After a feast of Harmony novels, just to make my eyes with sheikhs and stalwart virgins forced into marriage (yes, I admit, I would like to be together I came to the !^_^), time to get back to serious matters. Waiting for the arrival of The Queen of the Damned and The Chess Black open this subsection dedicated to people who have written the history of magic and their works. Omit non-professional magicians (those of the epics, the number of priests and soothsayers) or charlatans to mention those who have had some relevance. I can not start from the famous Hermes Trismegistus. Who was he?
Hermes Trismegistus is a nebulous figure, similar to Romulus and King Arthur. Have been distributed to many merits, but the degree of identity is still unknown. The name is not random and invokes the god Hermes, the god of eloquence, connecting to the Egyptian Thoth. So the origins of this character are to be found in the Hellenic culture. A culture that merged with those derived from the Greek elements Eastern cultures, giving rise to different philosophies. Among them, the hermetic philosophy, which takes its name from Hermes Trismegistus.
This is therefore a wise magician, a knower of truth and a teacher. And how many of the essays is seen as a semi-god, as a mediator between the divine and the human, as indeed are Hermes and Thot. Moreover, many men have been deified in the past and many deities have undergone the process of evemerizzazione. Thus we find in the Cabala Hermes Trismegistus next to Moses, described as an essay in Upper Egypt who knew the same knowledge of the patriarch.
This is the hypothesis that had more spread throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The doctrine of Hermes, Hermeticism, alchemy becomes the basis of Western and cabal. In fact, the Cabalistic influence is obvious, so obvious as to suggest a possible identification of some Kabbalist with the legendary figure of Hermes. The Corpus Hermeticum, the work for which he is famous magician that seems to be the result of a reworking of the fourteenth century Kabbalistic knowledge. This is the Calvinist theory of Isaac Casaubon, who's certainly true considering that Hermeticism has spread widely in the Middle Ages and is mixed with the Cabala and alchemy. However, it is no doubt that philosophy has a hermetic and gnostic matrix was created in the Hellenistic period, around the fourth century AD, parallel to the spread of other philosophical currents of the Hellenic and Eastern religions. The discovery of the Nag Hammadi Corpus Hermeticum in the code is the proof of esoteric and gnostic Hermeticism. The mystery religions of Egypt described by Iamblichus very reminiscent of the magical operations contained in the work.
The Corpus Hermeticum contains 17 books and is divided into two parts, the Pymander and Ascelpius. Certainly the various writings have been modified by the Christian interpretation, but the meaning is esoteric and can be seen as a sign of common origin of all religions. Moreover it is in the mystical sphere that reveals the similarity of the various cults. The attention to the mystical sphere was very important in the Middle Ages and it is thought that the body has been redesigned for the first time in Michael Psellos 1050. But far greater was the intervention of Marsilio Ficino, Platonic humanist, who translated the Pymander for Cosimo de 'Medici in 1463. He traced the knowledge hermetic mystery cults and the Platonic philosophy. Analyzing the Pymander, we realize immediately that this is obvious. In
Pymander is explained the nature of God, which is the supreme good, his being infinitely superior to man and the possibility to reach it with knowledge. Knowledge is the magical Hermeticism, the Kabbalah and alchemy. Through formulas and natural elements that man can raise one's soul, gradually, to the divine plan. But it can also exert its will on nature's call and spiritual beings. Nell'Asclepius deepened this aspect of hermetic knowledge, an aspect that seems to counteract the beneficial purposes of the spell reported in Pymander. There is talk of telestikè, the art of demons and angels in jail for animate objects, a practice widely known and practiced in Egypt and in the same oriental mystery cults. However, there is not ever a positive or negative. The Hermetic magic is ambiguous, it can be as good as evil. Just as the alchemist can create new forms of matter, or destroying it and the Kabbalist can follow the path of Sephiroth or qlipoth.
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