Where we least expect to find him, he is there, a part of the plan, sneaking in the background, carrying the message.
It has fascinated the minds of mystics and scholars throughout the millennia to endeavor to capture Hermes and entice him to make sense. But even Apollo tried to bind the devious messenger, and in the end, embarrassed himself with failure.
“Thus name seems to pertain to discourse,” says Socrates, “and to imply that this god is an interpreter and a messenger, one who steals, and is fraudulent in discourse and who meddles with merchandise . . . This name, therefore, is composed both from to speak and to deliberate.”
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