Hermeticism: The Ancient Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus

The legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes Thrice Great) is the inspiration for the spiritual teachings known as Hermeticism. He is a syncretism (joining) of the Greek deity Hermes, the winged messenger of the Gods, and his Egyptian counterpart, the Ibis-headed moon god Thoth.  
The Way of Hermes involved altered states of consciousness in which practitioners went through a training regime that involved luminous visions, spiritual rebirth, cosmic consciousness, and union with the divine beauty of universal goodness and truth to attain the salvational knowledge known as gnosis.

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⌛ Timestamps

(0:00) Introduction
(3:43) Renaissance of Hermeticism
(9:33) Technical and Religio-philosophical Hermetica
(11:38) Where to start?
(15:53) Gnosis
(18:36) Hermeticism and Gnosticism
(21:40) Eusebeia
(22:50) The Hermetic Universe: Ogdoad, Ennead, the One
(25:20) The Three Worlds: God, Cosmos, Man
(28:03) The Three Faculties: Logos, Gnosis, Nous
(29:08) Corpus Hermeticum: Introduction
(30:48) The Vision of Poimandres (Nous)
(37:05) Corpus Hermeticum: Hermes and Tat
(43:05) The Discourse on the Ogdoad and Ennead
(46:22) Writing as Healing or Poison (Pharmakon)
(48:24) The Illusion of Death
(50:30) Man as a Divine Being

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