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Mercury (Hermes)

As a metal, mercury is a universal alchemical symbol representing the yin. It is the symbol of the passive and the undifferentiated state which may be found deep within the psyche. Chinese refer to it as "liquid silver" and it corresponds to the dragon and to bodily fluids of blood, semen, water and, at times, to the kidneys. The planet Mercury may be seen as following the Sun (universal father; consciousness; life) and the Moon (universal mother; birth; unconscious). In Greek mythology Hermes was the messenger of the gods and the god of speed. This intelligent and quick witted immortal, easily traveled between heaven, earth and the underworld. Seeing the planet Mercury or the metal in your dream may represent your need for communication, adaptation and movement. All of these may be necessary for daily life. However, this powerful dream symbol may be calling your attention to more personal and intrinsic matters. It may suggest a need to look carefully into your internal world. By doing so, you may become aware of a need to the develop a more fluid ability to navigate within your psyche, which includes your thoughts, motives, feelings and intuition; then notice the way all of these components are translated into and effect daily life.

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Hermes Trismegistus (Ancient Greek). The "thrice great Hermes", the Egyptian. The mythical personage after whom the Hermetic philosophy was named. In Egypt the God Thoth or Thot. A generic name of many ancient Greek writers on philosophy and Alchemy.

Hermes Trismegistus is the name of Hermes or Thoth in his human aspect, as a god he is far more than this. As Hermes-Thoth-Aah, he is Thoth, the moon, i.e., his symbol is the bright side of the moon, supposed to contain the essence of creative Wisdom, "the elixir of Hermes ". As such he is associated with the Cynocephalus, the dog-headed monkey, for the same reason as was Anubis, one of the aspects of Thoth. (See " Hermanubis".)

The same idea underlies the form of the Hindu God of Wisdom, the elephant-headed Ganesa, or Ganpat, the son of Parvati and Siva. (See "Ganesa".) When he has the head of an ibis, he is the sacred scribe of the gods; but even then he wears the crown atef and the lunar disk. He is the most mysterious of gods. As a serpent, Hermes Thoth is the divine creative ‘Wisdom. The Church Fathers speak at length of Thoth-Hermes. (See "Hermetic".)

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HERMES TRISMEGISTUS

(Probably Apollonius of Tyana.) His major teaching: "As above, so below." (Or as we can add, "As within, without.")

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Hermes Trismegistus

The patron deity of the hermetic literature written in Egypt in the second and third centuries A fusion of Greek "Guide of Souls" Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, the legendary sage and inventor of writing.

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Hermetica, Hermetic Philosophy (SD, BCW, TG)

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Hermes Trismegistus Hermes thrice-great; the name of Hermes or Thoth the divinity in his human aspect as a high initiate. A mythical name for adepts adopted by several writers on so-called Hermetic subjects, with which the early Christian Fathers and the Gnostics show that they were acquainted.

See also PYMANDER

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Dream Dictionary - H

hades, haggard, hail, hailstorm, hair, hair, hair falling out, hairdresser, hair-dresser, hairy hands, hallways, halter, ham, hammer, handbills, handcuffs, handkerchiefs, hands, handsome, handwriting, hanging, happiness, harbour, hare, harem, harlequin, harlot, harness, harp, harvest, hash, hassock, hat, hatchet, hate, hats, hats, hawk, hay, haze, head, headgear, healing, hearse, heart, heat, heather bells, heaven, hedges, heir, held captive, helicopter, hell, helmet, hemp, hemp seed, hen, hen, herbs, hermes, hermit, heroes and archetypes, heroine, herring, hidden, hide, hiding, hieroglyphs, high school, high tide, hills, hips, hissing, history, hives, hoe, hogs, hole, holiday, holy communion, home, homeless, homesick, homicide, hominy, homosexuality, honey, honeysuckle, hood, hook, hoop, hops, horn, hornet, horoscope, horseradish, horses, horseshoe, horse-trader, hospital, hostage, hotel, hounds, house, housekeeper, hug, hugging, humidity, hunchback, hunger, hunting, hurricane, hurt, husband, hut, hyacinth, hydrophobia, hyena, hymns, hypocrite, hyssop,

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HERMES - Greek God of Message, Commerce, Roads, Theft, Science, Invention, Herds and Cunning. (NAD)

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Hermes (Greek) Greek god, son of Zeus and Maia, the third person in a triad of Father-Mother-Son, hence the formative Logos or Word. He is equivalent to the Hindu Budha, the Zoroastrian Mithra, the Babylonian Nebo -- son of Zarpa-Nitu (moon) and Merodach (sun) -- and the Egyptian Thoth with the ibis for his emblem; also to Enoch and the Roman Mercurius, son of Coelus and Lux (heaven and light). Among his emblems are the cross, the cubical shape, the serpent, and especially his wand, the caduceus, which combines the serpent and cross.

The name has been used generically for many adepts. To Hermes were attributed many functions, such as that of inspiring eloquence and healing, and he is the patron of intellectual, artistic, and productively agricultural pursuits. The nature and functions of this divinity express themselves to our mind as light, wisdom, intelligence, and quickness -- especially in an intellectual sense. He was the messenger of the gods, and also the psychopomp or conductor of souls to the netherworld. In his lower aspects he is often made to serve as the inspirer of gross misuses of intelligence such as clever theft -- thus illustrating that even the noblest qualities have their dark side.

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Hawk

Hawks are interesting dream figures. They aren?t quite eagles, but they definitely rank above the crows. Like the eagle, hawks are common symbols in many cultures.

Native American dreams revere the hawk and eagle the way the Greeks revere Zeus and Hermes. The hawk is the warrior-visionary while the eagle is the sacred wisdom and power.

 To dream of hawks is to see oneself as engaged in, but outwitting, opponents through the ability to perceive more completely. It may also be a dream of providing adequately through skilful acquisition or insightful manoeuvring.

 Do you see yourself as soaring with the hawks or pecking with the pigeons in waking life? This may be wish fulfilment or concern over the direction your life is heading.

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Hermes Trismegistus

Legendary Egyptian sage, reputed author of the Tarot, neo- platonism, the Kabbalah, alchemy and astrology

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Hermes

In Greek mythology son of Zeus and Maia. He was the messenger god, a friend of humans, and associated with trickery, herds, the lyre, and the dead.

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FICINO, MARSILIUS

15th Century philosopher best known for having translated Plato and the Neoplatonists, as well as Hermes Trismegistos. He thought that the world was an "emanation of God" and that one could draw heavenly influences by simply meditating on the planets.

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HERMES

Since he connects all the others and serves as a link between human and divine reality, he is the greatest of the Gods. His counterpart occurs in all mythologies (Odin, Mercury, Thoth). Hermes is the God of language, hence the inspiration of all writers (also frequently the pen-name of ancient writers who felt they were merely the God's amanuensis). It was Thoth-Hermes whom the scribes of Egypt always honored with a libation of ink before beginning their day's work.

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Hermes-fire. The same as "Elmes-fire". (See Isis Unveiled Vol. I.,p. 125.)

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Hermes-Fire Equivalent to St. Elmo's fire, the brush-discharge of electricity seen at mastheads.

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Pillars of Hermes, Enoch Refers to an allegory told of Hermes or Thoth, the Father of Wisdom in ancient Egypt, who it is said concealed his books of wisdom under a pillar, and then found that the wisdom had become transferred onto two pillars of stone.

Josephus tells a similar story about Enoch, saying that the pillars of Enoch were still in existence in his day, and that they were built by Seth. Blavatsky comments: "and so they may have been, only neither by the Patriarch of that name, the fabled son of Adam, nor by the Egyptian god of Wisdom -- Teth, Set, Thoth, Tat, Sat (the later Sat-an), or Hermes, who are all one, -- but by the 'sons of the Serpent-god,' or 'Sons of the Dragon,' the name under which the Hierophants of Egypt and Babylon were known before the Deluge, as were their forefathers, the Atlanteans.

"What Josephus tells us, therefore, must be allegorically true, with the exception of the application made of it. . . . These two 'pillars,' however, are the prototypes of the two 'tables of stones' hewn by Moses at the command of the 'Lord' " (SD 2:530).

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Smaragdine Tablet of Hermes. As expressed by Eliphas Lévi,"this Tablet of Emerald is the whole of magic in a single page"; but India has a single word which, when understood, contains "the whole of magic ". This is a tablet, however, alleged to have been found by Sarai, Abraham’s wife (!) on the dead body of Hermes. So say the Masons and Christian Kabbalists.

But in Theosophy we call it an allegory. May it not mean that Sarai-swati, the wife of Brahma, or the goddess of secret wisdom and learning, finding still much of the ancient wisdom latent in the dead body of Humanity, revivified that wisdom? This led to the rebirth of the Occult Sciences, so long forgotten and neglected, the world over. The tablet itself, however, although containing the "whole of magic ", is too long to be reproduced here.

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