Hermetica

You know, Hermetic texts associated with Hermes, who was Toth, were buried, these scrolls were buried with the New Testament scrolls, which shows that those early Christians or these early, some believe they were Essenes or others, they were valuing the Hermetic text, the writings of Toth, just as much as the writings of Jesus.

And in fact, there's a lot of crossover between the two, you know, where they're, you know, if you look at the Corpus Hermeticum, which is another Hermetic text, you know, it says, you know, Toth Hermes says, you know, I am mind, I am the I am the word, I am the...

Yes.

And all these ideas that you also find Jesus saying.

And the more we come to realize that's where the gnosis is, right? That's where the divine knowledge comes about.

Yeah.

And that Hermes, or Toth, also talks about in a number of different texts, including the Corpus Hermeticum.

And this is really what Jesus was trying to say when he said, love thy neighbor as thyself.

Stefan's Moldavia was, in a sense, holding the line until Muscovy could emerge.

then what was going on in uh in western europe at the time the renaissance so 1450s you know you get the gutenberg press you get the first printing press revolutionized uh learning book literacy the spreading of information at that time 1470s florence venice and rome were cultural centers of art and humanism you know again we've talked about the the translating of Plato and the Hermetic Corpus and Marsilio Ficino and Cosimo de' Medici.

All that stuff was going on in Italy at this time.

And again, during the life of St. Stephen, you have the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World in 1492.

This is...

True in Plato's Timaeus, which was one of the, what I'm sharing, about to share is present in Plato's Timaeus, and it's in the first book of the Corpus Hermeticum, where human beings, I mentioned earlier the sidereal body, the astral body, that the true nature of humanity is starry in nature.

And in the Corpus Hermeticum, we descend directly from the realm of the stars above.

And Plato is sort of like a different version of it where he mixed the demiurge, the creator mixes up the stuff of human beings, the elements, and then assigns it to stars, and then it descends down.

And what's true within Hermeticism and Platonism and Orphism is that if you live a good life, then you can re-ascend to the stars after you die.

All these things appearing to be in perfect harmony, a perfect reflection of exactly what you imagined.

You have what was stated in the Hermetica.

Two gifts, mind and speech.

You'll see here in the diagram.

Because you think this way, you think that way, and body responds exactly the way that you think.

So if the individual believes that body holds them back, then that's their experience because all things exist now in imagination, including beliefs and experiences.

And the two gifts, mind and speech, prior to this world, as was stated in the Hermetica as well, those two gifts, mind and speech, are equal to immortality.

Equal to immortality.

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But the basis goes back to the Corpus Hermeticum.

Like, it's like everything goes back to the Corpus Hermeticum.

It goes back to the seven planetary spheres, and how do you travel with them? And why do you, in the Zelator grade, you have to memorize the names of angels.

You have to memorize the, like, all these se-seven planetary things.

There's lots you could do, but you have to know how to do it.

I don't know.

My thought is that the Corpus Hermeticum is a system of initiation.

Yeah.

And then, so think like in terms of timelines, something like the Hermetica, at least the original source documents versus something like, like the book of coming forth by day, are those pretty much around the same time frame that we would have?

Well, the thing is that the Hermetica is massive.

You know, you get the, like the torture penguin version.

That's like this big fits in your pocket.

It's like, they don't, They don't tell you that like, oh, this is like a very abridged version.

The Hermetica is enormous.

The Corpus Hermeticum is just a part of the Hermetica.

I want to repeat myself in mentioning the Hermetic Principles.

These principles are very ancient and a combination of old Egyptian concepts as the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablets, with Greek philosophy such as Platonism.

The Kybalion is a book from the 20th century that explains the seven principles that govern reality.

It is written by three initiates whose names are not officially known.