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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The Eternal Hermes

From Greek God to Alchemical Magus

by Antoine Faivre · Joscelyn Godwin (trans.)

Antoine Faivre's illustrated study of how the figure of Hermes, from the Greek god to Hermes Trismegistus, was imagined in art, alchemy and literature. A readable introduction to the long afterlife of the Hermetic patron.

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