The divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, tr. by doctor Everard. [ed. by J.F.]. With intr. & preliminary essay by H. Jennings
Author: Hermes (trismegistus.)
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 152
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Corpus Hermeticum
Author: Hermes Trismegistus
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-09-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781517391645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Corpus Hermeticum is one of the primary works within the Hermetic Tradition. This Renaissance era craft is nonetheless based upon philosophical materials from far older times, namely the third or fourth century AD, from which the primordial material came. Credited to Hermes Trismegistus, the Divine Pymander (sometimes spelled "Poemander") touches upon astronomy, science, nature, and a great deal of theological material. It is presented in the form of discourse; a format which will be familiar to anyone also familiar with Plato's "Republic" and some similar philosophical works of antiquity. Through his discourse with several individuals, Trismegistus attempts to draw upon the overarching philosophy "as above, so below." Thus then, this work describes the very process and ideation behind all of existence, the purpose of life, and the nature of good and evil, all through its treatises upon various topics.
Open Source Modern Horary Astrology
Author: R. K. Alexander
Publisher: Alca Publishing
Published: 2011-11-08
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780615511535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSynthesize Your Astrological Knowledge Into Fast, Easy and Accurate Horary Interpretations! Don't struggle to learn horary astrology using archaic traditional methods! Open Source Modern Horary Astrology presents a simple, accurate, and easy-to-understand technique without a gigantic (and unnecessary) learning curve. Accessible to everyone already possessing a fundamental understanding of astrological basics, if you can read a natal chart, you can read a horary chart-quickly, easily and accurately. Extensively researched and packed with clear explanations, examples and case studies, this progressive book will show you: The inherent core structure of horary interpretation. What to look for in a chart, why, and how to compile the information into a correct answer. "Cheat sheets" and horary axioms to help you stay on course, and not get lost in trivial minutiae or overanalyzing the chart. A special section on relationship horary astrology, the most commonly asked type of question. The top ten mistakes horary practitioners make, and how to avoid them. How to integrate the full solar system in chart interpretations. An open source approach, rather than blindly following someone else's rules or methods. Verifiable case studies, demonstrating the veracity of the technique. A scientific, factual, empirical, reality-based approach, rather than an ideology- and philosophy-based, proprietary methodology. The harmonious reunion of contemporary astronomy with horary astrology. Via this revolutionary and comprehensive text, learn how to think about and interpret a horary chart, rather than what to think. You, too, can successfully break every rule ever written by Lilly, Ptolemy, and other traditional horary astrologers, and arrive at correct answers. This groundbreaking work will clearly and concisely show you how.
The Eternal Hermes
Author: Antoine Faivre
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1609257367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Western esotericism pioneer, a “work of lucid scholarship [that reveals] the full range of Hermes’ innumerable manifestations in European history” (Parabola). Hermes—the fascinating, mercurial messenger of the gods, eloquent revealer of hidden wisdom, and guardian of occult knowledge—has played a central role in the development of esotericism in the West. Drawing upon many rare books and manuscripts, this highly illustrated work explores the question of where Hermes Trismegistus came from, how he came to be a patron of the esoteric traditions, and how the figure of Hermes has remained lively and inspiring to our own day. “Great erudition blended with a highly refined metaphysical sensibility brings the great Hermes to life and allows this powerful psychospiritual archetype to speak once again [and perhaps even play a few much-needed tricks on us].” —Jacob Needleman, author of The Heart of Philosophy “Faivre’s remarkable achievement in this single volume is to combine the historical richness of the Hermetic tradition with its relevance to understanding the circumambulations of the psyche today as it pursues its spiritual quest.” —June Singer, author of Boundaries of the Soul “This book is an impressive and compelling contribution to the puzzling question of both the source and perdurance of Hermes in his variety of shape-shifting guises. From Alexandria to Amsterdam, Athens to America, this thrice-great Hermes keeps showing up, perhaps even more than in antiquity!” —David L. Miller, author of The New Polytheism
Modern Alchemy
Author: Mark Morrisson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-04-19
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0190294493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlchemists are generally held to be the quirky forefathers of science, blending occultism with metaphysical pursuits. Although many were intelligent and well-intentioned thinkers, the oft-cited goals of alchemy paint these antiquated experiments as wizardry, not scientific investigation. Whether seeking to produce a miraculous panacea or struggling to transmute lead into gold, the alchemists radical goals held little relevance to consequent scientific pursuits. Thus, the temptation is to view the transition from alchemy to modern science as one that discarded fantastic ideas about philosophers stones and magic potions in exchange for modest yet steady results. It has been less noted, however, that the birth of atomic science actually coincided with an efflorescence of occultism and esoteric religion that attached deep significance to questions about the nature of matter and energy. Mark Morrisson challenges the widespread dismissal of alchemy as a largely insignificant historical footnote to science by prying into the revival of alchemy and its influence on the emerging subatomic sciences of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Morrisson demonstrates its surprising influence on the emerging subatomic sciences of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Specifically, Morrisson examines the resurfacing of occult circles during this time period and how their interest in alchemical tropes had a substantial and traceable impact upon the science of the day. Modern Alchemy chronicles several encounters between occult conceptions of alchemy and the new science, describing how academic chemists, inspired by the alchemy revival, attempted to transmute the elements; to make gold. Examining scientists publications, correspondence, talks, and laboratory notebooks as well as the writings of occultists, alchemical tomes, and science-fiction stories, he argues that during the birth of modern nuclear physics, the trajectories of science and occultism---so often considered antithetical---briefly merged.
Thrice-Greatest Hermes
Author: G. R. S. Mead
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 3849674819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the edition including all three books. The so-called Hermetic writings have been known to Christian writers for many centuries. The early church Fathers (Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) quote them in defense of Christianity. Stobaeus collected fragments of them. The Humanists knew and valued them. They were studied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in modern times have again been diligently examined by many scholars. G. R. S. Mead has issued a translation of the whole body of extant literature, with extended prolegomena, commentary, etc. There is a wide difference of opinion as to the date at which this literature was produced. Mead believes that some of the extant portions of it are at least as early as the earliest Christian writings, while von Christ assigns them to the third Christian century, and thinks that they show the influence of neo-Platonism. To affirm that they influenced New Testament usage would be hazardous, but they perhaps throw some light on the direction in which thought was moving in New Testament times.
Comte de Gabalis
Author: Bb N De Montfaucon De Villars
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2005-12-01
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1596053917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen you have been enrolled among the Children of the Philosophers... you will straightaway discover that the Elements are inhabited by most perfect beings. Unhappy Adam's sin has deprived his unfortunate posterity of all knowledge of these beings and all intercourse with them. [T]he Element of Fire... was not created to remain useless and empty. -from "Discourse II" Sir Edward Lytton's based his strange novel Zanoni upon this esoteric work. Alexander Pope, in his dedication to The Rape of the Lock, sings its praises. But let the reader beware! This book "of hidden mystery and power" is not for the "gratification of a selfish intellectualism"! A classic of the occult, this philosophical treatise on the metaphysical secrets of the universe reveals the motives and magicks of the spirits known as Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. First published in Paris in 1670, this translation from the original French features extensive anonymous commentary, and is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the history of paranormal seeking for the meaning of life. French writer and priest N. DE MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS (1635-1673) was an advocate of liberty and religious tolerance and an influential thinker in the natural sciences; his writings are said to have inspired Lamarck and Darwin.
Phallicism - Celestial and Terrestrial, Heathen and Christian - Its Connexion with the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics and its Foundation in Buddhism - With an Essay on Mystic Anatomy
Author: Hargreave Jennings
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1473344077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWithin this book, Hargrave Jennings looks at the role "Phallicism" has played in various religions, including Rosicrucianism, Gnosticism, and Buddhism. A fascinating exploration of the significance of sexuality in religious doctrine, "Phallicism" is not to be missed by those with an interest in the topic, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Definitions and Distinctions leading up to the verities of Phallicism", "The History of the Phallic 'Symbol-Structures'; their Origin, Genealogy, and Variety through the succession of the historical-religions ages", "The Story of the Classes of the Phalli", "Celestial or Theosophical Doctrine of the Unsexual Transcendental Phallicism", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality, edition complete with the original text and artwork.
The Divine Pymander
Author: Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus
Publisher: BookRix
Published: 2019-01-09
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 3736803990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this Book, though so very old, is contained more true knowledge of God and Nature, than in all the Books in the World besides, except only Sacred Writ; And they that shall judiciously read it, and rightly understand it, may well be excused from reading many Books; the Authors of which, pretend so much to the knowledge of the Creator, and Creation. If God ever appeared in any man, he appeared in him, as it appears by this Book. That a man who had not the benefit of his Ancestors’ knowledge, being as I said before, The first inventor of the Art of Communicating Knowledge to Posterity by writing, should be so high a Divine, and so deep a Philosopher, seems to be a thing more of God than of Man; and therefore it was the opinion of some That he came from Heaven, not born upon Earth [Goropius Becanus]. There is contained in this Book, that true Philosophy, without which, it is impossible ever to attain to the height, and exactness of Piety, and Religion. According to this Philosophy, I call him a Philosopher, that shall learn and study the things that are, and how they are ordered, and governed, and by whom, and for what cause, or to what end; and he that doth so, will acknowledge thanks to, and admire the Omnipotent Creator, Preserver, and Director of all these things. And he that shall be thus truly thankful, may truly be called Pious and Religious: and he that is Religious, shall more and more know where and what the Truth is: And learning that, he shall yet be more and more Religious. The glory and splendour of Philosophy, is an endeavoring to understand the chief Good, as the Fountain of all Good: Now how can we come near to, or find out the Fountain, but by making use of the Streams as a conduct to it? The operations of Nature, are Streams running from the Fountain of Good, which is God. I am not of the ignorant, and foolish opinion of those that say, The greatest Philosophers are the greatest Atheists: as if to know the works of God, and to understand his goings forth in the Way of Nature, must necessitate a man to deny God. The Scripture disapproves of this as a sottish tenet, and experience contradicts it: For behold! Here is the greatest Philosopher, and therefore the greatest Divine.
The Newer Alchemy
Author: Ernest Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-12-04
Total Pages: 93
ISBN-13: 1107440424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1937, this book discusses the contributions that the study of radiation can make to the problem of elemental transmutation.
