The Gnosis of Hermes Trismegistus - Corpus Hermeticum (Summary)

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  • 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
    #hermeticism #esotericism

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  • @mindofnous
    @mindofnous  Рік тому +7

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    • @user-ge1mz7kl8h
      @user-ge1mz7kl8h 9 місяців тому +1

      Indeed. ONLY High IQ people are able to receive this knowledge.

  • @dangelamarx80
    @dangelamarx80 Рік тому +21

    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.

  • @forexsavants6179
    @forexsavants6179 Рік тому +17

    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.

  • @simulacrasimulation9070
    @simulacrasimulation9070 Рік тому +13

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

    • @mindofnous
      @mindofnous  Рік тому +7

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

  • @jamesmuendo7918
    @jamesmuendo7918 9 місяців тому +2

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

  • @mbadtoknow6908
    @mbadtoknow6908 Рік тому +4

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

  • @thewolfmanhulk2927
    @thewolfmanhulk2927 Рік тому +2

    Beautiful video, thank you for making it

  • @michaelealey7370
    @michaelealey7370 8 місяців тому

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

    • @mindofnous
      @mindofnous  7 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching! 🙏

  • @Greenman432
    @Greenman432 Рік тому +4

    This is deep! I like it!

  • @ceruleandusk
    @ceruleandusk 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @waltermontagner8192
    @waltermontagner8192 Рік тому +2

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

  • @vukbabovic5031
    @vukbabovic5031 11 місяців тому

    Amazing illustrations, high quality content. THANKS

    • @mindofnous
      @mindofnous  10 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching 🙏😁

  • @michaelsaint2267
    @michaelsaint2267 5 місяців тому +2

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

    • @mindofnous
      @mindofnous  4 місяці тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @RaymondBastien-li6co
    @RaymondBastien-li6co 5 місяців тому +2

    If only this type of connection was universal for all who desired it.

  • @Liyah-encyclopedia333
    @Liyah-encyclopedia333 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank you❤

  • @gutterhalo
    @gutterhalo Рік тому +5

    Beautiful and very tangible

  • @xSPIDERx99933
    @xSPIDERx99933 10 місяців тому +1

    Thank you🪬🇹🇿🌎🧜🏽‍♂️

  • @flatboat67
    @flatboat67 Рік тому +3

    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
      @mindofnous  Рік тому +1

      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.

  • @HareHare954
    @HareHare954 Рік тому +1

    Goodness 😊

  • @bloodshredder1982
    @bloodshredder1982 Рік тому +3

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

    • @mindofnous
      @mindofnous  Рік тому

      😂 Thank you bro 🙏

    • @justinhemion6279
      @justinhemion6279 3 місяці тому

      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"!!!

  • @elexperimentodecucho9423
    @elexperimentodecucho9423 Рік тому +2

    More videos lijke this one please.

  • @mindofnous
    @mindofnous  Рік тому +22

    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.

    • @LunnaJannah
      @LunnaJannah 7 місяців тому +4

      It was written before

    • @mindofnous
      @mindofnous  7 місяців тому +2

      @@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.

    • @markjohnston5831
      @markjohnston5831 7 місяців тому +1

      Raise the vibration of 🌎

  • @markjohnston5831
    @markjohnston5831 7 місяців тому +2

    The Kybalion

  • @top5in512
    @top5in512 Рік тому +1

    🔮

  • @se8644
    @se8644 Рік тому +1

    💞

  • @TheArmyofHades
    @TheArmyofHades Рік тому +1

    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
      @mindofnous  Рік тому

      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
      @TheArmyofHades Рік тому +1

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

    • @mindofnous
      @mindofnous  Рік тому +4

      @@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
      @TheArmyofHades Рік тому

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

  • @johnmccormick2347
    @johnmccormick2347 6 місяців тому

    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
      @mindofnous  6 місяців тому +1

      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!

  • @user-ge1mz7kl8h
    @user-ge1mz7kl8h 9 місяців тому +1

    Amazing but only for those with a high iQ

  • @1oflegion
    @1oflegion 4 місяці тому

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

  • @nensi5813
    @nensi5813 10 місяців тому +2

    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
      @mindofnous  10 місяців тому +3

      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.

    • @nensi5813
      @nensi5813 10 місяців тому

      @@mindofnous very interesting, looking forward to it

  • @TutAnkhLoki
    @TutAnkhLoki Рік тому +2

    Sounds like Enoch tbh

  • @yvonnesmith6152
    @yvonnesmith6152 Рік тому +2

    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
      @mindofnous  Рік тому

      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
      @yvonnesmith6152 Рік тому +1

      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
      @mindofnous  Рік тому

      @@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
      @beverlychristodoulou5860 7 місяців тому

      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
    @DivineGraceGolden1 18 днів тому

    A-Ω

  • @stevhandingwall2028
    @stevhandingwall2028 3 місяці тому

    My name is Kratos I killed Hermes

  • @teslabot5650
    @teslabot5650 9 місяців тому

    His son really names A sleep e us lol

  • @virgopisces6698
    @virgopisces6698 Рік тому

    Really

  • @Royaltea-tz2hq
    @Royaltea-tz2hq Рік тому

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

    • @mindofnous
      @mindofnous  Рік тому +2

      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
      @Royaltea-tz2hq Рік тому

      @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 .

  • @nikitasmarkantes5046
    @nikitasmarkantes5046 9 місяців тому

    Ευλογημένοι όσοι γνωρίζουν αρχαία ελληνικά

  • @virgopisces6698
    @virgopisces6698 Рік тому

    😂

  • @stealingStolenMemes
    @stealingStolenMemes 10 місяців тому

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

  • @DS-nv8bi
    @DS-nv8bi Рік тому

    is this not a citation from the king james bible?

  • @agostinobianchi3260
    @agostinobianchi3260 Рік тому

    Troppo veloce ..

  • @vetiarvind
    @vetiarvind Рік тому

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

    • @mindofnous
      @mindofnous  Рік тому +6

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

  • @Moe-nm8sj
    @Moe-nm8sj 8 місяців тому

    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
    @Tao0o0ooooo00 Рік тому

    Why did god create dinasoars ?

  • @simban00
    @simban00 10 місяців тому

    It is a Greek text not Egyptian

  • @virgopisces6698
    @virgopisces6698 Рік тому

    I don't think so

  • @belleairBabe
    @belleairBabe 8 місяців тому

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

    • @mindofnous
      @mindofnous  8 місяців тому

      I'm sorry you hate.

    • @haksoflife9154
      @haksoflife9154 6 місяців тому

      .75 speed option you’re welcome