tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post5649717754835299561..comments2023-09-14T06:40:37.907+02:00Comments on Nick Farrell's Blog: Putting the Hermetic back into HermeticAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-9449601563985219812013-10-19T23:27:36.356+02:002013-10-19T23:27:36.356+02:00You are right - it is crazy to be in a Hermetic Or...You are right - it is crazy to be in a Hermetic Order like the GD and not read the Corpus Hermeticum. Some of the passages are truly sublime.Soror SDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03326275677269142256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-54141576834940502532013-10-19T06:49:57.163+02:002013-10-19T06:49:57.163+02:00The Corpus Hermeticum should be one of the first t...The Corpus Hermeticum should be one of the first things that serious students of magick read on the subject. Especially the Grand Poemander which outlines the ultimate goal of hermetic magick as the congress with the "higher self". I have had a lot of people tell me that these sorts of books, especially things like the Kabalah Denudata and the Zohar, are difficult to read because of their archaic and obscure language, but, in my opinion, this is merely the first lesson that these books have for those that read them- focus, concentration and comprehension on a deeper level than they commit to most things that they do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-68636938520655216342013-10-17T13:39:43.959+02:002013-10-17T13:39:43.959+02:00Excellent post.
On the subject of earth being an ...Excellent post.<br /><br />On the subject of earth being an element made up of the other elements. I suspect that the newsgroup poster or Franz Bardon took this idea from Sefer Yetzirah 3:4: <br /><br />"Three Mothers AMSh, <br />in the Universe are air, fire, water, <br />Heaven was created from fire<br />Earth was created from water<br />and air from Breath decides between them"<br /><br />Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan in his translation and commentary on SY points out that "fire" represents electromagnetic force, "water" represents "stron nuclear" or pionic force, and "air" represents "weak nuclear" force. He goes on to say:<br /><br />"...the fourth force gravity corresponds to "earth". Earth, however is not a basic element, but a confluence of the other three**. It is therefore represented by the final Heh in the Tetragrammaton, which is actually a repetition of the first Heh in this name..."<br /><br />** Pardes Rimonim 9:3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com