I’m widely read from mysticism, shamanism, bardon, nag hammadi, vedanta and buddhism, to the corpus, but have never started astrology other than hours of youtube.
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It will teach you the 7 Hermetic principles in a pretty short and east to digest way. Franz Bardon's Initiation into Hermetics is a more involved work, and the only book I've read that's mostly focused on Hermeticism, but if you dive into this subject you are likely going to want to study Qabalah (and maybe the Tarot alongside it), Alchemy, Astrology, Thelema, Rosicrucianism or some of the other occult schools.
In the 19th century, Walter Scott placed the date of the Hermetic texts shortly after 200 AD, but W. Flinders Petrie placed their origin between 200 and 500 BC. 'Magic Without Tears' By Uncle Al is as good as a book as any. 6 years ago. 'Promethea' by Alan Moore is an easy to read, entertaining jaunt through Hermetic Kabbalah. Hermeticism Books Showing 1-50 of 291 Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece (Hardcover) by.
In this post, I’ll pull them all together to create a reading list for those interested in the subject.
Through all of my writing on Hermeticism and Hermetic philosophy on this blog, I’ve recommended a number of books. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Archived. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcutsCookies help us deliver our Services. I would consider it an (albeit entertaining) graphic bible.William Wynn Westcott's Collectanea Hermetica. Hermeticism is also the backbone of most if not all of the mystery schools & secret societies. That's just off the top of my head.All good recommendations, but upvote for Promethea. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcutsCookies help us deliver our Services.
Best Books on Hermeticism. Everyone interested in magic should read it. I guess it is just a matter of translation styles, although it also includes a somewhat recently discovered translation of a text called The Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius.I think that Copenhaver's translation is still the primary one that is used by academics, and it also contains a lot of useful commentary and footnotes. What editions/translations do you guys use for these books?
Read it. So if you were only able to get one then I would probably get that.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castThe Occult: News for armchair and practicing metaphysical skeptics.Press J to jump to the feed.
I know they can be found on sacred texts but I prefer a physical book. As a mod of r/Hermeticism, I noticed some uneasiness in vast part of the community when talking about the Kybalion or other modern pseudo-Hermetic ideas. Final Thoughts: Best Hermetic Books. "The Kybalion" might be where you want to start, as it reads pretty easily and has a good "initiatory" vibe. If read and practiced in order it leads to a solid theory and practice in Hermetic Theurgy.
r/Hermeticism Hermeticism, also called Hermetism, is a religious, philosophical, and esoteric tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus ("thrice-greatest Hermes"). 'The Tree of Life' by Israel Regardie is a classic. Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon Hermeticism is the tradition based on writings of Hermes Trismegistus which combines alchemy, astrology and theurgy. 'The Chicken Qabalah' by Lon Milo Duquette is a very humorous book and fun, quite instructional. Best Books on Hermeticism. After that Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult Philosophy", but that is more of dense read.
*The Corpus Hermeticum *The Perfect Sermon *The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. It includes among others: The Divine Pymander, the Somnium Scipionis, the Chaldaen Oracles of Zoroaster, the Golden Verses of PythagorasCopenhaver's translation of the Corpus Hermeticum is generally viewed as the standard at this point, replacing the earlier ones by people like Scott and Mead.More recently another group translated and published the Corpus and the Asclepius, I guess because they didn't agree with parts of Copenhaver's translation, and they published them as separate books. I literally think Hermeticism is a remnant from something far older & gives us real understanding about fundamental forces of the System that we are a part of. “The light of egypt” (2 volumes) has caught my eye, what do you think of it? Hermeticism for me was where I jumped into the deep end of occult studies.Thanks, I'd never heard of The Initiation into Hermetics.
I'm looking for the most accurate editions to read up on. What editions/translations do you guys use for these books?