Hermes Trismegisto

Statue of Hermes by Ernst Herter, commissioned by Elizabeth of Austria

Hermes era conocido en tiempos antiguos como el gran sabio a quien se han atribuido escritos sagrados y obras alquímicas y astrológicas. Debido a sus conocimientos y gran habilidad en las artes y las ciencias, los egipcios le pusieron el nombre de Trismegistus, que significa «tres veces grande». El título «tres veces grande» también se refiere a su papel como filósofo, sacerdote y rey.

El maestro ascendido Hermes Trismegisto también es conocido como el Dios Mercurio. Hermes caminó por la Tierra durante decenas de miles de años. Estuvo en la Atlántida, caminó por sus calles, estuvo en sus templos y salas de aprendizaje y dio su enseñanza. Además, figura como el gran arquetipo del mensajero de los dioses.

James Campbell Brown escribe en su libro History of Chemistry (Historia de la química):

Una serie de libros egipcios antiguos son atribuidos a Hermes Trismegisto, que pudiera haber sido un verdadero sabio o la personificación de una larga sucesión de escritores… Algunos lo identifican con el dios griego Hermes [equiparado con el dios romano Mercurio] y el dios egipcio Thot… Los egipcios lo consideraban como el dios de la sabiduría, las letras y el registro del tiempo.

The historical record

Until the seventeenth century, Hermes was thought to have been a contemporary of Moses. His writings were considered by Christians to be almost as sacred as the Bible. Church Father Justin Martyr even went so far as to compare him to Jesus. The Greek Church Father Clement of Alexandria spoke of forty-two “Books of Thoth” dealing with priestly education, temple ritual, geography, astrology, guidance for kings, hymns to the gods and medicine. Regrettably, these were lost in the burning of the library at Alexandria.

Scholars today tell us Hermes was an ancient Egyptian sage, or perhaps a succession of sages. They believe that a whole line of teachers or a priesthood may have written under the name Hermes. The prevailing theory is that the Hermetic writings may span several centuries, dating as late as the first or second century A.D.

According to an ancient Egyptian historian, Hermes wrote 36,525 books. His subjects included alchemy, astrology and theology. He was looked to as the custodian of wisdom and literature. In order to enlighten the people, Hermes had his instructions engraved in hieroglyphics upon tables or columns of stone throughout Egypt.

Some have placed Hermes in the time period before the Flood. Archaeologist James Churchward traces Thoth back to the days of Atlantis. The Egyptians honored Thoth as the god of wisdom, learning and literature. They saw him as the inventor of all arts and sciences, including writing, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, theology, political economy, medicine, surgery, music and musical instruments. He was believed to be the scribe of the gods.

Scholar Hargrave Jennings writes:

Another Thoth, or Hermes, is said to have lived at a later period. He was equally celebrated with the former, and to him is particularly appropriated, by some, the name of Trismegistus. According to Manetho [an Egyptian priest and historian c. 300 B.C.], he [this second Thoth] translated from engraved tables of stone, which had been buried in the earth, the sacred characters of the first Hermes. He wrote the explanation of them in books, which were deposited in the Egyptian temples.

Hermes Trismegistus, from Viridarium chymicum, D. Stolcius von Stolcenbeerg (1624)

La tabla esmeralda

Hermes Trismegisto también ha sido denominado padre de la alquimia. Según una leyenda, una losa de esmeralda hallada en su tumba tenía inscritos los preceptos de Hermes para hacer oro. Esta tabla esmeralda contenía el conocido axioma hermético, «lo que está abajo es como lo que está arriba, y lo que está arriba es como lo que está abajo».

Un antiguo autor que afirmaba haber visto la piedra dijo que era una esmeralda en la que los caracteres estaban representados en bajo relieve y no tallados. Habiendo estado el material en estado líquido, como vidrio derretido, había sido echado en un molde y se le había dado la dureza de una esmeralda genuina por medios alquímicos.

La tabla esmeralda ha sido considerada por mucho tiempo en las escuelas de misterios como una de las más antiguas y profundas exposiciones de alquimia espiritual. Presenta una fórmula alquímica que ha sido utilizada por adeptos y alquimistas durante miles de años con el fin de asimilar el conocimiento más esencial tanto de la transmutación física como de la regeneración espiritual. Sin embargo, es claro que sus afirmaciones ocultan a todos, menos al verdadero alquimista, su significado interno.

El maestro ascendido Hermes ha dado enseñanza sobre la tabla esmeralda del corazón:

Yo, Hermes, mensajero de los dioses y también aquél llamado Mercurio, he permanecido, he aquí, estas decenas de miles de años y más para que haya una antorcha de recuerdo, una inscripción de la Ley en la tabla esmeralda de vuestro corazón.

Porque, he aquí, la tabla esmeralda en la cámara secreta de vuestro corazón ahora es desvelada por vuestro Santo Ser Crístico, el sacerdote-filósofo-científico que oficia ante el altar del cambio inalterable. Ese es el cambio que debe llegar, que debe llegar porque YO SOY y porque vosotros sois también el hombre Divino.

Él nos dio instrucción, diciendo,

... no descuidéis el corazón; y llamad al fuego sagrado para que derrita y transmute diariamente toda la dureza de corazón, el descuido espiritual y los registros de muerte que rodean el centro solar de vuestro chakra del corazón. Seamos diligentes y expandamos el corazón, porque de él mana la vida.

The Hermetic tradition

The Hermetic tradition teaches that it is through mystical experience that man attains liberation. Scholar Sidney Spencer writes:

The Hermetic mystic sees his unity with all beings. The purgation and illumination of the soul which he attains brings him the consciousness of universal fellowship, and it is his task to do good to all.

In the Mahatma Letters the Master K.H. praises Hermetic philosophy:

Hermetic Philosophy suits every creed and philosophy and clashes with none. It is the boundless ocean of Truth, the central point whither flows and wherein meet every river, whether its source be in the East, West, North, or South. As the course of the river depends upon the nature of its basin, so the channel for the communication of Knowledge must conform itself to surrounding circumstances. The Egyptian Hierophant, the Chaldean Mage, the Arhat, and the Rishi, were bound in days of yore on the same voyage of discovery and ultimately arrived at the same goal though by different tracks.

According to scholar Walter Scott, some of the Hermetic texts may have been written down by the pupils of Ammonius Saccas, a renowned third-century Alexandrian teacher and one of the founders of the Neoplatonic movement. He was a teacher of Origen. Helena Blavatsky considered that the most important goal of the Theosophical Society was to revive the work of Ammonius Saccas. Blavatsky wrote:

It was Ammonius who first taught that every religion was based on one and the same truth; which is the wisdom found in the Books of Thoth (Hermes Trismegistus), from which books Pythagoras and Plato had learned all their philosophy.

Today, fewer than twenty sermons and some additional fragments of Hermes’ teachings remain. In 1945 three Hermetic tracts were discovered at Nag Hammadi, thus indicating a link between the Gnostic and Hermetic schools. The Gnostics, who flourished in the second century A.D., believed that the most important element in the soul’s spiritual quest was gnosis—a Greek word meaning “knowledge.” We see this same principle reflected in the Hermetic teachings. Scholar Giovanni Filoramo says:

The Hermes texts were written in the form of gentle scholarly dialogues in which Hermes teaches a closed group of disciples. They are imbued with an irrepressible desire for knowledge of God. Their ideological structure is an attitude of genuine, deep devotion as the way to knowledge of oneself and of God.

The lineage of the planet Mercury

El maestro ascendido Hermes es el patrocinador de El Morya y de todos aquellos que han venido del planeta Mercurio. El Morya explica lo siguiente:

Las oleadas de vida de hijos e hijas de Dios cuya evolución viene de Mercurio, que han servido con Sanat Kumara y que ahora habitan en la Tierra, provienen de una evolución que conocimos hace mucho. En ese cuerpo planetario, el problema de la luz y la oscuridad estaba presente…

Viendo el desafío y habiéndonos enseñado el Dios Mercurio, sabíamos que la inquebrantable devoción a la voluntad de Dios, el concentrar interiormente la energía en el punto diamantino del Yo, el blandir la espada de llama azul así como la maestría sobre la acción de claves foháticas, darían como resultado la victoria…

God gave to us, as we fought the battle of worlds on Mercury, that energy, that power—only because we were willing to balance the threefold flame, to pursue wisdom and wisdom’s might, to intensify such love in every cell and in the flame of every cell, so that our auras were so saturated with love that there was no possibility for the misqualification of one erg of God’s power through any form of tyranny whatsoever....

Beloved ones, the victory of Mercury has not yet been concluded. A greater part of the victory was won, yet certain sons of light and certain fallen ones had not reached the culmination of their evolution. They were, therefore, assigned to other planetary homes and systems. Some of the fallen ones became aligned with the laggard evolutions that eventually embodied on earth. Some of the sons and daughters of God journeyed to Venus and later accompanied Sanat Kumara to earth.

Flying Mercury (Mercure volant), Giambologna (late 16th century)

The arts of communication

Hermes calls those who would take up the arts of communication in defense of Truth:

I am a messenger of the Gods and I have a message that I must deliver to your hearts....

I speak of the lineage of the initiates of Mercury—those who have fashioned their skill by the sword and the pen, those who have acquainted themselves with the mind of God and have claimed that mind, who have come from a lineage that antedates myself. Truly, there is a lineage of those who have been called Hermes, the name being the title of an office. Thus, there is a descent of those whose craft has been to set forth in writing and in other forms of communication that which is Real, that which is unreal, that which is necessary information to the body politic round the world that they might know and understand the way to go....

There are those whom I myself have trained under my mantle as God Mercury. We who bear the shield and the armour of the Sun must therefore go up and down the nations of the earth and call out those who have the original communication skills, who practiced those skills in ancient times and on ancient continents and are willing to once again take the lead in the dissemination of the Truth and in exposing error. You must come forward! For the Truth must be made known....

Set forth the message! Set forth the platform for its delivery in your area of expertise! And if you think you have no expertise, go out and get it, and study and prove yourself to be one who will make that statement and make that name, not only for yourself but for God and all the ascending ones. I AM Hermes and I say to you: I shall overshadow any of you, each and every one of you, who will learn these disciplines.

His service today

At the present time, Hermes serves in the retreat in Arabia where he is the patron of the science of alchemy—which Saint Germain has defined as the all-chemistry of God. His aura is a brilliant gold; he wears white robes and has long hair. He is the image of the ancient wisdom and the androgynous nature of the Deity.

See also

Thoth

Mercury (the planet)

For more information

MP3 audio album Emerald Matrix: The Perfect Light includes a lecture on Hermes and a dictation by him.

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Hermes Trismegistus (God Mercury).”