Hermeticism is the philosophical root of Western alchemy: the doctrine of correspondence between above and below, and of one prime matter behind all substance, is what makes the transmutation of metals and of the soul a single operation.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
Hermetic philosophy supplies the premise the whole ritual system rests on, that what is below corresponds to what is above, so that acting on a symbol acts on what it stands for; the Renaissance recovery of the Hermetic texts is what made learned magic respectable.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
The legendary author-revealer of the Hermetic corpus and its namesake figure.
IAO, Mantras Derived from the tradition recorded on the mantra, Gnosticism, Hermeticism and modern ceremonial magic.
Central to Western magic, ceremonial-magic vocabulary of prepared space, recited names and godform assumption.
Renaissance Hermeticism absorbed the Christian Cabala and fused it with astrology and alchemy, producing the composite Hermetic Qabalah on which the whole later Western esoteric tradition rests, spelled differently to mark its distance from the Jewish original.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
The rite belongs to the Golden Dawn Hermetic curriculum, where it is the first practical working given to the Neophyte and the foundation on which the later pentagram and hexagram rituals are built.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
Conjuration within protective circles and the drawing of sigils, the vocabulary of Western grimoire magic.
Hermetic teaching treats number as one of the correspondences by which the above and the below answer to one another, so the seven planets, four elements and twelve signs supply a numerical grammar that ties the whole system together.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
Hermetic thought treats geometric proportion as a key to the cosmos, since the doctrine of correspondence requires the same ratios to govern above and below; the Renaissance recovery of these texts put sacred proportion at the centre of Western esotericism.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
The text is a Greco-Egyptian exorcism from the magical papyri, taken up by the Golden Dawn and by Crowley in a different register from the one it was written in.
Why this is corrected. Recorded as a claim the tradition made about its own antiquity, and found false. The texts themselves remain genuine writing of Roman Egypt.
The exercise draws the Middle Pillar of the Qabalistic Tree onto the body, and was set out in its familiar form by Israel Regardie in 1938 out of Golden Dawn material.
A nine-part AMORC video history that traces Rosicrucian claimed lineage explicitly through Hermeticism, alongside Gnosticism, Kabbalah and alchemy, on the way to the seventeenth century manifestos.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
One of the planetary, elemental and sephirotic archangels of the Western esoteric synthesis, the scheme by which this atlas classifies the type.
Astrology is central to the Hermetic view: the doctrine that what is below answers to what is above makes the planets the pattern by which the sublunary world is governed, and the Hermetic texts describe the soul's ascent through the planetary spheres.