Magician Major Arcana Card (Tarot)

Or, the Hermes Card...

  

The number of 1 the Planet of Mercury and the letter Bet represent this card.

The Magician is Mercury, his name given by the Romans, or Hermes, the God of Logos, Gnosis and many more thing. He is Thrice Great in his undertaking of The Good.

The Master Magician has the knowledge of duality. He knows to awaits the battles end, when the men have fully expressed their anger. He brings the two opposites, or opposing sides, to peace with each other balancing chaos. This can be expressed as a metaphor for mind and body, male and female, good and evil. Understanding this process helps excel one to the next step in the their Works for The Good.

He, also, understands the Oroburos Snake, or the symbol of the snake eating its own tale, and, that of, infinity; the Magician fully understanding the Logos behind self reflection and rebirth. Time is relative to each persons perceived material "reality". Knowing the ancients were well adapted to planetary tracking, and that they considered them to represent the movement of the God(s) he is able to see the divinity in the Zodiac. The Zodiac, being an archetype of Gods such as Cronus (Khronos) and Osiris, charts life, death and events that peoples lives depended on. For example, the rising of Sirius marked the flooding of the Nile when, according to Egyptian Myth, Osiris's body decayed and water flowed from his corpse. The Zodiac also marks the solstices and Equinoxes along with many other important things.

Energies and their uses and sources are another Logos grasped by the Magician along with the Elements. He has control over creative and spiritual energies. He has searched scripture for the understanding of life and the Cosmos, He is a mystic and a priest hunting for more wisdom of the Elemental makeup of the soul and God(s). He is a constant student delving into the origins of man and trying to define that which is Divine in forms such as the Ogdoad and Tree of life. When looked at as Hermes/Thoth, he is the creator of these things putting the words on the tongue of RA and weighing the heart of the Pharaohs. Thoth/Hermes understands the workings of the heaven and the earth, and he is the net that supports the atoms which make up the Cosmos. You can see him working though my fingertips to put these sentences on this page. He is the quests end for the Magician. He is the Magician. 

Credited Sources 

Hermes and GRS Meads Translations

ATMANN Tarot.

 A Hermetic Apotheosis

"For when the soul once knows the Author of its peace, tis filled with wondrous love, and forgetfulness of everything ill, and can no longer keep from The Good."

"Fragments from the Books of Hermes to his Son Tat" Patrizzi - Strobaeus.
vol.3 "Thrice Greatest Hermes" G.R.S Mead (1906) London. 'Excerpt. 1 Of Piety and [true] Philosophy' 


Opening the 3rd volume of Meads excellent Work I come across this excerpt of Hermes talking to Tat. Telling him that when the soul knows its author of peace, tis filled with wondrous love. I think on this for a little bit, and I can see constant connections to this statement in humanity. We search for that God archetype to have something that describes our Logos and Soul. Something that represents it, and when we find it we are at peace, and it is wondrous love. 

 A short essay on the Merger of Hermetic Tradition into Christianity

                    

                    

                      

(Hermes left Christ right)

(Beautiful Hermetic Art containing deep truths>>)

You may have come across the movie "Zeitgeist" on Netflix or watch something similar on Youtube claiming that Christianity "forged" all their documents from ancient source material from Babylon, Egypt ect. Thinking on this you might wonder where they obtained this knowledge from? And why did they leave out something so important I am about to touch on. Did the Christians go around the world and hunt down ideas from other cultures theologies and mythologies to put together the Bible? I would say no to this. In fact the answer can be summed up in 2 words, and they are Hermetic Tradition.

 

You see, during the time of the birth of Christianity, as a religion, the Hermetic and Gnostic Christians shared similar philosophies on God, The One, The all being, The Creator of time, space, and the cosmos. This time period was a vacuum for Mystical, Theological, and Philosophical ideas, as the old dynasty had fallen allowing a new philosophy on God to arise. The Corpus Hermeticum and all writing related Hermes the Thrice Great were deeply intrenched in the readings of the Gnostic Christian Theologians, Philosophers, and Priests/Monks. Noe-Platonic and Pythagorean concepts were also ingested. These teaching included those of Thoth, of Egyptian Myth, and of Hermes or Hermas and Hermes Trismegistus ( Signature used by followers not a "real" person. An archetype). The texts are the origin of As above, So below, to paraphrase, which is similar in concept to "On earth, as it is in Heaven". I did no set out to write this as a way to convince anyone of anything, so I am going to keep the examples of "forgery" to a limit. The loss of the Library of Alexandria has left us with a small amount of these text but there depth is great and they contain much Gnosis of the cosmos. The teaching can be seen in those of Jesus or Y'shua.

The "Church Fathers", as Mead calls them in Thrice Greatest Hermes Vol.1, Passed on this Gnosis which found its self in the central teaching of the New Testament. Christianity, being the winner in the early battle for dominance, ended up pushing its distant cousin, aside and below. Even stooping to demonize Hermetic Work. It is unfortunate that we live in a world were opinions cannot be open when it comes to God. That was, and is, the future The Hermetic Tradition passed on for us to build. It is a never ending Work to better all. It is what Hermes Trismegistus represents. He is in all of us and everything that surrounds us with no dogmas attached.

- Hermes Trismegistus  aka Me

New Song Underway

Here is the Beta. You can hear the vibe im working with.

Dead Smoke - 9th Sphere Ascension

New Video Up

Dead Smoke - Dance With Me (Bass Gods) Video

Just finished this track and wanted to throw it up on YouTube.com. I had some left over clips from a previous that I used for this. I tried to Triped it out a bit. 

I will be posting very soon a interpretation of The Key chapter in the Corpus Hermeticum which can be found scrolling at the end of the video. Anyone looking for a link to to the book can head over to http://gnosis.org (I linked to The Corpus Heremeticum) and read the chapter I am referring to.

My Photos of the week

 

Descriptions, in order from top to bottom.

1.Moloch - I took this driving home, when I stopped at the stoplight.

2.Back patio of a friends house. Great Sunset on the 8/5/12

3.Sunset 8/4/12 

4.Shot of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the video game. I thought it looked very William Gibson like.

5.Slime and Moss.

6.Back yard Masonry

7.The ultimate shoe. Check out how the clouds go up the laces and exits out the top of the sneaker. I like the sun rays also. 

*No filter or effects added.

New Song I Have Been Working On 

Turning the Key by Dead Smoke aka Me, heh. This is why I have not finished the post for Saturn Worship yet. It is getting there. But, untill then, here you got. 33 sec when it drops sick! Bwahaha

Dead Smoke - Turning The Key (In my Bones)

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