Close your eyes and let the mind expand. Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity.
—Hermes Trismegistus
If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere.
—Hermes Trismegistus
Humanity looked in awe upon the beauty and the everlasting duration of creation. The exquisite sky flooded with sunlight. The majesty of the dark night lit by celestial torches as the holy planetary powers trace their paths in the heavens in fixed and steady metre – ordering the growth of things with their secret infusions.
—Hermes Trismegistus
Man is the most divine of all the beings, for amongst all living things, Atum associates with him only – speaking to him in dreams at night, foretelling the future for him in the flight of birds, the bowels of beasts, and the whispering oak.
—Hermes Trismegistus
The union of the Word and the Mind
produces that mystery which is called Life…
Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery,
for therein lies the secret of immortality.
—Hermes Trismegistus
Birth is not the beginning of life—only of an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death—only the ending of this awareness.
—Hermes Trismegistus
Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.
—Hermes Trismegistus
My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.
—Hermes Trismegistus
The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike.
—Hermes Trismegistus
That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, to perform the miracles of one only thing.
—Hermes Trismegistus
As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…
—Hermes Trismegistus
The present issues from the past, and the future from the present. Everything is made one by this continuity. Time is like a circle, where all the points are so linked that one cannot say where it begins or ends, for all points precede and follow one another for ever.
—Hermes Trismegistus
The punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment.
—Hermes Trismegistus
He who through the error of attachment loves his body, abides wandering in darkness, sensible and suffering the things of death, but he who realizes that the body is but the tomb of his soul, rises to immortality.
—Hermes Trismegistus
No eyes will raise to heaven. The pure will be thought insane and the impure will be honoured as wise. The madman will be believed brave, and the wicked esteemed as good.
—Hermes Trismegistus
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