practice, and so he will be spiritually accomplished; and he will be guided through the practice by a master. And because this individual’s mind will be virtuous, he will be solid and able to handle it well, and not succumb to evil.
By contrast, someone who is not very spiritually developed has no business using it, as he would surely fall prey to evil. His character wouldn’t suffice. He would still have worldly, covetous thoughts along with sexual desire, and that would be the plane on which he dwelled. So it would be sure to turn out evil. This is why I believe it’s devious to teach such things to those who are still not very far along in their practice.”
- Inspiration from Bro. C. Freeman El ↩︎
- Reference to Questionsonislam ↩︎
- Inspiration from Albert Einstein ↩︎
- Inspiration from St. Francis Of Assisi ↩︎
- Inspiration from Al-Ghazali ↩︎
- Excerpt from Matthew 7:12 ↩︎
- Statistics from Dr. Joe Dispenza ↩︎