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What is Hermetics after all?

April 26, 2017Hermetics

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What is Hermetics after all?

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This brilliant article tries to present the various prespectives on Hermeticism, with the hope it will shine some light on the various miss-conceptions present in today’s time, even if it falls short of transmiting the whole Truth. Taken from: http://www.hermeticfellowship.org/HFHermeticism.html Text copyright 1998 M. Isidora & Adam P. Forrest.

Hermetics and Religion Hermetics could be pigeon-holed as a Religion, and some do try to do so at the expense of its true meaning and origin. In a “Religious” prespective, Hermetics: * Considers humanity to be on a spiritual journey to return to a state of unity with the Divine; this is the Great Work of humankind. * Holds that if we would attain to the Divine, we must aspire to the Divine; spiritual growth cannot be achieved without human effort * Is eclectic and draws material from sources spanning the entire Western Esoteric Tradition * Is polytheistic, yet ultimately monotheisitic (i.e., posits a multiplicity of Manifestation