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As Below, So Above | James Lindsay

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The History of Western Esotericism

The so-called Hermetesis tradition and its later developments, the whole of which may be referred to as Western Esotericism. It was characterized by an organic view of the world that assumed a strong internal coherence of the whole universe. The authors say Plotonous makes it completely clear that Gnosticism is something quite different from philosophy. His Gnostics were interested in philosophy, but they proved themselves to be charlatans.

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