Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical

Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity by Wouter J. Hanegraaff

• Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
• Wouter J. Hanegraaff
• Page: 454
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781009124232
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity

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In Egypt during the first centuries CE, men and women would meet discreetly in their homes, in temple sanctuaries, or insolitary places to learn a powerful practice of spiritual liberation. They thought of themselves as followers of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary master of ancient wisdom. While many of their writings are lost, those that survived have been interpreted primarily as philosophical treatises about theological topics. Wouter J. Hanegraaff challenges this dominant narrative by demonstrating that Hermetic literature was concerned with experiential practices intended for healing the soul from mental delusion. The Way of Hermes involved radical alterations of consciousness in which practitioners claimed to perceive the true nature of reality behind the hallucinatory veil of appearances. Hanegraaff explores how practitioners went through a training regime that involved luminous visions, exorcism, spiritual rebirth, cosmic consciousness, and union with the divine beauty of universal goodness and truth to attain the salvational knowledge known as gnôsis.

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Hanegraaff explores how practitioners went through a training regime that involved luminous visions, exorcism, spiritual rebirth, cosmic .
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Spanning over 1300 pages, the book includes three volumes: Prolegomena, Aka Volume 1 ,Volume 2, and Volume 3, all of which delve into the rich intellectual .
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Hanegraaff explores how practitioners went through a training regime that involved luminous visions, exorcism, spiritual rebirth, cosmic consciousness, and .
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Hermetic spirituality in late antiquity was an experiential practice and personal transformation grounded in powerful techniques for consciousness alteration.
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ISBN: 9781009124232 ; ISBN-10: 1009124234 ; Publisher: Cambridge University Press ; Publication Date: May 29th, 2025 ; Pages: 454

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