How Unitary Is Your Reading of the Theory Behind the Hermetic Text?

The hermetic text fractures mainly along one line of cleavage, and that's a line that divides pessimism from optimism. Thereare many texts in the seventeenth deriving greek treatises which are very bleak and kind of hopeless. We don't know if there were liturgies. One can easily imagine those pieces of the text being used liturgically. Nobody knows whether they were rigt y. They might, siply, have been literary artifacts in the sense that someliterary traditions never meant to be written or performed. In otherwords, these could have been like closet dramas but nobody knows the answer.