Hermeticism: The Ancient Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus

137 Views

Thanks! Share it with your friends!

You disliked this video. Thanks for the feedback!

Published Apr 5, 2023

The legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes Thrice Great) is the inspiration for the spiritual teachings known as Hermeticism. He is a syncretism (joining) of the Greek deity Hermes, the winged messenger of the Gods, and his Egyptian counterpart, the Ibis-headed moon god Thoth.

The Way of Hermes involved altered states of consciousness in which practitioners went through a training regime that involved luminous visions, spiritual rebirth, cosmic consciousness, and union with the divine beauty of universal goodness and truth to attain the salvational knowledge known as gnosis.

0:00 Introduction

3:43 Renaissance of Hermeticism

9:33 Technical and Religio-philosophical Hermetica

11:38 Where to start?

15:53 Gnosis

18:36 Hermeticism and Gnosticism

21:40 Eusebeia

22:50 The Hermetic Universe: Ogdoad, Ennead, the One

25:20 The Three Worlds: God, Cosmos, Man

28:03 The Three Faculties: Logos, Gnosis, Nous

29:08 Corpus Hermeticum: Introduction

30:48 The Vision of Poimandres (Nous)

37:05 Corpus Hermeticum: Hermes and Tat

43:05 The Discourse on the Ogdoad and Ennead

46:22 Writing as Healing or Poison (Pharmakon)

48:24 The Illusion of Death

50:30 Man as a Divine Being