deviadah
11-12-2007, 12:20 PM
I have for years been planning to get a full treaty down on Apollonius of Tyana (and perhaps this thread will fuel that fire), or Balinas (Balínús) as the Arabs called him. I will use this name since, like Ng, it is easier and quicker to spell. :p
I'll just get some quick points down...
Balinas is an important hermetic figure and should not be ignored. I hope we can in this thread look into his teachings, and perhaps even discuss if he was - as it has been speculated - the true Jesus Christ.
The myth, to get it down in a very short passage, is as follows:
Thoth --> Hermes --> Balinas
Balinas is thus viewed as the third incarnation!
Bahá'u'lláh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahá'u'lláh) writes in his Lawh Basít al-Haqíqat (Tablet on the Uncompounded Reality):
After him [Hermes] Balínús derived his knowledge and sciences from the Hermetic Tablets and most of the philosophers who followed him made their philosophical and scientific discoveries from his words and statements.
In the Emerald Tablet of Jabir ibn Hayyan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geber) he pops up at the beginning because the legend goes that he possesed the original tablet (having found it in a cave):
Balinas mentions the engraving on the table in the hand of Hermes, which says:
Truth! Certainty! That in which there is no doubt!
That which is above is from that which is below, and that which is below is from that which is above, working the miracles of one.
The best account on Balinas is the following book (the site that hosts the book also contains a large bulk of information and writings on this elusive character):
The Life of Apollonius (http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_00.html) by Flavius Philostratus (this book escaped the burning of the Alexandrian Library)
Enough to get a discussion going?
We shall see...
:sunny:
I'll just get some quick points down...
Balinas is an important hermetic figure and should not be ignored. I hope we can in this thread look into his teachings, and perhaps even discuss if he was - as it has been speculated - the true Jesus Christ.
The myth, to get it down in a very short passage, is as follows:
Thoth --> Hermes --> Balinas
Balinas is thus viewed as the third incarnation!
Bahá'u'lláh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahá'u'lláh) writes in his Lawh Basít al-Haqíqat (Tablet on the Uncompounded Reality):
After him [Hermes] Balínús derived his knowledge and sciences from the Hermetic Tablets and most of the philosophers who followed him made their philosophical and scientific discoveries from his words and statements.
In the Emerald Tablet of Jabir ibn Hayyan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geber) he pops up at the beginning because the legend goes that he possesed the original tablet (having found it in a cave):
Balinas mentions the engraving on the table in the hand of Hermes, which says:
Truth! Certainty! That in which there is no doubt!
That which is above is from that which is below, and that which is below is from that which is above, working the miracles of one.
The best account on Balinas is the following book (the site that hosts the book also contains a large bulk of information and writings on this elusive character):
The Life of Apollonius (http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apollonius/life/va_00.html) by Flavius Philostratus (this book escaped the burning of the Alexandrian Library)
Enough to get a discussion going?
We shall see...
:sunny: