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Time is like a circle, where all the points are so linked that one cannot say where it begins or ends, for all points precede and follow one another for ever. Humanity looked in awe upon the beauty and the everlasting duration of creation.

Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity."

The old Hermetic axiom ran in these words: "As above, so below; as below, so above." [...] This Principle is of universal application and manifestation, on the various planes of the material, mental, and spiritual universe– it is an Universal Law.

Hermes Trismegistus, the Greek name applied to the Egyptian god Thoth as the reputed author or source of the Hermetic writings, works of revelation on occult subjects and theology.

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In the Greek stories, from an early age, Hermes showed Zeus that he was honest and loyal. Because of this, Zeus made him the messenger of the gods who kept secret information safe. He brought information between the gods and mortals, or humans. To be mortal means you are able to die.

The Hermeticists believe in one transcendent God and that “All is One” in the universe, though they also believe in the existence of other beings such as aeons, angels and elementals. Hermeticism influenced Judaism, Islam and Christianity, especially the early Christian Gnostics who were considered heretics.

"Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."

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Time is like a circle, where all the points are so linked that one cannot say where it begins or ends, for all points precede and follow one another for ever.

"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates." In Hermeticism, the Principle of Vibration implies that everything in the universe is in constant motion and vibration.

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The caduceus (☤; /kəˈdjuːʃəs, -siəs/; Latin: cādūceus, from Greek: κηρύκειον kērū́keion "herald's wand, or staff") is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology.

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Hermes possesses the typical powers of an Olympian; superhuman strength, durability, stamina, agility, and reflexes. He is immortal as well as resistant to all terrestrial diseases. Hermes can run and fly at speeds exceeding those of any other Olympian god or goddess.

In the Hermetic view, God is both the all (Greek: to pan) and the creator of the all: all created things pre-exist in God and God is the nature of the cosmos (being both the substance from which it proceeds and the governing principle which orders it), yet the things themselves and the cosmos were all created by God.

Numerous depictions of Hermes as a shepherd god carrying a lamb on his shoulders (Hermes kriophoros) have been found throughout the Mediterranean world, and it is possible that the iconography of Hermes as "The Good Shepherd" had an influence on early Christianity, specifically in the description of Christ as "the Good ...

Hermetic writings, works of revelation on occult, theological, and philosophical subjects ascribed to the Egyptian god Thoth (Greek Hermes Trismegistos [Hermes the Thrice-Greatest]), who was believed to be the inventor of writing and the patron of all the arts dependent on writing.

Hermes trades Apollo his lyre for the cattle and finally swears an oath to never steal or use trickery against the immortals. In return, Apollo grants Hermes the caduceus, patronage over several kinds of animals, and appoints Hermes as the messenger to Hades.

Birth is not the beginning of life - only of an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death - only the ending of this awareness. No eyes will raise to heaven.

He [Hermes] took me [Odysseus] by the hand and spoke to me and named me, saying: “Where are you going, unhappy man, all alone through the hilltops, ignorant of the land-lay, and your friends are here in Circe's place, in the shape of pigs and holed up in the close of pig pens. Do you come here meaning to set them free?