{"id":162,"date":"2003-10-28T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/wordpress\/?p=162"},"modified":"2022-05-06T04:56:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T03:56:04","slug":"simon-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Hermetically Sealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a discussion in the office yesterday about the meaning of &#8220;Hermetically sealing&#8221; something. <a href='http:\/\/ushakova.photo\/g70hljskb99\/'>\u0643\u0631\u064a\u0633\u062a\u064a\u0627\u0646\u0648 \u0631\u0648\u0646\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0631\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0629<\/a>   I offer the following account in support of my position:    The seal of Hermes has fallen into common usage via the route of Alchemy.    In the third century A.D., the philosophical school of the Neo-platonists arose in Alexandria. <a href='http:\/\/monumentalstudio.com\/z7nudn8\/'>365 \u0628\u062b \u0645\u0628\u0627\u0634\u0631<\/a>  They associated the Egyptian god Thoth, the god of alchemy and mystical secrets and inventor of a magical seal, with Hermes, calling him Hermes Trismegistus. <a href='https:\/\/www.stlukessound.co.uk\/wordpress\/wordpress\/32638841\/'>\u0627\u0632\u0627\u0649 \u0627\u0643\u0633\u0628 \u0641\u0644\u0648\u0633 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u062a<\/a>  In the seventeenth century, English writers began using the adjective hermetic to refer to things that were sealed or secret.     The Seal of Hermes is itself a geometric design consisting of a combination of the three basic magickal forms &#8211; the sphere, the triangle and the cube.    To put the seal of Hermes, or the hermetic seal on a bottle in the laboratory meant to twist the neck with flame and thereby seal it air-tight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a discussion in the office yesterday about the meaning of &#8220;Hermetically sealing&#8221; something. \u0643\u0631\u064a\u0633\u062a\u064a\u0627\u0646\u0648 \u0631\u0648\u0646\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0631\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0629 I offer the following account in support of my position: The seal of Hermes has fallen into common usage via the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/?p=162\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}