Because it is a beautiful thing and perhaps nothing more than that, and because as we begin another calendar year in a world where beauty and things which stir and elevate the mind are increasingly in short supply and, incidentally, a world without any gods to guide us, we need something that may lift us out of the cloying embrace of our combined efforts to destroy ourselves and the beautiful world we live in, to reach out and extend our myopic vision towards higher ideals and purposes than that which we have allowed to clog our minds and hinder the true purposes of our existence, I am featuring here something which might provide just that kind of inspiration.
I will get to that in a moment. But first, by way of introduction…
For around the last two thousand five hundred years we have been alone on this planet. The gods are gone. Long gone. Humanity has lurched from one catastrophic endeavour, seeking pre-eminence, to another, and another. Finding ever more cruel and effective ways of subduing and killing one another. The gods who guided us and civilised us – also, incidentally, who created us – are no longer here to perform those duties. The departure of the gods occured during the power period of the great Persian Empire. There are many historically important things to learn from that (perhaps another time). Therefore that has also been true (and observable) throughout all subsequent empires, including that of the Greeks – which, under Alexander, summarily disposed of the Persian armies. And also that of the Roman empire, an even greater one, which followed the period of Grecian greatness. A great many advances (?? if that’s the right word) took place during those final periods of true empire. That is, in the 1,000 years between mid first millenium BCE and mid first millennium CE. ’Advances’ which shaped the world we have today, and much of its belief systems and philosophies. All occurring after the gods left us behind to fend for ourselves.
One of those ‘advances’ was the compiling of the Corpus Hermeticum or the Hermetic Texts, by the Greeks, some time in the second or third centuries of the current era. I relate this to articulate that the things spoken in these texts are the words of men – not of gods – they being written after the departure of those gods. However, that does not preclude the possibility they are simply copies of earlier works, dictated or written by the gods themselves, documents – now lost – found and further copied (translated) by the Greeks themselves. That also applies, incidentally, to the written works of Judaism and Christianity, but also does not mean that any of these texts are not works of beauty or power, but not necessarily truth.
One part of the Hermetic Texts, portraying a supposed dialogue between the Greek god Hermes and the Greek god Asclepius, is the translated document ‘The Asclepius‘, otherwise known as ‘The Perfect Sermon’.
A translation of the final three parts of this work is read here by one of the great explorers and authors of our time (an extraordinary man), Graham Hancock. I hope you find it both interesting and challenging, as I did. A different translation, perhaps more precise but less modern, can be followed in parts XXIV to XXVI of the link above.
It is not my belief that the content of the writing to which this refers, can be properly defined as a ‘prophesy’ – neither for ourselves nor for the 2nd/3rd century Greek writers. My belief is that these events had already begun happening at the time of compiling of the Corpus Hermeticum, and are written as long past conversations between gods no longer present, based either on no longer extant original documents or the writers’ imagination. The same forecast events are still in play, down to our own times. The signals are all there, and we can witness much of what is said first hand today.
One final point, Hermes, as related in the video, was the same persona as both the Egyptian deity Thoth and the Roman deity Mercury. That is they were actually the same person, there being only one set of gods across the whole world. One family of gods in fact – the descendants of the great Anunnaki chief god Anu and his wife and half-sister, Antu. Not mentioned though is the fact that Hermes was also, and most likely the original Anunnaki god Ningishzidda – son of Enki, son of Anu (but not of his wife) – of the pantheon of Sumeria and other regional cultures (civilisations rising millennia before the Greeks), and also of the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl. Both per Zechariah Sitchin. That omission by hancock perhaps because he doesn’t personally rate Sitchin’s work too highly. That’s a shame, because how can he reconcile the line he quoted – “the gods will return from Earth to heaven” – to not be a reference to the the comings (and goings) of the Anunnaki gods – which Sitchin has the perfect explanation for? Not only that but the fact that Mr Hancock has been searching for decades to find evidence of a hidden pre-human civilisation. He is convinced there is one but fails to accept it is actually that of the Anunnaki, who are known to have operated all across the world, not just in the acknowledged centres of human origin, for more than 300 million years. He should go talk to Michael Tellinger who has investigated the ancient civilisation of Southern Africa where the Anunnaki conducted much of their gold mining activities and first created a primitive form of man to work those in those mines long before the great flood and far away from any Ice Age interference.
I will say no more, otherwise I would only be sermonising. Make of that, and take from that, what you will.
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