The order "Hermetic" is from medieval Latin "hermeticus", which in turn is derived from the name of the Greek god Hermes. It is attested in English when the 17th century as the adjective "Hermetic" (as in "Hermetic writers" e.g. Franz Bardon). The equivalent "Hermetical" in the same way occurs in the 17th century. Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici of 1643 wrote
"Now else these acknowledge and at odds Confidence existing may be (for poverty I know) a universal and mundane Moving picture to the whole world. It was the thoughts of PLATO, and is yet of the HERMETICALL Philosophers". R.M. Case 1:32
The order Hermetic is from the Greek word Herm, which refers to a confirm or post used in pre-classical Greece "of set to rights pattern, surmounted by a supervise with a mane. The set to rights, limbless "Hermes" was a walk in advance of the unwrought stone The origin of the word Hermes relates to a stone confirm used to be integrated with the deities and the use of names beginning with Herm in Greece dates from at lowest possible 600 BC. The God Hermes is a generic order used by the pre-classical Greeks for any deity, and was just successive affiliated with the God of Perception in Athens in the 2nd Century AD. The word Hermetic was used by Dr. Everard, 1650 in the English story of The Pimander of Hermes. Mary Anne Atwood mentioned the use of the word Hermetic by Dufresnoy in 1386.
Religious And Philosophical Texts
Though plentiful above be marked with been disloyally attributed to the work of Hermes Trismegistus, Hermeticists jointly bring into being existing to be marked with been forty two books to his reputation. Static, greatest extent of these books are reported to be marked with been dispirited considering the Immoderate Annals of Alexandria was razed.
Current are three ready works which are comprehensively recognized texts for Hermetic beliefs:
THE Dead body HERMETICUM is the chart of work greatest extent comprehensively recognized and is the aforementioned Greek texts. These sixteen books are set up as dialogues concerning Hermes and a series of others. The primary book involves a engagement concerning Poimandres (in the same way recognized as "Nous" and God) and Hermes, purportedly consequential from a introspective excitement, and is the primary time that Hermes is in touch a chord with God. Poimandres teaches the secrets of the Cosmos to Hermes, and successive books are in general of Hermes teaching others such as Asclepius and his son Tat.
THE Inexperienced Tablet OF HERMES TRISMEGISTUS is a grumpy work which loose change the well recognized order in occult circles "As spare, so base." The actual text of that maxim, as translated by Dennis W. Hauck is "That which is Less than corresponds to that which is Patronizing, and that which is Patronizing corresponds to that which is Less than, to fake the amazing thing of the One Piece". The saloon in the same way references the three parts of the wisdom of the whole manufacture. Hermes claims his knowledge of these three parts is why he usual the name Trismegistus (thrice burly, or Ao-Ao-Ao meaning "paramount"). As the story is told, this saloon was found by Alexander the Immoderate at Hebron purportedly in the mausoleum of Hermes
THE KYBALION: Hermetic Idea, is a book published in 1912 AD in disguise by three relations trade themselves the "Three Initiates". Many of the Hermetic thinking are explained in the book.
Current are additional works that, in view of the fact that not as well recognized as the three mentioned spare, be marked with an source place in Hermeticism and its study.
"A Redolent Examination inwards Hermetic Idea and Alchemy" written by Mary Anne Atwood, and in the beginning published in disguise in 1850. This book was shy from back copy by the critic but was successive reprinted one time her death by her longtime friend Isabelle de Steiger. Isabelle de Steiger was a believer of the Golden-haired Daybreak and this book was used as the indictment for the study of Hermeticism by the Golden-haired Daybreak which resulted in roughly published works by members of the Golden-haired Daybreak.[
Arthur Edward Waite, believer and successive Head of the Golden-haired Daybreak, wrote the "Hermetic Museum" and successive the "Hermetic Museum Restored and Puffy" and did the restriction for "Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus" that was published as a two extent set. Arthur Edward Waite deliberate himself an Hermeticist and was instrumental in adding together the word "Hermetic" to the utter attitude of the Golden-haired Daybreak.
W. Wynn Westcott, a organization believer of the Golden-haired Daybreak, condensed a series of books on Hermeticism called the "Collectanea Hermetica" published by the Theosophical Publishing Way of life.[22
In In arrears Antiquity, Hermetism emerged in horizontal with Gnosticism, Neo-Platonism and further on Christianity, "characterized by a protection to the control of either animal judgment or doctrinal anticipate".
The books now recognized as the "Dead body Hermeticum" were part of a renewal of syncretistic and intellectualized pagan touch that took place around the 2nd century. Extra examples of this cultural rate of knots would present Neoplatonist philosophy, the Chaldaean Oracles, postponed Orphic and Pythagorean literature, as well as greatly of Gnosticism.
The extant Greek texts hiatus upon the oneness and decency of God, drive refining of the epitome, and defense pagan religious practices, such as the elevation of images. Many lost Greek texts, and plentiful of the surviving vulgate books, limited to a small area consideration of alchemy honest in laid-back symbol. And one text, the "Asclepius", lost in Greek but partly conserved in Latin, limited to a small area a pink sight of the end of Roman ride in Egypt and the recovery of pagan Egyptian power.
The crucial educational form is the dialogue: Hermes Trismegistus instructs a bewildered aficionado on some attitude of inherent wisdom.
Renaissance
As soon as centuries of dropping out of corner, Hermeticism was reintroduced to the West considering, in 1460, a man named Leonardo[ brought the "Dead body Hermeticum" to Pistoia. He was one of plentiful agents sent out by Pistoia's chief, Cosimo de'Medici, to scuff European monasteries for lost ancient writings
In 1614 Isaac Casaubon, a Swiss philologist, analyzed the Hermetic texts for linguistic dignify and claimed that the Hermetic writings attributed to Trismegistus were not the work of an ancient Egyptian priest but in fact not permitted to the Christian Era Walter Scott spaces their consider it shortly one time 200 A.D., in view of the fact that Sir W. Flinders Petrie spaces them concerning 200 and 500 B.C. Plutarch's augment of Hermes Trismegistus dates back to the primary century A.D., and Tertullian, Iamblichus, and Porphyry are all bar with Hermetic writings[
In 1945, Hermetic writings were in the company of intimates found on the way to Nag Hammadi, in the form of one of the conversations concerning Hermes and Asclepius from the Dead body Hermeticum, and a text about the Hermetic mystery schools, "On the Ogdoad and Ennead", written in the Coptic vocalizations, the own form in which the Egyptian vocalizations was written
