A few words On the Hermetic Texts and Ancient Aliens

I’ve always sort of felt that aliens are the new angels, fairies, or mythological creatures, and now that we’ve entered this new scientific “age of reason” the old projections just won’t work. We had to construct new beings of superior intelligence that fit into our current understanding of the cosmos. But the human inclination to do this has always been there as if it were some innately ingrained part of our mental functions to construct these things as explanations for the parts of ourselves and our existence that we can’t comprehend. 

While the ancient alien theories are so very enticing, I think it’s just as likely that there were highly advanced human civilizations existing and perishing (due to one cataclysm or another) and starting over for thousands upon thousands of years before the record of our current history. 

We really don’t give our ancestors or the heights of our own mental capacities enough credit…and I think some of that has to do with our inclination to assume that we are progressing and therefore, who we are now, must surely be better than who we ever were before…but we as individuals are so inclined to forget the things we learn and repeat the same mistakes, it only stands to reason that our civilizations would operate in much the same manner. 

If there is one thing I feel innately to be true, as the truth of it is consistent in all my personal observations, it’s that the microcosm of the individual is inextricably linked to the macrocosm of the universe. 

As Carl Sagan so brilliantly coined, we are, indeed, all made of star stuff…and evidence in the hermetic texts points to this being understood by man, at least metaphorically, over 2,000 years ago. 

Perhaps this mindset is why it is so easy for me to conceive of the possibility that “out there” is just a shared projection that we created. There are universal laws that I am in the process of learning…but they all seem to stem from this basic understanding.

Right now I’m reading a hermetic text called The Virgin of The World or The Kore’ Kosmou.

To clarify, historically speaking the physical remnants of these texts are generally dated as having been written between 300BC to 200-300CE, the actual dates are still a subject of debate among scholars…though it’s usually agreed, that they were, in the very least, written through out the same time period that the gospels of the new testament were being written. 

That said, while there is no proof of Egyptian origin, the texts seem to reflect a mixture of Egyptian themed mysticism, Greek philosophy and early pre-Christian or Gnostic ideologies. 

The Hermetic texts seem to not only be a melting pot of the symbolism and ideas of that time and within these cultures, but also of many that were far more eastern in origin such as Taoism…and the concept of reincarnation (there are actually many clues in apocryphal texts that point to early Christians believing in reincarnation as well). 

The main body of the Hermetica were most likely produced in Alexandria by people who had access to a wide variety of systems and cultures. It would be negligent to assume that the hints of Egyptian mysticism found within the Hermetic texts were a complete fabrication. People who discovered these texts during the renaissance made the assumptions that they were dealing with something much older and exclusive to ancient Egypt, and when the assumptions were later found less likely to be true due to the discovery of the Rosetta stone and the translations of the Pyramid texts, the study of hermeticism took a blow as it was insinuated to be nothing more than an elaborate hoax. 

But when you consider the fact that these texts are almost as old…if not older than the Rosetta Stone, itself (which was inscribed with a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC on behalf on King Ptolemy V), it seems ridiculous to think of them as anything less valid than what they are…which is authentically ancient, even if they are not as ancient as the people of the Renaissance believed them to be. 

While it may be impossible to prove whether or not Hermes Trismegistus actually existed or if he lived during the time of Moses, as legend had it, neither is it possible or responsible to assume that these claims are untrue. 

So many ancient traditions are passed down orally for generations before anyone feels the need to write them down for posterity. No one bothered to write anything down about Jesus until some 30 to 60 years after his apparent death. It is only when that generation realized they may not live to see the “End Times” that they thought they should maybe write down some of that stuff. 

Any further proof that Hermes Trismegistus may have existed most likely perished with the destruction of the library of Alexandria. Also the fact that these texts may actually have been written by a group of people using the pseudonym of Hermes Trismegistus has been repeatedly used to taint their credibility. But the last I checked the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John weren’t necessarily written by them either.

Anyhow, I know this seems to have nothing to do with aliens but I‘m getting around to something. There were some really interesting things said in the text that seem to point to the fact that the writers were intentionally using symbols and metaphor to illustrate concepts in a way that the people of that time and culture could relate to. So far there appear to be no literary indications that these stories should be taken literally…the characters are personifications of aspects of the human soul and the part it plays in the universe.

 It stands to reason that this metaphor laden style of writing was prevalent in that time period and, as these things are being written around the same time as the books of the New Testament, I would posit that there were both literal and metaphorical stories of Christ being written at this time as well…making it virtually impossible to know which came first…the literal or the metaphorical.

What I’m getting at is this: it is only through careful manipulation of historical record and the forgetfulness of man that some ancient writings ascend into the realm of literal interpretation while others are diminished into mythology. But part of the reason these myths and metaphors are able to survive and merge into the realm of literal interpretation over the course of a couple thousand years is because there is an underlying truth in them that provokes moments of revelation in people often at times in their lives when they need it most. 

These carefully constructed myths seem to contain a seed of something true or relatable that plants itself in the subconscious mind and is transformed by a psychological process that most or all humans possess at some level. And this is how we come to interpret things that may not be reality into reality. Or it may actually be how things become reality…over time…and shared perception.

So you see I have craftily brought myself back around to a point as this does relate to the alien theories in some respect. 

As their mythological counterparts evolve into the more unified and scientifically plausible concept of “aliens” within the group mind (being what is accepted as feasible by main stream opinion), the probability of their literal existence increases even to the point where it is now fairly common place to ascribe ancient unexplainable events or architecture to extraterrestrial ancestors. 

Where we once used gods and elemental entities to explain the forces of nature, we now use aliens to explain the new things we can’t wrap our brains around.

What’s sort of interesting to me is that we chose the word extraterrestrial to describe aliens…because when you break the word down to its root terms:

extra- a biological prefix meaning outside or beyond.
terrestrial- mundane, worldly or adapted to living on earth, land or ground.

…you get “something adapted to living outside or beyond the mundane earth….which completely includes and describes all of the aforementioned mythological creatures and also implies that it relates to anything beyond our mundane understanding of reality.