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Go beyond the maxims
Historically attentive, accessible guides for navigating Hermetic texts, symbols, people, and ideas.
What Is Hermeticism?
A clear guide to the diverse philosophical, religious, and esoteric traditions associated with Hermes Trismegistus.
Read article →02What Is The Kybalion?
Origins, authorship, teachings, and influence of the 1908 work known for the Seven Hermetic Principles.
Read article →03Who Were the Three Initiates?
What is known, proposed, and still uncertain about the pseudonymous authors of The Kybalion.
Read article →04Hermes Trismegistus
Meet the legendary sage at the crossroads of Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth.
Read article →05The Emerald Tablet
A concise history of the enigmatic text behind the phrase “as above, so below.”
Read article →06Mental Alchemy
How The Kybalion turns alchemical imagery into a method for transforming states of mind.
Read article →07Hermetic Symbols
A visual vocabulary of the caduceus, ouroboros, sun, moon, elements, and geometric forms.
Read article →08History of Hermetic Philosophy
From late-antique Egypt through the Renaissance revival and modern esoteric movements.
Read article →09The Kybalion vs. the Corpus Hermeticum
Compare a modern seven-principle system with the foundational late-antique Hermetic dialogues.
Read article →10As Above, So Below
Meaning, history, responsible interpretation, and modern uses of the famous Hermetic maxim.
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