Fathered
by Zeus, king of the gods and Maia the eldest daughter of the seven Pleiades,
Hermes was one of the twelve Olympians. Hermes
was attributed as being the interpreter, envoy and divine messenger of the
gods. Hermes oversaw the process of transition and change. He was able to move
freely between the worlds of the mortals and the divine, states that appear
homologous to both consciousness and the unconscious. Hermes
was a psychopomp, a spiritual guide that supposedly provided safe passage to
the unknown, i.e. the underworld. Hermes was also the patron of invention,
creativity, ingenuity and the god of prophetic dreams.
“What is a god? A god is a personification of a
motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the
universe.”
Qualities
attributed to Hermes were as a translator and intermediary between the fields
of the conscious and the unconscious. Some poets and authors considered his
powers to be tricky, cunning, seeking and deceiving. He also shares the legacy
of being the inventor of physical fire, which could be interpreted as a raising
of awareness through friction, i.e. situations metaphorically created between
contrasting qualities of both like and unlike kind.
In the Homeric hymn, "after he had fed the loud-bellowing
cattle... he gathered much wood and sought the craft of fire. He also invented
written music and many other things. He took a splendid laurel branch, gripped
it in his palm, and twirled it in pomegranate wood" (lines 105,
108–10)
Hermes
symbolizes the power of transitions and boundaries while also being the patron
of athletes, literature and oratory. Hermes also symbolized not only the
attributes of physical speed, but also the quick wittedness of mind.
Symbolically
the power prescribed to Hermes describes the Life source that finds refuge in
every human heart, the silent listener and communicator, i.e. the recognizer of
the voice cognizant of the inner awareness of all things. Energy patterns,
characteristic of the quantum field/s that form about the strands of DNA, are
broadcast as patterns of light and information. Each gesture is the reflection
of the imagination at work, an awareness seeking equilibrium that only the
intimate attentiveness to one’s own inner utterances are capable of achieving.
Design gives energy to ideas that are realized through the swift, timeless and
Hermetic power of listening to one’s own veiled sense of the moment.
“Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives
and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.”
Hermes
bridges the realities of humanity with that of the gods through the power of
myth, a strategically designed process of learning through a mix of both the
imagination and experience. Communications between divergent interests are made
viable through experiences of a visceral nature, i.e. situations that allow for
and often require, creative thinking and liberation. This methodology presents
a special kind of access to knowledge that can only be facilitated by a
personal interpretation of symbol and metaphor.
“Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights
and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more
tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths
come from the mystical region of essential experience.”
Hermes’
power rests with establishing, rejuvenating and maintaining a constant flow of
energy, light and information between symbolic events and experiences that occur at all levels, dimensions and magnitudes of consciousness. Hermes attempts to inspire
humanity by expanding awareness through symbolic means and
metaphor thereby allowing for a greater sense of being and alignment with Life's
unknown source. Hermes represents the process that intuitively nurtures and
guides our awareness into an active transition between the realms of the known and
the unknown.
Campbell,
Joseph, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, Bollingen Series XVII, Princeton University
Press, Princeton, N.J. 1949.
Schwab,
Gustav, “Gods & Heroes of Ancient Greece”, Random House, New York, N.Y.
1974.
Cotterell,
Arthur, “The Encyclopedia or Mythology”, Hermes House, London, 2005.
Edited: 09.26.2012, 10.23.12, 04.05.2017, 03.05.2018, 07.25.2019, 10.30.2019
Find your truth. Know your mind.
Follow your heart. Love eternal will not be denied. Discernment is an integral
part of self-mastery. You may share this post as long as author, copyright and
URL https://designconsciousness.blogspot.com/ is
included as the resource and shared on a non-commercial no charge basis. Please
note … posts are continually being edited over time. Copyright © 2023 C.G.
Garant. All Rights Reserved. (Fair use notice.) AI usage is prohibited. You are invited to visit https://designmetaphysics.blogspot.com/ and https://sagariandesignnetwork.blogspot.com/
