Did you know the word alchemy means “from Egypt?” I only found the fact out this afternoon, and it really made me think about how much I take for granted. I must know thousands of words, and not know where they originated.
I know that Shakespeare invented 6000 words, among them is generous, accommodation, and aggrieved. No one thought to say you were generous prior to Shakespeare. We owe a great deal to the influences of the past that we take for granted.
But I digress from Egypt.
The mythical figure of Thoth has existed for over 3000bc in Egyptian mythology. Portrayed as a scribe with the head of an Ibis, Thoth was said to be a sage whose wisdom transformed him into a God. He is seen as the “dispatcher of divine messages and recorder of human deeds. In the afterlife court of Osiris, Thoth would decide whether the individual had acquired spiritual knowledge and purity, and so deserved a place in the Heavens.” Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy Hermetica: Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs
As well as being accredited with inventing the Hieroglyphs, Thoth was also thought to have taught the Ancient civilisations of Egypt astronomy, geometry, religion, alchemy and medicine. The Ancient Greeks believed him to be the sole architect of the Pyramids, and venerated him with alongside their own God Hermes (also referred to as Trismegistus: the Thrice Great.)
The Greeks ran with the baton of civilisation handed to them by the Egyptians, whose culture they revered, and by the 2nd/3rd Centuries there were innumerable writings on the wisdoms and teachings of Hermes (inspired by the stories of Thoth) in the Great Library of the City of Alexandria: they became collectively known as the Hermetica. The Hermetica is written as a dialogue between Hermes and one of three students, Tat, Asclepius, or Ammon.
Timothy Freke explains: “Hermes narrates a dramatic story of how God creates and maintains the cosmos. It is through appreciating the awesome beauty of the cosmos and understanding the fundamental laws by which it functions, that we can come to know the mind of God.”
In a nutshell, the teachings of Thoth/Hermes are really based around one enormous idea: that everything we are exists as a thought within the mind of God. A thought echoed by Albert Einstien who described science as an attempt to understand the mind of God.
Great minds think alike.
The Hermetic texts, unsurprisingly, were suppressed during the Dark Ages ushered in by the rise of the Roman Christian Church. It’s hardly surprising that a power built on the lies of being the only living embodiment of God on Earth would have a problem with teachings that give everyone divine right to have knowledge of God’s kingdom. Thankfully, the Hermetic texts were not entirely destroyed, and it was their rediscovery in 15th Century Florence that helped inspire the Renaissance. Great artists, thinkers and scientists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, William Blake, Paracelsus Copernicus and William Shakespeare (to name a very small few) all admitted to being heavily influenced by the teachings of the Hermetica.
This maybe a rather far out idea, but actually, everything that exists in your life NOW, began as a thought in someone else’s mind if not your own. Is it too much to believe that we are all part of a greater mind?
We take a great deal for granted about ourselves, lost in the mundane duties, problems and the distraction of our every day “flat-earth” lives. We believe that our world is real and manifest as solid matter around us. But it is not; everything is vibrating at the atomic level. Nothing is fixed. Only thinking makes it so.
We are nothing more than a vibration. Our senses operate through the interpretation of vibration. Our minds are so powerful that we walk this Earth blind to the staggering reality of our existence: it barely exists. Our eyes colour in shapes by translating the movement of light, the dense atomic shapes of buildings bodies and bounty around us, however, are 99% empty space.
We get stuck in the thoughts and ideas we have of ourselves. Most of us spend 90 percent of the time thinking about what we don’t want, affirming ourselves as poor, fat, stupid, or useless. When really, how can there be such a thing as a useless vibration? A vibration simply is.
We are incredible experiential beings, operating on so many levels.
Ideas are powerful; they are the only things capable of changing the world. How would the world change if we all lived by the idea that we don’t need protecting from each other? (This is an idea of fear spread by Governments so rich men can get richer from war, and it has been the predominant idea of humanity since before Alexander the Great.) How different would the world be if we all believed we didn’t need to compete with one another? (Vibrations don’t race; they travel.) How different would it be if we didn’t only think of our interests? It is in all of our interests to raise the general vibe of the planet to a happy, healthy place to live for everyone.
If we all saw ourselves not as millions of tiny individual minds, but as beautiful thoughts within one infinite mind, all connected, there would be world peace overnight. These ideas are not new; they are thousands of years old and have simply been repressed – because those who wish to control you know it is true.
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