Exhibition Highlights

Master of Change: Images of Hermes Trismegistus (6 January-31 July)

The current exhibition in The Ritman Library focuses on the iconography that has developed around Hermes Trismegistus. The exhibition highlights the ‘Egyptian Hermes’ Thoth, the Greek Hermes, and the combination of these two as Hermes Trismegistus, along with some of the attributes that can be associated with this Master of Change, such as the armillary sphere, the Tabula smaragdina, the ouroboros and the caduceus.

Ouroboros

35 Des Hermes Trismegists alter Naturweg. Leipzig 1782

The line printed above the ouroboros: ‘Hermes: Ascendit a terra in coelum, iterumque descendit in terram et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum’, is taken from the Tabula smaragdina: ‘It ascends from the earth into the sky (i.e. evaporates) and again descends from the sky to the earth (i.e. condenses), and receives the power and efficacy of things above and of things below.’ Underneath the ouroboros we find: ‘the red sun must be united with the white moon: one way and one order’. Hermes Trismegists alter Naturweg was published by a ‘true mason’ as is obvious from the masonic symbols that are added to the hexagram or Seal of Solomon.

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