The Hermetica Quotes

“The past has departed and no longer is. The future has not arrived and is yet to be. Even the present does not last, so how can it be said to exist, when it doesn't stay still for a moment?”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“The Pagans have made known all of this. They have discovered the art of healing the body, they have also made known the art of healing the soul; they have filled the earth with settled forms of government and with wisdom which is the highest good. Without Paganism the world would be empty and miserable.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“It is a man's lot to live the life prescribed for him by his fate. Very few human beings are capable of escaping from the determining influence of the Zodiac. Man's earthly life is controlled by the power of Destiny, through the physical limitations of the mortal human body. However, if a man's mind is illuminated by the Light of God, he becomes free from these celestial influences — for even the gods are powerless before God. Hermes teaches that it is our duty not simply to acquiesce in our fate, but rather, through intense contemplation of God, to rise above our merely mortal nature and awaken our immortal soul.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Ignorance floods the land. Its currents sweep you away. Don't be borne downstream. Make use of the backflow. Seek the safe haven of liberation.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Our possessions possess us. We were not born with possessions, but acquired them later.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Birth is not the beginning of life — only of an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death — only the ending of this awareness.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“For man, time is a destroyer, but for the Cosmos it is an ever-turning wheel. These earthly forms that come and go are illusions.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Time creates Change.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“He is by nature a musician who composes the harmony of the Cosmos and transmits to each individual the rhythm of their own music. If the music becomes discordant, don't blame the musician, but the lyre-string he plays, that has become loose and sounds flat, marring the perfect beauty of the melody.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Words lead us to the doorway of Truth, but only by contemplating their meaning can we pass through.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“The Hermetic philosophy places man at the very centre of God's creation. Hermes declares that 'man is a marvel'. With his mind he may not only understand the universe, but even come to know God. He is not a mortal body which will live and die. He is an immortal soul which, through the experience of a spiritual rebirth, may become a god.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“We are the heirs and propagators of Paganism. Happy is he who for the sake of Paganism bears the burden of persecution with firm hope. Who else have civilised the world and built cities if not the nobles and kings of Paganism? Who else have set in order the harbours and the rivers? And who else have taught the hidden wisdom? To whom else has the Deity revealed itself, given oracles, and told about the future, if not the famous men amongst the Pagans? The Pagans have made known all of this. They have discovered the art of healing the body, they have also made known the art of healing the soul; they have filled the earth with settled forms of government and with wisdom which is the highest good. Without Paganism the world would be empty and miserable. Thabbit Ibn Qurra”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“Wise words, although written by my decaying hand, remain imperishable through time; Imbued with the medicine of immortality by the All-Master. Be unseen and undiscovered by all those who will come and go, wandering the wastelands of life. Be hidden, until an older heaven births human beings who are worthy of your wisdom.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“For the man of vision, all things are good, even if they appear evil to others. When men devise mischief against him, he sees it in the light of his knowledge of Atum, and he — and only he — transforms evil into Goodness.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“An enlightened being no longer believes he is a body. The body belongs to Nature, not to him, and so its fate is of no importance. He is One with everything. He sees Goodness everywhere. He is bathed in divine Light. He has become All-Mind.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“In Hermes' eyes Mankind's greatest error is that he has the power to know God and yet does not use it.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

“that human life is an opportunity to come to know God, but that to fulfil this divine purpose we must cease to be enslaved by the body.”
― Tim Freke, The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs