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55: Hermes Trismegistus • The God-Philosopher of Occultism

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In 1460, a traveling monk discovered an ancient book of spiritual treatises that changed the world. The work came to be known as the Corpus Hermeticum and all of its writings were credited to a mysterious figure named Hermes Trismegistus.

For centuries, historians claimed Trismegistus was a contemporary of Moses, existing in pre-flood Biblical times. While recently unearthed Egyptian records…