The Psychology of Hermes: God of Synchronicity

Buy my book: https://a.co/d/08wiBu66 Patreon:   / americanesoteric   Instagram:   / american.esoteric   TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - 2:28 The Reality of Hermes 2:29 - 9:30 Birth of Hermes 9:31 - 11:47 Plato's Hermes 11:48 -16:37 Hermes & Prometheus 16:38 - 20:22 Purpose & Divine Intervention 20:23 - 26:28 The Hermetic Psychology 26:29 - 28:49 Mercury, Nabu, Thoth 28:50 - 33:36 Proto-Hermes 33:37 - 35:24 The Ordering Principle 35:25 - 37:33 Guide of Souls, Supplier of Memory 37:34 - 39:05 The Phallic Mystery 39:06 - 43:00 Infinite Attributes 43:01 - 48:15 Synchronicity & Hermaions 48:16 - 55:21 Conclusions SOURCES: Farnell, Lewis Richard. The Cults of the Greek States, Volume 5. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. Frothingham, A. L.. “Babylonian Origin of Hermes the Snake-God, and of the Caduceus.” American Journal of Archaeology 20, no. 2 (1916): 175–211. Mead, G. R. S.. Thrice-Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis. London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906 (reprinted 1949, often referenced for Hermes invocations). Smyth, Herbert Weir, trans.. Aeschylus, with an English Translation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926. Evelyn-White, Hugh G., trans.. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914 (Loeb Classical Library, often referenced for Homeric Hymns). Ptolemy, Claudius. Tetrabiblos, Book I. Translated by F. E. Robbins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1940 (Loeb Classical Library). Kerenyi, C.. The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson, 1951. Kerenyi, C.. Hermes, Guide of Souls. Translated by Murray Stein. Zurich: Spring Publications, 1976 (originally published in German, 1944). Brown, Norman Oliver. Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1947 (revised edition, 1969). López-Pedraza, Rafael. Hermes and His Children. Zurich: Spring Publications, 1977. Athanassakis, Apostolos N., trans.. The Homeric Hymns. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 (first edition 1976, second edition specified). O’Neill, Eugene, trans.. Aristophanes: Wealth. In The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O’Neill Jr. New York: Random House, 1938 (specific translation often attributed to O’Neill, though performance editions vary). Luck, Georg, trans.. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, A Collection of Ancient Texts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Jasnow, Richard, and Karl-Theodor Zauzich. 2014. Conversations in the House of Life: A New Translation of the Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Allan, Arlene. Hermes. London: Routledge, 2018. Kotsonas, Antonis. The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII, Vol. 1: The Greek and Roman Pottery. ISAW Monographs 20. New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press, 2019.