Hermetism: Apocryphal imprimir
 
Apocryphal of the infancy (armenian gospel X, 10-23)
The priests of Zoroaster in the Persian culture reached the justified reputation of possessing deep knowledge of the secret wisdom. Called Magi, they presided the religious ceremonies, interpreted auguries and dreams, as well as they studied the stars.
The Armenian apocryphal gospels of the infancy refers to the arrival of three of these Magi from Persia, carrying with them a book to give as a present. They affirmed in front of Herod that the purpose of their trip was to give to the infant a testimony written by God, delivered to Adam, signed and stamped with the hand of God, which their ancestors saved from parents to child and from generation to generation, and which was known directly or indirectly by no nation except theirs, being found by the Magi in special rooms.
As the apocryphal continue describing, king Melkon took the book of the Testament that he conserved in his house as a precious legacy of his ancestors and he presented it to the infant. The mentioned document, addressed to Adam, had the following header: “ In the year six thousand, the sixth day of the week, the same day in which I created you, and at the sixth time I will send my only son, the divine verb, who took flesh of your descendant and will com to be the son of the man, (…), and then you, oh Adam!, united to me with pure soul and immortal body, will be deified and will be able, like myself, to discern the good from the evil”.
Taking into account this apocryphal, and understanding this narration as an allegory, we can define that this “book of the Testament” is part of the Hermetic Tradition, or universal knowledge, which past from generation to generation, hide and safeguarded at that moment by the Persian Magi.
It is interesting the place where these magicians said they found the book, “a special room”, which could be the Temple of Salomon. Besides, when it says “and then you, Adam, united to me … will be able, like myself, to discern the good from the evil”, it refers the central subject of the Hermetic: the potential divinity of the man, like it is shown by the Greek texts with strong Gnostic character that were found in Egypt en the first centuries of our era:
“ If you don’t become equal to God, you can not apprehend God, because only equals can apprehend equals”.
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