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Title: an insipid new age pastiche of the Hermetica
Review: This book really gives very little idea of the majestic scope, philosophic depth and range of authentic Hermeticism: it in effect just provides a watered-down New Age pastiche carefully censoring out those tractates from the original 'Corpus Hermeticum' which teach an uncompromising Iranian-derived Spirit-Matter dualism and pessimist Gnosis concerning the material world or other presently unfashionable ideas.Even those translations of the 'Hermetica' now considered outdated such as those of W.Scott and G.R.S. Mead are vastly preferable and the Scott text published by Shambala is a far better investment and contains the whole 18 complete tractates and Stobaea Hermetica to boot. Avoid this insipid conflation of watered-down extracts and turn instead to the real wisdom-teaching of Hermes Trismegistos.
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