INTRODUCTION
Pre Scriptum : as the text below is an adaptation, unfortunately
some words cannot be translated when it comes to semantics, etymology and
homophony. To remedy this and keep the content explicit, we decided to put the
original French word in brackets and underline it.
First
of all, I would like to specify that this thesis is not part of an academic
work as many automatically associate it. If we follow the definition of the
word thesis given by the Larousse dictionary ; «
theoretical proposition, opinion, position on something whose veracity is to be
demonstrated », this presentation can receive this title without having to
be validated by any ‘‘authority’’. With a limitless freedom of thought, without
concessions and, above all, without being accountable to anyone, we will be
able to study any subject of our choice, from any angle. The casualness can
never be exchanged for any recognition of the system, it does not need it and
does not care. Thanks to the culture of my intellectual independence, original
ideas has been able to blossom, to bloom and to reveal itself outside the
plantation in which our curiosity is usually enclosed. To be invigorated by
such an open mind is a blessing and I would like, without having to be ashamed
of it, to share with you the rose of its quintessence.
~
The
genesis of this thesis took shape the day my eyes turned to the sky. At least,
the night when I realized that the starry vault was turning inexorably around a
fixed point, like a wheel around an axle. While contemplating this grandiose
spectacle, I would never have believed that my candid reflections on the
workings of the cosmos would lead me to study a pleiad
of disciplines linking astronomy to the apparently immobile spheres of
mineralogy.
At the
dawn of my exploration, I turned to academic science, despite convincing
discoveries in some areas such as quantum physics, I found many theories and
very few theorems. A theory, as the Larousse dictionary specifies, is a
system of hypotheses underlying the interpretation of events. A theory
therefore does not define immutable rules and laws. And as surprising as it may
seem, this explicit observation seems to have escaped some actors of the
scientific community: those who continue to have the wool pulled over their
eyes. Indeed, contemporary scientific dogma is very often based on complex
theories that cannot be demonstrated outside of mathematical language,
projecting the ultimate in research towards increasingly surreal horizons. Especially
since in this kind of semantic architecture, equations tend to feed each other,
to intertwine and to reflect each other in a closed circle, forming, by force
of circumstance, an artificial body on which one does not stop building without
worrying about the solidity of its foundations. In any case, theoretical
science could then be compared to a tower of pisa ; the body of the
edifice holds together admirably well, but nevertheless threatens to collapse
under the weight of its aberrations each time a division is added. The lines of
glyphs highlighted in the equations are, of course, very impressive for the
average person, but as René Guénon pointed out, they
are far from the sensible reality they claim to explain. At present, string
theory is undoubtedly the most revealing example to confront the synthetic
complexity of mathematics with the rationality of the biological environment.
Why do we continue to spend energy on the study of spaces that have no
reciprocity with the metrology of terrestrial life ?
Before
taking an interest in domains invisible to the naked eye, in the infinitely
large with astrophysics as well as in the infinitely small with particle
physics, perhaps the scientific elite would gain in authenticity if it would
spend more time reflecting on nature and its manifestations with the
seriousness that is their due. It is paradoxical that at the dawn of the twenty-first
century, the physiognomy of life still remains a tenacious enigma in a
community that prides itself on being close to understand the origin of our
universe, perhaps it should go down a notch and focus more on the essentials:
the causes (the cause?) of life would deserve much more attention than its
effects. By trying to impress us with conceptual abstractions, which can only
be demonstrated by mathematics and are not based on anything concrete, the
prestidigitators of the universities, in order to mask their incompetence and
their lack of knowledge about the elementary principle of observable reality,
are content to subjugate their audience; their students and science fiction
lovers, with a smoke and mirrors that is certainly fascinating. The day science
will study the law that interprets the perpendicular growth of the trunk of a
tree in relation to the ground, the origin of the stimulus that orders the
muscles of the heart to contract and then relax, or the polarized analogy
between the bronchial tubes of a lung and the branches of a tree - the first is
sheltered from sunlight, inhales oxygen and exhales carbon dioxide, the second
absorbs carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen under the direct influence of the sun
- science will again be in symbiosis with the primordial universe on a human
scale.
At the
beginning of the twentieth century, Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) - the
visionary of invisible physics - had already warned us about the mystifying
drifts of theoretical science, embodied then by Albert Einstein, to the
American newspaper the New York Times in 1931: « Einstein’s work of
relativity is a magnificent mathematical disguise that fascinates, dazzles and
blinds people to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar dressed in
purple whom the ignorant take for a king ... Its representatives are brilliant
men, but they are metaphysicians rather than scientists ». Indeed, the case
of the transgenerational icon of science is more than symptomatic to reveal the
intellectual swamp in which we bathe ; his genius is
more a matter of social engineering than genuine, because, in truth, as the
most educated know, Einstein owes the main lines of his world fame to a theory
(general relativity) that he borrowed from the French physicist Henri Poincaré (1854-1912). To have a spoliator
as an adored reference is a sign of the times that could not be more
representative. At a time when electromagnetic waves connect everyone on earth,
the obvious anachronism between the technology of a cell phone and the gas
engine of a car, whose basic technology is about one hundred and seventy years
old, is more than laughable and raises a question to be meditated upon in all
honesty: are the ‘‘scientific’’ works brought to the top by a system the only
ones that do not threaten the hegemony and prosperity of its economic model ? The
question deserves at least to be explored...
So
beware, if you want to wear the square hat (symbol of the limits your thinking
cannot cross), display a degree in your office and make a career, it is better
to avoid certain subjects. Conducting your research outside the framework
imposed by regal conformity, especially when it attacks the theories of the
unchallengeable gods of the scientific pantheon, is a mistake not to be made. In
spite of the obvious impasses, it is unthinkable today to question the
structural beliefs of the scientific church, refusing to bow down before its
idols would sign your excommunication from the circle, the loss of your
credibility and your respectability.
Since
we have nothing to lose, it is easier to be honest and highlight the frivolity
of extraterrestrial physics with respect to the primary interest of this study,
that of the movement of the stars above our heads. Although astrophysicists are
still light years away from revealing the mechanics underlying these
revolutions, they have persisted for centuries in confusing researchers with
Isaac Newton’s (1642-1726) universal law of gravitation.
The equation of this theory allows to calculate the fall of an object on the
earth and gives a mathematical solution to explain the equilibrium between two
celestial bodies, but does not specify at all the reason of their regular motion.
Since the President of the Royal Society pronounced himself on the law of
gravity, no member of the establishment has attempted to elaborate, with
applied seriousness, on the main cause of the rotational force vectored by f in the
illustration below, where the orbital path of the Moon around the center of the
Earth is taken as an example. This force, to use the common nomenclature, is
never taken into account and this is precisely where the problem lies.
If no
answer to the origin of the force f can be formulated, gravity cannot
be validated as it is presented by contemporary cosmology, not to mention that
no device can detect it and no scientist can reproduce its field in the
laboratory. Of all the fundamental interactions, and because it escapes our
understanding the most, this so-called cohesive force remains one of the
thickest mysteries of physics today. Consequently, one should not be afraid to
admit that the lack of scientific rigor surrounding this concept is not
reassuring for the quality of the expertise and weakens the pillars on which
its reputation rests. In spite of everything, speculations, each one more
improbable than the other, continue to flourish on the scientific scene, but in
truth, since the theory of the curvature of space-time and the hypothetical
subatomic particles of the quantum world called gravitons, we have not
advanced one iota. Why not ? Simply because the origin
of this natural phenomenon still remains unfathomable with the science of our
peers. They are content to explain that the kinetics of celestial bodies is the
reminiscence of a hypothetical original explosion: the vaporous ‘‘big-bang’’,
presented to the world by the Jesuit Georges Lemaître
at the end of the nineteenth century. The Newtonian gravity poses another major
problem because it prevents the unification between quantum mechanics and the
theory of general relativity. Either these two theories are incorrect, or one
of them is.
Once
we are aware of this nonsense and accept the fact that some theories are currently
taught as truths, it is easier to recognize that science has lost the core of
the beauty that defined it. The glorious hours that made its reputation are now
behind it and the torches that dissociated it from religion are now diffusing a
more than weak light. Richard Feynman (1918-1988),
winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on the development of
quantum electrodynamics, had no problem testifying that :
« Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts ». Even if the
standard model of astrophysics seems to be satisfied, our apprehension of the
universe still remains juvenile, incorrect and sewn with white threads. The
human race will never be able to emancipate itself from its cosmic stone age if
we keep on trying to build, ever higher, on the foundations of a ‘‘science’’
which has demonstrated its limits and which is more a matter of fantastic
theory than of empirical theorem. It is a fact, science has sunk into doctrinal
systems which it has difficulty in exorcising and the guardians of the
universities, haloed by a displayed vanity, never miss an opportunity to
ridicule everything that does not come from their field of possibilities. Such
a mentality can never initiate the paradigm shift that the scientific world
needs to evolve. The day our approach merges with the principles at the source
of creation, perhaps nature will reveal to us once again the gears used by the
master of its clock.
Despite
this consensus, however annoying it may be, we should not fall under the
spotlight of extremism and reject all theories out of hand, some of which are
worthy of our interest because they emanate directly from human reflection and
pure intelligence, without being exclusively carried by equations. We are
thinking in particular of the somewhat obscure notions of energy and dark
matter which put the community in turmoil following Edwin Hubble's observations
in 1929. Since then, many astrophysicists believe that the expansion of our
sidereal universe is linked to a dynamic phenomenon, invisible and intrinsic to
space. Considered until then as 96% empty, this space would not be empty at all
and could be filled with an energetic substance indescribable to our tangible
world, but still interacting with it. The void would therefore be full and this
full, more or less dense, would be animated by a kind of animated essence that
nobody can, for the moment, explain, measure or reproduce. It is therefore not
impossible that behind the world accessible to the senses of man hides a
continuum whose existence we are totally unaware of. David Böhm
(1917-1992), one
of the fathers of quantum physics, declared on this subject :
« Space is not empty, it is full. The universe is not separated from this
cosmic sea of dark energy ».
Putting
together all the elements we have just discussed, several fundamental questions
about cosmology still remain unanswered :
- What
does cause the earth to turn on itself ?
- What
does cause the earth to turn around the sun ?
- What
does cause the solar system to revolve around the center of the galaxy ?
- Why
do the planets revolve around the Sun on a common plane?
- Why
do the planets rotate on themselves ?
- Why
can the motion and position of the stars be predicted with such great accuracy
over time ?
- Why
are the earth, the sun and all the planets all spherical ?
-
According to the empirical law of action-reaction physics, what kind of energy
is consumed in the motion of the stars ?
- Is
it possible that the circular motion of our bright stars is a reaction to the
action of this mysterious dark energy ?
-
Could the mysteries surrounding the mechanics of universal gravity be the
observable effects of an invisible cause within dark energy
?
In my
humble opinion, if astronomers in short pants want to find solutions, I have
the impression that our research must be directed towards the heart of this
abstraction of the material world called dark energy. But, knowing that this
space is invisible, unknown and unexplored, how would it be possible to go
through the doors and apprehend it ? If modern science
had reached its limits, where could we turn ?
~
The
first keys that unlocked the access to the metaphysical realm of dark energy
were given to me, in a totally fortuitous way, by a book written by the famous
adept Fulcanelli : the Mystery of the Cathedrals and the Esoteric
Interpretation of the Hermetic Symbols of the Great Work. This book, a
classic and essential work in the field of alchemy, was the spark that set off
the fire. Indeed, when I read it for the first time, a mysterious essence came
to embalm my mind and, in spite of my impotence to fix its perfume, the aroma
of this work resounded in a significant way in my inner self. I had to reread
these writings over and over again before I finally understood that the
language ‘‘imagé” described and used throughout these
pages was more than familiar to me, because I had intuitively practiced this
form of communication since I was a child, without knowing it existed.
Since
immemorial time, tradition has given this means of expression a multitude of
names depending on the culture that uses it. On the old continent, it is
readily called the Cabal and the best definition I could find is this one : « The Cabal is a language of hieroglyphic kind,
playing on all the registers of expression: images, words, letters, numbers,
sounds, colors, forms, weights, etc... As well as on secret conventions, of which
metaphor and emblematic rebus are the most widespread type. It does not have
its own or particular form, and depends only on the culture and imagination of
those who use it ».
In the
light of these atypical and somewhat confusing specificities for the common
man, it is more than certain that the Cabal requires an exceptional education,
from master to disciple. This is why it has always been the prerogative of a
caste of initiates to transmit knowledge and its without be noticed. Even if
the popular initiatory circles have ‘‘forgotten’’ it since the Enlightenment,
this linguistic axiom has always been dressed in a universal envelope that the
gods still use as a messenger.
Today,
unfortunately, the only Cabal known to the atrophy of Western popular culture
and speculative masonry appeared in the rabbinic tradition in the thirteenth
century in Spain through the Zohar (the book of splendors). Contrary to the actual
consensus, kabbalah, or even qabbalah
to serve a more effective mystification, is not an original, isolated and
preponderant trend, but the simple reflection given by Jewish mysticism of a
tradition that preceded it. Moreover, the word kabbalah has nothing
Semitic about it, since it derives its etymology from the Greek kabbalès. This said, from the perspective of adogmatic anthropology, it becomes more and more evident,
as archaeology becomes what it should always have been, that's to say, detached
from the reductive doctrine of history imposed by the Pentateuch narrative,
that the Cabal was already practiced by the Egyptian and Chaldean priestly
castes before it became known through the whispers of Greek philosophy. In
order to restore its universal power, scholars like to use the term Hermetic
Cabal (in honor of the Greek god Hermes) instead of Cabal so that
the latter cannot be confused phonetically with kabbale
and rectifying in passing the chronological errors of the current belief.
Whatever
its syntax, cabbalus in Latin or kabbalès in Greek, Cabal translates in both
cases by the emblematic animal of knowledge since antiquity :
the horse. If Cabalists (cabalistes) and horsemen
(cavaliers) have an obvious semantic relationship, it is because they
both aspire to know how to care for the mount of the Cabala in the quest for
knowledge and wisdom. This ambition to reach the Holy of Holies is embodied, if
God grants him with the blessing of his Donum Dei, by the valiant knight
of initiatory tales in pursuit of the Holy Grail, the chalice of chalices. It
is therefore not by chance (hasard) (hasard is a term of Persian origin and translates as
the hand of God) that the day of the hero is emblematic of the fables on
knighthood since Chrétien de Troyes and the first Templar crusades in the lands
of ancient Mesopotamia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. We will take the
opportunity to develop in detail the hermetic meaning of the legend of King
Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in relation to the firmament.
In
order to understand how the spirit of the Cabal is articulated, let us take a
well-known example with the word occult. This choice is not
insignificant since it will help to remove from your mind the association that
the vulgar culture makes with unashamed practices. The structure of the word
OCCULT can be broken down into O, C and CULT. For a disciple of Hermes, the O (dotted)
is one of the hieroglyphic signs of the Sun and C, in its curvature, that of
the Moon. Occult thus emphasizes the CULT dedicated to these two
luminaries. From an operative point of
view, this reading resonates with the definition given by the Larousse dictionary : which acts, or which is done in a secret
way, whose goals remain unknown, hidden : an occult influence (like solar
and lunar radiations).
Before
the universality of the Cabal was misled by the proselytizing Kabbalah and that
it was no longer taught at School of Fine Arts, all the Artists (worthy of this
capital letter) until the end of the nineteenth century used it in their works
to perfect the mysteries of creation and to share them under the harmonious
cover of beauty. When I understood that these aesthetes used their creation as
an initiatory canvas and became fully aware of the revolutionary scope of such
a practice in my relationship with Art, as much for the interpretation of the
concept as for the exegesis of culture in general, my feet did not touch the
ground for a few days and my excitement bordered on enlightenment. Indeed, I
could never have imagined that the natural and innate predisposition to find
analogies between things that, a priori, had none, would prove to be one
of my greatest assets in my quest for the absolute. What I had always taken for
a curse that would lead me to psychiatric hospitals now appeared to be a gift
that had to be exploited, a sign had just been sent to me and I took this
message with the highest of considerations :
Hermeticism was speaking to me !
I knew
without a doubt that I would finally be able to penetrate this mysterious
kingdom of the invisible. I was 30
years old and from the sublunar world, I turned towards the rising sun.
~
Before
continuing, it seems important to me to open a brief parenthesis in order to
explain why Hermetic Philosophy and its operative applications
; alchemy, magic and astrology, are no longer respected and valued as
they were by our ancient science.
Certainly,
the mere mention of one of them is enough to trigger the sneers of our
contemporaries. This mentality, as contemptuous as it may be, was headed by a
current of thought born in the seventeenth century, which dared to divert, without
any shame, the meaning and the use of the word philosophy. Let's be very clear
on this subject, authentic Philosophy has nothing in common with the post
renaissance philosophy, the sociological, humanistic and naturalistic
speculations of the “philosophy of enlightenment (or philosophy of light)” have
never been the centers of interest shared by Zarathustra (about
sixth century BC), Pythagoras (570-495 BC) and
Confucius (551-479 BC). They dedicated their entire
lives to more salvific subjects through spirituality, wisdom and the quest for
truth. It is certain that the encyclopedia editors were not animated by the
same purity. Moreover, why not have called their intellectual current “the
Philosophy of the Light” instead of “the philosophy of lights”
? To put the word light in the plural marks a diabolical
intention to fragment what cannot be. By this manipulation, a priori
harmless, the truth does not exist as such, but becomes falsely multiple and
with variable geometry according to the orientation of each.
Let's
not let ourselves be blinded by the worldly tartufferies of a kind of bourgeoisie and let's not lose sight of the fact that
the authentic definition of Philosophy is, in its etymological excellence : the love of wisdom. Pythagoras specified : « I am a Philosopher, not someone who claims
to possess wisdom, but a man who strives towards it ». Attributing to words a revisited
architecture, in order to divert the power of their egregores, is part of the
perversities that were used and financed by a dominating “elite”, whose aim was
to destroy, in order to establish their power, all the traditional heritage of
our past. Under this revolutionary impulse, wrongly attributed to the people by
our history books, the society entered into an unbridled and deadly
obscurantism. All that was attached to the previous culture had to be erased
and as a symbol, our majestic cathedrals were sacked.
The
Jacobin mentality, completed by fallacious initiations in which all kinds of upstarts
have rushed in, delivered the final blow with the abject idea that man could
henceforth be considered as equal to God. This dogmatic vision is a blasphemy
in view of 1 Corinthians 6:19 : « Do you not know that your
body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received
from God, and that you do not belong to yourselves ? ». From then on, the Gnostic
teaching of divine transcendence no longer had a place in the temple and the
operative was slyly replaced by the speculative. Indeed, why bother looking at
the sky and its starry planisphere, since in the eyes of these merchants, who
never really left the temple, there is no longer any truth apart from that of
the eye that sees everything ?
Since
the advent of illuminism, materialist and nominalist, everything that cannot be
demonstrated or measured no longer exists. Like Saint Thomas, the science of
the encyclopedia now believes only what it sees. The Hermetic doctrines were
thus definitively put on the shelves of superstition and let's not be afraid of
the evils, this triumphant rationalism is at the origin of the immobilism, the
conformism and the rationalism of the scientific community of today. René Guénon specified: « Rationalism is essentially defined by the
belief in the supremacy of reason, proclaimed as a true dogma, implying the
negation of pure intellectual intuition, which logically leads to the exclusion
of all true metaphysical knowledge. »
Parentheses
closed, let us return to a more vertical approach to our considerations.
~
Since
the secret societies have only the qualifier of initiation, the only way to
find the grace so much sought after is to serve oneself. The first step
consists in assimilating the mysteries of Hermetic Philosophy, and within it,
the study of its texts is inevitable. For an occultist, this work is no less of
a task since this literature is full of pretenses. If you did not know that the
initiates always veiled their writings with the help of the Cabale
in order to keep away the envious, their grimoires were of no use. Many
aspirants were thus misguided. Michel Sendivogius,
the famous seventeenth century alchemist, better known as the Cosmopolitan,
warned us : « If Hermes, the father of the Philosophers, resurrected today, with the
subtle Geber, the profound Raymond Lulle, they would
not be considered as Philosophers by our vulgar Chymists,
who would hardly deign to put them among their Disciples, because they would
not know how to proceed with all these distillations, these circulations, these
calcinations and all these innumerable operations that our common Chymists have invented for having misunderstood the
allegorical writings of these Philosophers ». To this, we must add
that after the tsunami of illuminism from the seventeenth to the nineteenth
century, the false prophets took the liberty, in order to subjugate their
audience, to “enrich’’ the heritage of Hermes with texts straight out of their
imagination. Knowing that these deceptions must be avoided, the essence of our
exegesis must therefore focus on the texts that come directly from the oriental
tradition since the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century
before the Christian era.
When
the Macedonian took over Egypt and installed one of his generals as the new
pharaoh (pharaoh is a Greek term that translates as the bearer of the
Sun), the horizon of this mythological land was revived by the flame of a
new beacon. Most of the time, the annexation of a land sounds the death knell
of the local culture, but with the line of Ptolemaic pharaohs this was not the
case and rather than destroying to impose their vision, the new legislators
rebuilt the country. Under the impulse of the Aristotelian philosophy, the
Greek-Hellenistic instruction mixed with the millenary Egyptian culture and its
mystery schools, also with the tradition of the Mesopotamian world and the
richness of its heritage. Whether it comes from one of the first Persian
prophets, in the person of Zarathustra (whose name means the golden star
or the splendor of the Sun), or from the temples located on the shores
of the Nile, initiation teachings of the priestly castes received by the Greeks
is certainly not new, as it is often repeated that Plato (428-347
BC)
and Pythagoras (570-495 BC) had already benefited from
it.
Freshly
renamed after its conqueror, the city of Alexandria then became a place of
meeting and exchange highly prized by all the specialists of the Mediterranean
basin in occultism. In this prodigious and marvelous mixture of scholars, Philosophers,
alchemists, astrologists and magicians, Gnosis (Gnosis translates from
Greek as knowledge and comes from the desire to know God and his
secrets) was incredibly magnified and strengthened. But, unfortunately for the
salvation of Humanity, most of the manuscripts produced during this
effervescence seem to have perished in the flames of the legendary library of
the Nile Strait. This ultimate barbarity against knowledge was not only the
witness of a change of mentality, it also marked the entry of our civilization under
the yoke of the Roman Empire. Even if the power of Rome is no longer so
preponderant in its visibility, it has always known how to renew itself until today ; after having conquered the lands by the sword, the
Catholic Church, direct heir of the empire and called the synagogue of Satan by
the Cathars (the last defenders of the authentic Christian Gnosis), then took
over the souls by the crucifix.
Fortunately
for the tradition, 17 Greek manuscripts, originating from the Philosophy in the
glorious era of Alexandria, resurfaced after the Crusades and were translated
by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the inevitable summit
of the Italian Renaissance. Gathered under the name of corpus Hermeticum, they are considered
the founding texts of Hermeticism and a beacon on the path of the wise. These
writings act as a prism and break down the natural light of divine revelation
into the following themes :
-
Order of the cosmos
-
Unity (omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence of the eternal)
- The
Sun
- The
demiurge
-
Cohesion of the spheres
-
Fusion of opposites and polarity
- The
visible and the invisible
- The
truth and the illusion of our reality
-
Creation through the circular movement of unity
- The
noῦs and the creative will
-
Time, space and matter
- The
body, the soul and the Spirit
- The
good, the beautiful, the good and the just
- The
vices and the virtues
- The
creation is an Art and the notion of harmony
- The Ogdoade
- The
intelligence and its relation to the God-man
- The
12/10 ratio (or 6/5)
- The
zodiac and astrology
Obviously,
the mention of astrology in this list may seem very surprising, but you should
know that, despite the fate that has been reserved for it today, the
magi-initiates have always made it the cornerstone of all the sciences of
antiquity. With magic and alchemy, this esotericism gathers, under the term of theurgy,
the 3 operative ways
of the Hermetic Philosophy. They form a harmonious whole and are inseparable
from each other. It is therefore unlikely that an alchemist could define
himself as such without having been initiated into the magisterium of the other two disciplines. The importance of this
trinity was very well understood by the Greeks since it is suggested in the
name of the god associated with the father of the Philosophers, the well named : Hermes-Trismegistus. In fact, besides the
commonly accepted translation of Trismegistus by the 3 times
very great, we can, thanks to phonetics, submit to the hypothesis another
level of reading, that is to say the 3 magisteria.
Even if the trinitarian doctrine of the unity has crossed the time by the Pantheon
of the Greek world, its historical origin is well and truly Egyptian. The
splendor of this testimony is found on the Giza plateau where 3 pyramids remind the
intellect of the contemplator that the divine trinity is timeless, immortal and
indestructible. How not to be subjugated in front of the majesty, the greatness
and the genius of this civilization? The geometrical, astronomical and energetic
properties implicit in these volumes reveal to the eyes of all, but especially
to those who know how to see beyond appearances, the beauty of a thought that
ours has never reached.
The
heritage of this intelligence, coming from the mists of time, is also
personified in the attributes of Djehuty-Thoth ; the
Egyptian messenger of the gods, whose tradition has always liked to make the
comparison with Hermes-Trismegistus. The pen of the late Jean Phaure (1928-2002) described Djehuty-Thoth as such: « He is the scribe of the divine Ennead, the
brush with which the god of the universe writes, the creator of languages, the
great magician of the spheres who presides over the original creation in order
to call the world into existence by the word, alongside Ptah. He is above all
the one who presides over the order of the world, the great calculator, the
master of the cycles of time. »
It is
important to specify that in the theogony of the Egyptians, Djehuty-Thoth
was not considered as a god in the proper sense of the term, but rather as a neter (very close phonetically to nature);
that is to say, the anthropomorphization of a force,
of an action of the divine immanence in the manifested world, a kind of
hypostasis, an æon as the Gnostics liked to
define it. We can no longer be so charitable in offering you the key necessary
to facilitate access to the 12
verses engraved on an emerald-colored gemstone, on which the entire firmament
of Hermetic Philosophy is synthesized.
All
the scholars who were steeped in the history of religions became fascinated by the
text of the Emerald Tablet and produced a multitude of translations, more or
less representative of the first version found during the Renaissance in the
appendix of the book of the secret of creation (Kitâb
sirr al-Halîka),
written in Arabic in the nineth century. From the point of view of tradition, its
Arabic affiliation is not without meaning since the Persians dislodged the
Byzantine power from Alexandria in the seventh century, reviving the local
culture and becoming, by necessity, the new active vectors of transmission.
I have
chosen the best translation according to my sensibility, the one made by Hortulain from the Latin vulgate in the fourteenth century:
I.
It is true without lying, certain and very true
II.
What is below, is what is above: and what is above, is
what is below, to work the miracles of one thing.
III.
And as all things have been, and have come from one,
through the mediation of one : so all things have been born of this
one thing, by adaptation.
IV.
The Sun is its father, the Moon is its mother, the wind
carries it in its womb; The earth is his nurse.
V.
The father of all the
Telesme of
everyone is here. His Force or Power is whole,
VI.
If it is converted to land.
VII.
Thou shalt separate the earth from the Fire, the subtle
from the thick gently, with great industry.
VIII.
He ascends from earth to heaven, and again he descends to
earth, and he receives the Force of
higher and lower things. Thou shalt have by this means the glory of all; and
for this all darkness will flee from you.
IX.
It is the strong
force of all Force :
for it will overcome every subtle thing, and penetrate every solid thing.
X.
Thus the
world was created.
XI.
From this will come admirable adaptations, the means of
which is here.
XII.
That's why I was called Hermes-Trismegistus, having the 3
parts of everyone's Philosophy. What I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished, & completed.
Curiously,
the verses of the emerald tablet resonate strangely with the prologue of the
Gospel of Saint John, quoted below :
I.
In
the beginning was the Word (the Logos) , and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.
II.
The
Word was with God in the beginning.
III.
All things were created by him, and apart from
him not one thing was created that has been created.
IV.
In him
was life, and the life was the light of humanity;
V.
And The Light shines on in the darkness, and
the darkness did not overcome it.
VI.
A man
came, sent from God, whose name was
John.
VII.
This
one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about The Light, so that all would believe
through him.
VIII.
hat
one was not the light, but came in order that he could testify about the light.
IX.
The Word was the true Light, which enlightens every man by coming
into the world.
X.
He was
in the world, through whom the world was made, but the world did not recognize
him.
The
similarities between the two texts are more than striking, the scribes of the
Church of Rome were probably inspired by the sapience contained in earlier
manuscripts for the creation of their ‘‘holy writings’’. The gospel of John
resembles the Gnostic gospels of Cerinthus and its prologue is largely
impregnated with the breath of the Hermetic texts. His apocalypse (apocalypsis is translated from the Greek as revelation)
is also the assembly of a series of sacred texts, such as the book of Enoch
or the book of Ezekiel. In a sense, the willingness to incorporate
ancestral knowledge into the message of Christ's favorite apostle, who is always
clad in a green cloak in the iconography, indicates that Catholicism was shaped
by pre-existing doctrines. Moreover, let us not forget that before the
invention of printing in the fifteenth century, falsifying a manuscript was
child's play and mystifiers, thirsting for supremacy,
used this practice with the success we know. As far as the old testament
scriptures are concerned, all exegetes know that the ten commandments,
supposedly delivered to Moses on mount sinai, are
nothing but a vulgar plagiarism of paragraph 1:125 of the Egyptian book of the dead.
Judeo-christian theology is a pale copy of the
Gnostic precepts of the neter with the one
green eye ; Hor or Horus,
the Egyptian light-bearer. Nothing new under the sun, the Hebrews also recycled
what already existed. This is why the different biblical texts,
the Torah and the canonical gospels can never be considered as historical
truths or indisputable theological references.
Nevertheless,
even if altered, the texts still contain initiatory treasures that should be
studied, because such theosophical syncretism in sacred literature inevitably
suggests a common origin, a kind of primordial tradition as René Guénon liked to characterize it.
That
said, let us return to the verses of the Emerald Tablet.
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At first
sight, what strikes us is the totally innovative principle that a force (The
Word in Saint John) would be linked to the creation of the world, to the
action of the Sun (symbol of The Light) and to the mediation of unity. This
ancestral conception of the genesis of matter is curiously very close to the
statement of the Nobel Prize of physics in 1919, Max Planck :
«All
matter exists only by virtue of a Force which makes the particles vibrate and
maintains this tiny solar system of the atom. We must assume behind this Force
the existence of a consciousness and an intelligent Spirit. This Spirit is the
matrix of all matter ». We
can only be amazed by the fact that the ancients had already understood what
the men of the twentieth century had just begun to discover. And let us not
misunderstand, it is indeed the existence of God that is suggested by this
leading figure of the scientific community. The reality of inaccessible,
indescribable and immeasurable fields can no longer be looked at as the
artifice of science-fiction movies* or as the ramblings of wisdom masters from
the East. After long centuries of religious ineptitude, science and popular
culture can finally reconcile themselves with theism, that's to say, by
assimilating creation to the will of an intelligent conscience or a demiurge.
Through
his revelations on The Force, the 12 verses of the Emerald Table guide consciousness to the
primacy and accuracy of the vision of Hermes' disciples ;
where our peers limit themselves to a science of effects ; material, our
ancestors already surpassed the intelligible world and focused directly on the
cause of manifestation ; spiritual, outside time and space.
* As
soon as the idea of a force is mentioned, our generation automatically thinks
of George Lucas' films, without suspecting that Master Yoda's description of The
Force to his young apprentice ; « My ally is The
Force and it is a powerful ally. Life creates it, makes it grow, its energy
surrounds us and binds us. We are luminous beings, not this raw material. You
must feel The Force around you, between you, me, the tree, the rock,
everywhere», is in every way similar to that in the tradition of the magi.
Mastering The Force leads the apprentice, and this is no surprise at
all, to the rank of knight.