Asclepius fragment

Asclepius fragment

"Or are you ignorant, Asclepius, that Egypt is (the) image of heaven? Moreover, it is the dwelling place of heaven and all the forces that are in heaven. If it is proper for us to speak the truth, our land is (the) temple of the world. 

And it is proper for you not to be ignorant that a time will come in it (our land, when) Egyptians will seem to have served the divinity in vain, and all their activity in their religion will be despised. 

For all divinity will leave Egypt, and will flee upward to heaven. And Egypt will be widowed; it will be abandoned by the gods. 

For foreigners will come into Egypt, and they will rule it. Egypt! Moreover, Egyptians will be prohibited from worshipping God. Furthermore, they will come into the ultimate punishment, especially whoever among them is found worshipping (and) honoring God.

Asclepius : Translated by James Brashler, Peter A. Dirkse, and Douglas M. Parrott

Divine Love reveals itself in the silence of the heart - Η Θεϊκή Αγάπη αποκαλύπτεται μέσα στη σιωπή της καρδιάς

Η Θεϊκή Αγάπη αποκαλύπτεται μέσα στη σιωπή της καρδιάς

In the Perfect Sermon, Hermes, Asclepius, Tat, and Ammon gather together in the temple room:

When Ammon too had come within the holy place, and when the sacred group of four was now complete with piety and with God's goodly presence to them, sunk in fit silence reverently, their souls and minds pendent on Hermes' lips, thus Love Divine began to speak.
When Hermes son, Tat, asks the meaning of this, he teaches him that the Divine Love reveals itself in the silence of the heart.

Είναι μια αναφορά που κάνει ο Jacob Slavenburg στο ογκώδες βιβλίο του The Hermetic Link αλλά το επέλεξα γιατί στο τέλος μιλάει για αυτό το οποίο τονίζουμε συνέχεια στον ερμητικό κύκλο και μπορεί να φανεί πως το κάνουμε από υπερβολή αλλά δεν είναι έτσι γιατί όντως η Θεϊκή Αγάπη αποκαλύπτεται μέσα στην σιωπή μιας εξαγνισμένης καρδιάς, πριν βδομάδες είχα εξηγήσει τι σημαίνει αυτή η σιωπή.