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7 Hermetic Principles For Coping With The Stresses of Modern Life
You don’t need a mountaintop monastery to live a spiritual life. Hermeticism, with its roots in ancient philosophy and alchemical transformation, isn’t just for occult scholars or ritual magicians. It’s a practical system for understanding reality—and if you know how to apply it, it can help you find clarity, balance, and purpose even in a…
Recommended Occult Books
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The Gnostic Gospels
For the modern seeker, The Gnostic Gospels is more than a historical recounting—it is a manifesto of reclamation
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Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism
This book challenged and expanded my understanding of both Christian spirituality and esoteric symbolism
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Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius
If you want to know what Hermeticism is about, this is the text to start with – it is the foundational text.
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Initiation into Hermetics: The Path of the True Adept
You don’t learn magic by reading Bardon—you learn by doing. Every exercise is engineered to produce tangible shifts in consciousness, perception, and ability.
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The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs
Freke and Gandy’s Hermetica rekindles the sacred fire of the ancients. It’s less about historical fidelity and more about spiritual urgency—a beautiful retelling that awakens the divine memory buried in every reader
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Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
The Kybalion is Hermeticism for the modern initiate—a toolkit for mental alchemy that is both simple in its form and infinite in its application.