Hermes : The Founder of the Monotheism Religion in 9000 BC

According to ancient tradition, Hermes was born in Cyllene in Arcadia - Peloponnese, son of Maia—the daughter of Atlas, king of the Peloponnese—and Zeus. His wife is said to have been Herse, daughter of Cecrops, king of Athens, and his son Tat (as the Egyptians called him) or Kephalos (as the Greeks named him).

In his close circle were figures such as Atlas, king of the Peloponnese; his wife Pleione; their seven daughters—Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete; his mother Maia; the then-emperor of the Greeks, Cronus, and his wife, the Great Mother Rhea-Cybele; Aphrodite; the children of Cronus and Rhea—Helios, Dionysos, Demeter; and the offspring of his aunt Taygete—Imeros and Lacedaemon—as well as other renowned personalities of the ancient Greek world.

Today, the personality of Hermes lingers in the realm we call myth. Yet it is time to reveal this great sage of distant antiquity in his true form.

Scholars from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow write the following: “The ancient gods, among whom was Hermes, were symbols of natural forces. One such god was Hermes, whom the ancient Egyptians called Thoth and regarded as the god of letters. Hermes is a symbolic name representing both a god and a man. As a god, he is the planet Mercury; as a man, he was a great initiate and guardian of esoteric traditions reserved for the initiated. The Greeks called him Trismegistos, and the chronological records of Manetho place him in the era of the gods—around 9000 BC.

The Greeks noted him as the messenger of Zeus. The Egyptians attributed to Hermes forty-two books dedicated to esoteric knowledge. The ancient Gauls called him Mercury and considered him the lord of roads.

In reality, Hermes served as chief secretary to the Greek emperor Cronos, advisor to Zeus, and teacher as well as counselor to Dionysus. Eusebius records Hermes as viceroy of Cronos in Egypt and his secretary. Stobaeus writes that all philosophical, scientific, and medical knowledge of the Egyptians and Indians were achievements of Hermes Trismegistos. According to Stobaeus, Hermes authored forty-two books: thirty-six containing his philosophical and cosmogonic insights, and six devoted to medicine.

These books spread across the world, from which drew their wisdom the religious leaders of the Persians (Zarathustra), the Hebrews (Moses), the Greeks (Orpheus), the Indians (the Brahmins and Buddha), and the Chinese (Lao Tzu). None of these leaders of peoples created their doctrines anew; they were merely disciples and propagators of the monotheistic Greek religion from the era of Hermes, a period placed in the ninth millennium BC.

The philosophical, religious, and medical knowledge of Moses were also accomplishments of Hermes, elements of which Moses learned in Egypt. The creation of the world as narrated by Moses in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis is itself the cosmogony of Hermes Trismegistos.

Cyril of Alexandria writes that during Hermes' viceroyalty in Egypt, the land was improved with irrigation canals, divided into allotments; and that the Egyptians then learned from the Greeks arithmetic, calculations (algebra), geometry, astronomy, and writing—and laws of goodness were established.

From antiquity, Hermes has been characterized as the mightiest mind on earth. In Greek tradition, he is called “psychopomp” (guide of souls), secretary to Cronos, viceroy in Egypt, advisor to the emperor-God Zeus, and teacher and counselor to the god Dionysos.

 In Egyptian tradition, he appears as teacher of Osiris (Helios–Sirius–Dionysus) and God of letters. In ancient Indian texts, he is teacher of the gods and foremost in the branches of science and theosophy, titled “Brihaspati.”

In Chinese tradition, he is advisor to the Great Mother Queen of the West, Wang Mu; the one who spread monotheism there under the title “Fu Xi” and civilizer of the Chinese. “...Before the Heavenly Kings came, the people in China lived like animals. They covered themselves with animal skins, ate raw meat, and did not know their fathers. When Fu Xi arrived, with the help of a highly educated queen, he taught the people marriage, music, writing, painting, and how to cultivate silkworms.”

In ancient Japanese texts, Hermes endures as the god Thor—a name also used by the ancient Germanic peoples of Europe. In Jewish tradition, Hermes is referred to as Abram. Yet Abram, whom the Hebrew notes as teaching philosophy and astronomy to the Egyptians, is not the Kabbalah biblical Abraham who lived around 1800 BC, but Hermes Trismegistos, who taught civilization 9000 years before the advent of Jewish Christianity. The biblical Abraham was merely a namesake of Hermes Trismegistus, whom the Carians and Phrygians of Asia Minor called “Imbramo.” The island of Imbros is said to bear the name of “Imbramos Hermes”.

Finally, the religions of the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Egyptians, and Hebrews all trace their roots to the Hellenic religion of monotheism founded by Hermes.

The death of Hermes is shrouded in ancient tradition by the legend of his ascension to the heavens. In a spiritual exaltation, Hermes—certain that the universe is governed by an all-powerful Mind-God—knelt before the Unknown God, whose essence remains mysterious, and prayed with profound devotion, pouring forth all the strength of his soul and heart.

Later human ignorance mythologized him. Sadly, no effort was made to render the true form of Hermes as the Great Master of Ancient Wisdom. He appeared to the world in a materialistic age, when people worshipped nature in its manifestations and had no concept of a governing Creator Mind-God of the universe.

Hermes devoted himself wholeheartedly to his quest. Convinced that this sovereign power exists, he threw himself with all his psychic forces into presenting its majestic essence to humanity. He engaged in a noetic dialogue with the Creator. The Creator drew him into divine realms and revealed to him nature and creation in their magnificent expanse. He made him His vessel, bestowed blessing, inspired and illuminated him, and commanded him to elevate humanity from psychic darkness toward divine light.

In the next 6–9 years, the true personality of Hermes will be revealed—his authentic word—and the materialistic age will yield to the age of Spirit and the divine nature that dwells within us all.