Anthropos - The Divine Human
The original nature of humanity as divine and cosmic.
The Anthropos (original human) was created in the image of God, beautiful and containing all powers. This divine human descended into nature through love and became clothed in mortal form, but retains its divine essence.
Man, who had all power over the world of things mortal, peered through the framework of the spheres.
The Anthropos teaching reveals human divine origin and potential.
Corpus Hermeticum
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- What Hermeticism says about teachers and lineage
The first human is described as made in the divine image and holding all powers, then descending into nature and putting on mortal form without losing what it was. Ancestry here runs vertically: what you inherit is a nature, not a household.
- What Hermeticism says about illness and the body failing
The original human is described as descending into nature and becoming clothed in mortal form while keeping its divine essence. On that reading illness happens to the clothing. Whether that consoles or evades depends on how sick you are.