Hermetics & alchemy
The human being has duty is to separate the subtle, to assimilate the terrestrial and to bring it a spiritual, celestial influx, this One that is present in everything being the primordial Chaos.
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The human being has duty is to separate the subtle, to assimilate the terrestrial and to bring it a spiritual, celestial influx, this One that is present in everything being the primordial Chaos.
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The Western alchemy, as well as the Arabic alchemy, inspired by Hermeticism is known as an occult science dedicated to the transmutation of metals, both of the real ones and of the symbols which they represent. The Great Alchemical Work aims to sublimate matter, to release the soul from the material body, lead being transmuted into gold, transforming the ordinary human being into a superhuman. Alchemy does not work solely with matter, but also with the spirit, the transmutation targeting both domains, it's objectives being The Philosophical Stone and the Elixir of Life.
Being present since the beginning of the Christian era, it expresses a synthesis in which the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek god Hermes are overlapped, even merged. Hermes was called Trismegistos, Thrice the Great, whereas he possesed three parts from the wisdom of the world: Alchemy, Astrology, Theurgy. Set of Egyptian concepts, Hermeticism is a gnosis whose purpose is the regeneration of the ordinary and profane human by knowledge of his superior reality and the powers that are hidden beyond of his apparent nature.
