Hermes is considered to be Trismegistus in mysticism, not just because he’s able to move among different planes and dimensions, but cause he’s also associated with other deities or personalities and becomes enriched and expanded this way. As first Hermes the Egyptian god Thoth emerges, he’s the “Source of Logos”, the one forming the nature of reality, the things he utters become instantly true, his speech is a powerful spell of creation. He’s the sublime mind, the fountain of inspiration. The mystical wisdom that springs from the pages of the sacred books, the god of hermeneutics, new meanings and insights.
This tradition presents as second Hermes the reformist and for some heretic Pharaoh Akhanaten. He was the one abandoning the traditional Egyptian pantheon to focus his worship on the glorification of the solar disk that takes the name of “Aten”. Ancient art depicts Akhenaten as rather otherworldly and androgynous, he’s perhaps some kind of Hermaphroditus (son of Hermes). Akhenaten saw the sun as the Source of all things, of all creative power and initiative. Behind the sun as planetary body there was a refined essence hiding responsible for a spiritual nutrition of the highest form and frequency, one surpassing earthly limitations. Some claim that Akhenaten discovered the Emerald Tablet, Hermes’ deepest work and contribution and that he based his religion on this revelation and grace.
Apollonius of Tyana appears to be the third aspect or face of Hermes Trismegistus. A personality legendary and enigmatic. It is said that Apollonius found the Emerald Tablet inside a cave and that Alexander the Great had hidden the tablet there. Apollonius is considered to be a great master of humanity, a great avatar. The oldest translation of the Emerald Tablet into Arabic is attributed to Apollonius. Hellenistic Alexandria was his field of action.
Hermes embodies the guiding spirit over the centuries, he’s the air of change and information, the one providing higher insights if one is ready and synchronized to accept his guidance. He acts from afar and in depth, he’s the god of analysis in general and of psychoanalysis in specific, a force of intuition and fertility, metaphorically or literally. A god of unifications beyond polarities suggesting us to be adaptive and with a rather wicked sense of humor, that sees underneath the surface connecting us with the Source, the One Thing of the alchemists.
V.B.
Image: An Allegory of Alchemy by the Circle of Bartholomaus Spranger, between circa 1546 and circa 1611.
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