Hermetic

See also: hermetic and hermètic

English

Adjective

Hermetic (comparative more Hermetic, superlative most Hermetic)

1. Alternative letter-case form of hermetic.
   • 1885, Warren Felt Evans, The Primitive Mind-cure, page 83:

     It is a doctrine taught in the ancient Hermetic philosophy, and the esoteric science of the East, that there is a Universal Mind. It is enough for our present purpose to say, that this Mind connects all individual minds in a state of sympathy.

   • 1910, Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II:

     As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.

   • 1931, Henry More, Geoffrey Bullough, Philosophical Poems of Henry More Comprising Psychozoia and Minor Poems:

     More affected by Cabbalic and Hermetic studies than Mede, he too uses allegory in his exposition of the Scriptures, and in teaching constantly quotes the prophetic books.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 16:

     "As above, so below" is an axiom from Hermetic mysticism, and in this Hermetic vision of physiology the tongue is connected through the spinal column to the penis.