"Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.".
These principles include mentalism, correspondence, vibration, polarity, rhythm, cause and effect, and gender.
The book delves into each of these principles in detail, providing examples and explanations of how they operate in the natural world and in human experience..
This concise work on 'The Hermetic Philosophy' outlines seven universal principles: Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, and Gender..
"Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.".
Hermeticism, at its conception, was the idea that God was a magician.
This came about from texts that were translated in the late 1400s by Ficino in Florence, Italy.
These texts are known as the Hermetic Writings.
They were believed to be written by an ancient Egyptian named Hermes Trismegistus.Apr 21, 2023.
Hermetism is related to a wider intellectual current known as Gnosticism.
Both flourished in the same period in Roman Egypt, in the same spiritual climate, sharing the goal of allowing the soul to escape from the material realm, and emphasizing a personal knowledge of God..
In the Hermetic view, God is both the all (Greek: to pan) and the creator of the all: all created things pre-exist in God and God is the nature of the cosmos (being both the substance from which it proceeds and the governing principle which orders it), yet the things themselves and the cosmos were all created by God..
Religious Syncretism and the Hermetic Tradition
In antiquarian Greek thought, Hermes was the messenger of the gods, as well as being known as a trickster trickster (he was also the patron god of thieves).
In addition to this, Hermes shuttled souls to the underworld, mixing between gods and men..
The celestial spheres expand outward from earth, in order of distance to us:
Hermeticism, at its conception, was the idea that God was a magician.
This came about from texts that were translated in the late 1400s by Ficino in Florence, Italy.
These texts are known as the Hermetic Writings.
They were believed to be written by an ancient Egyptian named Hermes Trismegistus.
Hermeticism is a dualistic faith that portrays the body of men and their interactions with the material world as being antagonistic to the soul.
Because the original Man had gone to earth and united with nature he became different from all the other creatures of earth.
In Book I of the Hermeticum, Poimandres says about man:.
