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Hegel believes that through the “purificatory initiation” of the Phenomenology, he has, in effect, put himself in an altered state of consciousness, beyond thhe distinction between subject and object, whereupon the dialectic of the Logic…
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By introducing “Self-Consciousness,” Hegel introduced the term Desire (Begierde) to describe the primal urge for the cancellation of otherness and the individuation-absolutization of subject.* – Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001), p. 141-2 * Kojève…
Yates devoted a chapter in her The Art of Memory to Lull and attempts to locate him withing the tradition of ars memoria. However, she notes that Lull’s art is devoid of the dramatic images…
Like Moses (according to legend), Hegel is the recipient of Kabbalistic wisdom, only it is a Christian Kabbalah, and it is received not directly from God but from Böhme, Oetinger, and the tradition of speculative…
Hegel’s attitude toward the Hermetic tradition was cautious, but cautiously approving. Hegel saw the Hermetic tradition as a manifestation of unconscious wisdom, of the perennial philosophy, struggling to transcend its purely sensuous form. This explains…
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Unlike “picture-thinking” – myth, art, etc. — Hegel’s speculation involves the use of concepts, ideas, or universals. Here, however, the dissimilarity ends, for although the matter of Hegel’s philosophy — its employment of concepts rather…
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He [Sebastian Franck] makes a distinction between what he calls the church “visible” and “invisible”. The “invisible church” is constituted by the Holy Spirit, through the loving hearts of all men. This conception of the…
Some have suggested that that the Rosicrucians were intended as a Protestant counterpart to the Jesuits [Andrew Weeks, Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic; Albany: State University of New York Press,…
During the sixteenth century, Lutheranism was a considerable impediment to the dissemination of Hermetic philosophy in Germany, but it spread widely nonetheless. Luther himself, although he rejected mystical “excesses,” incorporated vivid quasi-mystical imagery in his…
To summarize, the doctrines of the Hermetica that became enduring features of the Hermetic tradition can be enumerated as follows: 1. God requires creation in order to be God. 2. God is in some sense…