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THE ATLAS OF THE EMERALD TABLET
⚠ There are two Hermeticisms
⚠ two Hermeticisms
nature
(1) The Greek Hermetica of Roman Egypt, 2nd–3rd c. CE — a forebear, older than the Kabbalah's own books, grown in the same Alexandrian water as Neoplatonism and the Gnostics. (2) The 19th-century Order's "Hermetic Qabalah," which took the Tree downstream and rebuilt it with tarot, colour scales and grades.
The rule this whole door exists to hold. They share a word and almost nothing else — one is upstream of the Tree's milieu, one is downstream of the Tree itself. Letting them merge is how a reader ends up believing that the tarot correspondences are Egyptian. The second is a real subject with a real bench: ✥ Wing J, the descendants'.
rhymes with
sephirahgevurah
whyA distinction is a limit. This one is load-bearing for the entire annex.
tags
two hermeticisms · hermetic qabalah · golden dawn · boundary
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