📌 BLOG POST #20
THE WAY OF HERMES — Part 20
The Two Worlds — Visible Form & Invisible Spirit
Tractate III — Illuminated Commentary (Section VII)
Hermes learns that existence is divided into two realms:
1️⃣ The Visible World (Form)
2️⃣ The Invisible World (Spirit)
Most people only know the first:
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What the eyes can see
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What the hands can touch
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What the senses can measure
But the Hermetic seeker discovers
a deeper truth:
The invisible creates the visible.
Spirit is the Cause.
Form is the Effect.
🧠 KEY INSIGHT
Reality is spiritual first —
physical second.
The body is animated by the soul.
Matter is held by Mind.
Motion obeys Will.
Life flows from the Breath of God.
What you cannot see
is more powerful than what you can.
🜂 Why Two Worlds?
Because the soul needs:
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Experience → in the visible
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Awareness → in the invisible
The visible teaches the soul
through contrast:
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Light vs. dark
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Love vs. fear
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Truth vs. illusion
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Sovereignty vs. slavery
Duality is the training ground of divinity.
🌟 The Spiritual Reality
Every moment of awakening reveals:
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The world is alive
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Everything has purpose
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All beings are connected
You are not in the universe.
You are of it.
🔥 Modern Spiritual Application
Don’t let the visible world convince you
that you are small.
Behind your eyes
there is a universe vast as stars.
Behind your body
there is a soul without limits.
Behind every problem
there is a spiritual breakthrough forming.
✨ Activation Practice
Place a hand on your heart.
Close your eyes briefly.
Say:
“I honor both worlds —
the seen and the unseen.”
Feel the invisible presence
of your own Light
just behind the physical form.
❓ Reflective Question
Where in your life
have you been trusting appearances
instead of your deeper knowing?
That is where Spirit
is calling you to see more.
✍️ About the Author
Reverend Michael Cook, D.Div, is the Architect of Light and founder of the Cook Universal Ministry — a spiritually independent Hermetic-Gnostic tradition dedicated to awakening the Divine Human within all who seek the inner Light.
🔖 Tags
Hermeticism, Duality, Visible & Invisible, Gnosis, Divine Reality, Enlightenment
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