Corpus Hermeticum Quotes

“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.”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Corpus Hermeticum

“No eyes will raise to heaven. The pure will be thought insane and the impure will be honoured as wise. The madman will be believed brave, and the wicked esteemed as good.”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Corpus Hermeticum

“The present issues from the past, and the future from the present. Everything is made one by this continuity. Time is like a circle, where all the points are so linked that one cannot say where it begins or ends, for all points precede and follow one another for ever.”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Corpus Hermeticum

“O ye people, earth-born folk, ye who have given yourselves to drunkenness and sleep and ignorance of God, be sober now,cease from your surfeit, cease to be glamored by irrational sleep!”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Corpus hermeticum

“Humanity looked in awe upon the beauty and the everlasting duration of creation. The exquisite sky flooded with sunlight. The majesty of the dark night lit by celestial torches as the holy planetary powers trace their paths in the heavens in fixed and steady metre - ordering the growth of things with their secret infusions.”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Corpus Hermeticum

“Man is the most divine of all the beings, for amongst all living things, Atum associates with him only - speaking to him in dreams at night, foretelling the future for him in the flight of birds, the bowels of beasts, and the whispering oak.”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Corpus Hermeticum

“En el esoterismo a Poimandres se le llama el Santo Ángel de la Guarda, todo el trabajo del estudiante de los misterios consiste en obtener el estado de conciencia que le permita conversar con su Santo Ángel o Inteligencia Interior y así obtener el verdadero conocimiento esotérico que lo convierte en adepto, es el Bautismo del Espíritu Santo que menciona el Cristianismo o la adquisición del Buddhi o Iluminación que menciona el Budismo. Existe gran confusión sobre el origen de Hermes, pero ya fuera un avatar, un sabio o un grupo de hombres sabios, eso no nos importa, lo verdaderamente importante es el conocimiento que ha llegado hasta nosotros transmitido en las pocas obras que se conservan. Para la Filosofía Hermética lo importante no es el mensajero sino el mensaje. Todas las cosas de aquí abajo tienen su origen arriba, y el hombre es el puente de unión que a través de su conciencia une los dos mundos.”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Corpus Hermeticum

“And of the matter stored beneath it , the Father made of it a universal body, and packing it together made it spherical - wrapping it round the life - [a sphere] which is immortal in itself, and that doth make materiality eternal.”
― G.R.S. Mead, The Corpus Hermeticum: Initiation Into Hermetics, The Hermetica Of Hermes Trismegistus