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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Hermetic Quest
Hermetic traces
Hermes Trismegistus and the Corpus Hermeticum
In search of ancient wisdom
Hermes revisited
1. The Religion of the Mind
Neither faith nor belief
When Trismegistus speaks
The world according to Hermes
Hermetic Man
The ascent through the spheres
Hermes’ mission
Cosmic consciousness
The nitrous oxide experiments
Talking with angels
Mind at large
Too much information?
Life failure and the Goldilocks effect
Reptile brains
2. Out of Egypt
The writing on the wall
The last Renaissance Man
The language of Adam and Eve
The shamans of Egypt
Body and soul
Practise dying
The Duat
The intelligence of the heart
Simultaneity of opposite states
3. When Thoth Met Hermes
City of sects and gospels
A match made in heaven
The caduceus
Enter Trismegistus
Hermetic prejudices
Egypt’s dark days
Gnosis in the desert
The Hermetic work
Journey beyond the planets
The eighth sphere
Language and silence
Becoming Aion
4. Emerald Tablets
All that glitters
The fifth essence
The Hermetic connection
Love of fate
Alchemy’s decline
Hermetic Harran
The pagans of Baghdad
Jabirish
Holy stones and philosophers’ Grails
Paracelsus: Hermes of the north
5. The Dignity of Man
Perspectival consciousness
Jean Gebser and structures of consciousness
Ficino: born under a bad sign
Plato returns
Escape from the stars
The dignity of Man
What a great miracle is Man
Giordano Bruno — the Nolan
Martyr to the stars
Egyptian memories
6. Hermes in the Underworld
Oh Oh Oh, it’s magic!
Humanist, all too humanist
Mechanical marvels
Dr Dee
Here comes the sun
Monsieur Casaubon
After Casaubon
The great Fludd
The Rosy Cross
Mechanical monsters
Gebser again
7. Hermes Rising
Masonic trials
Hermetic Romanticism
Bees of the invisible
Arts of memory
Becoming Aion, again
The caduceus of the brain
The Hermesian spirit
Endnotes
References and Further Reading
Index
Copyright
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