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A recent essay by Myatt is interesting and informative regarding the term noesis and which term we have used in respect of both Myatt’s Star Game and our hermetic Hebdomian Way.
Although the essay is somewhat abstruse given its many footnotes and quotations from texts such as the Corpus Hermeticum it is nevertheless in our view an important contribution to modern hermeticism and to understanding its ancient roots, with the following from toward the end of the essay summing this up:
“Theos, (θεὸς) and The Theos (ὁ θεὸς) and The Father of several of the tractates of the Corpus Hermeticum are not equivalent to the God of the Christian tradition and that to render ὁ θεὸς and θεὸς of such tractates by the term God is a mistake. Hence my somewhat iconoclastic view that the hermeticism of the eight tractates I have translated and commented on are not only far more redolent of Greco-Roman pagan mysticism than they are of early Christianity but also that they, contrary to the modern majority view, may well have influenced early Christianity. Thus noesis, a personal method, a praxis, by which particular knowledge, a particular understanding, can be obtained, is of and presences that Greco-Roman pagan mysticism and the alchemical tradition that derived from it and which tradition was so well expressed in Lawh al-Zumurrud.”
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The beginning of Tractate XI
from the book Mercvrii Trismegisti Pœmandres, published in Paris in 1554.
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The Hebdomian Way 
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