Popularized by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, it draws on such schools of philosophical and occult thought as Hermetic Qabalah, Enochian magic, Thelema, and the magic of various grimoires.

Its slender but compressed pages of imagery, symbolism and associative thought are evidence of Sir Thomas Browne's complete understanding of a fundamental quest of Hermetic philosophy, namely proof of the wisdom of God and advocation of intelligent design.

This cosmology proved highly popular with occultists, and formed the basis of Western hermetic thought ( e. g. the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and subsequent organisations ), where it is associated with a form of astral travel called " pathworking ".

Wouter J. Hanegraaff is Professor of “ History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents ” at the University of Amsterdam ( 1999 ).

Ordo Aurum Solis, founded in 1897, is a Western Mystery Tradition group teaching Hermetic Qabalah.

The Hermetic Lunar Week Calendar is one of many proposed reforms to the Gregorian Calendar.

Wicca is one of the more publicly known traditions within Neopaganism, a magical religion inspired by medieval witchcraft, with influences including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Crowley.

Hermes Trismegistus (, " thrice-greatest Hermes "; ) is the purported author of the Hermetic Corpus, a series of sacred texts that are the basis of Hermeticism.

* Hermetic Research is a Portal on Hermetic study and discussion.

The concept of Will is especially important to certain Hermetic and esoteric traditions, particularly in the West and those mystical practices associated with European ideology.

He is, however distinguished from his predecessors, whom he so admires, in making less frequent application of Orphic, Hermetic, Chaldean, and other Theologumena of the East ; partly in proceeding carefully and modestly in the explanation and criticism of particular points, and in striving with diligence to draw from the original sources a thorough knowledge of the older Greek philosophy.

Chiswick House has also been linked with Freemasonry, and is believed by some scholars to have functioned as a Masonic Lodge or Temple, given that some of the ceiling paintings by William Kent in the Gallery and the Red, Blue and Summer Parlour Rooms contain iconography of a strong Masonic, Hermetic, and possible Jacobite character.

He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man, which has been called the " Manifesto of the Renaissance ", and a key text of Renaissance humanism and of what has been called the “ Hermetic Reformation.

Hermeticism or the Western Hermetic Tradition is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based primarily upon the pseudepigraphical writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus.

The term Hermetic is from medieval Latin hermeticus, which is derived from the name of the Greek god, Hermes.

Even in the light of Casaubon's linguistic discovery and typical of many of the self-styled adherents of Hermetic philosophy scattered throughout 16th and 17th Europe, Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici ( 1643 ) confidently stated-" The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a portrait of the invisible ".

* The Perfect Sermon, also known as The Asclepius, The Perfect Discourse, or The Perfect Teaching was written in the second or third century and is a Hermetic work similar to The Corpus Hermeticum but outside the seventeen books it normally comprises.

* The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a book published in 1912 CE anonymously by three people calling themselves the " Three Initiates.

* Franz Bardon, Initiation Into Hermetics is the title of the English translation of Franz Bardon's first of three volumes concerning self-realization in line with the Hermetic tradition.

Theurgy translates to " The Science or art of Divine Works " and is the practical aspect of the Hermetic art of alchemy.

As stated above In Hermetic religion the supreme Deity, or Principle, is referred to variously as ' God ', ' The All ', or ' The One '.

Rosicrucianism is a Hermetic / Christian movement dating back to the 15th century.

It was edited and introduced by Dr. Israel Regardie, and is a reference book based on the Hermetic Qabalah.

The core of the material is a transcription from various initiation rituals and teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Of her works on magical subjects, the best remembered of her books are ; The Cosmic Doctrine, a summation of her basic teachings on mysticism, Psychic Self-Defense, a manual on how to protect oneself from psychic attacks and The Mystical Qabalah, an introduction to Hermetic Qabalah which was first published in England in 1935, and is regarded by many occultists as one of the best books on magic ever written.

Spiritualism also differs from occult movements, such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn or the contemporary Wiccan covens, in that spirits are not contacted to obtain magical powers ( with the exception of power for healing ).

Wicca and Neopaganism, and to some extent the Goddess movement, were influenced by 19th-century occultism, such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ( Greer 1995 ), and romantic nature movements in which both male and female were valued and honored as sacred, in contrast to and perhaps in reaction to mainstream Christian spirituality.

The Hermetic lots are a specific set of seven lots, each associated with one of the seven visible planets ( including the Sun and Moon ), that were attributed to the mythical figure Hermes Trismegistus in the Hellenistic tradition of astrology.

In one letter, he described Ireland as " a barbarous country where chemical spirits were so misunderstood and chemical instruments so unprocurable that it was hard to have any Hermetic thoughts in it.

" states that Crowley may have published it anonymously because it was taken from a Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn manuscript that was obligatory for initiates to memorize.

Ross King makes mention of Casaubon in his novel Ex-Libris where he is said to have debunked the Corpus Hermeticum as a forgery ( which he probably took from Frances Yates ' Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition ).

Ceremonial uses may have several wands for different purposes, such as the Fire Wand and the Lotus Wand in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Theurgy is considered by many to be another term for high magic and is known to have influenced the members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn many of whom considered the order to be Theurgic in nature.

By this time Crowley had rejected Buddhism in favor of his own reworking of the Hermetic Tradition, which he called Thelema ; Bennett would have nothing to do with it.

In subsequent Hermetic teachings, the Qliphoth have tended, much like the sephiroth, to be interpreted as mystical worlds or entities, and merged with ideas derived from demonology.

The Hermetic texts were also put together during this period and Clement of Alexandria, writing in the Roman era, demonstrates the degree to which astrologers were expected to have knowledge of the texts in his description of Egyptian sacred rites:

Demonstrated in 1614 that the Hermetic corpus was not very ancient at all and originated in late antiquity, though more recent scholarship has established that parts of it do probably have a Pharaonic origin.

The formulas for the Hermetic lots later made their way into the Medieval astrological tradition where they appear in authors such as Abu Ma ' shar and Guido Bonatti, although their lists have been combined with an alternate lot tradition derived from the 2nd century astrologer Vettius Valens.

During extensive travels in Europe, America and Asia Minor Kellner claimed to have come into contact with three Adepts ( a Sufi, Soliman ben Aifa, and two Hindu Tantrics, Bhima Sena Pratapa of Lahore and Sri Mahatma Agamya Paramahamsa ), and an organization called the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light.

Author E. Nesbit was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and was knowledgeable about ancient religions ; she may well have been aware that there was indeed an ancient deity named Nesbit: this was the Egyptian god of the fifth hour of the day.

Also suggestive is the fact that, among his earliest published pseudonymous and anonymous works may have been a series entitled The Arcane Teachings, which bears many superficial similarities to The Kybalion — The Kybalion explores seven " Hermetic Principles " while The Arcane Teachings examines seven " Arcane Laws ", The Kybalion claims to be an elucidation of an ancient, unpublished Hermetic text of the same name, while The Arcane Teachings claims to reveal the wisdom of an ancient, unpublished scroll of occult aphorisms, and both books describe three " Great Planes " of reality which are further subdivided into seven lesser planes.

In London while still a young man, he inspired The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in 1884, but seemed to have little to do with the day to day running of the organisation, or indeed its actual teachings ( Chanel et al., Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor ).

The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor claimed to have originated in Egypt in 1870 and been brought to England by Théon in 1884.