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Glossary for Ficino's Synthesis (aka philosophia perennis)
This list is from Antoine Faivre, The Eternal Hermes
- hermetism (p. 39)
- specifically the Alexandrian Hermetica, and works that followed
up until the present time
- hermeticism (p. 39)
- generally a variety of esoteric sciences, e.g. alchemy
- hermeticist (p. 39)
- practitioner of either
- hermetist (p. 39)
- practice of hermetism, narrow sense
- tradition (p. 39)
- in the esoteric sense used since the 19th C.
- similar to perennial philosophy
- aka Western tradition
- philosophia perennis (perennial philosophy)
- term defined by agostino steuco in 1540
- related to prisca theologia (first theology)
- prisca theology
- sequence from hermes to plato
- prisca philosophica
- sequence: enoch, abraham, noah, hermes, brahmins, druids, david,
orpheus, pythagoras, plato, sybils
- modern Western hermeticism (p. 60)
- alchemy, theosophy, esotericism
- European hermetism, golden age (p. 60)
- from Ficino to Kircher
Revd by Ralph Herman Abraham on 25 Dec 2000
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