The Modern Hermeticist Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
The Modern Hermeticist on X
History, Philosophy, Art, Science, Magic and Religion; S.D.G.; Historian PhD (Latin Hermetica & Cabala, Ficino, Pico, Picatrix) https://t.co/I6vZ0v7p7b
New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
Wouter J. HanegraaffThe Modern Hermeticist@antikemagie @SolomonicMagic Wouter Hanegraaff's "New Age Religion and Western Culture" could be a good place to start but I think there's a lack of literature because lots of people are only now disentangling science from spirituality (blending was very big in 80s and 90s and is still going strong for many)
Paperback, 1997
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Magus: A Complete System of Occult Philosophy
Francis BarrettThe Modern HermeticistNew video! "The Study of Natural Magic: Of the Influence of the Stars," an introductory excerpt from Francis Barrett's magnum opus, 'The Magus' (London, 1801). https://t.co/QYXp5GWotI https://t.co/OoWjekNIRT
Paperback, 2000
$49.95$24.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Republic
PlatoThe Modern Hermeticist"κατέβην χθὲς εἰς Πειραιᾶ μετὰ Γλαύκωνος τοῦ Ἀρίστωνος προσευξόμενός τε τῇ θεῷ..." "I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon, the son of Ariston, to pay my devotions to the Goddess..." - Opening words of Plato's Republic https://t.co/wF3QFtTQ2f
Hardcover, 2023
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Plato: The Republic: A Dialogue Concerning Justice
Thomas TaylorThe Modern Hermeticist"Health, strength, and ease, and manhood's active age, Freely I gave to Plato's sacred page. With Truth's pure joys, with Fame my days were crown'd Tho' Fortune adverse on my labours frown'd." - Thomas Taylor's Epitaph
Paperback, 2016
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy Hardcover
Manly P. HallThe Modern HermeticistInteresting fact about this work: there are two extant MSS, and one of them was owned by Manly P. Hall (and so is currently kept at the Philosophical Research Society Library). He used it alongside of W.W. Wescott's Sepher Yetzirah in composing the 'Secret Teachings of All Ages.'
Hardcover, 2022
$68.95$43.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Henry Cornelius AgrippaThe Modern HermeticistNew audiobook reading! Henry Morley - On Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and John Reuchlin's Cabala https://t.co/VySBBL1wSz
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High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
Erik DavisThe Modern Hermeticist@antikemagie @SolomonicMagic There's definitely also a place in this story for the characters discussed in @erik_davis's 'High Weirdness'.
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Phaedrus
PlatoThe Modern HermeticistHas anyone written a book on the motif of 'the chariot' and its uses for explaining various mystical/metaphysical systems across cultures? (Plato's Phaedrus, Ezekiel's Merkavah, Questions of Milinda, etc.)
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The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Manly P. HallThe Modern HermeticistInteresting fact about this work: there are two extant MSS, and one of them was owned by Manly P. Hall (and so is currently kept at the Philosophical Research Society Library). He used it alongside of W.W. Wescott's Sepher Yetzirah in composing the 'Secret Teachings of All Ages.'
Paperback, 2011
$45.24$22.62 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius AgrippaThe Modern HermeticistNew audiobook reading! Henry Morley - On Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and John Reuchlin's Cabala https://t.co/VySBBL1wSz
Paperback, 2011
$33.24$16.62 + Free shipping50% off your first book