Hermes Trismegistus (Greek for "Hermes the thrice-greatest" or Mercurius ter Maximus in Latin, is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. In Hellenistic Egypt, the god Hermes was given as epithet the Greek name of Thoth. He has also
Hermeticism or the Western Hermetic Tradition is a set of philosophical and religious belief based primarily upon the pseudepigraphical writings attributed to These beliefs have heavily influenced the Western esoteric tradition and were considered greatly
Hermes in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of commerce in general, and of t
Once practiced by people from all social classes, it was one of the most popular forms of divination throughout Europe and Africa in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Books and treatises on geomancy were published up until the 17th century when most oc
Harram, or Harran was the name of a man, and a place, related to Abraham. Haran, the man, was the son of Terah, brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot. Haran, the place, was a city in northwestern Mesopotamia (today Iraq) just east of the Euphrat
By the mid 2nd millennium BC, the Babylonians had a sophisticated sexagesimal positional numeral system. The lack of a positional value (or zero) was indicated by a space between sexagesimal numerals. By 300 BC a punctuation symbol (two slanted wedges) wa
Crystalinks Quotes 6Barbury Castle 1991 Mathematics, belongs to every enquiry; moral as well as physical. Even the rules of logic, by which it is rigidly bound, could not be deduced without its aid. Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is
You are entering the Zbox, a Virtual Reality Program. Please adjust your equipment. Study the writing on the wall. To activate a program push the green button. To deactivate the program find the red button. You have chosen the Robot Program, one of our mo
The term "solar eclipse" is a misnomer: the phenomenon is actually an occultation. An "eclipse" occurs when one celestial object passes into the shadow cast by another (as with an eclipse of the Moon An "occultation' occurs when one body passes in front o
Near the beginning and end of total solar eclipse, the thin slice of the Sun visible appears broken up into beads of light. These lights are called 'Baily's Beads' after the British astronomer who discovered them. They occur because the edge of the Moon i
Thoth was the God of Knowledge, the Moon, Measurement, Wisdom, the Alphabet, Records, Thought, Intelligence, Meditation, the Mind, Logic, Reason, Reading, Hieroglyphics, Magic, Secrets, Scribes, and Writing. He also went by other names in the myths of anc