The Definitive Guide To The Baphomet: Islamic Hermes, Snake Worshippers and The Sister-Wife of Jesus (part 3)
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In this week’s episode we break on through to part 3 of our totally exhaustive, in-depth guide to the Baphomet where we discover the Islamic version of our favorite Hermetic super heroes and the secret identity of Enoch who is mythologized as the first man to use writing, built the pyramids and preserved esoteric wisdom for the generations following the Great Flood. In the extended show, we do a detailed comparison between strange occult practices in various gnostic cults and trace how their mystic lineages overlapped and diverged from the rich tapestry of ancient Hermeticism as it evolved through the ages. By the end we begin to weave together a number of various threads which have only come up as puzzle pieces in former episodes. By the end of the series we promise to unveil in earnest the most authentic description of the Baphomet outside of an oath-bound secret organization and finally get to the bottom of what this figure really means. Thank you and enjoy the show!
In the free show we discuss:
-The three Hermeses of Abu Ma‘shar: before the Flood, after the Flood in Babylon, and later in Egypt
-Hermes as Idris, and Idris as the Enoch who walked with God
-The first man to use a pen, the pyramids at Akhmim, and the arts carved into stone so the survivors could read them
-The Harranian Sabians, Sir Walter Scott’s theory, and Kevin van Bladel on the “religion of Hermes”
-The Emerald Tablet, Apollonius of Tyana, and mercury as both sage and substance
-The second Hermes who taught Pythagoras, and the third who wrote on venom and made glass
-Asclepius, the wrong snake on the ambulance, and Plato’s Phaedrus on why the king rejected writing
-Al-Mas‘udi, the Active Intellect, and al-Suhrawardi’s pillar of light
-Poimandres, the Demiurge, and the question of whether Hermes is the apocryphal Enoch
-Mount Hermon, the place of the curse, and the angels who made a pact
-The Mandaeans, the Sabians of the Koran, and their baptism that sounds like the Baptism of Wisdom
-John the Baptist as their prophet, and the door that opens onto Sophia
In the extended show available at www.Patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we continue by discussing:
-Asclepius on men who are both mortal and immortal, and the knowledge that makes them akin to the gods
-What Gnosticism actually is, the Nag Hammadi library, and why the Church Fathers only gave us the hit pieces
-Robert M. Price, Carl Jung, and the argument over whether the word “Gnostic” should even exist
-Pneumatic and hylic, the spark in the body, and Plato’s Timaeus on why even a good Demiurge builds shoddy copies
-Sophia, Chokmah, the Shekinah, and Metatron
-Simon Magus, the Naassenes, Irenaeus, and Clement’s attempt to reclaim the word
-The Ophites who thanked the serpent for the fruit, and Jehovah as the craftsman who kept the tree locked
-Marcion, Valentinus, the Sethians, the Borborites, and the Cainites
-Sophia’s fall, Prunikos, and the erotic allegory of Ophite creation
-Ialdabaoth, the Hebdomad, the serpent who is sometimes Christ and sometimes the liar
-Adam, Eve, the transfer of the spark, and why some Gnostics still call the serpent evil
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This week’s episode was written by Tim Hacker with, help, revisions and research by Luke Madrid with additional commentary by Heka Astra, Mari Sama, Julian Solaninka and Malachor 5.
Bibliography
Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera, Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled (2015). The research spine: three Hermeses, Enoch-Idris, Mandaeans, Sophia as cipher.
Kevin van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes (2009). The three Hermeses, the Harranians, and the post-Islamic “religion of Hermes.”
Sir Walter Scott, Hermetica (1924–36). Translation of the Corpus Hermeticum and the Constantinople-revival theory.
Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi, Book of the Thousands (via Ibn Juljul and Ibn Abi Usaybi‘a). The legend of the three Hermeses.
Ibn Wahshiyya and related Arabic Hermetic material; al-Mubassir ibn Fatik, Kitab Mukhtar al-Hikam. Hermes the prophet and the Sabian rites.
Corpus Hermeticum (esp. Poimandres) and Asclepius. The Demiurge, the seven governors, and divine knowledge.
The First Book of Enoch and 2 Enoch. The descent on Mount Hermon and the heavenly ascent.
Nag Hammadi library (esp. Apocryphon of John). Gnostic creation, Sophia, Ialdabaoth.
Irenaeus, Against Heresies. The Ophites, the serpent, and the Church’s picture of the heretics.
Clement of Alexandria and Hippolytus. Competing takes on the Naassenes and true versus false gnosis.
G.R.S. Mead and later scholars on the Ophites and Naassenes. The serpent groups and their sources.
Robert M. Price and Michael Allen Williams. Modern arguments over what “Gnosticism” even means.
Qur’an 19 (Maryam). Idris raised to a high place.|
Plato, Phaedrus and Timaeus. Writing, memory, and the Demiurge who copies from the eternal.
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