CAS AR 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hermes Trismegistus, Eleusinian Mysteries, Pious Fraud
17 Mar 2016
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State religious conducted by iniiated priests (priesthood hereditary) Some rituals reserved for pharaoh (pharaoh"s seen his semi-divine) Osirian rituals less esoteric than the eleusinian mysteries of the greeks. What we know of egypian ritual comes from wriing. Khufu"s reputaion & promoing isis: at the same ime, egypian priests of sais turned thoth into a more esoteric enity that the greeks called hermes trismegistos (200ad) who ideniied w/ hermes in. Bc: work has not survived today (just quotes & menions, romans regarded egypt as an ideal tourist spot, hellenisically derived esotericism luxuriated into areas like astronomy & alchemy. Esoteric egypt in chrisianity & islam: chrisians: egypt connected them to the bible, muslims: thought egypians mysterious & magical. Renaissance of esoteric egypt 18th cent: atempts to connect egypt to china (language- wise) theory: china may have been a colony of egypt. Freemasonry, rosicrucianism, & the cracking of the code: rosicrucianism promoted the idea of a highly secret brotherhood devoted to.
