Hermes
| Hermes was the Greek god (the God matrix) associated with planet and element Mercury, the ruler of the twins of Gemini and Virgo (the Hermit). Mercury has an orbit of 88 days, is the fastest planet closest to the sun, in Egyptian mythology Thoth, in Roman mythology Mercury, the messenger of the gods. He was the patron of thieves (stealing=jacking). Like Dionysus he was worshiped through phallic images (Hermae, stone phallus like pillars placed at crossroads). |  |
Mercury became associated with communication and commerce and also a psycho-pomp, one foot in physical and one foot in spiritual, the guide of souls in afterlife. He guided Persephone in her return to Demeter.
The 7 Hermetic principles (Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, Gender) are based on the 7 chakra's (7 virtue's and vices).
In alchemy superconductive quicksilver is androgynous liquid and solid, male and female in one (symbol of Venus with horns). The alchemists experimented with chemical substances in hermetically sealed vessels and wrote Hermetic veiled symbolism to conceal its meaning. They experimented with heavy metals (silver, mercury, lead, gold,..).
The quest for gold was closely linked to the search
for mercury. Mercury residue in high amounts became a byproduct of the gold digging of the gold industry.
The surrounding area's became saturated with mercury, washed off during the act of gold separation. Mercury represents The Fool
and the Magician with 8, symbol
of infinity above his head.
In alchemy the androgynous hermaphrodite is the offspring of the alchemical marriage of Hermes and Aphrodite. In kabbalism Mercury is associated with the 8th sphere Hod, splendour, the intellect.
He was depicted with winged sandals (superconductivity) and caduceus, a staff with intertwined serpents, the spine with kundalini energy, the DNA ladder. According to Hesiod's Theogeny, He was the son of Zeus and Maya, the youngest of the seven Pleiades.
The teachings of Hermes Trismegistus (Thrice Great) concern three births corresponding to 3 signs of Scorpio, Sagittarius, Ophiuchus. Hermes Trismegistus was depicted at the Borgia Apartment.
Aryan-Ireland: Ogmah
Sumeria: Anunnaki god Enki, who created man through knowledge of DNA
Babylon: Nabu
Egypt: ibis headed Thoth (associated with
monkeys), recorder at the weighing of the heart ceremony (also trickster
god Set). Egyptian tombs contained Mercury and Egyptian cosmetics
contained cinnabar.
Norse: trickster Loki
Roman Empire: Mercury. The Romans used mercury mines as penal
institutions for criminals.
In China and Mexico (under pyramids of Teotihuacan) emperors were buried in tombs with mercury. Qin Shuhuang drank mercury daily. The Mayans used red cinnabar-based products to paint their bodies, on their walls and monuments and had pools of mercury under their ball-courts. A high percentage of Mercury was found in sites like Tikal. Mercury can cause obesity (fi Tikal ruler Dark Sun depicted as obese).
Hermeticism was passed on by the Turkish Nesilim in the 9th century bc.
From 500 bc mercury was used to make amalgams (alloys of mercury).
In Judaism Mount Nebo (mountain of mercury) was worshiped as the place where Moses (pharao Akhenaten) had a vision of the Promised Land. The divine messenger Moses was depicted with horns like the alchemical symbol of Mercury. The caduceus of Hermes is Aaron's rod.
Dhwtj became David (=Divider, mercury divides an individual). According to the Book of Enoch the Falling Angels landed on Mount Hermon (=Hermes).
In Kabbalism the hidden sphere Da'ath is associated with the Star of David and throat chakra (Adam's apple), on the line of the Abyss.
In the qlippoth of Hod demon Adrammelech is pictured as mule head with peacock tail. The peacock is the failure of the alchemical process, the conscious enters unconscious but is distracted by visions, can not tell real from fake, leading to dischord of the mind.
The symbolism of Jesus Christ (wearing blue and red, male and female) represents Mercury, not mixable with water.
The Arab alchemists often died of experimenting with mercury.
The serpent knowledge of Thoth and Hermes with their serpent staff became personified by Ophiuchus, seen as a womb for rebirth.
The de Medici's developed a cult of Hermes as Hermeticism (School of Athens with Plato in As above So Below pose), using the serpent symbol for the medical profession and created the piano with 88 keys. Michael Psellos and Marsilio Ficino translated the Corpus Hermetica.
The red cap of Hermes (magic mushroom symbolism ) was worn by the Medici's, Sforza's, Sans-Culottes in the French Revolution,..
John Dee wrote Monas Hieroglyphica with Mercury symbol as the Magician, Mercury ruling Gemini (the Frederick V and Elizabeth wedding).
Alchemist Charles II Stuart (rosicrucian Order of the Garter, grandson of Marie de Medici and cousin of Louis XIV Boutrbon) died of mercury. John Wilkins, founder of the Royal Society wrote Mercury or the Secret and Swift Messenger on cryptography.
The Cecils created the New Learning trend and later the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Russian tsar Ivan the
Terrible consumed mercury, became possessed, was responsible for
massacres and eventually killed his own son. He was in contact with the
Cecils and Elizabeth I. His wife Anastasia Romanovna also died of
poisoning.
In 1800 Edward Charles Howard (Royal Society of House of Hanover) discovered mercury fulminate, to be used in bullets, bombs and explosives of the war industry.
Amalgams were used by the Chinese Tang and Ming dynasty and introduced in 1830 in Europe.
In 1837 luxury design house Hermes was founded in France by Axel Dumas.
Mercury was used to treat syphilis and as laxative. When amalgam fillings became a wide spread phenomena in the late 19th century it caused a wave of schizophrenic illnesses (era of Spiritualism and séances), the symptoms of a split mind. Hats made in Danbury Connecticut contained mercury, causing the Mad Hatter syndrome.
Abraham Lincoln took Blue mass medicine with mercury.
Polish jewish kabbalist Max Théon founded the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, with Edouard Schuré (friend of Richard Wagner).
In the art scene the cult of Mercury became the program of Modernism (nihilism, decadence, art brut, outsider art, anti-art, ..)
Hermes-Anubis is depicted on the Wheel of Fortune card.
Tommy Lee Jones played Hermes in JFK (1991).
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