Mercury's Mystical Experience

More familiar, more simple form, this heavenly thing folds back into itself, in its place is a great radiant space. There is only light. This light is the appearance of Reason, a radiance. … This radiance, to Hermes, permeates all space. Reason takes upon itself the puissance of Enlightenment. 'T is revealed, as the Enlightener. The bringer, of the light, of the mind. Hermes feels himself [exalted] lifted up, placed in the 'midst of this radiance. He stands there, supported only by space, and the light. Having a foundation in everlastingness because he is in the substance, of life itself; and from this substance there can be no falling, no injury, no lack, of anything." M.P.H. - The Vision of Hermes Trismegistus.