Wing III
The Ideas
TL;DR
Eleven load-bearing concepts. Each entry: what the sources say, what scholars debate, what the internet gets wrong.
- As above, so belowEveryone quotes it. Few know where it’s from.
- NousThe divine Mind — the tradition’s central term.
- GnosisKnowledge that transforms the knower.
- PalingenesiaThe rebirth of CH XIII: ten powers vs twelve torments.
- CorrespondencesThe web that links the levels of the world.
- Prisca theologiaThe myth of the first, purest wisdom.
- TheurgyRitual as ascent — Iamblichus and the divine work.
- The Ogdoad and EnneadThe eighth and ninth spheres of ascent.
- Hermeticism & its neighboursGnosticism, Platonism, Kabbalah — kinships and look-alikes.
- The Great WorkMagnum opus — beyond making gold.