Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

Brian Copenhaver on the Hermetica

Sep 23, 2020

51:09

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The Devotional Literature Is Theoretical

01:59

Hermetica - A Body of Texts From Antiquity

03:38

The Hermetic and the Dead Sea Scrowls

01:44

Introduction

4min

The Egyptian Setting for the Hermetica

2min

The Hermetic and the Dead Sea Scrowls

2min

Hermetica - A Body of Texts From Antiquity

4min

The Origins of Hellenistic Astrology

4min

The Devotional Literature Is Theoretical

2min

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

5min

The Anti-Cosmic Hermetic and the Optimismist Hermeticism

2min

Is That a Good Summary of Your Position?

3min

10.

The First Page of a Manuscript

3min

11.

Hermes to the Noose

4min

12.

What Is Devotion and Liturgies?

2min

13.

Is There a Congregation of the Hermetis?

4min

14.

I Don't Like Esotericism

4min

15.

Esoterism and Hermetism in Philosophy and Science and Magic

2min

16.

The Esoteric in Action

3min

17.

The Hermetic of the Early Modern Period

2min

We speak with Brian Copenhaver, translator of the Corpus Hermeticum and general man of parts vis á vis all things hermetic, to get some orientation on the ancient Hermetica and what they are all about.

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