The Arabic Hermes: A Mystical Prophet Who Built the Pyramids & Founded a Universal Religion

Patreon:   / americanesoteric   Books: https://a.co/d/00n1zECd Substack: https://americanesoteric.substack.com... Instagram:   / american.esoteric   Join this channel to support & get access to other videos:    / @americanesoteric   TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - 3:48 Introduction 3:49 - 10:30 Enoch | Idris | Hermes 10:31 - 12:37 Al-Kindi's Hermes 12:38 - 14:16 Middle Persian Transmission 14:17 - 18:09 The Sabian Hermes 18:10 - 23:03 Hermes in the Picatrix 23:04 -27:10 Abu Ma'shar's Three Hermes' 27:11 - 34:33 Mystic Founder of the Universal Religion 34:34 - 39:06 Maxims & Arabic Hermetica 39:07 - 51:46 The Rebuke of the Soul SOURCES: Van Bladel, Kevin. The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Scott, Walter, ed. and trans. Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus. Vol. 4, Testimonia with Indices. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Sariyannis, Marinos. “The Ottoman Hermes: Notes on the Reception of the Hermetic Tradition in Ottoman Scholarship.” Aca’ib: Occasional Papers on the Ottoman Perceptions of the Supernatural 4, no. 1 (2023–2024): 159–181. https://doi.org/10.26225/nqwj-ta51. Litwa, M. David, ed. and trans. Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Segal, J. B. “The Sabian Mysteries: The Planet Cult of Harran.” In Vanished Civilizations of the Ancient World, edited by Edward Bacon, 202–220. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963.