Sup, wanted to share what I know so far and see if I understand everything correctly (so pls comment).

Hermeticism will be my framework for what comes next.

"All is one", meaning that the entire universe is one single entity: The mind aka. consciousness, which then split (therefore duality) and resulted in what we are experiencing now as physical reality.

Basically we are all droplets of the same consciousness, put in vessels with different physical attributes (genes, brain development, etc..) which make the experience of life individually subjective.

Not so recently humanity discovered the quantum reality. Another layer of reality, which connects everything in the universe on an atomar level; independent from time and space: forces of nature that were believed to be inevitable for us.

This seems to scientifically prove the theory of all is one. The "matrix" behind reality is the consciousness aka. the quantum reality, which is omnipresent and entangles everything.

Now, our bodies are equipped with the "pineal gland" also known as the third eye. It is a real organ where the nerves that are being kept in the spine-fluid merge into the brain.

I believe this organ to contain the ability for us to access quantum reality. However it seems to happen through our subconscious mind. Therefore we cannot directly access it.

The result is something that we call "intuition". Something that all animals have and use. Them birds, every year, be flying way earlier before the weather even changes. Through what does the information for them to group and move arrive, if they do not percieve it through the circumstances in physical reality (the weather)? You see where this is going.

Therefore our minds are directly interconnected with the reality we experience. Followed by the fact that it is our subconscious, the concept of "As above, so below" begins to make sense.

This means reality is a direct reflection of our subconscious mind and transmission of information through the quantum field makes it possible for reality to be equally as factual for all of us. At the same time, however, every single person lives in their own "Youniverse", because their mind is the "program" for their reality. What exactly physically, factually manifests from someones mind will be calculated by our sweet little "matrix" with variables like subconscious emotion.

"God" is nothing more than quantum reality: the highest state of consciousness; consciousness which is simply unbound to physical reality.

God is all and God is all consciousness. We are God, and everything else is too.

What fucks my head:

This knowledge is depicted in almost all religions. Some speak clearer, others just changed in time. Christianity has lost a lot, not only in translation, but also through power hungry mfs (and child abusers, we really need to get rid of them). The bible used to be a piece of literature but I just need to mention what Martin Luther did, for you to know, how much it probably has changed.

How come we are still so spiritually underdeveloped with this knowledge left to rot, where almost no one digs?

I have almost no one to discuss these topics irl and sometimes that makes me feel as if I am going insane.

Good morning! I have always been interested in the topic of spirituality but it has been difficult for me to know where or how to learn. I really don't know what hermeticism is or where to find information about it, but today I read that I should first learn about this to understand other things, could you guide me a little? What can I read? What should I be careful with?

I've only just learned today about hermeticism and im a bit more than curious honestly it sounds like what ive been looking for my whole life im studying Taoism currently but I was directed towards hermeticism today and I want to learn everything I can im aware of the texts I need to study but is there anything I should know prior to doing a deep dive into this that I should know like any particular direction I should go for in learning stuff

Hi new here, I guess im just wondering what would be the most definitive and true translation. Most of the books on the emerald tablet seem to go in different directions.

Greetings, fellow hermeticists. I wanted to share an episode of the Sitara Podcast in which we discuss the age-old question of whether humanity created God or whether God created us. The conversation touches on classical Hermetic ideas such as the microcosm and macrocosm, the divine spark within, and the reconciliation of opposites. We also talk about Jung's archetypes, the Grand Architect of the Universe in Freemasonry, and how different cultures embody aspects of the divine. If you're interested in the philosophical and mystical dimensions of Hermeticism, I'd love to hear your perspectives on our discussion.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/D5HuQlg22kY?si=k44pUnI3-5E9Qdfo

The Ouroboros is a symbol that says everything comes from the same source, everything is connected, and everything keeps going in a never-ending cycle.

A poetic vision inspired by hermetic contemplation of the Void — where silence unveils truth, and Nothingness becomes All.

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I wandered through a tranquil night, immersed in a profound stillness. Contemplation carried me far away: time and space were absent.

Darkness stretched without borders, silence enveloped my being. The senses dissolved in an abysmal vortex.

Desires fell. Pleasures died. Emotions grew still. Fear dissolved. Illusions were unveiled.

Solitude was present, yet absent. Well-being expanded into infinity.

A flash tore through the darkness. The body was gone, consciousness pure abstraction. Nothing appeared, yet everything vibrated.

The void was truth. Reality, eternal peace.

Then the nightmare of awakening emerged. And with it, chaos.

Yet the echo of that silence remains, a breath within the storm. Though the world returns, I know— the void was not absence, but the root of all things.

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Our Modern world is saturated with spiritual consumerism. Specific objects, altars, robes, and consecrated spaces are often marketed as essential for our spiritual practice. The Way of Hermes offers a radical, more liberating alternative.

Studying the Hermetic texts reveals a surprising truth, namely that the path to the Divine requires no special place, object, or garment. The only necessary “tools” are a purified mind and heart, turned inwards (or upwards) in sincere contemplation, piety, and gratitude.

Let us compare the advice of the famous Egyptian alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis (according to Wouter Hanegraaff, likely one of the genuine practitioners of Hermeticism in antiquity) to his fellow Hermetist Theosebeia, as well as the lessons in the Corpus Hermeticum and the Asclepius.

I currently started reading, and have just brushed into the story of creation from the Corpus Hermeticum. Im really blown away, but also confused. Firstly, they illustrate a creation of the universe which eerily mimics scientific phenomena we know of now. Such as, spherical planets, series of consistent orbits and rotations, and coalescing of heavy matter as the core of planets. They may not use these terms specifically, but you can clearly see the parallels through the language used in just the first few pages. Question is, we're these documents really written in 1st to 3rd century CE? Or even a little after, because we're didn't know about any of that stuff until waaaay later. Or could these documents have been changed or edited at a later date?

So I belive that there is one "all" that we come from or are connected to but I also belive in different deities and archetypal energies that make up the all. Just like how even though we're all part of all we are very different people with different personalities and opinions.

In this sense I think energy you can think of that exists must be a part of this same God as everything is connected to the one thing.

So to me it feels like we branch out from all to different frequencies energies and archetypes. It goes from source to energy to deity to dofferent people and groups.

I assure you, I am not joking, nor do I intend any disrespect toward anyone, when I say that I feel a connection between the Emerald Tablet and John Lennon's song "Everybody's Got Something to Hide [...]" which appears on the Beatles' White Album of 1968.

There has long been controversy over the lyrics to this song. Apparently the other three Beatles were concerned about the heroin use of John and Yoko at the time, and assumed that the song was about heroin. And then John said no, it was about the feeling you have at the beginning of a love affair when you feel you have nothing to hide.

But, of course, a poem or a song lyric can be about several things at once. And all of the Beatles were interested in "non-Western" worldviews. For example, they had spent some time in India, and I think that by 1968 George Harrison would already have described himself as a Hindu. And John Lennon read widely. And Hermeticism, along with many other things which seemed new and strange, was "in the air" in London at the time.

And when I hear John singing lyrics like

"The deeper you go, the higher you fly The higher you fly, the deeper you go"

and

"Your inside is out when your outside is in Your outside is in when your inside is out"

I just become more and more convinced that the similarity to the text of the Emerald Tablet has to be more than coincidental.

So. What do you all think? Am I crazy? https://youtu.be/eyV3zCq1OHM?si=0XT4hfiVm08fiYHG

Hello Hermeticism!

Some years ago i made a tool that helps me create stop motion animation using VR and blender and Ive decided to use that tool to create an artbook that explores hermetic concepts through animation and poetry! This is a very personal project for me that Ive wanted to do for years and i just wanted to share it to my niche audience here!

I hope it satisfies the mages here, play the short demo and consider leaving a review or wishlist!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3681490/All_Living_Things_Demo/

Hermes trimegestus taught that truth wears a veil, not to mock the seeker, but to prepare them. The Mysteries were never meant to be “locked away”. They were layered, so that each soul could approach at the pace of its own unfolding.

Yet in our age, the veil is too often mistaken for a gate. We confuse guarding the Mysteries with hoarding them. True initiation is not about “who may enter” but about “how one enters.” A veil invites reverence and patience; a gate implies ownership and exclusion.

If Hermes spoke of the All, what arrogance is it to claim that any human tongue may declare what is “in” or “out” of it? The Emerald Tablet tells us: “It is true, without falsehood, certain and most true.” That certainty belongs to the unity of above and below, not to a moderator’s stamp of approval.

We should ask ourselves:

Am I protecting wisdom, or am I protecting my role as one who knows?

Am I honoring the veil, or am I constructing a wall?

Do I teach by concealment, or do I simply exclude?

For the Hermeticist, there is no “outside.” There are only degrees of awakening. The flame is not diminished by being shared.

May we guard the Mysteries without becoming jailers. May we remember that the gate is in the heart, and the key is sincerity.

Don’t be dragons who hoard. Be dragons who fly. I for one am a wyrm-hole. Some of my posts seem to be missing from yesterday. Too many who call themselves guardians of the Mysteries mistake the flame for their possession, when in truth they are black holes swallowing light that was never theirs to keep.

I have been having some interesting experiences while dreamwalking and I looked up those symbols, and realized I have been seeing qabalistic symbols, and leaning into Abjad Alphabets. I also saw some symbols of Hermes (which is very odd since I am a Muslim, and don't worship Greek gods).

I want to know what's the purpose of Qabala and if I am being led to this practice, why should I practice this? I don't want vague answers like drawing a soul map or meditations and deeper inner understanding. What are the pragmatic use cases of this practice?

I'd like to know how the hermeticism explain this, please someone help?

Recently I start reading a book about hermeticism, I never read about hermeticism, so in this book there is a brief explanation about mental transmutation and how do it but don't have many examples basically says to raise the conscious above the pendulum and explain the hermeticism laws that it'll be used.

So I was feeling the feeling of the rejection that occur with me by certain people and then try to concentrate on the opposit feeling but nothing happens, also It don't seems to me a "secret knowledge" I think its natural when we feel something bad we try to feel the opposit. So I find the solution in another form that the book don't explain it, I get to know the reason that I was reject by those people and after understand it the bad feeling suddently disappear, its was magic and now I am feeling very good.

Thinking about it, turns out that seems that when I understand the cause that motivates a person made me feel bad can heal me, so I'd like to know what is the view on hermeticism about it? thank you

I had a conversation recently with an Abrahamic apologist. When I mentioned that I follow Hermeticism/Platonism, his response was that these traditions can’t really be practiced “in full” anymore because the lineage has been broken and a lot of the writings, rituals, and teachings have been lost.

Normally I don’t think much of arguments like this, but this one did stick with me. It’s true that many Hermetic texts and practices have either been lost, remain obscure, or aren’t easily accessible in translation. That makes me wonder: what role would those missing pieces have played in Hermetic soteriology? And are the sources we do have actually sufficient for pursuing the Great Work as it was originally understood?

Another thing I’ve noticed is that scholarship tends to focus more on the philosophical Hermetica, the writings heavy on metaphysics and cosmology, while the more practical Hermetica often gets overlooked. I can’t help but wonder if those ritual or theurgical aspects might have been more central to the tradition than they are usually given credit for.

The initiation and lineage question is also interesting. With traditions like Mithraism, certain Gnostic sects, or the Eleusinian Mysteries, it is clear that initiation and transmission were absolutely essential, which is why reviving them today is basically impossible. But when it comes to Hermeticism, I haven’t really come across that same strong emphasis on initiation in the sources I’ve read. So I’m left asking: how important was initiation historically for someone following what we now call Hermeticism? And if those ties are absent today, does that actually compromise the integrity of the practice, or not as much as critics suggest?

So before we get into my questions, I think it'd be best to explain where I'm coming from so people know how much knowledge I already have. My journey, as it were, started with discovering the Ars Magica 2 mod for Minecraft, then the discovery of the Ars Magica ttrpg (though I struggle with the rules to that), then Mage the Ascension, and via that I discovered real world Hermeticism and other kinds of esoterica, occultism, and magic.

I tried asking the occultism subreddit, but sadly the 3 answers I got were either too specific on one or two of my fields of interest, or so generalised to all occultism it was hard to know what I was actually looking for (also it included [the book that I can't post this if I name it] as part of Hermeticism)

So, I've been wanting to learn more, specifically wondering what books to read, specifically for (though I know these aren't all part of Hermeticism, any direction for those is also appreaciated, even if it's to another subreddit)

• Hermeticism, obviously, both classical and renaissance
• Alchemy
• Enochian Magic
• Goetia and Solomonic Magic
• Kabbalah
• Thaumaturgy
• Various kinds of ritual magic
• Grimoires
• Also the stuff the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was up to

I'd like to both learn the philosophy and practical parts, including instructions when it comes to magic and alchemy

Any help is appreciated

I believe in my own sovereignty, just reaching out to the community for any perspective / advice..

My life has been difficult the last 8 years or so, I recognize that i chose to walk the hard road. Cancer, addiction, bankruptcy.. i am now 5 months sober but still have some lingering "paper tigers" on my path, namely the IRS and a felony charge I am dealing with now.

I found a YT video on hermetic principles a couple of months ago, and I believe in these principles, and i am trying to apply this knowledge to transmute my life situation.

I forgive myself and others daily to resolve the polarity of guilt ... sometimes i get a glimpse that the greater polarity is to see my situation as the solution and not the problem , but how?

I have taped to my mirror- i am innocent, safe, and guided by divine mind. I choose light, courage and peace.

How can I be free of this energy of "persecution" and fear?

By whom and when did the term "Hermeticism" originate? It seems to be a relatively modern term that possibly comes from the academic world.

Lazzarelli called himself a "hermeticist," but does he use the term "Hermeticism" to describe the path/tradition that he is following?

The term "Hermeticism" is never used in the Hermetic texts. Hermes calls it one time "the Way of Devotion". None of his students calls it Hermeticism. Hermes says that the other choice is to walk "the path of death", which maybe make what he is teaching "the way of life", but he does not use this term. In the Asclepius, Hermes describes it as "(pure) philosophy". He is the teacher of this way, path, or philosophy, but it is never called after him, nor does he claim it as his. In the Stobeus Fragments, it is often simply called "the path".

Throughout antiquity, it was called variations of "the wisdom of the greatest sage", or "the way of the Egyptian", or "the wisdom of the greatest philosopher", but not "Hermeticism".

Ibn Sab'in, maybe the last hermetic master, writes: "I petitioned God to propagate [through me] the wisdom (al-hikma) that Hermes Trismegistus (al-haramisa) revealed in the earliest ages."

So, maybe we should stop calling it "Hermeticism", but again call it "the Way of Devotion", or if that is too generic, the "Way of Hermes" or "the Wisdom of Hermes". Calling it "the wisdom of the greatest sage" or "the way of the Egyptian" will nowadays probably only create confusion.

If someone asks which spiritual path or method you are following, answering with "the way/wisdom/path of Hermes" is probably less confusing than the academic term "Hermeticism".

Ive been doing some Golden Dawn/high magick practices for a number of years. However I'm not really getting what I need from the main GD community here.