Tag: Hermes

  • Pan-Esotericism in Africa: Hermetic Roots and Bantu Spiritual Wisdom

    Pan-Esotericism in Africa: Hermetic Roots and Bantu Spiritual Wisdom

    The lengthy article in The Boston Courier of July 18, 1886, in which nearly seventy citizens of Nagapattinam in India penned a letter defending the existence of the Sadhus, of great initiates is a testament of the truth regarding the full ramifications of this elusive history of the mysteries. That people have held personal converse…

  • Shepherd of Men: Gem from ‘Poemandres’ and ‘Corinthians’

    Shepherd of Men: Gem from ‘Poemandres’ and ‘Corinthians’

    A man says in the Poemandres: “Upon a time while my mind was meditating on the things that are, my thought was raised to a great height, while the physical senses of my body were held back—just as are the senses of men who are heavy with sleep after a large meal, or from fatigue…