Tag: hermeticism
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Usher Unveiled: Poe and the Metaphysic of Gnosticism
from eapoe.org: It has long been a critical paradox that Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be outside the mainstream of American literature, while he is known internationally as the author of the most famous short tale in thee tradition, “The Fall of the House of Usher.” The most damaging charge against Poe is surely…
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Why Study the Divinatory Arts?
from jwmt.org: The study of divination in the hermetic arts is a long-standing tradition. Today there are several favored methods of divination employed by magicians and magical groups, the most common of these likely being tarot, astrology and geomancy. A common question among those new to the hermetic arts, and even amongst those who are…
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Alchemy and Sufism
from henrybayman.com: It is known that alchemy originated from Hermeticism. Some have even considered the two synonymous. We have also seen that Sufism is the contemporary form of Hermeticism. This suggests that there should be some affinity between Sufism and alchemy. In the present article, we focus on this subject. The first famous Moslem alchemist,…
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What Is Esoteric?
from esoteric.msu.edu: Until comparatively recently, there was very little scholarship on Western esotericism as a field. There were, of course, various articles and books on aspects of Western esotericism like alchemy or Rosicrucianism, but there was virtually no sense in the scholarly world that these disparate tributaries of thought formed a larger current of Western…