Hermes to the Noose

There have been a number of recent attempts to try to get into the way of spirituality behind these texts. What do you make of these efforts? I'm glad people are trying to read the texts in new ways, because that's what scholarship should do. My sense is that this kind of reading of these particular texts could only make progress in one of two ways. The archaeologist could dig up things which, through various lines of cause and effect, could be related to tha. Then then you just don't even try that. Think about plato's dialogues. They've been read now for two and a half millennia, and they're wildly understood to say wildly different things. In order