Law of Correspondence: Handle your problems in favor of your future
“As Above, So Below”—correspondence is an essential element in understanding vital energy. This precise concept is tied to an essential element from ancient Egyptian tablets, as it was part of the mummification rituals. Its representation within the energetic structure is the Amber or celestial chakra, located between the back and the heart.
Archaeologists discovered offering tablets for the seven sacred essences used by the pharaohs in ancient Egypt. Found in Saqqara in two Old Kingdom tombs, made from the finest alabaster, the names of the seven sacred essences were inscribed in hieroglyphs on these tablets, each written over seven small cavities meant to contain each essence. These essences were used by priests and priestesses in daily temple services for purification rituals and other ceremonies, as well as in the daily lives of the Egyptian people. The sacred essences embody the ancient wisdom of the Egyptian school of healing and help achieve balance between body, mind, and spirit.
The meaning of correspondence, whose expressions are as universal as the law of gravity, teaches us that nature is always in balance or tends towards it. Every action or thought leaves a trace that adds or subtracts from the scales of Osiris. It is this scale where your heart is offered on one side, while a feather rests on the other.
This record attempts to summarize and simplify the aspect of this hermetic principle to understand the workings of destiny and the steps we need to take towards the reality assigned to us. The function of destiny is to show us the path that will lead us to fulfill the mission entrusted to us within the river of life. It is useful to orient ourselves when overwhelmed by difficulties or lost behind the veil of consciousness, unsure of what the future holds. Correspondence helps us understand that every difficulty is a lesson because the universal consciousness wants the best for us, which is why moments of learning arise.
This principle refers to the similarity or resonance between the different vibrational planes of the universe. The same laws that govern the dense act upon the subtle and vice versa. The principle of correspondence operates by grouping like with like through vibrational frequency tuning and explains the constant relationship between internal and external events. There is a reciprocal influence between humans and nature, and between our inner world and our material reality. By acting on our external reality, we influence our internal world and vice versa.
This explains why the consequences of our actions occur to compensate and balance the good or bad things that happen to us daily, like a butterfly effect that goes out and returns with a rhythm and frequency within the energetic echo of the surrounding universe. However, the pendulum of compensation is only a sign on the path of destiny, as the universal mind wisely prepares us.
It is essential to understand that nothing will be given without first compensating for what you will receive. In other words, destiny is the path, and compensation is the toll for traveling it, for moving from one state or situation to another. Once you’ve learned, you must let go to move forward. This happens when your mind is aware of when to take the step and what the cost will be. That is, the first step to progress is understanding that everything has a price, and the bigger the dream, the more you must contribute to the universal energy to achieve it.
Riches are not only material; luxuries are rewards, for like the hand of Charlemagne, it will be empty when it no longer has the strength to hold or like the treasure of King Solomon. But the effort in a task that excites you—that can be the compensation for your success. Waking up early to run when you want to be the best athlete in the world or simply educating your mind when you want to learn more are examples of the positive equilibrium of the scales. If destiny has given you little, and you’ve been faithful and added wealth to what has been entrusted to you, the energy will give you more. But if you only complain without a purpose or a defined goal, you were stingy and lazy with what you were given, and thus it will be taken from you.
Offering to destiny and being aware that every present difficulty is a lesson announcing that more problems will come is key. If you’ve solved a small one and haven’t let it grow within you, weighing down your heart, when you face the true challenges of your life, the scales will always tip towards the feather, and you will pass the test.
The best offering you can give to destiny is to keep the scales in your favor. This inner sense of equity is achieved by letting go of the assumptions surrounding your thoughts when a problem won’t stop circling in your consciousness. This constant alert state wears out the body and makes us ill, as it triggers the primitive defense instinct, which is why we’re often irritable and react violently at the slightest disagreement.
The conscious mind bases its analysis on experiences stored within mental synapses. Humans tend to suppress bad moments and keep them within as feelings of vulnerability or being attacked. Thus, when a problem arises, simple or complex, the mind seeks out those mental synapses. The primitive alert state, triggered by the feeling of vulnerability, clouds the real landscape and cuts off the energetic connection with the eternal wisdom of the universe.
