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Three layers, always separated: established fact (cited), scholarly debate (both sides named), and reception & myth (labelled as such). Sources under every entry. The text is drafted by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, under rules set by the site’s owner, and no human subject expert reviews it. This page says how to check a page, what our review does and does not guarantee, and how to report an error. Confirmed errors are listed publicly. No initiations, no products of destiny.

The Hermeticum exists because the internet’s most fascinating tradition has the internet’s worst signal-to-noise ratio. Our answer isn’t gatekeeping; it’s method.

The three layers

Fact: what the manuscripts, documents and peer-reviewed scholarship establish, always with a source you can check. Scholarly debate: where serious researchers disagree, we name the positions and the people (Festugière vs Fowden on Egyptian origins; the dating of the Sirr al-khaliqa; the Yates thesis and its critics). Reception & myth: what popular culture repeats, quoted as reception and never laundered into fact.

Sources

Our working standards are the modern critical translations (Copenhaver 1992, Litwa 2018) and the field’s core scholarship (Fowden, Hanegraaff, Bull, van Bladel, and others cited per page). Public-domain translations (Everard 1650, Mead 1906) are linked as historical documents with their limitations flagged. We never link pirated copies of in-print scholarship.

How pages here are made

Plainly: the text on this site is drafted by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, working from published scholarship under rules set by the site’s owner. No human subject expert reviews the pages, and there is no human proof-reader. The site is a catalogue, not original scholarship: cite what we cite, not us. Use a page here as a guide to the sources, not as the last word.

How to check a page

Open the sources. Every entry lists publications on its subject. The list is not a record of what the model read, and we have no record of a sentence-by-sentence check of whole pages; the review rounds described below check only the sentences a change adds.
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How a page is reviewed

The first pages, live since 14 August 2026, were drafted from research notes the model had compiled earlier from online sources, partly from encyclopedias. Since 25 October 2026, 11 pages have been reworked in cycles of rounds. Each round makes one change aimed at one page, in all three languages at once, and the change goes live only if it passes two checks:

A blind reviewer. A separate instance of the same model, which did not make the change and sees neither earlier scores nor our notes, compares the new version with the live one, checks the new sentences against the sources it can open and lists every problem the change introduced.
A numeric gate. A script, not a model, decides. The change is undone if the reviewer’s score for what the change targets does not rise by a set margin, or if the reviewer finds anything blocking: a false fact, a source that is missing or does not say what we claim, a promise the page cannot keep. Up to two minor problems, such as a missing page reference, do not stop a change.

The reviewer scores each page against one question: does a reader who came with this question get the best available answer, with sources they can check? (Cycles started before 29 October 2026, including all those counted below, ask instead whether the page deserves a top-three place in Google.) The score measures quality and usefulness, not whether each sentence is true.

Pages that pass the gate are published without a person reading them first; since 28 October 2026 so are new pages, once a blind review scores them high enough.

So far (counted from our review log each time the site is built): 60 rounds on 11 pages, 33 changes accepted, 27 rejected. We know of one error that got through: on 28 October a misleading sentence on the Picatrix page, which the reviewer had flagged only as a minor problem, stayed live for about 90 minutes (it is on the corrections page). Of our 151 English entries, 10 have finished their cycle; the rest of the site has not been through this process.

Translations. English is the source. The Polish and Spanish pages are translated by models; most Spanish pages are then checked against the English by a script and a larger model. Neither language has a regular human review.

What this does not guarantee

Not that every sentence is true. The review judges quality and usefulness; it is not a fact-check of the whole page.
Not an independent second opinion. The writer and the reviewer are the same model, and they can share blind spots.
Not a precise score. Two blind reviews of the same unchanged page have scored the same aspect about 500 points apart on average, out of 10,000, and up to 1,500 apart.
Not a proven effect. We have not yet measured whether the rounds make pages better for readers.

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If you find an error (a misdated text, a mangled quotation, a scholar’s position stated too crudely), use the form below. Name the page and the sentence and, if you can, the source. Confirmed errors of fact are corrected in every language that carried them and listed on the corrections page with the source for the change.

This section first appeared on 15 August 2026 and was rewritten on 29 October 2026. The figures are counted from our review log each time the site is built.

And the book?

The same answer, and it deserves its own heading because the question is sharper there. Modern Hermet is a book about not handing your judgement to a machine that answers faster than you do, and it was written with one of those machines in the room. Pretending otherwise would break the first rule of this page on the one document where it matters most.

What that actually looked like: the argument, the structure and the decisions are the author’s. The historical material was researched and drafted with AI tools and then checked against the editions named in the sources. Some passages were drafted by a model and kept because they were right; some were drafted by a model and cut because they were fluent and empty, which is the failure mode you learn to watch for.

We think this is a demonstration rather than an embarrassment, and the distinction is the whole thesis. The book does not say do not use these tools. It says: know what you think before it answers, and check what it hands back. A book written that way, and honest about it, is evidence the method works. A book written that way and silent about it would be evidence of the opposite.

The reader’s protection is the same as everywhere else here: the sources are named, so you can open them and check, and the practices are testable inside a week. Neither of those depends on trusting how the text was produced.

Why there is no name on this

The Hermeticum is anonymous by design. That is not an absence of accountability: every entry names its sources, and the sources are checkable by anyone. It is the removal of ego from the centre. In a field crowded with teachers selling access to themselves, we would rather the text mattered more than a face, the system more than a persona, and the practice more than the performance. Judge the pages by what they cite.

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Key lines from the sources appear in our own working translations, always marked as such (“our working translation”). For full texts we link the public-domain translations (Everard 1650, Mead 1906) with a plain note about their age and limits. In-print scholarly translations (Copenhaver, Litwa) are quoted only briefly, within fair use. Buy those books; they are the field’s backbone.

The Practice and history

The Practice does not reconstruct an ancient Hermetic routine. It translates the Hermetic structure of self-knowledge, practice and transformation into a contemporary operational method.

Honesty rules

Where evidence ends, we say “we don’t know”. Where we simplify, the fuller story is one link away. Where we err, we correct visibly: corrections are content, not embarrassment, and they are listed on the corrections page.

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Site bibliography

Every source cited on this site, gathered from 140 entries: 1314 distinct items (editions, monographs, papers and public-domain scans). The list is compiled at build time straight from the sources attached to each entry, so it cannot drift from what sits under the texts. It records what the entries list, not what was read for each sentence.

The Texts

Asclepius: Nock, A. D. (ed.) & Festugière, A.-J. (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, t. II: Traités XIII-XVIII, Asclepius (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, Collection des Universités de France, 1945): critical edition of the Latin text.; Copenhaver, B. P., Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992): standard English translation, with notes.; Mahé, J.-P., Hermès en Haute-Égypte, t. II: Le fragment du Discours parfait et les Définitions hermétiques arméniennes (NH VI, 8-8a) (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi 7, 1982): the Coptic fragment (= Asclepius 21-29) set synoptically against the Latin. This is the edition that shows where the Latin translator took liberties.; Litwa, M. D. (tr.), Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018): testimonies about Hermes from thirty-eight ancient authors.; Clarke, E. C., Dillon, J. M. and Hershbell, J. P. (tr.), Iamblichus: De mysteriis (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, Writings from the Greco-Roman World 4, 2003): English translation with introduction and notes, alongside the Greek text of Édouard Des Places. At V.23 the theurgic art composes a pure receptacle for the gods out of stones, plants, animals and aromatic substances.; Augustine, De civitate Dei VIII.23-26: the attack on the god-making passages. Augustine’s quotations preserve the statue passages a second time, independently of the manuscripts.; Pico della Mirandola, G., Oratio de hominis dignitate (written 1486): quotes the great-miracle passage near its opening, right after Abdala the Saracen.; Fowden, G., The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986; reprinted Princeton University Press, 1993): the Egyptian setting of the Hermetica.; Bull, C. H., The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom (Leiden: Brill, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 186, 2018).; Gall, D. (ed.), Die göttliche Weisheit des Hermes Trismegistos: Pseudo-Apuleius, Asclepius (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, SAPERE 38, 2021; open access, DOI): Gall’s introduction, pp. 3-28 (speakers, setting, outline of the chapters, the case against Apuleius as translator); J. F. Quack, “Der Asclepius im Kontext der apokalyptischen Literatur”, pp. 265-282 (the date of the lament and its Egyptian and Jewish parallels); J. F. Quack, “Die koptische Version des Asclepius”, pp. 309-331.; Lactantius, Divine Institutes IV.6 and VII.18 (Greek of Asclepius 8 and 26) and VI.25 (Asclepius 41), tr. William Fletcher, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886); online at New Advent: book IV, book VII.; Augustine, City of God VIII.23-26 in English: book VIII at New Advent. Date: Christian Tornau, “Augustine of Hippo”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2019, revised 2024): begun in 412, finished in 426, book VIII about 417.; Mead, G.R.S., Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906): p. 342 n. 1 (John Lydus, On the Months IV.7, quotes the Greek of chapter 19), p. 389 n. 1 (Lactantius, Divine Institutes VI.25, on chapter 41) and p. 391 (list of the Greek quotations).
Corpus Hermeticum: Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge, 1992).; M. David Litwa, Hermetica II (Cambridge, 2018).; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I: Introduction, Texts and Translation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), introduction pp. 17-42; scan at the Internet Archive. Vols II-IV: 1925, 1926, 1936 (vol. IV with introduction, addenda and indices by A.S. Ferguson).; Richard Reitzenstein, Poimandres: Studien zur griechisch-ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904); scan at the Internet Archive.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “How Hermetic was Renaissance Hermetism?”, Aries 15.2 (2015), pp. 179-209; open-access PDF.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “The Real Hermetic Tradition (Lodovico Lazzarelli and Giovanni da Correggio)”, blog post, 24 October 2020; online.; Marsilio Ficino, Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander sive De potestate et sapientia Dei, ed. Maurizio Campanelli (Turin: Nino Aragno, 2011).; Symphorien Champier, Liber de quadruplici vita, with Lazzarelli’s Latin Diffinitiones of Asclepius (Lyon, 1507): BnF record.; A.D. Nock and A.-J. Festugière, Corpus Hermeticum, 4 vols (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945-1954).; Douglas M. Parrott (ed.), Nag Hammadi Codices V,2-5 and VI with Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, 1 and 4, Nag Hammadi Studies 11 (Leiden: Brill, 1979).; Jean-Pierre Mahé, Hermès en Haute-Égypte, 2 vols (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1978-1982).; Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge, 1986).; Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (London and Chicago, 1964).; John Everard, The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII Books (London: printed by Robert White for Thomas Brewster and Gregory Moule, 1650); Wellcome Library copy at the Internet Archive.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, 3 vols (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906): vol. I, p. 12 n. 1 (Everard and Ficino’s Latin) and p. 16 (Mead’s verdict on Everard); vol. II, p. 3 n. 1 and p. 64 n. 1 (Parthey and Reitzenstein); vol. III, pp. 3, 17 and 34 (Excerpts I, III and VIII from Stobaeus, which Everard prints as his books 1, 15 and 14).; Clement Salaman, Dorine van Oyen, William D. Wharton and Jean-Pierre Mahé, The Way of Hermes (London: Duckworth, 1999; Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2000), translators’ foreword pp. 13-14, afterword pp. 84-85, introduction to the Definitions pp. 101-108.; Dylan M. Burns, “A New Volume of Perfect Words: M. David Litwa’s Hermetica II”, Aries 21 (2021), pp. 271-278; open-access PDF.; Aneta Tylak, Bóg - świat - człowiek w traktatach Corpus Hermeticum na tle greckiej tradycji filozoficznej (Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021), pp. 28-31 (Polish translations; basis of her own) and pp. 189 onwards (translation); open access.; Wincenty Myszor, “Poimandres: wstęp, przekład, komentarz”, Studia Theologica Varsaviensia 15/1 (1977), pp. 205-216; “Corpus Hermeticum IV: wstęp, przekład z greckiego, komentarz”, 16/1 (1978), pp. 189-196; “Corpus Hermeticum VI i VII: wstęp, przekład z greckiego, komentarz”, 16/2 (1978), pp. 241-247; “Corpus Hermeticum XIII: wstęp, przekład z greckiego, komentarz”, 17/1 (1979), pp. 245-256.; Agata Ewa Sowińska, “[Hermes Trismegistos], O tym, że żaden z bytów nie ginie, lecz w błędzie są ci, którzy mówią, że przemiany są ‘zniszczeniem’ i ‘śmiercią’ (Corpus Hermeticum VIII)”, Vox Patrum 79 (2021), pp. 541-552, published 15 September 2021; DOI.; Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, Boski Pymander, trans. Agata Staszewska, series Święte Księgi, Święte Teksty 23 (Sandomierz: Armoryka, 2012).; Hermes Trismegistos, Corpus hermeticum, trans. Henryk Pietruszczak (Zgorzelec: the translator, 2015).; Hermes Trismegisto, Textos herméticos, introduction, translation and notes by Xavier Renau Nebot, Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 268 (Madrid: Gredos, 1999; reissued November 2025, ISBN 978-84-249-9820-2).; Brian P. Copenhaver (ed.), Corpus Hermeticum y Asclepio, trans. Jaume Pòrtulas and Cristina Serna, El Árbol del Paraíso 20 (Madrid: Siruela, 2000); the publisher’s record gives English as the source language.; Jorge Cano Cuenca, Textos herméticos, Clásicos de Grecia y Roma 103 (Madrid: Alianza, 2024); reviewed by Álvaro Basols Berges, Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos 36 (2026), pp. 367-372; DOI.
Corpus Hermeticum IV: The Mixing Bowl, or the Monad: A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945): Greek text of CH IV and its section numbers 1-11.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge UP, 1992), CH IV with notes.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), pp. 85-98: translation, notes (Stobaeus, Zosimos) and commentary; scan at the Internet Archive.; John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (London: Robert White, 1650), “The Twelfth Book: His Crater or Monas”; scan at the Internet Archive.; Danillo Camelo César, “Tradução comentada de Corpus Hermeticum IV”, Classica 36 (2023): Portuguese translation from Nock and Festugière’s text (ed. Ramelli, 2014), with the views of Festugière (1938), Kerchove (2012), Lira (2022), Fowden and Bull summarised in the notes; open access.; A.-J. Festugière, “Hermetica”, Harvard Theological Review 31.1 (1938), pp. 1-20.; Anna van den Kerchove, La voie d’Hermès: pratiques rituelles et traités hermétiques (Leiden: Brill, 2012).; David Pessoa de Lira, “Inclusão ou omissão da lectio KERYXAI e suas implicações textuais no Corpus Hermeticum 4.3-6a”, Revista Philologus 83 (2022), pp. 194-212.; Christian H. Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus (Leiden: Brill, 2018).; Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Princeton UP, 1993 paperback; first ed. Cambridge UP, 1986), p. 149.; David Pessoa de Lira, O batismo do coração no vaso do conhecimento: uma análise do Corpus Hermeticum IV.3-6a (Recife: Editora UFPE, 2014).; Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Ruud M. Bouthoorn, Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents (ACMRS, 2005).
Corpus Hermeticum VII: The Greatest Evil Among Men Is Ignorance of God: A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945): Greek text of CH VII and its section numbers 1-3.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum VII”, p. 24, with notes; Cambridge Core.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), “Corpus Hermeticum VII. (VIII.) The Greatest Ill among Men is Ignorance of God”, pp. 120-121, commentary “A Preaching” pp. 122-123; CH I.27-29 on pp. 17-18; Mead’s heading cites the Greek in Parthey’s edition (Berlin, 1854), pp. 54-55, and Patrizi’s (Venice, 1593), fol. 18a; scan at the Internet Archive. Source of the quotations marked Mead and of the reports of Reitzenstein.; John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII Books (London: Robert White, 1650), “The Eighth Book: That the greatest Evil in Man, is, The not knowing God”, pp. 99-102; scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 17 (Ficino, Turnèbe, Patrizi), 24 (notation), 30 n. 1 (treatises not first written for Hermes), 31 (Ficino’s edition of 1471), 33 (Turnèbe, Paris 1554; Flussas 1574), 170-173 (Libellus VII, Greek and English, with apparatus); scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. II: Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), p. 46 (note on CH I.15: drunkenness and sleep), pp. 181-182 (commentary on Libellus VII: the manuscript headings, one author with Libellus I, date); scan at the Internet Archive.; Richard Reitzenstein, Poimandres: Studien zur griechisch-ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904), p. 194, as reported by Mead (1906, p. 122) and checked in the scan; scan at the Internet Archive (unchanged reprint of 1922, same pagination).; Wincenty Myszor, “Corpus Hermeticum VI i VII: wstęp, przekład z greckiego, komentarz”, Studia Theologica Varsaviensia 16 (1978), no. 2, pp. 241-247 (in Polish): translation from Nock and Festugière, with notes on the parallels (nn. 31-40); PDF at BazHum.; Aneta Tylak, “Pojęcie dobra i zła w traktatach Corpus Hermeticum”, Roczniki Humanistyczne 70, no. 3 (2022), pp. 47-68 (in Polish), at pp. 47, 49 and 64; open access.; Plato, Gorgias 493a, tr. W. R. M. Lamb, in Plato in Twelve Volumes, vol. 3 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1967 printing); Perseus Digital Library.; Plato, Cratylus 400b-c, tr. Harold N. Fowler, in Plato in Twelve Volumes, vol. 12 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1921); Perseus Digital Library (Greek text checked on the same site).; Plato, Phaedrus 250c, tr. Harold N. Fowler, in Plato in Twelve Volumes, vol. 9 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1925); Perseus Digital Library.; Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, ΛΟΓΙΑ ΙΗΣΟΥ: Sayings of Our Lord from an Early Greek Papyrus (London: Henry Frowde for the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897), Logion 3, pp. 11-12 (now counted as Gospel of Thomas, saying 28); scan at the Internet Archive.; The Gospel of Truth (Nag Hammadi Codex I,3), tr. Mark M. Mattison, public-domain translation with the codex page numbers (drunkenness, p. 22; the nightmares, pp. 28-30); online at gospels.net.
Corpus Hermeticum XII: On the Mind Shared in Common: A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945): Greek text of CH XII, section numbers 1-23, and Appendix E on XII 5-9.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge UP, 1992), CH XII, pp. 43-48, with notes; Cambridge Core.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), pp. 199-218: translation, notes (Lactantius, the wandering sentence of §14) and commentary (Heraclitus, Reitzenstein, Basilides, the sermons on fate); scan at the Internet Archive.; John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (London: Robert White, 1650), “The Eleventh Book: Of the Common Minde to Tat”, pp. 138-158; scan at the Internet Archive.; Lactantius, Divine Institutes VI.25, tr. William Fletcher, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886); text at New Advent.; David Pessoa de Lira, “A teoria do destino condicional no Corpus hermeticum 12.5-9”, Griot: Revista de Filosofia 23.1 (2023), pp. 209-228, with the views of Scott, Festugière and Lewis summarised and cited; open access.; Nicola Denzey Lewis, Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 109-119.; David Pessoa de Lira, “O argumento das artes mânticas no Corpus Hermeticum 12.19”, Griot 17.1 (2018), pp. 283-303.; David Pessoa de Lira, “O λóγος noético: análise da lógica proposicional e dos conceitos lógico-dialéticos no Corpus Hermeticum 12.12-14a”, Griot 21.2 (2021), pp. 311-331.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 21, 33-34 (the 1554 Turnèbe edition).
Corpus Hermeticum XIII: On Rebirth: A.D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. II: Traités XIII-XVIII. Asclepius (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945): Greek text and section numbers of CH XIII.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge University Press, 1992), CH XIII with notes; Cambridge Core.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), pp. 219-233 (translation), from p. 234 (commentary); scan.; John Everard, The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (London, 1650), the seventh book; scan.; R. Reitzenstein, Poimandres (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904), pp. 339-348; scan.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924); scan.; Clement Salaman, Dorine van Oyen, William D. Wharton, Jean-Pierre Mahé, The Way of Hermes (London: Duckworth, 1999).; William C. Grese, Corpus Hermeticum XIII and Early Christian Literature (Leiden: Brill, 1979).; Christian H. Bull, “Hermetic Rituals? The Rebirth and the Visionary Ascent”, handout, Princeton, 18 May (year not stated on the handout): Greek of CH XIII.1, 3-4, 7-8, 12-13 with Copenhaver’s translation; PDF.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “The Real Hermetic Tradition (Lodovico Lazzarelli and Giovanni da Correggio)” (blog, 24 October 2020); W.J. Hanegraaff and R.M. Bouthoorn, Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents (Tempe, 2005).
Corpus Hermeticum concordance (Divine Pymander, Mead, Scott, Copenhaver): John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII. Books (London: Robert White for Thomas Brewster and Gregory Moule, 1650): contents page “The Titles of every Book of Hermes Trismegistus” (book numbers and first pages), Book 1 pp. 1-12, Book 2 pp. 13-35 (verses read page by page), Books 9, 13, 14, 15 and 16 at their openings; copy filmed for Early English Books and Wellcome Collection copy (pp. 3-14 missing), both at the Internet Archive, viewed 31 October 2026.; John Everard (tr.), Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, his Divine Pymander, in Seventeen Books. Together with his Second Book, Called Asclepius; Containing fifteen Chapters, with a Commentary (London: J.S. for Thomas Brewster, 1657), title page; Glasgow University Library copy, filmed, at the Internet Archive.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II: Sermons (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906): headings with both numbers and the first page of each treatise (pp. 3-288), the abbreviations P. and Pat. (p. 3 n. 1), “Corpus Hermeticum (II.) The General Sermon” (p. 58), the lost Sermon (II.) credited to Reitzenstein (p. 69), the Poimandres sections (pp. 3-20), the Asclepius (pp. 307-390); scan at the Internet Archive. Source of the quotations marked Mead.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. III: Excerpts and Fragments (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906): Excerpt I p. 3 and commentary p. 12 (Patrizi’s Book I), Excerpt III p. 17, Excerpt VIII p. 34; scan at the Internet Archive.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. I: Prolegomena (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), p. vii (R. = Reitzenstein’s Poimandres), p. 12 and n. 1 (Everard’s editions; his view that Everard translated Ficino’s Latin); scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924): p. 17 (the name Poemander), pp. 18-20 (tables of the numberings; no Libellus XV), pp. 33-37 (Turnèbe 1554, Flussas 1574, Patrizi 1591 and 1593), p. 43 n. 3 (Everard follows Patrizi’s text and order), pp. 114-286 (the libelli; XI.ii p. 210, XII.ii p. 232; Asclepius from p. 286); scan at the Internet Archive.; Richard Reitzenstein, Poimandres: Studien zur griechisch-ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904): Greek text of CH I, XIII and XVI-XVIII, pp. 328-360, as cited in Mead’s headings; scan at the Internet Archive.; A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII; vol. II: Traités XIII-XVIII. Asclepius (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945); BnF catalogue.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992): chapter pages from the publisher’s contents (CH I pp. 1-7 to CH XVIII pp. 63-66, Asclepius pp. 67-92), CH I §§1-4 in the preview; Cambridge Core.; Clement Salaman, Dorine van Oyen, William D. Wharton and Jean-Pierre Mahé (tr.), The Way of Hermes (London: Duckworth, 1999; Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2000): headings “Book 1”, “Book 4”, “Book 5” and “Book 6” in the publisher’s excerpt.; Aneta Tylak, Bóg - świat - człowiek w traktatach Corpus Hermeticum na tle greckiej tradycji filozoficznej (Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021): p. 29 n. 73 (Staszewska’s Boski Pymander), Greek text after Nock with Polish translation, CH I from p. 190; open access in the University of Łódź Repository.; Marsilio Ficino (tr.), Mercurii Trismegisti Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei (Treviso: Gerardus de Lisa, 1471): CH I-XIV in Latin; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze copy at the Internet Archive.
Definitions of Asclepius to King Ammon (Corpus Hermeticum XVI): G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), “Corpus Hermeticum (XVI.) The Definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon”, pp. 266-276, commentary pp. 277-284; scan at the Internet Archive. Source of the quotations marked Mead and of the reports of Reitzenstein and Patrizi.; Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland (tr.), The Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (London: George Redway, 1885), “The Definitions of Asclepios”; scan at the Internet Archive. The preface states that Louis Ménard’s French translation (2nd ed., Paris, 1867) was used but not entirely followed.; A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. II: Traités XIII-XVIII, Asclepius (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945): Greek text of CH XVI and its section numbers.; Aneta Tylak, “Corpus Hermeticum XVI”, Collectanea Philologica 17 (2014), pp. 29-36, Polish translation from Nock’s text (Paris, 1960, pp. 231-238) with commentary; open access.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum XVI”, pp. 58-61; Cambridge Core.; Clement Salaman, Dorine van Oyen, William D. Wharton and Jean-Pierre Mahé (tr.), The Way of Hermes (London: Duckworth, 1999).; Endre Ádám Hamvas, “Lest Mysteries of Such Greatness Come to the Greeks: Divine Revelation and Distorted Teachings in Hermetica”, Religions 17, no. 2 (2026), article 197; doi:10.3390/rel17020197.; Lactantius, Divine Institutes II.15 (Fletcher’s chapter 16), tr. William Fletcher, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886); online at New Advent. Date of composition (c. 304-311): James J. O’Donnell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1995.09.29.; Iamblichus, On the Mysteries VII.5 and VIII.5, tr. Thomas Taylor, 2nd ed. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1895); Project Gutenberg.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 20-21, 31, 33-34 (Ficino’s manuscript, Turnèbe’s edition); scan at the Internet Archive.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “How Hermetic was Renaissance Hermetism?”, Aries 15 (2015), p. 195 (Lazzarelli’s translation of XVI-XVIII); open-access PDF; Champier, Liber de quadruplici vita (Lyon, 1507): BnF record.; John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII Books (London, 1650); Wellcome Collection copy at the Internet Archive: CH XVI not included.
Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius: Jean-Pierre Mahé, Hermès en Haute-Égypte, 2 vols. (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1978-1982); the Definitions are in vol. II, Le fragment du Discours parfait et les Définitions hermétiques arméniennes (NH VI, 8.8a) (1982), Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi, Textes 7.; Jean-Pierre Mahé (ed. and tr.), Hermès Trismégiste, vol. V, Paralipomènes: Codex VI de Nag Hammadi, Codex Clarkianus 11 Oxoniensis, Définitions hermétiques, Divers, Collection des Universités de France 546 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019), publisher’s page.; Clement Salaman, Dorine van Oyen and William D. Wharton (the Corpus Hermeticum) and Jean-Pierre Mahé (the Definitions), The Way of Hermes (London: Duckworth, 1999; Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2000), catalogue record.; Jean-Pierre Mahé, “Les Définitions d’Hermès Trismégiste à Asclépius (traduction de l’arménien)”, Revue des sciences religieuses 50 (1976), pp. 193-214, Persée.; M. G. de Durand, “Un traité hermétique conservé en arménien”, Revue de l’histoire des religions 190 (1976), pp. 55-72, Persée.; Jean-Pierre Mahé, “Stobaei Hermetica XIX, 1 et les définitions hermétiques arméniennes”, Revue des Études Grecques 94 (1981), pp. 523-525, Persée.; Daniel A. Bertrand, review of Mahé, Hermès en Haute-Égypte II, Revue d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses 65 (1985), p. 327, Persée.; Jean-Pierre Mahé, “Hermes Trismegistos”, tr. Paul C. Duggan, in Encyclopedia of Religion (1987; 2nd ed., 2005), Encyclopedia.com.; Joseph Paramelle and Jean-Pierre Mahé, “Nouveaux parallèles grecs aux Définitions hermétiques arméniennes”, Revue des Études Arméniennes 22 (1990-1991), pp. 115-134.; Joseph Paramelle and Jean-Pierre Mahé, “Extraits hermétiques inédits dans un manuscrit d’Oxford”, Revue des Études Grecques 104 (1991), pp. 109-139, Persée.; IRHT, Pinakes: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Clarke 11 (diktyon 47766), record.; M. David Litwa, Hermetica II (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Cambridge Core; general introduction in the publisher’s excerpt.; Jean-Pierre Mahé, “Monumentum aere perennius: Hermès trismégiste, soixante-dix ans après l’édition Nock-Festugière”, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 164 (2020), pp. 153-168, Persée.; Aelita Dolukhanyan, “The main theses of the Armenian translation of the Definitions by Hermes Trismegistus”, Wisdom 2 (7) (2016), pp. 136-141, CyberLeninka.; Agata Ewa Sowińska, “[Hermes Trismegistos] Stobaei Hermetica XI”, Vox Patrum 81 (2022), pp. 233-280, DOI.; Álvaro Basols Berges, review of Jorge Cano Cuenca, Textos herméticos (Madrid: Alianza, 2024), Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos 36 (2026), pp. 367-372, DOI.
In God Alone Is the Good (Corpus Hermeticum VI): John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander (London, 1650), contents and “The Sixth Book”, vv. 1-31, pp. 72-79; scans: EEB copy, Wellcome copy; page numbers as in the EEB copy.; Gustav Parthey (ed.), Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin, 1854), cap. 6, pp. 48-53; scan.; John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus (Edinburgh, 1882), ch. VI, pp. 42-45; scan.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London, 1906), pp. 110-114, commentary pp. 115-119; scan.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford, 1924), p. 27 n. 1 and pp. 164-171; vol. II (1925), notes pp. 169-180; scans: vol. I, vol. II.; A. D. Nock and A.-J. Festugière, Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945); BnF record.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 21-23; Cambridge Core, opening read 4 November 2026.
Kore Kosmou, the “Virgin of the World” (Stobaean Hermetica 23): Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland (tr.), The Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (London: George Redway, 1885), preface on Ménard’s French (2nd ed., Paris, 1867); the Virgin of the World from p. 1 (quoted pp. 2, 3, 10); scan and HTML transcription linked above.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. III: Excerpts and Fragments (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), Excerpt XXV, “The Virgin of the World [I.]”, pp. 93-124 (heading and Patrizi p. 93 and n. 2); Excerpt XXVI, pp. 125-133; commentary pp. 134-187 (pp. 134, 146, 159-168); scan linked above.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), p. 45 (Petrie; Mead’s publisher; Reitzenstein’s Poimandres, 1904), pp. 378-379 (list of the excerpts in Stobaeus), Excerpt XXIII, Greek pp. 456-494, English pp. 457-495; scan linked above.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. III: Notes on the Latin Asclepius and the Hermetic Excerpts of Stobaeus, completed by A.S. Ferguson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926), Excerpt XXIII, pp. 471-477 (SH 24-27, p. 471; date and Dionysius, pp. 474-475) and 497; scan linked above.; Curt Wachsmuth (ed.), Ioannis Stobaei Anthologium, vol. I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), 1.49.44, from p. 385; scan at the Internet Archive.; John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1882), note at pp. 130-131 on the excerpt left out; scan at the Internet Archive.; A.D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. IV: Fragments extraits de Stobée XXIII-XXIX (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1954); BnF catalogue, read 4 November 2026. Copy not seen.; M. David Litwa (ed. and tr.), Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), SH 23 at pp. 100-129 per the table of contents on Cambridge Core (page 2 of the listing), read 4 November 2026.; Dylan M. Burns, “A New Volume of Perfect Words”, review of Litwa, Hermetica II, Aries 21 (2021), pp. 271-278: Litwa “for the most part makes use of Nock’s text” (p. 273); open-access copy, read 4 November 2026.
Mind to Hermes (Corpus Hermeticum XI): G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), “Corpus Hermeticum XI. (XII.) Mind unto Hermes”, pp. 175-189, commentary pp. 190-198; scan at the Internet Archive. Source of the quotations marked Mead and of the notes on §13, §17, §19, Cyril and Philo.; John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII Books (London, 1650), Book X, “The Minde to Hermes”, §120 (p. 133), §126-127 (p. 134), §135; Wellcome Collection copy at the Internet Archive, pages consulted 29 October 2026.; A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945): Greek text of CH XI and its section numbers.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), CH XI with notes.; Clement Salaman, Dorine van Oyen, William D. Wharton and Jean-Pierre Mahé (tr.), The Way of Hermes (London: Duckworth, 1999).; G. Parthey (ed.), Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin, 1854), pp. 85-99 (CH XI, per Mead); scan at the Internet Archive.; R. Reitzenstein, Poimandres (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904), p. 238; scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924).; Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964).
Musaeum Hermeticum: Musaeum Hermeticum (Frankfurt, 1678), Internet Archive (Getty copy) and e-rara.ch scans.; A. E. Waite (ed.), The Hermetic Museum (London, 1893).; Lawrence M. Principe, The Secrets of Alchemy (Chicago, 2013) - on reading Baroque alchemy.; Bibliographia Paracelsica, entries BP.Alchemica.1625-03, 1678-01 and 1678-02 (Theatrum Paracelsicum, accessed 27 October 2026): editions, VD17 numbers and digital copies.; Catalogue records and scans of the copies listed: SLUB Dresden; e-rara (ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Stiftung der Werke von C.G. Jung); MDZ Munich (Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek); Wellcome Collection; Science History Institute; Internet Archive (Getty Research Institute, University of Glasgow Library); Google Books (Deutsches Museum copy); Sacred Texts (transcription of Waite, vols I-II). All accessed 27 October 2026.
On Thought and Sense (Corpus Hermeticum IX): John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (London, 1650), “The Thirteenth Book. Of Sense and Understanding”, vv. 1-55, pp. 168-178.; Gustav Parthey (ed.), Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin: Nicolai, 1854), cap. 9, pp. 60-67.; John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1882), ch. IX, pp. 50-55.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), “Corpus Hermeticum IX. (X.) On Thought and Sense”, pp. 129-136; commentary pp. 136-140.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924): p. 31; Libellus IX, pp. 178-187.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. II: Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), Libellus IX, pp. 202-225.; A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945); BnF catalogue.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge University Press, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum IX”, pp. 27-29; opening read on Cambridge Core, 4 November 2026.; M. David Litwa, Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies (Cambridge University Press, 2018); contents on Cambridge Core, read 4 November 2026.
On the Soul Hindered by the Body (Corpus Hermeticum XVIII): G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II: Sermons (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), “Corpus Hermeticum (XVIII.) [The Encomium of Kings]”, pp. 288-298, commentary “The Apology of a Poemandrist”, pp. 298-303; scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 16-44 (list of writings, manuscripts, printed editions), Libellus XVIII, pp. 274-285; scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. II: Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), Libellus XVIII, pp. 461-482; scan at the Internet Archive.; R. Reitzenstein, Poimandres: Studien zur griechisch-ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904), Greek text of CH XVIII pp. 355-360, Keil’s notes pp. 370-374 (302 on p. 374); scan at the Internet Archive.; Louis Ménard (tr.), Hermès Trismégiste: traduction complète (Paris, 1866), Livre IV, parts II and III, pp. 293-300 (note p. 299 n. 1); scan at the Internet Archive.; John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII. Books (London, 1650), contents and p. 215 (end of the 17th book); copy filmed for Early English Books and Wellcome Collection copy, Internet Archive. CH XVIII not included.; John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian Neoplatonist (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1882), contents; scan at the Internet Archive. CH XVIII not included.; A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. II: Traités XIII-XVIII, Asclepius (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945); contents in the DAI library catalogue, read 4 November 2026.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum XVIII”, pp. 63-66; chapter page and opening on Cambridge Core, read 4 November 2026.
Picatrix: Maribel Fierro, 'Batinism in al-Andalus. Maslama b. Qasim al-Qurtubi (d. 353/964), author of the Rutbat al-Hakim and the Ghayat al-Hakim (Picatrix)', Studia Islamica 84 (1996), pp. 87-112: authorship; doi:10.2307/1595996.; Godefroid de Callataÿ, “Magia en al-Andalus: Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa’, Rutbat al-hakim y Ghayat al-hakim (Picatrix)”, Al-Qantara 34, no. 2 (2013), pp. 297-344, DOI (open access): manuscript dates 343-348 AH (p. 309), the older dating and the identification (pp. 311-313), shared passages with the Brethren of Purity and the Nabataean Agriculture (pp. 330-331).; David Pingree (ed.), Picatrix: The Latin Version of the Ghayat al-Hakim (London: Warburg Institute, 1986; Studies of the Warburg Institute 39): foreword by J. B. Trapp (Ritter 1933, Ritter and Plessner 1962); introduction, p. xv nn. 2 (Villegas 1982), 3 (the name) and 7 (Perrone Compagni 1977), p. xvi n. 10 (translators), pp. xvi-xvii (Kraków manuscript); prologue, pp. 1-2; chapter lists of Books I-IV; free PDF at Warburg Library Commons.; Hellmut Ritter and Martin Plessner (trans.), ‘Picatrix’: Das Ziel des Weisen von Pseudo-Magriti (London: Warburg Institute, 1962; Studies of the Warburg Institute 27): introduction, p. xxii (Buqratis rendered as Picatrix; doubts about Hippocrates); Book IV, ch. 7, whose heading names Abu Bakr Ibn Wahshiyya as the translator of the Nabataeans’ magical operations and talismans, and which opens with his book called Agriculture (p. 366); free PDF at Warburg Library Commons (both Warburg PDFs checked 30 October 2026).; Joanna Komorowska, “Picatrix Latinus: kilka słów wprowadzenia”, Terminus 17, no. 1 (2015), pp. 147-199, open access: Polish translation of Book I from Pingree’s edition, with the prologue of the Latin version (p. 153); the assessment in the abstract; influence on Ficino, Pico and Agrippa (p. 147).; Hashem Atallah and Geylan Holmquest (trans.), William Kiesel (ed.), Picatrix: Ghayat al-Hakim, The Goal of the Wise, 2 vols (Seattle: Ouroboros Press, 2002-2008), from the Arabic: MedCat record.; Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon & Jackson P. Hershbell (trans.), Iamblichus: De mysteriis (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003): I.12, II.11.; Dan Attrell and David Porreca (trans.), Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic (University Park: Penn State UP, 2019), translated from Pingree’s Latin edition; introduction, section “The Picatrix, Social History, and Material Culture”, pp. 16-26: table 1, ritual objectives by category (p. 17); table 6, healing and health rituals (p. 22); table 8, interpersonal relations rituals, with the remark that rituals aimed at social superiors outnumber those for love, sex or relationships (p. 23).; Michael D. Bailey, review of Attrell & Porreca, Picatrix, The Medieval Review 19.09.12 (2019), IU ScholarWorks (open access): summarises the translators’ tally and notes that, counted separately, favour-seeking and love magic would rank below healing and gaining knowledge.; Andrea Franchetto, review of Attrell & Porreca, Picatrix, Correspondences 8, no. 1 (2020), pp. 121-127, PDF (open access): on p. 123 quotes the translators on rituals for the favour of social superiors (p. 23 of the book); notes 1-2 (pp. 121-122): the surviving Castilian fragments (Vat. Reg. lat. 1283a, ed. Alfonso D’Agostino, Astromagia, 1992) and the translations of Rossi (1999); Bakhouche, Fauquier and Pérez-Jean (2003); and Greer and Warnock (2011), all from Pingree’s Latin.; Christopher Warnock, Picatrix page at renaissanceastrology.com/picatrix.html (checked 30 October 2026): the Greer and Warnock translation of the Latin is sold in several editions, among them the Liber Atratus paperback (the standard edition), The Illustrated Picatrix (an illustrated hardcover of the Liber Atratus) and the Liber Rubeus.
Poimandres: Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992), CH I with notes.; A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, Collection des Universités de France, 1945): Greek text of CH I and its section numbers 1-32.; R. Reitzenstein, Poimandres: Studien zur griechisch-ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904), pp. 328-338: Greek text of CH I in the same 32 sections; scan at the Internet Archive.; Ola Wikander, “Old Testament Prototypes for the Hermetic Trishagion in Poimandres 31 - and Support for an Old Conjecture”, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 53 (2013), 579-590: P. Berol. 9794 as a Christianised variant of the hymn; open access.; Berlin Papyrus Database, P. 9794: Sammlung altchristlicher Gebete, dated there to the mid or late 4th century CE; consulted 28 October 2026.
Secretum Secretorum (The Secret of Secrets): Robert Steele (ed.), Secretum secretorum cum glossis et notulis, Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi V (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920), with a translation from the Arabic by Ismail Ali, ed. A. S. Fulton: introduction, pp. vii-xxxvi; Emerald Tablet in Latin, pp. 115-117, in English, p. 262; translation from the Arabic, pp. 176-266; scan on the Internet Archive.; Secret of Secrets (transl. Philip of Tripoli), Latin text of Steele 1920 in the Arabic and Latin Corpus, ed. Dag Nikolaus Hasse (University of Würzburg), transcription.; Moses Gaster, The Hebrew Version of the Secretum Secretorum: A Mediaeval Treatise Ascribed to Aristotle (London, 1907-1908; reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society), Hebrew text with English translation; scan on the Internet Archive.; Robert Steele (ed.), Early English Text Society, London: Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum, vol. I (1898; Extra Series 74), prefatory note, scan; Lydgate and Burgh’s Secrees of old Philisoffres (1894; Extra Series 66), introduction, § xiii, scan.; M. A. Manzalaoui (ed.), Secretum secretorum: Nine English Versions, vol. I: Text (Oxford: Early English Text Society, 1977; Original Series 276), CiNii catalogue record.; Steven J. Williams, The Secret of Secrets: The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003), publisher’s page.; Hugo O. Bizzarri (ed.), Secreto de los secretos. Poridat de las poridades: versiones castellanas del Pseudo-Aristóteles Secretum secretorum (Valencia: Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2010; Parnaseo 12), free PDF at Parnaseo: study, pp. 11-62; Poridat, pp. 97-164 (prologue, pp. 99-105; lapidary, p. 158); glossary, p. 331; BNE record.; Robert Copland (transl.), The Secrete of Secretes of Arystotle (London, 1528; STC 770), EEBO-TCP Phase I transcription, CC0; text.; Paul Kraus, Jâbir ibn Hayyân: Contribution à l’histoire des idées scientifiques dans l’Islam, vol. II, Jâbir et la science grecque (Cairo, 1942; Mémoires de l’Institut d’Égypte 45), p. 272, note; scan on the Internet Archive.; Biblioteca Nacional de España, record of Mss/9428 (15th century, with the Secreto de los secretos), consulted 6 November 2026.
That Nothing That Is Perishes (Corpus Hermeticum VIII): John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII. Books (London, 1650), “The Sixteenth Book”, verses 1-26, pp. 201-206; copy filmed for Early English Books and Wellcome Collection copy, both at the Internet Archive, read 4 November 2026.; Gustav Parthey (ed.), Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin: Nicolai, 1854), cap. 8, Greek and Latin, pp. 56-59; scan at the Internet Archive.; John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian Neoplatonist (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1882), chapter VIII, pp. 47-50 (note pp. 50-51 n. 1); scan at the Internet Archive.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II: Sermons (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), “Corpus Hermeticum VIII. (IX.)”, pp. 124-127 (notes p. 124 n. 2, p. 126 n. 5), commentary pp. 127-128; scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 31 (Ficino), 40 and 43 n. 3 (Patrizi’s order, Everard), 83 (Stobaeus), Libellus VIII, Greek with apparatus pp. 174, 176, 178, English pp. 175, 177, 179 (n. 9 p. 177); scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. II: Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), Libellus VIII, pp. 188-201 (sources p. 189; date, Epictetus and lost passage p. 190; bracketed clause p. 195; cave pp. 197-198; return p. 199; sympatheia p. 200; individual immortality p. 201); scan at the Internet Archive.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum VIII”, pp. 25-26; chapter page and opening on Cambridge Core, read 4 November 2026.; M. David Litwa (ed. and tr.), Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ISBN 978-1-107-18253-0; contents on Cambridge Core, read 4 November 2026.
The 72 Names of God: Exodus 14:19-21, Masoretic text: Miqra according to the Masorah at Sefaria, the text we counted on 31 October 2026 (72, 72 and 72 letters). Any critical edition of the Hebrew Bible (e.g. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1977) serves; the consonantal text is stable here.; Mishnah, Sukkah 4:5 and Yoma 6:2, Hebrew text with the William Davidson English translation, at Sefaria.; Genesis Rabbah 44:19 and Leviticus Rabbah 23:2, with the translation The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022).; Rashi on the Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 45a, Vilna edition, with the Sefaria Community Translation.; Tobiah ben Eliezer, Midrash Lekach Tov on Exodus 14:21, Vilna edition of 1884, at Sefaria.; Abraham ibn Ezra, commentary on Exodus 14:19, Hebrew text (Piotrków, 1907-1911) and the translation by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver (Menorah, 1988-2004), at Sefaria.; Zohar, Beshalach, in The Zohar (London: Soncino Press, 1933), at Sefaria.; Reuchlin, J., De arte cabalistica libri tres (Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm, 1517), book III, fol. 58v: Wellcome Library copy at the Internet Archive.; Agrippa, H. C., De occulta philosophia libri tres ([Cologne], 1533), book III, ch. 25; English translation by J. F. (London, 1651), ed. Joseph H. Peterson, Esoteric Archives. Dates of Agrippa’s life and of the 1533 edition: Vittoria Perrone Compagni, “Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (substantive revision 28 March 2025).; Kircher, A., Oedipus Aegyptiacus, vol. II, part 1 (Rome: Vitale Mascardi, 1653), class IV, Cabala Hebraeorum, ch. 6, to p. 281: Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla copy at the Internet Archive.; Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, part 1, Ars Goetia, transcribed from British Library Sloane MS 3825 by Joseph H. Peterson (Esoteric Archives, 1999, updated 2026), with his introduction to the Lemegeton: note 1 gives the year 1641 and the 1671 edition of Saunders that the text uses, and the list of manuscripts dates Harley MS 6483 to 1712-13.; Skinner, S. and Rankine, D., The Goetia of Dr Rudd (Llewellyn with The Golden Hoard Press, 2010), a transcription of Harley MS 6483: publisher’s description.; Mathers, S. L. MacGregor, The Kabbalah Unveiled (London: George Redway, 1887), note on p. 170 and table on p. 171: Wellcome Library copy at the Internet Archive. Founding of the Golden Dawn: Museum of Freemasonry, London, catalogue of the Golden Dawn collection (AIM25).; Berg, Y., The 72 Names of God: Technology for the Soul (Kabbalah Publishing, 2003), ISBN 978-1-57189-135-8; Publishers Weekly review, 14 April 2003. The Kabbalah Centre, “The 72 Names of God” (8 February 2013).; Bacher, W., “Shem ha-Meforash”, Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 11, pp. 262-264.; Scholem, G., Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (Jerusalem: Schocken, 1941; 3rd rev. ed. New York: Schocken, 1954): First Lecture, on the Kabbalists’ view of Hebrew and of the name of God, and Fourth Lecture, on Abraham Abulafia’s meditation on the letters of the divine name, with a disciple’s account of permuting and combining the Great Name of God, made of seventy-two names (1941 edition, pp. 17-18, 130 and 148).; Dan, J., Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), ch. 5, “Modern Times I: The Christian Kabbalah” (from p. 61), concise account of the transmission into Christian Kabbalah.
The Chaldean Oracles: Wilhelm Kroll, De oraculis Chaldaicis, Breslauer philologische Abhandlungen VII.1 (Breslau: Koebner, 1894): preface and n. 1, ch. 1; scan at the Internet Archive.; G.R.S. Mead, The Chaldaean Oracles, 2 vols, Echoes from the Gnosis VIII-IX (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908): I, pp. 8-23, 43-49; II, contents; vol. I and vol. II at the Internet Archive.; Isaac Preston Cory, Ancient Fragments, 2nd ed. (London: Pickering, 1832), pp. liii-lv and 239-280; scan at the Internet Archive.; Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy (London: Thomas Dring, 1662), section “The Chaldaick Oracles” (dated 1661); Wellcome Collection scan at the Internet Archive.; Francesco Patrizi, Magia philosophica, hoc est ... Zoroaster et eius 320 oracula chaldaica (Hamburg, 1593); Wellcome Collection scan at the Internet Archive. Plethon, Magika logia ton apo tou Zoroastrou magon (Paris: Tiletanus, 1538), open access at GREDOS, University of Salamanca; ed. Brigitte Tambrun-Krasker (Athens: Academy of Athens, 1995).; W. Wynn Westcott (ed.), Collectanea Hermetica VI: The Chaldaean Oracles of Zoroaster, edited and revised by “Sapere Aude” (London, 1895), Library of Congress record; full view at HathiTrust (University of California copy); also as the file “Volume 06” in an undated community upload of vols I-X at the Internet Archive. Dennis Denisoff, “The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 1888-1901”, BRANCH (2013), online.; Suda, ι 433 and ι 434 (Julian), trans. Catharine Roth, Suda On Line (2004).; Édouard des Places (ed. and trans.), Oracles chaldaïques, avec un choix de commentaires anciens (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1971), Library of Congress record.; Ruth Majercik, The Chaldean Oracles: Text, Translation, and Commentary, Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1989), ISBN 90-04-09043-6, Library of Congress record; facsimile reprint, Prometheus Trust.; Hans Lewy, Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy (Cairo, 1956); 3rd ed. by Michel Tardieu (Paris: Institut d’études augustiniennes, 2011), BnF record.; Sarah Iles Johnston, Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate’s Role in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990), Library of Congress record.; Tomaz De Tassis, “Oráculos caldeus: proposta de tradução em língua portuguesa”, Translatio 28 (2024), pp. 18-21 and nn. 12-17, open access.; Álvaro Fernández Fernández, La teúrgia de los Oráculos caldeos: cuestiones de léxico y de contexto histórico, thesis (Granada, 2011), open access at Digibug. Francisco García Bazán (trans.), Oráculos caldeos, with Numenius of Apamea, Fragmentos y testimonios (Madrid: Gredos, 1991; Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 153), BNE record.; Iliana Klutstein, Marsilio Ficino et la théologie ancienne: Oracles chaldaïques, Hymnes orphiques, Hymnes de Proclus (Florence: Olschki, 1987), with Ficino’s Magica dicta magorum ex Zoroastre; Brian P. Copenhaver, “Iamblichus, Synesius and the Chaldaean Oracles in Marsilio Ficino’s De vita libri tres: Hermetic Magic or Neoplatonic Magic”, in James Hankins et al. (eds), Supplementum Festivum (Binghamton: MRTS, 1987), pp. 441-455.
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (1616): [Johann Valentin Andreae], Chymische Hochzeit: Christiani Rosencreütz. Anno 1459, Strasbourg, for the heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, printed by Conrad Scher, 1616, 143 pp.: Bavarian State Library scan with OCR; Getty Research Institute copy, catalogued as the third 1616 edition, Internet Archive (both checked 6 November 2026).; Ezechiel Foxcroft (trans.), The Hermetick Romance: or, The Chymical Wedding. Written in High Dutch by Christian Rosencreutz, London, A. Sowle, 1690, 226 pp.: Getty copy, Internet Archive (monas sign p. 6; preface signed I.F., per the catalogue).; Johann Valentin Andreae, Vita ab ipso conscripta, ed. F. H. Rheinwald, Berlin, 1849, book I, p. 10: Internet Archive.; A. E. Waite, The Real History of the Rosicrucians, London, George Redway, 1887: ch. V, p. 99 and n. 1; pp. 226-227 (the Vita passage, the family arms), 231-232: Internet Archive.; Frances A. Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972; cited from Routledge Classics, 2002, pp. 43-44, 55.; John Warwick Montgomery, Cross and Crucible, 2 vols, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1973; vol. 2, the Chymische Hochzeit with notes and commentary: Wellcome Collection record; Foxcroft’s 1690 text reproduced in facsimile: Internet Archive record.; Joscelyn Godwin (trans.), Adam McLean (intro. and commentary), The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, Grand Rapids, Phanes Press, 1991, 172 pp.: Library of Congress record; “made especially for this edition” (publisher). The 1984 edition (Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks 18) printed Foxcroft revised by Deirdre Green and Adam McLean, with a commentary by Gareth Knight and McLean (CiNii record).; J. V. Andreae, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 3, Rosenkreuzerschriften, ed. Roland Edighoffer, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, frommann-holzboog, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7728-1429-7: publisher’s page.; Library of Congress records: John Crowley, Small Beer Press, 2016 (2015029661), and Bastiaan Baan, commentary translated by Philip Mees, Edinburgh, Floris Books, 2016 (Dutch 1997) (2016497865).; Aurélie Choné, “La postérité des Noces Chymiques dans la littérature théosophique et anthroposophique”, Recherches germaniques, HS 13 (2018), pp. 203-220, doi:10.4000/rg.679 (open access).; Spanish National Library, record of Las bodas químicas de Christian Rosencreutz, Barcelona, Librería Sintes, 1929, translated from the French by the Centro Rosacruz de Barcelona: BNE.
The Corpus Hermeticum, treatise by treatise: Copenhaver, B. P., Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), standard English translation with notes; it numbers the treatises I-XIV and XVI-XVIII, and in XVII the speaker is Tat; contents and chapter openings at Cambridge Core.; Nock, A. D. (ed.) & Festugière, A.-J. (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, 4 vols (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945-1954), the critical edition: vols I-II (1945) hold treatises I-XVIII and the Asclepius, vols III-IV (1954) the Stobaean excerpts and other fragments; its numbering I-XIV, XVI-XVIII is the one used here.; Scott, W., Hermetica, vol. I: Introduction, Texts and Translation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 17-20 (the count, the numbering, and why the chapter XV of Foix de Candale is left out), p. 30 (XVIII has no connection with Hermes or his pupils) and pp. 33-35 (Turnèbe 1554, Foix de Candale 1574); scan at the Internet Archive.; Mead, G. R. S., Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II: Sermons (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), the speakers of each treatise; p. 58 (the title of the lost General Sermon), pp. 228-229 (CH XIII.15), p. 285 n. 2 (the corrector of the Paris manuscript in XVII); vol. I, pp. 12 and 16 (Everard); scan of vol. II at the Internet Archive.; Everard, J. (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII. Books (London: printed by Robert White for Tho. Brewster and Greg. Moule, 1650); Wellcome Library copy at the Internet Archive.; Litwa, M. D. (tr.), Hermetica II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), the Stobaean excerpts and testimonies that sit outside the corpus.; Fowden, G., The Egyptian Hermes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986; reprinted Princeton University Press, 1993), on the milieu that produced them.; Festugière, A.-J., La Révélation d’Hermès Trismégiste, 4 vols (Paris: Gabalda, 1944-1954).; Hanegraaff, W. J., ‘Altered States of Knowledge: The Attainment of Gnōsis in the Hermetica’, The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2 (2008), pp. 128-163, at pp. 133-135, following Fowden (1986), p. 103: the differences between the treatises as successive levels of one teaching; open copy at the University of Amsterdam repository.; Bull, C. H., The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
The Emerald Tablet: Julius Ruska, Tabula Smaragdina (1926), foundational study.; Kevin van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes (2009).; The Newton Project / Cambridge Digital Library: Keynes MS 28.
The Emerald Tablet, clause by clause: Steele, R. & Singer, D. W., ‘The Emerald Table’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 21 (1928), pp. 485-501: the standard scholarly treatment of the Latin text and its Arabic background; freely available via PubMed Central.; Ruska, J., Tabula Smaragdina: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der hermetischen Literatur (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1926): the study that established the Arabic origin.; Principe, L. M., The Secrets of Alchemy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013): on how alchemists actually read instructions of this kind.
The Fragment on Images: Tat and the King (Corpus Hermeticum XVII): G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II: Sermons (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), “Corpus Hermeticum (XVII.)”, pp. 285-286 (notes p. 285 nn. 1-2), commentary “On the Adoration of Images”, pp. 286-287; scan at the Internet Archive, read 4 November 2026.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I: Introduction, Texts and Translation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), Libellus XVII, Greek pp. 272 and 274, English pp. 273 and 275, apparatus p. 273; also p. 16 (speakers) and p. 31 (Ficino); scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. II: Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), Libellus XVII, pp. 457-461; scan at the Internet Archive.; Richard Reitzenstein, Poimandres: Studien zur griechisch-ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904), “XVII”, Greek text and apparatus p. 354; addenda p. 366; scan at the Internet Archive.; Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland (tr.), The Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (London: George Redway, 1885), “Definitions of Asclepios”, Part II, p. 107 and note; scan at the Internet Archive.; Brian P. Copenhaver (tr.), Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum XVII”, p. 62; chapter page on Cambridge Core.; A.D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. II: Traités XIII-XVIII, Asclepius (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945); BnF record.; John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII. Books (London, 1650), list of books (CH XVII not included); Wellcome Collection copy at the Internet Archive.
The Key (Corpus Hermeticum X): G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), “Corpus Hermeticum X. (XI.) The Key of Thrice-Greatest Hermes”, pp. 141-158, commentary pp. 158-174; Poimandres §22-23 at pp. 14-15; scan at the Internet Archive. Source of the quotations marked Mead, the section-to-page map and the notes on Stobaeus, Lactantius, Theognis and Reitzenstein.; John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII Books (London: Robert White, 1650), “The Fourth Book Called The Key”, verses 1-94, pp. 40-61; Wellcome Collection copy at the Internet Archive, pages 40, 42, 53, 60 and 61 viewed 30 October 2026.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), p. 17 and note (Ficino’s fourteen parts; Turnèbe 1554), p. 31 (Ficino’s 1471 edition), p. 43, note 3 (Everard follows Patrizi’s text and order), pp. 186-205 (Libellus X, Greek and English; Stobaeus excerpts listed p. 186; notes on §14a p. 197 and §19b-22a p. 201); scan at the Internet Archive.; A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945): Greek text of CH X and its section numbers.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum X”, pp. 30-36, with notes; Cambridge Core.; Marsilio Ficino (tr.), Mercurii Trismegisti Liber de Potestate et Sapientia Dei (Treviso: Gerardus de Lisa, 1471), Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Magl. F.6.24: heading “Mercurii Trismegisti Clavis. Ad Tatium”; scan at the Internet Archive.; Ioannes Stobaeus, Anthologium, ed. Curt Wachsmuth, vol. I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), I.47.8-9, I.48.3, I.49.48-49: the five excerpts from CH X, references as given by Scott 1924, I, p. 186.; Lactantius, Divine Institutes I.11, tr. William Fletcher, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886); online at New Advent.; Clement Salaman, Dorine van Oyen, William D. Wharton and Jean-Pierre Mahé (tr.), The Way of Hermes (London: Duckworth, 1999).
The Kybalion: read with care: Philip Deslippe (ed.), The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition (New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2011), the critical edition; the case for Atkinson’s authorship.; Nicholas E. Chapel, ‘The Kybalion’s New Clothes: An Early 20th Century Text’s Dubious Association with Hermeticism’, Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition (March 2013), the standard modern demolition of the ancient-pedigree claim.; Anna Kingsford & Edward Maitland (trans.), The Virgin of the World (London, mid-1880s), introduction, the closest known antecedent of the ‘principles’.; The Digital Ambler, ‘PSA/FAQ: The Kybalion is Not a Hermetic Text’ (7 July 2023), a practitioner’s thorough FAQ; we disagree with nothing essential in it.; ESOTERICA (Dr Justin Sledge), video essays on the Kybalion and on what counts as Hermetic, the scholarly case, on camera.; The Kybalion at Project Gutenberg (#14209), free, public domain.
The Nag Hammadi Hermetica: Stephen Emmel, “Nag Hammadi Library”, The Coptic Encyclopedia 6 (New York, 1991), 1771-1773 (Claremont).; S. Kent Brown, “Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth”, “Prayer of Thanksgiving” and “Plato’s Republic”; Marvin W. Meyer, “Asclepius 21-29”, The Coptic Encyclopedia (1991) (Discourse, Prayer, Republic, Asclepius).; Douglas M. Parrott (ed.), Nag Hammadi Codices V,2-5 and VI, Nag Hammadi Studies 11 (Leiden: Brill, 1979); Martin Krause and Pahor Labib, Gnostische und hermetische Schriften aus Codex II und Codex VI (Glückstadt, 1971); Jean-Pierre Mahé, Hermès en Haute-Égypte, 2 vols. (Québec, 1978-1982) (Open Library).; Karl Preisendanz (ed.), Papyri Graecae Magicae I (Leipzig: Teubner, 1928), PGM III 591-611, the prayer; lines 610-611 illegible (Internet Archive).; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “Altered States of Knowledge: The Attainment of Gnōsis in the Hermetica”, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2 (2008), 128-163 (DOI, open copy).; Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, “The Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth (NHC VI,6), the Prayer of Thanksgiving (NHC VI,7), and the Asclepius (NHC VI,8): Hermetic Texts in Nag Hammadi and Their Bipartite View of Man”, Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 6.1 (2021), 49-78 (DOI).; Christian H. Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus (Leiden: Brill, 2018) (DOI); review by Korshi Dosoo, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.02.23.
The Rosicrucian manifestos (1614-1616): Allgemeine vnd General Reformation... Beneben der Fama Fraternitatis, Kassel, 1614 [c. 1614], 152 pp.; Dresden, SLUB, Soc.secr.260.k: SLUB Digital Collections (public domain). Pages cited are printed pages; the image number is the page plus four.; Philippus a Gabella, Secretioris philosophiae consideratio brevis... una cum Confessione Fraternitatis R. C., Kassel: Wilhelm Wessel, 1615: BSB digital copy (NoC-NC 1.0), images 1, 2, 13, 15-16, 32 and 61.; [Johann Valentin Andreae], Chymische Hochzeit: Christiani Rosencreütz. Anno 1459, Strasbourg: Lazarus Zetzner’s heirs, 1616: BSB digital copy (NoC-NC 1.0), images 7, 11 and 79.; Johann Valentin Andreae, Vita ab ipso conscripta, ed. F. H. Rheinwald, Berlin, 1849, p. 10: Internet Archive.; The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R: C:, Commonly, of the Rosie Cross, with a preface by Eugenius Philalethes [Thomas Vaughan], London: J. M. for Giles Calvert, 1652: Internet Archive, Getty copy; Library of Congress record.; Arthur Edward Waite, The Real History of the Rosicrucians, London: G. Redway, 1887, pp. 35, 64-99: Internet Archive, Toronto copy.; John Dee, Monas hieroglyphica, Antwerp: Willem Silvius, 1564, title page and theorems I-III (leaf 12): Internet Archive, Wellcome copy (public domain).; Richard van Dülmen (ed.), Fama fraternitatis (1614), Confessio fraternitatis (1615), Chymische Hochzeit: Christiani Rosencreutz. Anno 1459 (1616), Stuttgart: Calwer, 1973, 124 pp.: Library of Congress record.; Johann Valentin Andreae, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 3: Rosenkreuzerschriften, ed. Roland Edighoffer, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: frommann-holzboog, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7728-1429-7; vol. 3,1: Kommentar zu den Rosenkreuzerschriften, by Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann and Volkhard Wels, 2024, ISBN 978-3-7728-2821-8: publisher’s page.; Joscelyn Godwin, Christopher McIntosh and Donate Pahnke McIntosh (trans.), Rosicrucian Trilogy, Newburyport, MA: Weiser Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-57863-609-9: Library of Congress record.; Frances A. Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972 (cited only for her own thesis).; Helmut Zander, review of Rosenkreuz als europäisches Phänomen im 17. Jahrhundert (Amsterdam, 2002) and of Harald Lamprecht, Neue Rosenkreuzer (Göttingen, 2004), pp. 644-645: PDF, University of Fribourg.; Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae duodecim nationum, hoc est Hermaea seu Mercurii festa, Frankfurt: Jennis, 1617: Internet Archive, Rome BNCR copy (public domain); Maier, Silentium post clamores, Frankfurt: Jennis, 1617: Internet Archive, Wellcome copy.; Ezechiel Foxcroft (trans.), The Hermetick Romance, or, The Chymical Wedding, London: A. Sowle, 1690: Internet Archive, Getty copy. AMORC’s incorporation in 1915: the order’s history page (all links checked 6 November 2026).
The Sacred Sermon (Corpus Hermeticum III): John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII. Books (London: Robert White for Thomas Brewster and Gregory Moule, 1650), contents (“3. The holy Sermon. 36”) and “The Third Book Called The Holy Sermon”, verses 1-11, pp. 36-39; copy filmed for Early English Books and Wellcome Collection copy, both at the Internet Archive, read 3 November 2026. Source of the quotations marked Everard.; Gustav Parthey (ed.), Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin: Nicolai, 1854), cap. 3, Greek heading logos hieros and Latin “Hermetis Trismegisti Sermo Sacer”, p. 31; scan at the Internet Archive.; John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian Neoplatonist (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1882), contents and chapter III, “Sacred Discourse”, pp. 24-29 (notes on the Septuagint p. 24, “seed of the reproduction” p. 26); University of California copy at the Internet Archive.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II: Sermons (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), contents; “Corpus Hermeticum (II.) The General Sermon”, p. 58; “Corpus Hermeticum III. (IV.) The Sacred Sermon of Hermes”, pp. 75-77, with notes; commentary pp. 78-84 (title and Reitzenstein p. 78, “sutra style” p. 79, Epiphanius pp. 79-81, Genesis 1:2 p. 81, “in the air” and “heads of topics” p. 82, palingenesis p. 83, the Flood pp. 83-84); scan at the Internet Archive. Source of the quotations marked Mead.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), p. 31 (Ficino’s edition of 1471, Corp. I-XIV), p. 43 n. 3 (Everard translates Patrizi’s text in Patrizi’s order), Libellus III, Greek with apparatus pp. 144, 146, 148, English pp. 145, 147, 149 (notes: p. 145 n. 3 on the state of the text, p. 147 n. 7 on the lost making of man); scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. II: Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), Libellus III, pp. 110-134: emended freely and complete in itself p. 110; Genesis and Corp. III in parallel pp. 110-112; Stoic physics p. 112; Sanchuniathon pp. 112-117; Judaeo-Stoic, date and heading pp. 117-118; the title pp. 118-119; plants moved p. 127; no survival of the soul and renewal by substitution pp. 130-131; scan at the Internet Archive.; Christian Wildberg, “The Genesis of a Genesis: Corpus Hermeticum, Tractate III”, in Lance Jenott and Sarit Kattan Gribetz (eds), Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 155 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013); thesis as summarised by Todd Berzon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.10.12; method shown in Wildberg’s handout “Corpus Hermeticum III: Hieros Logos” (text after Nock-Festugière with suspected interpolations marked, translation, note 5 on §3), read 4 November 2026. The article itself was not seen.; A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945): critical Greek text of CH III with French translation; BnF catalogue.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum III”, pp. 13-14; chapter page and summary on Cambridge Core, read 3 November 2026.; Marsilio Ficino (tr.), Mercurii Trismegisti Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei (Treviso: Gerardus de Lisa, 1471): CH I-XIV in Latin, as described by Scott 1924, I, p. 31; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze copy at the Internet Archive.; Plain-text transcriptions, checked 4 November 2026: Mead’s version at Gnosis Archive; Everard’s at The Alchemy Web Site. Quotations on this page are taken from the scans, not from these transcriptions.
The Stobaean Fragments: M. David Litwa, Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies (Cambridge UP, 2018), SH 1-29 at pp. 19-160 (Cambridge Core).; A. D. Nock and A.-J. Festugière (eds.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. III: Fragments extraits de Stobée I-XXII, vol. IV: Fragments extraits de Stobée XXIII-XXIX (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1954), text established and translated by Festugière (BnF catalogue).; Curt Wachsmuth and Otto Hense (eds.), Ioannis Stobaei Anthologium (Berlin: Weidmann): vols. I-II, ed. Wachsmuth (1884), open at vol. I, p. 385, the start of the Kore Kosmou and vol. III, ed. Hense (1894), open at p. 436, SH 2A, scans at the Internet Archive; the table gives volume and page for every excerpt.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), list of the excerpts at pp. 378-379 (book, chapter and section in Stobaeus), Greek and English at pp. 380-533, each excerpt headed by its volume and page in Wachsmuth-Hense, the Kore Kosmou from p. 456 (scan at the Internet Archive, from p. 378).; G. R. S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. III: Excerpts and Fragments (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), the Virgin of the World from p. 93, its title discussed at pp. 159-168 (scan at the Internet Archive, from p. 93): public domain, pre-critical; see our Method note.; Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland (tr.), The Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (London: George Redway, 1885), with “Fragments of the Book of Hermes to his Son Tatios” and “Fragments of the Writings of Hermes to Ammon”; the preface states that Louis Ménard’s French translation (2nd ed., Paris, 1867) was used but not entirely followed (scan at the Internet Archive, the Virgin of the World from p. 1).; John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian Neoplatonist (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1882), Part II, “Excerpts from Hermes by Stobaeus”, from p. 100 (scan at the Internet Archive, from p. 100).; Richard Reitzenstein, Poimandres: Studien zur griechisch-ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904), pp. 145-146, on the title: Isis, goddess of the black earth, is the eye of Osiris and so herself the Korē Kosmou; discussed by Mead (1906, III, p. 159).; Francesco Patrizi, Nova de universis philosophia (Venice, 1593; first printed at Ferrara, 1591), with his Latin version of the Hermetica: both editions described by Scott (1924, I, pp. 36-37); its Kore Kosmou headed Minerva Mundi, once Pupilla Mundi, according to Mead (1906, III, p. 93).; Agata Sowińska, “[Hermes Trismegistos] Stobaei Hermetica XI”, Vox Patrum 81 (2022), pp. 233-280, with a Polish translation of SH 11; Stobaeus, his son Septimius and the more than 500 authors of the anthology at p. 233, grouping of the excerpts by speaker at p. 234 (doi:10.31743/vp.13018).; D. M. Burns, “A New Volume of Perfect Words”, review of Litwa’s translation (2018), Aries 21 (2021), pp. 271-278 (open access).; Otto Hense, “Ioannes 18” (Stobaeus), in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopädie IX.2 (1916), cols. 2549-2586, on codex 167 of Photius’ Bibliotheca (Wikisource).
Though Unmanifest, God Is Most Manifest (Corpus Hermeticum V): John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII. Books (London: Robert White for Thomas Brewster and Gregory Moule, 1650), contents (“5. That God is not manifest, and yet most manifest. 62”) and “The Fifth Book”, verses 1-49, pp. 62-71; copy filmed for Early English Books and Wellcome Collection copy, both at the Internet Archive, read 4 November 2026. Source of the quotations marked Everard.; Gustav Parthey (ed.), Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin: Nicolai, 1854), cap. 5, Greek with the Latin heading “Hermetis Trismegisti ad filium suum Tat, quod immanifestus deus manifestissimus sit”, pp. 41-48; scan at the Internet Archive.; John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian Neoplatonist (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1882), chapter V, “That the Invisible God is most Manifest”, pp. 36-42 (“pregnant” with the Greek kuein, p. 40); University of California copy at the Internet Archive.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II: Sermons (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), “Corpus Hermeticum V. (VI.) Though Unmanifest God is Most Manifest”, pp. 99-106, with notes (p. 100 n. 3, p. 102 n. 4 on Lactantius, p. 104 nn. 1-2); commentary pp. 106-109 (title and “Those to Tat” p. 106, word-play and Maya pp. 106-107, Timaeus 29E and “Higher Pantheism” p. 108, the hymn and the copyist’s gloss p. 108); scan at the Internet Archive. Source of the quotations marked Mead.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), p. 31 (Ficino’s edition of 1471, Corp. I-XIV), Libellus V, Greek with apparatus pp. 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, English pp. 157, 159, 161, 163, 165 (notes p. 159 n. 2, p. 163 n. 1); scan at the Internet Archive.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. II: Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), p. 154 (the “eyes of the heart” in CH IV 11b set against “the eyes of the mind” in CH V 2); Libellus V, pp. 155-168: contents p. 155; sources, Stoic design argument and no Christian influence p. 156; date, title and “mystery” p. 157; Amen p. 158; Platonism without Indian influence p. 159 n. 1; the One deleted p. 160; image of God and CH XI p. 161; disorder p. 162; Lactantius p. 163; Panaetius p. 164; kuein and kinein p. 165; the hymn beside CH I, CH XIII and the end of the Asclepius, and the offering p. 166; “I am Thou” p. 167; Egyptian tone and the gloss p. 168; scan at the Internet Archive.; A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945): critical Greek text of CH V with French translation; BnF catalogue.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum V”, pp. 18-20; chapter page and opening on Cambridge Core, read 4 November 2026.; Clement Salaman, Dorine van Oyen and William D. Wharton (tr.), The Way of Hermes: The Corpus Hermeticum, with The Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius, tr. Jean-Pierre Mahé (London: Duckworth, 1999), 124 pp., ISBN 0-7156-2939-5, OCLC 42360158; contents as given in the Wellcome Collection catalogue, pages and OCLC number from the Open Library record, both read 4 November 2026. Copy not seen.
To Asclepius, Health of Mind (Corpus Hermeticum XIV): John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII. Books (London, 1650), “The Seventeenth Book”, verses 1-39, pp. 207-215; Early English Books copy and Wellcome copy at the Internet Archive.; Gustav Parthey (ed.), Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin, 1854), cap. 14, Greek and Latin, pp. 128-134 (apparatus p. 134: end of Cyril’s quotation); scan.; John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian Neoplatonist (Edinburgh, 1882), chapter XIV, pp. 96-99 (notes p. 97 n. b, p. 99 n. 1); scan.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London, 1906), “Corpus Hermeticum XIV. (XV.)”, pp. 257-263 (notes p. 257 n. 1, p. 261 n. 1), commentary pp. 263-265; scan.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford, 1924), pp. 31 (Ficino), 40 and 43 n. 3 (Patrizi’s order, Everard), Libellus XIV, Greek with apparatus pp. 256, 258, 260, 262, English pp. 257, 259, 261, 263; scan.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. II: Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum (Oxford, 1925), Libellus XIV, pp. 418-428; pages for each point are given in the text above; scan.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum XIV”, pp. 55-57; Cambridge Core, pp. 55-57 checked on the chapter page, 4 November 2026.; A.D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. II: Traités XIII-XVIII. Asclepius (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945); BnF record.
To Asclepius: On Motion and Place (Corpus Hermeticum II): John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (London: Brewster and Moule, 1650), “The Ninth Book”, verses 1-80, pp. 103-116; scan at the Internet Archive.; Gustav Parthey (ed.), Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin: Nicolai, 1854), cap. 2, pp. 19-30; scan.; John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1882), chapter II, pp. 16-23 (“place” p. 17); scan.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), CH (II) “The General Sermon” p. 58; CH II (III) “To Asclepius” pp. 59-68; commentary pp. 68-74; scan.; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), Libellus II, pp. 134-145: manuscript title and Stobaeus references p. 134, apparatus p. 140, §12 p. 141, notes p. 135 n. 1, p. 137 n. 1, p. 143 n. 2, p. 145 n. 2; scan.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. II: Notes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), Libellus II, pp. 75-110: lost leaves, title and Patrizi p. 75; contents, sources, date pp. 75-77; topos pp. 89-91; stars and swimmer pp. 97-98; nous holos and topos-nous p. 103; archetypal Light p. 105; §17a pp. 109-110; scan.; A. D. Nock (ed.) and A.-J. Festugière (tr.), Corpus Hermeticum, vol. I: Traités I-XII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945); BnF catalogue.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), “Corpus Hermeticum II”, pp. 8-12; Cambridge Core, opening read 4 November 2026.; M. David Litwa, Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), General Introduction (publisher’s excerpt); Cambridge Core.; Gebhard Löhr, Verherrlichung Gottes durch Philosophie: Der hermetische Traktat II im Rahmen der antiken Philosophie- und Religionsgeschichte, WUNT 97 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997); publisher’s page. Not consulted for this page.
Where to read the Hermetica free: a register of lawful scans: Cornell University Library, “Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States”, chart updated 1 January 2026, online; UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s. 12(2), legislation.gov.uk; European Union, Your Europe, “Copyright”, online; Library of Congress name authorities for Walter Scott, 1855-1925 (n82089970), G. R. S. Mead, 1863-1933, Richard Reitzenstein, 1861-1931, Julius Ruska, 1867-1949, John David Chambers, 1805-1893 (n87895455), and A. S. Ferguson, 1883-1958 (n87944948); Spain, Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996, consolidated Intellectual Property Act, fourth transitional provision (authors who died before 7 December 1987), BOE, and Law of 10 January 1879, art. 6 (“ochenta años”), BOE. All checked 31 October and 1 November 2026.; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke: GW 12310 (Treviso, Gerardus de Lisa, 18 December 1471: 8°, 56 leaves; 63 copies or fragments in public collections; reproductions listed include a digitised copy at Uppsala University Library) and GW 12311 (Ferrara, Andreas Belfortis, 8 January 1472: 4°, 40 leaves; the Munich copy digitised, BSB-Ink H-114).; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, records and scans in the Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum: Ficino, Pimander (Ferrara, 1472), 4 Inc.c.a. 33 m, bsb00067142, Public Domain Mark; Mercurii Trismegisti Poemander (Paris: Adrien Turnèbe, 1554), Res/4 A.gr.b. 690, bsb10150774, title page at image 7; Patrizi, Nova de universis philosophia (Ferrara: Mamarellus, 1591), 2 Ph.u. 58, bsb10149781, Hermes section leaf 3 at image 433; both “No Copyright, non-commercial use”.; François Foix de Candale (Flussas), Mercurii Trismegisti Pimandras utraque lingua restitutus (Bordeaux: Simon Millanges, 1574), BIU Santé, Bibliothèque de pharmacie, RES 22176: Medica; Internet Archive copy, Licence Ouverte (Etalab).; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 17-19 and 34 (Flussas and the “Caput XV”), p. 24 (brackets for words supplied and passages transposed by conjecture), p. 43 n. 3 (Everard follows Patrizi’s text and order), p. 44 (Parthey: an edition of CH I-XIV, “useless, if not misleading”; Ménard: CH I-XIV, the Asclepius, 26 Stobaean excerpts, fragments and CH XVI-XVIII, recommended to readers without Greek and Latin), p. 45 (Reitzenstein 1904), the Stobaean excerpts from p. 380; scan at the Internet Archive; vol. II, Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum (1925), scan; vol. III, Notes on the Latin Asclepius and the Hermetic Excerpts of Stobaeus (1926), preface signed by A. S. Ferguson, 1 March 1926 (“Some additional notes have been inserted [...]; these are distinguished by square brackets”), scan.; John Everard (tr.), The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII Books (London: Robert White for Thomas Brewster and Gregory Moule, 1650), Wellcome Library copy at the Internet Archive, Public Domain Mark; record note: “Pp. 3-14 are wanting”. John David Chambers (tr.), The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian Neoplatonist (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1882), xxiv, 170 pp., Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark. HathiTrust, record 001381148 (Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, 1906): copies of vols I-III from Harvard, Michigan, Minnesota and other libraries, “Full view”, rights code pdus (public domain in the US), checked through the HathiTrust volumes API on 1 November 2026.; Gustav Parthey (ed.), Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin: Fr. Nicolai, 1854), preface p. vi (the Latin version of Ficino, Flussas and Patrizi, revised by Parthey, printed under the text), University of Michigan copy; Richard Reitzenstein, Poimandres: Studien zur griechisch-ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904), University of Toronto copy.; Louis Ménard, Hermès Trismégiste: traduction complète, précédée d’une étude sur l’origine des livres hermétiques (Paris: Didier, 1866), table of contents: CH I-XIV (book I), the Asclepius (book II, pp. 113-172), the Kore Kosmou fragments (book III), fragments to Tat and to Ammon (book IV), the Definitions of Asclepius from p. 285; University of Michigan copy.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, 3 vols (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), University of Toronto copies: vol. I (prolegomena), vol. II (the Asclepius at pp. 307-390), vol. III (excerpts and fragments); public domain, pre-critical.; Dorothee Gall (ed.), Die göttliche Weisheit des Hermes Trismegistos: Pseudo-Apuleius, Asclepius (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, SAPERE 38, 2021), open access, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, doi:10.1628/978-3-16-160108-8. Curt Wachsmuth and Otto Hense (eds), Ioannis Stobaei Anthologium, vols I-II (1884) and III (1894) (Berlin: Weidmann), University of Toronto copies: vols I-II, vol. III.; Robert Steele and Dorothea Waley Singer, “The Emerald Table”, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 21, no. 3 (1928), pp. 485-501, read 2 November 1927, PMC2101974 (quotations from p. 485); E. J. Holmyard, “The Emerald Table”, Nature 112 (1923), pp. 525-526, doi:10.1038/112525a0; Julius Ruska, Tabula Smaragdina: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der hermetischen Literatur (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1926), ch. VIII, “Rückblick und allgemeine Ergebnisse”, pp. 163-176, offprint, Wellcome Collection copy.; Musaeum Hermeticum (Frankfurt, 1625), SLUB Dresden, Chem.359,misc.1, scan; (Frankfurt, 1678), ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Rar 8231, e-rara, and Getty Research Institute, Internet Archive. David Pingree (ed.), Picatrix: The Latin Version of the Ghayat al-Hakim (London: Warburg Institute, 1986), Warburg Library Commons; Hellmut Ritter and Martin Plessner (trans.), ‘Picatrix’: Das Ziel des Weisen von Pseudo-Magriti (London: Warburg Institute, 1962), Warburg Library Commons, both with the rights statement In Copyright. The Kybalion (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, 1908), Project Gutenberg ebook 14209, “Public domain in the USA”.; Aneta Tylak, Bóg - świat - człowiek w traktatach Corpus Hermeticum na tle greckiej tradycji filozoficznej (Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021), DOI 10.18778/8220-500-8, repository, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; Aneta Tylak, “Corpus Hermeticum XVI”, Collectanea Philologica 17 (2014), pp. 29-36, repository; Wincenty Myszor, translations in Studia Theologica Varsaviensia 15/1 (1977) to 17/1 (1979), free PDFs in BazHum (table); Agata Ewa Sowińska, CH VIII, Vox Patrum 79 (2021), pp. 541-552, doi:10.31743/vp.12276, and SH 11, Vox Patrum 81 (2022), pp. 233-280, doi:10.31743/vp.13018, both CC BY-ND 4.0; Joanna Komorowska, “Picatrix Latinus: kilka słów wprowadzenia”, Terminus 17, no. 1 (2015), pp. 147-199, open access; Aneta Tylak, “O prawdzie: II hermetyczny fragment Stobajosa. Przekład i komentarz”, Collectanea Philologica 26 (2023), pp. 91-103, doi:10.18778/1733-0319.26.08, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.; Marcela Lechuga Téllez, Corpus Hermeticum: Tratado X, La llave, tesis de licenciatura (Mexico City: UNAM, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 1985), UNAM repository; María Luisa Hernández Ibar, Asclepio: su tiempo y sus temas. Introducción, traducción y notas, tesis de licenciatura (UNAM, 1985), UNAM repository; Mourad Kacimi, review of Claudia D’Amico (coord.), Asclepio. Un texto sapiencial (Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA, 2017), eHumanista/IVITRA 13 (2018), pp. 553-556, PDF.

The Figures

Aleister Crowley: The Equinox I/1 (London, 21 March 1909), Editorial, pp. 1-3: scan; I/7 (March 1912), “The Temple of Solomon the King”, pp. 365, 384-386 and MS facsimile facing p. 386: issue and scan.; “Liber L. vel Legis”, The Equinox I/10 (London: Wieland, September 1913), pp. 11-33: scan; contents; 1938 booklet: record.; Library of Congress: The Book of Thoth ([London]: O.T.O., 1944), LCCN 45017396; name authority for Crowley, with variant names.; Manon Hedenborg White, “Ordo Templi Orientis”, World Religions and Spirituality Project, 10 April 2022: wrldrels.org.; Museum of Freemasonry, London, Golden Dawn collection, GBR 1991 GD: AIM25 description.; Cefalù papers, transcribed without scans: Crowley to the British consul in Tunis, 25 August 1923; Palermo police, 6 June 1936; Abbey of Thelema.; John Bull (London), articles on Crowley 1910-1930: dated list, transcriptions only.; The Times (London), 14 April 1934, “‘Black Magic’ Libel Action Fails”: transcription; 26 July 1934, “Mr. Aleister Crowley Bound Over”: transcription; West London Observer, 12 May 1933: transcription.; Veronica Simpson, review of Tarot: Origins & Afterlives, Warburg Institute, Studio International, 4 March 2025: studiointernational.com.; Rabelais, Gargantua, ch. 57, ed. Marty-Laveaux (Paris, 1868): Wikisource.; Colin Duggan, “Perennialism and Iconoclasm: Chaos Magick”, in Asprem and Granholm (eds), Contemporary Esotericism (2012), pp. 91-112: abstract.; Wikipedia, “Aleister Crowley bibliography”, for the 1909 printing.; Copyright: Duke, Public Domain Day 2026; GOV.UK, how long copyright lasts.
Arnau de Vilanova (Arnald of Villanova): Arnau DB, digital corpus of Arnau de Vilanova (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), pages “His origins”, “Timeline”, “Translations and rewrites”, “Galenism”, “Aphorisms”, “Theoretical medicine and natural philosophy”, “Practical medicine”, “Was Arnau de Vilanova an alchemist?”, “A false alchemist”, “The pseudo-Arnaldian alchemical corpus”, “The myth of Arnau de Vilanova”, “Natural magic and astrology”, “Dubious writings”, “Arnau in the early modern press” and “Basic bibliography”: webs.uab.cat/arnau/en/ (Spanish version consulted on 29 October 2026, English version on 12 November 2026; CC BY-NC-ND licence).; Juan Antonio Paniagua Arellano, “Arnau de Vilanova”, in Diccionario Biográfico Español (Real Academia de la Historia), online version in Historia Hispánica (in Spanish): historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/44963-arnau-de-vilanova (consulted on 29 October 2026).; Arnaldi de Villanova Opera Medica Omnia (Barcelona, 1975-), in particular vol. II, Aphorismi de gradibus, ed. M. R. McVaugh (1975), vol. X.1, Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum, ed. L. García-Ballester, M. R. McVaugh and P. Gil-Sotres (1996); vol. XIII, Speculum medicine, ed. M. R. McVaugh; vol. XVII, Translatio libri Albuzale de medicinis simplicibus, ed. A. Labarta, J. Martínez Gázquez, M. R. McVaugh, D. Jacquart and L. Cifuentes; and vol. VII.1, Epistola de reprobacione nigromantice ficcionis (De improbatione maleficiorum), ed. Sebastià Giralt (2005); catalogue of Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona.; Arnaldi de Villanova Opera Theologica Omnia, vols. III (2004), IV (2007) and V (2014), ed. J. Perarnau; vol. XIV (2019), ed. J. Mensa.; Antoine Calvet, Les œuvres alchimiques attribuées à Arnaud de Villeneuve: grand œuvre, médecine et prophétie au Moyen-Âge, preface by Sebastià Giralt (Paris and Milan: S.É.H.A. and Archè, 2011; Textes et travaux de Chrysopœia, 11).; MedCat (Sciencia.cat), entries by Sebastià Giralt (works 4563, 4556, 4564 and 4554; Lyon edition, imp. 245) and by Lluís Cifuentes (work 3158): Rosarius philosophorum (4563), Flos florum (4556), Semita semitae (4564), Epistola super alchimia ad regem Neapolitanum (4554), Rosarius abbreviatus (3158); entry for the Lyon edition, 1504: imp. 245 (consulted on 29 October 2026).; Giuliana Camilli, “Il Rosarius philosophorum attribuito ad Arnaldo da Villanova nella tradizione alchemica del Trecento”, Arxiu de Textos Catalans Antics 14 (1995), pp. 175-208, revistes.iec.cat.; José Rodríguez Guerrero, “Pedro Arnaldo de Vilanova (s. XIV¹), médico, cirujano, alquimista y socius del magister Testamenti”, Azogue 9 (2019-2023), pp. 5-38, revistaazogue.com.; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, in Walter W. Skeat (ed.), The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. IV, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900), lines G 1428-1434; Project Gutenberg, no. 22120 (public domain).; Edgar H. Duncan, “Chaucer and ‘Arnald of the Newe Town’: A Reprise”, Interpretations 9 (1977), pp. 7-11.; Lindy Brady and Andrew Rabin, “‘Arnold of the Newe Toun’ Revisited: A Note on the Sources of the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale”, Notes and Queries 65 (2018), pp. 174-177, doi:10.1093/notesj/gjy009.; Hec sunt opera Arnaldi de Villanova (Lyon: François Fradin, 1504), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy, 2 Med.g. 5, urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10147895-9 (NoC-NC 1.0).; De alchimia opuscula complura veterum philosophorum (Frankfurt: Cyriacus Jacobus, 1550), copy of part I in the SLUB Dresden, Chem.362,misc.1, digital.slub-dresden.de/id280366256 (Public Domain Mark 1.0).; C. G. Jung, Die Psychologie der Übertragung (Zurich: Rascher, 1946), on the woodcuts of the Rosarium philosophorum.
Balinas: Julius Ruska, Tabula Smaragdina (1926); Paul Kraus (1943); Ursula Weisser, critical study of the Sirr al-khaliqa (1980).; Paul Kraus, Jâbir ibn Hayyân: Contribution à l’histoire des idées scientifiques dans l’Islam, vol. I, Le corpus des écrits jâbiriens (Cairo, 1943), pp. lvii-lviii, and vol. II, Jâbir et la science grecque (Cairo, 1942), pp. 1, 272-283, 302-303 (Mémoires de l’Institut d’Égypte 44-45); scans at the Internet Archive: vol. I, vol. II.; Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl, “Sirr al-khaliqa and its influence in the Arabic and Persianate world: ‘Awn b. al-Mundhir’s commentary and its unknown Persian translation”, Al-Qantara 37.2 (2016), pp. 435-473, doi:10.3989/alqantara.2016.015 (open access).; Ursula Weisser (ed.), Kitab sirr al-khaliqa wa-san‘at al-tabi‘a (Aleppo: Institute for the History of Arabic Science, 1979); Ursula Weisser, Das “Buch über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung” von Pseudo-Apollonios von Tyana (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1980; Ars medica III.2).; E.J. Holmyard, “The Emerald Table”, Nature 112, no. 2814 (6 October 1923), pp. 525-526; E.J. Holmyard (ed.), The Arabic Works of Jâbir ibn Hayyân, vol. I (Paris: Geuthner, 1928).; ‘Abd al-Rahman Badawi (ed.), al-Usul al-yunaniyya li-l-nazariyyat al-siyasiyya fi l-islam (Cairo, 1954), with the Arabic Sirr al-asrar; Mahmoud Manzalaoui, “The Pseudo-Aristotelian Kitâb Sirr al-asrâr: Facts and Problems”, Oriens 23-24 (1974), pp. 147-257.; Robert Steele (ed.), Secretum secretorum cum glossis et notulis, Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi V (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920), pp. 115-117; transcription by Leandra Fuchs in the Arabic and Latin Corpus, ed. Dag Nikolaus Hasse et al. (Würzburg).; Françoise Hudry (ed.), “Le De secretis nature du ps.-Apollonius de Tyane, traduction latine par Hugues de Santalla du Kitâb sirr al-halîqa”, Chrysopoeia 6 (1997-1999 [2000]), pp. 1-154; review: Jean-Marc Mandosio, Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi 62 (2004), pp. 317-321, Persée.; Jean-Marc Mandosio, “La création verbale dans l’alchimie latine du Moyen Âge”, Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi 63 (2005), pp. 137-147, Persée.; Robert Steele and Dorothea Waley Singer, “The Emerald Table”, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 21.3 (January 1928), pp. 485-501, PubMed Central.; U.S. National Library of Medicine, Islamic Medical Manuscripts, catalogue entry “Kitâb Sirr al-asrâr” (MS A 57), on the two Latin translations (consulted 27 October 2026).
Cornelius Agrippa (Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim): Vittoria Perrone Compagni, “Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (first published 15 February 2017, substantive revision 28 March 2025), plato.stanford.edu/entries/agrippa-nettesheim; with the works of Keefer (1988), Zambelli (2000), Bowen (1972), Korkowski (1976) and Weeks (1993) cited in the text.; Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia libri tres, ed. Vittoria Perrone Compagni (Leiden, New York and Cologne: Brill, 1992; Studies in the History of Christian Thought 48), with an introduction in English.; Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia libri tres ([Cologne: Johannes Soter], 1533), [12] + 362 pp., folio: Wellcome Library copy and McGill University Library copy, Internet Archive; Lyon reprint, Beringos, Complutense University of Madrid copy.; Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, trans. “J. F.” (London: R. W. for Gregory Moule, 1651), Wellcome Library copy, Internet Archive (Public Domain Mark); annotated transcription by Joseph H. Peterson, Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives, Book I, Book II and Book III, with the “Censure” of De vanitate in the English translation published with the 1651 one.; Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Operum pars posterior (Lyon: Beringos Fratres, [c. 1600]): Epistolarum ad familiares libri septem, book I, letters 3, 10 and 11; Orationes decem, II, “In praelectionem Hermetis Trismegisti, de potestate et sapientia Dei”, pp. 1077-1080 for the passages quoted; Duke University Libraries copy, Internet Archive.; Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium, atque excellentia Verbi Dei declamatio (Antwerp: [J. Grapheus?], 1531), 159 leaves: Wellcome Library copy, Internet Archive (Public Domain Mark). First edition: Antwerp, Graphaeus, 1530.; Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, In Artem brevem Raymundi Lullii commentaria (Cologne: J. Soter, 1533), [102] leaves: Wellcome Library copy, Internet Archive.; [Pseudo-Agrippa], Henrici Cornelii Agrippae Liber quartus de occulta philosophia, seu de cerimoniis magicis. Cui accesserunt Elementa magica Petri de Abano (1559): Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma copy, Internet Archive (Public Domain Mark).; Paolo Giovio, Elogia veris clarorum virorum imaginibus apposita, quae in musaeo Ioviano Comi spectantur (Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1546), elogium “Henricus Cornelius Agrippa”: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma copy, Internet Archive (Public Domain Mark).; Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum, et incantationibus ac veneficiis libri sex, 6th enlarged ed. (1583), book II, ch. 5, “De libris quibusdam magicis”, cols. 161-166 (the edition is numbered by columns): Internet Archive.; Charles G. Nauert Jr., Agrippa and the Crisis of Renaissance Thought (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965).; Marc van der Poel, Cornelius Agrippa, the Humanist Theologian and His Declamations (Leiden, New York and Cologne: Brill, 1997).; Christopher I. Lehrich, The Language of Demons and Angels: Cornelius Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003).; Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964), ch. 7, “Cornelius Agrippa’s Survey of Renaissance Magic”.
Frances Yates: J. B. Trapp, “Frances Amelia Yates 1899-1981”, Proceedings of the British Academy 120 (2003), pp. 527-554 (free PDF from the British Academy).; Warburg Institute Archive, papers of Frances A. Yates (reference GB 1370 WIA, about 120 boxes: diaries, family documents, notes, lectures, correspondence and photographs; access by appointment): catalogue description at AIM25.; Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964); chapter list at the University of Chicago Press; library scan at the Internet Archive (lending).; Frances A. Yates, The Art of Memory (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966); chapter list at the University of Chicago Press; library scan at the Internet Archive (lending).; Rhetorica ad Herennium III.16.28-20.33, tr. Harry Caplan (Loeb Classical Library, 1954): public-domain text at LacusCurtius.; Martin Dresler et al., “Mnemonic Training Reshapes Brain Networks to Support Superior Memory”, Neuron 93:5 (2017), pp. 1227-1235; free author manuscript at PubMed Central.; Robert S. Westman and J. E. McGuire, Hermeticism and the Scientific Revolution: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, March 9, 1974 (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1977); catalogue record at the Wellcome Collection.; Brian P. Copenhaver, “Iamblichus, Synesius and the Chaldaean Oracles in Marsilio Ficino’s De vita libri tres: Hermetic Magic or Neoplatonic Magic”, in James Hankins et al. (eds), Supplementum Festivum (Binghamton: MRTS, 1987), pp. 441-455; and “Hermes Trismegistus, Proclus and the Question of a Philosophy of Magic in the Renaissance”, in Ingrid Merkel and Allen G. Debus (eds), Hermeticism and the Renaissance (Washington, D.C.: Folger Books, 1988), pp. 79-111 (pages from his own bibliography; scan of the volume, lending).; Nicholas H. Clulee, John Dee’s Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion (London: Routledge, 1988); library scan at the Internet Archive (lending).; Hilary Gatti, Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999); library scan at the Internet Archive (lending).; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “Beyond the Yates Paradigm: The Study of Western Esotericism between Counterculture and New Complexity”, Aries 1:1 (2001), pp. 5-37; DOI.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “How Hermetic was Renaissance Hermetism?”, Aries 15:2 (2015), pp. 179-209; open copy at the University of Amsterdam.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy (Cambridge UP, 2012), pp. 322-334, on the debate over her thesis (pages as given in Hanegraaff 2015, n. 4).; Dilwyn Knox, “Giordano Bruno”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (substantive revision 12 March 2024), sec. 11 and bibliography; online.; Brian Vickers (ed.), Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (Cambridge UP, 1984), with his introduction, pp. 1-56: essays on Dee, Kepler, Bacon, Mersenne, Newton and others that test how far the occult sciences fed the Scientific Revolution; contents and description at Cambridge Core; library scan at the Internet Archive (lending).
G.R.S. Mead: G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes (1906), Internet Archive scans.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992), the superseding standard.; Clare Goodrick-Clarke and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, G.R.S. Mead and the Gnostic Quest (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2005), the standard biography with an anthology of his writings.; G.R.S. Mead, Pistis Sophia (1896); Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (1900); Echoes from the Gnosis (1906-08).; Wikipedia, “G. R. S. Mead”, revision of 23 July 2026 (accessed 28 October 2026).; A Cambridge Alumni Database (ACAD), entry MT881GR, Mead, George Robert Stow (accessed 28 October 2026).; Theosophy Wiki, “G. R. S. Mead” (version of 25 June 2025) and “The Quest Society” (version of 7 November 2018), Internet Archive copies (accessed 28 October 2026).; IAPSOP, The Quest (1909-1930), periodical summary from Pat Deveney’s database (accessed 28 October 2026).; Library of Congress Name Authority File, record n50042172: Mead, G. R. S. (George Robert Stow), 1863-1933; the record links to VIAF 166616 (accessed 28 October 2026).; A.D. Nock and A.-J. Festugière, Corpus Hermeticum, 4 vols (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945-1954).; H.J. Rose, “Hermes Restitutus”, review of A.D. Nock and A.-J. Festugière, Hermès Trismégiste, vols. I-II (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945), The Classical Review 61 (1947), pp. 102-104.; H.J. Rose, “The Hermetica Completed”, review of A.-J. Festugière and A.D. Nock, Hermès Trismégiste, vols. III-IV (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1954), The Classical Review, new series 5 (1955), pp. 275-276.
Giordano Bruno: Dilwyn Knox, “Giordano Bruno,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (first published 2018, substantive revision 12 March 2024).; Giovanni Aquilecchia, “Bruno, Giordano,” Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 14 (1972), Treccani (consulted 1 November 2026).; Saverio Ricci, “Le procès de Giordano Bruno par l’Inquisition,” Lexicon Philosophicum 2 (2014), pp. 97-125, doi:10.19283/lph-20142.400.; Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), read as historiography; library copy.; Robert S. Westman, “Magical Reform and Astronomical Reform: The Yates Thesis Reconsidered,” in Robert S. Westman and J. E. McGuire, Hermeticism and the Scientific Revolution (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1977), library record; its argument is cited here from Pietra’s summary (2024).; Lucas Augusto Pietra, “A construção da ‘Tese Yates’: a constituição de um paradigma entre a história da ciência e a história intelectual (1964-1974),” Temporalidades 15, no. 2 (2024), pp. 691-716, at pp. 707-708, journal page.; Hilary Gatti, Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), publisher’s page.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “How Hermetic was Renaissance Hermetism?,” Aries 15 (2015), pp. 179-209, at pp. 180-181, doi:10.1163/15700593-01502001.; Alberto A. Martínez, “Giordano Bruno and the heresy of many worlds,” Annals of Science 73, no. 4 (2016), pp. 345-374, doi:10.1080/00033790.2016.1193627; and “Was Giordano Bruno Burned at the Stake for Believing in Exoplanets?,” Scientific American blogs, 19 March 2018, online.; John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (New York: D. Appleton, 1874), ch. 6, Internet Archive.; Turismo Roma (Roma Capitale), “Campo de’ Fiori,” turismoroma.it (consulted 1 November 2026).; Corey S. Powell, “Did ‘Cosmos’ Pick the Wrong Hero?,” Discover, Out There blog, 10 March 2014, online.; Paul Raeburn, “Has ‘Cosmos’ foundered on the tomb of Giordano Bruno?,” Knight Science Journalism @MIT, 14 March 2014, online.
Helena Blavatsky: H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, 2 vols (New York: J. W. Bouton, 1877), vol. I, pp. 24, 33, 35, 307, 507, 624-625; vol. I, vol. II. Word counts ours.; H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. I (London: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1888), p. xxii; scan.; H. S. Olcott, Old Diary Leaves (New York: Putnam, 1895), scan; Second Series (London, 1900), scan; Third Series (1904), pp. 96-97, 222-223, scan.; “Report of the Committee appointed to investigate phenomena connected with the Theosophical Society”, Proceedings of the SPR 3 (1885), pp. 201-400; scan.; Leslie Price, “The Hodgson Report on Theosophy”, Psi Encyclopedia (SPR, 2016, updated 2026); online.; Vernon Harrison, H. P. Blavatsky and the SPR (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 1997), reprinting “J’Accuse”, Journal of the SPR 53 (1986), pp. 286-310; online.; W. E. Coleman, “The Sources of Madame Blavatsky’s Writings”, in V. S. Solovyoff, A Modern Priestess of Isis (London: Longmans, 1895), pp. 353-366; scan.; Sylvia Cranston, HPB (New York: Putnam, 1993), ch. 12, excerpt “Was Blavatsky a Plagiarist?”; online; sympathetic.; Edward Maitland, Anna Kingsford, vol. II, 3rd ed. (London: Watkins, 1913), pp. 186-187, 195; scan.; G. R. S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), II, pp. 16-17, 360 (scan), III, pp. 17-21 (scan); W. Scott, Hermetica I (Oxford, 1924), p. 41 (scan).; Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, II (Paris: Baillière, 1861), p. 167; scan.; J.-J. Champollion-Figeac, Égypte ancienne (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1839), pp. 139-143; scan.; Records consulted 12-13 November 2026: Library of Congress (life dates); S. Brazier, Women in World History, Encyclopedia.com; Wikipedia; D. Guy, “Christmas Humphreys”, Tricycle, 2000, online.
Hermes Trismegistus: Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes (1986).; van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes (2009).; Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992), introduction: the epithet and its early Greek attestation.; Casaubon, De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI (1614).
Isaac Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon, De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI. Ad Cardinalis Baronii Prolegomena in Annales (London: Ex officina Nortoniana apud Ioan. Billium, 1614), Exercitatio I, section X, pp. 70-87; Internet Archive (Google Books scan).; Mercurii Trismegisti Poemander, seu de potestate ac sapientia divina. Aesculapii definitiones ad Ammonem regem, ed. Adrien Turnèbe (Paris: Turnebus, 1554), the Greek editio princeps, pp. 97-98; Internet Archive (Johns Hopkins University, Bibliotheca Fictiva).; Isaac Casaubon, Ephemerides, ed. John Russell, 2 vols (Oxford: University Press, 1850), vol. II, pp. 942, 1064-1065; Internet Archive (University of Toronto copy).; Mark Pattison, Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892), pp. 3, 27-28, 64, 88-89, 139, 144-145, 175-178, 188-189, 268, 274-277, 284, 309, 315, 335, 415-418, 475-480; Internet Archive (Cornell copy). On p. 417 Pattison gives the Gregorian date of death as 12 July; with the ten-day gap of 1614 it is 11 July. Burial: Westminster Abbey, “Isaac Casaubon” (consulted 31 October 2026).; Matteo Campagnolo, “Isaac Casaubon étudiant de Théodore de Bèze”, in «Koryphaioi andri»: mélanges offerts à André Hurst, Recherches et Rencontres 22 (Geneva: Droz, 2005), pp. 717-726; Droz.; Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe (London: Richard Royston, 1678), book I, ch. 4, pp. 319-327; Internet Archive.; Walter Scott (ed.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 15-16, 24, 29, 33-34, 41-43, 92, 276; Internet Archive.; Walter Scott (ed.), Hermetica, vol. II (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925), p. 34, note on Corpus Hermeticum I.10; Internet Archive.; Anthony Grafton, “Protestant versus Prophet: Isaac Casaubon on Hermes Trismegistus”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 46 (1983), pp. 78-93, doi:10.2307/751115; reprinted in his Defenders of the Text (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991), pp. 145-161. Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg, with Alastair Hamilton, “I have always loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011); publisher’s page, whose description is quoted on this page (also at Labyrinth Books).; Martin Mulsow (ed.), Das Ende des Hermetismus. Historische Kritik und neue Naturphilosophie in der Spätrenaissance, Religion und Aufklärung 9 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002), with Martin Mulsow, “Reaktionärer Hermetismus vor 1600? Zum Kontext zu den Debatten um die Datierung von Hermes Trismegistos im Veneto”, pp. 161-188 (title and pages from his list of publications); publisher’s page. Reviews: Maximilian Bergengruen, “Ende ohne Ende”, literaturkritik.de, 1 July 2004; Martin Mulsow, review of Ralph Häfner, Götter im Exil, IASLonline, 11 July 2005, n. 9 (copy).; Esteban Law, “Die Kritik am Corpus Hermeticum im 17. Jh. und die Folgen”, Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 26 (2023), pp. 152-180, doi:10.1075/bpjam.00105.law (abstract in English).; Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), ch. XXI, “After Hermes Trismegistus was Dated”, p. 398; French translation by Marc Rolland, Giordano Bruno et la tradition hermétique (Paris, 1988), pp. 465-466, where Campagnolo 2005 quotes the passage.; Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), preface and part II, “The Way of Hermes”; publisher’s description.; Jean-Pierre Mahé, Hermès en Haute-Égypte, 2 vols (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1978-1982).; Richard Jasnow and Karl-Theodor Zauzich, The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth: A Demotic Discourse on Knowledge and Pendant to the Classical Hermetica, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005); new translation, Conversations in the House of Life (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014), publisher’s page.; Christian H. Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom (Leiden: Brill, 2018), doi:10.1163/9789004370845.
Israel Regardie: Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn, vol. 1 (The Aries Press, Chicago, 1937), title page scanned at the Internet Archive.; Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn, vol. 4 (The Aries Press, Chicago, 1940), Internet Archive.; Encyclopedia.com, Regardie, (Francis) Israel (1907-1985): biography and bibliography.; Britannica, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: founding, structure, dissolution.
John Dee: Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Cambridge Core.; Nicholas H. Clulee, John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion (London: Routledge, 1988).; Stephen Clucas (ed.), John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006).; Håkan Håkansson, Seeing the Word: John Dee and Renaissance Occultism, doctoral thesis, Lund University (Ugglan, Minervaserien 2, 2001), record and abstract.; Christopher L. Whitby, John Dee's Actions with Spirits: 22 December 1581 to 23 May 1583, PhD thesis, University of Birmingham (1982), open access, vol. I: Kelley and his first sessions (pp. 43-44), the Book of Enoch, the 48 calls and the angelic language (pp. 141-149), with Donald C. Laycock, The Complete Enochian Dictionary (London, 1978), as quoted there.; Frances A. Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979); Peter J. French, John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972).; Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson (eds.), John Dee's Library Catalogue (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1990), Open Library record.; John Dee, preface to The Elements of Geometrie of the Most Auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara, translated by H. Billingsley (London: John Daye, 1570), transcription at Project Gutenberg.; John Dee, Monas Hieroglyphica (Antwerp: Willem Silvius, 1564), Wellcome Collection copy, public domain (title page; theorem 24; preface, section 14).; John Dee, “The Compendious Rehearsall” (9 November 1592), in James Crossley (ed.), Autobiographical Tracts of Dr. John Dee (Chetham Society, 1851), scan at the Internet Archive.; J. O. Halliwell (ed.), The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of His Library of Manuscripts (London: Camden Society, 1842), transcription at Project Gutenberg.; Meric Casaubon (ed.), A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers between Dr. John Dee ... and Some Spirits (London: D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait, 1659), Getty Research Institute copy at the Internet Archive.; British Library, Sloane MS 3188, John Dee's conferences with angels, 1581-1583, catalogue record (consulted 1 November 2026).; British Museum, 1966,1001.1, Dr Dee's Magical Mirror, collection record (consulted 1 November 2026).; Royal College of Physicians, Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee (exhibition, 2016; consulted 1 November 2026); Katie Birkwood, “Code making and code breaking: John Dee and the art of cryptography”, RCP Museum blog, 6 May 2016.; Mordechai Feingold, “John Dee”, Encyclopaedia Britannica, updated 2 October 2026.; Museum of Freemasonry, London, GBR 1991 GD, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, its members and related bodies, description at AIM25 (consulted 1 November 2026).; Richard Deacon (Donald McCormick), John Dee: Scientist, Geographer, Astrologer and Secret Agent to Elizabeth I (London: Muller, 1968), Open Library record.; Westminster Abbey, Elizabeth I: crowned on 15 January 1559 (consulted 1 November 2026).
Lodovico Lazzarelli: Wouter J. Hanegraaff & Ruud M. Bouthoorn, Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005); Open Library record.; Guido Arbizzoni, “Lazzarelli, Ludovico”, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 64 (2005), Treccani (consulted 4 November 2026).; Simona Foà, “Giovanni da Correggio”, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 55 (2001), Treccani (consulted 4 November 2026).; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “How Hermetic was Renaissance Hermetism?”, Aries 15 (2015), pp. 179-209, here pp. 180, 182, 195-196, 200 and 205-206; open-access PDF, DOI.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “The Real Hermetic Tradition (Lodovico Lazzarelli and Giovanni da Correggio)”, blog post, 24 October 2020, online.; Paul Oskar Kristeller, “Marsilio Ficino e Lodovico Lazzarelli”, Annali della R. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, ser. 2, 7 (1938), pp. 237-262; reprinted in his Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters (Rome, 1956).; Claudio Moreschini, Dall’Asclepius al Crater Hermetis (Pisa, 1985), pp. 203-265: the full Latin text of the Crater (cited from Arbizzoni 2005; not seen).; Christopher S. Celenza, “Marsilio Ficino”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (first published 2011, substantive revision 28 May 2024), section 3.1; online.
Marsilio Ficino: Christopher S. Celenza, “Marsilio Ficino”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (first published 2011, substantive revision 28 May 2024); online.; Cesare Vasoli, “Ficino, Marsilio”, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 47 (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1997): the date of birth from Ficino’s own letter, the translation finished in April 1463 from cod. Laur. 71.33, the Treviso printing of 18 December 1471, De vita and the charge of magic, the Plotinus of 7 May 1492, death on 1 October 1499; online.; Dale Kent, “Medici, Cosimo de’”, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 73 (2009): Cosimo’s death at his villa at Careggi on 1 August 1464; online.; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924): p. 20 (Laurentianus 71.33, Corp. I-XIV, brought from Macedonia), pp. 31-33 (the Treviso edition, Ficino’s preface, later editions), p. 41 (Casaubon, 1614); scan at the Internet Archive.; Arnaldo Della Torre, Storia dell’Accademia platonica di Firenze (Florence: G. Carnesecchi e figli, 1902): p. 18 (the sixteenth-century reading of a formal academy), p. 467 (Ficino’s preface to Plotinus), p. 543 (his dedication to Cosimo and the date of April 1463); scan at the Internet Archive.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “How Hermetic was Renaissance Hermetism?”, Aries 15 (2015), pp. 179-209, at p. 181 (no magic in the treatises Ficino translated), pp. 184-186 (the editions of 1471 and 1472), pp. 189-195 (Ficino’s reading; Lazzarelli), pp. 205-206 (conclusions); PDF, DOI.; Maurizio Campanelli, “Marsilio Ficino’s portrait of Hermes Trismegistus and its afterlife”, Intellectual History Review 29:1 (2019), pp. 53-71: the translation made in 1463 at Cosimo de’ Medici’s request, more than 40 manuscripts and 24 printed editions of the Pimander to the end of the 16th century (abstract); DOI.; James Hankins, “Cosimo de’ Medici and the ‘Platonic Academy’”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 53 (1990), pp. 144-162, DOI; “The Myth of the Platonic Academy of Florence”, Renaissance Quarterly 44:3 (1991), pp. 429-475, DOI.; Arthur Field, The Origins of the Platonic Academy of Florence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988); publisher’s description.; Glasgow Incunabula Project: Marsilio Ficino, De vita libri tres, with the Apologia (Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 3 December 1489), ISTC if00158000; catalogue entry.; Marsilio Ficino, preface (Argumentum) to the Pimander: Hermes at the time of Moses, ruler of the Egyptians and first author of theology; opening quoted in Scott 1924, I, p. 31; a fifteenth-century printing, digitised by the Source Library.; Florian Ebeling, The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus (Cornell UP, 2007), pp. 59-60.; Brian P. Copenhaver, “Hermes Trismegistus, Proclus and the Question of a Philosophy of Magic in the Renaissance”, in I. Merkel and A. Debus (eds.), Hermeticism and the Renaissance: Intellectual History and the Occult in Early Modern Europe (Washington, D.C.: Folger Books, 1988), pp. 79-111. Copenhaver’s own summary of the argument, that the Hermetica Ficino translated are not about magic and that the philosophical basis Ficino gave to magic came from Neoplatonists such as Plotinus and Proclus: interview with Peter Adamson, History of Philosophy without any gaps, episode 367 (28 February 2021); transcript.; Joanna Komorowska, “Picatrix Latinus: kilka słów wprowadzenia”, Terminus 17, no. 1 (2015), pp. 147-199, at pp. 147-148: influence of the Picatrix on Ficino, Pico and Agrippa (p. 147), the Latin version and the court of Alfonso X (p. 148); open access.; David Pingree (ed.), Picatrix: The Latin Version of the Ghayat al-Hakim (London: Warburg Institute, 1986; Studies of the Warburg Institute 39): the Latin prologue (the book was translated from Arabic into Spanish at the order of King Alfonso and finished in 1256); introduction, p. xv n. 7 (its influence on the Italian Renaissance, with a reference to V. Perrone Compagni, 1977); free PDF at Warburg Library Commons.; Riccardo Chiaradonna and Adrien Lecerf, “Iamblichus”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (first published 2019, substantive revision 7 November 2023), section 1.2; online.; Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon and Jackson P. Hershbell (trans.), Iamblichus: De mysteriis (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003), Introduction, pp. xiii and xlviii; PDF on the publisher’s site.
Nicolas Flamel: Étienne-François Villain, Histoire critique de Nicolas Flamel et de Pernelle sa femme (Paris: G. Desprez, 1761), Internet Archive (Getty Research Institute copy) and second copy.; Trois traictez de la philosophie naturelle non encore imprimez, with the Livre des figures hiéroglyphiques attributed to Nicolas Flamel (Paris: Guillaume Marette, 1612), Science History Institute, QD25 .A763 1612, digital.sciencehistory.org/works/mtgsst0 (Public Domain Mark 1.0); variant (Paris: widow of M. Guillemot, 1612), Wellcome Collection.; Trois traictez de la philosophie naturelle, reprint (Paris, 1659), BIU Santé copy, archive.org/details/BIUSante_05058.; Nicholas Flammel, His Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures, tr. Eirenaeus Orandus (London: T. S. for Thomas Walkley, 1624), Internet Archive.; La métallique transformation (Lyon: Pierre Rigaud, 1618), with the Sommaire philosophique attributed to Flamel, Internet Archive.; Albert Poisson, Nicolas Flamel, sa vie, ses fondations, ses oeuvres (Paris, 1893), Internet Archive.; Newton Project, “The Book of Nicholas Flamel conteining The explication of the Hieroglyphical Figures”, record ALCH00076, newtonproject.ox.ac.uk (accessed 29 October 2026).; Didier Kahn, “Un témoin précoce de la naissance du mythe de Flamel alchimiste: le Livre Flamel (fin du XVe siècle)”, Chrysopoeia V (1992-1996), pp. 387-429; reference cited at publis-shs.univ-rouen.fr.; Nigel Wilkins, Nicolas Flamel: des livres et de l’or (Paris: Imago, 1993), ISBN 2-902702-77-9.; Medievalists.net, article on the exhibition “Nicolas Flamel, alchimiste de papier” (October 2026), medievalists.net (accessed 29 October 2026).; Ville de Paris, exhibition page “Nicolas Flamel, alchimiste de papier”, Musée de Cluny, 13 October 2026 - 24 January 2027, paris.fr; and “Sept choses à savoir sur la tour Saint-Jacques”, paris.fr (accessed 29 October 2026).; Wikipedia, “Nicolas Flamel”, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Flamel (accessed 29 October 2026), only for the points flagged in the text: Pontoise, Pernelle’s earlier marriages, the tombstone commissioned in 1410, the date of death according to Wilkins and the position of Mary and Richard Rouse.; Sortiraparis, “The Nicolas Flamel mystery: where is the tomb of Paris’s most famous alchemist hidden?”, sortiraparis.com (the tombstone bought back in 1839).; Tom Fischer, “Quel alchimiste pour les écrivains romantiques français? Le cas Nicolas Flamel”, publis-shs.univ-rouen.fr (accessed 29 October 2026).
Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim): Urs Leo Gantenbein, “Paracelsus”, in Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), 2006 version, revised 27 September 2010: hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/012196 (consulted on 29 October 2026; CC BY-SA licence).; Universitat de València, IHCD, “Paracelso (1493-1541)” (in Spanish): uv.es/ihcd/Farmacologia/bioparacelso.html (consulted on 29 October 2026).; Karl Sudhoff (ed.), Theophrast von Hohenheim gen. Paracelsus, Sämtliche Werke, I. Abteilung, 14 volumes (1922-1933); vol. 8 (1924), Paragranum, pp. 133-221: Internet Archive, Wellcome Library copy; vol. 11 (Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1928), Septem Defensiones, pp. 123-160, and De natura rerum, pp. 307-403: Internet Archive, Wellcome Library copy (records marked InC 1.0).; Johannes Huser (ed.), Bücher und Schrifften (Basel, 1589-1591); Strasbourg reprint, 1616, Getty Research Institute copy: Internet Archive.; Theatrum Paracelsicum, Bibliographia Paracelsica Nova: Books by Paracelsus 1527 to 1599: theatrum-paracelsicum.com (consulted on 29 October 2026).; Theatrum Paracelsicum, entries on works: De natura rerum, Apocalypsis Hermetis, De tinctura physicorum, De magia veterum (Arbatel), Auslegung über Tabulam Smaragdinam Hermetis Trismegisti; biography of Paracelsus with the notes of J. Telle and W. Kühlmann: Biographies/Paracelsus (consulted on 29 October 2026).; Adam von Bodenstein, dedication to the Doge and government of Venice, Basel, “quarto Kal. Februar.” [29 January] 1560, in Paracelsus, Libri quatuor de vita longa (1560); edition by J. Paulus in the Theatrum Paracelsicum: Latin text; W. Kühlmann and J. Telle (eds.), Corpus Paracelsisticum 1, no. 6.; Urs Leo Gantenbein, “Real or Fake? New Light on the Paracelsian De natura rerum”, Ambix 67, no. 1 (2020), pp. 4-29, DOI 10.1080/00026980.2020.1720339.; Akihito Murase, “The Homunculus and the Paracelsian Liber de imaginibus”, Ambix 67, no. 1 (2020), pp. 47-61, DOI 10.1080/00026980.2020.1720359.; Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai (eds.), Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy (Leiden: Brill, 2022), DOI 10.1163/9789004503380.; Joachim Telle, “Johann Huser in seinen Briefen”, in Parerga Paracelsica (1991), p. 220.; Wilhelm Kühlmann and Joachim Telle (eds.), Oswaldus Crollius, Alchemomedizinische Briefe 1585 bis 1597 (Stuttgart, 1998), pp. 201-202.; Jeffrey K. Aronson, “When I use a word... Nothing is not a poison”, The BMJ Opinion, 9 August 2019: blogs.bmj.com.; Bibliographia Paracelsica, entry BP.Alchemica.1625-03 (Musaeum Hermeticum, Frankfurt, Lucas Jennis, 1625): Theatrum Paracelsicum.; Zurich Paracelsus Project (Universität Zürich): paracelsus.uzh.ch, on the Neue Paracelsus-Edition (consulted on 29 October 2026).
Pico della Mirandola: Brian P. Copenhaver, “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (first published 2008, substantive revision 21 August 2024).; Brian P. Copenhaver, Magic and the Dignity of Man (Harvard UP, 2019).; S. A. Farmer, Syncretism in the West: Pico’s 900 Theses (1486), Latin text, translation and commentary (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998).; Brian P. Copenhaver (ed. and trans.), 900 Conclusions, I Tatti Renaissance Library 100 (Harvard University Press, 2025).; Borghesi, Papio & Riva (eds.), Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man (Cambridge UP, 2012).
Ramon Llull (Raymond Lull): Ernesto Priani, “Ramon Llull”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (first published 2017, revised 24 February 2025), plato.stanford.edu/entries/llull.; “Ramon Llull”, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana, online edition (in Catalan), enciclopedia.cat.; Michela Pereira, “Per una història de l’alquímia a la Catalunya medieval”, in J. Vernet and R. Parés (dirs.), La ciència en la història dels Països Catalans, vol. 1 (Valencia: Institut d’Estudis Catalans and Universitat de València, 2004), pp. 455-482; PDF in the Base de Dades Ramon Llull.; Michela Pereira, The Alchemical Corpus Attributed to Raymond Lull (London: The Warburg Institute, 1989; Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 18); scan in the Base de Dades Ramon Llull.; Michela Pereira, “Catalogue of the alchemical works attributed to Raimond Lull”, online update of the 1989 catalogue, Instituto Brasileiro de Filosofia e Ciência Raimundo Lúlio: introduction and entries.; Michela Pereira and Barbara Spaggiari, Il «Testamentum» alchemico attribuito a Raimondo Lullo. Edizione del testo latino e catalano dal manoscritto Oxford, Corpus Christi College 244 (Tavarnuzze, Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1999; Millennio medievale 14).; Raymundi Lulli... Testamentum duobus libris universam artem chymicam complectens; item eiusdem Compendium animae transmutationis artis metallorum (Cologne: Joannes Byrckmann, 1566), copy in the library of the University of Seville, A Res. 25/6/26, Internet Archive; editions of Cologne, 1573 (Internet Archive), and Frankfurt, 1630, Fasciculus aureus (BIU Santé on Internet Archive).; Jean-Jacques Manget, Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, vol. I (Geneva: Chouët, 1702), Wellcome Collection copy, Internet Archive.; Arnau Vives, review of Francesc J. Gómez, “L’alquímia en Llull, Llull en l’alquímia”, Studia Lulliana 58 (2018), pp. 223-224, Dipòsit Digital de la UB.; José Rodríguez Guerrero (dir.), Azogue 9 (2019-2023), special issue on the pseudo-Lullian alchemical corpus, with an introduction by Michela Pereira; ISSN 1575-8184; revistaazogue.com.; Anthony Bonner, “El lul·lisme alquímic i cabalístic i les edicions de Llàtzer Zetzner”, Randa 22, PDF in the Base de Dades Ramon Llull.; Stefania Buosi Moncunill, El Testament alquímic pseudolul·lià en un manuscrit inèdit català del segle XVI, còpia autògrafa de Jaume Mas, doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2023, TDX.; Arthur Edward Waite (ed.), The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, vol. II (London, 1893): “The Testament of Cremer”.; Raimundi Lulli Opera Latina (ROL), in the series Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols), series page; Ars generalis ultima, ed. A. Madre, ROL XIV, CCCM 75 (1986).; Lola Badia (dir.), Xavier Bonillo, Eugènia Gisbert and Montserrat Lluch (eds.), Ramon Llull, Llibre de meravelles, vol. 1, books I-VII (Palma: Patronat Ramon Llull, 2011; NEORL 10), MedCat entry.; Ramon Llull, Arbre de sciència, ed. Salvador Galmés, 3 vols. (Palma: Comissió Editora Lul·liana, 1917, 1923 and 1926; ORL XI-XIII), MedCat entry.; Frances A. Yates, “The Art of Ramon Lull: An Approach to It through Lull’s Theory of the Elements”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 17 (1954), pp. 115-173, doi:10.2307/750135; Frances A. Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (1979), chapter “Medieval Christian Cabala: The Art of Ramon Lull”.; Saverio Campanini, “Una fonte trascurata sul rapporto tra qabbalah e combinatoria lulliana in Pico della Mirandola: il commento alle preghiere di Yehudah Ibn Malka”, Studia Lulliana 55 (2015), pp. 83-127, IBDigital (UIB).; Marco Matteoli, “Ars combinatoria and Ars memoriae in Giordano Bruno”, PDF, on Bruno’s three Lullian books (1582, 1587 and 1588).; Anthony Bonner (dir.), Base de Dades Ramon Llull, Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull, Universitat de Barcelona, ub.edu/llulldb (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence).
The Count of Saint-Germain: Horace Walpole to Horace Mann, Arlington Street, 9 December 1745, in C. D. Yonge (ed.), Letters of Horace Walpole, vol. I (London: T. Fisher Unwin; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890); Project Gutenberg #12073.; Voltaire to Frederick II, 15 April 1760, letter 4094, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Paris: Garnier), vol. 40, pp. 352-353; Wikisource (consulted 30 October 2026).; Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, autograph manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAF 28604 (shelfmark in the BnF catalogue; digitised in Gallica); English: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, tr. Arthur Machen (London, 1894), chapters “Paris and Holland” III, “Return to Paris” VI, “Holland and Germany” X and “Flight from London to Berlin” XVI in Project Gutenberg #2981.; Charles-Henri, baron de Gleichen, Souvenirs, ed. Paul Grimblot (Paris: Léon Techener fils, 1868), ch. XI “Saint-Germain”, pp. 120-134; Project Gutenberg #37762, made from BnF Gallica images.; Charles, landgrave of Hesse, Mémoires de mon temps (Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz, 1861), pp. 132-136; Internet Archive (University of Toronto copy).; Gustav Berthold Volz (ed.), Der Graf von Saint-Germain. Das Leben eines Alchimisten. Nach großenteils unveröffentlichten Urkunden, German by Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski (Dresden: Paul Aretz, 1923): introduction, pp. 5-43; documents on London (pp. 119-121), France (pp. 122-143), the Hague mission of 1760 (pp. 144-220), Tournai (pp. 225-287), Leipzig and Dresden (pp. 304-337), Berlin (pp. 338-349) and Schleswig (pp. 353-362); “Saint-Germains Tod in Eckernförde”, pp. 363-367; Project Gutenberg #68838, whose HTML edition marks the 1923 page numbers cited here.; IMSLP: Musique raisonnée selon le bon sens aux dames angloises (London: John Walsh, about 1749) and The Favourite Songs in L’Inconstanza delusa (London: John Walsh), British Library scans (consulted 30 October 2026).; Charles Burney, A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period, vol. IV (London: printed for the author, 1789), p. 452; Internet Archive (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy, digitised by Google).; David Hunter, “Monsieur le Comte de Saint-Germain: The Great Pretender”, The Musical Times 144, no. 1885 (2003), pp. 40 ff.; doi:10.2307/3650726 (JSTOR).; Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques des départements, vol. II (Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1855), Troyes, no. 2400, “La très-sainte Trinosophie”; CCFr (consulted 30 October 2026).; Getty Research Institute, Finding aid for the Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825, no. 950053, boxes 34-35; PDF (consulted 30 October 2026).; A Parallel French and English Text of the Most Holy Trinosophia of the Comte de St.-Germain, with introductory material and commentary by Manly Hall (Los Angeles: Phoenix Press, 1933); catalogue record from Harvard Library data, Open Library (consulted 30 October 2026).; H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, ed. G. R. S. Mead (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1892), pp. 308-309; Internet Archive (photographic reprint, Los Angeles: Theosophy Company, 1930).; Isabel Cooper-Oakley, The Comte de St. Germain: the secret of kings (Milan: G. Sulli-Rao, 1912), pp. 17, 65-66, 108-109, 153-154; Internet Archive.; Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record “Adhémar, Gabrielle-Pauline d’ (1735?-18..)”, ark:/12148/cb10034931h; Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, “Dames du palais de Marie-Antoinette 1774-1789” (2012), charge no. 6, PDF (both consulted 30 October 2026).; A. S. Pushkin, “Pikovaya dama” (The Queen of Spades), Biblioteka dlya chteniya, 1834, vol. II, pp. 109-140; Russian text on Wikisource; English: “The Queen of Spades”, tr. T. Keane, Wikisource (both consulted 30 October 2026).; Alice A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar (New York: Lucifer Publishing, 1922), pp. 58-59, Internet Archive; C. W. Leadbeater, The Masters and the Path (Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1925), p. 11, Internet Archive.; Tim Rudbøg, “I AM Activity”, World Religions and Spirituality Project, 9 August 2016, chronology; wrldrels.org (consulted 30 October 2026).; United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 (1944), opinion of Justice Douglas; Legal Information Institute (consulted 30 October 2026).; Hanna Sonkajärvi, “Circulation of Military Knowledge: The French and Danish Military Reforms of Comte de Saint-Germain in the Late 18th Century”, Almanack, no. 38 (2024); doi:10.1590/2236-463338ea00324 (open access).; Wikipedia, “Count of St. Germain”, revision of 9 October 2026, cited only for the dates it gives (consulted 30 October 2026).
Thoth: Martin A. Stadler, "Thoth," UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (2012), eScholarship (consulted 1 November 2026).; Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes (Cambridge UP, 1986).; Richard Jasnow & Karl-Theodor Zauzich, The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth: A Demotic Discourse on Knowledge and Pendant to the Classical Hermetica, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005), publisher’s page (consulted 1 November 2026).; The Global Egyptian Museum, glossary entry “Ogdoad” (consulted 28 October 2026).; The Global Egyptian Museum, glossary entry “Hermopolis” (consulted 1 November 2026).; Herodotus, Histories 2.67, tr. A. D. Godley (Loeb Classical Library, 1920), on the Perseus Digital Library (consulted 29 October 2026).; Plato, Phaedrus 274c-275b, tr. Harold North Fowler, Plato I, Loeb Classical Library 36 (London: Heinemann, 1913).; J. D. Ray, The Archive of Hor, Texts from Excavations 2 (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1976): Text 19 and the appendix on the titles of Thoth.; Sally Wasef and colleagues, “Mitogenomic diversity in Sacred Ibis Mummies sheds light on early Egyptian practices”, PLOS ONE 14(11): e0223964 (2019), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0223964.; Kevin van Bladel, review of Jasnow and Zauzich, The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.05.19.; D. M. Burns, “A New Volume of Perfect Words”, review of Litwa’s Hermetica II, Aries 21 (2021), pp. 271-278, at pp. 277-278 (doi:10.1163/15700593-02102003).; Joachim Friedrich Quack, “Die Initiation zum Schreiberberuf im Alten Ägypten”, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 36 (2007), pp. 249-295, and “Ein ägyptischer Dialog über die Schreibkunst und das arkane Wissen”, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 9 (2007), pp. 259-294 (Heidelberg University repository); as cited in Stadler 2012 and Burns 2021.; Library of Congress, Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1, Group 2, vol. 36 (1939), entry 43954, “Emerald-tablets of Thoth-the-Atlantean”: scan at the Internet Archive.; Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Part 1B, vol. 2 (1948), Doreal, “An interpretation of the emerald tablets; with the two tablets not printed previously”: scan at the Internet Archive.; UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections, Brotherhood of the White Temple, Inc. collection (ARC Mss 57), finding aid (consulted 1 November 2026).; Maurice Doreal, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-the-Atlantean (Brotherhood of the White Temple, 1939), preface; read in a later reprint.; Jeb J. Card, “‘Older than brooding Egypt or the contemplative Sphinx’: Egypt and the Mythic Past in Alternative Egyptology and the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft”, Journal of History and Cultures 10 (2019), pp. 22-44, at pp. 26-27 (archived copy of the issue).; Homeric Hymn to Hermes 1-3, tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Project Gutenberg.
William Walker Atkinson: Who’s Who in America, vol. 6, 1910-1911 (Chicago: A. N. Marquis), entry “Atkinson, William Walker, author”, pp. 56-57; Internet Archive.; Who’s Who in America, vol. 7, 1912-1913 (Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company, 1912), entry “Atkinson, William Walker”, pp. 62-63 (“Also, anonymously” on p. 63); Internet Archive.; Who’s Who in America, vol. 9, 1916-1917 (Chicago: A. N. Marquis), entry “Atkinson, William Walker”, p. 76; Internet Archive.; Library of Congress, Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Part 1: Books, Group 1, new series vol. 5 (Washington, 1908), p. 38, no. 15439 (The Kybalion, registered 13 June 1908); Internet Archive.; Three Initiates, The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece (Chicago: The Yogi Publication Society, Masonic Temple, 1908), title page and verso; Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University copy, Internet Archive.; Philip Deslippe, “The Hidden Sage: William Walker Atkinson & His Legacy”, New Dawn, Special Issue vol. 13 no. 5 (2019), pp. 63-70; author’s PDF.; Philip Deslippe (ed. and intro.), The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2011), ISBN 978-1-58542-874-8.; William Walker Atkinson, The Law of the New Thought (Chicago: The Psychic Research Company, 1902); Internet Archive.; William Walker Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or The Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Chicago: New Thought Publishing Co., copyright 1906; printing The Library Shelf, 1908); Internet Archive.; Yogi Ramacharaka, Hatha Yoga, or The Yogi Philosophy of Physical Well-Being (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, 1904); Internet Archive.; Theron Q. Dumont, The Solar Plexus or Abdominal Brain (Chicago: Advanced Thought Publishing Co., n.d.); Internet Archive.; Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record “Three initiates” (FRBNF13195437), and record FRBNF41108357 (Le Kybalion, “traduit de l’anglais en 1917 par M. André Durville”, reprint, Montélimar, 2007); catalogue.bnf.fr.; Library of Congress Name Authority File, “Three Initiates, 1862-1932”, n2008026919 (record of 14 April 2008, revised; citing Wikipedia, 2008 and 2021, and a Kybalion website, 2005); id.loc.gov.
Zosimos of Panopolis: Michèle Mertens, Zosime de Panopolis, Mémoires authentiques (Les alchimistes grecs IV.1; Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1995), BnF.; Marcellin Berthelot and Charles-Émile Ruelle, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs (Paris, 1887-1888), archive.org.; Howard M. Jackson, Zosimos of Panopolis: On the Letter Omega (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1978), Open Library.; Joshua Werrett, The Visions of Zosimos of Panopolis: Text, Translation, and Commentary (DPhil thesis, Oxford, 2024), ORA.; Marina Escolano-Poveda, “Zosimos Aigyptiakos”, pp. 77-134 (DOI), and Olivier Dufault, “Was Zosimus of Panopolis Christian?”, pp. 135-170 (DOI), both in ARYS 20 (2022).; Gerasimos Merianos, review of Olivier Dufault, Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity (2019), Ambix 67 (2020), pp. 319-321, DOI.; Kyle A. Fraser, “Baptised in Gnôsis: The Spiritual Alchemy of Zosimos of Panopolis”, Dionysius 25 (2007), pp. 33-54, open access.; Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes (Cambridge UP, 1986).; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford, 1924), archive.org; G. R. S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. III (London, 1906), archive.org.; Suda, Zeta 168, tr. David Whitehead, Suda On Line.; Pierre Lory, review of Theodor Abt (ed.), The Book of Pictures: Muṣḥaf aṣ-ṣuwar by Zosimos of Panopolis (Zurich, 2011), BCAI 28 (2013), IFAO.; Fabiana Lopes da Silveira, “Before the Golden Flower: Jung’s Early Engagement with the Alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis”, Journal of Analytical Psychology 70 (2025), pp. 194-216, DOI.
Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse-Louis Constant): Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record “Constant, Alphonse (1810-1875)”: catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb118975447 (consulted 30 October 2026).; Bibliothèque nationale de France, bibliographic records: Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, G. Baillière, 1856 (cb30265163b) and 1861 (cb30265164p); Histoire de la magie, 1860 (cb30265167q); La clef des grands mystères, 1861 (cb30265157d); La science des esprits, 1865 (cb302651740); La Bible de la liberté, 1841 (cb330784426) and its Procès, 1841 (cb314608835); authority record of Claude Vignon (Noémi Cadiot, 1828-1888) (cb12333037n); Le livre des splendeurs, 1894 (cb30265170m); Le grand arcane, 1898 (cb30265166c).; Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Paris: Germer Baillière, 1861): vol. 1 archive.org/details/bub_gb_lxQRrFze2A0C, vol. 2 archive.org/details/bub_gb_LBMUb7rZNVYC (copies of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Public Domain Mark 1.0); also University of Michigan and Wellcome Library.; Éliphas Lévi, Histoire de la magie (Paris: G. Baillière, 1860), text at Project Gutenberg, no. 21013.; Éliphas Lévi, La clef des grands mystères (Paris: G. Baillière, 1861), Library of Congress copy: archive.org/details/leclefdesgrandsm00lvil.; Julian Strube, “The ‘Baphomet’ of Eliphas Lévi: Its Meaning and Historical Context”, Correspondences 4 (2016), pp. 37-79: correspondencesjournal.com, PDF at UvA-DARE (CC BY-NC 4.0). By the same author, Sozialismus, Katholizismus und Okkultismus im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2016), cited through the article.; Arthur Edward Waite (trans.), Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual (London: George Redway, 1896): archive.org/details/transcendentalma00leviuoft.; Antoine Court de Gébelin, Monde primitif, vol. VIII (Paris, 1781), with “Recherches sur les Tarots”, signed “M. le C. de M***”, from p. 395 (we quote pp. 396 and 400): archive.org/details/mondeprimitifana08cour_0 (Getty Research Institute copy).; Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn, vol. 1 (Chicago: The Aries Press, 1937): the order’s historical lecture quoted in the introduction (p. 16) and the table “Attribution of the Tarot Trumps” (p. 139). Record of the work (4 vols., 1937-1940) in the Library of Congress catalogue; we know of no authorized digital copy.; Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (London: Chapman and Hall, 1892), Cornell University Library copy: archive.org/details/cu31924028930571.; Aleister Crowley (trans.), “The Key of the Mysteries”, supplement to The Equinox, vol. I, no. 10 (London: Wieland & Co., September 1913): translator’s note (pp. v-vi) and introduction (pp. vii-ix). Scan of the issue, with the supplement, at aleistercrowleytimeline.com.; Paul Chacornac, Éliphas Lévi, rénovateur de l’occultisme en France (1810-1875) (Paris: Librairie générale des sciences occultes, Chacornac frères, 1926), XVIII-300 pp. (BnF record), pp. 191-192 and 200-201, and André Combes, history of the lodge La Rose du Parfait Silence (1813-1993), p. 15: we cite both from the French extracts, with English translation by Trevor W. McKeown (2001), at freemasonry.bcy.ca; we have not consulted the books.; Jules Thomas, Procès de « La Bible de la liberté », recueilli à l’audience (Paris: Pilout, 1841), 24 pp.: digital copy in the OAR@UM repository of the University of Malta, um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/118461; BnF record cb314608835.; English editions of Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, Library of Congress records: 10016966 (Chicago: de Laurence, Scott & Co., 1910), 39000492 (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938), 77268062 (London: Rider, 1958), 72016629 (New York: S. Weiser, 1970) and 2016040845 (New York: TarcherPerigee, 2017) (consulted 12 November 2026).

The Ideas

As above, so below: Ursula Weisser (ed.), Buch über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung (Kitab sirr al-khaliqa), Aleppo, 1979: the oldest Arabic text of the Tablet.; Julius Ruska, Tabula Smaragdina (Heidelberg, 1926).; E.J. Holmyard, “The Emerald Table”, Nature 112 (1923).; Hugo of Santalla, De secretis naturae, Latin translation of the Kitab sirr al-khaliqa (12th century), ed. Françoise Hudry, Chrysopoeia 6 (1997-1999): the ‘superiora de inferioribus’ wording.; Robert Steele and Dorothea Waley Singer, “The Emerald Table”, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 21 (1928): the Latin text.; Isaac Newton, translation of the Tablet, Keynes MS 28, King’s College, Cambridge (late 17th century).; H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (New York: J.W. Bouton, 1877), vol. 1, p. 35.; Three Initiates, The Kybalion (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, 1908).; Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992), for correspondence and the human as microcosm in the Corpus and the Asclepius.
Correspondences: Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992): CH VIII; Ascl. 23-24, 37-38.; Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes (1986), ch. 1-2: the technical Hermetica.; Pingree (ed.), Picatrix: The Latin Version (Warburg Institute, 1986): Book III, ch. 1, p. 91, free PDF at Warburg Library Commons.; Faivre, Access to Western Esotericism (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994), publisher’s page.; Cicero, De divinatione II.33-34 (44 BCE), Latin text, The Latin Library.; Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers VII.140, tr. R. D. Hicks (1925), Wikisource.; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Stoicism” and “Plotinus” (2024).; Plotinus, Enneads IV.4.32 and 40, tr. Stephen MacKenna, Christian Classics Ethereal Library.; G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes (1906), vol. II: CH VIII, pp. 124-127; Asclepius (“The Perfect Sermon”) 24 and 37-38, pp. 351, 381-384, Internet Archive.; Augustine, City of God VIII.23, tr. Marcus Dods, New Advent.; Marsilio Ficino, De vita libri tres (Florence: Antonio Miscomini, 3 December 1489), University of Liège copy (DONum); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze copy, Internet Archive.; Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia libri tres ([Cologne?], 1533), book II, ch. 4-14, U.S. National Library of Medicine copy, Internet Archive; English translation (London, 1651), ed. Joseph H. Peterson, Esoteric Archives.; Emanuel Swedenborg, De coelo et ejus mirabilibus, et de inferno, ex auditis et visis (1758), Internet Archive; Heaven and Hell, tr. John C. Ager (1905), §§87-115, Wikisource.; Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondances”, Les Fleurs du mal (Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857), p. 19, Wikisource; essay on Victor Hugo, L’Art romantique, Wikisource.; Three Initiates, The Kybalion (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, 1908), ch. II, V, VII and VIII, Wikisource.; 777 vel Prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mysticae viae explicandae (London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1909), running title “Table of correspondences”, Library of Congress record, via Open Library.
Gnosis: Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992): CH I, VII, X, XIII. Cambridge University Press.; G. R. S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London, 1906), Internet Archive; W. Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), Internet Archive.; Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes (1986): the 'way of Hermes'.; W. J. Hanegraaff, “Altered states of knowledge: the attainment of gnōsis in the Hermetica”, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2 (2008), pp. 128-163, Brill, open copy; Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Cambridge Core.; R. van den Broek, Gnostic Religion in Antiquity (2013), Cambridge Core; M. A. Williams, Rethinking “Gnosticism” (Princeton, 1996), Open Library; K. L. King, What Is Gnosticism? (Harvard, 2003), publisher.; U. Bianchi (ed.), Le origini dello gnosticismo (Leiden: Brill, 1967), catalogue; P.-H. Poirier, Laval théologique et philosophique 39 (1983), pp. 221-230, Érudit.; Liddell, Scott and Jones, Greek-English Lexicon, s.v. gnōsis, Logeion; 1 Timothy 6:20, Greek text; Eusebius, Church History V.7.1, New Advent.
Hermetic Qabalah: the Tree of Life, layer by layer: Sefer Yetzirah 1:1-2 and Sefaria’s note on dating, sefaria.org; Rittangel’s Sefer Yetsirah with the Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom (Amsterdam, 1642), Library of Congress, in English by W. W. Westcott (1893), Internet Archive.; “The Zohar and Kabbalah”, Encyclopaedia Judaica, with additions by Melila Hellner-Eshed, Jewish Virtual Library.; Brian Copenhaver, “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (rev. 2024), plato.stanford.edu.; “Reuchlin, Johannes” and “Kabbalah”, Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (2007), at Encyclopedia.com: Reuchlin, Kabbalah; Reuchlin, De arte cabalistica (Hagenau: Anshelm, 1517), Library of Congress.; Vittoria Perrone Compagni, “Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (rev. 2025), plato.stanford.edu; Agrippa, De occulta philosophia, book II, ch. 13 (English of 1651), Esoteric Archives.; Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, vol. II, part 1 (Rome, 1653), class IV, ch. 9, Internet Archive.; J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (Penn State UP, 2022), reviewed by Avinoam J. Stillman, Jewish Review of Books (Spring 2023); Marvin J. Heller, “R. Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla”, Sephardic Horizons 15:1.; Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, Kabbala denudata, 2 vols (Sulzbach, 1677-1678; Frankfurt, 1684), Library of Congress; vol. 1 at the Internet Archive.; Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1861), vol. 2, Internet Archive.; S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Kabbalah Unveiled (London: George Redway, 1887), Internet Archive.; Museum of Freemasonry, London, Golden Dawn collection (GBR 1991 GD), AIM25 catalogue.; [Aleister Crowley], 777 (London, 1909), Table I, col. XIV, Open Library; the 1909 tables in facsimile in 777 Revised (1955), Internet Archive.; Library of Congress records: Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn (Chicago, 1937-1940), 37022371; Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah (London, 1935), 35019556; J. F. C. Fuller, The Secret Wisdom of the Qabalah (London, 1937), 38018594; Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (Jerusalem, 1941), 43014074.; A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), transcription at the Internet Archive; Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (1944), Harvard Library record.
Hermetic alchemy: Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), Introduction, pp. 1, 29; Internet Archive scan (consulted 31 October 2026).; M. Berthelot and Ch.-Ém. Ruelle, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs, 2e livraison: Les œuvres de Zosime, texte grec et traduction française (Paris: Georges Steinheil, 1888): Greek text p. 245 (Final Count §8); French translation pp. 221-223 (On Apparatus and Furnaces, on the letter omega, §§1-5) and p. 236 (Final Count §8); Internet Archive scan (University of Toronto copy, consulted 31 October 2026).; Paul Kraus, Jâbir ibn Hayyân: Contribution à l’histoire des idées scientifiques dans l’Islam, vol. II: Jâbir et la science grecque (Cairo, 1942; Mémoires de l’Institut d’Égypte 45), pp. 274-275, 302-303; Internet Archive scan.; Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl, “Sirr al-khaliqa and its influence in the Arabic and Persianate world: ‘Awn b. al-Mundhir’s commentary and its unknown Persian translation”, Al-Qantara 37.2 (2016), pp. 435-473, at pp. 443-444, translating Ursula Weisser (ed.), Sirr al-khaliqa wa-san‘at al-tabi‘a (Aleppo, 1979), p. 7; doi:10.3989/alqantara.2016.015 (open access).; De transfiguratione metallorum, et occulta, summaque antiquorum philosophorum medicina, libellus; Morieno Romano ... auctore (Hanau: Wilhelm Antonius, 1593), sig. A2 (printer’s note), pp. 6-9 (the preface under Robert of Chester’s name, Morienus’ speech), p. 58 (colophon); Wellcome Collection scan (Public Domain Mark, consulted 31 October 2026).; Ahmad Y. al-Hassan, “The Arabic Original of Liber de compositione alchemiae: The Epistle of Maryânus, the Hermit and Philosopher, to Prince Khâlid ibn Yazîd”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 14.2 (2004), pp. 213-231, at p. 213; doi:10.1017/S0957423904000086, Cambridge Core; the author’s online text, History of Science and Technology in Islam (unpaginated).; Louis Charles Karpinski, Robert of Chester’s Latin Translation of the Algebra of al-Khowarizmi (New York: Macmillan, 1915), Introduction, p. 30 and note 1 (the Morienus colophon); Internet Archive scan (University of Connecticut copy).; Marion Dapsens and Sébastien Moureau, “The Four Signs of the Art: Edition and Translation of an Alchemical Epistle Attributed to Ḫālid b. Yazīd and its Latin Translation”, Arabica 68 (2021), pp. 557-627, at pp. 558-559; UCLouvain repository copy.; Robert Steele (ed.), Secretum secretorum cum glossis et notulis, Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi V (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920), pp. 99, 115-117; transcription in the Arabic and Latin Corpus, ed. Dag Nikolaus Hasse et al. (Würzburg). On Philip of Tripoli and the two Latin translations: U.S. National Library of Medicine, Islamic Medical Manuscripts, entry on the Sirr al-asrar (consulted 31 October 2026).; In hoc volumine De alchemia continentur haec (Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1541), title page and pp. 363-373 (Tablet and Hortulanus’ commentary); Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Res/4 Alch. 28 (VD16 J 15), MDZ scan (consulted 31 October 2026).; Musaeum Hermeticum omnes sopho-spagyricae artis discipulos fidelissime erudiens (Frankfurt: Lucas Jennis, 1625); SLUB Dresden, Chem.359,misc.1, SLUB Digitale Sammlungen (Public Domain Mark).; The Newton Project, catalogue entry ALCH00017: Isaac Newton, translation and transcription of the Tabula Smaragdina with notes, Keynes MS 28, King’s College, Cambridge, with B. J. T. Dobbs’s dating (The Janus Faces of Genius, pp. 271-277); Newton Project (consulted 31 October 2026).; N. Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 2nd ed., with large additions (London: E. Bell, J. Darby and others, 1724), entries “Hermetick”, “Hermetick-Art”, “Hermetical-Philosophy”, “Hermetical Seal”; Internet Archive scan.; [Mary Anne Atwood], A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery (London: Trelawney Saunders, 1850), title page and p. 153; Internet Archive scan (Wellcome Library copy).; On the modern debate: Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986; paperback Princeton University Press, 1993), quoted from the publisher’s description, Princeton University Press (consulted 1 November 2026); Mike A. Zuber, Spiritual Alchemy from the Age of Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood, 1600-1900, PhD thesis (University of Amsterdam, 2017), abstract and p. 23, UvA-DARE repository (open access), summarising Lawrence M. Principe and William R. Newman, “Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy”, in William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton (eds.), Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 385-431.
Hermetic meditation: Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992): CH XIII.2, 7-9, 12, 16-20, 22; Asclepius 41.; Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906): CH I.29-32, pp. 18-20; CH X.5-6, pp. 144-145; CH XI.19-20, pp. 186-188, and commentary, p. 195; CH XIII, pp. 219-233; Asclepius 41, pp. 388-390; scan at the Internet Archive; CH XIII also at gnosis.org.; Deslippe (ed.), The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition (2011).; Three Initiates, The Kybalion (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, 1908), ch. III, “Mental Transmutation”, pp. 44-45; Wikisource.; Brashler, Dirkse and Parrott, introduction to the Prayer of Thanksgiving, in Robinson (ed.), The Nag Hammadi Library in English, 3rd ed. (1988), p. 328; line references NHC VI,6 = 52,1-63,32 and VI,7 = 63,33-65,7.; James Brashler, Peter A. Dirkse and Douglas M. Parrott (trs.), The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth (NHC VI,6) and The Prayer of Thanksgiving (NHC VI,7), Gnostic Society Library: VI,6, VI,7.; Mahé, introduction to the Prayer of Thanksgiving (NHC VI,7), in Meyer (ed.), The Nag Hammadi Scriptures (2007).; Lactantius, Divine Institutes VI.25, tr. William Fletcher, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (Buffalo, 1886); New Advent.; Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn, vol. 1 (Chicago: Aries Press, 1937), “First Meditation”, p. 105; Open Library record.; Franz Bardon, Der Weg zum wahren Adepten: Ein Lehrgang in 10 Stufen. Theorie u. Praxis (Freiburg im Breisgau: Bauer, 1956), German National Library record and table of contents; Initiation into Hermetics, tr. A. Radspieler (Kettig über Koblenz: Osiris-Verlag, 1962), Open Library record.
Hermeticism & its neighbours: Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992), introduction on the philosophical milieu.; Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes (1986).; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy (2012), on prisca theologia and perennialism.; A. D. Nock and A.-J. Festugière (eds.), Corpus Hermeticum, 4 vols., Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945-1954: the standard treatise and paragraph numbering used in the comparison table (CH I.9-11, I.22, I.24-26, IV.6, VII.2-3, VIII.1-2, IX.4, XIII.1-3; Asclepius 8 and 10); Brian P. Copenhaver’s English translation (Cambridge University Press, 1992) keeps the same numbering.; G. R. S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II, London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906: a public-domain translation with section numbers; scan at the Internet Archive.; Lactantius, Divine Institutes IV.6, quoting the lost Greek text of Asclepius 8 (a visible second god that seemed “beautiful” to its maker; in the Asclepius this is the cosmos, while Lactantius reads it as the Son), trans. William Fletcher, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886; text at New Advent.; Irenaeus of Lyon, Against Heresies I.24.1 (Saturninus in Syria, Basilides in Alexandria) and III.4.3 (Valentinus in Rome), trans. Alexander Roberts and William Rambaut, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885; text at New Advent: I.24, III.4.; James M. Robinson (gen. ed.), The Nag Hammadi Library in English, 3rd, completely revised edition, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988: Apocryphon of John (NHC II,1), First Apocalypse of James (NHC V,3) and the three Hermetic tractates of Codex VI (NHC VI,6-8).; Marvin Meyer (ed.), The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The International Edition, New York: HarperOne, 2007, with the same codex and tractate sigla.; R. McL. Wilson, “Nag Hammadi and the New Testament”, New Testament Studies 28.3 (July 1982), pp. 289-302, at p. 289: papyri used to reinforce the cover of Codex VII carry the dates 341, 346 and 348 CE, so that codex was made no earlier than 348; DOI.; Wincenty Myszor, “Corpus Hermeticum VI i VII: wstęp, przekład z greckiego, komentarz”, Studia Theologica Varsaviensia 16 (1978), no. 2, pp. 241-247 (in Polish), at p. 241 and n. 1: CH VI and VII belong with CH I, IV, XIII and possibly X to a group of dualist treatises, which is why the table calls CH VII one of the gnostic-sounding exceptions; PDF at BazHum.; Roelof van den Broek, “Gnosticism and Hermetism in Antiquity: Two Roads to Salvation”, in R. van den Broek and Wouter J. Hanegraaff (eds.), Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998: the interpretation that Gnosticism and Hermetism are related but distinct roads to salvation.
Nous: G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906): CH I, II, IV, X, XI and XII, pages as given in the table; scan at the Internet Archive. Rows that name Scott, and the dating of the treatises, follow Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (1924).; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924): p. 9 (the Hermetists’ Platonism), p. 10 (date of the treatises), p. 11 (what marks the Hermetists off from the philosophers), p. 31 (Ficino’s translation), p. 115 (CH I.2), pp. 320-321 (Asclepius 18 and the note on sensus); scan at the Internet Archive.; Gustav Parthey, Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander (Berlin, 1854): the Greek text with a Latin version revised from Ficino’s (preface, p. vi; CH I.2 on p. 2), and Mead gives Parthey’s pages for each treatise; scan of the whole edition at the Internet Archive.; A.D. Nock and A.-J. Festugière, Corpus Hermeticum, vols. I-II (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945): the standard critical Greek text, listed as further reading; the Greek quoted on this page is Parthey’s.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992): modern English translation with notes; CH I.2 on p. 1 (doi:10.1017/CBO9781107050075.004), CH IV on pp. 15-17 (doi:10.1017/CBO9781107050075.007).; John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy (London: A. & C. Black, 1920), pp. 259-260: Anaxagoras, fragment 12; scan at the Internet Archive.; Plato, Phaedrus 247c, tr. Harold N. Fowler (1925), and Timaeus 30b and 51e, tr. W.R.M. Lamb (1925), Greek and English in the Perseus Digital Library: Phaedrus, Timaeus.; Aristotle, De Anima, ed. and tr. R.D. Hicks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907), III.5, 430a, p. 135; scan at the Internet Archive.; Plotinus, The Divine Mind, being the treatises of the Fifth Ennead, tr. Stephen MacKenna (London: Medici Society, 1926), V.1.6; scan at the Internet Archive.; Three Initiates, The Kybalion (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, 1908), ch. II, pp. 26 and 30: the Principles of Mentalism and Vibration; scan of the 1908 printing at the Internet Archive.; “nous”, Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries and Dictionary.com, consulted 30 October 2026.
Palingenesia: Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992): CH XIII.
Prisca theologia: Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992), introduction.; Ebeling, The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus (2007).; D.P. Walker, The Ancient Theology (1972).; Agostino Steuco, De perenni philosophia (1540).; Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy (1945).; Gemistos Plethon, Traité des lois, ed. C. Alexandre (Paris 1858), I.2, pp. 30-33.; Marsilio Ficino, Argumentum to the Pimander (Treviso 1471; text read in the Venice 1481 printing).; Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology, vol. 6: Books XVII-XVIII, ed. M.J.B. Allen and J. Hankins (2006).; Marsilio Ficino, preface to his Latin Plotinus (Florence 1492), in Plotinus, Opera omnia, ed. F. Creuzer (Oxford 1835), vol. I.; C.S. Celenza, “Marsilio Ficino”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (rev. 2024).; B. Copenhaver, “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (rev. 2024).; K. Ierodiakonou and B. Bydén, “Byzantine Philosophy”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (rev. 2018).; Isaac Casaubon, De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI (London 1614), I.10.; A. Grafton, “Protestant versus Prophet: Isaac Casaubon on Hermes Trismegistus”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 46 (1983), pp. 78-93.; Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe (London 1678).; S. Hutton, “Ralph Cudworth”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (rev. 2025).
Tarot: the invented pedigree, and the real one: Michael Dummett, The Game of Tarot (London: Duckworth, 1980): the standard history; Open Library record.; Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis & Michael Dummett, A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot (London: Duckworth, 1996); Wellcome Collection record.; Jonathan Allen, review of Tarocchi: Le origini, le carte, la fortuna (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, 27 February-2 June 2026), The Burlington Magazine 168, no. 1479 (June 2026), burlington.org.uk (consulted 1 November 2026).; Lombardia Beni Culturali, “Carte da tarocchi”, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, record C0120-00044, lombardiabeniculturali.it (consulted 1 November 2026).; Antoine Court de Gébelin, Monde primitif, vol. VIII (Paris, 1781): “Du jeu des tarots” from p. 365, the source of the Egyptian claim, and “Recherches sur les tarots” by M. le C. de M*** from p. 395; Getty Research Institute copy at the Internet Archive.; Jean-François Champollion, Lettre à M. Dacier relative à l’alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1822); BnF catalogue.; Etteilla (Jean-Baptiste Alliette), Maniere de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées Tarots, 4 parts (Amsterdam and Paris, 1783-1785), Wellcome Collection record; Etteilla’s engraving of the tarot as the leaves of the Book of Thoth (Paris, 1780s?), Wellcome Collection.; Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, 2 vols (Paris: G. Baillière, 1856), BnF catalogue; 2nd edition (1861), vol. 2, “Le livre d’Hermès”, scan at the Internet Archive.; Museum of Freemasonry, London, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, its members and related bodies (GBR 1991 GD), AIM25 catalogue (consulted 1 November 2026).; “A Description of the Cards of the Tarot, with their Attributions”, The Equinox I/8 (London, September 1912), IAPSOP copy at the Internet Archive.; Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn, vol. 1 (Chicago: The Aries Press, 1937): the table “Attribution of the Tarot Trumps”.; The Occult Review 10, no. 6 (London: William Rider & Son, December 1909): “Notes of the Month”, pp. 300-301, and A. E. Waite, “The Tarot: A Wheel of Fortune”, from p. 307; IAPSOP copy at the Internet Archive.; Victoria and Albert Museum, Rider-Waite-Smith deck, “The Fool”, E.423-1934, collections.vam.ac.uk (consulted 1 November 2026).; Aleister Crowley (the Master Therion), The Book of Thoth, The Equinox III/5 (1944), artist executant Frieda Harris; Open Library record of the 1969 reprint.; Richard Jasnow & Karl-Theodor Zauzich, The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005), publisher’s page (consulted 1 November 2026).; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy (Cambridge UP, 2012): on Egyptomania and invented pedigrees.
The Great Work: Principe, The Secrets of Alchemy (2013).; Newman, "What Have We Learned from the Recent Historiography of Alchemy?", Isis 102:2 (2011).
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Museum of Freemasonry (London), collection GBR 1991 GD, “The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, its members and related bodies”, description at AIM25 (history, scope and content, provenance; consulted 30 October 2026).; Ellic Howe, The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923, with a foreword by Gerald Yorke (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972), Open Library entry; in copyright, cited by page (p. xxv; ch. 1, “Suspect Documents”, pp. 1-25; pp. 35-37, 48-52, 69-75, 113, 135, 166-169, 193, 206, 208-211, 218, 225-228, 242, 252-253 and 295).; Dennis Denisoff, “The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 1888-1901”, BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History, ed. Dino Franco Felluga (January 2013), branchcollective.org.; R. A. Gilbert, The Golden Dawn: Twilight of the Magicians, with a foreword by Israel Regardie (Wellingborough: The Aquarian Press, 1983), Open Library entry; in copyright, cited by page (pp. 79 and 81).; R. A. Gilbert, The Golden Dawn Scrapbook: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order (York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1997), Open Library entry; in copyright, cited by page (p. 196).; Warburg Institute (University of London), Gerald Yorke collection, catalogue NS 1-49, NS 2: photostats of the cipher manuscript (ff. 1-57) and transcription (ff. 1-58), PDF of the catalogue (consulted 30 October 2026).; Sally Davis, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Biographies of Members, version 6 (Zenodo, 7 April 2024), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10938903, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, zenodo.org.; W. Wynn Westcott (ed.), Collectanea Hermetica, vol. II: The Pymander of Hermes (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1894), preface; Harvard copy digitized by Google at Internet Archive.; S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.), Kabbala Denudata. The Kabbalah Unveiled, a translation of three books of the Zohar (London: George Redway, 1887), title page; Wellcome Library copy at Internet Archive (public domain).; Proceedings of the Old Bailey, session of 16 December 1901, ref. t19011216-79 (Frank Dutton Jackson and Editha Loleta Jackson), oldbaileyonline.org (consulted 30 October 2026).; The Occult Review, vol. X, no. 6 (London: William Rider & Son, December 1909), “Notes of the Month”, pp. 300-301, and A. E. Waite, “The Tarot: A Wheel of Fortune”, p. 307 ff., Internet Archive (IAPSOP).; Victoria and Albert Museum, “Rider-Waite-Smith deck”, card The Fool, no. E.423-1934, collections.vam.ac.uk (consulted 30 October 2026).; Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn: An Account of the Teachings, Rites and Ceremonies of the Order of the Golden Dawn, 4 vols. (Chicago: The Aries Press, 1937-1940): vol. 1 (historical lecture, p. 16; introduction, pp. 17-21) and vol. 2 (heading “The Stella Matutina or Golden Dawn”); copies uploaded by users to the Internet Archive (rights not verified; cited for reference only).; Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, “Whare Ra”, list no. 4407, Category 1, heritage.org.nz (consulted 30 October 2026).; National Library of Ireland, “W.B. Yeats Occult papers, c. 1890-1937”, Collection List No. 60, catalogue entry, Internet Archive copy of 2015.; Arthur Conan Doyle, Memories and Adventures (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1924), ch. XV, Project Gutenberg no. 66991.; NobelPrize.org, “William Butler Yeats, Facts”, nobelprize.org (consulted 30 October 2026).; Amnesty International, “Greece: Golden Dawn verdict sends a clear message against the politics of demonization across Europe”, press release, 7 October 2020, amnesty.org (consulted 12 November 2026).
The Ogdoad and Ennead: Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992): CH I.24-26.; The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth (NHC VI,6); Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus (2018).
The alchemical homunculus: Karl Sudhoff (ed.), Theophrast von Hohenheim gen. Paracelsus, Sämtliche Werke, I. Abteilung, 14 vols. (1922-1933): vol. 3 (1930), Vom langen Leben, pp. 221-245 (the wax homunculus passage, p. 243), De vita longa, pp. 247-292 (book III, ch. 4, p. 274) and German fragments, pp. 293-308, Internet Archive; vol. 11 (1928), Sudhoff’s preface (dated July 1926), pp. XXXI-XXXIII, and De natura rerum, pp. 307-403, Internet Archive; vol. 14 (1933), De homunculis, pp. 325-336, Internet Archive; Wellcome Library copies (InC 1.0).; Theatrum Paracelsicum, records: De natura rerum, Liber de imaginibus, De longa vita (Vom langen Leben), De vita longa, De homunculis and Apocalypsis Hermetis (accessed 30 and 31 October 2026).; Amadeo Murase, “The Homunculus and the Paracelsian Liber de imaginibus”, Ambix 67, no. 1 (2020), pp. 47-61, DOI 10.1080/00026980.2020.1720359; abstract on OpenAlex.; Urs Leo Gantenbein, “Real or Fake? New Light on the Paracelsian De natura rerum”, Ambix 67, no. 1 (2020), pp. 4-29, DOI 10.1080/00026980.2020.1720339; author’s abstract on OpenAlex.; Hiro Hirai, “Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of De natura rerum in Publication History”, Early Science and Medicine 24 (2019), pp. 485-503, DOI 10.1163/15733823-02456p05; abstract on OpenAlex.; Marcellin Berthelot and Charles-Émile Ruelle, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs (Paris: Steinheil, 1887-1888), vols. II-III, Zosimos, “Sur la vertu”, lesson I (translation, vol. III, pp. 117-119), Internet Archive (public domain).; Maaike van der Lugt, “‘Abominable mixtures’: the Liber vaccae in the medieval West, or the dangers and attractions of natural magic”, Traditio 64 (2009), pp. 229-277, DOI 10.1017/S0362152900002312; the opening of the article and the notes cited (2, 3, 9, 12, 15, 46, 67, 99 and 133) can be read on Cambridge Core.; Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, book I, in Opera omnia (Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1557), p. 419, Internet Archive, copy of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (Public Domain Mark).; William R. Newman, Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), ch. 4, “Artificial Life and the Homunculus”, publisher’s page.; Mary Baine Campbell, “Artificial Men: Alchemy, Transubstantiation, and the Homunculus”, Republics of Letters 1, no. 2 (2010), Stanford.; Arnau DB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), “El mito de Arnau de Vilanova”, webs.uab.cat/arnau (accessed 30 October 2026).; Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Essay de dioptrique (Paris, 1694), arts. 88-91, pp. 227-230 (the figure, p. 230), Internet Archive, Wellcome Library copy (Public Domain Mark).; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil (1832), Act II, “Laboratorium”, text on Project Gutenberg, no. 2230 (public domain); first edition: Goethe’s Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, vol. 41 (Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1832), title page and contents (“Vollendet im Sommer 1831”) in the Wikisource scan. Petra Lutz, “Faust II im Pappelholzschrank”, Klassisch modern (Klassik Stiftung Weimar), 2025, pp. 8-13, PDF (copy on Internet Archive). In English: Faust, tr. Bayard Taylor, Second Part, Act II, scene II, “Laboratory”, Wikisource.; Wilder Penfield and Edwin Boldrey, “Somatic motor and sensory representation in the cerebral cortex of man as studied by electrical stimulation”, Brain 60 (1937), pp. 389-443, DOI 10.1093/brain/60.4.389; G. D. Schott, “Penfield’s homunculus: a note on cerebral cartography”, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 56 (1993), pp. 329-333, DOI 10.1136/jnnp.56.4.329.; Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879), s.v. “homunculus”, p. 860, Internet Archive.; Chilango, “VIDEO: ruso crea una extraña criatura con su semen”, 7 June 2016, chilango.com.; Apple TV, “Apple TV to premiere season one of captivating comedy ‘Small Prophets’ on Wednesday, October 7”, press release, 28 August 2026, apple.com.
The caduceus: F. H. Garrison, “The Use of the Caduceus in the Insignia of the Army Medical Officer”, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 9.2 (October 1919), pp. 13-16; PubMed Central, PMC234831 and Internet Archive scan (consulted 31 October 2026). On Sir William Butts: Charles Trice Martin, “Butts, Sir William”, in Leslie Stephen (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 8 (London: Smith, Elder, 1886), pp. 103-104; Internet Archive scan (consulted 1 November 2026).; Hugh G. Evelyn-White (tr.), Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, Loeb Classical Library (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1914), Homeric Hymn IV, To Hermes, lines 529-530, p. 401; Internet Archive scan (consulted 31 October 2026).; Homer, Odyssey 24.1-4, tr. A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library (London: Heinemann; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1919), at the Perseus Digital Library (consulted 31 October 2026).; H. G. Liddell, R. Scott and H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon, s.v. κηρύκειον (“a herald’s wand”, citing Herodotus 9.100 and Thucydides 1.53; the proverb from Photius), at lsj.gr; Thucydides 1.53 in Richard Crawley’s translation, Project Gutenberg (both consulted 31 October 2026).; Hyginus, De astronomia 2.7 and 2.14: Bernhard Bunte (ed.), Hygini Astronomica (Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, 1875), pp. 43-44 and 51-52; Internet Archive scan (consulted 31 October 2026).; Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.654-659: Frank Justus Miller (tr.), Metamorphoses, vol. II, Loeb Classical Library (London: Heinemann, 1916), pp. 410-411; Internet Archive scan (consulted 31 October 2026).; Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.19.16-18 and 1.20.1-2: Franz Eyssenhardt (ed.), Macrobius, 2nd ed. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1893), pp. 111-112; Internet Archive scan (consulted 31 October 2026). On the author’s date: Alan Cameron, “The Date and Identity of Macrobius”, Journal of Roman Studies 56 (1966), pp. 25-38, doi:10.2307/300131.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: bronze finial of a kerykeion (herald’s staff), Greek, late 6th-early 5th century BCE, 1989.281.57; terracotta lekythos attributed to the Tithonos Painter, Attic, about 480-470 BCE, 25.78.2; statue of Gudea, Neo-Sumerian, about 2090 BCE, 59.2 (records and public-domain images consulted through the museum’s open-access collection data, 31 October 2026). Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA: denarius of M. Plaetorius M.f. Cestianus, Rome, 69-57 BCE, RRC 405/5, 1976.79.1016 (record and photograph consulted 1 November 2026).; A. L. Frothingham, “Babylonian Origin of Hermes the Snake-God, and of the Caduceus I”, American Journal of Archaeology 20.2 (1916), pp. 175-211 (Gudea’s vase and its date, pp. 181-183); Internet Archive scan (consulted 31 October 2026).; Erasmus (ed.), Novum Instrumentum omne (Basel: Johann Froben, February 1516), colophon with Froben’s device, Universitätsbibliothek Basel, BibG B 3; e-rara, doi:10.3931/e-rara-2849, scan page [991] (consulted 31 October 2026).; E. S. Roberts (ed.), The Works of John Caius, M.D., with a memoir by John Venn (Cambridge: University Press, 1912): Venn’s memoir, pp. 18-19; Caius, Annales Collegii Medicorum, p. 42; Internet Archive scan (consulted 31 October 2026).; War Department, Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1857 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857), par. 1400, pp. 439-440; Internet Archive scan of the National Library of Medicine copy (consulted 31 October 2026). The date 1851 for the hospital stewards’ badge is cited from William K. Emerson, Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), which we have not seen.; George Bohigian, “The Caduceus vs. Staff of Aesculapius: One Snake or Two?”, Missouri Medicine 116.6 (2019), pp. 476-477; PubMed Central, PMC6913859 (consulted 31 October 2026); for the Army’s 1902 decision it cites R. A. Wilcox and E. M. Whitham, “The Symbol of Modern Medicine: Why One Snake Is More Than Two”, Annals of Internal Medicine 138.8 (2003), pp. 673-677, which we have not seen.; Claus Hamann and MaryKate Martelon, “Branding Asklepios and the Traditional and Variant Serpent Symbol Display Among Health Professional Schools in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada: A Cross-Sectional Survey”, JMIR Medical Education 2.1 (2016), e6, doi:10.2196/mededu.5515; it cites Walter J. Friedlander, The Golden Wand of Medicine: A History of the Caduceus Symbol in Medicine (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992), which we have not seen.; World Health Organization, “The WHO logo and emblem” (consulted 31 October 2026).; Walter Scott (ed. and tr.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), Asclepius III.37, p. 359; Internet Archive scan. Michael Maier, Atalanta fugiens (Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, 1618), Emblem I and Discourses I and XXV, pp. 15 and 110; Internet Archive scan of the Getty Research Institute copy (both consulted 31 October 2026).
The myth of Theuth: Plato, Phaedrus 274b-276e, Greek text: John Burnet (ed.), Platonis Opera, vol. II, Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis (Oxford: Clarendon Press; preface dated March 1901), with critical apparatus (274d: Postgate’s conjecture; readings of Stobaeus and Hermias); Internet Archive scan (consulted 29 October 2026).; Benjamin Jowett (tr.), The Dialogues of Plato, 3rd ed., vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892), pp. 483-485; Internet Archive scan (consulted 29 October 2026). Public domain.; Harold North Fowler (tr.), Plato I: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Loeb Classical Library 36 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, title page MCMXIII = 1913), pp. 560-565; Internet Archive scan (consulted 29 October 2026). Translation in the public domain in the US and, from 2026, in the EU.; Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University: Plato, Phaedrus 274-276, Greek (text 1999.01.0173) and English, tr. Fowler (text 1999.01.0174); Plato, Philebus 18b, tr. Fowler; Herodotus, Histories 2.67, Greek text and tr. A. D. Godley (Loeb, 1920). Digital texts marked CC BY-SA 3.0 US (consulted 29 October 2026).; Cicero, De natura deorum 3.56, Latin text at The Latin Library, which does not name its edition and prints Theyt. Critical text: H. Rackham (tr.), Cicero, De natura deorum; Academica, Loeb Classical Library 268 (first printed 1933), p. 340, apparatus: Theuth Baiter, Theyn manuscripts; Internet Archive scan of the 1967 reprint (both consulted 29 October 2026).; H. G. Liddell, R. Scott and H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon, s.v. φάρμακον: sense I, “a drug, whether healing or noxious”; sense II, “remedy, cure”, citing λήθης φάρμακα, of letters, from Euripides fr. 578.1 (Nauck numbering; the lost Palamedes); sense II.2, “a means of producing something”, citing Phaedrus 274e and 275a; consulted at lsj.gr, 29 October 2026.; August Nauck (ed.), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, 2nd ed. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1889), Euripides, Palamedes, fr. 578, p. 542, preserved by Stobaeus; the headnote on p. 541 dates the play to Olympiad 91.1, citing Aelian, Varia Historia 2.8; Internet Archive scan (consulted 29 October 2026).; J. P. Postgate, “On Plato, Phaedrus 274 D”, The Classical Review 15.1 (1901), p. 27, doi:10.1017/S0009840X00029371.; Harvey Yunis (ed.), Plato: Phaedrus, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), x + 270 pp.; its date of composition, 370-355 BCE, as reported by Christopher Moore, review, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.07.55.; Lorenzo Valla, De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione, ed. Wolfram Setz (Weimar: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1976); G. W. Bowersock (ed. and tr.), On the Donation of Constantine, I Tatti Renaissance Library 24 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007); the date 1440 from Marc van der Poel, review, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.01.31.; Isaac Casaubon, De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI (London, 1614), I.10; Anthony Grafton, “Protestant versus Prophet: Isaac Casaubon on Hermes Trismegistus”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 46 (1983), pp. 78-93.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), introduction: the epithet “thrice great” and its early Greek form.; Jacques Derrida, “La pharmacie de Platon”, Tel Quel (1968); in English as “Plato’s Pharmacy”, in Dissemination, tr. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981). Cited as reception only.; Neil Postman, Technopoly (New York: Knopf, 1992), ch. 1, “The Judgment of Thamus”. Cited as reception only.
The ouroboros, the serpent that bites its own tail: Aurelio J. Fernández García, “Uróboro: la serpiente que se muerde la cola en los textos alquímicos griegos”, Fortunatae 28 (2017-2018), pp. 69-79, doi:10.25145/j.fortunat.2018.28.007; PDF on Dialnet.; Marcellin Berthelot and Charles-Émile Ruelle, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs, 3 vols. (Paris: Steinheil, 1887-1888), especially vol. I, Introduction, pp. 9, 18, 129-137 and 158-159 (figures 11 and 34), and vol. II, pp. 21-23 and 80; vol. I on Internet Archive (public domain).; Michèle Mertens (ed.), Les alchimistes grecs, IV.1: Zosime de Panopolis. Mémoires authentiques (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1995), pp. 177-181; cited through Fernández García.; H. J. Sheppard, “The Ouroboros and the Unity of Matter in Alchemy: a Study in Origins”, Ambix 10 (1962), pp. 83-96.; Erik Hornung, The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), pp. 38 and 77-78, and Conceptions of God in Egypt (1982), pp. 163-164; cited through Wikipedia, “Ouroboros” (accessed 29 October 2026).; Alexandre Piankoff, Les chapelles de Tout-Ankh-Amon, II (Cairo, 1951), pl. IV; cited through Fernández García.; Horapollo, Hieroglyphica I, 1-2, tr. A. T. Cory (London, 1840), sacred-texts.com (public domain).; Pistis Sophia, ch. 126, tr. G. R. S. Mead (London, 1921), sacred-texts.com.; Asclepius 1-2, Latin text as quoted in Aneta Tylak, “Corpus Hermeticum XVI”, Collectanea Philologica 17 (2014), pp. 29-36, PDF; critical edition: A. D. Nock and A.-J. Festugière, Corpus Hermeticum, II (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1945).; Antonella Sannino, “Der Unus-omnia Begriff im Hermetismus des Mittelalters”, Studi Filosofici (2012), abstract at unora.unior.it.; Michael Maier, Atalanta fugiens (Oppenheim: Johann Theodor de Bry), emblem XIV, 1618 copy at the Science History Institute (Public Domain Mark 1.0).; August Kekulé, “Benzolfest: Rede”, Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft 23 (1890), pp. 1302-1311.; Günter Paulus Schiemenz, “Neuer Wein in alten Schläuchen? Das Hexagon, das Tetraeder und Legenden um August Kekulé”, Mitteilungen der Fachgruppe Geschichte der Chemie 3 (GDCh, 1989), pp. 38-52, PDF, which cites John H. Wotiz and Susanna Rudofsky, “Kekulé’s dream: fact or fiction?”, Chemistry in Britain 20 (1984), pp. 720-723; Levi Tansjö, “The Fictitious Kekulé-dream”, Technikatörténeti Szemle 20 (1993), Hungaricana.; C. G. Jung, Mysterium coniunctionis (1955-1956), Collected Works, vol. 14; Erich Neumann, Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins (Zurich, 1949).; Wiktionary, entry ἰός (accessed 29 October 2026).
The seven Hermetic principles: Three Initiates, The Kybalion (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, 1908).; Deslippe (ed.), The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition (2011).; Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992): CH I.9, CH XI.
Theurgy: Riccardo Chiaradonna and Adrien Lecerf, “Iamblichus”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (first published 27 August 2019, substantive revision 7 November 2023), sections 2.3 and 6.3.; Iamblichus, De mysteriis: Greek text (Édouard Des Places) with English translation by Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon and Jackson P. Hershbell, Iamblichus: De mysteriis, Writings from the Greco-Roman World 4 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003); cited by book and chapter, with the page numbers of Gustav Parthey’s edition (Berlin, 1857), which the translation keeps; PDF at the publisher.; E. R. Dodds, “Theurgy and its Relationship to Neoplatonism”, Journal of Roman Studies 37 (1947), pp. 55-69, doi:10.2307/298455; reprinted with minor changes as Appendix II of The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951), the edition cited for page numbers.; Gregory Shaw, Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995); revised 2nd edition (Kettering, OH: Angelico Press/Sophia Perennis, 2014), the edition checked for the introduction and chapter 18.; Ruth Majercik, The Chaldean Oracles: Text, Translation and Commentary, Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1989).; Christian H. Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 186 (Leiden: Brill, 2018); reviewed by Korshi Dosoo, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.02.23.; Proclus, Théologie platonicienne, ed. and tr. H. D. Saffrey and L. G. Westerink, 6 vols. (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1968-1997): I.25, p. 113.6-10.; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992): Asclepius 23-24 and 37-38.

The Path

Alexandria: the world that made the Hermetica: Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 1992); introduction, pp. xiii-xxxv, free sample from the publisher (PDF).; Christian H. Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 186; Leiden: Brill, 2018), doi:10.1163/9789004370845.; Dylan M. Burns, review of Bull 2018, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 19 (2025), pp. 103-112, doi:10.1163/18725473-12341566; open copy at UvA-DARE.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “Altered States of Knowledge: The Attainment of Gnōsis in the Hermetica”, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2 (2008), pp. 128-163, doi:10.1163/187254708X335728; open copy at UvA-DARE.; Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1986).; Walter Scott, Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 9, 29-43, 76-77, 92-94, 359, scan at the Internet Archive.; G. R. S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. III (London and Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), pp. 273-284, scan at the Internet Archive.; Hugo Lundhaug and Christian H. Bull (eds), The Nag Hammadi Codices as Monastic Books (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 134; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023), introduction by Christian H. Bull and Hugo Lundhaug, pp. 1-3, open access.; Dylan M. Burns, “The Nag Hammadi Codices and Graeco-Egyptian Magical and Occult Literature”, in Lundhaug and Bull (eds), The Nag Hammadi Codices as Monastic Books (2023), pp. 279-316, open copy at UvA-DARE.; Jitse H. F. Dijkstra, Religious Encounters on the Southern Egyptian Frontier in Late Antiquity (AD 298-642) (PhD thesis, University of Groningen, 2005), pp. 30-32, 38, 68, University of Groningen repository.; Alan K. Bowman, “Egypt”, in The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. X, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 676-702, doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521264303.025.; Augustus, Res gestae divi Augusti 27, Latin text at The Latin Library.; Socrates Scholasticus, Church History V.16, tr. A. C. Zenos (1890), at New Advent.; Berliner Papyrussammlung, “Affidavit”, BGU I 16 (P. 6889), 159-160 CE, object of the month.; University of Bergen, notice of Christian H. Bull’s doctoral defence on 27 June 2014, “En egyptisk gud skriver gresk filosofi” (in Norwegian).; Eugene V. Afonasin, review of Corpus Hermeticum, ed. A. D. Nock and A.-J. Festugière, Coptic texts ed. I. Ramelli (Milan: Bompiani, 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.11.13, at BMCR.
Reading Poimandres: Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992), CH I with notes.; Key lines above are our working translations, checked against the critical editions; see Method → Quotations.
What is Hermeticism?: Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge University Press, 1992), introduction.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy (Cambridge, 2012).; Christian H. Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus (Brill, 2018).
Who was Hermes Trismegistus?: Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes (Cambridge, 1986).; Kevin van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes (Oxford, 2009).; Copenhaver, Hermetica (1992), introduction.

The Guide

Operational Alchemy: The Hermeticum, house formulation, written for this site, drawn from practice, not translated from a source text.; Conceptual anchor: the Emerald Tablet (separation, ascent and return).; See Method for how we mark our own formulations.
The Instruction for the Modern Hermet: The Hermeticum, house formulation, written for this site, not translated from a source text.; Underlying posture drawn from: CH I, XIII; the Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth; correspondence.; See Method for how we separate our own formulations from historical claims.
The Modern Hermet: Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge UP, 1992): CH I, XIII; Asclepius.; Christian H. Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus (Brill, 2018), on Hermetic practice as a teaching programme.; Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes (Cambridge, 1986), on the way of Hermes as a graded path.; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy (Cambridge UP, 2012), on invented pedigrees and how to test them.; Antoine Faivre, Access to Western Esotericism (SUNY, 1994): correspondence, living nature, imagination, transmutation.

Human agency

AI anxiety at work: Gallup, Work and Education survey of 3-24 August 2026, report of 15 September 2026; Gallup Panel, 2023 to early 2026, report of 9 September 2026.; Pew Research Center, survey of US workers, 7-13 October 2024, report of 25 February 2025.; American Psychological Association, 2023 Work in America survey (The Harris Poll, 17-27 April 2023): press release of 7 September 2023, as carried by Newswise.; The term: Johnson and Verdicchio, JASIST 68(9), 2017, doi:10.1002/asi.23867; Alsudays, Frontiers in Psychology 17, 2026, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1824525.; McNamara and Thornton, Cureus 17(9), 2025, doi:10.7759/cureus.93026; University of Florida, news release of 11 February 2026.; Job insecurity and health: De Witte, Pienaar and De Cuyper, Australian Psychologist 51(1), 2016, doi:10.1111/ap.12176; Kim and von dem Knesebeck, Int. Arch. Occup. Environ. Health 89, 2016, doi:10.1007/s00420-015-1107-1.; Forecasts: Frey and Osborne, working paper of 17 September 2013; Arntz, Gregory and Zierahn, OECD, 2016, doi:10.1787/5jlz9h56dvq7-en; Gmyrek and colleagues, ILO Working Paper 140, 20 May 2025, doi:10.54394/HETP0387.; Measured effects: Gimbel, Kinder, Kendall and Lee, The Budget Lab at Yale, 1 October 2025; Brynjolfsson, Chandar and Chen, Stanford Digital Economy Lab, revised 12 August 2026.; Mechanisms: Lieberman and colleagues, Psychological Science 18(5), 2007, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01916.x; Gollwitzer and Sheeran, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 38, 2006, doi:10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1; figures from the authors’ summary.; When to seek help: NHS; NIMH. Crisis lines: 988 Lifeline (US); 9-8-8 (Canada); NHS 111 (England); Samaritans; Find A Helpline.; Stoic texts: Epictetus, Enchiridion 1, tr. Elizabeth Carter (1758; printing of 1759), Wikisource; Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.8, tr. George Long (1862), Wikisource.; The five-step sheet is our own arrangement. It is not a treatment and makes no therapeutic claim.
Acting under uncertainty: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness (Texere, 2001); The Black Swan (Random House, 2007; 2nd ed. 2010); The Bed of Procrustes (Random House, 2010); Antifragile (Random House, 2012); Skin in the Game (Random House, 2018).; Random House, publisher’s page for Antifragile: the book’s description and an excerpt of chapter 1, “Between Damocles and Hydra” (read 31 October 2026).; Taleb, N. N. and Douady, R. (2013). Mathematical Definition, Mapping, and Detection of (Anti)Fragility. Quantitative Finance 13(11), 1677-1689, doi:10.1080/14697688.2013.800219; first version August 2012, arXiv:1208.1189; Taleb, N. N. and Sandis, C. (2014). The Skin In The Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events. Review of Behavioral Economics 1(1-2). arXiv:1308.0958; Taleb, N. N., Read, R., Douady, R., Norman, J. and Bar-Yam, Y. (2014). The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms). arXiv:1410.5787; Aristotle, Politics I.11: the story of Thales and the olive presses, retold in Antifragile.; The application to work with AI and the four moves are our own arrangement.
Cognitive offloading: does AI make you dumber?: Risko, E. F. and Gilbert, S. J. (2016). Cognitive offloading. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 20(9), 676-688. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2016.07.002; Sparrow, B., Liu, J. and Wegner, D. M. (2011). Google effects on memory: cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science 333(6043), 776-778. doi:10.1126/science.1207745; Camerer, C. F. et al. (2018). Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015. Nature Human Behaviour 2, 637-644. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0399-z. Replication report for Sparrow et al. (experiment 1 only): Open Science Framework.; Hesselmann, G. (2020). No conclusive evidence that difficult general knowledge questions cause a “Google Stroop effect”. A replication study. PeerJ 8, e10325. doi:10.7717/peerj.10325; Storm, B. C. and Stone, S. M. (2015). Saving-enhanced memory: the benefits of saving on the learning and remembering of new information. Psychological Science 26(2), 182-188. doi:10.1177/0956797614559285; Grinschgl, S., Papenmeier, F. and Meyerhoff, H. S. (2021). Consequences of cognitive offloading: boosting performance but diminishing memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 74(9), 1477-1496. doi:10.1177/17470218211008060; Gerlich, M. (2025). AI tools in society: impacts on cognitive offloading and the future of critical thinking. Societies 15(1), 6, published 3 January 2025. doi:10.3390/soc15010006. Correction: Societies 15(9), 252, 10 September 2025, doi:10.3390/soc15090252; Lee, H.-P., Sarkar, A., Tankelevitch, L., Drosos, I., Rintel, S., Banks, R. and Wilson, N. (2025). The impact of generative AI on critical thinking: self-reported reductions in cognitive effort and confidence effects from a survey of knowledge workers. CHI ’25, article 1121. doi:10.1145/3706598.3713778; Kosmyna, N. et al. (2025). Your brain on ChatGPT: accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task. Preprint, not peer-reviewed: arXiv:2506.08872 (version 1, 10 June 2025; version 2, 31 December 2025). The authors’ FAQ: brainonllm.com. Comment by Stankovic, M., Hirche, E., Kollatzsch, S. and Doetsch, J. N., preprint: arXiv:2601.00856.; Bastani, H., Bastani, O., Sungu, A., Ge, H., Kabakcı, Ö. and Mariman, R. (2025). Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning: evidence from high school mathematics. PNAS 122(26), e2422633122. doi:10.1073/pnas.2422633122. Correction: PNAS 122(34), e2518204122, 26 August 2025, doi:10.1073/pnas.2518204122 (one author’s affiliation only).; Budzyń, K. et al. (2025). Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: a multicentre, observational study. Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology 10(10), 896-903. doi:10.1016/S2468-1253(25)00133-5; abstract on PubMed. Correction: Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology 10(11), e12, November 2025, doi:10.1016/S2468-1253(25)00294-8 (a covariate had been left out of the multivariable analysis in the appendix; the corrected estimates are those for AI exposure and patient age).; Shaw, S. D. and Nave, G. (2026). Thinking, fast, slow, and artificial: how AI is reshaping human reasoning and the rise of cognitive surrender. Preprint, not peer-reviewed, posted January 2026. doi:10.31234/osf.io/yk25n_v1; Liu, G., Christian, B., Dumbalska, T., Bakker, M. A. and Dubey, R. (2026). AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2026), published on OpenReview 8 July 2026; text also on arXiv:2604.04721 (version 1, 6 April 2026, a preprint; version 6, 13 October 2026).; Slamecka, N. J. and Graf, P. (1978). The generation effect: delineation of a phenomenon. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 4(6), 592-604. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.4.6.592; Bertsch, S., Pesta, B. J., Wiscott, R. and McDaniel, M. A. (2007). The generation effect: a meta-analytic review. Memory & Cognition 35(2), 201-210. doi:10.3758/BF03193441; Kornell, N., Hays, M. J. and Bjork, R. A. (2009). Unsuccessful retrieval attempts enhance subsequent learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 35(4), 989-998. doi:10.1037/a0015729; Richland, L. E., Kornell, N. and Kao, L. S. (2009). The pretesting effect: do unsuccessful retrieval attempts enhance learning? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 15(3), 243-257. doi:10.1037/a0016496; Roediger, H. L. and Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science 17(3), 249-255. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01693.x; Plato, Phaedrus 274c-275b, translated by Harold N. Fowler, text on the Perseus Digital Library. Date of composition, 370-355 BCE: Harvey Yunis (Cambridge, 2011), as reported by Christopher Moore, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.07.55.; Modern Hermet (The Hermeticum, 2026), chapter 8, Technology (open in full): the line on delegating practice.; The weekly move is our own arrangement. It is not a treatment and makes no therapeutic or productivity claim.
Dichotomy of control: what is up to you: W. A. Oldfather (trans.), Epictetus, Loeb Classical Library, vol. I (1925), vol. II (1928): Encheiridion 1, Discourses 1.1, 2.5; Wikisource.; P. E. Matheson (trans.), Epictetus: The Discourses and Manual (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916), vol. II, p. 213; Internet Archive.; George Long (trans.), The Discourses of Epictetus (1877); Wikisource.; Elizabeth Carter (trans.), All the Works of Epictetus (London, 1758; Dublin printing of 1759), p. 387; Wikisource. Compare the Internet Classics Archive text, and T. W. Higginson’s version (new and revised edition, New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1890), Wikisource.; Greek: Epicteti Dissertationes, ed. H. Schenkl (Leipzig: Teubner, 1916); Perseus. Cicero, De finibus 3.22, trans. H. Rackham (Loeb, 1914); Internet Archive.; Margaret Graver, “Epictetus”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008, revised 2025); plato.stanford.edu.; William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life (Oxford University Press, 2009), ch. 5, from p. 85; Internet Archive record (checked by full-text search; not read in full).; Review of Irvine, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.09.28.; Michael Tremblay (30 January 2021) and Gregory Sadler (14 May 2025), essays at Modern Stoicism.; Quote Investigator, “Quote Origin: Serenity Prayer” (2019, updated 2025), reporting Fred R. Shapiro’s research.; J. B. Rotter, Psychological Monographs 80(1), 1-28 (1966), doi:10.1037/h0092976 (record checked; text paywalled).; M. E. L. Brown and colleagues, BMC Medical Education 22, 340 (2022), doi:10.1186/s12909-022-03391-x; A. MacLellan and N. Derakshan, Cognitive Therapy and Research 45(4), 730-744 (2021), doi:10.1007/s10608-020-10183-4 (abstract only; author manuscript at Birkbeck).; G. R. S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II (London, 1906), p. 89; Internet Archive.; The two-column sheet is our own arrangement. It is not a treatment and makes no therapeutic claim.
Does AI make things up?: Kalai, A. T., Nachum, O., Vempala, S. S. and Zhang, E. (2025). Why Language Models Hallucinate. Preprint, arXiv:2509.04664.; Anthropic (2025). Tracing the thoughts of a large language model, 27 March 2025: anthropic.com.; Sharma, M. and 18 others (2023). Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models. arXiv:2310.13548.; Ren, R. and 15 others (2025). The MASK Benchmark: Disentangling Honesty From Accuracy in AI Systems. Preprint, arXiv:2503.03750.; Schoen, B. and 18 others (2025). Stress Testing Deliberative Alignment for Anti-Scheming Training. Preprint, arXiv:2509.15541.; OpenAI (2025). GPT-5 System Card, 13 August 2025, Table 8: PDF.; Walters, W. H. and Wilder, E. I. (2023). Fabrication and errors in the bibliographic citations generated by ChatGPT. Scientific Reports 13, 14045. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-41032-5.; Magesh, V. and 5 others (2025). Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 22(2), 216-242. doi:10.1111/jels.12413.; European Broadcasting Union and BBC (2025). News Integrity in AI Assistants, October 2025: PDF.; Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 22-cv-1461 (S.D.N.Y.), Opinion and Order on Sanctions, 22 June 2023: PDF, CourtListener.; Topaz, M. and others (2026). Biomedical Reference Generation Remains Unreliable across 26 Large Language Models. Preprint, arXiv:2609.14988.; Parasuraman, R. and Riley, V. (1997). Humans and automation. Human Factors 39(2), 230-253. doi:10.1518/001872097778543886.; Wineburg, S. and McGrew, S. (2019). Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise. Teachers College Record 121(11), 1-40. doi:10.1177/016146811912101102.; Plato, Phaedrus 274c-275b, tr. H. N. Fowler (Loeb Classical Library): Perseus. Casaubon (1614): see Ask for the date.
Human agency in the AI age: Modern Hermet (The Hermeticum, 2026), chapter 8, Technology (open in full), and chapter 11, Agency. Quotations on this page come from these two chapters.; Parasuraman and Riley (1997) and Skitka and colleagues (1999) on automation bias, as cited in chapter 8.; Hofmann, S. G. et al. (2012). The efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy: a review of meta-analyses. Cognitive Therapy and Research 36(5), 427-440. doi:10.1007/s10608-012-9476-1; Lieberman, M. D. et al. (2007). Putting feelings into words. Psychological Science 18(5), 421-428. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01916.x; Lally, P. et al. (2010). How are habits formed: modelling habit formation in the real world. European Journal of Social Psychology 40(6), 998-1009. doi:10.1002/ejsp.674; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge University Press, 1992): treatise IV, Poimandres and the Asclepius.; The four moves are our own arrangement. They are not a treatment and make no therapeutic claim.
Sense of agency: what it means, how to keep it: Haggard, P. (2017). Sense of agency in the human brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 196-207. doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.14; Moore, J. W. (2016). What is the sense of agency and why does it matter? Frontiers in Psychology 7, 1272. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01272; Gallagher, S. (2000). Philosophical conceptions of the self. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4(1), 14-21. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01417-5; Haggard, P., Clark, S. and Kalogeras, J. (2002). Voluntary action and conscious awareness. Nature Neuroscience 5(4), 382-385. doi:10.1038/nn827; Suzuki, K. and three co-authors (2019). Intentional binding without intentional action. Psychological Science 30(6), 842-853. doi:10.1177/0956797619842191. Opposite result: Wiesing, M. and Zimmermann, E. (2024). Consciousness and Cognition 119, 103665. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2024.103665; Kong, G. and four co-authors (2024). No evidence in favor of the existence of “intentional” binding. JEP: Human Perception and Performance 50(6), 626-635. doi:10.1037/xhp0001204; Rotter, J. B. (1966). Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement. Psychological Monographs: General and Applied 80(1), 1-28. doi:10.1037/h0092976; Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review 84(2), 191-215. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.84.2.191; Tapal, A. and three co-authors (2017). The Sense of Agency Scale. Frontiers in Psychology 8, 1552. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01552; Berberian, B. and three co-authors (2012). Automation technology and sense of control. PLoS ONE 7(3), e34075. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034075; Wen, W., Yamashita, A. and Asama, H. (2015). The sense of agency during continuous action. PLoS ONE 10(4), e0125226. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125226; Draxler, F. and six co-authors (2024). The AI Ghostwriter Effect. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 31(2). doi:10.1145/3637875; Copenhaver, B. P. (2019). Magic and the Dignity of Man. Harvard University Press. Library of Congress; Mead, G.R.S. (1906). Thrice-Greatest Hermes, vol. II, p. 89 (Corpus Hermeticum IV, §8; Mead’s IV (V), The Cup or Monad). Internet Archive

Ask for the date

Ask for the date: Method: Provenance, the four-layer card used across the site.; Every card links to the page with its full story and sources.

Before you ask AI

Stop relying on AI without giving it up: Modern Hermet (The Hermeticum, 2026), chapter 8, Technology (open in full): the scene of the two offers, the rule quoted on this page, the three layers of delegation and the seven-day AI charter.; N. Gillespie, S. Lockey, T. Ward, A. Macdade and G. Hassed, Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence: A global study 2025 (The University of Melbourne and KPMG, 2025), pp. 75-76 (Figure 44) and 91, doi:10.26188/28822919.; J. Becker, N. Rush, E. Barnes and D. Rein (METR), “Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity”, arXiv:2507.09089 (preprint, July 2025); METR, “We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design”, 24 February 2026.; H. Bastani, O. Bastani, A. Sungu, H. Ge, Ö. Kabakcı and R. Mariman, “Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning: Evidence from high school mathematics”, PNAS 122(26), e2422633122 (2025), doi:10.1073/pnas.2422633122; full text at PubMed Central; the correction of August 2025 concerns one author’s affiliation only.; H.-P. Lee, A. Sarkar, L. Tankelevitch, I. Drosos, S. Rintel, R. Banks and N. Wilson, “The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers”, CHI ’25, article 1121 (2025), doi:10.1145/3706598.3713778.; N. Kosmyna and colleagues, “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task”, arXiv:2506.08872 (preprint; version 1 of 10 June 2025, version 2 of 31 December 2025).; P. M. Gollwitzer and P. Sheeran, “Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes”, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 38 (2006), p. 69, doi:10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1.; R. Parasuraman and V. Riley, “Humans and Automation: Use, Misuse, Disuse, Abuse”, Human Factors 39(2), 230-253 (1997), doi:10.1518/001872097778543886; a review, cited in chapter 8.; L. J. Skitka, K. L. Mosier and M. Burdick, “Does automation bias decision-making?”, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 51(5), 991-1006 (1999), doi:10.1006/ijhc.1999.0252; cited in chapter 8.; The five questions are our own arrangement: Pre-AI Orientation (The Hermeticum, 2026). They are not a treatment and make no therapeutic claim.

Corrections

Corrections: The site’s change history, 14 August to 29 October 2026, compared entry by entry; each entry names the source of its correction.

How to manifest

How to manifest, technically: G. Oettingen and D. Mayer (2002), The motivating function of thinking about the future: expectations versus fantasies, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83(5), 1198-1212. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.83.5.1198; R. F. Baumeister (1984), Choking under pressure, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 46(3), 610-620. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.46.3.610; P. Lally et al. (2010), How are habits formed: modelling habit formation in the real world, European Journal of Social Psychology 40(6), 998-1009. doi:10.1002/ejsp.674; Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge University Press, 1992): treatise IV, Poimandres and the Asclepius.; A. J. Davis, The Great Harmonia, vol. IV (Boston, 1855), p. 41, Internet Archive: the earliest use of the phrase for life and mind that we could check.; P. Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them (New York: F. J. Needham), vol. I (May 1886 to May 1887) and vol. II (May 1887 to May 1888): the phrase as a rule for thought.; W. W. Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Chicago, 1906).; W. D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich (Holyoke, Mass.: Elizabeth Towne, 1910), Project Gutenberg: the book behind The Secret.; Carolyn Steber, ‘What is Reality Transurfing?’, Bustle, 12 May 2025: bustle.com.; The five moves are our own arrangement. They are not a treatment and make no therapeutic claim.

Modern systems

Alan Watts: life, ideas, AI voices: Alan Watts Org, run by his son Mark Watts: Biography, Our story, Licensing and AI policy, Real Alan Watts Project (read 12 November 2026); it also licenses his recordings.; Library of Congress records, linked in the timeline, and In My Own Way (New York: Pantheon, 1972).; Alan Watts, The Way of Zen (New York: Pantheon, 1957), Internet Archive lending copy; quotations checked in a Pelican reprint, so page numbers are not given.; Wikipedia, Alan Watts, Buddhist Society (citing Robert Bluck, British Buddhism, 2006), Christmas Humphreys (citing Muriel Daw, The Middle Way, 2016), Her (2013 film) (read 12 November 2026): used only where the text says so.; Encyclopedia.com, entries on Alan Watts (Encyclopedia of World Biography; Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology).; The Kybalion (Chicago, 1908), chapter II, Project Gutenberg #14209.; Jesse Barker, “‘Disembedded’ Buddhism in a Techno-Global Cosmology: The Case of Spike Jonze’s Film Her (2013)”, Journal of Global Buddhism 23(1), 2022, pp. 1-16, doi.; Louis Nordstrom and Richard Pilgrim, “The Wayward Mysticism of Alan Watts”, Philosophy East and West 30(3), 1980, pp. 381-401, doi.; The Stable, 29 July 2024, on “Alan Watts - The Awakening”.; Studies linked in the text, read: Mai and colleagues, PLOS ONE 18(8), 2023; Barrington, Cooper and Farid, Scientific Reports 15, 2025; Wineburg and McGrew, Teachers College Record 121(11), 2019 (abstract).
Carl Jung and alchemy: projection, Mercurius, evidence: Records: Library of Congress 1929, 1942, 1944, 1955-1957; Deutsche Nationalbibliothek 1946. Records only.; IAAP abstracts of the Collected Works: vol. 12, 13, 14, 16 (read 12 November 2026); Jung quoted from them.; Eranos dates: R. Bernardini, Jung a Eranos (Milan, 2011), contents; C. Wagner, PhD thesis (Cambridge, 2018), abstract.; F. Lopes da Silveira, “Before the Golden Flower”, Journal of Analytical Psychology 70(2), 2025, abstract.; Rosarium philosophorum (Frankfurt: Cyriacus Jacobus, 1550), UW-Madison scan, public domain.; Atwood 1850 (scan), Hitchcock 1857 (scan), Silberer 1914 (scan): titles and records; Silberer checked for content.; W. R. Newman, “The Problem of Alchemy”, The New Atlantis 44 (2015), PDF.; Principe and Newman, “Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy” (MIT Press, 2001, LoC), quoted from G.-F. Călian, Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU (2010), PDF; chapter not read.; M. A. Zuber, Spiritual Alchemy: From Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), abstract (read).; Abstracts read: Roesler 2012, 2013; Frattaroli 2006; Lieberman and colleagues 2007.
Chaos magic: sigils, belief, evidence: B.-C. Otto, “The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation”, in Religious Individualisation (De Gruyter, 2019), pp. 759-796, open access, doi, read from an archived PDF. Our source for 1972-1987 and for Carroll and Hine, whom we did not read.; A. O. Spare, The Book of Pleasure (London, 1913), LoC; quoted briefly from a transcription. Public domain in the US (Cornell chart: published abroad before 1931); in the UK protected for 70 years after the author’s death (gov.uk), so by our count to the end of 2026.; Records only, not read: Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987, LoC); Sherwin, The Book of Results; Hine, Condensed Chaos, Prime Chaos.; V. M. Meletiadis, “‘Book Zero’ through the Years”, Aries 25:1 (2023), open access, doi; abstract only: The Book of Results 1979, 1980, 1981.; Wikipedia, Chaos magic, Sigil, Austin Osman Spare (read 12 November 2026), only where the text says so.; Cues and plans: Rogers and Milkman, 2016, text; Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006, abstract; Sheeran and colleagues, 2024, abstract.; Thought suppression: Wegner and colleagues, 1987, abstract; meta-analyses 2001, 2020.; Open-label placebo: Kaptchuk and colleagues, 2010, text; meta-analysis of healthy samples, 2023.; Ritual and anxiety: Karl and Fischer, 2018, abstract; Lang, Krátký and Xygalatas, 2022, text.; Brooks and colleagues, 2016, retracted (notice); internal audit by J. Schroeder, OSF, 2024; Many Co-Authors 53, 82 (read 12 November 2026).; PubMed, chaos magic and sigil magic, 12 November 2026: one history paper.; Online claim: YourTango, updated 28 January 2023.
Cult, or danger?: N. N. Pluzhnikova, ‘“Трансерфинг реальности” и магические практики в культуре’ (Reality Transurfing and magical practices in culture), Izvestiya VGPU 9 (63), 2011, pp. 28-32, CyberLeninka, read in full.; N. N. Yarasova, ‘Оккультизм в современных психологических практиках’, paper at the XXV Christmas Readings, section ‘Sects as an anti-historical phenomenon’, Moscow, 26 January 2017, azbyka.ru, 30 August 2019.; Cited by Pluzhnikova, not read: N. N. Preobrazhensky and V. F. Preobrazhenskaya, Анти-Зеланд, или На халяву и уксус сладкий (Rostov-on-Don: Feniks, 2007).; Read on 3 November 2026: zelands.ru, Transurfing Centre, coaching regulation, authorised coaches, black list, tserf.ru schedule.; Step I, chapters I-IV: the publisher’s e-book fragment on LitRes.; On the word “cult”: R. Stark and W. S. Bainbridge, The Future of Religion (University of California Press, 1985), record; J. T. Richardson, ‘Definitions of Cult: From Sociological-Technical to Popular-Negative’, Review of Religious Research 34 (4), 1993, DOI; E. Barker, New Religious Movements: A Practical Introduction (HMSO, 1989), record, and ‘One person’s cult is another’s true religion’, The Guardian, 29 May 2009; M. Introvigne, ‘Cults and Sects’, Encyclopedia of Religion (2005), Encyclopedia.com; INFORM, Is it a cult?, Is it harmful? and history.; For our own reading, not criticism of the system: D. M. Wegner et al., JPSP 53 (1987), pp. 5-13, DOI; S. C. Hayes et al., JCCP 64 (1996), pp. 1152-1168, DOI; G. Oettingen and D. Mayer, JPSP 83 (2002), pp. 1198-1212, DOI.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice about any condition. We do not reproduce text from Vadim Zeland’s books, which are in copyright.
Excess potential: The description is ours. We do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from Vadim Zeland's books, which are in copyright.; Dating, pedigree and the unnamed-source question: Reality Transurfing, read with care.; How the system sits beside the law of attraction, Stoicism and a therapy with trials: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
Freiling: The description is ours. We do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from Vadim Zeland's books, which are in copyright.; Dating, pedigree and the unnamed-source question: Reality Transurfing, read with care.; How the system sits beside the law of attraction, Stoicism and a therapy with trials: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
G. I. Gurdjieff: life, Fourth Way, evidence: P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous (New York, 1949, LoC); pages cited from the London 1950 edition (same extent, xi, 399 pp.), Internet Archive. Quoted briefly; copyright status not established.; Gurdjieff, Beelzebub’s Tales (1950, LoC); Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963, Open Library). Records only, not read.; Wikipedia, George Gurdjieff (read 12 November 2026): used only where the text says so.; World Religions and Spirituality Project: J. Petsche, “Gurdjieff Timeline” (2015), A. J. Dell’Olio, “Arica” (2021); P. Zoccatelli, “Notes on G. I. Gurdjieff”, CESNUR (2007).; From within the tradition: James Moore’s chronology (archived 2015); Gurdjieff Legacy, “When was Gurdjieff born?”; Michael Benham, Literature & Aesthetics 35(2), 2025, article; the Foundations’ list; register: Companies House 00555631.; Books cited for dates only, not read: Peters (1964, LoC), Pauwels (1954, LoC), Moore (1991, LoC).; Killingsworth and Gilbert, Science 330 (2010), abstract; figures from the Harvard Gazette, November 2010.; Studies linked in the text, abstracts read: Stanton 1997; Rodrigues and Jaeger 2018; Schooler and colleagues 2011; Feruglio and colleagues 2021; Farias and colleagues 2020.; Hook and colleagues, Journal of Clinical Psychology 77(4), 2021, abstract; PubMed search “Gurdjieff”, 10 November 2026.
Human Design: origin, sources, evidence: Jovian Archive, publisher of Ra Uru Hu’s teachings: About Ra Uru Hu, About Human Design and pages linked in the text (read 12 November 2026).; Library of Congress, LCCN 2004581231; name authority n2004069987.; USPTO, seven TSDR records linked in the table, e.g. 88009411.; Wikipedia, Human Design, for the 1992 book date only.; Nobel Prize in Physics 2015, press release, popular information; Wikipedia, Neutrino oscillation.; Not read, details from Wikipedia: Forer 1949 (doi; Barnum effect), Carlson 1985 (doi; Astrology and science).; Abstracts read: Dickson and Kelly 1985 (doi), Lerner and colleagues 2015 (doi), Dunn and colleagues 2010 (PubMed).; PubMed, 12 November 2026: “Ra Uru Hu”, bodygraph: no results.; Rave Life Sciences, “Preliminary Research on the Human Design System and Health”, undated, abstract (Scribd).; Older parts: Open Library, Legge 1882, Wilhelm-Baynes 1950, The Serpent Power 1919; DNB, Schönberger 1973; Sefaria, Sefer Yetzirah.; Reference: NHGRI, Codon; NASA, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto; Wikipedia, I Ching, Chakra (dating).
Importance: The description is ours. We do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from Vadim Zeland's books, which are in copyright.; Dating, pedigree and the unnamed-source question: Reality Transurfing, read with care.; How the system sits beside the law of attraction, Stoicism and a therapy with trials: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
Inner and outer intention: The description is ours. We do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from Vadim Zeland's books, which are in copyright.; Dating, pedigree and the unnamed-source question: Reality Transurfing, read with care.; How the system sits beside the law of attraction, Stoicism and a therapy with trials: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
Is Reality Transurfing Hermetic?: B. P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge University Press, 1992): CH I, IV, XI, XIII and the Asclepius.; R. F. Baumeister (1984) and G. Oettingen and D. Mayer (2002), as cited on the Seven Moves, with their limits stated there.; Vadim Zeland, Reality Transurfing, from 2004. The description of the system is ours; the books are in copyright and are not reproduced.; On this site: Reality Transurfing, the main entry; Pico della Mirandola; the provenance card.; Note: no peer-reviewed scholarship treats Reality Transurfing. Stated rather than filled with invented authority.
Is it quantum physics?: Vadim Zeland, Трансерфинг реальности. Ступень I: Пространство вариантов, St Petersburg: Ves, 2004 (Russian State Library record).; H. Everett III, “‘Relative State’ Formulation of Quantum Mechanics”, Reviews of Modern Physics 29 (3), 1 July 1957, pp. 454-462 (DOI); B. S. DeWitt, “Quantum mechanics and reality”, Physics Today 23 (9), September 1970, pp. 30-35 (DOI).; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: L. Vaidman, “Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics” (revised 17 June 2026); J. Barrett, “Everettian Quantum Mechanics” (revised 20 June 2023); H. Atmanspacher, “Quantum Approaches to Consciousness” (revised 13 May 2024).; M. Schirber, “Quantum Milestones, 1957: Sprouting Parallel Universes”, Physics 18, 83, American Physical Society, 18 April 2025.; W. Moebs, S. J. Ling, J. Sanny, University Physics, 3 vols (Houston: OpenStax, 2016), open textbook; sections linked in the card. Induced transitions: M. A. El’yashevich, “Квантовые переходы”, Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd ed.; N. N. Pluzhnikova, “«Трансерфинг реальности» и магические практики в культуре”, Izvestiya VGPU no. 9 (63), 2011, pp. 28-32 (CyberLeninka); cited from pp. 29 and 30.; V. J. Stenger, “Quantum Quackery”, Skeptical Inquirer 21 (1), 1997, pp. 37-40 (online); F. Capra, The Tao of Physics, Berkeley: Shambhala, 1975 (Open Library).; P. N. Spotts, “How quantum physicists ‘review’ the ‘Bleep’ movie”, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 October 2004 (online).; PubMed search for “transurfing”, 3 November 2026: no records.; On the author’s credentials: his own words in Sobesednik, 23 September 2010 (archived), and on the Eksmo author page; in full: Vadim Zeland: what can be established.
Joseph Murphy: life, book, method: Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1963), LoC record, quoted from a later reprint of the 1963 text; reprints Tarcher 2010, Dover 2010 and Prentice Hall Press 2011.; Library of Congress record 46015776 (Wheels of Truth, Rochester: Church of Religious Science, 1946).; Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 115690107 (dates, Laguna Hills, emigration 1922).; Biblioteka Narodowa, Potęga podświadomości, Warsaw 1996 and later records; Biblioteca Nacional de España, El poder de su mente subconsciente, 2000.; Divine Science Ministers Association, “Rev. Dr. Joseph Murphy”, church biography.; JMW Group (Murphy’s estate licensee), biography, 2014, archived.; Wikipedia, Joseph Murphy (writer), Neville Goddard and Church of Divine Science, read 10 November 2026; manifest, Cantin 1987 and the 1929 certificate unseen.; Charles Coulombe, “Heretic of the week: Joseph Murphy”, Catholic Herald, 2019.; Studies linked in the text: Psychological Science, 2009; Annual Review of Psychology, 2014; Health Psychology, 2015; Cognition, 2025; American Psychologist, 1998; Journal of Neuroscience, 2011; JEP: General, 2018; Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2006 (open copy); European Review of Social Psychology, 2024 (open copy); Scientific Reports, 2025. Abstracts read; the 2024 meta-analysis in full.
Modern systems: from the Hermetica to practice: Asclepius, chapter 6; Who was Hermes Trismegistus?: c. 100-300 CE; Ask for the date: dated cards.; Marsilio Ficino: Latin of treatises I-XIV, April 1463, printed 1471.; Quimby: Wikipedia (Poyen about 1836, Collyer 1841); Encyclopedia.com (mind cure “later known as New Thought”).; The Kybalion: Chicago, 1908; Atkinson claimed it in 1912.; Law of attraction: A. J. Davis, The Great Harmonia IV (1855), p. 41, 1866 reprint; P. Mulford, Your Forces, I (1886-1887), II (1887-1888); Wikipedia; The Secret (2006): Wikipedia.; Neville Goddard: Wikipedia: 1905-1972; lectures from 1938; a 1929 certificate signed “Abdoullah” (not seen by us).; The law of assumption: the phrase in The Power of Awareness (1952); the TikTok tag at 123.6 million views on 20 October 2021 (Internet Archive).; Transurfing and Neville Goddard: Neville quotes Scott’s Hermetica (1924) twice in Awakened Imagination (1954); no sign Zeland drew on him.; Vadim Zeland and Tufti the Priestess: St Petersburg, 2004; Tufti, 2018 (Russian State Library).; WOOP: woopmylife.org (Oettingen); if-then plans: Gollwitzer and Sheeran 2006, 94 tests, d = 0.65.; Human agency in the AI age: the practice and its limits.
Napoleon Hill: the record, the book, the method: N. Hill, The Law of Success (Ralston University Press, 1928), LoC, scan.; N. Hill, Think and Grow Rich (Ralston Society, 1937), LoC; 1938 printing, transcription; public domain in the US per HathiTrust.; N. Hill, Outwitting the Devil (Sterling, 2011), LoC; Publishers Weekly review, 2011.; M. Novak, Gizmodo, 6 December 2016: legal record, Nasaw; its newspapers not seen by us.; Napoleon Hill Foundation, timeline, “Rich or Penniless?” (archived).; Wikipedia, Napoleon Hill, read 12 November 2026: birth date; the authorized biography (1995) on legal work.; P. Mulford, Your Forces (1887-1888), vol. I, vol. II.; Locke and Latham, American Psychologist, 2002, doi (full text).; Schweitzer, Ordóñez and Douma, 2004, doi; Ordóñez and colleagues, 2009, doi.; Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006, doi; Wang, Wang and Gai, 2021, doi; Oettingen and Mayer, 2002, doi.; Wood, Perunovic and Lee, 2009, doi; Hatzigeorgiadis and colleagues, 2011, doi; Vallerand and colleagues, 2010, doi. Studies: abstracts read unless marked.
Neville Goddard: life, books, method: Neville, Feeling Is the Secret (1944), reprint text dated 1951, Internet Archive.; Neville, Awakened Imagination (1954), later edition, Internet Archive.; Neville, Your Faith Is Your Fortune (1941), DeVorss edition and back-cover biography, Internet Archive; At Your Command (1939), reprint scan; Out of This World (1949) and The Law and the Promise (1961), e-text reprints.; Library of Congress records cited in the book table, and reissues 2005, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2024; The Law and the Promise, DeVorss edition record; Five Lessons (2018), publisher’s page with author biography.; Wikipedia, Neville Goddard, Arnold Josiah Ford (read 10 November 2026): exact dates, the 1929 certificate and Cantin 1987 on Murphy (not seen by us).; Mitch Horowitz, Magician of the Beautiful (2019), preview, paraphrased; the preview was not readable to us on 10 November 2026.; Tima Vlasto, “Which Abdullah?”, Cool Wisdom Books (2025, updated 2026), online; independent, not peer-reviewed.; H. W. Dresser (ed.), The Quimby Manuscripts (1921), Internet Archive.; Studies linked in the text: PSPB 25(2), 1999; JPSP 83(5), 2002; JESP 47(4), 2011 (author manuscript); Psychological Science 27(3), 2016; Frontiers in Psychology 12, 2021. All but 2011 read as abstracts.; B. Beringer, Bustle, 14 September 2022, online. The five-minute sequence is our own arrangement, not a tested treatment. Neville is quoted briefly; copyright status not established.
Pendulums: The description is ours. We do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from Vadim Zeland's books, which are in copyright.; Dating, pedigree and the unnamed-source question: Reality Transurfing, read with care.; How the system sits beside the law of attraction, Stoicism and a therapy with trials: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
Reality Transurfing, volume by volume: Russian State Library catalogue, records of the first editions of the five steps (St Petersburg: IG Ves, 2004-2005): Step I (ISBN 5-9573-0283-X), Step II (5-9573-0305-4), Step III (5-9573-0306-2), Step IV (5-9573-0542-1) and Step V (5-9573-0543-X; second 2005 record); read 2 November 2026.; The same catalogue, other editions: the one-volume Трансерфинг реальности: ступень I-V (Ves and Glazgora, 2006, 848 pp.; record); Вершитель реальности (Moscow: AST and Astrel, 2005, 255 pp.; record) and its 2008 edition subtitled “new step” (record); Форум сновидений, part 1 (Ves, 2006, 277 pp.; record) and Форум сновидений-2 (Ves, 2008, 432 pp.; record); Практический курс трансерфинга за 78 дней (Ves, 2008, 193 pp.; record); Тафти жрица (Ves, 2018; record).; English editions from O Books (John Hunt Publishing) in Open Library: Reality Transurfing 1: The Space of Variations (2008, ISBN 9781846941221), 2: A Rustle of Morning Stars (2008, ISBN 9781846941313), 3 (2009, ISBN 9781846941320), 4 (2011, ISBN 9781846946615) and 5 (2011, ISBN 9781846946608); the subtitles of volumes 3 to 5 as listed in the publisher’s description on OverDrive (volume 4, volume 5). Reality Transurfing: Steps I-V: Open Library, editions of 2012, 2016 and 2021; for the first of these, ISBN 9785957328803, Goodreads and Amazon give an e-book published on 21 November 2014; Google Books has the editions of 2016 and 2021; Transurfing in 78 Days (Ves, 2018): Open Library.; Polish editions, National Library of Poland: the Hartigrama series translated by Marcin Pracki, volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 (2009), 5 and 6 (2010), 7 and 8 (2012) and 9 (2013); Ludmiła Walczak’s translation for Satja Juga, volumes 1 and 2 (2024). Spanish editions, National Library of Spain: Ediciones Obelisco, tomos I (2010), II and III (2011), IV and V (2013).; Vadim Zeland’s official site, ‘События и факты’ (events and facts), read 2 November 2026: the manuscripts of 2003 and 2004, the first edition of May 2004, the two volumes of Яблоки падают в небо in April 2005 and the later books by year. The author’s own timeline, not independent reporting.; Vadim Zeland, interview about the book Tufti, Transurfing Centre (tserf.ru), read 2 November 2026: Transurfing as the elementary school and Tufti as the higher one, and the advice to master the basics first. Step II, chapter I: publisher’s sample on LitRes.; On the pedigree claim and its dating: Reality Transurfing: the main entry.; The same unfalsifiable-pedigree architecture, 1908: the Kybalion. The method used here: Provenance.; Note: no peer-reviewed scholarship treats this series. Stated rather than filled with invented authority.
Reality Transurfing: read with care: Vadim Zeland, Reality Transurfing / Трансерфинг реальности, multi-volume, from 2004; Polish: Transerfing rzeczywistości, vol. 1 Przestrzeń wariantów. The books are the primary source for every claim about their own contents and origin.; W. W. Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Chicago, 1906): the New Thought current from which this family of ideas descends.; On the same pattern one century earlier: the Kybalion, and the method used here: Provenance.; Note on scholarship: no peer-reviewed academic literature treats Reality Transurfing. That absence is stated here rather than filled with invented authority; it is itself a fact about the book’s standing.
Reality Transurfing: the concepts: Vadim Zeland, Reality Transurfing / Transerfing rzeczywistości, from 2004. Concept descriptions here are our own summaries at the level of what each idea claims; the books are in copyright and are not reproduced.; W. W. Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Chicago, 1906): the New Thought ancestry of this family of ideas.; Related on this site: the main entry, volume by volume, the Kybalion, and the method: Provenance.; Note: no peer-reviewed scholarship treats this system. Stated rather than filled with invented authority.
Shadow work: Jung, prompts, evidence: C. G. Jung, Psychology and Religion (Yale, 1938, LoC), pp. 93-94, 101 (read in the 1950 printing, Internet Archive); quoted briefly, in copyright.; Jung, Aion (1951, LoC); IAAP abstracts of Collected Works 9/II and 14 (books not read).; Jung, Psychological Types, trans. H. G. Baynes (London: Kegan Paul; New York: Harcourt, 1923, LoC), p. 203, scan.; Records only: Jung and others, Man and His Symbols (1964); W. A. Miller, Make Friends with Your Shadow (1981); Bly 1986, 1988; Abrams and Zweig 1991; Illich 1981 (text); Shaheen 2024. Read: Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 30 May 2024 (reprint).; Google Trends, worldwide, five years, read 12 November 2026; PubMed “shadow work”, same day: five records.; Writing: Pennebaker and Beall 1986 (full text); Frattaroli 2006; Gerger and colleagues 2022; Sloan and colleagues 2018 (abstracts).; Rumination and distance (abstracts): Nolen-Hoeksema 1991; Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco and Lyubomirsky 2008; Watkins 2008; Kross and colleagues 2012; Kross and colleagues 2014.; Projection and self-compassion (abstracts): Newman, Duff and Baumeister 1997; Breines and Chen 2012; Han and Kim 2023.; William R. Newman, “The Problem of Alchemy”, The New Atlantis 44 (2015).; Prompt lists counted 12 November 2026: BetterUp, Science of People, PureWow, Journal Buddies, 101 Planners.; Crisis lines: 988 Lifeline (US), 9-8-8 (Canada), Samaritans, Find A Helpline; when to seek help: NIMH; read 12 November 2026.
Slides: The description is ours. We do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from Vadim Zeland's books, which are in copyright.; Dating, pedigree and the unnamed-source question: Reality Transurfing, read with care.; How the system sits beside the law of attraction, Stoicism and a therapy with trials: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
Soul and mind: The description is ours. We do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from Vadim Zeland's books, which are in copyright.; Dating, pedigree and the unnamed-source question: Reality Transurfing, read with care.; How the system sits beside the law of attraction, Stoicism and a therapy with trials: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
Synchronicity: meaning, Jung, the odds: C. G. Jung and W. Pauli, Naturerklärung und Psyche (Zurich: Rascher, 1952, LoC); English, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche (New York: Pantheon, 1955, LoC). Pages from the 1955 edition; in copyright, quoted in short phrases.; P. Kammerer, Das Gesetz der Serie (Stuttgart and Berlin, 1919), DNB, Internet Archive (Public Domain Mark); dates, GND. A. Schopenhauer, Parerga und Paralipomena (Berlin, 1851), Internet Archive, record only.; Pauli and Jung letters: Springer 1992 (LoC); Atom and Archetype, Princeton 2001 (LoC). Records only.; P. Diaconis and F. Mosteller, JASA 84(408), 1989, 853-861, doi, PDF.; Abstracts read: R. Falk, Am. J. Psychol. 102(4), 1989, record (finding via Diaconis and Mosteller); Johansen and Osman, 2015, doi; Rodríguez-Ferreiro and colleagues, 2025, doi; Russo-Netzer and Icekson, 2023, doi; Nickerson, 1998, doi.; Feeds and chatbots: TikTok Newsroom, “How TikTok recommends videos #ForYou”, 18 June 2020; B. Zimmer, “Frequency illusion” in the OED, Language Log, 2019 (Zwicky, 7 August 2005); M. Sharma and 18 others, 2023, arXiv:2310.13548.; NIMH, “Understanding Psychosis”, read 12 November 2026; crisis lines as on our AI anxiety page.; C. G. Jung, Dream Analysis, ed. W. McGuire (Princeton, 1984, LoC), pp. 44-45 and 417, as quoted by J. Cambray, IAAP; R. T. Carroll, Skeptic’s Dictionary (2015): the sceptic’s reading, synchronicity as apophenia.
The Akashic records: origin, Cayce, evidence: Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), pp. 126-127, Cologne edition; A. Nash, Central European Journal of Contemporary Religion 2 (2019), 109-124, open access (his 1881 date for Olcott is corrected above).; H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (New York, 1877), vol. 1, vol. 2.; H. S. Olcott, A Buddhist Catechism: Colombo 1881, scan; revised text, preface 2 August 1882, Boston 1885, scan.; A. P. Sinnett, Esoteric Buddhism (London, 1883), scan; The Theosophical Forum No. 29 (1891), scan; A. Besant, Karma (1895), scan; C. W. Leadbeater, Clairvoyance (1899), scan.; R. Steiner, Aus der Akasha-Chronik, GA 11, with editors’ notes on dates, PDF; our translation.; Levi [H. Dowling], The Aquarian Gospel: 1908, LoC; read in the 1911 edition, scan.; Clement of Alexandria, Stromata VI.4, trans. W. Wilson (1885), New Advent; Malachi 3:16, King James Version, Project Gutenberg.; On Cayce: K. M. Wehrstein, Psi Encyclopedia (SPR, 2019, updated 2026); Wikipedia, Hall of Records (read 12 November 2026); L. Dolphin, 1978 Sphinx survey notes (1999).; Forer 1949, record, figures from Carroll and Dickson and Kelly 1985; abstracts read: Spanos 1991; Meyersburg 2009; Murphy 2023, replicating Loftus and Pickrell 1995; University of Virginia, hypnotic regression.; Dates only, not read: Todeschi 1998, LoC; Howe 2009, LoC; Laszlo 2004, LoC; archive.org full text, 13 November 2026.
The current of variants: The description is ours. We do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from Vadim Zeland's books, which are in copyright.; Dating, pedigree and the unnamed-source question: Reality Transurfing, read with care.; How the system sits beside the law of attraction, Stoicism and a therapy with trials: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
The enneagram: origin, claims, evidence: P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous (New York, 1949, LoC); pages from the London 1950 edition, Internet Archive. Quoted briefly; copyright status not established.; A. J. Dell’Olio, “Arica”, World Religions and Spirituality Project (2021).; US bishops’ Secretariat for Doctrine, draft report (October 2000); Vatican, Jesus Christ, the Bearer of the Water of Life (2003); US Copyright Office, Arica v. Palmer summary.; Records only, books not read: Beesing and others (1984), Riso (1987), Palmer (1988), Library of Congress.; Evagrius, Praktikos 6 (tr. Luke Dysinger, public domain); Cassian, Institutes V.1 (tr. Gibson, 1894); Gregory the Great, Moralia XXXI.45.; R. V. Huggins, “The Enneagram’s False History and Occult Roots”, Bibliotheca Sacra 179 (2022): abstract and opening read.; From within the movement: Enneagram Institute, “The Traditional Enneagram”. Wikipedia, Enneagram of Personality, only where the text says so. Dickson and Kelly, Barnum effect review, Psychological Reports (1985).; C. Huffman, “Pythagoras”, and E. Priani, “Ramon Llull”, SEP; MacTutor, “Simon Stevin”.; Studies linked in the text, abstracts read (PubMed “enneagram”, 24 records, 12 November 2026); Koocher’s top five from the SCCAP summary.
The law of assumption: what it claims, what works: Neville, The Power of Awareness (1952; DeVorss revised edition, 1992), Internet Archive.; Neville, At Your Command (1939), Feeling Is the Secret (1944), Out of This World (1949), Awakened Imagination (1954), The Law and the Promise (1961) and five more texts, same collection. Short quotations only; we make no claim about copyright status.; “The Law of Assumption”, radio talk transcript dated July 1951, KECA, Los Angeles, Cool Wisdom Books; source not named.; Checked 10 November 2026: r/NevilleGoddard wiki, 30 March 2021 and TikTok tag, 20 October 2021 (Internet Archive); Google Trends, worldwide, 2004-2026; PubMed.; Press: B. Beringer, Bustle, 14 September 2022; L. Pitcher, i-D, 20 October 2021.; G. Oettingen and D. Mayer, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83 (2002), 1198-1212, doi; G. Oettingen, H. Pak and K. Schnetter, same journal, 80 (2001), 736-753, doi.; H. B. Kappes and G. Oettingen, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47 (2011), 719-729, doi; accepted manuscript.; L. B. Pham and S. E. Taylor, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 25 (1999), 250-260, doi; J. V. Wood, W. Q. E. Perunovic and J. W. Lee, Psychological Science 20 (2009), 860-866, doi. Abstracts only.; P. M. Gollwitzer and P. Sheeran, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 38 (2006), 69-119, doi; Konstanz repository.; G. Wang, Y. Wang and X. Gai, Frontiers in Psychology 12 (2021), 565202, doi; WOOP: woopmylife.org.; W. W. Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Chicago, 1906; 1908 printing); Esther Hicks and The Secret: Wikipedia.
The law of attraction: where it came from, what works: A. J. Davis, The Great Harmonia, vol. IV, The Reformer (Boston and New York, 1855), p. 41, Internet Archive; Fourier quoted in the same volume; 1866 reprint, same page.; P. Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them (New York: F. J. Needham; copyright 1887 and 1888, 1890 printings), vol. I (essays May 1886-May 1887, “The Law of Success”) and vol. II (May 1887-May 1888, “Some Laws of Health and Beauty”).; W. W. Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Chicago: New Thought Publishing Co., copyright 1906), 1908 printing.; Three Initiates, The Kybalion (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, copyright 1908), ch. I, Internet Archive.; W. D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich (Holyoke, Mass.: Elizabeth Towne, copyright 1 April 1910), Project Gutenberg.; N. Hill, The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons (Meriden, Conn.: Ralston University Press, copyright 1928), Internet Archive.; E. and J. Hicks, The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham (Carlsbad: Hay House, 2006), Library of Congress; R. Byrne, The Secret (New York: Atria; Hillsboro: Beyond Words, 2006), Library of Congress.; G. Oettingen and D. Mayer, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83 (2002), 1198-1212, doi; H. B. Kappes and G. Oettingen, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47 (2011), 719-729, doi, accepted manuscript.; L. B. Pham and S. E. Taylor, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 25 (1999), 250-260, doi. Abstract only.; A. Hróbjartsson and P. C. Gøtzsche, New England Journal of Medicine 344 (2001), 1594-1602, doi.; L. M. Dixon, M. J. Hornsey and N. Hartley, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 51 (2025; online 8 July 2023), 49-65, doi. Abstract only.; J. V. Wood, W. Q. E. Perunovic and J. W. Lee, Psychological Science 20 (2009), 860-866, doi. Abstract only. J. C. Yeung and V. M.-C. Lun, The Journal of Positive Psychology 16 (2021; online 2020), 492-502, doi; summary: PsyPost, 4 February 2022.; P. M. Gollwitzer and P. Sheeran, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 38 (2006), 69-119, doi; G. Wang, Y. Wang and X. Gai, Frontiers in Psychology 12 (2021), 565202, doi; WOOP: woopmylife.org.; Wikipedia, opened 10 November 2026: Law of attraction (New Thought) (overview; the 1855 attribution to Davis, after Mitch Horowitz) and The Secret (2006 film) (online premiere, extended edition, Hicks cut).
The space of variants: The description is ours. We do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from Vadim Zeland's books, which are in copyright.; Dating, pedigree and the unnamed-source question: Reality Transurfing, read with care.; How the system sits beside the law of attraction, Stoicism and a therapy with trials: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
The wave of fortune: The description is ours. We do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from Vadim Zeland's books, which are in copyright.; Dating, pedigree and the unnamed-source question: Reality Transurfing, read with care.; How the system sits beside the law of attraction, Stoicism and a therapy with trials: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
Transurfing and the Kybalion: Philip Deslippe (ed.), The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition (2011): the case for Atkinson’s authorship and the New Thought context.; W. W. Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Chicago, 1906).; Vadim Zeland, Reality Transurfing, from 2004. The description of the system is ours; the books are in copyright and are not reproduced.; On this site: the Kybalion, read with care; Reality Transurfing, the main entry; the method: Provenance.; Note: no peer-reviewed scholarship treats Reality Transurfing. Stated rather than filled with invented authority.
Transurfing and Neville Goddard: Neville, Feeling Is the Secret (1944), Out of This World (1949), The Power of Awareness (1952; revised edition 1992), Awakened Imagination (1954), The Law and the Promise (1961): Internet Archive. Copyright status not settled; paraphrased.; Walter Scott (ed. and trans.), Hermetica, vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), Libellus I §6 and XII §12-14: Internet Archive.; “Neville Goddard”, Wikipedia, read 10 November 2026: dates; Joseph Murphy; the 1929 certificate, cited to the San Francisco Call Bulletin (not seen by us).; Vadim Zeland, Step I (Ves, 2004), Russian State Library; Step II (Ves, 2004), record; Тафти жрица (Ves, 2018), record; 2003: zelands.ru. In copyright; not reproduced.; No results, 10 November 2026: zelands.ru, “Годдард”, “Невилл”; zelands.com, “Goddard”.; N. N. Pluzhnikova, Izvestiya VGPU 9 (63), 2011, pp. 28-32: CyberLeninka; p. 29: the keeper of ancient knowledge in Step II.; Obituary of Margaret Runyan Castaneda, Bangor Daily News, 31 January 2012.; L. B. Pham and S. E. Taylor, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 25 (2), 1999, pp. 250-260, DOI (abstract); S. E. Taylor, ‘Envisioning the future and self-regulation’, in M. Bar (ed.), Predictions in the Brain (Oxford University Press, 2011), manuscript.; G. Oettingen and D. Mayer, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83 (5), 2002, pp. 1198-1212, DOI, PubMed.; H. B. Kappes and G. Oettingen, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47 (4), 2011, pp. 719-729, DOI, LSE manuscript.; P. M. Gollwitzer and P. Sheeran, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 38 (2006), pp. 69-119, University of Konstanz.
Transurfing, compared: Comparisons and analysis here are our own. No text from any of the works discussed is reproduced.; A. J. Davis, The Great Harmonia, vol. IV (Boston, 1855), p. 41, Internet Archive: the earliest use of the phrase for life and mind that we could check.; W. W. Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Chicago, 1906), the common ancestor of several rows in the table.; W. D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich (Holyoke, Mass.: Elizabeth Towne, 1910), Project Gutenberg: the book behind The Secret.; On this site: Reality Transurfing, its concepts, the Kybalion, the law of attraction card.; Acceptance and commitment therapy is named here as an evidence-based clinical practice; readers wanting the trial literature should consult clinical sources rather than this page, which makes no therapeutic claim.
Transurfing in practice: The practical translations here are our own synthesis of what the system's usable concepts imply. No instructions, exercises or text from Zeland's books are reproduced; the books are in copyright.; Concept by concept, with limits: the concepts. Dating and pedigree: the main entry.; Where this sits against neighbouring systems, including one with clinical evidence: compared.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice for treating anxiety or any other condition.
Tufti the Priestess: Vadim Zeland, Тафти жрица. Гуляние живьем в кинокартине (St Petersburg: Ves, 2018), 239 pp., ISBN 978-5-9573-2707-3: Russian State Library record. The opening chapter is read in the publisher’s sample of the current edition, p. 7; the author’s remark on channels is in the description on the same page.; Vadim Zeland, Жрица Итфат (Ves, 2018), 451 pp., ISBN 978-5-9573-3075-2, record; О чем не сказала Тафти (Ves, 2019), ISBN 978-5-9573-3466-8, record; publisher’s pages for Priestess Itfat, What Tufti Didn’t Say and Tufti the Priestess 2 (the last also in an Internet Archive copy of 23 March 2023). The opening of Priestess Itfat is read in the publisher’s samples: p. 7 of the Russian edition and p. 5 of the English edition.; Vadim Zeland, interview about the new book Tufti and the afterword “Tufti’s avatar”, Transurfing Centre (tserf.ru), online by 18 August 2019 (Internet Archive), read on 1 November 2026.; English editions: publisher’s pages for Tufti the Priestess. Live Stroll Through A Movie and Priestess Itfat; year and translator from the Labirint records (1, 2).; Spanish editions: National Library of Spain records for Tafti, la sacerdotisa (2020, ISBN 978-84-17230-88-3), Lo que Tafti no dijo (2021, ISBN 978-84-123677-5-1) and La sacerdotisa Itfat (2023, ISBN 978-84-19619-20-4); the publisher’s name as in the Spanish ISBN agency database.; Polish editions: National Library of Poland records for Kapłanka Tafti: spacer w filmie (2022) and O czym nie powiedziała Tafti (2023).; J. Allen and M. Hill, ‘Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1070-664 B.C.)’, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2004, revised March 2018.; Isis Temple, Digital Giza (Giza Project, Harvard University), with the Porter and Moss date.; Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 25.3.182-184, ca. 1000-945 BCE.; Hermann Ranke, Die ägyptischen Personennamen (Glückstadt: Augustin, 1935-1977), German National Library records for vol. 1 (1935), vol. 2 (1952) and vol. 3 (1977). The claim gives no Egyptian form of the name, so there was nothing to look up in Ranke’s list.; The keeper in the second step: N. N. Pluzhnikova, ‘“Трансерфинг реальности” и магические практики в культуре’, Izvestiya VGPU 9 (63), 2011, pp. 28-32 (CyberLeninka); on p. 29 she notes that in Шелест утренних звезд, the second step, Zeland says the technique was not his own invention but was passed to him by a keeper of ancient knowledge who once appeared to him in a dream. The second step itself: Vadim Zeland, Трансерфинг реальности. Ступень 2: Шелест утренних звезд (St Petersburg: Ves, 2004), 211 pp., ISBN 5-9573-0305-4, Russian State Library record.; We do not reproduce text from Vadim Zeland’s books, which are in copyright.
Tufti’s braid: Vadim Zeland, Тафти жрица. Гуляние живьем в кинокартине (Ves, St Petersburg, 2018; Russian State Library record; contents in the publisher’s sample, opening chapters in the LitRes sample); in English Tufti the Priestess. Live Stroll Through A Movie, translated by Joanna Dobson (Ves; author’s official site, with the opening chapters online). Companion volume: О чем не сказала Тафти (What Tufti Didn’t Say, Ves, 2019; Russian State Library record; pp. 49-64 in the publisher’s sample; its first chapter, on the plait, in the LitRes sample). The description here is ours; we do not reproduce text, instructions or exercises from these books, which are in copyright.; Vadim Zeland, interview on the new book Tufti, on the site of the Transurfing Centre: tserf.ru; Internet Archive copy of 18 August 2019.; When the English edition appeared: Amazon lists the edition with ISBN 978-5-9573-3472-9 as published on 12 November 2018; Internet Archive copies of the author’s site from 9 February 2019 (no Tufti) and 7 March 2019 (Tufti the Priestess. Live Stroll Through A Movie listed with a link to buy that edition); the bookseller Labirint dates the Ves paperback with ISBN 978-5-9573-3529-0 to 2020.; Outer intention: Vadim Zeland, Трансерфинг реальности. Ступень II: Шелест утренних звезд (Reality Transurfing, Step II; Ves, St Petersburg, 2004; Russian State Library record), chapter I, section “Внешнее намерение” (outer intention), in the LitRes sample.; Reader accounts of the practice, used only to check what the descriptions agree on, among them a lesson-by-lesson reading on note.com (26 February 2026), which states that it is an interpretation.; M. A. Killingsworth and D. T. Gilbert (2010), A wandering mind is an unhappy mind, Science 330(6006), 932. doi:10.1126/science.1192439; PubMed.; G. Oettingen and D. Mayer (2002), The motivating function of thinking about the future: expectations versus fantasies, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83(5), 1198-1212. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.83.5.1198; L. B. Pham and S. E. Taylor (1999), From thought to action: effects of process- versus outcome-based mental simulations on performance, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 25(2), 250-260. doi:10.1177/0146167299025002010; W. L. Gregory, R. B. Cialdini and K. M. Carpenter (1982), Self-relevant scenarios as mediators of likelihood estimates and compliance: does imagining make it so?, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 43(1), 89-99. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.43.1.89; P. M. Gollwitzer and P. Sheeran (2006), Implementation intentions and goal achievement: a meta-analysis of effects and processes, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 38, 69-119. doi:10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1; Carolyn Steber, ‘What is Reality Transurfing?’, Bustle, 12 May 2025: bustle.com. It does not mention the braid.; This page makes no therapeutic claim and is not advice about any condition.
Vadim Zeland: Russian State Library catalogue, record 01002490071: Vadim Zeland, Трансерфинг реальности. Ступень 1: Пространство вариантов (St Petersburg: Ves, 2004), 206 pp., ISBN 5-9573-0283-X, the first volume; read 1 November 2026.; Author page at the Russian publisher Eksmo, read 1 November 2026, and ‘Что такое трансерфинг?’, Sobesednik, 23 September 2010 (archived copy): the origin of the quantum-physics formula, which both give as his own words. Neither is independent reporting.; N. Arapova, ‘С головой дружим’, Kommersant-Ural no. 216, 23 November 2007 (online at kommersant.ru): the earliest dated press item we found in which the author’s existence is publicly doubted.; Komsomolskaya Pravda, 19 April 2010 (online at kp.ru): the source of the three-million figure; an announcement of a new Eksmo book, not an interview.; OpenAlex author and works queries, checked 27 September 2026 and again on 1 November 2026: two author records, for the Latin and the Cyrillic spelling, with one work each (a 2006 entry and a 2013 Bulgarian library record); no physics, no affiliation. eLIBRARY.ru and Scopus require accounts we do not hold and were not checked.; Arbitration case no. А40-118245/10-27-1034, cited at second hand from Russian Wikipedia’s footnotes. We did not read the filings.; zelands.ru, which presents itself as his official site, read 1 November 2026: printed editions counted from 2004, no public appearances; first excerpts by internet mailing list in August 2003 (‘События и факты’); interviews given as written questions and answers (‘Интервью автора’); a training centre that operates with his participation (‘Трансерфинг Центр’).; LitRes editors, ‘Вадим Зеланд: о новых техниках Трансерфинга, сходстве с Пелевиным и эволюции концепции’, LitRes magazine, 26 November 2024 (online at litres.com): readers’ questions with answers given in his name, published by the ebook retailer while it sold his new book exclusively; read 1 November 2026.; tserf.ru, the site of the Transurfing Center, which sells online courses and says it was founded in 2006 with his participation and support; its video ‘Кто такой Вадим Зеланд? Об авторе Трансерфинга реальности’ (YouTube) has a man in dark glasses on its cover image. Read 1 November 2026.; South China Morning Post, online article whose headline speaks of friendly locals drawing the reclusive Transurfing author out, listed so that it is not hidden: the site refused us access on 1 November 2026, and we have not read it or seen its date.; English Wikipedia, Articles for deletion: Vadim Zeland, closed as delete on 13 October 2018; Russian Wikipedia redirects ‘Вадим Зеланд’ to its article on Reality Transurfing. Both checked 1 November 2026.; We do not reproduce text from Vadim Zeland’s books, which are in copyright. Nothing here is an allegation against a living person; it is a statement of what the available sources do and do not support.
Where to start: Russian first editions and years: Russian State Library catalogue records, among them Step IV (2005), Steps I-V in one volume (2006), Вершитель реальности (2005) and Форум сновидений, part 1 (2006), read 2 November 2026; IG Ves catalogue data via booksellers (Labirint) and the Russian Wikipedia series table, whose thirteen-digit ISBNs contain check-digit errors.; English editions: Open Library records for the O Books volumes (2008 to 2011) and the collected editions of 2012, 2016 and 2021.; Polish editions: National Library of Poland records for the Hartigrama volumes (2009 to 2010); publisher and bookseller data for the Satja Juga translation (2024).; We do not reproduce or summarise the contents of Vadim Zeland’s books, which are in copyright.

Seven Moves

The Seven Moves: Copenhaver, B. P. (trans.), Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992): the standard English critical translation; all Corpus references on this page follow its numbering.; Steele, R. & Singer, D. W., ‘The Emerald Table’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 21 (1928), pp. 485-501: the standard treatment of the Latin text whose clauses are cited here.; Fowden, G., The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986): on what the Hermetica were used for, as against what later readers wanted them to be.; The arrangement into seven moves is ours and is not found in any source. It is stated here so that it can be argued with.

Provenance

Provenance: The method in article form: the 72 Names (three layers on one page), the Emerald Tablet clause by clause (claim vs. what it does not settle), the Kybalion (a full pedigree teardown), as above, so below (one slogan, dated layer by layer), the Count of Saint-Germain (a legend dated book by book).; Philip Deslippe (ed.), The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition (2011): the model case of dating a modern layer.; Skill source and license: github.com/reszkovy/provenance (MIT).
Provenance cards: Court de Gébelin, Le Monde primitif, vol. VIII (Paris, 1781): the birth of the Egyptian-tarot claim.; Arthur Avalon (John Woodroffe), The Serpent Power (London, 1919); C. W. Leadbeater, The Chakras (Adyar, 1927): the Western seven-chakra standard.; Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis VI (c. 200 CE): the 42 books in procession.; Dee’s angelic diaries, British Library Sloane MSS: the documented birth of ‘Enochian’, 1582-1589.; A. J. Davis, The Great Harmonia, vol. IV (Boston, 1855), p. 41, Internet Archive: the earliest use of the phrase for life and mind that we could check.; P. Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them (New York: F. J. Needham), vol. I (May 1886 to May 1887) and vol. II (May 1887 to May 1888): the phrase as a rule for thought.; Atkinson, W. W., Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Chicago, 1906).; S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.), The Key of Solomon the King (London, 1889): the fixing of the modern grimoire text.; On this site: Tarot, John Dee, Hermes Trismegistus, the Emerald Tablet clause by clause.

The Deck

The Deck: Michael Dummett, The Game of Tarot (1980): the standard history of the cards as a game.; Antoine Court de Gébelin, Monde primitif, vol. VIII (1781): the origin of the Egyptian story.; Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn, 4 vols. (Aries Press, 1937-1940): the published attributions.; Our own page on the wider question: Tarot and Hermeticism.

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