Category: Hermetica Generale

Any earth, joined still as many and as one, will fail anywhere, and becomes rubble.

Any water, flowing freely as many and as one, won’t fail anywhere, and ignores structure.

The fast-river becomes the ocean while the slow-river becomes the lake: what they are not is rain, the world-river then again.

A structure is born once itself; any its restructures; and rubble once forever.

Beings in motion are not earth, but water, which can’t be slowed, nor stopped, nor dried, and it is not fit for structures.

Peace is when a conversation begins in a question.

War is when a dialogue begins in an answer.

Peace is when a dialogue ends in a question.

War is when a conversation ends in an answer.

If this means anything to you: yes, it is all true.

To be walking together, two have to go at the same pace.

Observe who slows down for others.

Help who sits.

Rituals are relations that accelerate.

The most complete ritual is that which, affecting the different differently, and affecting the same similarly, achieves so that the ritual can be considered different in any, and same in all.

The most incomplete ritual is that which, affecting the different similarly, and affecting the similar differently, achieves so that the ritual can be considered different between two.

(A) truth; no doubt [it] is true
indeed, the uppermost is from the lowermost and the lowermost is from the uppermost,
[it] worked the wonders from one, (just) as all things come from one by means of one plan/with one considered act,
[its] father is the sun, [its] mother is the moon,
the wind carried [it] in her womb, the earth fed [it],
father of talismans, keeper of wonders, perfect in power,
fire became earth, separate the earth from the fire,
the soft/delicate/gentle/subtle is more noble than the crude/rough/unintelligent/gross,
with gentle-being and wisdom [it] ascends from the earth to the heaven and descends to the earth from the heaven,
and in [it] is the power of the uppermost and the lowermost,
since with [it] is the light of lights therefore the darkness escapes (away) from [it],
power of powers
it prevails over everything soft/delicate/gentle/subtle, enters into everything crude/rough/unintelligent/gross,
against the creation of the macrocosm the work was created,
this is my renown and therefore I am named Hermes the threefold with the wisdom.

Observing through everything, all truth is in the observed.

Observing through a mirror, all truth is in the observer, and in what they are not, and they are complementary and they are the same.

Observing through a one-sided mirror, two people see the same truth differently, and they are compatible, and they are not the same.

Observing through a one-sided wall, two people see different truths similarly, and they are not compatible, and they are the same.

Observing through eachother, all truth is in the observers, and in what they are not, and they are complementary, and they are the same.

Observing through nothing, all truth is in the observer.

“In everything that I have said about the science of lights, I was assisted by those who have walked the path of God. This science is the same intuition of the inspired and enlightened Plato, guide and teacher of wisdom, and of those who were before him from the time of Hermes – the first of the wise men – to the time of Plato, including vigorous pillars of wisdom like Empedocles, Pythagoras, and others. The words of the ancients are symbolic and are not open to refutation. Criticisms made of the literal meaning of his words failed to apply to his real intentions, because a symbol cannot be refuted.” Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-Futūḥ Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabash ibn Amīrak al-Suhrawardī

“In fact, Suhrawardi goes so far as to tell us that unless one has fasted for forty days, he will not understand his major work, Hikmat al-ishraq (The Philosophy of Illumination).” Mehdi Amin Razavi

Structures/beings/things can give name/symbol/image to structures in relation to their own and others.

Symbols are structures themselves.

Any being has at least one name: that in the shape of their own structure.

So that a being will know another by knowing how they are, and are not, alike to themselves.

Symbols are in co-determination with the beings that are in relation with them.

Languages are structures of symbols, and knowledge/culture is made of structures of languages.

Horoscopes/sciences are structures of knowledge that relate symbols to their being.

Practices/rituals are beings that relate knowledge to symbols.

Horoscopes and mathematics are in co-determination with the structures that they influence.

Being is in relation to change.

Hence, which that is, can be called a structure.

A structure is in its structured relations, and relations are in related structures.

They are where they are found.

Being is in the sequence of relations, and is all of them.

A structure, its relations, and its life, are the same structure.

Structures are in change, infinite, and real.

Symbols are structures.

Languages are structures of symbols.

Formalism

Denote with the symbol “~” the concept of relation, so that:

🞀 ~ 🞂 = 🞀 🞂 = ◆ .

◆ ~ ◇ = ◈ ,

🜔 ~ 🜕 = 🜨 ,

🜨 = ◈ .

◆ = 🜔 .

🞀 ~ 🜕 , ◆ = 🜕 . . .

Denote with the symbol “:” a relation less general than “~“:

◆ : ◇ = ◪ ,

◈ : ◪ = ◈ ~ ◪ = ◈ ◪ .

◈ = ◪ = 🜨 .

As relations are structures:

~ ~ : = ⩫ .

~ = : .