• space_comrade [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    What does hermeticism have to do with this? I thought it was a pretty fringe religion.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      basically all the new age nonsense is directly descended from it, not really fringe at all many kings in western europe took it seriously and so did the enlightenment

      jordan peterson even shoplifts from heremeticism and acts like he doesnt. look up the history of court astrologers, for instance, queen elizabeth i had one and thats basically just state sanctioned hermeticism from a very prolific and important queen of england. hermeticism and feudal structures often went hand in hand and were used to reinforce existing power dynamics through nonsense

      fun fact, elizabeth's astrologer was the first person to coin the term 'british empire' and wrote several books on what they needed to do to achieve it