Hermes Trismegistus ?=! EnMeduranki

[Rumen_Kolev]

Hi everyone,

There is a new book on Hermes:
van Bladel: 'The Arabic Hermes', 2009, Oxford.
This is a PhD dissertation from Harvard (if I remember right).

This book is a sign of what is coming fast our way!
An example of good science and how a good science is made.
van Bladel annihilates the wrong conceptions of Pingree and restores the legend of the three Hermeses- the pre-diluvial, the Babylonian and the Egyptian.

Casaubon, Walter Scott and then Pingree created a mess around Hermes, robbing him of his antiquity first (Casaubon) and then falsely interpreting his doctrine (Scott) and then even denying his existence (Pingree).
[If someone really wants to use a good translation of Corpus Hermeticum, this is Festugiere (in French).]

Unfortunately, there is no Astrology in van Bladel, but this is not the topic of his book.

Ultimately, the pre-diluvial Hermes should be no-one, but En Meduranki- the true prophet of God given the true knowledge of Astrology in a Revelation somewhere around 5,500 BC or earlier.
More on this will be in my own research on the Babylonian Astrolabe soon to be published in the 'Proceedings of the Melammu VI symposium' [expected in the end of 2010 or early 2011 ( look at http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/sy ... r6info.php ) ]
The main topic is the dating of the Babylonian Astrolabe, but one of the consequences of the research is exactly the conclusion:
Hermes Trismegistus = En Meduranki.
This should be the initial point for the next stage of the research to reconstruct the original teachings of EnMeduranki {since now we have a thread we can follow straight to the begin of mythological time}.

(The debate started already with an article [against my thesis] by the German scholar, famous with publications in Bab. Astronomy, Dr. Koch Johannes in N.A.B.U. 2010.2 pages 53-56. My answer to Koch is expected in NABU 2010.4) { N.A.B.U.= Nouvelles Assyriologiques Breves et Utilitaires }

yours rumen

[Abd-Allah Meyers]

Greetings dear Rumen,

One more thread reappears from under the beams!

Unfortunately, the new edition of "La révélation d'Hermès trimégiste" translated by André-Jean Festugière between 1942 and 1953, 1,300 pages augmented by an index, published in June 2011, is apparently already out of print or perhaps delayed in publication. The former edition in four volumes but without an index is still in print.

However, there is another French translation still available, "Hermès Trismégiste : Traduction complète précédée d'une étude sur l'origine des livres hermétiques" translated by Louis Ménard. Do you know it and can you recommend it?

Best regards,

Abd-Allah Meyers

[Rumen_Kolev]

No. I do not know this work by Menard.
But you can defintely find the Corpus Hermeticum (CH) in a library in Zuerich- no doubt!
Find the volumes by Festugiere.

The other translations are useful but misleading- especially on key important places.
It is beyond my understanding, e.g., how some of the scholars (like Scott) can refuse to admit the very obvious helio-centrism of Hermes in CH.
In fact, Hermes- the prophet of Astro-sophy, knew that the Sun was in the center before everybody else!
And so much more ridiculous comes the argument of the Astrology- critics that the 'discovery' of the helio-centrism 'refuted' Astrology.
That same 'science' of the 17th century that rejected Astrology, held to the stupid belief that the comets were atmospheric phenomena when Hermes knew their real nature thousands of years before!

yours Rumen