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The Gnostic Wisdom “The Gnosis is a cosmic teaching which aspires to restore within each one of us, the capacity to live consciously and intelligently” SAMAEL AUN WEOR Course of Gnosis by E-mail
The theory, originally proposed by Franz Cumont, that Mithraism evolved from Persian Zoroastrianism, is now generally dismissed. However, the theory has not been carefully examined. A primitive version of the Mithraic mysteries certainly existed among them, as can be determined from circumstantial evidence, where they contributed heavily to the Greek traditions of Orphism, which not only later emerged as prominent themes in Mithraism, but of Hellenistic mysticism in general. While based on these earlier tradition, Mithraism nevertheless, modified during these times, to conform to these same Gnostic tendencies. The Magussaeans On all sides, the Persians were surrounded by nations that celebrated mysteries, by Egyptians to Isis and Osiris, the Syrians to Bel and Astarte, the Phrygians to Attis and Cybele, and the Greeks to Dionysus and Persephone.
Mithraism: Zoroastrian Gnosticism | The Dying God
Quest of the Soul: The Eleusinian Mysteries By William A. Savage
Quest of the Soul: The Eleusinian Mysteries by William A. Savage
The Corpus Hermeticum & Hermetic Tradition -- The Gnostic Society Library
Archive Notes In the following section we provide: Introduction The Hermetic tradition represents a non-Christian lineage of Hellenistic Gnosticism. The tradition and its writings date to at least the first century B.C.E., and the texts we possess were all written prior to the second century C.E. The surviving writings of the tradition, known as the Corpus Hermeticum (the "Hermetic body of writings") were lost to the Latin West after classical times, but survived in eastern Byzantine libraries. Their rediscovery and translation into Latin during the late-fifteenth century by the Italian Renaissance court of Cosimo de Medici, provided a seminal force in the development of Renaissance thought and culture. These eighteen tracts of the Corpus Hermeticum , along with the Perfect Sermon (also called the Asclepius), are the foundational documents of the Hermetic tradition. The texts presented here, below, are taken from the translation of G.R.S.
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Origin of ‘As above, so below’ « Radiant woman
"As above, so below"
Back to Home Page or Contents Page or Magic or Index "As above, so below" T his phrase comes from the beginning of The Emerald Tablet and embraces the entire system of traditional and modern magic which was inscribed upon the tablet in cryptic wording by Hermes Trismegistus . The significance of this phrase is that it is believed to hold the key to all mysteries.