These are the things I’ve learn upon this journey, and I feel it was my duty to share what I have found:

The walk with Hermes in my life takes place on the path of self-realization. the destination is simple: to be you.

Our teacher thrice great, does not throw pearls before swine, his influence in your life, no matter how small. if you found yourself on this walk, resonating with his teachings. should be treated as an immense gift.

The walk with our master is like is someone trying to show you yourself in a mirror. accept when you look in this mirror, you see the entirety of everything reflected back you.

his core teaching is that there is no separation from you and the divine One through Nous. it’s just that we are too ignorant to see it. to know it. to experience it. or to have gnosis of it.

his instruction is to know our truest selves. because in knowing that which we are, we discovered we are a product and reflection of what is. and what “is” is one.

It is one light illuminating one life. that life is light, and that light is life. without one, the other ceases. and together they are the whole, which is wholly you. every cell, every hair, everything.

Gnosis is when we have the direct knowledge of that wholeness and oneness that penetrates and pervades and consists of all being, objective and subjective.

When we have gnosis, we aren’t “attaining” something, there is no separation from it to attain. we aren’t finding something that was lost, it was never gone. we aren’t “getting” anything, its already there. we aren’t “merging” with anything, its already closer to us than our bodies and minds. there is no 2 things to merge into each other. it is all one divine truth, one divine wholeness that is both the life you live and the light that illuminates your awareness of it. the witness of it.

The material appearance is just the play of light reflecting life, world of generation and change, controlled by necessity. nothing truly ever is; as nothing truly ever stops. Is the ocean going to a destination by pushing waves up and down the shore? it never stops. it’s always in activity, in motion, like all of this material world.

The truth is static, and unchanging; thus the truth can never be in form, the changeable appearance of the truth. You ought not to look for it there. you ought to look at what is causing form to be. the unchangeable cause of all effect that follows. that is the source of you and I, and all that we see.

If its fully in you, as you, and experiencing all of you? even your thoughts and feelings? it’s you! what is this “you” exactly? it’s just the one who notices. the observer of all internal and external phenomena. this observer is formless, borrowed reflection of the light that illuminates all your experience. When you stop identifying with the thoughts, with the body solely. that witness is no different, here or there, in me or you, in this or that. it’s the same light, illuminating the same life but body mind experiences it subjectively as its limited to only the field of its senses.

Let us say you are having a nightmare, and you screaming in your dreams and running away from a monster, the moment you wake up you are hit with a deep relief that it was only a dream. you were both the person running from the monster, and the monster. in reality both distinct characters were 100% you and that was the relief, there was no real threat. Just as the character we play now in material reality as body minds, are 100% God. really everything is, just not in its material form. just like the road you are running away from the monster on in your nightmare were also you. and the environment around it was you as well it certainly didn’t look seem or feel that way, but it was all in your mind and thus you.

Gnosis is like that deep relief from the nightmare. It’s that realization that this body mind are only the character in the dream just like everything else is. and we are the dreamer which is God, and the dream is the light and life that we exist from. and form appears as.

That is the goal of self-realization, to realize there is no separation, there is only ignorance that keeps us from seeing the objective oneness, and seeing all the subjective multiplicity as just the forms the oneness of all being takes.

Which is preciously why reverence is so important. Without reverence and respect for the sacredness of all life (which is the manifested oneness of all being) gnosis is a far cry.

Reverence is the very way you ought to walk this path of self-realization. nothing is separate from you, friend nor foe, all is an impression of yourself that is if you know your true self to be nothing other than the divine One.

There for you must revere all of life, you ought to facilitate a deep appreciation and respect for it, while not wanting anything from it. You ought to help those who seek for help. you ought to honor all bodies of nature, for even nature is fully God.

Your intentions for walking reverently should be to seek truth of what you really are.

You should try to see yourself in everything, and God in yourself. so in all things you see are met with the same respect you have for God and yourself.