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| | Hermeticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hermeticism is a panentheist belief system which teaches that there is One God, or one "Cause", of which we are all a part. | | | Gnosticism and Hermeticism are often seen as being sister religions, both flourishing in the same period, sharing the goal of the soul escaping from the material realm through true understanding, and emphathizing personal knowledge of God (Hoeller). | | | Hermeticism's spiritual practices were found very useful in magical work, especially in Theurgic (divine) practices as opposed to Goëtic (profane) practices, due to the religious context from which Hermeticism sprang forth. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism
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| | Review Article by Wayne Teasdale |
| | Hermeticism expresses this total or integrative approach by presenting the fruit of its labors: the synthesis of mysticism, gnosis and sacred magic. | | | Christian Hermeticism is based on mysticism; it is rooted in the eternal. | | | To ignore or neglect Hermeticism is to impoverish Christian spirituality because it denies to the Church vital resources contained in Hermetic wisdom. |
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http://www.medtarot.freeserve.co.uk/teasdale.htm
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| | HERMETICISM DESCRIPTION AND BELIEFS |
| | Hermeticism is an ancient spiritual, philosophical, and magical tradition. | | | Modern Hermeticism maintains this spiritual eclecticism, exploring and assimilating what is compatible and valuable from the Traditions with which it comes into contact, and sharing its own insights with other Traditions. | | | Hermeticism has always valued not only oral teaching, but spiritual knowledge passed on by teachers through the medium of books. |
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http://www.geocities.com/alandwpeters/hermeticism.html
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| | Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Magee |
| | Hermeticism is a positive Gnosis, as it were, devoted to the world. | | | Another parallel between Hermeticism and Hegel is the analysis of the divine into a set of “modes” or “moments” Hermeticists do not rest content with the idea of an unknowable God. | | | Another parallel between Hermeticism and Hegel is the doctrine of internal relations. |
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/magee.htm
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| | The value of Hermeticism in the traditional view was not as a historical record, but as inspired Divine wisdom and a signpost on the mystic path to Divine union. | | | Not only that, but I am convinced that Hermeticism is a Practical Path to Gnosis. | | | Without this unity we could not accomplish the mystic union, but it also makes possible the spiritual connection, without which magic, astrology and alchemy could not function. |
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http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/hermestrismegistus.html
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| | Giordano Bruno & the Hermetic Tradition |
| | Hermeticism, a version of neo-Platonic philosophy and mysticism, emerged from the confluence of ancient and Hellenistic philosophy, Iranian mysticism, ancient Egyptian religion, Egyptian Gnosticism, Judaism and, possibly, early Christianity. | | | The Hermetic corpus with its emphasis on the natural improvement of things and with interacting with a spiritual nature was the source book of alchemical thought and practice in Byzantium and medieval Islam. | | | It developed in Egypt as a kind of philosophical religion or religious philosophy in the first few centuries after Christ, and its basic texts make up what is known as the Hermetic Corpus. |
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http://courses.unt.edu/rdecarvalho/h5040/StudentPapers/Yates03,Frances.htm
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| | there is a great deal of controversy over where the boundaries of Hermeticism truly lie, especially since it is so eclectic, drawing (some say borrowing or stealing) mystical teachings from a variety of cultures and time periods, at times fabricating entire mythologies about their origins or the purposes of techniques and practices which it incorporates. | | | there are also Biblical and apocryphal texts which contributed heavily to Hermeticism, sometimes those associated with the heretical aspects of Christianity though incorporated into Jewish religion, such as the books of the Kabbalah, the Books of Enoch, and of course a variety of recently-discovered Gnostic texts. | | | I would not dispute with you here what is the 'true definition' of the term 'Christian' (since I prefer to leave this to the individual). |
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http://www.hollyfeld.org/heaven/Usenet/Mysticism/9611.hrmxmgk.tn
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| | Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Esoteric and Occult: Hermeticism |
| | Hermeticism and Western Esotericism - Hermeticism is the Wisdom Tradition of the West, an esoteric tradition not necessarily limited to any one religion or mystical path, and that embraces both the theoretical and the practical. | | | On the Trail of the Winged God - Hermes and Hermeticism throughout the ages. | | | Meditations on the Tarot - Offered as a service to the worldwide community of friends, known and unknown, whose prayer, thinking and living are being formed by the book Meditations on the Tarot. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Esoteric_and_Occult/Hermeticism
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| | Ebla Forum: View topic - Hermeticism |
| | Much like some philosophers of religion today when trying to come to terms with the plurality of religions and their competing truth claims, Hermeticists believe that Hermeticism represents the common centre of all forms of religion. | | | Harmony in the heavens, then, would suggest that the Hermeticist look for a similar harmony on Earth; likewise, it is proposed that the belief in a unity of (God-given) purpose for men on Earth could have inspired Copernicus and others to seek simplicity in place of complexity in the heavens. | | | Texts that covered religion and philosophy were said to be due to him, as well as those on magic, alchemy and astrology. |
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http://www.eblaforum.org/main/viewtopic.php?t=687
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| | -- MONAS.nl -- article - the esoteric tradition(s) of the west - hermetism |
| | Alexandrian Hermeticists were probably often also alchemists or maybe you can say that Hermeticism was spiritual alchemy in contradition to the more practical forms of alchemy. | | | It seems that around the year 300 there were already so many Hermetic scriptures that nowadays scholars think that most of them were written in the three centuries before. | | | As you can see the Renaissance revival led to new Hermetic movements such as the Rosicrucians and the Freemacons. |
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http://www.monas.nl/think/esotrad3.htm
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| | When he wrote this work -- this "book of life" -- he anticipated that by the time of its publication he would no longer be a citizen on the earth, but would be sojourning in the spiritual realms. | | | The Letters were written in French and were completed in the year 1967, as the author indicates at the end of Letter XXII. | | | It is the Risen One -- the guardian of the threshold to eternity -- who is the Initiator on the path of Christian Hermeticism. |
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http://www.medtarot.freeserve.co.uk/powell.htm
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| | Book Review-Refiners Fire by John L Brooke:Making of Mormon Cosmology |
| | This is probably one of the most significant books ever written on the subject of Mormon origins. | | | However, Brooke also disagrees with those LDS apologists who would argue that divine inspiration is the best explanation. | | | Some LDS reviewers have complained that Brooke frequently overlooks biblical sources for distinctive Mormon beliefs, leading him to stretch the evidence in search of hermetic parallels. |
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http://www.irr.org/mit/Refiner's-Fire.html
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| | Ancient Quest - Home Page |
| | Hermeticism is an ancient philosopical tradition that emphasizes the importance of inner enlightenment or gnosis, rather than that of pure rationalism or doctrinal faith. | | | It has often been said that western culture is based on the two polarities - of Greek rationality on the one hand, and biblical faith on the other. | | | Thoth is an Egyptian god who was believed to have invented writing and who is portrayed as a scribe, teacher, god of magic, and as the `psychopompos', the soul's guide to the underworld. |
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http://www.ancientquest.com/embark/hermetic.html
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| | COLLECTUM HERMETICUS - Hermetic Texts, Scriptures, Writings And Hermeticism |
| | The Spirituality of Hermeticism find its application in all major world philosophies and religions such as Esotericism, Platonism, Neo-Platonism, Christianity, Catholicism, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddism, ZEN, Islam, Judaism, Sufism, Yoga, Hinduism, Wicca, Magick, Paganism, and Witchcraft. | | | Hermeticism and Hermetic Qabalistic Magick and Mysticism within the Western Mystery Traditions | | | [Trismegistos] [Hermeticism] [Alchemy] [Philosophy] [Traditions] [Occultism] [Spirituality] [Qabbalah] [Divination] |
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http://www.geocities.com/collectumhermeticus
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| | Meditations on the Tarot |
| | It is a profound Christian meditation, a journey of discovery into the mysteries of Hermeticism. | | | The addressee in this instance is anyone who will read all of them and who thereby acquires definite knowledge, through the experience of meditative reading, about Christian Hermeticism. | | | He will know also that the author of these Letters has said more about himself in these Letters than he would have been able to in any other way. |
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http://www.medtarot.freeserve.co.uk
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| | Hermeticism and Western Esotericism |
| | One could say that Hermeticism is the Wisdom Tradition of the West, an esoteric tradition not necessarily limited to any one religion or mystical path, and that embraces both the theoretical and the practical. | | | Although it presents a definition of Western Esotericism (restricting hermeticism to its Renaissance phase) it can just as satisfactorally be read as a definition of Hermeticism in the broad sense | | | It is a little like trying to define religion, or art. |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Hermeticism/Hermeticism.htm
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| | Hermeticism is a means to an end and that end is union with the Divine. | | | The emphasis on the historical truth of Hermeticism, rather than its spiritual truth is but one trap. | | | We are handicapped at every turn by the preconceptions we share of Reality, which are part of the Modern World View. |
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http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/hermeticismpracticalpath.html
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| | End of Europe's Middle Ages - Hermeticism |
| | There were three major components to hermeticism that were especially important to scholars in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance: alchemy, numerology and the magic of letters (cryptography and ciphers). | | | In the late Middle Ages, reaction against the rational soulessness of Aristotle and the resurgence of neo-Platonism provided an encouraging environment to the mystical spirituality of hermeticism causing the philosophy to attract many followers. | | | These texts were believed to contain the wisdom of the Egyptians during the time of Moses and supposedly were written by an ancient Egyptian, Hermes Trismegistus (three-times master), who was considered to have received divine knowledge of the physical world just as Moses received divine knowledge about the moral world. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/bluedot/hermetic.html
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| | Claiming to descend from the Knights Templar, this organization was largely centered in Germany and was focused primarily on Tantra (sexually induced trances.) Crowley added his own ideas to the mix, including his "Book of the Law", a kind of Holy Bible to the religion he founded called Thelema. | | | The first period was during the Rennaissance, when Christians of a mystical bent combined newly unearthed Greek, Hebrew and Arabic mysticism with native Alchemy, Freemasonry, and heretical Christian Theurgy and Thaumaturgy. | | | Hermeticism is a path of magic which has evolved from a diverse blending of influences during two key periods. |
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http://www.necronomi.com/magic/hermeticism
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| | indications of the divine |
| | Hermeticism is now a broad title for spiritual theory outside of the mainstream. | | | Hermes (not to be confused with the Greek god Hermes) was a philosopher, magician, astrologer, and alchemist of the ancient, pre-Egyptian world -- or (legends conflict) he is the alias for a cult of individuals who wrote the Hermetic Books that were attributed to a single man. |
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/students/m/s/msk195/hermeticism.htm
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| | Hermeticism - OccultForums.com |
| | I would be very interested to hear people's opinions on what are the main differences between Hermeticism and Gnosticism, and if there are indeed reasons to consider them different doctrines (other than cultural adoptation)? | | | I'll let you know if I hear more about this text. | | | Hermeticism is called "Pagan Gnosticism" in the sticky. |
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http://www.occultforums.com/showthread.php?t=6185
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| | Hermeticism and the Golden Fleece - Joseph Caezza |
| | Every century and upon every continent a handful of exceptional men are born who possess the innate ability to read the signatures of nature directly, to see immediately into the mystery of continuous creation and to know pristine reality revealed by the power of imaginal identification. | | | Hermeticism and the Golden Fleece - Joseph Caezza |
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http://www.levity.com/alchemy/caezza3.html
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| | Hermes and Hermeticism |
| | Although the Hermetic system has undeniably influenced much of the best of Christian thought, the most abiding impact of Hermeticism on Western culture came about by way of the heterodox mystical, or occult, tradition. | | | The mind boggles at the turn Western culture might have taken had Hermetic teachings replaced Aristotelian theology of Thomas Aquinas as the normative doctrine of the Catholic Church! | | | Gnosticism and Hermeticism flourished in the same period; they are equally concerned with personal knowledge of God and the soul, and equally emphatic that the soul can only escape from its bondage to material existence if it attains to true ecstatic understanding (gnosis). |
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http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/hermes.htm
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| | Hopkins Template |
| | The word Hermeticism dates back to Ermete Trismegisto and to an esoteric, philosophical and religious doctrine whose name was Hermeticism and which arose in the Hellenistic age. | | | Hermeticism developed during the first half of the twentieth century in Italy. | | | Montale preferred to be considered born in the furrow of a poetic trend which can be approximately defined metaphysical. |
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http://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org/lectures_2000/eugenio-montale.html
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| | Hermes Trismegistus and the Hermetic Writings - Home |
| | So in exploring Hermeticism it is perhaps easiest to break the subject up into four major categories: the god, Hermes Trismegistus; the Hermetic writings; the beliefs and practices of Hermeticism; and the ties between Hermeticism and other traditions. | | | In putting together its view of the world and human life, this system also draws upon and is influenced by many diverse and disparate religious and philosophical traditions, making it a unique blend of various aspects of the Hellenistic world. | | | By examining each of these categories for major themes, we should be able to come to a general understanding of the nature and scope of Hermeticism. |
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http://students.roanoke.edu/groups/relg211/bennett
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| | ENOCH AND THE DAY OF THE END |
| | They are placed outside the scientific paradigm, with other relics of the "age of ignorance", such as astrology, alchemy, homeopathy and the esoteric (covering Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Occultism, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, the New Age). | | | This book came to be because of my historical studies of Hermetism in Alexandria, the angelic teachings of Enoch and the Essenes and the historical reality of literary Hermeticism, of which dr.Dee is an outstanding example. | | | This unique, Apocalyptic Christian Hermeticism has been poorly understood by Enochian scholars, who focused on the magical (technical) side of the system and not on its philosophy. |
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http://www.enoch.sofiatopia.org/enoch.htm
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| | Erik's Masonic Journey - Twin Peaks, and Hermeticism Redux |
| | I am very interested in hearing the thoughts of any Freemasons regarding the influences of hermeticism on Freemasonry, or vice versa! | | | He writes, "Of those Freemasons who were inclined towards occultism at the close of the last century, the majority were deeply involved in the Theosophical Society, or at least in the teachings that it propagated." This ties nicely into the symbolic cross-pollination one might notice in the aforementioned Twin Peaks. | | | In May I talked about hermeticism and it's relationship to Freemasonry, and during my browsing and reading I've come across more articles and websites discussing such connections. |
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http://www.aarg.net/mason/040719.html
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| | The Sacred Texts |
| | The Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead) | | | This is a collection of sacred writings or texts from a number of traditions, primarily those relating to Hermeticism. |
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http://www.hermetic.com/texts
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| | Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Teachings |
| | "On the whole their [the Cathars] faith was very similar to its Manichean, Paulician and Bogomilian roots: its chief ingredients were Gnosticism and Hermeticism." - 336:42 | | | Hermetic magic was performed by occult groups during the Middle Ages. | | | "The Angevins [Rene d'Anjou was the Angevin monarch] were primarily advocates of the Regia, or Royal Art, of hermeticism; a tradition which according to legend was passed down to man by a race of fallen angels." - 306 |
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http://watch.pair.com/new-teachings.html
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| | Recommended Books - Magick, Alchemy, Qabala, Hermeticism, Occult & Esoteric Books |
| | Magick, Alchemy, Qabala, Hermeticism, Occult and Esoteric Books | | | Recommended Books - Magick, Alchemy, Qabala, Hermeticism, Occult & Esoteric Books |
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http://www.magicalpath.net/articles/recommended_books.htm
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| | The Hermetic Tradition |
| | Hermeticism defined in this more limited way refers to "The Corpus Hermeticum", a collection of religious and philosophical texts, which survived in Byzantium and were then translated and promulgated in Renaissance Italy. | | | The pagans of Alexandria and Roman Egypt lived in a country where several pantheons of gods and goddesses competed equally for attention. | | | The Hermeticism we have now grew out of the best traditions of the ancient world. |
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http://jaq.chaosmagic.com/Hermetic.htm
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| | Hellenistic Astrology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Astrological concepts were also used in magic, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Gnostic Christian sects such as the Ophites, and by the author of the Chaldaean Oracles. | | | A factor present in both collections is the role planets and stars play in the cosmologies and eschatologies, one in which the planets and other celestial entities are seen as oppressive forces or binding powers from which the soul, by nature divine and exalted above the cosmo, must break free. | | | By the second century B.C.E., Babylonian astrology techniques were combined with Egyptian calendars and religious practices, Hermeticism, the Pythagorean sacred mathematics, and the philosophies of the Stoics and middle Platonists. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/astr-hel.htm
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| | The Austin Chronicle Books: Seeking the Recipe |
| | "Hermeticism" is the name given to a group of magical practices that includes alchemy, astrology, sacred geometry, and numerology. | | | In 1614, the legend of Hermes Trismegistus was debunked by Isaac Casaubon in De Rebus Sacris et Ecclesiaticis Exercitiones XVI, which showed that the texts attributed to Hermes were actually written in the Christian era by people with the agenda of linking their Christian thought to an older philosophy called neo-Platonism. | | | You can't read only the books from the last five years." |
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http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-08-15/books_feature.html
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| | Hermeticism -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Giuseppe Ungaretti, who had been one of the leaders of the movement, began to write so clearly that his original style was almost unrecognizable. | | | Salvatore Quasimodo was another Hermeticist who found a new voice... | | | In the 1930s and 1940s the Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator Eugenio Montale was considered to be a leader of the literary movement known as Hermeticism. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9040164?&query=eugenio
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| | Hermeticism and Freemasonry |
| | Unless we acknowledge the influence of the idea of Freemasonry and attempt to understand its nature, both as it is and as it was believed to be, our understanding of Hermeticism will be impoverished. | | | We must also be aware of the true nature of Freemasonry itself, of its relationship with esoteric systems of thought during the period of its creation, and of the more esoteric theories of its origin. | | | We shall be like the candidate for Masonic initiation: in a State of Darkness. |
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http://www.mastermason.com/luxocculta/hermetic.htm
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| | Erik's Masonic Journey - Neoplatonism and Hermeticism |
| | Corpus Hermeticum was not the pre-Christian prophetic work it was previously believed to be, which means that Freemasonry's 16th century roots drew upon that work and the philosophies deriving from it believing them to be of a different nature than they really are. | | | Masons should remember that while the Fraternity is built on a basis of religious tolerance, the removal of most overtly Christian elements from the ritual did not occur until | | | Rosicrucianism, Stevenson points out, was a bold and effective effort to remove the pagan elements of Hermeticism and incorporate them more fully into Christianity. |
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http://www.aarg.net/mason/040521.html
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| | Alchemy & Hermeticism |
| | This link will take you to books on Alchemy and Hermeticism. | | | The Place where unique and rare gifts pay for themselves. | | | Please e-mail us if you find a non-functioning link, or suggest a new link. |
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http://www.accessnewage.com/Links/L-Alchem.htm
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| | Kimberly Smith |
| | Hermeticism takes its name from the Egyptian God Thoth, named Hermes Trismegistus, otherwise known as “Thrice Great Hermes” in Greek. | | | A Greek text, called the “Hermetic Treatises,” contains the founding principles of Hermeticism. | | | The Influence of Hermeticism in “Il Penseroso” and “L’Allegro’ |
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http://www.tcnj.edu/~graham/Smith.html
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| | John Dee (paperback book, Western Esoteric Masters Series) by Dr. John Dee; selected & introduced by Gerald Suster |
| | He lectures internationally on Hermeticism, alchemy, and magic and is Research Fellow in the Western Esoteric Tradition at the University of Wales Lampeter. | | | Revered in his time as the most learned man in all Europe, Dr. John Dee (1527-1608) was the leading British representative of sixteenth-century Hermeticism. | | | He was Queen Elizabeth's personal astrologer and an honored advisor to many noble English families and European royalty. |
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http://www.sevenrays.com/catalog/describe?1556434723
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| | The Roots of Consciousness: History, Hermeticism |
| | The main dictum of the hermetic tradition as found in the Emerald Tablet in essence states "As Above, So Below" meaning that humanity will find within itself the nature of the entire universe. | | | Again and again we are told the whole world is alive. | | | Professor Wayne Shumaker, a modern historian of the occult sciences, uses an analogy to place Hermeticism within the vast history of human understanding: |
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http://www.williamjames.com/History/HERMETIC.htm
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| | Hermeticism at Mountain Temple |
| | During the Renaissance, mystically-inclined Christian authors and magicians blended alchemy and theurgy with Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic mysticism to create the "golden age" of hermeticism; in the Victorian era, hermeticism experienced its most recent revival, propagated by authors such as Eliphas Levi and H.P. Blavatsky, and thus comes our Golden Dawn tradition. | | | It became a "path" of sorts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and eventually the word crept into the popular vernacular to refer to anything obscure, esoteric, or "sealed" (literally or figuratively.) The entire Rosicrucian and Golden Dawn tradition derives its essence from Hermeticism. | | | Since the 1960s, a much larger understanding of (and respect for) Asian texts and philosophies has significantly influenced Western magical systems (see our Eastern Esotericism page.) |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~xristos/GoldenDawn/hermetic.htm
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| | hermeticism - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "hermeticism" is defined. | | | We found 4 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word hermeticism: | | | hermeticism : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=hermeticism
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| | Hermes Trismegistus and the Hermetic Writings - The Syncretism |
| | As seems to be the case with nearly everything about Hermeticism, exploring all of the ties and similarities to other traditions would be an exhausting project, but a few examples of congruence with major systems should be sufficient evidence of the phenomenon: | | | Others are not quite so flippant in their descriptions, but it is obvious that Hermeticism is extremely syncretistic (Martin, 146), blending together elements of many Hellenistic traditions. | | | Neoplatonism: Hermeticism probably has more in common with Neoplatonism than with any other single system, and came out of the same background philosophically (Greer, "An Introduction to the Corpus Hermeticum"). |
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http://students.roanoke.edu/groups/relg211/bennett/ties.html
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