The Path
One path. Twelve steps.
TL;DR
One path of twelve steps into the Hermetic texts, meant to be read in order. Each step is short, honest and cited, and each unlocks with a new issue of the letter.
- 01 · What is Hermeticism?The five-minute honest answer, and the four different things people mean by the word.
- 02 · Who was Hermes Trismegistus?A god, a man, a pen name? The strangest author in history.
- 03 · AlexandriaThe world that made the Hermetica: Roman Egypt, dying temples, Greek questions.
- 04 · Reading PoimandresYour first source text, guided line by line.
- 05 · The key ideas in one mapIn preparationEleven concepts, one diagram.
- 06 · As above, so below: what it actually meansIn preparationThe most misquoted line in esotericism.
- 07 · The Emerald TabletIn preparationNo emerald, no Greek, no Egypt: a better story instead.
- 08 · The Renaissance revivalIn preparation1463: Plato can wait.
- 09 · Alchemy and the Great WorkIn preparationWhat the alchemists were actually doing.
- 10 · The Kybalion problemIn preparationThe bestseller that isn’t what it claims to be.
- 11 · Hermeticism todayIn preparationFrom the Golden Dawn to your For You page.
- 12 · The reading mapIn preparationWhere to go deeper: ten books in the right order.
Locked steps unlock with each issue of As Above.