Hermetic mysticism and Christian esotericism
John Everard
1575 – 1650
John Everard was an English Anglican clergyman, Hermetic thinker, and Neoplatonist who produced the first English translation of the Corpus Hermeticum, published posthumously as The Divine Pymander (1650), making the foundational texts of Hermeticism accessible to English readers for the first time. He was associated with the Family of Love (Familism) and translated other mystical and alchemical texts, situating him at the intersection of radical Protestant spirituality and Renaissance esotericism. His translation shaped the reception of Hermetic philosophy in seventeenth-century England and fed directly into the currents of English mysticism that influenced later Freemasonry and occultism.
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Hermeticism and Alchemy
Hermetic and alchemical source texts covering the Corpus Hermeticum, Divine Pymander, The Kybalion, Paracelsus, alchemical symbolism, medicine, and spiritual transformation.
Gnosticism and Apocrypha
Gnostic and apocryphal texts covering Pistis Sophia, the Book of Enoch, early Christian gnosis, pseudepigrapha, mystical revelation, and esoteric Christian cosmology.
Hermeticism
Primary Hermetic texts, later Hermetic philosophy, and adjacent works on ascent, correspondence, divine mind, and spiritual transformation.
Gnosticism
Gnostic texts and studies on revelation, emanation, demiurgic cosmology, salvation through knowledge, and esoteric readings of Christianity.
Philosophy and Esoteric Cosmology
Philosophical and cosmological texts on mystical philosophy, Neoplatonism, moral philosophy, cosmic order, metaphysics, and symbolic cosmology.
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