The Hermetic Link: From Secret Tradition to Modern Thought

769 Pages·2012·4.03 MB·English

by  Slavenburg

Hermes as origin Father in the dome of Sienna
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THE HERMETIC LINK
FROM SECRET TRADITION
TO MODERN THOUGHT
JACOB SLAVENBURG
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Published in 2012 by Ibis Press
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Copyright © 2012 by Jacob Slavenburg
Originally published in Dutch in 2003 as De
Hermetische Schakel
Translated into English by Greteke Lans
Final editing by Kyle L. Proudfoot
Ibis Press editor Laurel W. Trufant, Ph.D.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Slavenburg, Jacob.
[Hermetische Schakel. English]
The hermetic link : from secret tradition to modern
thought / Jacob Slavenburg.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0-89254–167–6
1. Hermetism--History. I. Title.
BF1611.S6313 2012
135'.4509--dc23
2012005651
Book design and production by Studio 31
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Printed in the United States of America
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Prolog: An Early Adventure
PART I: THE SECRET OF HERMES
CHAPTER 1. THE ETERNAL FIELDS OF REED AND THE
EYE OF HORUS
The Miraculous Thoth
The Transition
Legends
The Book of Thoth
Station of Departure—Egypt
CHAPTER 2. HERMES—A PHALLIC DEITY
Phallic Pillars
The Cow Thief
Messenger of the Gods
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Guide of Souls
CHAPTER 3. AN EGYPTIAN HERMES OR A GRECIAN
THOTH?
The Thrice-Great Hermes
Colored Markers
Hermes—Greek or Egyptian?
CHAPTER 4. UNITY IN DIVERSITY
A Special Encounter
The Temple of the Cosmos
Cosmology
CHAPTER 5. HERMES AND ASTROLOGY
The Ensouled Cosmos
The Horos Skopos, Observer of Time
The Song of the Thunder
A Priest of Hermes
The Liber Hermetis Trismegisti
The Degrees of Life
CHAPTER 6. HERMES AND THE HEALING ARTS
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Imhotep-Asclepius
About the Divine Sympathy
Hermes as Therapist
Recipe Books
Hermes and the Letter Sympatheia
Ode to the Peony
The Religious Experience of Doctor Thessalos
CHAPTER 7. THE RING OF HERMES
Antique Fashion Trend
Hermes as a Magician
Greek Magical Papyri
Hermes Dolls
Magical Love Spells
The Power of Vowels
CHAPTER 8. THE EMERALD TABLET
The Lapis Philosophorum
Hermes as Alchemist
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Secret Teachings
A Cave at Hebron
Why I Am Called Hermes Trismegistus
CHAPTER 9. ALL IS ONE
Hermes in Amsterdam
A Talk in the Temple
God Is All-Complete in the Fertility of Either Sex
The Cosmic Chain
Humanity Is a Great Miracle
CHAPTER 10. THE HERMETIC BODY
The Corpus Hermeticum
Greek Herdsman or Egyptian Gnosis?
The Gnostic Hermetica
City of Many Streams
An Introduction to Alexandria
A Universal School of Wisdom
CHAPTER 11. A DIVINE REVELATION
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The Cause of Everything
God Is in Each Atom
The Manifold Cosmos
Where Heaven Fell in Love with Earth
God's Grandchild
Consciousness versus Godlessness
CHAPTER 12. HERMETIC INSTRUCTIONS
Why Evil?
The Liberating Insight
A Cauldron Filled with Consciousness
Death Does Not Exist
The Immeasurable All-Consciousness
The Bottomless Reservoir of the All-Soul
Forgetfulness
CHAPTER 13. A SECRET DOCTRINE
Reincarnation and Karma
Purification
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