Hermes Trismegistos

Raleigh, Albert Sidney. The shepherd of men an official commentary on the sermon of Hermes Trismegistos. San Francisco (CA) Hermetic Publ Co. 

Hermes-Trismegistos in Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, The Wisdom of the Pagan Philosophers (Boston Tuttle, 1998), p. 18. 

Hermes-Trismegistos, Corpus Hermeticum, xlii, John Everard translated from Ficino s Latin, in the British Library Collection, London 1650. 

Hermes-Trismegistos, The Divine Pymander, in Jeremy Catto, Alchemy the Art of Knowing (London Aquarian Press, 1994), p. 57. 

The veiled one beside you bows in reverence to the Master of the place I give praise to the Light, in the person of Hermes-Trismegistos and to the Lords of the Secret of Saturn here assembled, give I honor and greetings also ... 

Having now considered the chief points in the theory of Physical Alchemy, we must turn our attention to the lives and individual teachings of the alchemists themselves. The first name which is found in the history of Alchemy is that of Hermes Trismegistos. We have already mentioned the high esteem in which the works ascribed to this personage... 

R. Pietschmann, Hermes Trismegistos, nach segyptischen, griechischen und orientalischen Ueberlieferungen dargestellt (Leipzig, 1875). 

Sermon of Hermes Trismegistos (San Francisco Hermetic Publishing Company, 1916). 

Therefore I am called Hermes Trismegistos, having three parts of the philosophy of the whole world. 

The legendary founder of alchemy, an Egyptian, Hermes Trismegistos. ... 

Hermes Trismegistos (Fig, 6), or Hermes the Thrice-Great, the Greek counterpart of the Egyptian god, Thoth, was revered by the adepts of alchemy as the father of their liermctic Art, and the patron of its practitioners. For this reason they often styled themselves the sons of Hermes/... 

It is also interesting that the art of chemistry was commonly ascribed to the mysterious Hermes Trismegistos, whose name is still preserved in the expression hermetically sealed, and who was invoked by the Gnostics as the source of all wisdom. " ... 

The nature of the philosopher s stone depends on the positive interaction (+) of Sun, Moon and Hermes Trismegistos, the mythical founder of alchemy, whose name appears on the Rosetta stone and who represents the syncretic link between the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian moon god Thot. Active masculine qualities are separated from passive feminine qualities. The relationship between Avicenna s two-element model and the four elements of Aristotle is shown. The total pattern resembles the incommensurable nesting of Platonic solids within the celestial sphere. 

On this fragment, see J. Kroll, Die Lehren des Hermes Trismegistos (Miinster Aschen-dorff, 1914), 212 ff. 

Hermes Trismegistos (Mercurius Termaximus, conceivably the King of Egypt known as Sifaos, 1996 BC, and identified with God Hermes by Greek literature written eirea 100-300 AD), legendary person aeeredited to the foundation of alchemic clandestine books Heron of Alexandria (about 1st century)... 

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