Hermes, Thoth and Hermeticism
Great Chain of Being Continued
From The Armageddon Conspiracy
The
ancient Greeks considered Egypt the repository of the most secret, sacred and
powerful wisdom. The
Arabic word "alchemy" is thought to have originally meant "the
Egyptian Art". The Neoplatonists identified the Greek god Hermes with the
Egyptian god Thoth and gave him the new name of Hermes Trismegistus.
(Trismegistos is Greek for thrice-greatest, from tris (thrice) + megistos (greatest).
And three, the trinity, is of course one of the most sacred and powerful of
numbers).
Hermes/Thoth,
a god highly revered by the ancient Illuminati, is the inventor of writing and
the scribe, messenger and herald of the gods. He is the god of human knowledge (especially
of an esoteric and magical nature), the patron deity of the sciences and the
inventor of numbers and their sacred power (as revealed by numerology). Hermes
Trismegistus was thus a central figure in the magical, occult and alchemical
thinking of the Middle Ages. He is the master of secret symbols and codes, of
secrecy in general. He is mercurial and elusive, mysterious and clandestine.
As the
son of Zeus, Hermes was literally the "Son of God". His mother was
Maia, daughter of the Titan Atlas who held up the sky on his shoulders.
Hermes
Trismegistus is the transmitter of the secrets of the gods to humanity, or
rather to those seekers of the truth who go looking for sacred gnosis. He is
also known as the psychopompos - the conductor of souls - whose task is to lead
the shades of the dead through the underworld. He is depicted wearing
winged-sandals and a broad-brimmed traveller's hat. He carries a herald's staff
intertwined with serpents of wisdom. His Roman name is Mercury.
"Solomon's
Seal" is a classic Hermetic symbol, and one of its purposes is to
represent the sacred principle of as above, so below. The two interlocked
triangles reveal the interpenetration of heaven and earth, above and below. In
the Middle Ages, Solomon was often said to be the real, human Hermes
Trismegistus, and the same was said of Pythagoras.
Hermes
Trismegistus came to be regarded as the hypothetical (mythical) founder of both
Neoplatonism and Hermeticism.
The
term "hermetically sealed", meaning that something has been sealed
airtight, is metaphorically derived from the impenetrable secrecy of
Hermeticism, and also the idea that Hermeticists could magically seal things in
ways unimaginable to conventional science. Hermes Trismegistus himself was said
to have invented a seal that kept the contents of vessels airtight, a vital
quality in alchemy given its preoccupation with purity.
Hermeticism
is a completely non-Christian form of Gnosticism, the philosophy of which is
set out in the Corpus Hermeticum,
the so-called Hermetic Writings, comprising eighteen treatises exploring
religion, philosophy, astrology, astronomy, alchemy, initiations, magic and
mystical lore. This is a compendium of Greek writings (the originals of which
are not available in the public record) from Alexandria in Egypt in the period
when Neoplatonism flourished. Copies appeared in the West in the fifteenth
century and were translated by Marsilio Ficino on behalf of Cosimo de Medici,
patriarch of Florence's most influential and powerful family.
Hermeticism
has a number of similarities to Mithraism. Its main texts are called the Divine
Pymander or Poimandres (meaning Shepherd of Men), Asclepius, the Perfect Word
and the Secret Discourse on the Mount.
The
Hermeticists said that the Logos, the Word, was the Creator of the world.
Lesser divinities acted as his agents, amongst their duties being the control
of the stars and planets. The human soul was made in God's image but it found
the material world more alluring than the spiritual and it "fell",
thus becoming imprisoned in flesh and darkness. It then had to achieve gnosis
to return whence it came.
Hermeticism
teaches that the initiate can be saved only through his own efforts, by
attaining gnosis. There is no Messiah figure. Although the world is fallen, it
can be restored to a divine state through the efforts of the Hermeticists. They
are the stewards of the world, the ones who can save it. One of the techniques
they can use is alchemy. Alchemy is the science of Hermeticism and
involves the search for the Philosopher's Stone, the Panacea and the Elixir of
Life. These quests were conducted on both a quasi-scientific and a spiritual
level. Alchemy was known as the Hermetic Art or Hermetic Philosophy.
Hermeticism
was highly influenced by Neoplatonism, of which it is the younger brother. In
their common view, the cosmos was fundamentally benevolent. There was no
Satanic figure upon whom to blame the evils of the world. Human beings
descended into this world from the realm of light by their own free choice and
became trapped. They were then tasked with transcending this world to return to
the divine source.
Hermeticism
is centred round a great secret that only the highest practitioners ever learn.
The sort of people who, in this day and age, boldly assert that they are
opposed to any form of secrets regardless of context would automatically be
excluded from any Hermetic society. To assert that absolutely everything should
be available on Facebook just so that somebody doesn't feel he is "missing
out" is an eternal insult to all those who gave their lives to protect
secrets they swore never to reveal. Anyone who thinks that all secrets should
be distributed like candy will a) never be permitted to join a secret society
and b) hasn't understood anything about this world and why secrecy is
imperative. Secret societies aren't democracies. No one has any civic right to
a secret. There's no "freedom of information" request that some
tedious bureaucrat can file to extract secrets. Access to secrets must be
meritocratically earned. What would be the point of furnishing the secrets of
the Ancients to the audience of American Idol? They would turn the most
valuable pearls of wisdom into worthless glass beads.
If life
itself is considered a mystery, only a fool would think he would be given an
information pack at birth explaining the whole thing to him. How lazy and complacent
can you get, how naïve and childish? We continue to receive emails informing us
that we are "evil" because we dare to have secrets. Well, here's
something for those people to ponder - the details of "M-theory"
aren't in any way secret but to understand M-theory in any meaningful way you
would have to spend a minimum of ten years studying it to the exclusion of all
else. There are secrets that if they were laid out in full public view would
still be totally beyond most people to grasp, just as M-theory is.
What
makes people think that life should pose no difficulties or challenges? Only
the Last Men want everything to be easy. Nietzsche, with his dream of the
Superman, desired the highest mountains to climb, the greatest resistances to
overcome, the strongest forces to be arrayed against him. How will you become
God if you do not do Godlike things?
Don't
send us lists of questions. Send us lists of answers. Anyone can ask questions.
Only a handful dare to provide answers. The correctness of the answers is
neither here nor there. At least you had the guts to try, and there are so few
people with any guts these days. Gods create. So where are your creations? Gods
know the answers, so where are your answers? Gods change the world. What
changes have you wrought in this world? Gods set the agenda. Where is your
agenda? Don't look around blinking, or shrugging your shoulders. Make your
mark. That is the test of life. What did you accomplish? What did you do? Where
are your achievements?
On
"Judgment Day", no one asks you if you were good or bad (only the
foolish think that). You are asked to demonstrate what you did with your
talents. What will you show to justify your existence? Will you hold up a
letter from your employer saying that you kept your nose clean, a testimonial
from your priest saying that you didn't commit too many sins (no more than
average), a reference from your girlfriend or boyfriend to say that you were a
nice person? What, is that it? Is that all you have? Did the stars blaze for
billions of years just so that you could be given life in order to be
"nice"? If life is what you make it, shouldn't you take the trouble
to make it something magnificent? And what does it say about you if you don't?
The
Old World Order rule the earth because they are allowed to. It's as simple as
that. There aren't any weird, shape-shifting, pan-dimensional reptilians at
work behind the scenes. There are just mortal people whose power could be
removed at a stroke. The Queen of England doesn't have blue blood or
supernatural powers or extraordinary intelligence. She's just a silly old
woman. She is "Queen" because people choose to acknowledge her as
such. If they stopped doing so then she would no longer be Queen. It's that
simple. The French King Louis XVI discovered what happens when the people, en
masse, choose to think different thoughts. Instantly, he was no longer King but
just a criminal and a traitor waiting to be guillotined with all the other
criminals and traitors. In exactly the same way, the OWO's power could be
destroyed overnight if people simply stopped doing the OWO's bidding.
Liberate
your mind. Disconnect yourself from the Matrix. No one is stopping you. No one
stops the people of Britain from being free. By having a monarch as their head
of State, they choose to enslave themselves. They are submissive, pathetic,
passive, stupid and cowardly people who lack the courage to take control of
their own lives. Monarchs can no longer physically enforce their will via their
armies. So, what possible reason could the British people have for preferring
being subjects of a monarch rather than free citizens? No one is forcing them
to be monarchists. They have chosen that abject condition for themselves. The
British people are a disgrace.
The British
are suckers for ceremony and tradition. They are reactionaries and
conservatives. They live in the past, trying to resurrect former glories in
their feeble imaginations. They are addicted to costume dramas because they are
always facing backwards. They know their best days are behind them. If they had
any ambition for the future they would kick the "Royal" family out of
their palaces into the street and then deport them.
Blaise
Pascal said of French pomp and ceremony in the 17th century, "Reason never
wholly overcomes imagination, while the contrary is quite common. Our
magistrates have shown themselves well aware of this mystery. Their red robes,
the ermine in which they swaddle themselves like furry cats, the law-courts
where they sit in judgment, the fleur de lys, all this august panoply was very
necessary. If physicians did not have long gowns and mules, if learned doctors
did not wear square caps and robes four times too large, they would never have
deceived the world, which finds such an authentic display irresistible. If they
possessed true justice, and if physicians possessed the true art of healing,
they would not need square caps, the majesty of such sciences would command
respect in itself. But, as they only possess imaginary science, they have to
resort to these vain devices in order to strike the imagination, which is their
real concern, and this, in fact, is how they win respect."
The
whole of Britain is run this way: an enormous amount of costumes, props,
palaces, crowns, robes, diamonds, gold, baubles, limousines, motorcycle
outriders, drilled soldiers in red uniforms and cavalry in shining breastplates
- all to disguise the fact that the people who run the country don't know what
they're doing. They possess only imaginary knowledge that they conceal behind
the appearance of power. And that's enough to satisfy the dumb British, one of
the stupidest nations on earth. It's almost beyond belief that they once
ran an empire.
A
third of the British population declared themselves "extremely excited"
because of a royal wedding scheduled for next year. And so the suckers are
lured into the circus and they applaud like children as their masters rub their
noses in their power.
The
British have only one talent - putting on "spectacles" that are hundreds
of years out of date. Britain is a nation living in the past, its people stuck
in amber like ancient insects.
One
thing's certain - the world's salvation will never come from Britain. America
should heed the warning of Britain. Even the most powerful nations can become
pathetic. Britain is just a gigantic theme park of ancient history. It's an
irrelevance in the modern world.
*****In the Middle Ages, many paintings by famous artists started to become coded and they revealed various Hermetic symbols, often side by side with orthodox Christian iconography. Famous painters such as Botticelli, Bosch and Brueghel all deployed extensive esoteric symbolism.
Goethe's
work was immersed in Hermetic thinking and liberally sprinkled with esoteric
symbolism and alchemical references. Jung applied hermetical and alchemical
thinking to his analytical psychology and, in particular, the process of
individuation - of becoming a complete person. He viewed that process in the
manner of alchemical purification.
Hermeticism
and the esoteric go hand in hand.
Hermeticism
was supremely concerned with the idea that nature, the world and man can all be
perfected. Illuminism has always advocated this idea too. It is the essence of
the dialectic.
The
Corpus Hermeticum tells of a God who resembles the One of Neoplatonism:
incorporeal, formless and invisible. Everything in the world is infused with
spirit. The Corpus says: "There is no part of the cosmos empty of
spirits." Man is told that he shares the Divine nature. He is told that he
is the magnum miraculum - the great miracle. The suggestion is
that we all have Divine wonders sleeping within us. We simply need to awaken
them and become what we always had it within us to be. It's our task, no one
else's. It's our personal responsibility.
Hermeticism
refers to humanity as "psychocosmic" meaning that a human is both
psychic (of the mind and soul) and cosmic (exhibiting the pattern of the
cosmos). And the sacred task of humanity is to become divine: "This
is the good, the aim of those who have gnosis: to become God." (From the
Poimandres.)
Explaining
to his son Tat the nature of divine rebirth through gnosis, Hermes Trismegistus
says in the thirteenth book of the Corpus Hermeticum:
Hermes:
Even so it is my son, when a man is born again; it is no longer a body of three
dimensions that he perceives but the incorporeal.
Tat: Father, now that I see in mind, I see myself to be
the All. I am in heaven and in earth, in water and in air; I am in beasts and
plants; I am a babe in the womb, and one that is not yet conceived, and one who
has been born; I am present everywhere.
Hermes:
Now, my son, you know what the rebirth is.
In
Hermeticism, you can only become purer and higher through undergoing many
trials and tribulations and learning how to overcome every obstacle in your
path. Difficulties are essential for spiritual growth. Privileged people are
often weak, stupid and pathetic (Paris Hilton being the archetypal example) because
they never had to struggle. They got everything handed to them on a plate. So
often, they are spiritually dead. Their eyes seem to have no life behind them.
Humanity
had to "fall", to become alienated from its divine nature, in order
to find its way back, but at a much higher level. The harmony of the heavens
should find a similar harmony on Earth, and it's our collective job to
accomplish it.
Hermeticism
has a view of evil that can be regarded as dialectical. The Book of Asclepius addresses
the problem of evil in the following way:
"You
must not then, my pupils, speak as many do, who say that God ought by all means
to have freed the world from evil. To those who speak thus, not a word should
be said in answer; but for your sake I will pursue my argument, and therewith
explain this. It was beyond God's power to put a stop to evil, and expel it
from the universe; for evil is present in the world in such sort that it is
manifestly an inseparable part thereof. But the supreme God provided and
guarded against evil as far as he reasonably could, by deigning to endow the
minds of men with intellect, knowledge and intuition. It is in virtue of these
gifts that we stand higher than the beasts; and by these, and these alone, are
we enabled to shun the traps and deceptions and corruptions of evil."
*****
The
quest of Jason and the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece is considered an
archetypal tale of Hermetic ideas, involving the overcoming of many resistances
as the heroes make their way towards the infinitely precious object of their
quest. The Fleece is taken to be a symbol of the Philosopher's Stone, the
ultimate goal of the alchemists. At the very highest level, it symbolises God
and when we take possession of it, we enter into union with it.
The
18 treatises of the Corpus Hermeticum are:
I.
Pœmandres, the Shepherd of Men
II. The
General Sermon
III. To
Asclepius
IV. The
Sacred Sermon
V. The
Cup or Monad
VI.
Though Unmanifest God is Most Manifest
VII. In
God Alone is Good and Elsewhere Nowhere
VIII.
The Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of God
IX. That
No One of Existing Things doth Perish, but Men in Error Speak of Their Changes
as Destructions and as Deaths
X. On
Thought and Sense
XI. The
Key
XII. Mind
Unto Hermes
XIII.
About the Common Mind
XIV. The
Secret Sermon on the Mountain
XV. A
Letter to Asclepius
XVI. The
Definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon
XVII. Of
Asclepius to the King
XVIII.
The Encomium of Kings
Hermeticism
and Gnosticism are slightly different versions of Pythagorean Illuminism,
emphasizing different ingredients.
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