The Hermetic Discourse to Tat on the Rebirth: The Alchemy of the Second Birth
Within the multi-dimensional and mathematically rigorous architecture of the Corpus Hermeticum , the thirteenth book (CH XIII) provides a "Highly Radiant" record of the soul’s vertical transition beyond the material matrix: The Secret Sermon on the Mountain (or the Discourse to Tat on the Rebirth ). In this text, Hermes Trismegistus teaches his student Tat about the supreme "Theurgical Aperture" through which the Divine Mind communicates its absolute unity to the human spirit. It describes a state of Palingenesia (Rebirth)—a multi-dimensional methodology for understanding how the soul is systematically "un-mingled" from the elements and re-constituted within the unmanifested light of the Pleroma. To understand the Discourse on the Rebirth is to confront the concept of Atmospheric Transubstantiation . Hermes teaches that while the physical body is composed of the four elements, the "Intellectual Body" is composed of the absolute light of the ...