Hermes Rough Stone Alchemy (27)

Hermes Rough Stone Alchemy(27) Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes. Hermes-Thoth is considered the Father of Knowledge and of Hermetic astrology as an ancestral ideological extension of Hermetic chymie-alchemy and its notions of planetary and metallic sympathies. In the theoretical composition of theologians and philosophers we can find since the 12th century the solid influence of the Hermetic tradition. (Albertus Magnus, Thomas of York, Peter Abelard, William of Auverge and Allain of Lille) As we have pointed out, the precious and main source of studies prior to the Renaissance era was Asclepius (preserved in Latin). There is also a text= (pseudo hermetic), =The Liber XXIV Philosophorum (valuable collection of Definitions and Commentaries on the Nature of Deity), and another text=Liber VI Rerum Principiis=on cosmology. "God is an infinite sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." ''Deus est Sphaera Intelligibilis cuius Centrum est ubique et circunferentia nusovam''=''God is a circle whose center is everywhere and its circumference nowhere.'' (Liber XXIV Philosophorum-The Book of the 24 Philosophers) From the Picatrix, there is the Arabic translation of the Al-Kindi (800-866), this is an Arabic Book of high theurgical magic attributed to 'Magriti or Madjriti' in the second half of the tenth century. There is a Latin translation of 1256 (Alfonso of Castile). Lactantius [3rd century] alludes to Hermes in his Institutes= "He was also a man, of great antiquity, and totally imbued with all kinds of learning, as well as his knowledge of many things, and before that he acquired for him the name of Trismegistus." (Lactantius, Div. Inst., I, VI) Georgius Gemistus known as Plethon (in honor of Plato) claimed that the 'Prisca Theologia' came from currents of the Chaldean and Zoroaster Oracles, from Orpheus and his Hymns, from Pythagoras in his Golden Verses, and from Plato in his Laws and Republic. "The Oneness of the ALL in the ONE is." (Giordano Bruno) But, on the other hand, it is worth emphasizing that from the potent tradition of the Chaldean Oracles {2nd century C.E.}the learned and cultured family of astrologers and magicians = [the Julians], manage to channel the accumulation of profound esoteric teachings of Plato's commentator = Proclus. Michael Psellus commented on them in the eleventh century. In 1462 Cosimo de' Medici authorized Ficino to translate the Corpus Hermeticum into Latin. From Georgius Gemistos the Oracles passed to the Platonic Academy of Florence, and it was then in 1593 that Francesco Patrizzi managed to produce an edition of them; Monumental. However, this Fundamental Corpus Hermeticum was rediscovered at the end of the fifteenth century, since some of its texts (except the Asclepius) were lost during the Middle Ages. In Alexandria, since its foundation in 332.C.E., Hermetic, Gnostic, Neoplatonic and Judeo-Christian tendencies and currents have merged. Let us remember that Euclid founded his School of Mathematics in Alexandria. The Hermetika as a doctrinal body is found in scattered works and unknown collections. There are 17 Treatises written in Greek. Also the Poimandres, Asclepius and the Kore Kosmou. To this is added the Hermetic Stobaei. 14 of them were translated by the master Marsilio Ficino (1463). [Poimandres It does not come from Pastor = poimen, but from the Egyptian = pe-men-re, = enlightened mind. {see: Copenhaver, p.95) Pimander is the Nous or Divine Mens = Light, Luminous Word. It is the appearance to Trsimegistos of the illuminative reverie to achieve the purpose of the perennial Tradition by operating the metamorphic transformation and ascension of Man = his spiritual and physical Regeneration. In Poimandres the nature of the cosmos, the Logos, the 7 Administrators, Rulers and 7 Planets are summarized; without experiencing any ontological dualism. Its essential theme is the ascending and spiritual constitution of Man=''Nature is a Book where the Wisdom of the Divine Mind can be read''= Nous. Lactantius and St. Augustine knew these texts. Nous, instruct Hermes to be able to reflect the universe in one's own mind = Man know thyself... As we have seen, it teaches to grasp the Divine essence of Nature, and it is engraved in the depths of the being like a mirror. Mirror = speculation and idea that the universe is similar to a Sacred Book; that you have to know how to decipher and read. "Modern Western esotericism shares with Alexandrian Hermeticism a state of mind, together with a certain philosophical attitude and a reference—which is clear in certain texts of the Corpus—to an argument of fall and reintegration." (Antoine Faivre) Thoth Hermes teach us the right path to transcendent, unique and useful knowledge in a solid attempt by man, or rather his spirit, to access "consciously" to brighter and more peaceful spheres or worlds. Hermes Rough Stone Alchemy(27) Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.