@raalkivictorieux Ra’al Ki Victorieux, master healer
Hermes Trismegistus was a spiritual teacher to whom many of the knowledges inherited from ancient Egypt, Greece and even some teachings from the East are attributed. It is related to the Egyptian god Thoth, and to the Greek god Hermes, Olympian herald of the gods, presiding over skill in the use of words and eloquence in general, a position in which it appears even in the Homeric poems, sharing this function with Iris. From Hermes comes the word “hermeneutics” for the art of interpreting hidden meanings. In Greek a lucky find was a hermaion.
One of the great virtues of sacred texts is their ability to synthesize, to condense great knowledge into a few principles or images. An example of this is the 7 laws of the Kybalion, or the 22 major arcana of the Tarot. It is true that in order to understand the messages we need to purify ourselves from negative concepts, blockages or shadows, and thanks to the assistance of beings of light we achieve greater and greater understanding and awareness of universal truths. By far one of our best compasses in this quest is the light of our heart. I hope you enjoy these suggestions for readings and videos about Hermes’ relationship with universal laws, hermeticism and hermeneutics.
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes has been associated with the Egyptian God Dyehuty (Tot in Greek), the Hellenic God Hermes, and is told that was the guide of the Abraham of whom the Bible speaks. In Greek, Hermes means “The three times great”. In Latin, he is related to Mercury. He is the author of a series of sacred texts, called Hermetic Corpus, which are the basis of Hermeticism.
Hermes, the 7 Universal Laws or Keys
The seven principles or axioms described in The Kybalion are Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause-Effect, and Generation.
- Mentalism The All is mind; the universe is mental. The Whole is the totalizing set. There is nothing outside of the Whole.
- Correspondence. As above, so below; as it is inside, it is outside. It affirms that this principle is manifested in the three Great Planes: the Physical, the Mental, and the Spiritual.
- Vibration. Nothing is immobile; everything moves; everything vibrates.
- Polarity. Everything is double, everything has two poles; everything, its pair of opposites: similar and antagonistic are the same; the opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are half truths, all paradoxes can be reconciled.
- Rhythm. Everything ebbs and flows; everything has its periods of advance and retreat, everything rises and falls; everything moves like a pendulum; the measure of its movement to the right is the same as that of its movement to the left; rhythm is compensation.
- Cause and effect. Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to the law; luck or chance is nothing more than the name given to the unrecognized law; there are many planes of causality, but nothing escapes the Law.
- Gender. Gender exists everywhere; everything has its masculine and feminine principle; gender manifests itself on all levels. On the physical plane is sexuality.
The Kybalion
While it is true that everything is in the ALL, it is no less true that the ALL is in all things. He who understands this properly has acquired great knowledge.
The Kybalion. Hermes Trismegistus
The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, was first published in 1908 by the Yogi Publication Society and is now in thepublic domain.
Hermeticism
It is the set of philosophical and religious beliefs, based mainly on writings attributed to Hermes Trismegisto. Hermeticism is probably the “Hellenic attempt” to philosophically systematize part of the religious and mystical doctrines of the late Egyptian culture. In this definition, we will stick to these late ancient writings, which will serve as the basis for all the vast hermetic production later.
The hermetic tradition would “merge” with part of the Neoplatonic framework and incipient Christianity during late Antiquity, and with the Catholic religion, the Lutheran schism, and the Christian Kabbalah, through the philosophers (Platonists, Hermetics) and magicians of the Renaissance. and the Baroque, but in no case would the skeleton of his philosophy be blurred. Likewise, hermeticism would inspire, due to its seductive power, many nineteenth-century occult currents. His living universe and his exaltation of the human spirit would serve in the nineteenth century as they served in the Renaissance: for many wayward and strange characters to confront mechanism, materialism and militant rationalism imposed from “academic pedantry” (Aristotelian or positivist) and the Illustration epoch.
Many Christian writers, including Lactantius, Thomas of Aquinas, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Campanella andGiovanni Pico della Mirandola considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a wise prophet who foresaw the coming of Christianity.
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics (from the Greek ἑρμηνευτικὴ τέχνη, jermeneutiké tejne), is the ‘art of explaining, translating or interpreting) is the interpretation of texts in theology, philology, and literary criticism. In philosophy, it is the idealistic doctrine according to which social facts (and perhaps also natural ones) are symbols or texts that must be interpreted rather than objectively described and explained.
The term hermeneutics comes from the Greek verb ἑρμηνεύειν (jermeneueien) which means to interpret, declare, announce, clarify and, finally, translate. It means that something becomes understandable or is brought to understanding. The term is considered to derive from the name of the Greek god Hermes, the messenger, to whom the Greeks attributed the origin of language and writing and to whom they considered the patron of communication and human understanding. The term originally expressed the understanding and explanation of a dark and enigmatic sentence of the gods or oracle, which required a correct interpretation.
The term hermeneutics derives directly from the Greek adjective ἑρμηνευτικἡ, which means explanatory or interpretive (knowledge), especially from the Sacred Scriptures, and from the meaning of the words of the texts, as well as the analysis of the theory or science itself. the exegesis of signs and their symbolic value.
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