Everything
The Archive
TL;DR
Every page on this site, grouped and linked. Built from the site itself, so it stays complete.
Everything on this site, in one place. Nine bodies of text, twelve figures, eleven ideas, a twelve-step path, a book, a practice and a deck — with the tools that hold them together. This index builds itself from the site, so it cannot fall out of date.
Texts
The corpus itself — what survives, in which language.
- AsclepiusThe longest Hermetic treatise, surviving complete only in a free Latin adaptation of a lost Gree…
- Corpus HermeticumSeventeen Greek treatises written in Egypt around 100–300 CE, compiled into one book in By…
- PoimandresThe first treatise of the Corpus: a visionary dialogue in which a cosmic Mind shows the narrator…
- Definitions of HermesA collection of compact aphorisms in which Hermes teaches Asclepius — most likely 1st century CE…
- The Emerald TabletNo emerald, no Egypt, no Greek original. The most famous “ancient” text in esoterici…
- The Kybalion (1908)The internet’s favourite “ancient Hermetic text” was published in Chicago in 1…
- Musaeum HermeticumA Latin anthology of alchemical treatises published in Frankfurt in 1625 and greatly expanded in…
- Nag Hammadi HermeticaIn December 1945 a jar of thirteen Coptic codices surfaced near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. Code…
- PicatrixThe Ghayat al-Hakim ("The Goal of the Sage"), Latinized as Picatrix: a 10th-century compendium o…
- Stobaean FragmentsNearly thirty Hermetic excerpts preserved only because a 5th-century compiler, Johannes Stobaeus…
Figures
The people: gods, translators, magi, forgers, scholars.
- Balinas (pseudo-Apollonius)Balinas is the Arabic name for Apollonius of Tyana — and the pen-name under which an unknown Ara…
- Frances YatesFrances A. Yates, historian at London's Warburg Institute, published Giordano Bruno and the Herm…
- Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno (1548–1600), a Dominican friar turned itinerant philosopher, taught an infinite u…
- G.R.S. MeadGeorge Robert Stow Mead (1863–1933), historian, Theosophist and private secretary to H.P. Blavat…
- Hermes TrismegistusNot a man but a mask: the Greek-Egyptian persona under whose name late-antique authors wrote the…
- Israel RegardieFrancis Israel Regudy (1907–1985) served as Aleister Crowley's secretary, then joined the Stella…
- John DeeJohn Dee (1527–1608/9) was an Elizabethan mathematician, geographer and royal adviser who design…
- Lodovico LazzarelliLodovico Lazzarelli (1447–1500), an Italian poet-humanist, translated the three treatises missin…
- Marsilio FicinoMarsilio Ficino (1433–1499), court philosopher-translator to the Medici, made the Latin translat…
- Pico della MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) published 900 theses drawn from every tradition he cou…
- ThothThoth (Egyptian Djehuty) was Egypt's god of writing, reckoning and secret knowledge, worshipped…
- Zosimos of PanopolisZosimos of Panopolis (fl. c. 300 CE, Upper Egypt) is the first alchemist in history known by nam…
Ideas
The concepts, each with its pedigree and its limits.
- As above, so belowThe idea of correspondence between levels of reality is genuinely Hermetic. The slogan itself is…
- CorrespondencesCorrespondences is the claim that the levels of reality — stars, earth, body, soul — mirror and…
- GnosisGreek for "knowledge" — but in the Hermetica, gnosis is knowledge of God that changes what you a…
- Hermeticism & its neighboursHermeticism grew up in a crowded neighbourhood: it shares real DNA with Platonism, Stoicism, Gno…
- NousGreek for “mind” — but in the Hermetica, Nous is the divine Mind itself: the source…
- PalingenesiaPalingenesia is the Hermetic rebirth staged in Corpus Hermeticum XIII: ten divine powers enter t…
- Prisca theologiaPrisca theologia ("ancient theology") is the Renaissance idea that God gave one true theology to…
- TarotTarot is a fifteenth-century northern Italian trick-taking game. Its Egyptian origin story was i…
- The Great WorkThe Great Work (magnum opus) is the alchemists' name for the process of making the philosophers'…
- The Ogdoad and EnneadIn Hermetic cosmology the soul ascends through the seven planetary spheres to the Eighth (the og…
- TheurgyTheurgy (Greek theourgia, "god-working") is late-antique ritual practice aimed at uniting the so…
The Path
Twelve steps, in order, from zero to reading sources.
- 01 · What is Hermeticism?“Hermeticism” names at least four different things: ancient Greek-Egyptian wisdom te…
- 02 · Who was Hermes Trismegistus?No one — and that’s the point. “Thrice-greatest Hermes” is a literary persona…
- 03 · AlexandriaThe Hermetica were written in Roman Egypt (c. 100–300 CE), where Greek was the language of…
- 04 · Reading PoimandresToday you read your first Hermetic source. Poimandres opens the Corpus with a vision: Mind itsel…
Guide
The Modern Hermet and the method, in plain terms.
- The MapEverything here in one view, arranged by the four pillars: read, align, build, transmute.…
- The InstructionFifteen practices, stated plainly. Not a belief system and not a productivity method — a way of…
- Operational AlchemyThe working counterpart to the Instruction. Twelve operating principles that turn recurring chao…
About
How this site works, what it will not do, and why.
Tools and long forms
- The BookOperational Hermeticism — twelve chapters, four interludes.
- The PracticeFive minutes a day, twenty-eight days. Nothing leaves your browser.
- The DeckForty-one cards drawn in the house hand, with their real dates.
- The AtlasSixteen places, from Hermopolis to Chicago.
- QuestionsThe same answers the assistant gives, in one readable place.
- LettersThe weekly letter, archived as it is written.
- SubscribeJoin the letter and start the practice.