![]() ![]() Theses of Hermeticism (and many of these are quite insightful to a classical metaphysic) To be honest, I am not sure what he was getting at. The hermeticist does not want to escape the body because it is bad, but to temporarily separate to reestablish a dominating and causal solar principle.Īll well and good. ![]() “The Tomb,” infamous in Plato, notes the body By itself and apart from the animating spirit, it is dead matter, the flux of chaos. For example, “chaos” simply means the realm of undifferentiated potentiality–prime matter. They reveal a robust metaphysics which has strong affinities with Christianity and Torah/Prophets. ![]() These discussions are often exhilarating and always exciting. In the first half of the book he decodes numerous symbols. Using alchemical language, he offers a manual for purifying the soul. It was about developing the soul (or ascending to higher realms). Julius Evola correctly notes that the ancient teaching of alchemy wasn’t simply about transmuting metals. Short of it: the first half was quite good, but the second half was either incoherent or just plain wrong. ![]()
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