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Questions and answers
The same answers the assistant gives at the bottom of the screen — in one place, readable without clicking. If your question is missing, replies to the letter reach the editors.
answers updated · 2026-09-28
01What is The Hermeticum?
A site about the Hermetic tradition, read with dates and sources, and a working method drawn from those texts: the seven moves. There is also a letter, As Above. A book and a practice tool are in preparation.
02What lands in my inbox?
One source with its edition and date, one correction to a myth or shortcut, one map of how the piece connects, and one question to take with you. It goes out when a new step of the Path is ready.
03Is this another productivity system?
No. Some threads overlap, but the aim differs. Productivity optimises output; this optimises presence and judgement, and will sometimes pay for them in output.
04Do I have to believe in hermeticism?
Not at all. It is the source language of the method, read as intellectual history. You can hold every metaphysical claim at arm’s length and still use the practice.
05Where is my data?
The address you give for the letter sits with our mail provider, and nothing beyond that. The practice tool, when it opens, will keep entries in your browser only.
06Do I need to use AI?
No. The practice works on paper. And if you do use models, it gives you your own position before the model has one for you.
07What is free and what will cost?
The knowledge stays open: sources, archive, the start of the Path, the glossary, the letter and selected practices. Structure, tools and guided practice may become paid - never access to the ideas themselves.
08Where do I start?
With Start Here, which offers three routes: the tradition, the method, or a specific question. If you want something to try now, take the five questions before you decide; they take two minutes.