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Krämer, Benedikt. "„Alles ist in Gott“ – Überlegungen zur bestimmenden theologischen Denkform des Corpus Hermeticum." Philologus 165, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/phil-2020-0126.
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Abstract Given the Corpus Hermeticum’s history of formation, it has prompted the attempt to separate layers or groups of writings within the collection of treatises. This process of division, which was for the most part undertaken on criteria of content (dualism, pantheism, etc.), has been viewed rather negatively by the more recent research, on grounds of method. Given the discovery of numerous doctrinal contents that remain constant across different treatises, increased efforts are being made to reconstruct the Corpus’s moments of unity. The present paper aims, in this spirit, to provide a more precise identification of the overarching forms of theological thought in the Hermetic writings. The reflections that follow aim to make it plausible that the defining form of theological thought in the Corpus Hermeticum can be classified as panentheism. In addition, the distinctive form of this influential theological paradigm in the Hermetic writings will be considered.
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Rogers, Peter S., John Finlay, and David Middleton. "Hermetic Light: Essays on the Gnostic Spirit in Modern Literature and Thought." South Central Review 13, no. 1 (1996): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3189927.
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Albury, W. R. "Hermes Christianus: The Intermingling of Hermetic Piety and Christian Thought by Claudio Moreschini." Parergon 31, no. 1 (2014): 269–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2014.0044.
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GARCÍA BAZÁN, Francisco. "El asclepio hermético y la filosofía cristiana. Influencias en el pensamiento y la teoría de la belleza medievales." Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 6 (October 1, 1999): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/refime.v6i.9659.
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This paper researches the important role that the reading of the Hermetic Asclepius had to the Chartres School's members and specially for the Cosmological, Anthropological and Aesthetics conception of Bernard Silvester. To reach this result it is exposed the history of the relations between the Latin Asclepius and the Christian Thought since II to XII century and it is proved the interest of the Nag Hammadi Coptic Library Codex VI, to understand these relations.
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Pereira, Michela. "Heavens On Earth. From the Tabula Smaragdina To the Alchemical Fifth Essence." Early Science and Medicine 5, no. 2 (2000): 131–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338200x00146.
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AbstractAlchemical writings of Arabic origin introduced into the Latin natural philosophy of the twelfth century a cosmological issue that was at variance with Aristotelian cosmology: the idea of a subtle substance that stood at the origin of the four elements and encompassed heaven and earth. In this article, I consider the links of this notion with Hermetic and Stoic thought; its association with the technical process of distillation; its emergence in some philosophical texts of the early thirteenth century; and finally its full development in two fourteenth century alchemical treatises, the Testamentum attributed to Raimond Lull and the Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae written by John of Rupescissa.
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Jeck, Udo Reinhold. "Parmenides - Platon - Hermes Trismegistus." Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 1 (December 31, 1996): 153–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bpjam.1.08jec.
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Abstract Heidegger's many observations about the philosophical thought of the Middle Ages, while often controversial, are deserving of attention. One of the lesser-known of these observations reflects his interest in hermetic philosophy, as found in his posthumously published treatise Die Negativität (1938/39), a critical engagement with Hegel with regard to the nature and ontological status of negation. Therein, Heidegger associates the acpoupa of Parmenides with the sphaera intelligibi-lis of Hermes Trismegistus and the absolute Idee of Hegel and therewith Plato's doctrine of the ideas in its absolute-idealist modification. Heidegger weaves these various strands of the tradition into a web of manifold significations representative of different yet related philosophical intentions.
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Putna, Martin C. "The Spirituality of Václav Havel in Its Czech and American Contexts." East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 24, no. 3 (May 17, 2010): 353–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325410368560.
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The religious thought of Václav Havel is examined in the context of Czech and American intellectual and spiritual traditions. The line begins with the worldview canonized by T. G. Masaryk. Masaryk drew inspiration from the American tradition of religious thought, rooted in the Enlightenment deistic interpretation of Christianity, embodied in Unitarianism. It was this line of thought that was passed down to Václav Havel by his father V. M. Havel. Masaryk’s “Unitarian” style of thinking about religion was developed by Havel in his Letters to Olga. During the 1970s, this influence merges with another intellectual stream, the “Kampademia” group. This line of thought combines Patočka’s tradition of phenomenology with new philosophical approaches to Catholicism and stimulated by the American “New Science”. According to Masaryk’s “enlightened” and “Unitarian” tradition, old religion, expressed with the aid of rituals, was to be surpassed and replaced by a “scientific” and “progressive” religion. For the tradition of Kampademia, on the other hand, it is this old religion, with its myths and rituals, that should be revived. Thus, Havel takes seriously the basis of all ancient spiritual traditions—Christian, Jewish, “heathen,” hermetic. It is in this public and symbolic appeal to “old” religious traditions before the eyes of a secular Czech society, this readiness to learn from the experiences of other traditions, and the declared humility to not attempt a synthesis of these traditions (as according to “classic” New Age) that Havel’s primary contribution to the spiritual thought of the present can be found.
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Santacroce, Luigi, Lucrezia Bottalico, Kastriot Haxhirexha, Skender Topi, and Ioannis A. Charitos. "Pre-Chemistry Concepts and Medical Therapy among Ancient Physicians through the Pre-Socratic Philosophers." Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders - Drug Targets 20, no. 9 (November 5, 2020): 1470–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1871530320666200508115041.
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Background: Chemistry as experimental science began in the seventeenth century, when it began moving away from being one of the alchemical doctrines and toward analyzing matter and its transformations using scientific methods. Previously, the ancient Pre-Socratic philosophy through observation of nature was concerned with the laws that govern the natural world and the property of matter. Later, the Hellenistic Alexandrian culture took possession of the Hermetic doctrines of the Egyptians, mixing them with pre-Socratic thought and Gnosticism. At this historical moment, therefore, there was a fusion of the Greek philosophical patrimony and the Hellenistic and Alexandrian influences on medicine. The Hermetic gnosis evolved over time to become alchemy and then to usher in the birth of chemical science. Many doctors were wandering philosophers who dealt with cosmogony to understand the body and diseases and to discover new healing drugs for treatment, and thus they were the first chemist therapists. Methods: The influence of ancient physicians through the pre-Socratic philosophy for these prochemical theories and practice has been researched through ancient texts, so these texts have been referenced to determine the legacy of paleo-chemicals doctrines. Results: The study of various texts in particular from the Pre-Socratic age and the eminent physicians underline that, despite a different approach to the cosmogonic concepts of nature and the matter, the medicine of that age had an important influence on chemistry as an experimental science, especially concerning therapy with drugs. Conclusions: The Pre-Socratic philosophers have influenced the medical practice and guided it toward the concept of the properties of matter for medical treatment and an understanding of the causes of diseases.
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Temple, Nicholas. "Baptism and sacrifice: cosmogony as private ontology." Architectural Research Quarterly 8, no. 1 (March 2004): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135504000077.
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Questions concerning the significance and meaning of sacrifice in our secular age, whether in the form of a ritualized or purely contemplative construct, lay bare much that is problematic and troubling about modern consciousness. This paper examines the mortuary significance of baptism and its influence on architecture, drawing comparison between Early Christian and modern views of sacrifice. By referring to key theological writings, the study considers the baptistery as a site of human conversion where the search for redemption unfolds as both a cosmological and mytho-historical drama. The investigation distinguishes between the literal meaning of sacrifice and its more complex Platonic-Christian symbolism, the latter defining the nature of human piety and ultimate spiritual immortality. The study concludes with an examination of the baptismal font at St Peter's in Klippan. It asks whether this seminal work attests to a continuity of symbolic meanings or whether it is the product of hermetic thought.
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Leonel, Wilton Bisi, and Nelson Camatta Moreira. "Neither Hamlet nor Faust: the amor fati of D. Quixote in Francisco Campos’ anti-liberalism." ANAMORPHOSIS - Revista Internacional de Direito e Literatura 5, no. 2 (December 17, 2019): 565–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.21119/anamps.52.565-585.
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Francisco Campos analyzes the classic “Don Quixote de la Mancha” in his essay “Atualidade de D. Quixote (Contemporaneity of D. Quixote)”, in order to trace the spiritual crisis of modern times and the feeling of despair currently lived by men. Three hallmark figures of literature are featured in Campos’ narrative: Hamlet, Faust, and D. Quixote. Hamlet and Faust represent the cowardly hesitation and the hermetic art and literature of liberal intellectuals, who are unable to communicate collective experiences to organize a social order of stability. This makes possible for Campos to state his strong criticism toward liberal institutions and ideas, in a Schmittian anti-liberal bias. It is necessary to recover the rationale of D. Quixote, who, with his amor fati (love for the common destiny), decides, as a statesman, to “transform thought into will and will into action”. It is an arduous civilizing task of making the masses a cohesive people, obedient, civilized and united in a common superior order (the National State), guided by Catholic values, and willing to fight against the enemy. It is only possible to save democracy from “cataclysm” if the call for the final Crusade is accepted. Hence the Contemporaneity of D. Quixote. This article intends to carry out an interpretive effort of the essay Contemporaneity of D. Quixote, in order to highlight some aspects of the anti-liberal political and constitutional thought by Campos.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Hermetic thought"
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Nelson, Marion Jane. "Shakespeare and Christian Hermetism: religio mentis a study of esoteric thought in four plays." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/120750.
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This thesis analyses four plays by Shakespeare for evidence of Shakespeare’s familiarity with Hermetic thought. I interpret Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear (Quarto and Folio), Othello and The Tempest in the light of the esoteric religious philosophy now known as Christian Hermetism principally, but not solely, as it is articulated in the texts of the Corpus Hermeticum, formerly Pymander. The thesis is in two parts: two contextual chapters, and four exegetical. The first chapter recounts the advent of the pagan texts in Renaissance Florence in the fifteenth century where, purged of magia, they were hailed as a prisca theologia contemporaneous with Moses, translated from Greek into Latin by Marsilio Ficino and reconciled to Christianity. The chapter summarises the theosophy of the Corpus Hermeticum, and the work of the first translators, Marsilio Ficino and Lodovico Lazzarelli, who also authored the dialogic commentary, Crater Hermetis. The second chapter traces the history of the transmission of edited and new translations of the texts in early sixteenth century England, and also in Catholic and Huguenot France where they were favourably received by episcopate and royalty. I establish that the Hermetic texts were known in late Tudor England where much of the doctrine was heretical to the prevailing Calvinism. Those in England familiar with the Hermetic religious philosophy include John Dee, Philip Sidney, and Walter Ralegh and the Durham House set which included George Peele, George Chapman and others whose knowledge of the Hermetic texts is not disputed. Shakespeare was their contemporary and this study asks if there is evidence in some of his plays that he too knew of this eirenic philosophy whose optimistic gnostic doctrine, extolling knowledge and love, brought with it the hope of ecumenism and religious toleration. The exegetical chapters employ a close reading intertextual methodology. I find evidence that Shakespeare has a comprehensive knowledge of Hermetic doctrine not previously recognized. I suggest that the Crater Hermetis may have influenced the dramaturgy of Love’s Labour’s Lost and I find that, by comparison with The Tempest, Shakespeare’s understanding of the Hermetic religious philosophy grows more profound over time. In King Lear I find evidence that the king’s progress toward knowledge of self may be interpreted as the Hermetic ascent toward spiritual rebirth, while a Hermetic hermeneutic reveals Othello to be Lear’s mirror image illustrating his descent into ignorance. I find evidence that connects three of the selected plays to the 1579 French translation and commentary by Bishop Foix de Candale. My study has benefited from translations of works only recently available in English: the translation of the Crater Hermetis by Wouter Hanegraaff and Ruud Bouthoorn, and the translation of Claudio Moreschini’s Hermes Christianus containing his prolegomena to Foix de Candale’s commentary on the Pymander. Fundamental to this study is Brian Copenhaver’s 1992 translation of the Hermetica, which I have supplemented with Foix de Candale’s French translation and commentary. I conclude that, although the Hermetic philosophy, which is both a religion of the mind and a religion of the world, has slipped largely unnoticed through the pages of Anglophone history, the Christianized Hermetic discourse and doctrine has influenced Shakespeare’s thought in ways not previously suspected. Recognizing Hermetic thought in Shakespeare’s plays enriches our appreciation of his dramatic artistry, especially as it pertains to his portrayal of the human mind, and expands our understanding of the contribution which his plays made to religious debate in a tumultuous age.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2019
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McClymont, John Douglas. "The emergent religiosity of post-traditional African thought." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18188.
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There exists in the modern worlda form of non-Christianised religious thought which develops the basic ideas of indigenous African religion beyond their beginnings, and is represented in authorssuch as Kamalu, Osabutey-Aguedze, etc. The spheres of interest in such authors fiJay be
analysed in terms of the following areas:
Intervening ideological conditions bearing on African life (particularr; theological and cosmological ideas):
The historical background of African life;
The roots of African life, as manifested in its traditions, and tts ethical and cultural heritage;
Means for the innovative development of African life, found in African concepts of knowledge, mysticism and magic;
The perceived destiny of African life.
The thesis concludes with an indication of areas of agreement and debate in post-traditional African thought, of problems faced by such thought; and of other possible priorities for future study.Religious Studies & Arabic
D.Th. (Religious Studies)
Books on the topic "Hermetic thought"
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Slavenburg, Jacob. The hermetic link: From secret tradition to modern thought. Lake Worth. FL: Ibis Press, 2012.
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Hermes Christianus: The intermingling of Hermetic piety and Christian thought. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.
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Spiritual alchemy: The hermetic art of spiritual transformation. Los Angeles: Church of Light, 1995.
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Finlay, John. Hermetic light: Essays on the gnostic spirit in modern literature and thought. Santa Barbara: J. Daniel, 1994.
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Constantinus. Constantine of Pisa: The book of the secrets of alchemy. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1990.
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Lievegoed, B. C. J. The eye of the needle: Bernard Lievegoed, his life and working encounter with anthroposophy : an interview with Jelle van der Meulen. Stroud, Glos., U.K: Hawthorn Press, 1993.
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S, Hyatt Christopher, ed. An interview with Israel Regardie: His final thoughts and views. Phoenix, Ariz, U.S.A: Falcon Press, 1985.
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Franz, Marie-Luise von. Alchemical active imagination. Boston, Mass: Shambhala, 1997.
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Lawrence, Principe, ed. Alchemy tried in the fire: George Starkey, Robert Boyle, and the fate of Helmontian chymistry. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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Raleigh, A. S. The Hermetic Art On Thought And Sense. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2005.
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Hofmann, Michael. "Eugenio Montale." In Messing About in Boats, 59–82. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848042.003.0004.
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Montale, in the 1930s, was between wars but also between women. His ‘hermetic’ style shimmers between suggested meanings or implications. ‘Boats on the Marne’ sounds like a pleasure-outing, a Sunday sail or row, and begins with ‘happiness’ but ends with ‘floating’ (like a corpse?); begins with an upside-down sun, and ends among the stars. A poem whose thought takes the characteristically Montalean form of a cyclone, opening and opening.
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Ó Maoilearca, John. "Meet the Bergsons." In Vestiges of a Philosophy, 33—C2.F2. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197613917.003.0004.
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Abstract In this section, short biographies of Henri and Mina Bergson are set forth, including a description of the rituals practiced by Mina within the Hermetic societies of the Golden Dawn and Alpha et Omega. The question of knowledge is addressed in more depth, and how these hermetic groups also acted as places of para-academic and nonstandard learning. This was especially true for their female members, who had no other access to higher education, whereas the Golden Dawn practiced a strict equality among the sexes in its organization, beliefs, and activities. This feminist strain of thought is then followed through the early reception of Henri Bergson’s philosophy, its criticism, and subsequent scholarly interpretations. There is a subsequent discussion of how “Bergsonism” was regarded as a feminine philosophy (often by its attackers), was popular with female audiences, and was latterly preserved within the academy by women researchers.
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"Sexuality and sexual symbolism in hermetic and gnostic thought and practice(second–fourth centuries)." In Hidden Intercourse, 1–21. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004168732.i-544.11.
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Broek, Roelof van den. "Sexuality and Sexual Symbolism in Hermetic and Gnostic Thought and Practice (Second–Fourth Centuries)." In Hidden Intercourse, 1–22. Fordham University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780823291731-002.
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Mann, Neil. "W. B. Yeats, Dream, Vision, and the Dead." In Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult. Liverpool University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781942954255.003.0005.
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This essay examines the role that dream and vision play in Yeats’s creative life and thought. It considers early Theosophical influences on his approach to the nature of dreams, and how the dream-state features in Yeats’s practice of the Golden Dawn’s Hermetic cabalism, drawing extensively on the unpublished diary that Yeats kept in the “PIAL Notebook” in 1908 and 1909. Yeats held dream to offer access to otherwise unperceived aspects of reality, and as his interest in contact with the dead and spiritualism increased in the 1910s, he theorized on the possibilities offered by the dream state, and the essay considers a series of lectures he gave on the subject. It then moves on to the place of dreams in the sessions of automatic writing that he carried out with his wife, George, and the work that these gave rise to, A Vision. Throughout, it considers how these concerns and interests fed into Yeats’s creativity and art.
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"Conscience and Catholic Identity." In Fundamentalism or Tradition, edited by Darlene Fozard Weaver, 223–40. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823285792.003.0013.
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How does a faith community that understands morality as objective and universally valid operate in a secularized world without lapsing into moral fundamentalism? The reactive, oppositional, hermetic character of religious fundamentalism extends to a faith community’s moral convictions and commitments, disposing religiously fundamentalist communities to moral fundamentalism as well. Catholic debates about conscience illustrate internal struggles over the moral presuppositions of modernity and secularism and their import. Taking Catholic responses to the anti-LGBT attack on the Pulse nightclub as an example, Weaver argues that conscience is closely bound with personal and communal moral identity. Catholic responses to secularism and modernity involve morally freighted choices about what to emphasize, defend, and adapt; who to include, empower, or marginalize; and how to interpret internal plurality, external influences, and alternative modes of thought. Indeed, Catholic responses to fundamentalism, secularism, and modernity enact conscience, as individuals and communities decide what sort of ecclesial community the church will be.
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McNeece, Lucy Stone. "Abdelkébir Khatibi." In Abdelkébir Khatibi, 261–78. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789622331.003.0012.
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Despite the considerable acclaim that Khatibi’s work has received, critics are frequently challenged to describe it. It is often considered « hybrid, » because it cannot be contained by the genres and categories of thought that we associate with Literature. I will argue that Khatibi’s work is less hybrid than « hermetic, » and that the difficulty felt in classifying or even analyzing his writing, is due to the presence of echoes and traces of archaic traditions. Khatibi devoted years of his life to studying other cultures as well as his own, finding that it was a rich fabric of varied influences, just as he found that other cultures bear material traces of many buried encounters. The influences present in Khatibi’s writing include Sufism, the traditions of Asia, such as the Tao and the Vedas, but also the esoteric sciences originating in Mesopotamia and Egypt that found their way to Greece, and which were revised and translated by Arabs and Eastern Christians. These entered into Europe from Andalusia and also through Italy, under the sponsorship of the Medicis, and contributed substantially to the revolution in the arts and sciences of the Renaissance. These cultures entertained a different relation to signs and images than that which has predominated since the Enlightenment in Europe. They also had a less binary and hierarchised conception of the world and man’s place in it. They imagined the universe as the space of a continuous transformation of diverse elements, a view opposed to that of the rational individual as master of his environment. Ostracized by the Church and the State, they remained in shadow, treated as heresies. I will try to show that many of the unorthodox traits of Khatibi’s thought and writing can be attributed to the influence of these archaic traditions, whose poetic and ethical values have much to teach us in the modern world.
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Calvo Martinez, Jose Luis, and Natalia N. Arsentieva. "The philosophy of solitude (Beatus ille theme) in the “estate” poetry of Europe: Horace, Fray Luis de León, I.A. Bunin." In Estate real — estate literary: vectors of creative transformation, 230–48. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0676-5-230-248.
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The article examines the themes of withdrawal from the world (Beatus ille) and the solitary contemplation of nature in the “estate” poetry and prose of I.A. Bunin, a Russian writer of the late 19th to the mid-20th century and traces the sources of his inspiration to the thought of philosophers and writers of classic antiquity (Horace, etc.) and to the Renaissance (Luis de León, etc.). The transition from Neoclassicism and the cult of the arts to the Neoplatonic philosophy of nature in Russian Literature, which took place from the end of the 18th century through the early 19th century, led to the rebirth of an aesthetics based on immediate impressions of reality. The “estate culture” from that period, with its linking of culture and nature, allowed Russian authors to convey complex thoughts and feelings rising from their cultivation of solitude and the contemplation of nature. In Bunin’s legacy, the aesthetic value of the Russian estate is largely due to its proximity to the world of wild uncultured nature. An innovative feature of the Bunin poetic landscape is the fusion of man with the holy universe in light of the cosmological ideas of the Renaissance and the doctrine of the World Soul. A comparative analysis of the ode “The Life Removed” by Luis de Leon, a representative of the Golden Age of Spanish Renaissance poetry, and the motif of solitude in Bunin’s creative work reveal a common metaphysics. Moreover, our research also focuses on the mystery motif of the “liturgy of light” in both authors, which can be traced to the magical practice of communion with God in the hermetic tradition of late Hellenism. Finally, we analyze Bunin’s interpretation of the artist’s separation from the contemplation of beauty as grace during the destruction of the Russian “estate culture”.
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Trapp, J. B. "Frances Amelia Yates 1899–1981." In Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 120, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, II. British Academy, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197263020.003.0025.
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When Frances Yates was elected to the Fellowship in July 1967 her qualities as intellectual historian, long appreciated internationally but within a restricted circle, had begun to be recognised as widely as they deserved. This was in large part the result of the two books she had recently published. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition of 1964 and The Art of Memory of 1966 were then the latest in a series of studies notable for adventurous argument and scope of learning. Though they had been long maturing, the rate at which they had finally been produced and had followed each other into print was remarkable; Bruno had actually been written in well under a year and Memory in about the same time. Remarkable also is that she was already in her sixty-fifth year when the first was published and in her sixty-seventh when the second appeared. Both have had a lasting effect on the study of the European Renaissance.
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Bortolani, Ljuba Merlina. "The Greek Magical Hymn to Hermes." In Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 293–308. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777342.003.0018.
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This paper investigates the so-called “magical hymn” to Hermes, a short hexametrical invocation preserved in the corpus of the Greek magical papyri (PGM) in three different papyri of different dates: PGM V 401–20, VII 668–80, and XVIIb (fourth, third, and second/third centuries CE respectively). Some of the most interesting features are analyzed in the light of both Greek and Egyptian traditions in order to illuminate the cultural background of the divine persona described by the hymn. Though the composition appears to address a quite balanced syncretistic deity, a more thorough examination reveals that the nature of the god addressed, despite the Greek meter, is closer to Hermes’ Egyptian counterpart, Thoth. Nevertheless, the hymn does not have to be the product of philosophical Hermetism (as it has often been argued), but it could just represent an earlier stage of translation of the Egyptian conception into Greek.
Conference papers on the topic "Hermetic thought"
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Kochetkova, Uliana E. "SIGNIFICANCE OF DECIPHERING THE ADAM ALPHABET IN THE HISTORY OF PHONETIC RESEARCH." In 49th International Philological Conference in Memory of Professor Ludmila Verbitskaya (1936–2019). St. Petersburg State University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288062353.28.
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This study aims to consider the significance of deciphering the Hebrew alphabet for the history of phonetic thought. Hermetic and Kabbalistic teachings endowed the Hebrew language with a divine meaning. Traditionally considered as given to Adam by God, this alphabet was called the Alphabet of Adam. The novelty and relevance of the current work are defined by the lack of a comprehensive description of the relationship between these traditional ideas and phonetics. The need for it is caused by the earlier observations about the possible influence of the 17th century concepts on the results of later measurements of vowels with tuning forks, and by the widespread opinion about the low significance of this period in linguistic science history. Though there can be found some publications devoted to concrete authors of the 16th–17th centuries, their contribution to the development of phonetic sciences has not yet been acknowledged. The current research is based on primary and secondary sources in Latin, English, French and Russian. The analysis showed that deciphering the vowels of Hebrew alphabet led to the first attempt to accurately describe vowel acoustic features, the empirical study of their articulatory characteristics and to the search for the “ideal” alphabet built of iconic signs. It also allowed the authors to develop methods for teaching deaf-mutes and systematize vowels. Thus the initial hypothesis about the significance of deciphering the Alphabet of Adam for the history of phonetic thought was confirmed. Refs 25.
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Madduri, Sushma, William Infantolino, Bahgat G. Sammakia, Seungbae Park, Haojun Zhang, and Satish C. Chaparala. "Moisture Concentration and Temperature Dependence of the Coefficient of Hygroscopic Swelling (CHS)." In ASME 2009 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2009-12243.
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This paper presents an experimental and computational study done on an epoxy to determine the effect of moisture level and temperature on the Coefficient of Hygroscopic Swelling (CHS). When a non-hermetic package is exposed to a humid environment, the adhesives used in the package absorb moisture and swell. This can induce stresses in the package that can lead to failure. The Coefficient of Hygroscopic Swelling is defined as the ratio of hygroscopic strain to the moisture concentration in the material. It has been found from prior literature that hygroscopic strains are significant and have to be accounted for in reliability modeling [1]. Prior research investigated the measurement of CHS experimentally using techniques such as thermo mechanical analysis (TMA) [1] [2], moire´ interferometry [3], and digital image correlation (DIC) [4]. An experimental method using the TMA technique was used to measure the CHS [1], but further analysis using improved techniques was recommended to get a more precise measurement. One of the goals of this paper was to investigate experimental and numerical techniques that would help better understand various factors that affect the measurement. This paper focuses on measurement of CHS for an epoxy used in optoelectronic packaging. The DIC technique was chosen for measurement of CHS. Moisture loss during the test leads to a change in the moisture concentration in the sample. While it may be thought that the moisture loss during the DIC scan can be assumed negligible due to the short test time compared to other methods, this assumption did not hold well for the epoxy material tested. The ramp rate chosen for the measurement will affect the amount of moisture lost from the sample. This has to be carefully chosen to minimize the moisture loss. These effects have to be accounted for in the CHS computation. The CHS value calculated will be significantly affected if these factors are high within the range of the measurement. This paper describes the investigation to minimize such effects in the measurement of CHS and attempts to account for them using computational methods. The CHS of an epoxy material was measured and its dependence on temperature and moisture concentration was determined.
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Fasoro, Abiodun A., Praveen Pandojirao-S., Dan O. Popa, Harry E. Stephanou, and Dereje A. Agonafer. "Die and Wafer-Level Hermetic Sealing for MEMS Applications." In ASME 2007 InterPACK Conference collocated with the ASME/JSME 2007 Thermal Engineering Heat Transfer Summer Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipack2007-33850.
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Two of the primary causes of MEMS failure are stiction of the moving microparts due to moisture from environment and particulate contamination due to the degradation of organic materials. The use of getters such as sputtered Ti and Ba to maintain a moisture free environment within the MEMS package has been proposed and is well documented. Though getters ensure a moisture free environment within the package, they do not ensure hermeticity over long periods of time. Hermetic packaging is sometimes desirable for MEMS and optical MEMS (especially those that require long shelf lives) in order to guarantee operational reliability. This paper presents a hermetic fluxless die and wafer-level sealing process with adequate bond strength, assessed using the MIL-STD-883E standard. The hermetic sealing process is achieved via 80%Au-20%Sn eutectic solder rectangular seal rings deposited around the top die perimeter via evaporation and sputtering. We chose 80%Au-20%Sn eutectic solder for sealing because of its high resistance to surface oxide film formation as a result of its high gold content thereby eliminating the use of organic materials such as flux, and at the same time, providing hermetic seal at the die bond interface. The paper also discusses the use of linear regression analysis in packaging process development for our devices. The focus here is identifying process variables that significantly affect the process using as few packaged MEMS samples as available for reliability testing due to their high cost. The process parameters investigated in this paper apply to the shear strength of the resulting die stack, and include the applied bonding pressure, the maximum reflow temperature and the dwell time at the maximum reflow temperature. Conclusions are drawn based on experimental measurements conducted at the Texas Microfactory™ at UT Arlington, and at the Bennington Microtechnology Center (BMC) in Vermont, USA.
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Rimpel, Aaron, Natalie Smith, Tim Allison, and Andrea Masala. "Magnetic Bearings for High-Temperature sCO2 Pumped Heat Energy Storage." In ASME Turbo Expo 2020: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2020-15747.
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Abstract Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2)-based cycles have been investigated for pumped heat energy storage (PHES) with the potential for high round-trip efficiencies. For example, PHES-sCO2 cycles with hot-side temperatures of 550°C or higher could achieve round-trip efficiencies greater than 70%. The energy storage cycle and equipment also synergize well with other systems incorporating thermal storage and/or sCO2 power blocks, e.g., concentrating solar power. These sCO2 cycles are closed Brayton cycles whose efficiency and system cost and complexity are sensitive to leakage and makeup/recompression requirements for long-term application. Therefore, incorporating hermetically-sealed machinery is an attractive option for minimizing system leakage and improving system cost and performance. Bearings that enable hermetic machines include sCO2 process-lubricated bearings and magnetic bearings. Ongoing developments in sCO2-lubricated bearings are addressing the well-known limitations that have challenged their use in megawatt-scale machinery (load capacity, damping), yet magnetic bearings have decades of performance in commercial applications at that scale and are worthy of consideration. This paper discusses a proposed sCO2-based PHES system application, and a cycle model establishes nominal conditions that define CO2 environment pressures and temperatures that magnetic bearings would have to operate in. A sensitivity study of the cycle’s round-trip efficiency is presented to see the impact of improved compressor and turbine efficiencies, which would result from expected windage loss and seal leakage reduction from a hermetic machinery configuration compared to one using conventional oil-film bearings. The result is approximately two points of round-trip efficiency for each point of isentropic efficiency from all machines. In the nominal cycle, the highest process temperatures exist for the charge mode compressor and discharge mode turbine, which would require magnetic bearings capable of operating up to 410°C. This exceeds the capabilities of typical commercial magnetic bearings (200°C), though it is within temperature ranges demonstrated for high-temperature magnetic bearings operating in low-pressure air (550°C). However, high-pressure sCO2 presents unique challenges that require further development. The paper discusses how these technical issues can be addressed to advance magnetic bearings for sCO2 applications.
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Shuaib, Abdel Rahman, Fadi Al-Badour, and Nesar Merah. "Friction Stir Seal Welding (FSSW) Tube-Tubesheet Joints Made of Steel." In ASME 2015 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2015-45550.
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This paper demonstrates the feasibility of successful seal welding process of tube-tubesheet joints using the relatively new friction stir welding (FSW) process. The purpose of the reported study is to develop the process parameters and to test the feasibility of friction stir welding ASTM 179 seamless cold-drawn carbon steel tube into an ASTM A516 Grade 70 tubesheet. All welds were performed in position control on a fully instrumented experimental friction stir welder using a water-cooled tool holder and a shroud for argon shielding gas. A proprietary tungsten-rhenium pin tool with a 1.54 mm pin length and shoulder diameter of 4.9 mm was used to perform the seal weld between the roller expanded tube and tubesheet. A steel plug was employed during each weld in order to maintain support for the weld throughout the circumference of the weld. Sound welds were achieved in the FSW of ASTM 179 seamless cold-drawn carbon steel tube into an ASTM A516 Grade 70 tubesheet. Welding was improved by avoiding tool contact with the tube plug or the flash of the previous weld. Though a root void has been observed, which is typical of partial penetration butt welds, it is believed that the weld would still achieve a hermetic seal. Tool wear features of the W-Re pin has also been documented.