• Episode 2: What is the Way of Hermes?

  • Jul 25 2024
  • Length: 17 mins
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Episode 2: What is the Way of Hermes?

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  • The Way of Hermes or “Hermeticism” can be understood as the religious, spiritual, philosophical, and magical movement or milieu (if not quite a tradition properly, and not exactly a centralized or standardized thing) initiated by Hellenistic (or Hellenically-conversant) Egyptian priests operating in a Hellenistic context and attributed to the mythological figure Hermēs Trismegistos, which produced a series of religious, spiritual, philosophical, and magical texts.

    It’s important to note that “Hermeticism” is a term that was only first used to describe such a thing starting in the Renaissance, and was never used in the classical period, whether by people inside or outside this movement; for them, it was just generically “Egyptian”. Hermeticism only started to be seen as its own thing starting in the (specifically Italian) Renaissance with the rediscovery of the Corpus Hermeticum.

    Article for this episode: https://wayofhermes.com/hermeticism/what-is-the-way-of-hermes/

    Tags: #hermeticism, #hermes, #esoteric, #spirituality, #religion, #kybalion
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