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Anna van den Kerchove on the Hermetic Way in Antiquity
We speak with Anna van den Kerchove, a leading voice in the scholarly trend ‘reclaiming’ ancient Hermetism from its long sojourn outside the realms o…
5 years, 9 months ago
M. David Litwa on Deification in the Hermetica
We discuss the important Hermetic idea (or should that be ‘practice’?) of becoming divine with Dr M. David Litwa, who has devoted considerable though…
5 years, 9 months ago
Silent Encounters: The Esoteric in the Ancient Hermetica
We concentrate on the elements of the esoteric in the Hermetica that we have covered in the last few episodes, and discuss C.H. XIII and The Ogdoad R…
5 years, 9 months ago
Other Hermetic Worlds: The Asclepius and Korê Kosmou
We discuss two world-building Hermetic texts from antiquity, the Latin Asclepius and the Korê Kosmou. We have seen Hermes as visionary pupil of the d…
5 years, 10 months ago
Wouter Hanegraaff on the Poimandres
Wouter Hanegraaff has been reading the Poimandres with great attention. Come for the visionary encounter with the divine nous, stay for cosmogenesis-…
5 years, 10 months ago
Corpus Hermeticum I, the Poimandres
We discuss the Poimandres, perhaps the most extraordinary Hermetic document surviving from antiquity. It's an apocalyptic vision granting gnôsis of h…
5 years, 10 months ago
Professor Christian Wildberg on Emending the Corpus Hermeticum
We discuss the (poor) state of the texts collected in the Corpus Hermeticum with Professor Christian Wildberg, a man who proposes to do something abo…
5 years, 10 months ago
Brian Copenhaver on the Hermetica
We speak with Brian Copenhaver, translator of the Corpus Hermeticum and general man of parts vis á vis all things hermetic, to get some orientation o…
5 years, 11 months ago
Thrice-Greatest Hermes
We introduce the sage of sages, the barbarian philosopher of philosophers, the one and only (unless there were more of him) Thrice-Greatest Hermes. W…
5 years, 11 months ago
Total War: Polemical Esotericism in the Contra Celsum
We explore the polemics and counter-polemics of Origen's Contra Celsum, with a particular eye toward the use (and abuse) of the esoteric as a strateg…
5 years, 11 months ago