There are only a handful of surviving texts that describe what could be termed true “rites of passage” along the Way of Hermes. One such text—which contains what many consider the essential Hermetic experience—is CH 13, also known as The Rebirth . The text is presented as a fictional dialogue as Hermes leads his young […]
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Hermetic Individuation: The Discovery of the Self in the Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus
September 22nd, 2020 Awake Goy
At the core of the philosophy of Plato, we find one of the oldest written accounts of a type of psychological physics in the history of Western literature. Drawing from Pythagorean and archaic Greek cosmological concepts, Plato developed his theory of the archetypal forms or ideas. The archetypal forms are primary: the objects and phenomena […]