Thoth and The Christian Trinity

Thoth and the Christian Trinity:
A Reconstruction of the link through consciousness

The template of communication of Hermeticism and Christian metaphysics is the same, rebirth transformation. The Cross adds the blood of the Son, as redemption, to the Supplicant who receives the Heavenly Father's teaching. This addition brings in the idea of "soul" peculiar to Christianity as the scene of psychic transformation.

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Alchemy is the transformation of lower-centered (body) into higher centered (spiritual) consciousness, transformed by projection onto the mythologized process of transforming base metals (lower self) into gold (higher self).

The Divine Pymander is the Spirit in Word-teaching to transform consciousness
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Redemption is achievement of return to the purity of consciousness sans content; the tabula rosa, before written on by "expereince". In adult reflective life, this is a concept arrived at by reductive analysis of continuity of awareness by the individual, traced by Locke;s "plain historical method", but including the realm of realization of necessary truth through abstract innate* ideas (*sign-uses in the Logos of TokenSpace).
This concept corresponds to the psychological site of "redemption" by providing thought with an object touching its own origins; thus re-achieving in consciousness the unity of the duality of consciousness and experience. As thought is to consciousness, as a type of segment of its content under signs, so consciousness (containing thought) is to the body. The "I" of conscious unity in the adult mind aware of itself as a unity (hence, able to use words for thought to communicate), is a psychophysiological continuation by development, with various memory, is originating, already, as a latent dialectical seed-point of future organization of "the booming, buzzing phantasmgordic" flux of overwhelming body- experience, each one over against an Original Other, their own Placenta, inside a mother's womb. Much that was regarded as "innate" in philosophy, including perception of clear and distinct relations of ideas in formal logic, mathematics, geometry, astronomy, harmonics; and in the East, sacred dances and esoteric rituals; are component in the visible world that don't just reflect, as projections, various forms of subjectivity through which they are experienced; but genuinely correspond, through text (true sign-use) and token (objective process templates by participation) to reality. Therefore, to to the world as a totality for thought, separately contemplated (un the upper segment of the upper segment of Plato's divided line).

This return to consciousness common to all thought, through thought, is "redemption" because it is the point of metaphysical unity, at the beginning and end of all cycles or other figures connecting sign-uses in consciousness. It redeems the part of experience that has been added by, and belongs to, the world, by calling it home, as it were. This location of the scene of transformational self-awareness as "return" to consciousness before birth agrees with, is a restatement of, the Christian doctrine of rebirth in order to achieve "the kingdom of heaven." The "heaven" spoken of in Hebrews 9.13.-23, for instance, is entered through the portal opened by the self-sacrificed blood of a High Priest of the order of Melchizedek (Jesus Christ, as Son) in order to fulfill, and at the same time terminate, the practice of ritual blood sacrifice for sin, as required by the Jewish God YHWH of His people. .

9.13 For if the blood of bulls and goats ...sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God....(W)ithout the shedding of blood there is no remission (from sin). Therefore it was necessary that the copies of things in heaven should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with the better sacrifices than these."

The "Eternal Spirit" here seems to be the inner side of the sacrifices, that which originally motivated them as approaches to God. Thus, the self-sacrifice of a perfect instance of the human species, itself, to be released from any and all debt accrued by humanity due to its mode of reproduction by means of sexual intercourse. (How the copies of things in heaven regenerate.) It opens the portal into another holy place: "For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us." The sins of which this is redemption are not those of the flesh, but of the spirit. In Thothean terms this would be the sin of turning people away from the light toward darkness. In Christianity, it is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. This is access to the higher levels of conscious completion.

In Archetypal terms, Christianity adds Christ's blood to Thoth's thought.
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The Voice of the One addressing the Supplicant (one who would know) is The Father. It speaks of The Logos* (double*: the Logos in speech), Directing the Son (the addressee: recipient consciousness) to follow THE LIGHT; which is to be found IN THEMSELVES (in one place, AS LOVE -- of Being; To understand what is) This template would have been taught in many Hermetic priesthoods, acted out endlessly. Add to it the powerful image of blood sacrifice of a perfect, beloved male son of a favored tribe, and the pre-historical mythos comes crashing into history. Thus, a broadly shared, deep psychic sector of advanced human experience on earth was condensed into a millenial group-fantasy 2000 years ago, when sacrifice psychology and objective knowledge converged in a singular act.

There is a new Triad of trinities here: In the Hermertic tradition, a Voice of Thought is teaching consciousness (of the Logos in the Sign-use). In Christianity, the Voice of the Logos incarnated as "Son" teaches obedience to the Holy spirit by blood-sacrifice, testament to higher conscious reality. In modern psychohistory, the recovery of innate psychodynamic imprints from pre-natal life deposited on mental templates and functioning as existential grammar of group life. ("we" = fetal siblings in One Great Womb of nature). In this fantasy setting, both the above are Voices are echoes in TokenSpace The Placenta, the First Other in human life, connected to the sensitive, pre-infant "to-be" individual nervous system by the umbilical flow of blood and oxygen between them.

Question: What affect will having all three of these sources of the Archetypal Trinity brought together have on consciousness?

The personal individual transition from fetal to post-fetal experience through birth, including trauma, is repeated developmentally in the transition from blood-organized experience, through sign-use controlled by primary process, to spirit-organized experience, through sign-uses controlled through desire to follow the Light, through uses of signs for the cosmos. (Note: Let the two segments of Plato's divided line correspond to two different tonalities of light/dark difference; the higher within the light. See below.)



From Thoth:

First Philosophy: Learn to Know the Light


1. From the Poimandres

http://www.gnosis.org/library/hermes1.html
6. Then saith to me Man-Shepherd: Didst understand this Vision what it means?

Nay; that shall I know, said I.


That Light, He said, am I, thy God, Mind, prior to Moist Nature which appeared from Darkness; the Light-Word (Logos) [that appeared] from Mind is Son of God.


What then? - say I.


Know that what sees in thee and hears is the Lord's Word (Logos); but Mind is Father-God. Not separate are they the one from other; just in their union [rather] is it Life consists.


Thanks be to Thee, I said.


So, understand the Light [He answered], and make friends with it.





2. From The Divine Pymander


http://www.alchemylab.com/pymander.htm





The Vision of Hermes


It chanced once on a time, while I was meditating on the things that are, my thought was raised to a great height, yet my bodily senses had been put under restraint as in sleep, though not such sleep as that of men weighed down by fullness of food or bodily weariness. Methought a Being more than vast, in size beyond all bounds, called out my name and said:


"What would you hear and see, and what have you in mind to learn and know?"


"Who are you?" said I.


"I am the Pymander, Divine Mind of the Sovereignity, the Shepherd of Men. I know what you desire, and I am with you everywhere."


"I long to learn the things that are, " I replied, "and comprehend their nature, and know God. This is what I desire to hear."


"Hold in your mind all you would know," the Shepherd answered back to me, "and I will teach you."


The Above and the Below


Forthwith all things changed in aspect before me and were opened out in an instant. And I beheld a boundless view: all was changed into Light, a mild and joyous Light; and I marveled when I saw it. And in a little while, there came to be in one part a downward-tending darkness, terrible and grim, and methought it like unto a snake. And thereafter I saw the darkness changing into a Watery Substance, which was unspeakably tossed about. Coiling in sinuous folds, it gave forth smoke as from fire; and I heard it making an indescribable sound of lamentation, for there was sent forth from it an inarticulate Cry. But from the Light there came forth a holy Speech, which took its stand upon the Watery Substance, and methought this Word was the voice of the Light. And the Divine Mind spoke for me to hear:


"That Light is I, even the One Mind, the first God, who was before the Watery Substance that appeared out of Darkness, and the Word which came forth from the Light is son of God. Learn my meaning by looking at what you yourself have in you, for in you too, the Word is son, and Mind the father of the Word. They are not separate one from the other, for Life is the union of Word and Mind. Now fix your thought upon the Light and learn to know it."


FROM PLATO: the Divided Line

Let the two parts of the line correspond to consciousness (upper segment) and body (lower segment). Considered as one thing, the line represents the unity of self as consciousness-in-body. It's two parts therefore correspond to the visible (lower) and the invisible (higher).