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"The Life and Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus" by Manly P. Hall is a book that explores the legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus and the wisdom attributed to him. Hermes Trismegistus is a mythical and syncretic figure often associated with ancient Egypt and Greece, believed to be a master of various esoteric and philosophical disciplines, including alchemy, astrology, and spirituality. In this book, Manly P. Hall delves into the life, philosophy, and teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. He discusses the Hermetic tradition and its influence on Western thought and spirituality. The book explores the concept of Hermeticism, which encompasses a wide range of mystical and philosophical ideas, such as the principles of correspondence ("as above, so below"), the unity of all things, and the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment.

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Manly P. Hall

The Life and Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus

Illustrated

"The Life and Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus" by Manly P. Hall is a book that explores the legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus and the wisdom attributed to him. Hermes Trismegistus is a mythical and syncretic figure often associated with ancient Egypt and Greece, believed to be a master of various esoteric and philosophical disciplines, including alchemy, astrology, and spirituality.

In this book, Manly P. Hall delves into the life, philosophy, and teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. He discusses the Hermetic tradition and its influence on Western thought and spirituality. The book explores the concept of Hermeticism, which encompasses a wide range of mystical and philosophical ideas, such as the principles of correspondence ("as above, so below"), the unity of all things, and the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUPPOSITIONS CONCERNING THE IDENTITY OF HERMES
THE MUTILATED HERMETIC FRAGMENTS
HERMES MERCURIUS TRISMEGISTUS.
THE BOOK OF THOTH
POIMANDRES, THE VISION OF HERMES
THOTH, THE IBIS-HEADED
A GREEK FORM OF HERMES.

SUPPOSITIONS CONCERNING THE IDENTITY OF HERMES

Iamblichus averred that Hermes was the author of twenty thousand books; Manetho increased the number to more than thirty-six thousand (see James Gardner)-figures which make it evident that a solitary individual, even though he be overshadowed by divine prerogative, could scarcely have accomplished such a monumental labor. Among the arts and sciences which it is affirmed Hermes revealed to mankind were medicine, chemistry, law, arc, astrology, music, rhetoric, Magic, philosophy, geography, mathematics (especially geometry), anatomy, and oratory. Orpheus was similarly acclaimed by the Greeks.

In his Biographia Antiqua, Francis Barrett says of Hermes:

“if God ever appeared in man, he appeared in him, as is evident both from his books and his Pymander; in which works he has communicated the sum of the Abyss, and the divine knowledge to all posterity; by which he has demonstrated himself to have been not only an inspired divine, but also a deep philosopher, obtaining his wisdom from God and heavenly things, and not from man.”

 

 

His transcendent learning caused Hermes to be identified with many of the early sages and prophets. In his Ancient Mythology, Bryant writes: “I have mentioned that Cadmus was the same as the Egyptian Thoth; and it is manifest from his being Hermes, and from the invention of letters being attributed to him.” (In the chapter on the theory of Pythagorean Mathematics will be found the table of the original Cadmean letters.) Investigators believe that it was Hermes who was known to the Jews as “Enoch,” called by Kenealy the “Second Messenger of God.” Hermes was accepted into the mythology of the Greeks, later becoming the Mercury of the Latins. He was revered through the form of the planet Mercury because this body is nearest to the sun: Hermes of all creatures was nearest to God, and became known as the Messenger of the Gods.