hermetic
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He read about the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the 19th-century occult group that counted Crowley, W.B.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2018
On top of the history of jewelry, he has studied alchemy, the Hermetic sciences, and medieval astrology.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2016
Though her fellow historians view Yates’ 1964 book Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition as her greatest achievement, it is Yates’ book on memory that has proved to be her most popular work by far.
From Slate • Nov. 23, 2015
Nonetheless, it does locate some legitimate and poignant correspondences between modern positive thinking and ancient Hermetic philosophy.
From Time • Oct. 24, 2013
Hermetic, -al, hėr-met′ik, -al, adj. belonging in any way to the the beliefs current in the Middle Ages under the name of Hermes, the Thrice Great: belonging to magic or alchemy, magical: perfectly close.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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