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Special thanks to the writer of this episode Paul Davidson. Check out his blog "Is that in the Bible?": https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/
Bibliography:
Christian Bull, "The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus," 2014.
M. David Litwa, "Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus," 2018.
Wouter Hanegraaff, "Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism," 2006.
00:00 Intro
1:39 Hermetica explained
6:01 Hermetic and Platonic Cosmogony
10:09 Fate and the Hermetic Human Condition
12:08 Ascension, the Way of Hermes, and Rebirth
19:30 Was Hermetism a Religion?
24:48 I included a bonus section about baboons in the Nebula version of this vid