Seeking Recommendation What are some texts you would recommend to a beginner who is interested in Hermetic practices?

[murderedbyscythe]

Title. I would love pointers on where to go from here.

The focus for now is reading up on academic texts that provide both history and an overview of Hermeticism. Only after that will I ease my way into practice, starting small through meditation and journaling before working my way up to divination and bigger planes.

I assume this is the way to go about things?

 

[frater_pan]

It depends.

The

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for sure and the

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As well as

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Note that there are better translations/editions. And then as a practical matter, a version of Israel Regardie's The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic. But drilling down through academic texts is going to cover this ground anyway. What do you think so far?

 

[HoldAll]

I'd like to recommend the books of

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(in our Library) who is an actual professor of the history of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. And Culadasa's The Mind Illuminated (and/or its Practice Guide for quick reference) for meditation, best practical book on the subject in my opinion.