Hermetic Principles · Companion tool

The Correspondence Audit

The second principle says a pattern that is real repeats across scales — as above, so below. If that's true, then the problem you keep re-solving isn't a run of bad luck. It's one shape, showing up in several places, being fixed on the wrong plane each time.

This walks that claim through your own situation and hands you back the shape — plus one test you could fail this week. Because a principle that can't be falsified isn't a finding, it's a mood.

Two planes

Effects sit on one plane, causes on another. Most effort is spent debugging the plane where the symptom shows.

Correspondence

The same shape recurs across domains. Where it repeats tells you which plane it actually lives on.

Care

The eighth principle, and the only one with teeth — it generates a test you can fail this week.

Six questions, about five minutes. No account, no email. Everything stays in this browser.

What this is not. Not a diagnosis, not a personality type, and not a claim that the Hermetic principles are true. It's one lens applied deliberately, with the arithmetic behind every number shown on the page so you can check it or dismiss it. The study notes hold the open questions, including whether Correspondence is falsifiable at all.