Hermeticism

Hermeticism is a philosophical/spiritual tradition based upon pseudepigraphical writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus ("Thrice Great").

These writings have had a major influence on Western esoteric traditions. Hermeticism claims descent from a Prisca Theologia.

Further Reading

Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (Wouter J. Hanegraaff, ed.). Brill, 2006. ISBN 90-04-15231-8.

Heiser, James D., Prisci Theologi and the Hermetic Reformation in the Fifteenth Century, Repristination Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4610-9382-4

Magee, Glenn Alexander, Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, Cornell University Press.

Yates, F., Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Routledge, London, 1964, pp 14–18 and pp 433–434