Hermetism

Hermétisme can take three different directions. It indicates as follows:

  • a esoteric Doctrine founded on writings of the time gréco-Roman allotted to the inspiration of the god Hermes Trismégiste (name given by the Greeks to the Egyptian god Thot)

  • doctrines occults alchemists, with the Middle Ages and the Rebirth
  • in a common direction, the character of what is difficult to include/understand

Presentation

Esoteric doctrines

Hermetism is esoteric doctrines founded on the research interior, and inspired by Hermes Trismégiste. One can define it as a worship where there is no revelation, but where it is a question of seeking the truth inside oneself. This truth is personal with each one, and communicable (is not inspired by: the Pendulum of Foucault , Umberto Eco.)

Hermetism and alchemy

Hermetism is often employed like synonym of Alchimie, but actually, alchemy is only one of the disciplines of hermetic science. The text the most known founder of this esoteric science is the Table of emerald ( Tabula Smaragdina ), allotted at Hermes Trismégiste. The Greek Hermes not being other than the god Mercury of the Roman , which is also the name of one of the two principles implemented by the alchemical practice, with Sulfur. Alchemical Sulfur and Mercury are not Soufre and vulgar mercury, but of the principles which present anologies with these two substances. The hermetic literature was spread in the ancient world between the first century and the 3rd century ap. - JC, parallel to the Christian thought . The fragments which still remained with the Moyen-âge were gathered under name Corpus Hermeticum by the monks scholars. The text of the Table of emerald was always treated separately, it does not appear in the Corpus Hermeticum .

Common direction

The alchemical works using a language symbolic coded, comprehensible only by the followers, extension, one qualifies hermetic text, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inaccessible doctrines for all, except possible for some very rare initiates.

This direction is reinforced by the fact that the alchemists used a particular technique to close some of the vases and other retorts which they used during their experiments (coction, decoction, sublimation, etc) qualified hermetic closing . Behind this expression would be dissimulated a process which would consist in for some stopping the bottle with the emery for other to close again the bottle on itself while dissolving glass, unless the term does not veil a more major significance.

From where the expression to close hermetically a bottle, etc

References

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