Trismegistus

[triz-muh-jis-tuhs, tris-]

noun

1. Hermes Trismegistus.

Trismegistus

/ ˌtrɪsmɪˈdʒɪstəs /

noun

1. See Hermes Trismegistus

Example Sentences

He quoted Hermes Trismegistus, the mythical author of a corpus of second- and third-century Alexandrian mystical texts: “As above, so below.”

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The Golden Dawn took the ritual finery of Freemasonry and synthesized it with a kind of mystical Christianity, Jewish Kabbalah, and the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, an invented figure from late antiquity.

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They are drawn from the ancient works of Hermes Trismegistus, whose writings became popular during the Renaissance and Reformation.

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According to a passage in Manetho, much suspected, however, of being an interpolation, Thoth or Hermes Trismegistus had himself, before the cataclysm, inscribed on stelæ in hieroglyphical and sacred language the principles of all knowledge.

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The hero of Cervantes argued not the point with more seriousness,——nor had he more faith,——or more to say on the powers of necromancy in dishonouring his deeds,—or on Dulcinea’s name, in shedding lustre upon them, than my father had on those of Trismegistus or Archimedes, on the one hand—or of Nyky and Simkin on the other.

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