The Corpus Hermeticum - The Secret Sermon On The Mountain (10)

Coming down from the mountain,

Tat pleads with Hermes

to more fully reveal the doctrine

of having to be born again

before being able to be saved

or restored to the Original Nature of the Mind.

What womb was I born from

and what seed played a part in furthering this Divine Birthing Process?

In Essence, My Son, the womb which fashioned your Mind

was the Wisdom of Divine Silence

and the seed came from that which is Always Good.

Father, who is responsible for sowing this seed which you speak of?

The seed that is in the eye of your Heart

comes from the Primal Will of God.

One more thing, father, where does the begotten Soul

come from, for we do not seem to be of the Same Essence.

The begotten Soul is none other than the Cosmos 

and the Son of the Cosmos,

which is the All in All,

replete with the powers that are of the seed.

Riddle upon riddle, o Hermes, you speak in a way

that is not reminiscent of how a Father normally speaks to His Son.

Truly and without deceit, this lineage which I Am in the process

of delineating cannot be taught; for only God

has the power to remind you of such things.

With all straightforwardness,

Father, I Am Your Law Bound Son

and I wish for you to clearly instruct Me in how to be Born Again.

But this I have to Tell: By the Mercy of God,

I erupted into the Vision of the Cosmos,

thus leaving this physical body behind

for an Immortalized One.

No longer mortal and no longer who I used to be,

I was Born Again into My Mind,

or should I say, Its Mind.

What I used to associate with as being myself

is no longer myself.

The frequency of color, size and touch

is not of My Essence,

for I Am as if a stranger to Me.

Though you now see Me with your eyes,

I Am not visible or understandable to such a lamentable condition.

Driven to the point of Divine Madness,

Father, You have Made Me

Invisible to Myself,

for I no longer see myself in the mirror of My Soul anymore.

Imbued with a Fervent Devotion

to Know the Truth,

Tat asks Hermes to reveal Who is the Master Mind

behind the Rebirth of the Soul.

That You Innately Know,

Son, for You are the Son of God or the Cosmos.

Trying to Re-Affirm the Reality of Matter,

Tat points to the fact that the body of Trismegistus 

is Again Visible in terms of Its Shape and Size being Measurable Again.

One more time, Son, you have been deceived by the elements,

for even My physical body changes daily;

growing and diminishing as time passes by.

What is the Truth, o Trismegistus?

The Colorless, the Formless, the Indifferent and the Immutable

All Belong to that which is Good or True.

Still struggling with the Madness

that is Ignorance,

Hermes further explains the Science of the Mind.

Unlike that which is hard, wet, fiery and airy,

what is Incorporeal can only be grasped

when Empowered with the Energy that is God.

Fearing the potentiality of being powerless,

Hermes soothes the aching heart of Tat.

May You Be Fully Empowered My Son.

As A Magnet, Draw God To You And God Will Come.

Ask, And It Shall Be Given.

By Maintaining A Distance From The Senses

That Governs The Physical Body,

The Birth Of Divinity Shall Occur.

Finally, Purify Yourself Of All That Which Is Irrational Within You.

Who are my tormentors, o Father?

There are twelve in all.

They are ignorance, grief, incontinence,

lust, injustice, greed, deceit, envy, treachery,

anger, recklessness and malice.

When such emotions form or decide to combine together,

many other tormentors of the heart and mind

are let loose within the individuality that you are identifying with.

Fortunately, the Mercy of God Releases the Soul

from such torment, and this type of Release

is the Basis of Rebirth or Being Born Again.

Rejoice, My Son, for the Words which You Now Hear are Purifying

You of the Obstructions to God's Mercy.

Invoking the polar opposites of every type of vice

that I have briefly mentioned, What Destabilizes

You Shall Empower You From Now On.

With the Flapping of the Wings of Your Soul,

the dust and dirt that blinds and binds

You Shall Be Vanquished From Your Resplendent Sight.

Tranquilized by the Presence of God

and the exorcising of the twelve impurities of being,

I Now See How I Am In Heaven And In Earth

And In The Womb And Before The Womb.

Making Your Way Through The Zodiac,

The Powers That Be Are In You And In Everything That Lives And Breathes.

Seeing Yourself In The Cosmos And In The Mind,

Rebirth Is As Natural To You

As The Beginning And End Of Physical Life.

No Longer Having To Picture Life Solely In Three Dimensions,

Remember To Guard Against The Mob

By Not Easily Giving Away The Secrets 

Of Rebirth To Such A Crazed Population.

Wanting To Enter The Ogdoad,

Tat implores His Father to Sing to Him

the Hymn which Poimandres has revealed to Trismegistus concerning the Ogdoad.

Still Yourself To Completion My Son,

And Face The Open Sun As It Descends At Night,

For You Are About To Hear The Secret Of Secrets.

May Every Nature That Is In The Cosmos

Attentively Listen To This Hymn.

Matter, Open Upon Me And Unlock Every Seal

That Prevents The Flooding Of Consciousness.

I Am Star Struck By This Hymn Of Universal Creation And Universal Salvation.

Be Still, O Powers Of Heaven And May Your Minds Blow No More.

Usher In The Assembly Of Gods,

For I Am Rejoicing In The Mind

Which Created Everything And Fixed The Earth In Its Proper Place.

O You, Who Has Hung Heaven Above Our Heads

And Who Divided And Separated The Waters

Of Life From The Vast Oceans Abroad;

Thank You For Giving To Mankind The Sweetness Of A Nourishing Creation.

O You, Who Empowered The Fire That Is Within And Without Us

To Shine On Not Only The Gods But On Us Humans As Well,

May We Praise The Lord Who Has Raised Us

High Above The Heavens And Who Is The Mind Of All.

That Power Which Is The Eye

of My Heart,

Unify Me With The Powers Above;

For I Demand It To Happen In Accordance With My Being.

O Most Reverent Sanctuary Of Knowledge,

You Have Enlightened Me Through The Profound Humility

Of Being You

And You Have Permitted Me To Take Part In The Joy

Which Is The Ecstasy Of Your Omnipresent Being.

Through Being Just, This Hymn Is Justice Personified.

Through Being Liberal, This Hymn Is Liberty Personified.

Truth, Be With Me Now And Forevermore.

Goodness, Be Good.

Life And Light, You Create That Which Is.

I Thank You, O Father, For Being You.

O Universe, Accept Me And This Hymn As I Am.

Shouting With The Reverberations Of A Most Holy Speech,

Everything That Is In The Process Of Becoming

Shall Return Back To You, O Glory Of Glories.

Life, Make The Universe Beat Within Us;

Light, Continue To Enlighten Us.

God, Perfect Us Into Your Ultimate Perfected Essence.

For You, O Mind, Are The Shepard Of God's Children

And Are The Lost Word Of Godhood.

O Man, Be The Lost Word Of God

In The Name Of The Nameless One.

The Lost Word - I Am Now And Forevermore.

I Have Found The Rest Which I Seek, O Unlimited One.

Astonished Beyond Belief,

Tat Declares To The Universe

That He Is Ready To Be A Cosmos

For Himself And His Own Mind.

In The Intellect And Intelligence Of The Cosmos - I Am.

Bending On One Knee, Tat Kisses The Feet Of His Master

And Offers Enlightened Speeches And Hymns To The Everlasting Miracle Of Cosmic Existence.

Parting From Each Other Externally,

Internally Hermes And Tat

Know That They Are In The Mind Of God and That They Are The Mind Of God

At All Instances Of Cosmic Existence.

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