hermetics
Example Sentences
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The writings of Albertus Magnus, Arnaud de Villeneuve, and Raymond Lully were in the hands of the hermetics.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
To replace the first by the second and, according to the demands of nature, not forcibly, is the one great aim that the hermetics follow.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
Other inscriptions were written, in accordance with the fashion of the hermetics, in great numbers on the walls; some traced with ink, others engraved with a metal point.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood
The hermetics often urge retirement, prayer and meditation, as prerequisites for the work; it is treated of still more in the hieroglyphic pictures themselves.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
The others, the mages, the theosophists, the cabalists, the spiritists, the hermetics, the Rosicrucians, remind me, when they are not mere thieves, of children playing and scuffling in a cellar.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
