Hermeticism

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Floor painting at the entrance of the Domo di Siena: Hermes Trismegistus (centre) with the personifications of the Orient (left) and Occident (far left).[1]

Hermeticism refers to the religious doctrine of revelation and secrecy of Hermes Trismegistus, the thrice greatest Hermes - this is what the Greeks called the Egyptian god Thot, meaning Hermes, the messenger of the gods and the god of wisdom, in a syncretistic way. Hermeticism is mainly described in the Corpus Hermeticum (also called "Poimandres" after the first part of 17), the Kybalion, the Tabula Smaragdina and the Picatrix.

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  1. The text of the panel at the bottom of the image reads: Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus. Contemporary of Moses. The tablet on which Hermes Trismegistus rests his hand contains a quotation from the Asclepius (I,8). The text of the book presented reads, following Cicero's De natura deorum III,56: Receive Scripture and Law, O Egyptians!
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