What is Hermeticism? 

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Not always. Goof ball. Hermes another meaning in Asian culture means the life force or sperm.

@@wytrose4602 shut up

Because the prudent, wise and humble one sees the Oneness even in the Multipicity while the scholars argue and bicker in corporal affairs.

@@zainwaseem5507 it's funny you describe oneness, because prudent, wise, and humble, are all personal perspective. you've just described a person only believing in what they choose, despite the mass consensus elsewhere....

@@Tripster369 I don't think it has anything to do with the study of the human psyche. those are more the things that psychology studies, inherently all personally held and emotionally felt beliefs. added: I'm under the impression holistic practices are placebo effect, as a technical term, as the human mind truly controls the world one experiences.

It’s almost like we’re all 99.8% the exact same person, w/ the same feelings, the same flaws, etc

@@e7ebr0w i feel obligated to point out the massive contradiction in what you have stated while attempting to obfuscate the previous comments. You started by saying it must not have anything to do with the mind, then went on to say that psyche dictates the world which one experiences. The latter is the truest statement one can make. The psyche is the lens through which all humans, in all places and in all times, perceive the world. So, if it is not a matter of psyche, and psyche is the word from which psychology derives its meaning, then what is it a matter of? Given that we will never, ever, know a world outside of the psyche, the supreme lens of everything, one cannot dispense with the notion that it is a matter of the psyche. What would the opposing viewpoint be, that it is a matter of matter? Something animates matter. We experience the body (soma) by means of the psyche and the external world through means of the psyche. The subject-object relationship is eternal, given that all of our pontifications are perpetually ablaze inside, and never outside, of the subject-object relationship. The oneness, the perennial aspects of the religions of the world, is truer and deeper than you seem to have considered.

I hope you're doing better now!

You may have needed that time in your life, these feelings can shape your entire life

Hope you're ok. I am having the same issues after losing my mother to Cancer. I was her care taker.

​@@glitzandgratitude1170 So sorry for your loss. I hope you're doing okay ❤

@@Travishibachi87 thank you I hope you are good too!

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Weird is good in my book! Cant stand all the zombies shuffling around all trying to fit in....

@@mikehunt8375 my aunt is anti-vax, moon landing is fake, vaccine has chips and God knows what else lol

@@StreetfighterU I guess there's a good weird and a bad weird 😅 I'd certainly not want to be taken for an antivaxxer.

@@howwewitch There are only two types of people. Those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.

I like the idea of a viewer on RU-vid referring to viewing a video they had nothing to with as “working together” I know that’s not what’s happened here but just a funny type of person to imagine

@@michaelpacinus242 ummmmm... They both worked on their hermeticism vids together and have some videos together

@@michaelpacinus242 A producer and a viewer are cooperating to forward a channel!

@@lm7338 did you read my whole comment? Or were you too excited to play teachers pet to read part where I said I know that’s not what happened here?

@@michaelpacinus242 That is not what I meant at all. There was no hostility or belittling in my comment.

Its nothing more than sympathetic magic that has been practiced by pagans for over 3000 years.

What's awesome is that once you have a basic working knowledge of hermetic symbols you realize how much every esoteric religious spheres of knowledge are the same including voodoo symbols viking runes and wiccan symbols. Not to mention alchemy and kabala it all comes from hermetics unless there is an older version from which the Egyptians got it virtually every Mystery school from ancient times had their own variations but once you see it you see it every where. Basically every great civilization had the common religion or the slave religion which is what Sun cults are and a secret elite religion which Is what the common people weren't allowed to know about because it would bring empires down if the people worshiping found out that it's just a story to keep them under control. The elites of the Egyptians empire for example knew that their gods were not physical beings but represented celestial cycles of movement and forces of nature or seasonal changes. Basically it's all just math, astronomy and numbers representing cycles of time or measurements of distances. And of course geometry and medicine sound frequencies that could with repetition could alter states of consciousnes or basically music. All of which were seen as magic ical concepts to the ancient peoples if they weren't in on the secret. So if you can predict an eclipse because you have a working knowledge of the long cycle of the earths orbit around the Sun you could rule over a primitive people who would look at it as a divine skill

Finally someone else gets it 😂I was laughing scrolling through the comments

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As above, so below

@@bvdskies9998 "As within, so without" - The Kybalion by the three initiates

Technically speaking the Kybalion is not a Hermetic text. Hermetic inspired? Maybe

Not to mention quantum physics.

@@zray2937 creep

@@zray2937 i had have a quantum dollar

@@themushroom2130 I love you

@@ElevenDollarCheese that would because 'quantum physics' is merely ancient judaic/Babylonian mysticism repackaged.. hint - it is not "science" but just a facade for the mystery school priesthood to externalize their esoteric/luciferian/theosophic doctrines to the public. Hermes is the paganized (deified) Cush .. or Kish.

Thank you very much! I compose it specifically for the videos!

@@LetsTalkReligion that background ambient/drone atmosphere to your speech is subliminally phenomenal!

@@LetsTalkReligion you are a great composer!!!

@@LetsTalkReligion Wauw, you composed it, very beautiful sound! Thank you again for the informative video!

Sounds like the sun shining

"Intellectually satisfying". That's a great way of putting it.

I would add Zoroaster and Mani

@@jesuschristthesecond and prophet Muhammad SWS

@@JamesEagan because I understand the spirit Buddhism understands.

@@JamesEagan we just understand differently

@@JamesEagan back off.

Indeed! I think the reason for it as plain then as it is now: we relate better to ideas from someone who is/was one of the people, someone who is just like us and can in turn relate to human condition.

@@irbis_rosh But we have to be extra careful here because the idea that a more human condition would make a deity more relatable may only be true to modern Westerners rooted in Judeo-Christian culture. Euhemerism (the technical term for this) was traditionally a literary method used to degrade or demistify older deities by proponents of a new faith or straight-out atheism. Euhemerus himself was what passed for a Classical era Greek atheist. He proposed that all the gods of Greek mythology were just deified ancient rulers and heroes, so there is no true divine presence in the world. He got a lot of flak from his contemporaries for this assertion. A better example of how Euhemerism was used in the past can be seen in how Christian writers denied the godhood of ancient Celtic deities like the Tuatha de Danaan by turning them into a tribe descended from Lot, or in Snorri inventing human lineages for the Aesir. We don't even have to look at past examples. In today's PRC, the standard way to deny the divinity of ancient deities is to point out their human origins. This is why Chinese children are educated that the esteemed Guan Gong was just a Three Kingdoms general, Guan Yin (Avalokitesvara) was originally an Indian Buddhist monk, not a goddess, Bu Dai was a Tang era monk who laughed at people's worship of Buddha (because it actually goes against Siddharta's own precepts), Laozi and Kongzi both decried superstition, and Sun the Monkey was a (somewhat racist) metaphorical representation of the monk Xuanzang's Turkic bodyguards. Every single one of these assertions is true, and they help in making these ancient gods unworthy of veneration to the current generation of Chinese people. The reason why people raised in Judeo-Christian cultures feel otherwise is precisely because Jesus was always presented from the start as a man who walked the earth. Therefore it's the norm for God to have a human form or human origins. That's why it's relatable to us now. The same may not be true in the past, especially to pagans.

@@andrewsuryali8540 Thanks for taking the time to write this comment. Indeed, Euhemerism (I did know of the term, but not its origin) could very well be a deeply-ingrained 'Western' concept. To add to the anecdotes: when European Indologists and Buddist scholars started reading the Pali canon, they tried to use the same rationalization technique (sometimes with the 'criterion of embarrassment'), trying to demystify the overtly magical aspects of the text, to find a 'historical' Buddha within the mythological corpus of the canon. And similarly with the 'Jefferson Bible', the equation "mythology - rationalization = history" does not make sense. It merely reveals modern pretentions to what counts as rational.

@@andrewsuryali8540 - Well, Euhemerus was, if not completely right, at least onto something: the ancient gods may not have necesarily been ancestors but they are always reflection of what is going down in the actual Earth: fact > history > legend > legend with gods in main roles. For me it's transparent that the Titanomachy represents the Greek (Indoeuropean) conquest of pre-Indoeuropean (Pelasgo-Tyrsenian) Greece and the Gigantomachy the Indoeuropean conquest of Central Europe (a thousand years earlier or more), while Prometheus-Loki (clearly the same character at the core) seem to reflect a memory of Bell Beaker (pre-Indoeuropan, Vasconic-2) 'threatening' influence in Central Europe, etc. Anyway, what's happening here, with Hermetism, is not euhemrism but apotheosis, by making all those anoymous authors and compilers into one single god: Hermes-Thoth or Hermes Trismegistus, which was not by any chance the god of scribes (at least as Thoth, Hermes is the Hellenistic version).

@Joe Becker jeSUS

And it was

@@h3rm1tspaceballer23 In three words, I know you share a similar experience to my own. What really freaked me out was the part in the Kybalion that says the book will present itself to you at the right time, when it's needed. This is precisely what it did. How can you ignore something as profound as that?

@@axiomseven448 I needed to Google your reply in order to understand what you're saying. I learnt it's from the Quran and of its various meanings. I'm guessing there are passages related to what I said and I thank you for enlightening me further. Personally, I believe ALL faiths of good intent share a common similarity. They all believe in the Divine. This means all religions are valid, since fundamentally they believe in the same thing. I've come to realise it's not HOW you pursue the Divine that matters. What matters is, the pursuit itself. In my mind, to see other faiths as invalid is to deny the Divine's existence, since they are all one and the same. Someone once tried to catch me out with my thoughts on this and asked me a question designed to stump me. They asked; if all religions are the same and believe in the same thing, how come some religions have more than one God? The answer immediately popped into my head, I replied, "The Divine is and isn't, everywhere and nowhere. It is infinite, it is one (or none). The Divine is a paradox that can be resolved logically. One needs only to have their eyes and mind open to this in order to see it." Peace. DD. ☮

How the hell is your last paragraph so accurate.

@@TheShadowPerson. It attests my belief to read your kind words. I merely speak with eyes opened, drawn from life experiences and my heart. Peace. DD. ☮

Wait where’d you get them?

@@qglow-5609 u can find them at online bookstores - amazon, abebooks, etc. I got them both on Amazon. Fascinating read.

Just so you know, the Kybalion isn’t actually hermetic at all, it was written under a pseudonym by a New Thought author named William Walker Atkinson. Sadly the teachings have nothing in common with actual Hermetic principles and teachers but are a new age invention. I was shocked too when I learned this as The Kybalion used to be my fave book and was my introduction to Hermeticism.

The Corpus Hermeticism(necessary philosophical basis for technical/magical texts) and the Greek Magical Papyri(texhnical/magical) the true ancient hermeticist texts, are available to anyone. You can even download the PDF for free. Which I do recommend wholeheartedly. Those are authentic hermetic texts ,as opposed to the Kybalion. And very useful to any sincere spiritual seeker.

@@SpaceFairyness In what way isnt it hermetic?

Thank you for wording appreciation so well, could not have expressed it better, Salute mon amie 🙏🏽🔥

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Lol I thought the same thing

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As opposed to Hermes Conrad, who bureaucrats a whole Earth fleet.

With the exception of "gnosis." The G is silent. 😊

​@@Uarehere No, it isn't in Ancient Greek.

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The same situation exists even today in India. Whose body of philosophies describe both the Absolute Unconditioned, and also the God of the universe whose body is all the elements, things etc, and whose essence is the seed of all beings. For a minority, probably roughly consistent through time, this means contradiction, therefore error, therefore all nonsense. But most people understand, even though they personally may be inclined to one or the other, that they are both true.

Hey I wrote something similar. Are you a fool? Are you wise?

@@herenow8047 I think one who regards himself wise is the key characteristic of a fool

@@hazchemel Nupuqi Om-Re Khonectics chamber degrees will guide you

No, it's because the christians edited them

Yes, there are gradations in being

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What would it be for the 'spiritually undeveloped', or do you believe we are all so?

@@WereWolf4100 Well, I think the Hermetics would say that for the spiritually unenlightened, which is most of us, the material world is good on balance, worthy of marriage and children, and of finding fulfilment in a career. In fact, the Perfect Sermon teaches that Poimandres filled the material world with souls for the development of it and us. The root of sin is to think we are just matter. However, when compared to the glory of the divine realm, the material world is inferior by comparison. Just as most religions describe a "turning away" from the material world toward God, so did the hermetics. The Hermetic text that deals with these issues -and the Problem of Evil- most directly is The Perfect Sermon, AKA the Asclepius. Here is a public domain translation www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/TGH-v2/th237.html

Well, with all respect all this as i would call them "methods" that describe us (humans) and all the things as one unit of being, have no logical foundation. Sorry for that but i've never felt this type of unity with the " all being" in my life, so for me there is no logical reason nor personal experience to believe in it even the media is pushing it into my nose.

That is because the very core of these ideas is deception, "The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental.", nothing is real and that means the theologians who deal within a Hermetic or Gnostic framework can say whatever they want, limiting the information they give to create whatever illusion they wish to create and leaving out information that opposes it.

Interesting

@@tinab3001 Exactly! For example, what would it be if we did not have the ability to make memories, either long-term or short-term? Would it not mean we would have no thoughts, no words, and we would only see. We would also not recognise what we are actually seeing as we have no memories of it, nor anything similar to it, in size, shape, function, texture, etc. So, this would all be outside the thought-making process!

I am a believer in surfism

@@joshuamichau5122 most scholars agree that khidr was indeed a prophet.

I'm interested in al Khidr as well!

Please!

I agree with you

I want to see a video on scientology

@@ryanmathis8286 that's a cult

@@martialhero9544 I actually agree with you

I would consider Hermeticism more of a philosophy then a religion.

I think it’s because a lot of the great Western thinkers believe that paradoxical statements are opposed to each other. Meanwhile, to some like the Daoists, paradoxical statements complete each other.

@@sofosanthropos6531 I guess it's a kind of rigidity. Like, to accept paradoxes, you have to be willing to admit your axioms & assumptions are faulty. To me this seemed obvious upon understanding that our perception of objective reality is subjectively filtered; i.e., māyā.

@Truth Teller Talks Mahavira (Jain's master) was a contemporary of Gautama (buddha) and both lived in a time where Brahminism and the vedic culture (precursors of modern Hindu philosofies like Yoga, Advaita, etc...) were already a thing. :)

@Truth Teller Talks all three derived from or reacted to vedic culture, brahminism and several philosofies that existed at that place and time (which influenced all three). Hinduism is a catch all term for a pletheora of vedic derived philosofies. Buddhist literature is not necessarily historicaly acquarate, but they're increadibly descriptive and historicaly informative. In the oldest texts of buddhism jains are mantioned and Mahavira is mentioned as a contemporary of the buddha, being indeed older than the buddha, but sharing at least some period of their ministry as contemporaries. I'm not aware if buddhism is depicted in Jain literature. This is what I know to be factual... From where do you take jains to be older than buddhists? (I'm truly interested, this is not passive-aggressive) That they're older than hinduism as we know it today I agree, I would definetly not agree that they're older than brahminism and the earliest vedas though.

@Truth Teller Talks cool! One day I might look more into that as well :)

I know he’s been mentioned in various other videos. I’ve learned a bit about him on this channel!

Absolutely

Amir al-Mu’minin, to whom the esoteric was passed on to guard, while the will to rule and spread of dogma, to the rest.

@@10Ammar the muslim ummah never changed, back during the time of Amir al-Muminin, people are so embroiled in their own personal agendas and they forced the Imam to settle up their petty disputes. Such a shame, if Imam Ali and his household didn't face that much abuse and persecution, a library full of books on philosophy and esoteric knowledge could've been written by them (the infallible imams). But what's even more sad is that the ummah would've destroyed those books and kill the Imams, accusing them (the Imams) of committing shirk.

@@niktan606 And that’s the truth brother.

Jethro, his father in law

Yes, becoming holy spirit by slaying our evolutionary baggage

Man transforming into god?

a Reflection pointing to the truth

all is burning

The Kybalion blew the door open for me. Also The ancient secret of the flower of life by Drunvalo Melchizedek is 🤯🤯🤯

@@johnnewton8017 I am also pondering on the flower of life……it’s in Indian temples& Sumerian stone ……🤔

@@Fuzzmo147 It was also found in a floor mosaic at Masada.

The part about progressing is heavily reminiscent of Scientology

@@_Allen_Holmes_ L. Ron Hubbard was a disciple of Alester Crowley...a satanist who directed his followers to develop esoteric versions of satanic religions.

@@_Allen_Holmes_ Correspondence.