Thomas Aquinas and Augustine considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a wise pagan prophet who foresaw the coming of Christianity

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He can’t exactly be a prophet if he’s a pagan. That being said, it’s not too bizarre to think about. If God can use false pagan religions to direct the Wisemen to the birth of Christ, then assuredly He could do the same thing to another person.
 
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This is quite interesting. It seems both Thomas Aquinas and Augustine recognized something in Hermes and his works that most others in the Christian world have failed to see.

According to a esoteric site that I visited (I can’t seem to find the link or website right now), Hermes was another Teacher (or Avatar) that God sends periodically to Earth to teach humanity for each Age.

According to this site the Teachers for the various Ages are the following (I find the list quite interesting and believable):

Leo - Hermes (Egypt)
Cancer- Hercules (Greece)
Gemini - Rama (India)
Taurus - Mithra (Europe)
Aries - Krishna (India)
Pisces - Jesus (Middle-east)

So according to this list, it looks like Hermes ranks pretty high as a spiritual teacher.
 
openmind77 said:
This is quite interesting. It seems both Thomas Aquinas and Augustine recognized something in Hermes and his works that most others in the Christian world have failed to see.

According to a esoteric site that I visited (I can’t seem to find the link or website right now), Hermes was another Teacher (or Avatar) that God sends periodically to Earth to teach humanity for each Age.

According to this site the Teachers for the various Ages are the following (I find the list quite interesting and believable):

Leo - Hermes (Egypt)
Cancer- Hercules (Greece)
Gemini - Rama (India)
Taurus - Mithra (Europe)
Aries - Krishna (India)
Pisces - Jesus (Middle-east)

So according to this list, it looks like Hermes ranks pretty high as a spiritual teacher.
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And we are heading into a “new age” of knowledge. The age of Aquarius. From Pisces which was Jesus. IN the last days knowledge will abound.
 
openmind77 said:
This is quite interesting. It seems both Thomas Aquinas and Augustine recognized something in Hermes and his works that most others in the Christian world have failed to see.

According to a esoteric site that I visited (I can’t seem to find the link or website right now), Hermes was another Teacher (or Avatar) that God sends periodically to Earth to teach humanity for each Age.

According to this site the Teachers for the various Ages are the following (I find the list quite interesting and believable):

Leo - Hermes (Egypt)
Cancer- Hercules (Greece)
Gemini - Rama (India)
Taurus - Mithra (Europe)
Aries - Krishna (India)
Pisces - Jesus (Middle-east)

So according to this list, it looks like Hermes ranks pretty high as a spiritual teacher.
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Heracles as a “wise teacher”, haha. Interesting that in the land of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, the incarnation of the divine is a brutal killer with the brains of an ox.

No, sorry, St. Augustine did not believe that Hermes was a spiritual teacher of God.
 
billcu1 said:
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This is quite interesting. It seems both Thomas Aquinas and Augustine recognized something in Hermes and his works that most others in the Christian world have failed to see.

According to a esoteric site that I visited (I can’t seem to find the link or website right now), Hermes was another Teacher (or Avatar) that God sends periodically to Earth to teach humanity for each Age.

According to this site the Teachers for the various Ages are the following (I find the list quite interesting and believable):

Age of Leo - Hermes (Egypt)
Age of Cancer- Hercules (Greece)
Age of Gemini - Rama (India)
Age of Taurus - Mithra (Europe)
Age of Aries - Krishna (India)
Age of Pisces - Jesus (Middle-east)

So according to this list, it looks like Hermes ranks pretty high as a spiritual teacher.
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And we are heading into a “new age” of knowledge. The age of Aquarius. From Pisces which was Jesus. IN the last days knowledge will abound.
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Yes we are heading into the Age of Aquarius.

At the beginning of Aquarius we will definitely see the Return of the Christ. Aquarius the Water Carrier - Luke 22:10.

These are interesting and exciting times.
 
TEPO said:
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Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Hermes Trimigistus is some sort of fictional concoction based on the Egyptian god Thoth. Certain writings claiming to come from Trimigistus is nothing more than plagerizing teachings and concepts by greats such as St. Thomas Acquinas (the concept of cause and effect), St. Augustine, greek philosophers such as Plato, and other ancient works (from Egypt and Greece). According to Ancient Egyptian tales, all books and teachings of Thoth are located “somewhere” (don’t remember exactly, maybe a different world) that no human can locate.
 
I studied the Corpus Hermetica in some detail years ago. It was generally assumed to be a more recent fraud, until it was found included in the Nag Hammadi library, which confirm its (reasonable antiquity).

It contains references to the Logos, the Incarnation, etc. In fact, I would see it as being written be someone who was influenced by Christian theology (obviously, some kind of Gnostic or neo-Platonist). It is a Koine Greek work, but presented as ‘Pseudo-Egyptian’ (Thrice-Great Hermes being equated with Thoth, of course).

My conclusion- the resemblances to Christian language and theology reflect its author was familiar with Christian theology, and neo-Platonism. It is, I say with 99% certainy, written after Christ, so not prophetic, but derivative.

The text are availabe on line- Worth reading, for interest’s sake. But I didn’t get much out of them philosophically.
 
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