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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged hermeticism.
An essay on the hermetic maxim solve et coagula and how spiritual alchemy illuminates the process of dissolving and recomposing memory in the formation of moral character.
Read essay →An essay on Ophiel, Olympic governor of Mercury in the Arbatel, and the symbolic art of the subtle displacement of the human will between the planes of being.
Read essay →An essay on the Arbatel of Magic, its seven planetary Governors, and the figure of Aratron as a Saturnine symbol of spiritual discipline.
Read essay →An essay on the tradition of hiding grimoires and names of power, and on the esoteric ethics that upholds silence as a form of reverence and responsibility.
Read essay →An essay on alchemy as a symbolic language of ethical refinement, exploring the athanor, the operations of the Great Work, and the secret fire of the human will.
Read essay →An essay on the judgment of the soul in ancient Egypt, the weighing of the heart before Maat, and its symbolic echoes in Hermeticism and universal spiritual ethics.
Read essay →An essay on the collaboration between John Dee and Edward Kelley, and how the so-called Enochian language was born as an attempt at communication with the angelic world.
Read essay →An essay on the serpent as a universal symbol of healing and transformation, from the bronze Nachash in the Hebrew Bible to the staff of Asclepius, read in the light of Hermeticism and alchemy.
Read essay →An essay on the hermetic and angelological tradition that associates each day of the week with a planetary angel, exploring its symbolic, historical and spiritual meaning.
Read essay →An essay on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy read as a symbolic itinerary of the soul, moving between fall, purification and vision, in the light of the initiatic tradition and of faith.
Read essay →An essay on the ancient belief in the written letter as a vehicle of meaning and intention, moving through practical Kabbalah, Hermeticism and the art of sigils with reverence and discernment.
Read essay →An essay on how the alchemical axiom solve et coagula illuminates the processes of dissolution and ethical reconstruction that run through ordinary life, from work to mourning.
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