"The Hermetic 'As Above, so below' is an 'inverse-seeming' analogy which can remind you when you wake up each morning, hopefully at least a little improved and corrected by the lessons you learned yesterday, that you have also just experienced a type of 'rebirth' (the'below')—and one which is far easier to have a direct impact upon than the gloomy-doomy, countless past-lifetimes-clogged-up metaphysical Doctrine of Reincarnation (the 'Above')."—General Theosophy