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[Tree Hugger]

WHAT WAS THE SECRET OF HERMES ?

Hello Seekers
The time we live in is truly a remarkable age. :)

Hermes, seems to be the link between Egypt and Atlantis.
To the Egyptians, he was the repository of all wisdom. He gave them the knowledge of how to build their civilization.
Hermes was given the title Trismagestis, to honor him, because it meant three times Hermes.
Hermes and a priest named Ra-ta, were responsible for building the Pyramid of Giza as an initiation chamber for those who sought spiritual truth. These seekers were called initiates.
Hermes was said to be a direct connection to higher knowledge associated with the Divine, and all sacred books came from him adding up to thousands. He taught healing, magic, science, alchemy, astronomy, philosophy, chemistry, metaphysics, geography, and medicine. He provided the light to the ancients and led humans into mystical illumination. He taught morality and how humanity could rise to Divine heights. His books “Hermetica” set the standard for wisdom.
He taught men how to write down their thoughts and arrange their speech. He invented music and exercise. He is credited for teaching how to work with metals. He gave knowledge of the stringed instrument the lyre. Hermes gave the basis of the Greek culture as well as the Egyptian.
It was Hermes who taught hieroglyphs. He choose certain worthy persons to be caretakers of the knowledge. Hermes created the Egyptian Priesthood.
It was the great Hermes, who taught symbolic thinking which is also called archetypes. Archetypical thinking has today been rediscovered by such notables as Carl Jung.
“The Vision” is the most famous of the Hermetic writings. In this is the secret of the enfolding of the human soul.

The oft quoted maximum, “As Above So Below” comes directly from Hermes. Hermetic wisdom said that the larger universe, the macro was also reflected in the micro. The macro was the divided into the zodiac of twelve and within each human was a smaller version called the micro.

- Jon Marshall, "The Emerald Tablet of Hermes -History of the Tablet"
0.) "Balinas mentions the engraving on the table in the hand of Hermes, which says:
1.) Truth! Certainty! That in which there is no doubt!
2.) That which is above is from that which is below, and that which is below is from that which is above, working the miracles of one.
3.) As all things were from one.
4.) Its father is the Sun and its mother the Moon.
5.) The Earth carried it in her belly, and the Wind nourished it in her belly,
7.) as Earth which shall become Fire.
7a.) Feed the Earth from that which is subtle, with the greatest power.
8.) It ascends from the earth to the heaven and becomes ruler over that which is above and that which is below.
14.) And I have already explained the meaning of the whole of this in two of these books of mine."
- From Jabir ibn Hayyan [Holmyard 1923]

There is an assertion that the Book of Thoth, which is another name given to Hermes was concealed within the Tarot and was not a set of cards but a book. Within this book is the knowledge of secrets for rising of humanity a Godlike state.

In the temple of Knowledge, the symbols on each Tarot were hung between pillars facing each other so that the mind of the initiate could perceive the archetypes and the underlying wisdom of each as they related to the whole. The Tarot far from just a divination device for reading future events as the bulk of humanity has used it, is really a hidden path to the ascension of the human spirit to a higher knowledge. It was a tool to teach the idea of oneness. All of this Hermes provided.

Hermes taught there is One Divine Source out of which all is made.

"Indeed, for antiquity in general, the divination of man was not an extravagant dream. 'Know, then, that you are a God,' Cicero wrote. And in a Hermetic text we read: 'I know thee, Hermes, and thou knowest me: I am thou and thou art I.' Similar expressions are found in Christian writings. As Clement of Alexandria says, the true (Christian) Gnostic 'has already become God.' And for Lactantlius, the chaste man will end by becoming consimilis Deo, 'identical in all respects with God.'"
- Mircea Eliade, Rites and Symbols of Initiation
"...You saw the spirit, you became spirit. You saw Christ, you became Christ. You saw the father, you shall become Father....you see yourself, and what you see you shall [become]."
"Whoever achieves gnosis becomes "no longer Christian but a Christ."
- Gospel of Philip
Hermetic teachings took his name and stressed the concept of the macrocasm and the microcasm, the universe and humanity, above as below.
Magical thinking was to see the parallels between the great cosmos and specific states of mind in humanity.
Hermes wrote the Pymander, translated “thought of RA” explaining the Mind of the Divine. Hermes taught several concepts among them:
That the Mind of the Divine could be directly accessed by humanity.
That nature is a living organism.
That the universe owes its existence to the Mind of God.
That God created the world in imitation of the ideal world in His Intellect.
That the Spirit of God pervades the physical realm.
That the will of God is expressed through an hierarchy of beings from angels to humans to spirits within all things even rocks.
That the human mind derives from the Divine Mind and can return to it, after death but also during meditation.
Hermes taught that all of nature displayed the will of God and if studied wisdom would be revealed.

The Law of One; the unity of the cosmos was regarded and an organic unity, animated by the Creator’s Spirit.

He was later deified by the Greeks as the Messenger of the gods because he was the first to transmit sacred knowledge to humanity from the higher realms. Later the Romans called him Mercury, the winged messenger.
Here is a partial quote from the Divine Pymander.

"Before the visible universe was formed its mold was cast. This mold was called the Archetype, and this Archetype was in the Supreme Mind long before the process of creation began. Beholding the Archetypes, the Supreme Mind became enamored with Its own thought; so, taking the Word as a mighty hammer, It gouged out caverns in primordial space and cast the form of the spheres in the Archetypal mold, at the same time sowing in the newly fashioned bodies the seeds of living things.
The darkness below, receiving the hammer of the Word, was fashioned into an orderly universe. The elements separated into strata and each brought forth living creatures. The Supreme Being--the Mind--male and female, brought forth the Word; and the Word, suspended between Light and darkness, was delivered of another Mind called the Workman, the Master-Builder, or the Maker of Things.”

Without Hermes, there would have been no Plato nor any Gnostic wisdom. Nearly all roads seem to lead back to Heremes, who was later deified as Mercury to the Romans, the god who was the messenger.


Hermes Trismagestis is connected with the invention of the game of chess invented in Egypt and Mesopotamia. A translator in the 8th century found this link in a temple of Hermes .
Contrary to popular opinion, chess was not designed as a war game, but was designed to simulate cosmic justice and the to portray humanity as the co creators. The modern version traces to Persia, but the roots go far back into antiquity. Echoes of other archetypal symbols are apparent in the game of chess.

Since the dawn of Egyptian times, a kind of secret knowledge was disseminated through various means in different cultures. An erudite priesthood integrated substantial scientific knowledge within a transparent framework of symbols to convey archetypes to the human mind.
Depending on the spiritual orientation of the priests some knowledge remained unchanged and intact but below ground.
In keeping with this, is the game of chess, which is associated throughout its development with astronomical symbolism. Similar archetypes are seen the Tarot, Astrology and the Kabbalah.
The Kabbalist, Benjamin ben Ezra, ascribed the invention of chess, to “men of insight”. He mentions the first magic square as Saturn. There is every reason to believe that Gnostic or hidden wisdom is carefully concealed perhaps by a group known as the “Gnostic Brothers of Purity.”

Buzurdjmir, the legendary wise man discovered the secret and told the king:
“O King of victorious fortune! I have studied these black figures and this chess board, and, thanks to mighty Ruler of the World I have realized completely the law of the game.”


The feminine aspect of God, the Goddess, the womb of time was embedded in the game. Several hundred years saw the suppression of chess by the Roman Church in an effort to overturn the Goddess in favor of the male dominated concept of God. The king in only permitted one tiny square at a time but the queen can flow in all directions at once.

Chess is life brought about by “First Cause”. The duality of life is clearly evident. Humanity splitting its thinking between what is considered good and what is considered bad, but in this game all is seen as illusion, since it is only in the minds of the players that the board is divided and stands as does the pillars of the Tarot. In the Tarot one must go past the twin pillars to attain enlightenment, so in chess one must see past the duality of the two opposing sides to see the unity underlying the game.

Unlike games of destiny, life is an individual effort and so free will is seen as the motivator. Adverse outcomes are dependent upon the poor exercise of free will and the abandonment of good judgement. Humanity thus chooses to exercise its free will wisely or poorly. There was a numerical arrangement of the board, being 64 squares, which each had a significance.

HERMES REVEALED

In January of 1981, a contact was made by a scientific channeling researcher named Carla, with an entity calling itself RA who said they were not just one mind, but a composite mind complex of many souls who had become telepathic and merged memories. These Beings said they were in service to The One Infinite Creator. RA began to transmit the Law of One, and the rest of what came to be called The RA material.

Edgar Cayce said in 1940, that the Law of One was known in Atlantis, and that there was a group there called the Children of the Law of One.

RA said they had felt a great responsibility, to help remove certain distortions that were given in the Law of One, at the time it was transmitted to the Egyptians, as the priesthood had removed the compassion from the teaching. It was not since the days of ancient Egypt that those living would be able to read the Law of One without distortion.

The message that all humanity was one, was later taught by Jesus, but once again as in Egypt, the message was distorted and robbed of its compassion as the Roman state religion sought to take the simple message of universal love about a more self serving message.

RA explained that the Great Pyramid was a vehicle for ascending the earth plane while in body.

Edgar Cayce, claimed that in a former incarnation he had been Ra-ta, associated with Hermes in the design of the Giza Pyramid, in Egypt.
In 1981, the RA group said they had been the ones behind the design and building of the structure.

So the question becomes was the group calling themselves RA, the same person as Hermes?
Was this group the real source behind all the immense knowledge of the higher spirit realms the inspiration behind Hermes Trismagestis? Or was Hermes himself RA?

Cayce is not here to tell us, or is he?

David Wilcock, who also channels RA, has made a very good case for being the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce, and it was David who was responsible for putting online, the Law of One. Could this be Ra-ta, also known as Cayce, returning as David Wilcock to further lead the world to spiritual truth and establish the Law of One without distortion?

In book four of the Law of One, RA explains the archetypical mind. This is the way humans evolve, according to RA, and recommends one of three ways, first the Tarot, second, Astrology or third, the Kabbalah, the Tree of Life.

I took the advice of RA and my recent post about The Tarot, Astrology and The Kabbalah reflect the research I did in the study of all three. I found them all to be related to the path of ascension, and if followed leads to the knowledge of how to attain to a higher wisdom and plumb the depths of the human mind. There is a layer of hidden wisdom in the symbols and by learning the archetypes, one can find the pathway leading up the winding staircase to the temple where the inner teacher awaits.

Cayce was known for being tireless in his service to others, in fact, the human Cayce, died from overwork doing readings for others. In his incarnation as Ra-ta, Cayce taught the Law of One, and was involved deeply as a spiritual leader who brought unity and peace.

To me this was both a message and an answer. I had asked weeks ago who was Hermes Trismagestis, and why did many of my internet inquiries always lead me on a loop back to Edgar Cayce and David Wilcock? Well the following may be the answer. Edgar Cayce said not only would he be reincarnating at this time in history, but another group of souls would be reincarnating also. These are the souls known in Atlantis as the Children of the Law of One.

If both Cayce and the Children of the Law of One have returned, then, it would be for the purpose of doing the same kind of work they did in Atlantis, proclaiming, that are all part of the same One Divine Mind, and that there is no other way to peace than through the path of love and care for one another and the planet, and that love for other beings is love for God.

The Children of the Law of One were known for their knowledge of science, as David has taken the best new research and put together three remarkable books, called The Shift of the Ages, The Science of Oneness and The Divine Cosmos. The new researchers, working independently of mainstream science, are giving the same answers RA gave thirty years ago, as for the first time since the days of Atlantis that science and spirit have met.

Both the quantum universe, and the holographic nature of our own, are now emerging and being accepted, for they are answering questions the old paradigm could never answer. The old questions persisted under the old framewok, because they were not asking the right questions. Now they are finally asking the right questions and getting the same answers that RA gave in 1981.

The aether was widely accepting by science until a little over one hundred years ago, when because it carried the idea of God or spirit, it was removed from science and put in with the metaphysical. But the Egyptians knew from Hermes {RA}, that the body of The Infinite is a large fluid energetic sea of thought and this, they called Nun. Nun, out of which all was born, the water of life, this shining ocean of energy waves is aether. Thus again spirit and science are seen as they always were in reality one not two.

As all things are held within the Mind of the Infinite. This is the old coming full circle again with the new. The serpent bites its tail, and you can’t tell where it ends or begins for it is the symbol of eternity. So what began at the beginning of the last cycle 75,000 years ago is coming to fruition.

Ra-ta has returned, and Hermes is again teaching humanity the Law of Love, compassion and that all paths lead to One. Ancient walls have fallen before with sound, and now the walls are shaking.

I spoke to a man I met on the internet. I told him about the prophecy Edgar Cayce gave about the Children of the Law of One and he told me he had a dream in which Edgar Cayce said “The Children Must Wake Up Now!”, this was about two weeks ago. Well I have suspected for some time I had a connection to Atlantis and this information seems like a wake up call, or at least it feels that way.

The reason the Law of One was distorted by those who choose self over otherselves, stems from the fact that when the unified nature of the universe, is seen, all parts take on equality, and hence the use for manipulation of one against the other dissolves. No part is greater than another, but none is less as all is seen through the eyes of love. This is the Law of One. To love one is to love all.


Tree Hugger

http://ascension2000.com/Ra-studyguide.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/sanmateoissues/lecture3.html
http://ascension2000.com/reinc03.htm
http://www.tarot-decks.com/tarot-symbolism.htm
http://www.ascension2000.com/DivineCosmos/09.htm
http://ascension2000.com/Shift-of-the-Ages/index.htm
http://ascension2000.com/ConvergenceIII/
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~boyne/ra/tarot.html

[trista]

Magnificent peice of work, Tree. Is there a breakdown of what the tarot archetypes represent?

[Tex Arcana]

Thanks, Tree. This was the first time I had ever heard of any mystical association with chess.

[Uber]

The feminine aspect of God, the Goddess, the womb of time was embedded in the game. Several hundred years saw the suppression of chess by the Roman Church in an effort to overturn the Goddess in favor of the male dominated concept of God. The king in only permitted one tiny square at a time but the queen can flow in all directions at once

Fascinating, TH!! Keep posting this delicious starfire!

You know, there's been such overkill in the media with regards to these two poopes (John Paul & Benedict) that if one pauses for a brief moment, it's evident that the "Holy Roman Church" is by defintion...ROMAN/ROME...rife with its Emporer legacy.


Uber

[Tree Hugger]

Hello Trista. Thank you! Yes the site I put at the bottom on Tarot symbolism is one of the absolutely best ones I found. It separates each one giving the symbolism in hints while now telling you. Its like this Trista. You know that truism, Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him how to fish and you feed him for life!
It applies to symbolic thinking. To find the way the human mind thinks in these terms is key to finding all of them. I am on the trail now of more archetypical thinking. Every being begins life stumbling around like the fool and goes through the stages that the Tarot shows. Sometime we go off the path and back on but finally at the end we become the Magician able to span heaven and earth. Encoded also is the fact of how to ascend. Meditate on each card and see how it relates to you…..love and peace


Hello Tex
Everything else I was finding had a secret inner meaning so I decided why not chess? Then I want for a hunt which took me half a day and I did find some things by digging and persistence and then here again when it said …….Hermes was a link I had to stop following chess and start following this Hermes. ……Tex never in my wildest dreams did I think it would lead back to Edgar Cayce and to the rest I found. Lots of things like that happening to me lately.
I wonder what else I will find? I cant wait!….peace to your path Tex

Hello Uber
You know me. I never blame or condemn and anyone can practice any religion or belief but history is written and it’s a fact that what you say is true. It hits you right in the face with full force the more you see the preciousness of the material and how the Church of Christendom which I use to show the massive and usurping nature of this monolith, went into the Library of Alexandria wontonly burning and sacking this wisdom. It shows the agenda. Obliterate the female goddess, in favor of the male aspect. Now the female is back and here to balance the energy which is badly needed. Nothing will stop it this time…….love to you Uber!

[Seneca]

[Tree Hugger]

Hello Seneca

The very fact that anyone writes an opinion on what he perceives as an error displays that the is not settled in his own mind and needs to correct someone else. There is no judgement either way only perceived judgement. I have long felt a body of work should stand on its own merit and not need to be held up on the reputations of others. Thank you for posting this as addedum........love, Tree