This passage is from the section Arcana of Adar or Persistence from Joséphin Péladan’s book Comment on devient Mage. Péladan was a devout Catholic as well as a Hermetist. Yet he recognizes that the Catholic faith makes sense only if it is the Primordial Tradition. All truth must be incorporated … Continue reading
Category Archives: Hermetism
Before you think and choose
Before you think and choose, society takes over your being and moulds it, as is its right. Once you think and choose, remove those received imprints, that is to say, liberate yourself from contemporary habits, as is your right. Continue reading
Finis Latinorum
From the Manifesto of the Rose + Croix, (2 IX 1881) quoted by Joséphin Palédan in Comment on devient Mage (How to become a Mage). Foretelling the end of the Latin race due to the Barbarian invasion yet to come, in the midst of its own decadence, this is a … Continue reading
Hermetic Meditation
Since Gornahoor has been so insistent on the necessity for spiritual practice, we will here provide an example of Hermetic meditation. This is based on suggestions from the writings of Valentin Tomberg, the foremost Hermetist of the 20th century. As he points out: There are no theories; there is only … Continue reading
Hermetism and the Primordial State
Hermetic initiation is the conscious descent into the depths of the human being all the way to the initial state. When we follow the Hermetic method and meditate on symbols and images, we transcend the external facts of the symbols to descend to the “vital, mental, and spiritual realities that … Continue reading
The Hermetic Method
Ask, and it will be given youseek, and you will find;knock, and it will be opened to you. ~ Luke xi, 9 Hermetism differs from both religion and science, although it does not attempt to replace them. Unlike religion, which accepts things on faith, and unlike science, which is based … Continue reading
Safeguarding the Mysteries
The goal of spiritual exercises is depth. It is necessary to become deep in order to be able to achieve the experience and knowledge of deep things. Continue reading
Festivities in the Hohenstaufen Court
The return to Tradition in the West, which rather than “saving” Western civilization, is instead its overcoming, has nothing to do with primitivism. It is consistent with reason as well as the highest standards in the arts and sciences. It protects religious life from its enemies (though not necessarily the … Continue reading
The Demon of Dialectics
The premise from which the Buddhist Doctrine of Awakening starts is the destruction of the demon of dialectics; the renunciation of the various constructions of thought and speculation which are simply an expression of opinion, and of the profusion of theories, which are projections of a fundamental restlessness in which … Continue reading
This is our Gold
Alchemically, Solarity is represented by Gold. The path to solarity is given in the piece titled “The Hermetic Caduceus and the Mirror” by Abraxas from Introduction to Magic. It starts off with this claim: Every teaching of ours is illusory until it is translated into a practice and an action. … Continue reading