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Thanks for the links JCpenny420. I’m sure I’ve heard Terrence McKenna and possibly Alan Watts mention Hermetic philosophy in the past but I’m unfamiliar with the links you have provided. Very interesting read!
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Thanks for the links! I've heard of the emerald tablet a bit, never studied it and also heard a lecture about the kybalion.. Im gonna check this out right now!
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Yea it's a great topic. There are so many videos about it on youtube also. Hermes thrice great was said to have reincarnated 3 times. As above, so below. "Reality is only an illusion"
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Have you heard of Ghostmane? Hes an occult rapper from florida has a song titled kybalion and has it tattooed on his face 
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The Hermetica has long been on my reading list but I haven't made it there yet. It's been said that all of Western thought is merely footnotes to Plato. So I've been concentrating on Plato. I'm a slow reader. It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.
--JBS Haldane
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Hmm i started on the emerald tablets. Stopped because of all the metaphors. Language exists. get the the points please. X
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abusedtoaster wrote:Hmm i started on the emerald tablets. Stopped because of all the metaphors. Language exists. get the the points please. The metaphors are the backbone of the kybalon and the tablets. The secrets are guarded by them, only the most perceptive will be able to ascertain the secrets within. The unworthy and not so perceptive do not deserve to know the mysteries of life. One must put in the work to be granted the keys. I myself had to read, re read and read again to understand much of it. Try again, good luck! The knowledge is there for anyone to see, if perceptive enough. "Reality is only an illusion"
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Thank for this. I have no prior experience reading this and will treasure it. May wisdom permeate through your life.
"What is survival if you do not survive whole. Ask the Bene Teilax that. What if you no longer hear the music of life. Memories are not enough unless they call you to noble purpose." God Emperor Leto ii
"The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you." God Emperor Leto ii
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@JCpenny420 you forget the egyptian book of the dead. Thats one that brought me to hermes 3magistus. If too lazy too read ... Highlight ... What happens when you die  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBl5v2WGqrIwhen the doors of perception are open we can experience the full scope of reality
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I will invest a little :
Fridtjof Kapra/ The Tao of Physics/ Shambhala Publications..
Eric Thompson / The Neuroscience of Meditation: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of the Effects of Meditation on the Brain ..
Daniel Siegel / The Mindful Brain. A Scientific View of Meditation ..
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iamdave wrote:The Hermetica has long been on my reading list but I haven't made it there yet. It's been said that all of Western thought is merely footnotes to Plato. So I've been concentrating on Plato. I'm a slow reader. The Kybalion is awesome if one desired to read the philosophy in simple terms
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iamdave wrote: It's been said that all of Western thought is merely footnotes to Plato. So I've been concentrating on Plato. Perhaps not. Perhaps one should read Popper
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