Thoth-Hermes

Faivre, Antoine. Thoth, Hermes, Trismegistus or the ancient faces of Mercury. CaudaPavonis 12, no. 1 2 (Spring Fall 1993) 1-6. 

I. Thoth, Hermes, Trismegistus or the Ancient Faces of Mercury... 

There is another striking connection. A little after the decree of 196 BCE, the Jewish writer Artapan assimilated Thoth-Hermes to Moses. The historian of Alexandrian Hermetism, A.-J. Festugiere, noticed this same amalgam reappearing in the eighth century CE... 

The Children of Israel (that means, the Souls struggling with God) are being led by Moses (Thoth-Hermes or Mercurius), who with his Aesculapius-Staff (the Power of Wisdom), parted the Red Sea (Chaos). 

Unpublished manuscripts of the Golden Dawn from Whare Ra and Thoth/Hermes temples, New Zealand. 

The name Hermon derives from the Laconian dialect for stone heap. Hermon is He of the stone heap. Archeologists discovered such a heap of hewn stone within the mins of a circular wall on one of the three secondary peaks. In fact, all monumental walls and buildings built of ashlars, or cut stones, represent Hermon. He is also equivalent to Hermes, or Thoth-Hermes, the biblical Ham. Pan or Mercury was Hermes son. 

Contents The Emerald Tablet Timeless myths and church politics Thrice Greatest Hermes Thoth the first Hermes Akhenaten the second Hermes Apollonius the third Hermes... 

Thoth the Higher Mind Hermes Trismegistus Apollonius of Tyana Christian Rosenkreutz Jacob Boehme Nicholas Flamel Comte Saint-Germain Edward Kelly and John Dee Paracelsus Isaac Newton Recommended books. Pages not yet available... 

Hermes Trismegistus. The emerald-tablets of Thoth-the-Atlantean a literal translation of one of the most ancient and secret of the great works of the ancient wisdom. Translated by Doreal. Kansas City Brotherhood of the White Temple, 1939. 71p. 

Boldereff, Frances Motz. Hermes to his son Thoth being Joyce s use of Giordano Bruno in Finnegans Wake. Woodward (PA) Classic Non-Fiction Library, 1968. 289p. 

Perhaps the most concise exposition of alchemical theory, acknowledged by adepts from all ages, is the famous "Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus." Legend has it that this tablet predates the Biblical flood and was inscribed by Thoth himself on a large plate of alchemically produced emerald ... 

Hermes has a most significant place in the Islamic tradition. Admittedly, his name does not appear in the Quran but the hagiographers and historians of the first centuries of the Hegira quickly identified him with Idris, the nabi mentioned twice in the sacred book (19.57 21.85). This is the Idris whom God "exalted to a lofty station," and whom the Arabs also recognize as Enoch (cf. Genesis 5.18-24). Idris/Hermes is called "Thrice Wise," because he was threefold. The first of the name, comparable to Thoth, was a "civilizing hero," an initiator into the mysteries of the divine science and wisdom that animate the world he carved the prin-... 

Settling in Egypt from 640 onwards, the Arabs found manuscripts and inscribed tablets in the pyramids. The Arabic manuscripts mention the edifice Abou Hermes at Memphis, in which Hermes (the father of Thoth ) was reputedly buried it comprised two pyramids, one for him and one for his wife. ° In the tenth century, all the conditions were therefore present for the elaboration of tales of the discovery of a tablet of instruction in a tomb of Hermes, while at the same time alchemy had become fashionable among the Arabs. One of these revelations is called The Treasure of Alexander an Arabic treatise on astrology and alchemy, it also contains reflections on the microcosm and the macrocosm, talismans, and mentions Hermes as well as Apollonius of Tyana. ... 

Thoth, identified with Hermes, 16,17,19,76-77,81,141 medical activity of, 86 city founder, 88 son of Hermes, 91 founder of Germany, 101 inventor of alphabet, 134 Torella, Jerome, 94 Tomabuoni, Lorenzo, 28 Tory, Geoffroy, 35 Tot, 87 Toz, 95... 

The genius ofWestern alchemy, and mercurial guide to all alchemists, is the legendary Hermes Trismegistus. Although considered one of the ancients and equated by the Arabs with the prophet Idris (Enoch), he combines the divine qualities of the Graeco-Roman Hermes-Mercury and the Egyptian deity Thoth. 

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/... 

Zoroastrian cosmic dualism is the earliest form of dualism exemplified by Zoroaster. His name means the living star or stream of the star. Zoroaster bears a great affinity with the Egyptian Thoth and Hermes Trismegistus." ... 

Another rather ethereal alchemical author of this period is Hermes Trismegistus, or Thrice Great Hermes. Texts attributed to him were Greek translations of Egyptian sacred texts attributed to Thoth, the god... 

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