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Writings related to Hermeticism.

Giordano Bruno

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, June, 1938

About twelve miles from Naples, on the northeastern slope of Mount Vesuvius, stands the little town of Nola. First settled by a colony of Chaldean… Read More »Giordano Bruno

Paracelsus: Physician

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, April, 1938

It is an interesting fact, and one which should be carefully noted by all students of occultism, that many of the Adepts who have worked… Read More »Paracelsus: Physician

Paracelsus: Philosopher

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, March, 1938

The transition from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century accomplished one of the most remarkable changes ever recorded of human society. Within the space of… Read More »Paracelsus: Philosopher

The Neoplatonic Revival

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, February, 1938

In the year 527, when the Emperor Justinian closed the Neoplatonic School in Athens and banished the last seven great Neoplatonists, the teachings of Plato… Read More »The Neoplatonic Revival

Roger Bacon

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, December, 1937

Wherever thought has struggled to be free, there the great Theosophical Movement is to be discerned. The twelfth century is interesting from this point of… Read More »Roger Bacon

Giordano Bruno: A Martyr Theosophist

Article/Review/ by Charles Johnston, Lucifer Magazine, October, 1888

[Reference: “The Heroic Enthusiasts” (Gli Eroici Furori), of Giordano Bruno, translated by L. Williams. (George Redway, London, 1887.)] “My name is Giordano, of the family… Read More »Giordano Bruno: A Martyr Theosophist

The Life and the Doctrines of Paracelsus

Book/Translation/ by Franz Hartmann, 1887 [Paperback Version]

Complete Title: THE LIFE AND THE DOCTRINES OF PHILIPPUS THEOPHRASTUS BOMBAST OF HOHENHEIM KNOWN BY THE NAME OF PARACELSUS AND THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS TEACHINGS… Read More »The Life and the Doctrines of Paracelsus

[Notes from The Life of Paracelsus]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, March, 1887 [From The Life of Paracelsus, 1887]

Selections by Franz Hartmann | Notes by H.P.B. Acthna.—an invisible, subterrestrial fire, being the matrix from which bituminous substances take their origin, and sometimes producing… Read More »[Notes from The Life of Paracelsus]

Hermes Trismegistus

Article/ by Isaac Myer, The Path, September, 1886

That a tablet, now called the Smaragdine, was found there is no doubt. Its discovery is attributed by tradition to an isarim or initiate, who… Read More »Hermes Trismegistus

The Hermetic Philosophy

Article/ by Sylvester Baxter, The Path, June, July, December, 1886 [Serialized]

Fragments of the Ancient Wisdom Religion have come down to us from the remotest past, through many channels, and in various forms. The study of… Read More »The Hermetic Philosophy

[Relation of Hermetic Philosophy to the Esoteric Teachings]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophist, September, 1883

Note by H.P.B. on an article by Dr. Fortin, President of the Theosophical Society of Paris, called “Société Scientifique des Occultistes de France.” Dr. Fortin… Read More »[Relation of Hermetic Philosophy to the Esoteric Teachings]

Tabula Smaragdina (The Emerald Tablet)

Translation/ by H. P. Blavatsky, 1877 [Originally published in Isis Unveiled 1:507.]

Tradition declares that on the dead body of Hermes, at Hebron, was found by an Isarim, an initiate, the tablet known as the Smaragdine. It contains, in… Read More »Tabula Smaragdina (The Emerald Tablet)

Tabula Smaragdina (The Emerald Tablet)

Translation/ by Thomas Taylor, Proclus: On the Theology of Plato, 1816

Latin Text Verum sine mendacio, certum et verissimum: quod est inferius, est sicut id quod est superius, et quod est superius, est sicut id, quod… Read More »Tabula Smaragdina (The Emerald Tablet)

The Divine Pymander

Book/Translation/ by John Everard with William Wynn Westcott, , 1650

Full Title: The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus In 17 Books Translated formerly out of the Arabic into Greek, and thence into Latin, and… Read More »The Divine Pymander