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Library of Thoth presents Hermes Trismegistus as a stitched name, the Greek messenger joined to an Egyptian god of writing, whose books stayed out of ordinary schools. Rulers, it claims, wanted a public that would not wake, while private orders still carry his ideas in symbol and rite. Reality here is mind first. What looks solid is a projected divine thought. Gaps between light and sound, or joy and despair, are put down to frequency, and seven principles are called the plan of existence. Fighting that rhythm is said to bring suffering. Alchemy is moral work, not a furnace recipe. The stuff to be changed is the fearful, ignorant human state, through a dark breaking of the old self, a washing away of false identity, and a reddening older schools treated as the aim. Pyramids were aimed at stars because earth was lined up with sky, and the famous vertical motto is placed inside Masonic rooms. Death is a shift of frequency, not an ending, and time is a circle. The listener is told to step forward as a maker.
Key points
- Hermes is presented as Greek messenger and Egyptian wisdom god in one figure, kept out of ordinary history.
- The world is called a mental projection, with frequency as the difference between states of matter and of feeling.
- Seven principles are named as the hidden plan, and fighting life’s rhythm is said to cause the suffering.
- Alchemy is an inner change, from a dark dissolution through a cleansing to a final reddening.
- Lodge architecture is said to encode the vertical motto, while temples were aligned with the sky on purpose.
- Death is a transition of frequency, and the closing demand is to act on the teaching rather than only hear it.
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His name itself is a puzzle, Hermes, the Greek messenger of the gods, fused with thian deity of wisdom and writing.
Library of Thoth, Hermes and the hermetic principles
The name is explained as a joining of the Greek messenger and an Egyptian god of writing. Watch at 1:33
The universe itself is a mental construct, a projection of divine thought.
Library of Thoth, Hermes and the hermetic principles
The physical world is cast as thought held in a divine mind. Watch at 7:58
These seven principles are the hidden architecture of existence.
Library of Thoth, Hermes and the hermetic principles
Seven laws are said to be the frame that holds everything. Watch at 12:00
The lead they sought to transmute was the human condition base dense weighed down by fear, ignorance and material limitation.
Library of Thoth, Hermes and the hermetic principles
The metal of the alchemists is recast as the fearful, ignorant human state. Watch at 14:19
The phrase as above, so below, is embedded in Masonic lodges appearing in their initiations and encoded in their architecture.
Library of Thoth, Hermes and the hermetic principles
The vertical correspondence is said to sit inside lodge ritual and in the buildings themselves. Watch at 27:03
Hermes Trismagist taught that death is not an end but a transition, a shift in frequency, a movement from one state of being to another.
Library of Thoth, Hermes and the hermetic principles
Death is described as a change of frequency rather than a final stop. Watch at 34:38
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