Thovt Hermés Trismegistus and his ancient school of mysteries

25. 05. 2021
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Thoth Hermes Trismegistus is often portrayed by the Egyptians as god of the moon with a human body, an ibis head and a crescent moon over his head. His symbol was a winged snake stick. He was the god of wisdom, writing and time. But it was not only the Egyptians who recognized it. For the Sumerians, it was Ningizzida; for the Jews it could be Enoch, Odin for the Scandinavians, Wotan for the Germans, and some sources even speak of the Buddha.

Before being worshiped as a god, he was the first great Egyptian philosopher and founder of ancient mystery schools to gain his wisdom in meditative states. He has written more than 40 books, (allegedly) including the Emerald Tablet, Thovt's Book, and the Divine Pymander, with Thovt's Book intended only for his enlightened devotees of the Mystery.

Reconstruction of the alleged form of the Emerald Tablet created by the International Association of Alchemists. (Crystalinks)

Thovt's teachings and the Book of Thovt

The topics covered by Hermes ranged from medicine, chemistry, law, art, music, magic, philosophy, geography, mathematics, anatomy to rhetoric. For the Egyptians, his knowledge was so extensive and all-encompassing that they first began to regard him as someone who communicated with the gods, and finally introduced him to the Egyptian pantheon.

Whether we agree with it or not, it was his hand that wrote the books that were attributed to him. Most of their readers have either read them quickly or studied them in detail, mainly because of a certain resemblance to Buddhism and Christianity. Perhaps the clearest example is his teaching on reincarnation and the creation of the world.

Thovt, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom, depicted with a human body, an ibis head and a crescent moon overhead. (Vladimiraz / Dreamstime.com)

There is nothing certain about the Book of Thovt except the fact that was written in Egyptian hieroglyphs. It was stored in a golden box inside the sanctuary of the temple, and only the highest initiate of Hermes' Arcanum of the School of Mystery had the key to it.

The book is said to contain the Key to Immortality, a process accomplished by awakening certain areas of the brain similar to those of Buddhist monks. Gardner and other authors claim that the awakening of the brain was achieved through meditation, the use of white powder and the sacred essence of the priestesses.

Thovt's school of mysteries

The most powerful of the ministry schools was known as the Royal School of Masters at Karnak, founded by Pharaoh Thuthmose III. Nevertheless, as with all ministry schools, it is commonly assumed that the real founders lived in Sumeria and later emigrated to Egypt, which agrees with Sitchin's claim that Enki and his sons (including Ningizzida) had Magan (Egypt) as their domain.

This school was also known as the Great White Brotherhood due to the choice of white robe worn by its members and also the production of white powder, among the Mesopotamians known as Shem-an-na, High-Ward Fire Stone or "white bread" at Egyptians. In the pictures, it is offered to the pharaohs in the shape of a cone.

Man holding white Shem-an-na powder (subtleenergies.com)

Shem-an-na - "White Bread" of the ancient Egyptians

At the top of Mount Sinai, the British archaeologist WMPetrie discovered an Egyptian temple that hid a marvelous find: a large supply of the finest pure white powder was found in a warehouse a few inches below the heavy stones. Animal casualties or smelting of copper were quickly eliminated.

Part of the mysterious powder was transported to Britain for analysis and investigation, but no results were ever published. The rest was left free to the elements after 3000 years to fall victim to desert winds. However, this powder turned out to be seemingly identical to the ancient Mesopotamian stone, or shem-an-na - the substance from which the bread cakes made by the kings of Babylon and the Egyptian pharaohs were made. This explains the temple inscriptions denoting the importance of bread and light, while the white powder (shem-an-na) was identified as the sacred mana that Aaron brought to the Ark of the Covenant.

WM Petrie discovered a large amount of pure white powder in a temple on top of Mount Sinai. "Ascent to the lower areas of Mount Sinai." Color lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849. (Wikimedia Commons)

What happened to Thovta's book?

Mister schools finally began to decline with the advent of new dynasties. The initiates left Egypt and took the Book of Thovt with them to another country. No one knows where he is now, though the chain of succession to Thovt's Grand Master has reportedly remained unbroken. The Rosicrucians are said to come from his school, while the Masons came from a school founded by Solomon.

And as for Thovt himself? Although many of the texts attributed to him were lost in the Great Fire of the Library of Alexandria, they were worshiped for many years by philosophers, occultists, alchemists, and healers. Who knows how different history might have been if the knowledge stored in this library had not been lost?

Hermes Trismegistus (Thovt). Floor pattern in Siena Cathedral, 80s. (Public domain)

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