Ī Mycenaean Greek reference to a deity or semi-deity called ti-ri-se-ro-e (Linear B: □□□□□ Tris Hḗrōs, "thrice or triple hero") was found on two Linear B clay tablets at Pylos and could be connected to the later epithet "thrice great", Trismegistos, applied to Hermes/Thoth. The renowned scribe Amenhotep and a wise man named Teôs were coequal deities of wisdom, science, and medicine and, thus, they were placed alongside Imhotep in shrines dedicated to Thoth–Hermes during the Ptolemaic Kingdom. The Egyptian priest and polymath Imhotep had been deified long after his death and therefore assimilated to Thoth in the classical and Hellenistic periods. Hermes, the Greek god of interpretive communication, was combined with Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. Consequently, the two gods were worshiped as one, in what had been the Temple of Thoth in Khemenu, which was known in the Hellenistic period as Hermopolis. Greeks in the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt recognized the equivalence of Hermes and Thoth through the interpretatio graeca. Hermes Trismegistus may be associated with the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. Thoout, Thoth Deux fois Grand, le Second Hermès, N372.2A, Brooklyn Museum In those traditions, Hermes Trismegistus has been associated with the prophet Idris. The figure of Hermes Trismegistus can also be found in both Islamic and Baháʼí writings. The wisdom attributed to this figure in antiquity combined a knowledge of both the material and the spiritual world, which rendered the writings attributed to him of great relevance to those who were interested in the interrelationship between the material and the divine. He is the purported author of the Hermetica, a widely diverse series of ancient and medieval pseudepigraphical texts that lay the basis of various philosophical systems known as Hermeticism. Hermes Trismegistus (from Ancient Greek: Ἑρμῆς ὁ Τρισμέγιστος, "Hermes the Thrice-Greatest" Classical Latin: Mercurius ter Maximus) is a legendary Hellenistic figure that originated as a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Alchemy, philosophy, magic, astrology, medicine: they are only a few of the fields covered by this most versatile of legendary philosophers.This article contains special characters. The Emerald Tablet and the Corpus Hermeticum are not the only works attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. It led to a fascination with the works of Hermes Trismegistus which persists to this day. … contains everything within him which is necessary to know for a Christian, described so masterfully, as ever did Moses or any prophet with it I have learnt, that the impartial God (who does not regard any person, but he who is righteous amongst all peoples and fears the Lord, he is agreeable to Him) is also the pagans’ God, and has always been so. A spiritualist like Sebastian Franck told his readers he had read the Hermetic works with great enthusiasm as Hermes Trismegistus: But reading the works of Hermes Trismegistus also made them realize that ‘All religions are one’, as William Blake would later write. Renaissance readers could read already in the first treatise of the Corpus Hermeticum that man is ‘twofold mortal because of body, but immortal because of the essential man’. In the Renaissance, when the Corpus Hermeticum was ‘redisovered’ and translated from Greek into Latin (first edition Treviso 1471), Hermetic thought led to a redefinition of man’s place in the universe. What is it about the works attributed to Hermes Trismegistus that they still appeal today? ‘That which is above, is like that which is below’, is one of the most pregnant lines of the Emerald Tablet, referring to the close bond between the macrocosm and the microcosm. In Dan Brown’s 2013 novel, Robert Langdon encounters Hermes Trismegistus as he reads the enigmatic Emerald Tablet Polke (1941-2010), one of Germany’s most celebrated modern painters, reworked the famous representation of Hermes Trismegistus in the floor mosaic of Siena’s Cathedral into a contemporary artwork. To name only two: Sigmar Polke’s Hermes Trismegistus I-IV, acquired by Museum De Pont in Tilburg, Dan Brown’s Inferno: both works were directly inspired by the ‘thrice-greatest’ philosopher. Written down in Alexandria some 2,000 years ago, the works attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus are still read and studied today and continue to inspire poets, novelists and artists. ‘Hermes, star of Alexandria’ – The Golden Builders, Tobias Churton God is an immortal man, man is a mortal god – Corpus Hermeticum God is an infinite sphere, the centre of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere – Book of the 24 philosophers
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