Alchemy And Hermetica

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Ouroboros, Folio 196, Codex Parisinus Graecus 2327 (c. 1478 CE)

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A 231 page compilation of Myatt’s recent writings about hermeticism and alchemy.

Myatt: Alchemy And Hermetica

§ A Note Concerning Noesis In Tractate XIII.
§ Anaximander, Imbalance, And Opposites.
§ Lawh al-Zumurrud.
§ Notes On De Vita Coelitus Comparanda.
§ On Translating Tractate XIII.
§ Corpus Hermeticum I, III, IV, VI, VIII, XI, XII, XIII
Translations and Commentaries
§ Concerning ἀγαθός and νοῦς in the Corpus Hermeticum.
§ Denotata, Empathy, And The Hermetic Tradition.
§ A Note Concerning θειότης.

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Noesis In Tractate 13

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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.”

Noesis In Tractate XIII

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The beginning of Tractate XI
from the book Mercvrii Trismegisti Pœmandres, published in Paris in 1554.

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Telesmata In The Picatrix

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Telesmata In The Picatrix

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A short essay by David Myatt from 2017 which compliments his 2024 text “Tabula Smaragdina Hermetis” a/k/a The Emerald Tablet.

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The Emerald Tablet

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The Emerald Tablet
(Second Edition)

An interpretation of meaning by David Myatt of an Arabic text from Sirr al-khalīqa dating from between the eighth and ninth century CE. The text is also known as Tabula Smaragdina Hermetis and The Emerald Tablet

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The beginning of Tractate XI
from the book Mercvrii Trismegisti Pœmandres, published in Paris in 1554.

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