Within these pages lies a gold mine of wisdom. The author, Hermes Trismegistus, may not have been a single personage, but the information here is both illuminating and highly relevant. These teachings have been often referred to by the greatest philosophers of Greece and the Church Fathers of Christianity. Tertullian and Justin Martyr once stated that if anyone wanted to learn about God, they should listen to Hermes. He likely lived in Alexandria, and was influenced by early Christian and Gnostic ideas.
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This review is from: Divine Pymander and Other Writings of Hermes Trismegistus (Paperback)
A truly remarkable and valuable text if you read what Hermes Trismegistus wrote and don't pay too much attention to the antiquated notes. History is valued for its contribution, but tainted with interpretation. It is a constant source of wonder how many are an authority on another who lived so many years ago. The value of this book is the words written by Hermes Trismegistus. Read them and you will interct with something of substance.
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coded metaphors,
This review is from: The Divine Pymander and Other Writings of Hermes Trismegistus (Hardcover)
This work actually makes little or no sense unless you know the codes and the metaphors - and anyone who does isn't admitting it, not that I know of. Do you?The Emerald Tablets, and the Hermetica, are entirely written in coded metaphors. For instance, God is the thesis or the creator, Kosmos the antithesis or the destroyer, and Space the synthesis between the first two or the preserver. They are a kind of metaphysical and dialectic version of topological triangulation. This is paralleled in the doctrine of the Trinity. Each vertex may also be described geometrically as a set of functions or their opposites. The Hermetica is really coded physics - and not the physics conventionally taught in our schools and universities but rather a hidden physics. I myself have not learned much more than this very basic and simplistic code for a small part of the Hermetica. I also know there are at least 3 levels: the topological metaphor of the physical (deepest), the physics metaphor of the emergence of creation (less deep) and another physics metaphor of the astronomical machine of precession (least deep). If anyone reading this knows more, or can direct us as to where to find more decoding, please add a comment to this review. [Later note: There's a bit in Farrell's latest book "The Grid of the Gods.] Farrell's "Cosmic War" traces a cluster of names from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt that are the same entity as (or very closely related to) Hermes-Thoth including: (An)Zu, Ninurta/Nimrod/Ninus/Enmer/Emerkar, Marduk/Merodach, Nergal, Baal/Osiris/Tammuz/Adonis/Dionysus/Bacchus, Enki/Ea/Eyah/Yahweh/Lucifer/Ra/Sungod/Lightbearer and even the Mason's Hiram Abiff. I would like to suggest, instead of Hermes, two of the greatest hermetic teachers in history: Thomas H Burgoyne's "The Light of Egypt: v. 1: The Science of the Soul and the Stars" - a great classic work of mystical enlightenment and Russell Walter's "A New Concept of the Universe". For those interested in truths, I also suggest Tsarion, a deep thinker of our time about ancient secrets, who shows (for example)how the Emerald Tablets actually refer to the tarot. Not in the variations the tarot is known of today, but its original form, involving a mixture of kabala, tarot, numerology and astrology, which he explains are sister disciplines. You can learn more about this (free) from Tsarion himself - there are hours and hours of Tsarion on youtube, mostly fascinating. If you are interested in the bible, read the books by Ralph Ellis, who proves that the Old Testament is a thinly disguised account of some of the Pharoahs of Egypt. For much much more on the secrets of "pre"history than 99.99 per cent of us can possibly glean from this book, see Lana Cantrell's "Greatest Story Never Told" which is available free on the internet - verbose but amazing in parts. As for Jordan Maxwell's "The Brotherhood of the Illes" - another blow-your-mind book available free on the internet... and Santos Bonacci (starting with As Above so Below' (especially part 2) and with 'Sovereignty-Roman Law'... well you need to experience them for yourself.
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1.THOUGHT in me (a) becoming on a time concerning the Entities(b), and my meditation(c) having been exceedingly sublimed, and my bodily senses also calmed down(d), like as those oppressed in sleep from satiety, luxury, or fatigue of body, I supposed some one of very great magnitude, with indefinite dimension, happening to call out my name, and saying to me, "What wishest thou to hear, and to contemplate; what, having understood (e), to learn and to know?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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1.THOUGHT in me (a) becoming on a time concerning the Entities(b), and my meditation(c) having been exceedingly sublimed, and my bodily senses also calmed down(d), like as those oppressed in sleep from satiety, luxury, or fatigue of body, I supposed some one of very great magnitude, with indefinite dimension, happening to call out my name, and saying to me, "What wishest thou to hear, and to contemplate; what, having understood (e), to learn and to know?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- The Ancient Egyptians by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson on page 41
- The Essence of God by Hermes on page 58
- The Secret Hymnody by G. R. S. Mead on page 93
- The Spirit of Prayer; the Way to Divine Knowledge (Works of William Law) by William Law on page 47
- Divine Institutes (Fathers of the Church Series Vol 49) (Bks. 1-7) by Lactantius on page 141
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- Mysticism: Its History and Challenge by Bruno Borchert on page 138, and Back Matter
- Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction by Brian P. Copenhaver in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Mystery Religions and Christianity by Samuel Angus in Back Matter
- Mystery Religions and Christianity by S. Angus in Back Matter
- Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by Paula Findlen on page 339
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