Hermes tris megistos Hermes thrice greatest, the Greek messenger SON OF ZEUS AND MAIA, equated with THOTH, EGYPTIAN GOD OF KNOWLEDGE FOUNDER OF OCCULT SCIENCE These Haiku are the results of my attempts to understand the Castigatione Animae and lay no claim to scholarship. Some of the liberties taken are quite shocking but I have resisted justifying myself, adding only the reference points from the text - which was Walter Scots translation of Bardenhewer's Latin translation from the Arabic - hoping that, in the Hermetic tradition, you will do your own re-writes. - Vanilla Beer First published in 1994 by Vanilla Beer ISBN No 0 9524435 9 7 Go to HAIKU / RESPONSES / front page