<P> Its philosophy teaches that there is a transcendent God, or Absolute, in which we and the entire universe participate . It also subscribes to the idea that other beings, such as aeons, angels and elementals, exist within the universe . </P> <P> Hermeticists believe in a prisca theologia, the doctrine that a single, true theology exists, that it exists in all religions, and that it was given by God to man in antiquity . In order to demonstrate the truth of the prisca theologia doctrine, Christians appropriated the Hermetic teachings for their own purposes . By this account, Hermes Trismegistus was (according to the fathers of the Christian church) either a contemporary of Moses or the third in a line of men named Hermes--Enoch, Noah, and the Egyptian priest - king who is known to us as Hermes Trismegistus . </P> <P> The actual text of that maxim, as translated by Dennis W. Hauck from The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, is: "That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing ." Thus, whatever happens on any level of reality (physical, emotional, or mental) also happens on every other level . </P> <P> This principle, however, is more often used in the sense of the microcosm and the macrocosm . The microcosm is oneself, and the macrocosm is the universe . The macrocosm is as the microcosm and vice versa; within each lies the other, and through understanding one (usually the microcosm) a person may understand the other . </P>

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