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A 231 page compilation of some of my writings about hermeticism and alchemy, some of which relate to my philosophy of pathei-mathos.

Alchemy And The Hermetic Tradition
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Attic red-figure vase, c. 500-450 BCE, depicting The Horae. Antikenmuseen, Berlin

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The Numinous Way of Pathei-Mathos
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For this 2022 (Seventh)  edition, I have added a detailed Introduction, a new appendix, and corrected some typos.

° Prefatory Note
° Introduction – Physis, Being, and The Numinous
° Conspectus
° The Way of Pathei-Mathos – A Philosophical Compendium
° Some Personal Musings On Empathy
° Enantiodromia and The Reformation of The Individual
° Society, Politics, Social Reform, and Pathei-Mathos
° The Change of Enantiodromia
° The Abstraction of Change
° Footnotes
° Appendix I – The Principle of Δίκα
° Appendix II – From Mythoi To Empathy
° Appendix III – Towards Understanding Ancestral Culture
° Appendix IV – The Concept of Physis
° Appendix V – Notes on Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5, 1015α
° Appendix VI – Notes on Heraclitus Fragment 1
° Appendix VII – Glossary of Terms and Greek Words
° Appendix VIII – Denotata, Empathy, And The Hermetic Tradition
° Selected Bibliography

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Image Credit:
Attic red-figure vase, c. 500-450 BCE, depicting The Horae. Antikensammlung, Berlin

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The beginning of tractate XI from the book Mercvrii Trismegisti Pœmandres, published in Paris in 1554

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Denotata, Empathy, And The Hermetic Tradition
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° The Numinous And Denotata
° Empathy, The Hermetic Tradition, And Our Human Physis
° The Uncertitude Of Knowing

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Beginning of tractate XI from the book Mercvrii Trismegisti Pœmandres, Paris: 1554.