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Gotta give Thoth/Djehuti/Mercury/Hermes Trismegistus credit for nailing this predictive description of clown world.

(The Asclepius is sometimes not treated as part of the Corpus Hermeticum, as its Greek text was lost and it is only partially preserved in Latin.)

"O Egypt, Egypt, of thy religion nothing will remain but an empty tale, which thine own children in time to come will not believe; nothing will be left but graven words, and only the stones will tell of thy piety.

And in that day men will be weary of life, and they will cease to think the universe worthy of reverent wonder and worship.

They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which he has built, this sum of good made up of many diverse forms, this instrument whereby the will of God operates in that which he has made, ungrudgingly favoring man’s welfare; this combination and accumulation of all the manifold things that call forth the veneration, praise, and love of the beholder.

Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven; the pious will be deemed insane, the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.

As for the soul, and the belief that it is immortal by nature, or may hope to attain to immortality, as I have taught you, – all this they will mock, and even persuade themselves that it is false.

No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven, will be heard or believed.

And so the "gods" (think 'cosmic upperclassmen', not 'the Creator') will depart from mankind, – a grievous thing! – and only evil angels will remain, who will mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches into all manner of reckless crime, into wars, and robberies, and frauds, and all things hostile to the nature of the soul."

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Perhaps this is why my research has been so fruitful: "nothing will be left but graven words". My research has yielded a tapestry of mutually supportive connections between concepts. A number of those connections in that tapestry are etymological.

They say numbers don't lie but statisticians can use numbers to support a lie if they play their cards right.

Words are used by liars to lie but words (and letters) themselves contain extremely deep truths.

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Rosie Jerde 7mo ago

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