Matthew LaCroix
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It can't be lost.
You know what I mean?
It has to emerge every time the balance is disrupted everywhere.
Yeah.
So I have been obsessed with this passage.
So if you were to take hermeticism and think of it like a Bible, right?
All the knowledge together.
This is the most important piece of all of hermeticism.
This right here.
How do I know that?
Because it's the core of the highest level knowledge.
Now, this story comes from what's called a hermetica that I have on my coffee table every day I sit next to.
and read.
And in this, Hermes, the great God, the great Greek God, he has a conversation with the great dragon who's Poimander, which is God of the universe.
It's considered a dragon for all those who are wondering, okay?
Where the dragon motif comes in.
He says, I wish to understand the nature of God, or Father, the Father, and the nature of man, right?
And God, or Poimander, basically states, do you want to read it for us?
No, no, you can do it.
Okay, it says, Then Hermes asked how the righteous and wise passed to God, to which Poimander replied,