Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination by Hanegraaff, Wouter J.;

Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity

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Publisher Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication 30 June 2022

ISBN 9781009123068
Binding Hardback
No. of pages400 pages
Size 236x158x30 mm
Weight 800 g
Language English

Short description:

Hermetic spirituality in late antiquity was an experiential practice and personal transformation grounded in powerful techniques for consciousness alteration.

Long description:

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