Uncovering the Ancient Wisdom of the Pharaohs: The Hermetica

Queen Lionheart: This helped me to understand what I experienced during my own personal journey that some may call an ascension, it is so beautiful that it moved me to tears at various sections. May you find your Divinity. I AM that I AM. The separation you feel is an illusion.

United Kingdom on Jan 10, 2024

Knat: Very good book to read

United States on Dec 23, 2023

Alex: This pamphlet covers the origins of man, the cycles of time and the divine masculine & feminine dating from a far ancient past, well before the Greeks. The gods mentioned are ancient Egyptian, yet after you read it you get a sense of their resonance on our minds & hearts embedded in our modern religious world.

United States on Dec 22, 2023

Ra-Set: good understanding of African philosophy from an African prospective, shows how the western religions have taken from Africans and made African thought their religions, philosophies, and ideas.

United States on Nov 08, 2023

Sergio rodriguez: Wisdom 100%

Mexico on Sep 22, 2021

Elyn: This books breaks down the complexity of The Hermitica into easily understood sections, with explanatory background and analysis. A great introduction.

Spain on May 06, 2021

Kenneth Bennett: I want to start by saying that I really enjoyed this book, which I read on my Kindle. I am deep into Hermetic spirituality and have read many books on Hermeticism and Hermes Trismegistus, and this is one of the most original approaches to understanding the writings and spiritual philosophy of the Hermetica. I found it very inspiring, and it that sense, I highly recommend it. As such, I really wanted to give it five stars, but as someone well-read in Hermetic literature, I was disappointed by the authors' lack of intellectual rigor.

First, there is a glaring absence of notes and references in the book. The authors do provide a general list of the works that inspired each chapter, but that is it. No version, no translators, no sections, no page numbers. For someone who has multiple copies of the Corpus Hermeticum, I would have loved to have seen more detailed references, so I could better understand how the authors arrived at their interpretation of the meaning of the work.

However, the biggest complaint I have is with the author's unsubstantiated premise that the Greeks essentially copied the philosophy from the Egyptians and rewrote it for a contemporary audience....

United States on Apr 27, 2021

Sonia John: I really enjoyed reading this book. I bought this because Neville Goddard quotes the contents of this book in many of his lectures. Being an avid practicer of the principles of the law of assumption, I found that this book a lot of insights to the one SOURCE and is great for anyone wanting to deep dive on the topic of manifestation, history, etc.

Germany on Dec 29, 2020

karen: THANKYOU

Canada on Dec 01, 2018

Jeff Marzano: I found this book interesting for getting the basic idea of what the Hermetica is.

I guess some reviewers think it's too watered down and doesn't match the voluminous original texts. However I read one such book years ago which was overloaded with footnotes and sections written in the original language which unfortunately for me I am not fluent in. There's something to be said for creating an approachable introduction to such a metaphysical subject.

The statements attributed to Thoth / Hermes in this book are very eloquent and poetic at times. He describes the universe as a goddess named Destiny who governs the stars and the constellations of the Zodiac. The Zodiac in turn governs the affairs of us mortals. On the day we are born the position of the constellations will foretell our destiny during this incarnation.

I would like to find a good book about astrology that shows the connections between the Zodiac and Egyptian mysticism if anyone can think of one. I'm interested in what the 12 signs mean in relation to the effects of the constellations on the affairs of mortals.

Some people see a connection between the Egyptian god Thoth and Christ like Thoth...

United States on Feb 05, 2013