When reading the Hermetic texts, one can get the vibe that Man – or humanity – is evil, but when the Hermetic texts use terms like “evil” it is more as a way of saying “material and not God” rather than being actually malevolent. In this article we explore the “evilness” of Man in the…

The Way of Hermes or “Hermeticism” can be understood as the religious, spiritual, philosophical, and magical movement or milieu (if not quite a tradition properly, and not exactly a centralized or standardized thing) initiated by Hellenistic (or Hellenically-conversant) Egyptian priests operating in a Hellenistic context and attributed to the mythological figure Hermēs Trismegistos, which produced…