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He made his way along, with his eye diligently heedful of the signs, and at last recognised the Winged Staff, or caduceus of Hermes, over a stall where a couple of boys in blue caps and gowns and yellow stockings were making a purchase of a small, grave- looking, elderly but bright cheeked man, whose yellow hair and beard were getting intermingled with grey. They were evidently those St.
But this kind of talk, wrapt up too in the most confused style, or rather no style at all, is quite enough to account for ignorant and envious people accusing him of magic, saying that he had discovered the philosopher's stone, and the secret of Hermes Trismegistus; that he must make gold, because, though he squandered all his money, he had always money in hand; and that he kept a "devil's-bird," a familiar spirit, in the pommel of that famous long sword of his, which he was only too ready to lug out on provocation the said spirit, Agoth by name, being probably only the laudanum bottle with which he worked so many wondrous cures, and of which, to judge from his writings, he took only too freely himself.
And this signified that the Scripture is clear to all, when taken according to base reading; and that this is the faith which occupies the place of the rudiments. Thus those of highest repute among the Greeks dedicate the fruit of the pomegranate to Hermes, who they say is speech, on account of its interpretation.
Odysseus, when the poem opens, was in Calypso's isle pitied of all the gods save Poseidon. In a council Zeus gave his consent that Hermes should go to Calypso, while Athena should descend to Ithaca to encourage Odysseus' son Telemachus to seek out news of his father. Taking the form of Mentes, Athena met Telemachus and informed him that his father was not yet dead.
"And yet, I have just this minute come round the hill. You could not possibly have seen me." "I have ways of knowing," said Daphne, smiling demurely. A faint little bleat interrupted them. "Oh, oh!" cried the girl, "she is running away with Hermes!" Never did Apollo move more swiftly than he did then! Daphne followed, with flying feet.
Yet it was found later that the Arabs, while they added much of their own to it, still were but the preservers of Greek-Hellenistic knowledge and we are convinced that the alchemists were right when they indicated in their traditions the legendary Egyptian Hermes as their ancestor.
Brownson himself a convert to Catholicism as the product of "a school formed, at first, outside of the Church, but now brought within her communion," and compared, in regard to its dangerousness, with the speculations of Hermes and Lamennais. It is only justice to Mr.
To the pure, all things are pure; to the base, all things are base. True Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art." The Kybalion. As we have stated, the Hermetists were the original alchemists, astrologers, and psychologists, Hermes having been the founder of these schools of thought.
'By Heaven! he cried, stamping savagely with his foot. 'By Heaven! Then I certainly am a fool! It is the staff of Phaebus in the hand of Hermes! I hastened to him. 'Tell me, I said, 'have you discovered anything? 'It is possible. 'And has there really been foul play murder in any of these deaths? 'Of that, at least, I was certain from the first.
"Let me see the Hermes first, just for a moment." Their eyes met. He thought she was reading his mind, though he tried to keep it closed against her just then. "Why are you in such a hurry?" he asked. "I feel I must see it," she answered, with a sort of sweet obstinacy. He hesitated. "Well, then I'll see if I can find the guardian."
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