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.