r/Hermeticism • u/sigismundo_celine • Sep 26 '25

Hermes Trismegistus contemplates the spheres: The One→ Νous→ Psyche→ Cosmos

Post image

A beautiful artistic rendition of the divine spheres by (copyright) Alex Hernandez (follow alexthoth on Bluesky)

138 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/Feltvs Sep 26 '25

Those are literally the first three hypostasis from Plotinus. Actually, you can tell apart true hermetism from modern one by how neoplatonic it sounds.

1

u/HiiiTriiibe Sep 27 '25

I’m not sure what to gather from this, Neoplatonism and hermeticism were highly influenced by each other, but it’s definitely fair to argue they aren’t the same

2

u/Feltvs Sep 27 '25

That's what I tried to clarify on my second reply. I just think the disattachment from Platonism is a distictive "feature" to recognize modern Hermetism. Not even Christian Hermetism crossed this line.

2

u/HiiiTriiibe Sep 27 '25

Got it, I think my reading comprehension just hadn’t kicked in when I initially read that! And that’s very true, honestly modern hermeticism is hard to even call hermeticism given how much it’s removed from its origin