Planck

The fundamental principle of the Hermetic viewpoint is that our world is the physical manifestation of a hidden spiritual reality. I think quantum physics has already proven this concept. Some of the terms are different, but it is precisely the same cosmology.

In fact, modern science has discovered exactly where this division between worlds is located—the Planck Portal. It can be found at the Planck level of reality, named for German physicist Max Planck, who is considered the founder of quantum mechanics. Planck was a very spiritual man who believed in an unknowable divine mind that existed beyond observation. This One Mind permeated everything and manifested through symbols, including mathematical laws (Mind the Maker).

The Planck level is the scale at which the universe was created and is home to an intangible world that determines our physical reality. This invisible layer of reality is the fabric of existence, and it carries archetypal information that originated with the Big Bang. According to astrophysicists, this information is embedded at the Planck level and consists of universal constants, mathematical formulae, and other symbols.

The Planck level is the portal through space/time that is defined by Planck Space (10-33 cm) and Planck Time (10-43 sec). Anything beyond those limits only exists in a chaotic “quantum foam” of pure potentiality, which is about as good a definition of First Matter as one could ask.

The quantum foam is a shimmering uncreated reality that is manifested by the light of mind, or what appears in our equations as a probability wave known as the collapsible wave function. An outside observer collapses the probability wave and manifests its symbolic or archetypal potential. In this view, subatomic particles are patterns of perception within the gooey, chaotic, First Matter quantum foam.

The most alchemical view in modern physics is called the Objective Reduction Interpretation in which there exist multiple choices of consciousness that can access the information embedded at the Planck level. The more concentrated and focused this beam of inner light, the more complete the transformation or grounding of this hidden level of energy into matter.