Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus (Greek for "Hermes the thrice-greatest", Greek: Ερμης ο Τρισμεγιστος) or Mercurius ter Maximus in L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes Trismegistus - Origin
Both Thoth and Hermes were gods of writing and of magic in their respective cultures. Thus the Greek god of interpretive communication wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes Trismegistus - Fictional References
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. Tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vulcan Of The Alchemists: Encyclopedia - Vulcan Of The Alchemists
The origins of the association of Vulcan to alchemy is from Egyptian and Greek mythology. In modern times the Renaissance physician/alche...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermeticism: Encyclopedia - Hermeticism
Hermeticism is either of two things: A tradition of study and practice of occult philosophy and magic. The deliberate use of obscure, co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet: Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet
The Emerald Tablet, also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The Secret of Hermes, is an ancient text purporting to reveal t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermetica: Encyclopedia - Hermetica
Hermetica is a category of popular Late Antique literature purporting to contain secret wisdom, and generally attributed to Hermes Trisme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermetic: Encyclopedia - Hermetic
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 - Etymol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermeticism: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 Tri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giordano Bruno: Encyclopedia Ii - Giordano Bruno - Life
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Mystery Tradition: Encyclopedia Ii - Western Mystery Tradition - History
The Western mystery tradition traditionally started in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Rome and Israel, while it contains many characteris...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Mystery Tradition: Encyclopedia Ii - Western Mystery Tradition - People
Modern people who are related to the Western mystery tradition include: Aleister Crowley, occultist Dion Fortune, magician Harvey Spence...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermes Trismegistus: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Hermes Trismegistus
HERMES TRISMEGISTUS (Probably Apollonius of Tyana.) His major teaching: "As above, so below." (Or as we can add, "As wi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermes Trismegistus: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus The patron deity of the hermetic literature written in Egypt in the second and third centuries A fusion of Greek &...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermes Trismegistus: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus Legendary Egyptian sage, reputed author of the Tarot, neo- platonism, the Kabbalah, alchemy and astrology  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermes Trismegistus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus Hermes thrice-great; the name of Hermes or Thoth the divinity in his human aspect as a high initiate. A mythical n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermes Trismegistus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus (Ancient Greek). The "thrice great Hermes", the Egyptian. The mythical personage after whom the Hermetic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermes Trismegistus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hermes Trismegistus
Hermetica, Hermetic Philosophy (SD, BCW, TG)   (See also: Hermes Trismegistus , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Oc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermes Trismegistus: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus The patron deity of the hermetic literature written in Egypt in the second and third centuries A fusion of Greek &...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mercury Trismegistus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mercury Trismegistus
Mercury Trismegistus.   See HERMES TRISMEGISTUS; PYMANDER   (See also: Mercury Trismegistus , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictio...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermes, Tablets Of: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hermes, Tablets Of
Hermes Trismegistus Hermes thrice-great; the name of Hermes or Thoth the divinity in his human aspect as a high initiate. A mythical n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eichton: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Eichton
Eichton (Greek) a deity identical with Agathodaimon:   "(or the fire of the celestial gods -- the great Thot-Hermes), to who...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pymander: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pymander
Pymander [from Greek Poimandres shepherd of men]   The logoic divine intelligence, or thought divine; the best known of the survi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pymander: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pymander
Pymander (Ancient Greek). The "Thought divine". The Egyptian Prometheus and the personified Nous or divine light, which appe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Trismegistus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Trismegistus
Trismegistus (Greek) Thrice greatest; a title given to the mysterious personage after whom the Hermetic philosophy is named. In Egypt,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermeticism: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Hermeticism
HERMETICISM (From Hermes Trismegistus.) The Hermetic sciences are Astrology, Magic, Qabalah and (ultimately) Egyptology. Hermetic phil...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chaldean Book Of Numbers: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Chaldean Book Of Numbers
Chaldean Book of Numbers An ancient Chaldean work no longer popularly extant.   "A work which contains all that is found in ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Thoth: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Thoth
Thoth (Egypt, Egyptian). The most mysterious and the least understood of gods, whose personal character is entirely distinct from all ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Thoth, Thot: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Thoth, Thot
Thoth, Thot (Greek) Tehuti (Egyptian) Egyptian goddess of wisdom, equivalent to the Greek Hermes, Thoth was often represented as an ib...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sothis: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Sothis
SOTHIS The Star of the Tarot. Greek for Sirius, the Dog Star, the Egyptian Soped. Sothis, bearing a star in her crown, is the Nilotic ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abbreviations: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Abbreviations
ABBREVIATIONS Occult literature, particularly contemporary magic literature, teems with abbreviations and initials, which the general ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abbreviations: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Abbreviations
ABBREVIATIONS Occult literature, particularly contemporary magic literature, teems with abbreviations and initials, which the general ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macrocosm And Microcosm: Encyclopedia - Macrocosm And Microcosm
Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of reality. It may have begun wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sabians: Encyclopedia - Sabians
Sabian is a term that has been more or less inaccurately used to describe at least three religious groups (see Mandaeanism, Harranians or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thoth: Encyclopedia - Thoth
In Egyptian mythology, Thoth (also spelt Thot or Thout), pronounced "tot", is the Greek name given to Djehuty (also spelt Tahuti, Tehuti,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermeneutics: Encyclopedia - Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics may be described as the theory of interpretation and understanding of a text through empirical means. It should not be confu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trickster: Encyclopedia - Trickster
In the study of mythology, folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, human hero or anthropomorphic animal who breaks ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daemon Mythology: Encyclopedia - Daemon Mythology
The words daemon and daimon, sometimes dæmon, are distinctively Hellenizing or Latinate spellings of δαιμων, used purposefully tod...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geber: Encyclopedia - Geber
Jabir Ibn Hayyan (full name Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan Al-Azdi, أبو موسى جابر بن حيان الأزدي; ca.721, Tus, Iran –...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Egypt In The European Imagination: Encyclopedia Ii - Egypt In The European Imagination - 18th Century
The 18th century witnessed the rise of a first authentically historicist imagination, one that attempted to picture the cultures of the d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athanasius Kircher: Encyclopedia Ii - Athanasius Kircher - Works
Kircher published a large number of substantial books on a very wide variety of subjects, such as Egyptology, geology, and music theory. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geber: Encyclopedia Ii - Geber - Contributions To Chemistry
Jabir is often called "Father of Chemistry", because he was the first scholar to scientifically systematize that science, to whose theory...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chaldean Oracles: Encyclopedia Ii - Chaldean Oracles - Origin
The origins of the text are suitably mysterious. The Chaldean Oracles in the form in which they survive were attributed to Julian the The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - History
Alchemy encompasses several philosophical traditions spanning some four millennia and three continents. These traditions' general penchan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermetica: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermetica - Character Of The Texts
Most of the texts are presented in the form of a dialogue, a favorite form for didactic material in Antiquity. The subject-matter of Herm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heliocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Heliocentrism - Development Of The Idea
To anyone who stands and looks at the sky, it seems clear that the earth stays in one place while everything in the sky goes around once ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Mythology
Despite popular belief, Hecate was not originally a Greek goddess. She is unknown to Homer and in fact the earliest written references to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermeneutics: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermeneutics - Hermeneutic Traditions
Hermeneutics in the Western world, as a general science of text interpretation, can be traced back to two separate sources. One source wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thoth: Encyclopedia Ii - Thoth - Thoth In More Recent Times
One of the most popular and cited works on the Tarot was connected to this deity. Written by the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley, The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes - Cult
General article: Cult (religion). Though temples to Hermēs existed throughout Greece, a center of his cult was at Pheneos in Arcadia, wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Enoch Ancestor Of Noah: Encyclopedia Ii - Enoch Ancestor Of Noah - Enoch As A Man Rewarded For Piety
In classical Rabbinical literature, there are divergent opinions of Enoch. After Christianity and Judaism had completely separated, the p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Occultists: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Occultists - Famous Magicians:
Some historical or legendary magicians, wizards, witches, or people who have been claimed to be so, are: List of occultists - Classical ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macrocosm And Microcosm: Encyclopedia Ii - Macrocosm And Microcosm - Ancient Thought
Macrocosm/microcosm is a principle in Socratic/Platonic philosophy. The Republic, most of it of Socratic influence, is based on this fund...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Numbers In Egyptian Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Numbers In Egyptian Mythology - Three: Symbol Of Plurality
The basic symbol for plurality among the ancient Egyptians was the number three: even the way they wrote the word for "plurality" in hier...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet: Encyclopedia Ii - Emerald Tablet - The Tablet Itself
One translation, by Isaac Newton, found among his alchemical papers, runs as follows: 1. Tis true without lying, certain & most true...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sabians: Encyclopedia Ii - Sabians - Islamic Reference
Marc Edmund Jones, founder of the Sabian Assembly, described them more or less accurately as "a Muslim group". They worship The Names (El...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermeneutics: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermeneutics - Medieval Hermeneutics
Medieval interpretations of text incorporated exegesis in a fourfold mode that emphasized the distinction between the letter and the spir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermeneutics: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermeneutics - Renaissance Hermeneutics
The discipline of hermeneutics emerged with the new humanist education of the 15th century as a historical and critical methodology for a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Enoch Ancestor Of Noah: Encyclopedia Ii - Enoch Ancestor Of Noah - Enoch As A Victim Of The Angel Of Death
In Islamic traditions, there are varying accounts of Enoch's "death", which are thought to possibly contain traces of lost aggadahs. One ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Numbers In Egyptian Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Numbers In Egyptian Mythology - Five: Representation Not Listed
Any information you can find on the meanings of the number five in Egyptian mythology would be very helpful. Numbers in Egyptian mytholo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heliocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Heliocentrism - Religious Disputes Over Heliocentrism
As early as the time of Aristarchus, the heliocentric idea was denounced as being against religion. The issue did not assume any importan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Hecate In Modern Day Magic
In modern times, she has become popular in Paganism and Wicca, largely due to her association as the goddess of sorcery. In modern Pagani...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Queen Of Ghosts
Queen of Ghosts a title associated with Hecate due to the belief that she can both prevent harm from leaving, but also allow harm to ente...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Occultists: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Occultists - Magical Movements Societies And Organisations:
List of occultists - Rosicrucian Movements:. Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) Confraternity of the Rose Cross Fraternitas R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermeneutics: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermeneutics - Hermeneutics Of Schleiermacher And Dilthey
Friedrich Schleiermacher explored the nature of understanding in relation not just to the problem of deciphering sacred texts, but to all...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Enoch Ancestor Of Noah: Encyclopedia Ii - Enoch Ancestor Of Noah - Enoch In Freemasonry
In Freemasonry legend, Enoch was the guardian of a secret doctrine that was first given to Adam to guard and preserve, which included spe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Hecate In Popular Culture
More recently, Hecate has appeared in Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics. She is also heavily mentioned in the popular TV series Buffy the Vam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Egypt In The European Imagination: Encyclopedia Ii - Egypt In The European Imagination - 19th Century
On the most popular 19th-century level, all of ancient Egypt was reduced in the European imagination to the Nile, the Pyramids and the Gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Egypt In The European Imagination: Encyclopedia Ii - Egypt In The European Imagination - 20th Century
In 1912, the discovery of an exquisite painted limestone bust of Nefertiti, unearthed from its sculptor's workshop near the royal retreat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giordano Bruno: Encyclopedia Ii - Giordano Bruno - Bruno's Cosmology
Bruno believed, as is now universally accepted, that the Earth revolves and that the apparent diurnal rotation of the heavens is an illus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermeneutics: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermeneutics - Biblical Hermeneutics
Perhaps the most commonly used meaning of the word hermeneutics outside academic circles is in relation to Biblical interpretation. Throu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermeneutics: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermeneutics - Misuse
One prominent theme which arises in contemporary philosophical hermeneutics (i.e., the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer) is a serious calling i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Enoch Ancestor Of Noah: Encyclopedia Ii - Enoch Ancestor Of Noah - Enoch As Metatron
In the late first millennium BC, extensive writings attributed to Enoch appeared, in particular the 4 works known as the Book of Enoch. W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giordano Bruno: Encyclopedia Ii - Giordano Bruno - The Cosmology Of Bruno's Time
In the second half of the 16th century, the theories of Copernicus began diffusing through Europe. Although Bruno did not wholly embrace ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet: Encyclopedia Ii - Emerald Tablet - Influence
In its several Western recensions, the Tablet became a mainstay of medieval and Renaissance alchemy. Commentaries and/or translations wer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geber: Encyclopedia Ii - Geber - Writings By Jabir
The writings of Jabir Ibn Hayyan can be divided into four categories: 1. The 112 Books dedicated to the Barmakids, viziers of Caliph Haru...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - Etymology
The word alchemy comes from the Arabic al-kīmiyaˀ or al-khīmiyaˀ (الكيمياء or الخيمياء), which is probably formed fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - Alchemy In Art And Entertainment
Alchemy - Literature. Many authors lampooned alchemists and used them as the butt of satirical attacks. Two famous examples of these in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Hecate In Literature
Hecate makes several appearances in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (c 1606); she is represented as a goddess or demon who commands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geber: Encyclopedia Ii - Geber - Contributions To Alchemy
Jabir became an alchemist at the court of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, for whom he wrote the Kitab al-Zuhra ("The Book of Venus", on "the nobl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geber: Encyclopedia Ii - Geber - Biography
Jabir Ibn Hayyan was born around 721 in the town of Tus in Khorasan, Persia (present-day Iran). His father, a druggist of the Azd tribe, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macrocosm And Microcosm: Encyclopedia Ii - Macrocosm And Microcosm - Medieval And Modern Thought
The English physician and alchemist Robert Fludd (1574-1637) expicitly based his work Utriusque Cosmi Historia (The history of the two wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sabians: Encyclopedia Ii - Sabians - Sabi-harran Connections
The Sabians were well known until the ninth century AD. Around this time, the Harranians claimed the name Sabian in order to avoid Islami...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sabians: Encyclopedia Ii - Sabians - Sabi-mandaean Connections
Some scholars have suggested that the Mandaean religion originated with Sabeans, who came under the influence of early Sabian missionarie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet: Encyclopedia Ii - Emerald Tablet - Textual History
The oldest documentable source for the text is the Kitab Sirr al-Asrar, a pseudo-Aristotelian compendium of advice for rulers authored by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athanasius Kircher: Encyclopedia Ii - Athanasius Kircher - Influence
For most of his professional life, Kircher was one of the scientific stars of the world: according to historian Paula Findlen, he was "th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athanasius Kircher: Encyclopedia Ii - Athanasius Kircher - Life
Kircher was born on May 2, 1601 or 1602 in Geisa, Buchonia, near Fulda. From his birthplace he took the epithets Bucho, Buchonius and Ful...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chaldean Oracles: Encyclopedia Ii - Chaldean Oracles - Importance Of The Oracles
The essence of Hellenistic civilization was the fusion of a Hellenic core of religious belief and social organization with Persian-Babylo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Other Names And Epithets
Hecate - Goddess of the crossroads. Hecate had a special role at three-way crossroads, where the Greeks set poles with masks of each of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Emblems
Image:Hecate and Cerberus.jpg Traditionally, Hecate is represented as carrying torches, very often has a knife, and may appear holding a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Cross-cultural Parallels
The figure of Hecate can often be associated with the figure of Isis in Egyptian myth (mainly due to her role as sorceress). In Hebrew my...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Representations
The earliest depictions of Hecate are single faced, not triplicate. Farnell (1896) states: The evidence of the monuments as to the chara...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Relations In The Greek Pantheon
Hecate is a pre-Olympian chthonic goddess. The Greek sources don't offer a story of her parentage, beyond the Theogony, or of her relatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - Overview
Alchemy - Alchemy as a proto-science. The common perception of alchemists is that they were pseudo-scientists, crackpots and charlatans...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermetica: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermetica - The Corpus Hermeticum In The Renaissance
Although they were still popular enough in the 5th century to be argued against by St. Augustine in the City of God vii.23–26, Hermetic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chaldean Oracles: Encyclopedia Ii - Chaldean Oracles - Metaphysics Of The Oracles
The metaphysical schema of the Chaldaean Oracles begins with an absolutely transcendent deity called Father, with whom resides Power, a p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermetica: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermetica - Contents Of The Corpus Hermeticum
The following are the titles given to thirteen of the eighteen tracts, as translated by G.R.S. Mead. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men To ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes Trismegistus - Hermetic Revival
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus known as the Hermetica enjoyed great credit an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes Trismegistus - New Age Revival
Modern occultists continue to suggest that some of these texts may be of Pharaonic origin, and that "the forty two essential texts" that ...   » Read the article

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This is a sitemap for popular topic pages at Global Oneness. Click on a link and you will find multiple articles related to the topic: ...   » Read the article