Hermes Trismegistus et la théologie Soūfi de l’École de Bassora
Hermes Trismegistus and the Soūfi Theology From the Basra School

Summary/Abstract: The mystical theology of Hermeticism, of the Hermetic gnosis, reaches its climax through the experience of regeneration, paliggenesía. The deification of the human soul reveals itself as a direct ontological identification with one of the Divine Powers. In the Corpus Hermeticum, XIII, the Divine Powers (dunámeis) are constituent parts of the Lógos, present inside the human being during the déification. Due to the divine influx penetrating inside the human soul, the ten Divine Powers will accomplish the building of the Lógos inside the regenerated human being. The Jewish-Hermetic hypothesis implies the identification of the ten Sephiroth-belima with the ten dunámeis and with the divine omnipresence (Aιón). The North-African Patristic tendency envisages Hermes as a pagan prophet, a forerunner of Christianity. The medieval Muslim mentality approached Hermes (Harāmisa) as an antediluvian prophet, susceptible to be identified with Idrīs or Ukhnūkh (Henoch). The Muslim prophetology states that Hermès-Idrīs has been divinely sent in order to initiate the human beings through direct inspiration (ilhām), received from Allāh. Parts of the Hermetic corpus had been rewritten in the Muslim religious space by Shī’ite authors, in order to prove the theocratical causes of the historical cycle. In the context of the syncretism between Egyptian-Greek Hermeticism and the Abrahamic religious spaces, the entering of the Divine Powers-Attributes and the manifestation of the Word of God inside human ontology define the metamorphosis of the human essence into theandric reality.

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