Hermes Trismegistus (Greek for "Hermes the thrice-greatest", Greek: Ερμης ο Τρισμεγιστος) or Mercurius ter Maximus in Latin, is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. In Hellenistic Egypt, the god Hermes was given as epithet the Greek name of Thoth. He has also been identified with Enoch. Other similar syncretized gods include Serapis and Hermanubis. Hermes Trismegistus might also be explained in Euhemerist fashion as a man who was the son of the god, and in the Kabbalisti ...

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In White Wolf's World of Darkness, Hermes Trismegistus is held to be the founder of the faction of mages known as the Order of Hermes. Tristram Shandy, the famous protagonist of Laurence Sterne, was to be named "Trismegistus" to counter the negative circumstances of his birth. He was instead named "Tristram", meaning "sad", further damaging his future. ...

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The origins of the association of Vulcan to alchemy is from Egyptian and Greek mythology. In modern times the Renaissance physician/alchemist Paracelsus re-introduced the mythological figure of Vulcan as the patron deity of alchemy and as symbolic of the hermetic art. To Paracelsus Vulcan was synonymous with both the alchemist/physician’s manipulation of fire, heating and distilling of nature’s properties for medicine, and the transforming power and creative potential locked within Man, the greater invisible Man or a ...

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Hermeticism is either of two things: A tradition of study and practice of occult philosophy and magic. The deliberate use of obscure, convoluted, or esoteric imagery in various arts. Hermeticism - Hermeticism as Magic. Hermeticism is the study and practice of occult philosophy and magic, of a type associated with writings attributed to the god Hermes Trismegistus, "Thrice-Greatest Hermes," a syncretistic deity who combines aspects of the Greek god Hermes an ...

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The Emerald Tablet, also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The Secret of Hermes, is an ancient text purporting to reveal the secret of the primordial substance and its transmutations. Its claims to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes the Thrice-Great"), a legendary Egyptian sage or god, variously identified with the Egyptian god Thoth and/or the Greek god Hermes. This short and cryptic text was highly regarded by European alchemists as the foundation of their art, ...

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Hermetica is a category of popular Late Antique literature purporting to contain secret wisdom, and generally attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes", a syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. A collection of several such Greek texts from the second and third centuries, survivors from a more extensive literature, were compiled into a Corpus Hermeticum by Italian scholars during the Renaissance. Other Hermetic works, however, existed in Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, and other languages.

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A container or barrier that is hermetic is sealed so that not even air can enter or leave. For example a tin (or can). Hermetic - Etymology. The word hermetic comes from the syncretism of the Greek God Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth; this figure was also a mythological alchemist known as Hermes Trismegistus. The latter has three books attributed to him, the Emerald Tablet, the Corpus Hermeticum and The Kybalion. He was believed to possess a magic ability to seal treasure c ...

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Hermeticism is the study and practice of occult philosophy and magic, of a type associated with writings attributed to the god Hermes Trismegistus, "Thrice-Greatest Hermes," a syncretistic deity who combines aspects of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. Hermeticism is also associated with astrology and alchemy. These beliefs were influential in European occult lore, especially from the Renaissance forward, when the Hermetic Corpus was translated by Marsilio Ficino in1463 (published in 1471). This was on the instructions of Cosimo de'Medici who saw them a ...

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He was born named Filippo in Nola, in Campania, Italy in 1548, the son of Giovanni Bruno, a soldier. In 1565 he took the name Giordano on becoming a Dominican friar at the Monastery of Saint Domenico near Naples. In 1572 he was ordained a priest. He was interested in philosophy and was an expert on the art of memory; he wrote books on mnemonic technique, which Frances Yates contends may have been disguised Hermetic tracts. The writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus were, in Bruno's time, recently rediscovered and at that time were ...

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The Western mystery tradition traditionally started in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Rome and Israel, while it contains many characteristics from the Pagan people of Ancient Britain and Scandinavia, such as the Celts. Ancient figures associated with the Western tradition include Plato, Pythagoras and other Greek philosophers, Hermes Trismegistus, Akhenaten and other pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece were the most known sources of what we currently call Western Mystery Tradition. Egypt was considered more advanced in mysticism, and thus many Ancient Greek philosophers t ...

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Modern people who are related to the Western mystery tradition include: Aleister Crowley, occultist Dion Fortune, magician Harvey Spencer Lewis, founder of AMORC Max Heindel, author of The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception S. L. MacGregor-Mathers, founding member of the 1888's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Historical individuals who are related to the Western mystery tradition include: Hermes Trismegistus, ancient mythical figure Akhenaten, Ancient Egy ...

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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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Hermes Trismegistus

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

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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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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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Hermetica, Hermetic Philosophy (SD, BCW, TG)

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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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Mercury Trismegistus.

See HERMES TRISMEGISTUS; PYMANDER

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