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Liber XI · Hermeticism

Liber XI

Hermeticism & Neoplatonism

Hermes Trismegistus, the philosophers of late antiquity and the Renaissance magi.

Hermeticism takes its name from Hermes Trismegistus, the 'thrice-great' sage to whom Greek-speaking Egyptians of the Roman period attributed treatises on God, the cosmos and the soul. Together with the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus, these writings shaped the Renaissance revival of ancient wisdom led by Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Cornelius Agrippa. Here you will find the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablet, theurgy, astral magic and the philosophy of correspondences that underlies much of later Western occultism.

Chapters

  1. Introduction3 articles
  2. I.Astral Magic4 articles
  3. II.Corpus Hermeticum5 articles
  4. III.Correspondences5 articles
  5. IV.Emerald Tablet4 articles
  6. V.Neoplatonism & Theurgy6 articles
  7. VI.Renaissance Magic5 articles

The primary texts

All 18

On the shelf

All 49 books
Agrippa and the Crisis of Renaissance ThoughtCharles G. Nauert Agrippa and the Crisis of Renaissance ThoughtCharles G. Nauert The Ancient TheologyD. P. Walker The Ancient TheologyD. P. Walker The Arabic HermesKevin van Bladel The Arabic HermesKevin van Bladel The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult PhilosophyLiana Saif The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult PhilosophyLiana Saif Cover of The Art of Memory The Art of MemoryFrances A. Yates Cause, Principle and Unity, and Essays on MagicGiordano Bruno Cause, Principle and Unity, and Essays on MagicGiordano Bruno Chaldaean Oracles and TheurgyHans Lewy Chaldaean Oracles and TheurgyHans Lewy The Chaldean OraclesRuth Majercik The Chaldean OraclesRuth Majercik Cornelius AgrippaMarc van der Poel Cornelius AgrippaMarc van der Poel Corpus Hermeticum (Budé edition, 4 vols.)A. D. Nock Corpus Hermeticum (Budé edition, 4 vols.)A. D. Nock & A.-J. Festugière Das Buch über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung von Pseudo-Apollonios von TyanaUrsula Weisser Das Buch über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung von Pseudo-Apollonios von TyanaUrsula Weisser De occulta philosophia libri tresHeinrich Cornelius Agrippa De occulta philosophia libri tresHeinrich Cornelius Agrippa De Umbris IdearumGiordano Bruno De Umbris IdearumGiordano Bruno Divination and Theurgy in NeoplatonismCrystal Addey Divination and Theurgy in NeoplatonismCrystal Addey Cover of The Egyptian Hermes The Egyptian HermesGarth Fowden Cover of The Enneads The EnneadsPlotinus Eros and Magic in the RenaissanceIoan P. Couliano Eros and Magic in the RenaissanceIoan P. Couliano Giordano Bruno and Renaissance ScienceHilary Gatti Giordano Bruno and Renaissance ScienceHilary Gatti Cover of Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic TraditionFrances A. Yates Hekate SoteiraSarah Iles Johnston Hekate SoteiraSarah Iles Johnston Cover of Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius HermeticaBrian P. Copenhaver The Heroic FrenziesGiordano Bruno The Heroic FrenziesGiordano Bruno I testi e i codici di Ermete nel MedioevoPaolo Lucentini I testi e i codici di Ermete nel MedioevoPaolo Lucentini & Vittoria Perrone Compagni IamblichusIamblichus IamblichusIamblichus

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