The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 48

taken their processional
flight since the days of the
Great Hermes.
In Egypt was located the
Great Lodge of Lodges of
the Mystics. At the doors of
her Temples entered the
Neophytes who afterward,
as Hierophants, Adepts,
and Masters travelled to
the four corners of the
earth, carrying with them
the precious knowledge
which they were ready,
anxious and willing to pass
on to those who were ready
to receive the same. All
students of the Occult
recognize the debt that
they owe to these
venerable Masters of that
ancient land. But among
these great Masters of
Ancient Egypt there once
dwelt one of whom Masters
hailed as "The Master of
Masters." This man, if
"man" indeed he was, dwelt
in Egypt in the earliest
days. He was known as
Hermes Trismegistus. He
was the father of the
Occult Wisdom; the
discoverer of Alchemy. The
details of his life story are
lost to history, owing to the

lapse of the years, though
several of the ancient
countries disputed with
each other in their claims
to the honour of having
furnished his birthplace and this thousands of years
ago.

The date of his sojourn in
Egypt, in that his last
incarnation on this planet,
is not now known, but it
has been fixed at the early
days of the oldest
dynasties of Egypt - long
before the days of Moses.