As above, so below is a Hermetic saying teaching that the patterns of the heavens, the inner world and the outer world mirror one another. It is a popular paraphrase of a line in the Emerald Tablet, traditionally credited to Hermes Trismegistus.
Why It Matters
The phrase invites you to see yourself as a small mirror of the cosmos, where what shifts within you shapes what you meet outside. It is the heart of the Law of Correspondence, one of the Hermetic principles. At NLS we explore it as a doorway to seeing daily life as part of a larger design.