Trismegistus:
"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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus
- 1 Origin
- 2 Hermetic revival
- 3 New Age revival
- 4 Fictional references
- 5 See also
- 6 Source
- 7 References
- 8 External links
"According to legend Hermes Trismegistus is said to have provided the wisdom of light in the ancient mysteries of Egypt. "He carried an emerald, upon which was recorded all of philosophy, and the caduceus, the symbol of mystical illumination.
Hermes Trismegistus vanquished Typhon, the dragon of ignorance, and mental, moral and physical perversion."
Surviving Hermes Trismegistus is the wisdom of the Hermetica, 42 books that have profoundly influenced the development of Western occultism and magic. A.G.H."
http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/h/hermes_trismegistus.html
"Djehuti [Thoth or Hermes Trismegistus]: The God of mathematics, writing, and scholarship. "
http://www.teenwitch.com/DEITY/KMT/DJEHUTI.HTM
Emerald Tablet of Hermes
http://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/emerald.htm
"That which is above is from that which is below, and that which is below is from that which is above, working the miracles of one."
http://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/emerald.htm
http://www.alchemylab.com/what_is_the_tablet.htm
What Is the Emerald Tablet?
"The Emerald Tablet is an ancient artifact that reveals a profound spiritual technology, which has survived to this day despite centuries of effort to suppress it.
Encoded within the tablet's mysterious wording is a powerful formula that works in very specific and comprehensible steps on all levels of reality at once -- the physical, the mental, and the spiritual -- and shows us how to achieve personal transformation and even accelerate the evolution of our species. "
http://www.alchemylab.com/what_is_the_tablet.htm
The development of Hermes Trismegistus
"It is in the Greek magical papyri, rather than in the Hermetica, that we most clearly discern the lineaments of Hermes Trismegistus, and that the Egyptian aspects of his identity are given the fullest rein.[89] In a country as renowned for its magic as was Egypt, that was only to be expected. The Papyri presents the new syncretistic Hermes as a cosmic power, creator of Heaven and earth and almighty world-ruler. Presiding over fate and justice, he is also lord of the night, and of death and its mysterious aftermath-hence his frequent association with the moon (Selene) and Hecate. He knows 'all that is hidden under the heavenly vault, and beneath the earth',[90] and is accordingly much revered as a sender of oracles-many of the magical spells that are addressed to Hermes aim to elicit arcane information, frequently by inducing the god to appear in a dream"
http://www.granta.demon.co.uk/arsm/jg/tris.html
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