The Gnosis of Hermes Trismegistus - Corpus Hermeticum (Summary)

Poimandres, the Divine Mind, or Nous, teaches the mysteries of the universe. The Corpus Hermeticum is the oldest of the Hermetica, a collection of ancient esoteric texts attributed to the syncretism of the Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth. Hermeticism has deep connections with Gnosticism, alchemy, and Western mysticism.
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00:00 Intro
00:52 Poimandres
5:23 To Asclepius
6:55 The Sacred Sermon
7:37 The Cup or Monad
9:29 Unmanifest God
11:04 God Alone is Good
12:07 The Ill of Ignorance
12:35 Things are Imperishable
13:21 On Thought and Sense
14:16 The Key
16:28 Mind Unto Hermes
19:26 The Common Mind
20:37 The Secret Sermon
23:21 A Letter to Asclepius
25:04 The Definitions of Asclepius
27:04 Asclepius to the King
28:05 The Encomium of Kings
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I listened to Divine Poimandres I’m full and it made me cry it’s so beautiful. But it’s also a living piece of literature. If you listen to it with an open heart and it happens to sink in, it becomes a communion, a heart to heart reasoning and it’s so tender that it almost hurts.

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Long time since I have heard such beauty - much needed in this current chaotic world and time. Peace to all! May love and wisdom reign for all eternity.

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This is an exceptionally cool way to read Ancient text with visuals... More please!

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I'm so pleased you think so. More are on the way :)

[@jamesmuendo7918]

This is overwhelming. True without falsehood,certain and most true no man can surpass hermes

[@mbadtoknow6908]

Great compression and summary of the Corpus Hermeticum! Thanks for your work.

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Beautiful video, thank you for making it

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I appreciate the clear, crisp diction, and your ability to accurately consolidate these difficult to interpret archaic wrtings.

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Much gratitude to you. This one is much better than the first ones in terms of the audio and artwork quality. Peace.

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Wonderful thought with intimate relation with knowledge of the Vedas...

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Gratitude for the most notable summary, well narrated and with good presentation. I have the book but appreciated this nonetheless like a second read.

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[@flatboat67]

I love this video. I seem to struggle with text that uses the words mind and reason interchangeably. I am just a beginner though. Maybe it has something to do with the very difficult task of translation.

[@mindofnous]

Glad you found it useful. There are quite a few ways to interpret mind and reason. In one sense, "Mind" refers to God, while "Reason" is the emanation of God into corporeal reality. In a more general sense, "Mind" is the divine spark within man, while "Reason" is the vehicle of the realisation of this divine spark. The Greek terms are "Nous" and "Logos" respectively.

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Man u need more subs... This vid had more knowledge than the bible

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Most definitely....NOT my friend! It's one thing to merely 'read the bible'.....HOWEVER..... It is a whole new thing to "RECEIVE" the very "Spirit" that the Bible talks about and read the bible... The "Spirit" Jesus said HE WOULD SEND to those who BELIEVE in FAITH... this is the "Holy Spirit", the "SEAL" that "Marks" those who receive it, "a People for HIS Name"... This is the "Spirit of REVELATION" once a person "Receives" this Holy Spirit... this is when that person is "BORN AGAIN" just as Jesus told Nicodemus.. "Born from ABOVE". This IS the "rebirth" my friend and its done here and now, in this time, on this earth. This is when a person does not merely read the words in a book of books, the bible... but. . This is when those very words come ALIVE and moreso...this us when the bible will... "READ YOU BACK"!!!

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More videos lijke this one please.

[@mindofnous]

Coming right up ;)

[@mindofnous]

A quick note regarding the similarities between the Corpus Hermeticum and the King James Bible, as I keep getting the same comments. Please remember that the Corpus was written at a similar time as many Christian texts (likely shortly after the New Testament and contemporaneously with the Gnostic Gospels), and all of these texts share the same poetic and prophetic prose. Indeed, early Christianity and Hermeticism unite in Gnosticism, and they certainly influenced each other. There are obviously also major differences. The Hermeticists revere Hermes, not Jesus, and they acknowledge the existence of many "gods". Furthermore, the understanding of what "God" (and indeed a "god") is, is not the same as in fundamentalist Christianity. Hermeticism is a doctrine of mysticism, and it is clear from the text that much is wholly incompatible with orthodox Christian belief. This incompatibility in fact caused the sharp decline of Hermeticism during the rise of Protestantism. Hermeticism in fact has been influenced more by early Jewish Merkabah, but it's Greek and Egyptian influences remain by far primary.

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It was written before

[@mindofnous]

@@LunnaJannah If you can provide me a reliable source, I'd love to update my understanding. I was under the impression that the received dating is a largely unanimous view.

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[@TheArmyofHades]

What i fail to understand yet from these texts is what is considered ''bad'' by Hermes and what does he mean by ''you must hate your body''. If we take some of the things he says about piety and restrain can only benefit one's physical body (no excess in food and exercising your mind faculties reguralry to control ones emotions) these are practices that do good to the body so what does he mean by that, had anyone deciphered that yet?

[@mindofnous]

The "hating of the body" doctrine is a blunt (and admittedly misleading) expression of the mystic way. It is prescribed because the first steps of gnosis (according to this tradition) involve developing consciousness of the opposition between good and evil, so that the disciple may will themselves towards the good. In the later steps, balance of the will for love and hate is taught. The doctrine aims to show how opposites depend on each other, and so both "hate" and "body" are taking on non-literal mystical meanings. This is, at least, my understanding.

[@TheArmyofHades]

@@mindofnous So hate/evil/body is what you must ''hate'' meaning hate everything evil and always strive towards good?

[@mindofnous]

@@TheArmyofHades Sure, but I think there is a deeper teaching involved. Namely, that nothing is evil in itself. It is in the act of preferring the Body over Mind that evil arises. To be always in the Mind no different than being always in the Body, because true wisdom realises they are one.

[@TheArmyofHades]

@@mindofnous Ah i see that actually makes more sense.

[@johnmccormick2347]

Where are you drawing your quotes from in "To Asclepius" in reference to the impiety and punishment to those who don't bare children

[@mindofnous]

It's in the final passage: "The other name of God is Father, again because He is the that-which-maketh-all. The part of father is to make. Wherefore child-making is a very great and a most pious thing in life for them who think aright, and to leave life on earth without a child a very great misfortune and impiety; and he who hath no child is punished by the daimones after death. And this is the punishment: that that man's soul who hath no child, shall be condemned unto a body with neither man's nor woman's nature, a thing accursed beneath the sun." Pretty brutal!

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Amazing but only for those with a high iQ

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Alchemical exchange🤔even those without bodies agree😑nothing is perfect because of remainders😁

[@nensi5813]

Corpus Hermetica was definitely influenced by Christianity, as it was produced during the christian era. It is probably inspired by some wisdom from the ancient Egyptians but definitely tailored to fit the christian narrative.

[@mindofnous]

I agree that it sounds and is written like that, but I think it's origins are probably more complex. There's elements from Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonism too. I have videos on the Egyptian and Greek influences, and I'm currently working on a video on the Gnostic Christian influences.

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@@mindofnous very interesting, looking forward to it

[@TutAnkhLoki]

Sounds like Enoch tbh

[@yvonnesmith6152]

Are women considered as men, or as nature? Can women move upwards and become one with God? I don’t know why, but I, as a woman, feel that there’s a distinct difference and we are Nature….in “he breaks through the boundary of their spheres and show Nature God’s fair form, which she loves. Nature and Man thus become lovers and are intermingled.” That’s why Man is now mortal and immortal. If this were true, how would the female obtain oneness with God?

[@mindofnous]

Pretty sure "Man" is taken to mean "humankind" here. Granted, "humankind" sounds much more inclusive to our modern ears, but "man" and "mankind" were presumed as gender-neutral terms until some time in mid-1900s. Nevertheless, it's pretty well-known that practically all religious traditions have institutionalised gender discrimination to some degree. I wouldn't worry about the capacity of woman in gaining salvation of enlightenment - take Yeshe Tsogyal, for instance.

[@yvonnesmith6152]

The state of one-genderism is described in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, where, in answer to a question from His disciples regarding the way to enter the Kingdom of God and our salvation, Jesus answers: ‘When you make the two one, the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, the top like the bottom, that is it. And when you make male and female to be one and the same, so that the male is not male and the female is no longer female… then you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven’ In the Gnostic Gospel of Philip, too, the state of ontological separation of the two sexes is an aberration of the ideal spiritual state and an entry into the kingdom of death. I’m a non-native speaker of English and thus pay specific attention to meaning….the continuous line drawn between the female Earth/Nature and the Spirit/Father/Son is a distinct weakness in Gnostic teaching and has never been fully addressed

[@mindofnous]

@@yvonnesmith6152 The example you provided here seems to be expressing the general idea of the transcendent unity between opposites, with male and female being a particular instance of duality.

[@beverlychristodoulou5860]

Its your soul that is important not the body... your soul could have been put in a male or female body.. the body is just a veihcle for the Soul. Soul has both genders...

[@DivineGraceGolden1]

A-Ω

[@stevhandingwall2028]

My name is Kratos I killed Hermes

[@teslabot5650]

His son really names A sleep e us lol

[@virgopisces6698]

Really

[@Royaltea-tz2hq]

His name is Djuity. He is Kemetic, not Egyptian.

[@mindofnous]

Thank you. As I understand it, "Kemetic" just refers to ancient Egyptian culture. I believe "Thoth" is the Hellenized version of the Egyptian word "Djehuty", and since the mythical author of this text is a product of syncretism, the Hellenized form seems appropriate.

[@Royaltea-tz2hq]

@mindofnous thank you for the breakdown, but tech. It's Kemet. AND to honor who they were means to use the name they use everything else THANKYOU .

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Ευλογημένοι όσοι γνωρίζουν αρχαία ελληνικά

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😂

[@stealingStolenMemes]

Good can exist in humans, it is called the holy spirit, may you repent and receive the holy spirit.

[@DS-nv8bi]

is this not a citation from the king james bible?

[@agostinobianchi3260]

Troppo veloce ..

[@vetiarvind]

this is a false Christian interpretation of Hermes Trismagastus' gnostic teachings.

[@mindofnous]

This is just Meads translation of the original Greek. It has not been interpreted, and it's not Christian..

[@Moe-nm8sj]

A who the hell said test none pick a pretender guessers deceiving self and others Injust untrue unknown divided became two the day you one you became two unknown to even self pretending to be known to the ALL

[@Tao0o0ooooo00]

Why did god create dinasoars ?

[@simban00]

It is a Greek text not Egyptian

[@mindofnous]

Yep, I know.

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I don't think so

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Hate your rushed narratives style 😢Slow down. 🎉 the profound meaning of the message when speech is digested with proper listening time . Otherwise is noise

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