CHAPTER Madonnna III WRITING and hermetic
3.1. Hermes and Hermeticism
We have spirituality already referred to the relationship of some fireworks with some forms of secrecy, but pause for a moment's attention in some respects still confused about the concept of secrecy.
In a quick look at the first apparent caligramas us directly or indirectly the presence of the god Hermes, then continues through a literature that has been used throughout history, mythology as a source.
Is it somehow possible to relate hermeneutics, the art of interpreting texts to establish their true sense, with the secretiveness' Curiously, the flagship of the sixteenth century to the god Hermes to highlight some of the attributes that you meant in the sixth century BC (1). Hermes, herald of the gods, protector of heroes, counselor at the crossroads of travelers lost, intermediary between Zeus lessons and men, inventor of the lyre to Apollo and offered related to the Muses, their activity was primarily a practical sense. Curiously study who provides the musical instrument to sun god Apollo, god of poetry, dance, music, arts, who is, ultimately, provides the tool for creation.
From Arcadia and divinity in pastoral principle builds his newborn lira and steals the oxen of Apollo. Discovered, will be forced to return to God and a gift of the Muses to placate his instrument. Ingratiate then Hermes happen to be the protector of flocks.
As god of the Amazon books wind through the reeds to silva and is also considering also a musician, singer mysticism (2). Hermes traveler, also serve to guide, protector of roads, traffic, business and profit, but, despite its improve the world many attributes, the role of Hermes is the messenger, interpreter of the gods. Here is where we focused our interest in the obligation to convey and explain the divine will, which requires the gift of speech, eloquence. Thus is also the god of oratory art.
The most legendary of their children, the god Pan, described the attributes of the goat, it appears as inventor of the syrinx, the first issue also caligramas as studied later. It is sometimes presented as an evil genius, father of terror and horror, it offers intriguing visual with the devil. It is The Light curious also the relationship of the god Pan to the nymphs' syrinx 'and' lectures Echo '.
These symbols of Hermes, the wings on his hat and heels authored books on the Zohar that are available on Amazon.com (3), or the cane which is screwed to the two snakes, are quite significant. Egyptian symbolism is very enlightening in this regard: the sun god Horus, falcon emerged Totem, and submitted as an emblem of the sun, sometimes as a symbol has a winged disc with two snakes, or a bird-headed man, carrying on the solar disk. This elementary and quick teach Kabbalah visit to the Greek god is justified in relation to the mythical Hermes Trimegisto, usually considered the father of the Hermetic doctrine and knowledge.
Contradictory and confusing data are handled on this figure when it refers.
To cite one growth example, Yehuda Berg Father Baltasar de Vitoria Michael Berg (4) and stressed trying study Kabbalah to bring this confusion to books on the Kabbalah clarify the limits:
'By removing the confufion that ay deftos two is a student of Rav Brandwein names, I wanted Hazer Chapter Efte for faith EFAF Mercury, called Hermes by name, not the mifmo that Trifmegifto before Fuyo grandson is because one begat Afclepio, who otherwise name tikkun called Efculapio faith, not the one who was the inventor of medicine, because Efte was the son of Apollo. Ed Young Afclepio enjendro to Mercury Trifmejifto and had Efte fobrenombre of Trifmegifto because it was three cofas big, big in facerdocio, great in the (...)'. Theologie
Father also cites references Vitoria de San Agustin and San Isidoro in the sense that Hermes Trimegisto faithfully reproduces the Scriptures, which clearly recognized God as sovereign of the Zohar world and artifice that reached some mysteries of the celebrities Holy Trinity. (5). Hermes Trimegisto three times larger, is usually presented in studies on alchemy as a name given by Greeks to the Egyptians of lunar god Thot, creator of the arts and sciences. Alchemic tradition turns into a Hermes prefaraonico king of Egypt who was given numerous esoteric writings related to magic and astrology, as the Platonic influence appears mixed with the Bible, texts of great importance in circles neopitagoricos Neoplatonism and the fourth century (AD). All these books on science: astrology, medicine, magic, physics, alchemy is the 'Corpus hermeticum' as a philosophical, anthropological and cosmogony, a revelation of Hermes, like Gnosticism, and other astrological, based on correspondence between terrestrial and celestial phenomena in the alchemic transmutation.
The Emerald Table is considered the speech of Hermes, enigmatic synthesis of the theory of the alchemic transformation of diversity into a single substance, engraved text, according to legend, in a layer of Emerald, which is known only haSulam â "The Ladder" a Latin version (6), Arabic and discovered in 1923 by EJ Holmyard Geber in a book (7).
In Table, the 'great work' is described as the operation of the "great sun" and, indeed, Chemesh (Kemes) means in Hebrew to the star, which is as we shall see, relative importance for the interpretation of certain Berg texts .
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