I've been looking through and noticed a few people asking/taking pics of books. I follow Hermeticism and Gnosticism myself so thought I'd share a few that might be worth checking out if you're getting into it. There are loads of books around on Hermeticism, but some are more focused on modern spirituality than the original tradition. These are a few I'd look at if you want to get closer to the classical stuff.

1. The Way of Hermes by Clement Salaman and others

Probably one of the better places to start tbh if you're new to all this. It includes the Corpus Hermeticum and other early hermetic material, and the translation is pretty approachable.

2. Hermeticism: The Secret Knowledge by Jamie Fitzjohn

This one is under the radar, it explores ideas from the ancient material, including the nature of the soul, mind and fate. Its great to read if you want something a bit deep / different / strange from just reading translations of the original texts.

3. Hermetica by Brian P. Copenhaver

This is a really the best choice if you want to dig into the original writings properly. It includes the Corpus Hermeticum and Asclepius, with explanations and historical context but tbh It can be a bit heavier going in places, but if you want to get past the surface level, it's really good.

4. The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus by Christian H. Bull

Probably not the easiest first read, but interesting if you want to understand where these ideas came from instead of just taking modern interpretations at face value. I loved it.

5. Hermetica II by M. David Litwa

Another one for anyone who wants to go a bit further down the rabbit hole. It covers additional writings and fragments that you don't always come across in introductory books.

Tbh finding the best hermeticism book as a beginners really depends on how much you already know. Also, quite a few older translations of the classical texts are available free on YouTube or through the Internet Archive, so you can explore some of this stuff without spending a fortune.

....I am curious what other people here would recommend, especially any more obscure books on classical Hermeticism that don't get talked about much.

Playing with Tarot here is just like being an infinity wheel where you'll find there's one thing in common with you and the Fool's card here, which is that there's only the journey that's hanging you by a tea's thread here.

Just like playing the Hanged Man is all about finding out the letters of your name, there's nothing you're meant to do apart from gazing at the 'sun' as you realize it's always been a lock away from keeping your head above your hands. You realize God isn't there to 'save' you in any way, and it's always been about being the biggest devil influencer here.

I can't lie anymore and say there isn't a way to hit on your back here, maybe there is truth in the idea that shadows dictate what will fall here as you realize the back wasn't meant for anything more than growing a spine in you. That's where you'll find that bones were meant to be cracked, as the ant tower is still at the beginning, and Reddit already knows what's on your mind here by 'microphone muted,' as the bizarre adventure is still a stand-up comedy.

It doesn't matter how you decide to shuffle your tarot cat of fortune, as you begin on finding out we're one cosplay away from taking the role-playing game to the absolute extreme heat death of the universe here.

the only way backwards is forward, at least it's falling like dominoes for you to walk like an Egyptian again, cause god is 2 in a pinky's promise to take over the world again, one is insane. ☀️:)

i'm very interested in Jung and more recently been interested in dream interpretation so stoked to have found this at a little corner store. I'm also starting a community discord server for those also interested in Jung and his works, feel free to dm if interested <3

Some people told me seeing a completely white cat could be a sign from the divine, a guardian angel or something else. I saw this cutie today accidentally and I wanted to see if anyone has something to say about it? Peace be with you all.

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Greetings,

In examining the structural framework of the Tree of Life through the lens of Classical Pythagoreanism and Hermetic polarity (Kybalion's Law of Polarity), a persistent geometrical imbalance becomes apparent in the traditional $1–10$ attribution.

In traditional Pythagorean cosmology, Zero ($0$) represents the Unmanifest Source — the Absolute Monad (Ain Soph) from which all number and form emerge. By assigning $1$ to the highest realm (Kether), the traditional system skips the primordial point of origin ($0$), forcing an awkward shift where odd and even principles become misaligned across the Pillars.

I would like to propose a structural model based on a strict 0–9 emanational matrix, which restores perfect symmetry to the Hermetic Axis:

1. The Central Pillar (The Axis of Integration - $0, 6, 5, 9$):
   • $0$ (Kether): The Unmanifest Void / Pure Potential / The Monad.
   • $6$ (Tiphareth): The Solar Heart / Harmonic Center / Divine Equilibrium.
   • $5$ (Yesod): The Etheric Matrix / Astral Receptacle.
   • $9$ (Malkuth): The Final Manifestation / Completion of the Arc.
2. The Right Pillar (Masculine / Active / Odd Frequencies):
   • Expressed strictly through $1$ (Chokmah), $3$ (Chesed), and $7$ (Netzach) — aligning Active Expansion, Divine Grace, and Force.
3. The Left Pillar (Feminine / Passive / Even Frequencies):
   • Expressed strictly through $2$ (Binah), $4$ (Geburah), and $8$ (Hod) — aligning Form, Restraint, and Intellectual Structure.

By anchoring the system in $0$ rather than $1$, the inherent "friction" between the active and passive principles dissolves. The Right Pillar becomes exclusively masculine/odd, while the Left Pillar becomes exclusively feminine/even.

How do you view this alignment in terms of Hermetic geometry and the Pythagorean progression from the Void to Form? Does this 0–9 continuum align better with the Hermetic principle of As Above, So Below?

Looking forward to your philosophical insights.

suspended
so bare your teeth
and release
and do what you please.

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Most internet deep dives into the Book of Enoch rely on hype cycles—attaching modern bureaucratic org charts, fake church bans, and pseudoscientific magnetic countdowns to an ancient text to manufacture artificial urgency.

I came across this breakdown by The Elysian Codex, and what makes it worth watching is that it takes an architectural approach to the material:

• Stripping the Glitch: It aggressively separates the raw, foundational source code (the pre-existence of souls, the spatial infrastructure of the "guff", and the four presiding powers) from the modern narrative embellishments layered on top of it.
• Boundary Control: It examines why the text was fundamentally destabilizing to early institutional consensus—not because of a cartoonish villainous conspiracy, but because the core proposition (that the soul is an older, external component rather than a fresh runtime compilation at conception) broke the operational assumptions of mainstream theology.
• The Cross-Civilizational Constant: It maps how structurally similar intuitions (from Plato to ancient non-Western frameworks) independently attempt to solve the problem of existential origin and distribution, without cheapening the differences into a unified marketing gimmick.

If you are interested in the actual mechanics of how ancient systems modeled the traffic between realms—and how modern retellings alter the source data to sell a feeling—this is a clean, rigorous audit.

Curious how others view the persistence of pre-existence doctrines when mapped against strict systemic creationism.

[Link:https://youtu.be/PmfYwTOHxvY]

Instincts
Hungry for answers
Subdued and exposed

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Shortly one, two or three contributors to this infographic will offer a demonstration of their state of consciousness. This will be insightful.

Here is the trigger. This is magic at work. Okay.

This infographic is AI generated.

They allow external circumstances to govern their internal state. Thus they are easily controlled and manipulated to spells aimed at them.

Everything begins as thought no different than this Infographic. Thought comes from consciousness. Consciousness is the magician at work.

Let see what our contributors state of consciousness will reflect (As Within So Without).

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Floating Point Theory

A Field-to-Point Model of Distributed Cognition, Semantic Compression, and Controlled Idea Propagation

Version 0.1 — Conceptual White Paper and Research Program
Date: 2026-08-04
Originator: David Shawn Rushing Hanson — HOUSE
Framework: Universal Fusionism

Abstract

Floating Point Theory, or FPT, proposes that ideas do not propagate primarily as complete objects copied intact from one mind to another. Instead, an idea begins as a high-dimensional, context-rich cognitive state that must be compressed into finite representations—words, numbers, gestures, diagrams, artifacts, or actions. These finite representations are called semantic points. The points enter a shared informational environment, or field, where other observers reconstruct their own versions of the underlying idea.

The term floating point is borrowed structurally from floating-point arithmetic. In computational floating-point representation, a value retains useful relationships across different scales by separating a significand from an exponent. IEEE 754 formalizes contemporary binary and decimal floating-point arithmetic, including finite precision, rounding, exceptional values, and scale-dependent representation. Floating Point Theory extends this structural principle—not the arithmetic itself—to semantic communication: an idea contains a semantic kernel, but its scale, context, precision, emotional orientation, and temporal position may change.

FPT describes idea transmission as wave-point translation: a distributed pattern is projected through a limited aperture, reconstructed by receivers with different priors, tested through multiple reflections, and either revised, rejected, amplified, or stabilized. The theory rejects unbounded exponential replication as an adequate general model of idea growth. It instead proposes bounded, threshold-dependent, network-mediated, and selectively damped propagation. Existing work in information theory, distributed cognition, predictive inference, physical information, and threshold models provides established components; FPT’s novel contribution is their synthesis into a common field-to-point framework.

The theory generates testable predictions concerning shared artifacts, semantic precision, group configuration, context alignment, deliberate friction, conceptual calcification, social gravity, and temporally extended decision-making.

26. Condensed Thesis

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There is no finish line

Only the start of a new loop

Will your next one be expansive or will it contract in the repetition of old patterns?

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Anyway, this theory of mine basically states that the Bible and the Vedas are more or less true, when interpreted through a certain worldview. One of the things that the Bible and the Vedas are alluding to are "fallen angels", "the sons of gods", magical people coming down from the sky, Nephilim, blue people like Krishna, Hindu gods with multiple hands, vimanas, ancient nuclear warfare, ancient advanced technologies, the global flood.

I think that all of this is true, if viewed through the lens of ancient aliens. You know what all of these things remind me of? They remind me of the modern UFO/contactee phenomenon. There is a large overlap between ancient religions and modern alien contacts. Namely, the actual aliens who come to us, such as various Pleiadians, they come with actual magic, or with technology that seems like magic, or technology that works according to different principles, so "magical technology". Their spaceships are not made of metal, they use astral projection to get from planet to planet, they can read minds, they have telepathy, telekinesis, they fly around the sky like Dragon Ball Z warriors. These are all magical powers. I think that these aliens, there being from other planets, these Pleiadians, these Galactic Federation types, they are partly technological but they are also partly magical, in the anime way. So for all intents and purposes, they might be gods. In the God-Emperor from Warhammer 40k way. So they are both aliens and they are gods at the same time.

They may have created humans. Or they may have been the ancestors of humans. In the Bible it says that before the Great Flood, humans have lived for hundreds of years. Pleiadians according to lore also live for hundreds of years, like 700 years and they are still physically in their 30s. The same is said about Tolkien elves, or Frieren elves. They are very beautiful people with magical powers and they live for hundreds of years. Primarchs in the Warhammer 40k universe also live for hundreds or even thousands of years. The same has been said about Dragon Ball Z characters, and the people who live on Barsoom. So we basically have a race of super-humans who have magic and are functionally immortal or have incredibly long lifespans. I mean, they could still be killed, but they have very long lives. And what's more, we could have been them. I mean, before the flood, it is said that humans lived for hundreds of years too.

So what was the civilization before the flood like? I have some ideas that it was like r/Tartaria , r/Mudflood , r/TartariaMudFlood ... At these YouTube channels.

• https://www.youtube.com/@jonlevichannel/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@FRESHboosters/videos

Basically there was a civilization before the Great Flood, and it could have been called via various names such as Tartaria, Atlantis, Hyperborea, Lemuria, Shamballa. Mythology and lore contains descriptions about various sunken lands, and what if they were all the same thing? I mean, there was a global flood that destroyed the previous civilization, but what it did leave is all of these Gothic/Roman/Baroque style buildings. So these buildings are in fact leftovers from the pre-flood civilization, that was run by the Pleiadians.

Because in ancient mythology, such as Hindu, or Mesopotamian (Annunaki lore) or Greek, or Russian, it is said that the gods used to come down to humans on a regular basis, and interact with humans, and some of them even had sex with humans and created hybrid children. I think that it was similar to the concept of sex with anime elves, or Saiyans from Dragon Ball Z. Basically very much overpowered humanoids. People who can fly and shoot lightning out of their hands, and can live for hundreds of years without aging. So we Earth humans would basically be a downgrade compared to them. By the way, the thing is that the human life is so short. You go to school, to college, to career, and before you know it, your time is up. One problem that we have in the modern world is that we are forced to slave away in the universities, and the career system just in order to maintain the high technology machinery that is required to keep modern civilization up and running. Many people, both men and women, they spend their youth on education and career, and then they miss their chances for love, sex, romance, children. This is a problem because the reproductive window is not that long, but education and career claims the best part of your youth sadly. So the short lifespan is a cap on human life. However if humans were like Pleiadians, being able to live for hundreds of years while still being reproductively fertile, then we would not be under such pressure.

But the theory is that the old buildings are actually not from the modern world, they are from the pre-flood civilization, because such buildings such as castles and cathedrals aren't being built anymore. The idea that the previous civilization was more advanced than the current one, in terms of architecture, arts, and magical technology. If you look at Warhammer 40k, all of their architecture is also Gothic/Roman/Baroque style buildings. Hmm... this seems to imply that "Tartaria" or the Pre-Flood civilization was like Warhammer 40k. Soft disclosure is the telling of the truth via a slow or soft disguising of the truth as science fiction. So Warhammer 40k could be a soft disclosure of the Pleiadians civilization and of the pre-flood civilization that was on this Earth before, of the Tartaria civilization. So it was basically a lot like Warhammer 40k. Perhaps the Imperial Acquila was the inspiration of the double-headed eagle of the Byzantine, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Holy Roman Empires. Perhaps they were successor states after the collapse, after the flood, created by survivors of the cataclysm? In Valerian Valdemar's book "the Matrix I", on page 34 it is showing the coat of arms of an extraterrestrial civilization known as the Lyran Empire. And it it the Imperial Acquila, a double-headed eagle.

• https://ia903101.us.archive.org/26/items/The_Matrix_I/Valerian_-_Matrix_I.pdf

So is Warhammer 40k based on a real civilization that actually existed or continues to exist till this day? I looked up online to see what the Lyran Empire is. According to various New Age websites and blogs on the internet, of people who claimed to have contacted with the extraterrestrials, the Lyran Empire are basically the ancient humanity, the ancestors of humanity. And they are like the same race as the Pleiadians, or are the ancestors of the Pleiadians too, or are connected with the Pleiadians in some way. But these websites (don't ask me sources, as I've been reading them several years ago, and I don't remember where to find them) claim that Lyra was the first ancient origin of humans or humanoids, and they spread around and created an Empire and colonized various star systems such as the Pleiades and Sol system. This all sounds very much like Warhammer 40k. At it would make sense that they use the same symbolism. So they were bascially the ancient humans, the undegreaded humans, those who could have lived for hundreds of years, flew in the sky, shooting ki blasts out of their hands. Magical Space Wizards. Or maybe there was a "higher caste" who could do these things, and a "lower caste" of us lowly mortals.

In the old mythologies, the monarchs are descended from the gods. This is the divine right of kings of r/monarchism. In Ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, Vedic texts, the most ancient kings are said to have lived for hundreds of years. then slowly their reign has decreased as their lifetime was decreased. The first of the gods, or space wizards, or superhuman humanoids, came down to Earth from the space in their vimanas, and they became the rulers of the lands. So monarchy is inherently a divine/godly/alien institutions, if we assume that the Pleiadians are in fact our true gods. I imagine that scene in Dune in which Paul Atreides descends onto the planet, and the local mortals greet him as their monarch.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJlz0vurBmQ

I think that these ancient kings were of Pleiadian descent. They were like Primarchs almost, near-immortal rulers who ruled over a population of mortals. And I think that's why they had sex with their sisters. Because they wanted to preserve the Pleiadian bloodline, to keep their longevity and their magical powers. The true divine right of kings was because of the Pleiadian bloodline, they had powers like Primarchs or Custodes or Super Saiyans. And I think that they could have sex with their siblings because their DNA was just so pure and so alien/Pleiadian that incest was not a problem, because of the way that their biology was. It is only in us mortals that incest is a problem. But their genetics are more advanced. I think that this is why so many of the monarchs and aristocrats were banned from having sex with commoners, only with other royals. Because it was to preserve the Ancient Pleiadian bloodline. But actually as time went on, their DNA began to degrade so they lost their magical powers, and they actually started feeling the detrimental effects of incest, such as hemophilia in Alexei Romanov.

But I think that's why the Bolsheviks killed the Romanovs, because the Romanovs were descended from the Pleiadians and they were carrying the Pleiadian bloodline, even traces of it. And actually WW1 was a conspiracy to dismantle the monarchist countries of the Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, German Empire, Ottoman Empire, and Chinese Empire. Of that I am certain. Because during the monarchist societies everything was more or less stable. But after the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution the degradation of humanity began, and we began to see such things as prostitution, smoking, cheating, and in general a collapse of human values, and a more cynical, less pure, more transactional society. So I think that Ungern-Sternberg was right in some ways.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJoOKZ7pgUM

Basically the old world of Tartaria and the monarchist/Pleiadian/Imperial world was better. It was more spiritually advanced, less materialistic, less desecrating, had more respect for life. Then there is also idea of Shamballah/Agartha/Hyperborea and various hidden lost realms where this ancient civilization holdouts still persist. But basically you need to go back to the Pleiadies in order to have a spiritually advance d civilization. I think that it would really be better to be ruled by some kind of Pleiadian God-Emperor than by democracy.

AI manifested by a magician.