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Hermes Trismegistus

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Hermes as identified with the Egyptian god Thoth, the legendary author of works on alchemy, astrology, and magic.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Medieval Latin Hermēs Trismegistus, from Greek Hermēs trismegistos : Hermēs, Hermes + trismegistos, thrice greatest (tris, thrice; see trei- in Indo-European roots + megistos, greatest; see meg- in Indo-European roots).]

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Examples

  • • Therefore am I called Hermes Trismegistus, possessing the three parts of the philosophy of the whole World.

    Archive 2007-03-01 tellurian 2007

  • • Therefore am I called Hermes Trismegistus, possessing the three parts of the philosophy of the whole World.

    Rosicrucians tellurian 2007

  • Therefore am I called Hermes Trismegistus, possessing the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.

    Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

  • If one person could be said to be the Father of Alchemy it would have to be Hermes Trismegistus aka: Thoth, Hermanubis, or Hermes amongst many other names.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • If one person could be said to be the Father of Alchemy it would have to be Hermes Trismegistus aka: Thoth, Hermanubis, or Hermes amongst many other names.

    How Alchemy changed the World #1 2008

  • In Albertus Magnus the Aristotelian definition of Fate is influenced not only by the Stoic position, but by the astrological theories which had developed through writers such as Hermes Trismegistus, Firmicius

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

  • They credited their magical books to Hermes Trismegistus, supposedly an ancient Egyptian sage.

    A curse on all your paintings: the secret magic of Renaissance art Jonathan Jones 2010

  • Let's start by examining one such ancient idea, a hermetic teaching ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, "as above so below."

    Reality, an Enormous Interference Pattern? 2009

  • In Alchemy, he is Hermes Trismegistus, otherwise known as a fraudulent scholar who wrote a book pretending to contain ancient wisdom.

    Great! Great! Great! Yvonne Rathbone 2009

  • In Alchemy, he is Hermes Trismegistus, otherwise known as a fraudulent scholar who wrote a book pretending to contain ancient wisdom.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Yvonne Rathbone 2009

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