Hermeticism: The Ancient Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus

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. ⭐ Become a Patron (exclusive content): 📺 YouTube Member (exclusive content): 🛒 Official Merch: ☕ Donate a Coffee: 📘 PayPal: 🎦 Subscribe to the official clips channel: 📨 Subscribe with email: 📚 My personal library: 🎨 Access transcript and artwork gallery: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ The Way of Hermes ▶ The Asclepius ▶ Hermetica ▶ The Greek Magical Papyri ▶ The Egyptian Hermes ▶ The Arabic Hermes ▶ Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Odysee ➔ @eternalised 📺 Rumble ➔ 🐦 Twitter ➔ 📷 Instagram ➔ 📘 Facebook ➔ 🎧 Podcast ➔ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used 1. Desert City – Kevin MacLeod 2. Dreams Become Real – Kevin MacLeod 3. Promising Relationship – Kevin MacLeod 4. Smoother Move – Kevin MacLeod 5. Crystal Dream Mix Background Music – Music 6. The Long Dark – Scott Buckley 7. Evening Fall Harp – Kevin MacLeod 8. I Walk With Ghost – Scott Buckley 9. Heartbreaking – Kevin MacLeod 10. Gregorian Chants – Kevin MacLeod 11. Extrapolation – Scott Buckley Support the artists: Scott Buckley - Music Kevin MacLeod - Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources - Copenhaver, B. P. (1995). Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a new English translation, with notes and introduction. Cambridge University Press. - Hermes (Trismegistus), & Salaman, C. (2000). The way of Hermes: New translations of The Corpus - Hermeticum and the definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius. Inner Traditions. - Hanegraaff, W. (2008). Altered states of knowledge: The attainment of Gnōsis in the Hermetica. The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 2(2), 128-163. - Lachman, G. (2011). The Quest for Hermes Trismegistus: From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World. Floris Books. - Hanegraaff, W. (2012). Esotericism and the academy: Rejected knowledge in Western culture. Cambridge University Press. - Van den Broek, R., & Hanegraaff, W. J. (Eds.). (2013). Gnosis and hermeticism from antiquity to modern times. State University of New York Press. - Salaman, C. (2013). Asclepius: the perfect discourse of Hermes Trismegistus. Bloomsbury Publishing. - Litwa, M. D., & Hermetica, II. (2018). The Excerpts of Stobaeus. Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction, Cambridge. - - - ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. #hermeticism #hermestrismegistus #thoth