Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination
Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 June 2022
- ISBN 9781009123068
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 236x158x30 mm
- Weight 800 g
- Language English 325
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Hermetic spirituality in late antiquity was an experiential practice and personal transformation grounded in powerful techniques for consciousness alteration.
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In Egypt during the first centuries CE, men and women would meet discreetly&&&160;in their&&&160;homes,&&&160;in&&&160;temple sanctuaries, or&&&160;insolitary places to learn a powerful practice of spiritual liberation. They thought of themselves as followers of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary master of ancient wisdom. While many of their writings are lost, those that survived have been interpreted primarily as philosophical treatises about theological topics. Wouter J. Hanegraaff challenges this dominant narrative by demonstrating that Hermetic literature was concerned with experiential practices intended for healing the soul from mental delusion. The Way of Hermes involved radical alterations of consciousness in which practitioners claimed to perceive the true nature of reality behind the hallucinatory veil of appearances. Hanegraaff&&&160;explores&&&160;how practitioners went through a training regime that involved luminous visions, exorcism, spiritual rebirth, cosmic consciousness, and union with the divine beauty of universal goodness and truth&&&160;to attain&&&160;the&&&160;salvational knowledge known as&&&160;gn&&&244;sis.
'This book contains much that will matter to historians and others interested in visionary practices from late antiquity to the present.' Claire Fanger, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Table of Contents:
Prologue; 1. Hermetic Spirituality; 2. Heart of Darkness; 3. The Presence of Gods; 4. Children of Hermes; 5. Through a Glass Darkly; 6. Healing the Soul; 7. The Path of Reverence; 8. Becoming Alive; 9. The Source; 10. The Conquest of Time; Epilogue.
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