I really do like his presentation of the subject matter...

Agrippa's Diary is a captivating gateway to the occult world of Alchemy, Esotericism, and the enigmatic history of ancient secret societies and mystery cults.

https://www.youtube.com/@agrippasdiary

I’ve been looking into hermeticism for awhile, but never too seriously. As of recent, I’ve been on a quest to enlightenment. I’m a new redditor and don’t really know how this app works, so please be kind enough to help a brother out and point me in a good direction.

I want to know where to start in my research and practices and what documentation or scripture I should look into.

Have you guys read her? What are your thoughts?

I’m grasping some of the basic history but am having a hard time understanding the hermeticism history or, it could be the ADHD and I simply need to re read again, there are a lot of dates and I’m confused about authorship. Hermes is the compilation of 3 authors, correct? Were these authors supreme beings or humans inspired by the concept of these Gods? I’ve read Thrice Great Hermes is the Messenger to 3 authors, who came to earth to deliver the message(s)

So far I’ve assumed that authorship belongs to man inspired by Thrice Great Hermes (I can’t spell Trig…) appearing 3 times? The first being the Corpus Hermeticum? But not a Creator because the theory is they’re out of reach/unfathomable?

How off base am I, pls be kind, only a student of Hermticism looking to more knowledgeable people. I researched the heck out of Hermeticism before buying some of the staple texts. Hermetica I and II(Litwa), The virgin of the world, and book called Meditations on the tarot, A journey into Christian Hermeticism.

How did Hermeticism evolve into Hermtic Qabalah?

Feel free to be blunt and tell me to go sit in a corner until I’ve contemplated the Universe long enough.

Ahoy all! I hope you've been well!

I made a post a few months ago talking about my ongoing "Reading the Hermetica" blogpost series, where I've been going over each of the Hermetic texts one by one. Last time, I had just finished wrapping up the Corpus Hermeticum and the Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth, and made an index for all those individual discussions (so check out that older post of mine to catch up if you haven't yet!). Today, I just wrapped up posting about the Asclepius aka the Perfect Sermon (abbreviated AH), so here's the follow-up index post for my discussions of that text! This is the longest extant classical Hermetic work available to us, encyclopedic almost in its scope, and gives us great insight into both the philosophical and practical aspects of Hermeticism. Although the original Greek text is no longer extant to us, it survives in one form in a Latin translation, and we also find a parallel Coptic excerpt of it preserved in the Nag Hammadi Codices (alongside the Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth).

• Intro + AH 1—3
• AH 4—6
• AH 7—9
• AH 10—13
• AH 14—17
• AH 18—21 (overlaps with NHC VI,8)
• AH 22—26 (overlaps with NHC VI,8)
• AH 26—30 (overlaps with NHC VI,8)
• AH 31—34
• AH 35—38
• AH 39—41 (overlaps with NHC VI,7)

Starting next week on my blog, I'll start getting into the often-overlooked Stobaean Hermetic Fragments (SH), and the last post for that will go up in mid-March, at which point I'll make another post like this for this subreddit for easy reference, but you can also check out my "Reading the Hermetica" index post here or my Hermeticism posts index here for references, too, as well as previews of what I've also got in the pipeline.

I hope you enjoy, and I hope you look forward to the SH posts coming up! If there're comments or discussions you'd like to make of your own, feel free to comment on the associated blog post.

Ive just started to dig into hermeticism. I have a decent understanding of the seven principles mentioned in the new age book The Kabalion.

I’m at a loss for understanding the evolution of spirit or the idea of a spirit that has transcended into “higher” plans of existence yet can encapsulate ideas, desires that we in our material existence could consider evil.

Do the laws enable consciousness to raise to higher planes of existence even tho they can “side” w/ what we view as evil?

Sorry if this question sounds incredibly ignorant. I’m just trying to better understand.

Say that you saw an advertisement for a hermetic lodge/circle/group in your area that is looking for interested people to join. What would be your hopes and expectations?

What would be the ideal situation and what would be less than ideal but you would still join?

Basically the title.

But to add more depth, how visible are you with your Hermetic faith/philosophy? Christians sometimes wear crosses; Jews sometimes wear the Magen David; Buddhists sometimes wear the Dharmachakra; but what do you, as a Hermeticist, wear (if anything)?

So, I am thankful for the reading recommendations I got here. One of which was a copy paste that I admittedly should have searched for before posting, but still extremely helpful(along with one of the comments added).

I have finished Asclepius, The Way of Hermes and Hermetica by Copenhaver. I am currently reading hermetica II by Litwa, with Greek Magical Papyri being next on my list.

After going decades without believing in anything, finding hermeticism and learning it shares a lot of my basic, almost subconscious, beliefs about the order of things.. It has fueled an unknown desire in me to fully immerse myself in this new journey.

But I live in utah, and while we have a large pagan/Wiccan community, we lack much in the way of hermetic resources. I found The Temple Of Hermes, which unfortunately seems to be a church dedicated to the new-age beliefs based on kybalian and the desire to use the new religious laws to legally have ayahuasca/psilocybin ceremonies.

Since I have started reading all of this and begun meditation and living closer to what the books say about growing spiritually while moving away from the physical, things in my life have been noticeably different.

I know this is more of a forum for discussing the philosophical and scholarly merit of hermeticism and the various texts, but was wondering if anyone had suggestions for practical application going forward. I've never felt this strongly about something being right, but not sure where to go now. I keep seeing Golden Dawn, but not sure how closely even they align with what these texts say. It's hard enough to believe in anything, so I want to stick as close to what I'm reading about in these translations as possible.

My name is Vinícius, I'm 21 years old and I'm a great admirer of esotericism. As I mentioned in a few posts ago, I started this journey of self-discovery about a year ago... Since then, I have gone through many transformations in my life and ended up moving away from some people. Not that it was necessarily a bad thing, but maybe it made me feel a little alone. I'm not talking about friendships that are there just to lend a shoulder, but about people who share the same interest, the same knowledge, who could help me and teach me more about these topics that fascinate me so much.

I feel a strong desire to join an order, but not from the romanticized or fantasy side. I seek this as a form of growth, a lever for enlightenment and a solid foundation where I can be surrounded by like-minded people. Do you think my way of seeing this is wrong? I just feel like I want to expand my social bubble, attracting people who share this new perspective. It’s not that I don’t value my current friends – I love them and always try to help them grow spiritually. However, when I talk about these topics, I prefer to give tips subtly, in parables, because I know that what is ours will come to us at the right time. I don't want to force you to understand what spiritual enlightenment is without you being ready; I believe that this understanding is something that only God/Universe itself can awaken in each of us.

It is understood the CH was previously thought to date back much earlier, but is 100-300 C.E. generally acknowledged today?

What is your view on highest god? Is he completly unknowable from human mind perspective? Or there are some parrels with god mind and human mind, if they are which ones exactly? I think its kind of impersonal absolute and all exist within

I grew up in a Baptist household but remember bringing this to the table when I was a child:

What if every god and every religion is just approaching the same spiritual essence? Like, what if the goal is to reach out and "touch" the spiritual but how you do that and to through what religion/ spiritual practice is irrelevant (Those of course, weren't my exact words but this is the thought fully fleshed out).

Is this in line with the teachings of Hermeticism?

If delving into mysteries as a hobby is your pastime please disregard this post. If you are seeking truth about God whatever you want to call God, the seven principles of hermetic philosophy are sufficient. If you're seeking this because you feel like you're missing something like there's a hole inside that you trying to fill, let me inform you of a little secret if you look into the night sky what do you see? Obviously stars but what are the stars in?

The majority of the physical plane of existence consists of an invisible uncountable unnameable silent force. There's positive force there's negative force and there is no force or neutral. And just like with magnetism which is a level of that force, two objects with the same charge will push away from one another and two objects with opposite charges will attract one another. That is the nature of God. With few exceptions, most names or words that speak of the all-encompassment of God, somewhere in the etymology you will find that which binds that which ties that which holds that which keeps together.

Even the word universe although it appears to me in one set of lines uni, verse, it's meaning it's derived from to come together. To understand God you must first understand yourself. Use logic and empathy. Imagine that you came into existence and you were alone and you were able to think. How long would you just exist?

You can think of God as though it was an empty glass and upon itself it shattered itself into a million little pieces. But each one of those pieces has an innate drive to return back together. With unlimited patients and infinite time. From that consciousness intelligent beings were imagined. That is why I just said that God made man in his image. Not image imagination which has the root of magic.

The reason it has the root magic is because there is no word there is no process there is no definable scientific process for what we are. It is simply magic. And from the imagination of God God created smaller gods with the same power minus the responsibility of holding it all together.

So rather than sit there and concentrate on beating your heart or holding your cells together, through you through me and through everyone God gets to experience the imagination that we created. And we have the exact same ability. However, The fact that we don't quite understand God also means that perhaps God doesn't quite understand God. And through science and research we have learned it's a fucking way to time to try to understand how or why.

And forgetting that there is a greater force holding us all together ensuring that our cells don't fly apart, crosses us to believe that we have control. Control is an illusion. When you make a decision it was already known and predetermined. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.

Believing that you have control is what keeps you from enjoying it. Use your brain use your heart but other than that simply no that anything you want is yours if you just know it. Not want it. Know it.

No Us, The US. Be Es Pho Nex

Everything that exists is God We are all one and whenever you're ready we've got some really cool shit planned so take your time there's no rush because we've got all the time in the world. And don't worry if you create negative worlds outside of yourself on the other side of the galaxy, Will get to them one day after doing all the cool stuff first. Infinitely outward and infinitely inward

The ability to lift the veil.. At once, used to see past the evils of an ignorant upbringing. And again, to lift my mind to a place beyond an abusive relationship. Then, i convert myself to the brink of insanity in isolation due to seeing the true world we exist in. Now, to become one with the desire and purpose of a higher self. To transcend..

The oldest known source of the emerald tablet is from “Kitab Sirr al-Khaliqa wa Sanat al-Tabi’a (The book of the secret of creation) which is attributed to Balinus, the Arabic translation for Apollonius, and this text is believed to be dated to the 9th century CE. It is interesting that Apollonius was chosen as the supposed author of this text, as opposed to Hermes Trismegistus himself which we see as the “author” of The Corpus. I am just recently learning of Apollonius, and I know much of his life is attributed to myth but I wonder why he was chosen as the source for the emerald tablet? Could he have been one of the earliest hermetic practitioners?

I'm reading the corpus after reading the emerald tablet/having an explaination of it and Powers spirits Will etc etc that helped but I'm so stuck because of the old flowerly poetic metaphorical language and it makes no sense to me and it's literally the first chapter and I'm kinda upset abt it...like mannnn

I would like to hear various interpretations of this quote that I provided in the title.

What are you thoughts about what makes kybalion "the All" diffrent from God in Corpus Hermeticum/hermetica? I think the most important is that in kybalion "the All" cant be fully understood

I've read the Corpus and the Aesclepius, and I'm wondering what I should read next?

I'm asking after preeminent source material, not modern commentaries or scholarly documents.

Don't suggest the Kybalion either, ya rube!

I'm not able to remember such teaching in top of my head.

And what does hermeticism mean to you?

It was a rainy Thursday when I decided to get my hair cut at a different hairdresser. The heavy atmosphere reflected something I didn't understand, but it seemed to herald a change. As soon as I entered, the atmosphere enveloped me, and we soon started talking. The hairdresser, with an enigmatic look, mentioned an emerald stone and talked about ancient knowledge. His words sparked something in me, like he knew exactly what I needed to hear.

Since that day, nothing has been the same as before. Upon arriving home, I felt an uncontrollable need to delve into books, symbols and mysteries that I barely knew. The knowledge seemed to flow to me intensely and naturally, as if it was just waiting for the right moment to reveal itself. I began to connect with people from orders and egregors that I had previously ignored: witches, wizards and practitioners of occult arts appeared on my path like old acquaintances rediscovered.

This is how, without realizing it, my alchemical journey began. It's been a year since this meeting took place, and since then I've been unveiling what seemed to be hidden inside and outside of me. But why? Why was that moment, that seemingly banal conversation, the starting point for something so profound and transformative? I still don't know the answer, but I keep walking... because the journey, like knowledge, cannot be interrupted.

Have you ever been or are you part of one??

Hey All,

I'm a long time Buddhist practitioner that has fallen out as of late due to certain circumstances and things I've witnessed, been at it 9 or so years now, first as a Theravadin, and now the last 6 or so with Vajrayana. I've always been interested in Neoplatonism, Alchemy, and Hermeticism in particular.

My question is, what place does meditation have in Hermeticism? I often see it referenced, but what type of meditation do practitioners actually engage in? Being from a Buddhist background, I know there are quite a lot even within our own traditions, I can think of 8-10 different methods just off the top, ranging from basic breath work, to "non meditation" and even esoteric medtiative visualization practices. Was wondering what type do you guys engage in?

I’ve been reading the Corpus Hermeticum, and In The Cup or Monad the term Tat and O Tat are used but nothing comes up when I search for it. Anyone know what it’s referring to?

Maybe the world doesn't understand you. Often, even those closest to you will not understand your journey and may label you as naive or lost.

But when you choose to walk the path of self-knowledge, you discover that the material loses its importance. The true purpose does not lie in the achievement of earthly goods, but in the elevation of your consciousness and the deep connection with your being.

Over time, you'll notice people pulling away or reacting in unexpected ways. Your truths can trouble those who fear confronting their own shadow, and this disconnection, both spiritual and physical, is a sign that you are headed in the right direction. When dense energies begin to move, transforming and elevating you to a new level, this discomfort is part of the transition.

Believe: you are on the right path. The soul's journey requires courage, but it is in this transformation that you will find true freedom and fulfillment. Stay strong, because what seems like isolation today is, in fact, an invitation to rise.

It's monotheism and polytheism at the same time in a weird way, but is there a word for it?

Today I learned how to create sigils, really crazy stuff, I've always had a hobby for creating symbols, always using the representation of Ouroboros, flower of life, Venus, among others....

Is it based on opinions?

Like some believe it’s the Christian God.

Some people believe it’s a Hellenistic God like Khaos.