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5 unusual facts about Hermetica


Claudio O'Connor

They decided not to continue using the name of V8 band, and Iorio founded along with Antonio Romano, Spataro and O'Connor, Hermética.

In 1989 they release debut album, Hermética, through the newly formed label Radio Tripoli.

Hermetica

Since Plato's Timaeus dwelt upon the great antiquity of the Egyptian teachings upon which the philosopher purported to draw, scholars were willing to accept that these texts were the sources of Greek ideas.

However the classical scholar Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) successfully argued that some, mainly those dealing with philosophy, betrayed too recent a vocabulary.

Parts of the Hermetica appeared in the 4th-century Gnostic library found in Nag Hammadi.


Weiser Antiquarian Books

Other catalogs have been devoted to specific journals - notably The Occult Review, The Inner Light, and Ambix, - and subjects such as alchemy, spiritualism, Hermetica, Hermetic Qabalah, magick, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Rosicrucianism.


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