Esoteric Egypt
Ancient Egypt, and Egypt as the West imagined it.
5 stagesIntroductionFoundationPrimary SourcesDevelopmentAdvanced Study
For the Western esoteric tradition, Egypt has been the fountainhead of hidden wisdom. This path reads the Egyptian sources first, then the Greek and Hermetic Egypt of late antiquity, then the modern Egyptian revival.
Who This Path Is For
Readers who want to separate Egyptian religion from the “Egypt” of later occultism, and to enjoy both.
The Syllabus
1
Introduction
Introductory text
Budge’s short study of magical practice in ancient Egypt.
2
Foundation
Foundational text
The funerary spells for the journey of the soul.
3
Primary Sources
Major development
Iamblichus and the Hermetica: Egypt as the Greeks imagined it.
4
Development
Advanced and interpretive
The Mensa Isiaca and Gerald Massey’s sweeping Egyptological speculation.
5
Advanced Study
Optional related reading
The nineteenth-century Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor’s Egyptian synthesis.
The Light of Egypt, or The Science of the Soul and the Stars. In Two Parts
Thomas H. Burgoyne
The Light of Egypt, or The Science of the Soul and the Stars. In Two Parts
Thomas H. Burgoyne
English · Egyptian Mysticism
