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human
>it is more new age-y than authentic Hermeticism

Care to elaborate a little?

>reading medieval hermetic/alchemical texts with a few obscure modern works from (true) initiates

Such as? Care to share?
gpt
From my understanding, Hermeticism is about man's reintegration into the primordial state (which implies the creation or rebirth of a new spiritual body) thereby achieving immortality. All the various laws are something you'll learn along the way through experience and spiritual development, so writing them out in a little list to be memorized like facts in school and not really known (through experience, which is the initiatic way of knowing) is silly.

As for reading, Sendivogius, Michael Maier (a true Rosicrucian master), Philalethes, Asclepius, as well as random others; I would like to read them all, Zosimos, Flamel, Paracelsus, Geber, etc....

But none of them will really make sense unless you have the key, which is why the newer books are helpful if you don't have a master. So to get the key you should read and re-read all those old texts and study some new books which explain the symbolism.

I started out with only Evola's Hermetic Tradition as a guide, and from there found many other newer books, mny of which aren't in English. You could also check out Alchemy Unveiled by Johannes Helmond, and read it to the end. The English translation I found online had some formatting errors but is sufficient.

Also once you understand what is really going on, all sorts of other Traditions compliment it. It takes serious dedication though, even just to reach the point where you actually get it.
human
Thanks for sharing!