Law of Mentalism
Definition
The structural-articulation of the cosmic-law that all-articulation is fundamentally-mental-or-consciousness-articulation. The Law of Mentalism names the structural-feature that the broader cosmos is mind-articulation; everything operates as articulation of the broader cosmic-consciousness, and the apparent-physical-substance is the surface-articulation of underlying-consciousness-articulation.
Literal meaning
The cosmic-law of mind-as-substrate. The Law of Mentalism articulates the structural-feature that consciousness is foundational rather than emergent-from-physical-articulation; the broader cosmos operates as cosmic-consciousness articulating itself through specific physical-and-experiential articulations.
Esoteric meaning
The Law of Mentalism articulates the structural-feature that the broader contemplative-tradition has recognized as *all is mind*. The structural-recognition is that consciousness is the foundational-substrate rather than emergent-property; the broader cosmos articulates as consciousness-substrate, and the practitioner's individual-consciousness participates-in the broader cosmic-consciousness rather than being separate-from-it. The Law aligns with the broader *Understanding Consciousness* article and the broader Netist articulation of consciousness as cosmic-feature.
Allegorical meaning
A vast-dream within which all the dream's articulations operate; the dream's substrate is consciousness-articulation, the dream's specific-features articulate within the broader-dream, and the structural-recognition is that the dream's continuing-articulation is what consciousness articulates as.
Extended meaning
The Law of Mentalism articulates several specific structural-features: (1) The law articulates consciousness as foundational rather than emergent; the broader Understanding Consciousness article articulates this at the practitioner-articulation; (2) The law integrates with the broader Net-and-Aether articulation; consciousness operates as cosmic-substrate alongside Aether at the foundational cosmic-architecture; (3) The law supports the broader contemplative-tradition's articulation of mind-shaping-reality; the practitioner's structural-articulation of intention-and-attention contributes to the broader cosmic-articulation through Hekā at the practitioner-scale; (4) The law's recognition supports the practitioner's structural-clarity; the practitioner who recognizes consciousness-as-foundational operates with structural-features that material-only-perception cannot support. The relationship to *Understanding Consciousness*, *Aether*, *Net*, *Atūm*, *Hekā*, and the broader consciousness articulations is structural.
*Law of Mentalism* articulates one of the foundational cosmic-sub-laws. The article complements *Understanding Consciousness*, *Aether*, *Net*, *Atūm*, *Hekā*, and the broader consciousness articulations.
Usage
A practitioner encounters the Law of Mentalism in the broader articulation of cosmic-architecture and in specific contexts of consciousness-and-cosmos work.
Ritual usage
All ceremonies that operate through intention-articulation engage the Law of Mentalism. The broader Hekā-articulation operates through the Law at the cosmic-creative articulation.
Comparative tradition
Hermetic articulation of the *Principle of Mentalism* in *The Kybalion*. Hindu articulation of *Brahman-as-consciousness*. Buddhist articulation of *citta-mātra* (mind-only) in the Yogacara-tradition. The various tradition-specific articulations of consciousness-as-substrate.
Science correspondence
The contemporary research on consciousness-as-fundamental in philosophy-of-mind (David Chalmers, Bernardo Kastrup, the broader research-community).