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[Anonymous No.10260813]

Any good recommendations for essential books on Hermetic Qabalah, Christian Cabala and/or sacred geometry?

[Anonymous No.10260819]

>>10260813
Bump, actually interested in this as well.

[Anonymous No.10260850]

>>10260813
Golden Dawn: A Complete Course in Practical Ceremonial Magic : the Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Stella Matutina)

[Anonymous No.10260864]

>>10260813
mans looking for ascension?

[Anonymous No.10260869]

>>10260864
Yes

[Anonymous No.10260935]

bump

[Anonymous No.10261015]

>>10260813
The Red Lion: The Elixir of Eternal Life by Maria Szepes.

[Anonymous No.10261244]

>>10260813
For classic, primary oldschool sources, I'd recommend the following.

>Syncretism in the West: Pico's 900 Theses, Stephen A Farmer

A monumental work. This is where Christian Cabala began, in a grand synthesis of Christian theology, Medieval scholasticism, Arabic astrology and Greek Neoplatonism.

>Lodovico Lazerelli: The Hermetic Writings And Related Documents, Wouter J. Hanegraaff

One of the few legitimate Hermeticists proper, who built a system centered around the fragmented Corpus Hermetica.

>Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Eric Purdue (forthcoming)

A new translation of Agrippa's magnum opus. Agrippa's Three Books isn't actually an original work, but is rather stitched together by quoting other writings verbatim. Most prominently is the works of Marsilio Ficino, who revived the Platonic tradition during the Renaissance, and the works of Francisco Giorgi and Johann Reuchlin, who took the Cabala much further than Pico.

In regards to geometry, that is a bit more difficult. First, you'll have to understand that the classical cirriculum consisted of the Quadrivium – arithmetic, music, astronomy and geometry, followed by the Trivium of logic, grammar and rhetoric.

>Marriage of Philology and Mercury, Martianus Capella

A Menippean satire that singlehandedly preserved the classical learning of Rome to the Medieval West. Heavily Neoplatonic in content, it treats the Seven Liberal Arts in a well rounded, systematic fashion.

>Introduction to Arithmetic, Nicomachus of Geresa

A Neopythagorean work of the mystical properties of number.

>Boethian Number Theory, Michael Masi

A translation of De Institutione Arithmetica by Boethius, a paraphrase of the above work of Nicomachus. Tremendously influental on the cirriculum of the Seven Liberal Arts, as well as on the disciplines of music, painting and architecture.

>Commentary on Euclid, Proclus

A Pythegorean reading of the first book of Euclid's elements in relation to the mystical doctrines of Plato

>Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato, Theon of Smyrna

A treatment of arithmetic, music and astronomy in relation to the teachings of Plato

>The Theology of Arithmetic, Pseudo-Iamblichus

A forerunner of the Cabala, this work is based on a lost work of Nicomachus dealing with the mystical properties of the Pythagorean Tetraktys

I also highly recommend studying the works of Plato > Plotinus > Porphyry > Iamblichus > Proclus, in that order. There is also:

>Ambigua, Maximos the Confessor

A systematic treatment of the doctrine of Theosis, with a heavy implementation of mathematical symbolism

>The Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, Jasper Hopkins

Avaliable for free online, these works deals with the implementation of mathematical and geometrical symbols and their role in the ascent of the soul towards God. Draws on Maximos the Confessor idirectly, through the works of Eriugen

[Anonymous No.10261265]

>>10261244
Also, several of these works that I have mentioned is treated quite excellent in The Pythagorean Plato by Ernest McClain:

https://ernestmcclain.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/plato_optimized.pdf

[Anonymous No.10261369]

>>10260813
Just get the "Secret Teachings of all Ages" by Manly Palmer Hall, it covers a little of everything, you can even read it online. Saves you wasting too much time and money reading woo-woo books. Esotericism is interesting, but mostly nonsense.