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VISIONARY REVUE
TO ‘ENTER THROUGH’
HERMES TRISMEGISTOS
When the viewer centres
himself before this image in
meditation, he begins by
freely roaming his eye over
the lower figures: the basic
geometrical shapes, the four
fundamental elements, the
mineralia, vegetalia and
animalia - he sees all of them
HERMES
TRISMEGISTOS as Nature’s progeny. She
holds her hands outward as if
to say, ‘Behold: all of this I
create’. It is beautiful to
admire such things. But then
the viewer remembers that
she also holds the body of
man in her embrace.
Gradually moving his eye upward, the
contemplative holds the central human figure in
his gaze. After concentrated meditation, he
learns to see the Anthropos as a reflection of
himself. Though the body belongs to Nature and
the Earth, in spirit the Anthropos is an image of
the One. Its form reflects the higher self, the
eternal self. But this is not yet apparent.
Concentrating further on the image, the
viewer becomes aware of how he is encompassed
seven times by the planets in the lower aeons.
Suddenly, he recognizes that these form a
winding path upward, the Soul’s Ascent. But, to
tred that path, he must first remember ‘the
cosmic framework’:
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the alchemical arrangement of the elements below,
the astrological order of the planets above. This
knowledge is planted in him, like a divine spark,
which Alchemy and Astrology help him to
remember.
Accomplishing all this, he sees his proper
reflection, not in the Anthropos, but in the
Demiurge. Like a divine Craftsman, he understands
the order of the elements on earth and of the planets
in the heavens. Transcending them all, he arrives at
the upper aeons.
In the glowing caduceus, he sees another image
of himself. He is not a body with hands and feet. He
is a glowing serpent of Life and Light. The
serpentine and lionine figures ablaze with light
reflect his own soul and mind. In this form, he
winds five times through the five upper aeons.
Finally, in his vision, all comes together. His
focus expands and he sees all of these as one: he is in
Nature, he is the Anthropos and Demiurge, he is
Light and Life. At the centre of all of these, he sees
the glowing circle on the chest of the Anthropos:
that is the divine spark in him, the remembrance of
the light. In this sacred mirror, he sees himself there,
as a particle of divine light.
At the final moment his mind expands and his
particle of divine light merges with the One at the
source. He now sees that the glowing circle of light is
not an image of his own divine spark, but the One at
the centre of all things. All these disparate images
unite, and find their centre in the Source of Light
and Life.
Then, freeing himself from this vision and slowly
emerging from meditation, he thinks to himself with
the words of the Poimandres,
“I saw an endless vision in which everything
became light - clear and joyful - and in seeing the
vision I came to love it.” (C.H. I. 4)
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