Hermes and caduceus, Loulan tapestry, 3rd century BC (Wikimedia Commons)

The Riddle of Hermes

How much do we really understand about ancient Hermeticism? Review of Wouter J. Hanegraaff’s ‘Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination’

Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity by Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 400 pp., hardcover…