de Duve, Christian 1, 2, 3, 4
Dee, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
delayed choice thought-experiment 1
Demiurge 1, 2, 3, 4
Descartes, René 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Digges, Thomas 1, 2, 3
Discovery of the Order of the Rosicrucians (Fama) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
divine spark 1, 2
DNA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Dobzhansky, Theodosius 1, 2, 3, 4
Donne, John 1
double-slit experiment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Dr Who 1
dragonflies 1
Egypt
enduring civilization 1
Greek and Roman rule 1, 2, 3, 4
Heliopolitan theology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
hieroglyphs 1, 2
prisca sapientia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Einstein, Albert 1, 2, 3, 4
Elizabeth I of England 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Elizabeth of Bohemia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Emerald Tablet 1, 2, 3
English Civil War 1, 2
erotic love, as portal to Hermetic illumination 1, 2
eukaryotes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
evolutionary theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
adaptation 1, 2
convergent evolution 1, 2, 3, 4
creationism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Darwinian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
divergent evolution 1, 2
evolutionary directionality 1
intelligent design (ID) 1, 2, 3, 4
natural selection 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
neo-Darwinian synthesis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
punctuated equilibrium 1, 2
purposeful evolution 1
quantum evolution 1, 2
speciation 1
stasis 1
Fabri de Peirsec, Nicolas Claude 1
female side of learning and understanding 1
Feynman, Richard P. 1, 2, 3, 4
Ficino, Marsilio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Corpus Hermeticum translation 1, 2
Three Books on Life 1
Flamel, Nicolas 1
Fludd, Robert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
formaldehyde 1, 2
Fortune, Dion 1
fossil record 1, 2, 3, 4
Frederick V, Elector Palatine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Freemasonry 1, 2, 3, 4
Gaia hypothesis 1, 2
Galileo, Galilei 1, 2
astrology 1
astronomy 1, 2
before the Inquisition 1, 2, 3, 4
and Bruno 1, 2, 3
and Campanella 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
death of 1
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
disavowal of numerology 1
Galilean relativity 1
and heliocentricity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and Hermeticism 1, 2, 3, 4
major contributions to science 1, 2
optics 1
public recantation 1
genetics 1, 2, 3, 4
genetic mutation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
genetic recombination 1, 2
germ theory of disease 1
Gilbert, William 1
Giordanisti 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Global Consciousness Project 1, 2, 3, 4
Globe Theatre 1
glycine 1, 2
Gnosticism 1, 2, 3, 4
God
debate about the existence of 1, 2
Hermetic God 1, 2
Judeo-Christian 1, 2, 3, 4
quest for the mind of God 1
as Ultimate Observer 1
see also Jesus
Gould, Stephen Jay 1, 2, 3, 4
Grand Universal Designer (GUD) 1, 2, 3, 4
gravitational lensing 1
gravity theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Habsburg monarchy 1, 2, 3
Harran 1
Hartlib, Samuel 1, 2, 3, 4
Antilia 1, 2, 3, 4
Harvey, William 1
Havel, Václav 1
Hawking, Stephen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Hawking-Hartle state 1
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1
heliocentric theory
Catholic Church and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Copernicus’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hermetic reverence for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Protestant Church and 1
Heliopolis 1, 2
Heliopolitan theology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Henri III of France 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Henri IV of France (Henry of Navarre) 1, 2, 3
Hermes (Greek deity) 1
Hermes Trismegistus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
as Egyptian sage 1, 2
as pagan prophet 1, 2
characteristics 1
earliest reference to 1
‘Thrice Great’ epithet 1
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn 1
Hermetic texts
alchemy 1
ancient Egyptian wisdom 1, 2, 3, 4
Arabic translations 1
astrology and astronomy 1, 2
and biblical parallels 1, 2
Casaubon’s redating of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
cosmology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Egyptian/Hellenic stylistic hybrid 1
Greek language composition 1, 2
and Heliopolitan theology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
magic 1
multiple authorship 1
period of composition 1, 2
philosophy 1, 2
sources 1
see also specific texts
Hermeticism 1
anima mundi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
attitude to divinity and humankind 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
becomes province of the occult underground 1
Church demonization of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
compatibility with Christianity 1, 2
creation account 1, 2
cult centres 1, 2, 3
diverges from science 1
in England 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
in France 1, 2, 3
and Gnosticism 1
and heliocentrism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Hermetic God 1, 2
Hermetic Renaissance 1, 2, 3
Hermeticized science 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
motto 1
and Neoplatonism 1, 2, 3, 4
prejudice against 1, 2, 3
quest for the mind of God 1
Sabian Hermeticism 1
sacred sexuality 1, 2
survival of 1
tainted by heresy and diabolism 1
as true original religion 1, 2, 3
Hermopolis 1
Herodotus 1
Hess, Tobias 1, 2
Hitchens, Christopher 1, 2
holistic nature of existence 1
Hooke, Robert 1, 2
Hooker, Joseph Dalton 1
Hortus Palatinus 1
Horus 1, 2, 3
House of Wisdom, Baghdad 1
Hoyle, Fred 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
humanism 1, 2
Iamblichus of Syria 1, 2
Idris, prophet 1
Illuminati 1, 2
Imhotep 1, 2, 3
immortality 1
infinitesimal calculus 1, 2, 3
information theory 1
Innocent VIII, Pope 1, 2, 3
Inquisition 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
intelligence 1, 2
intelligent design (ID) 1, 2, 3, 4
interstellar dust 1, 2, 3
Invisible College 1
Invisibles scare 1, 2, 3, 4
Isis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
James I of England 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Jesuits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Jesus
as gifted magus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hermetic parallels 1, 2
and return of Judaism to Egyptian roots 1, 2
Jews, Judaism 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6
John Paul II, Pope 1
John the Baptist 1, 2, 3
Kelley, Edward 1
Kepler, Johannes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Keynes, John Maynard 1
Kircher, Athanasius 1, 2
astronomy 1
and Bernini 1, 2, 3, 4
and Bruno 1
cosmology 1, 2
Egyptology 1, 2
evolutionary theory 1
Hermeticism 1, 2
Lactantius 1
laws of motion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1, 2
art of memory 1, 2
binary system 1, 2
and Bruno 1
calculus 1
infinitesimal calculus 1, 2
metaphysical inspiration 1
monadology 1, 2
Rosicrucian sympathizer 1, 2
life
building blocks of 1, 2, 3
as cosmic imperative 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
membrane formation 1, 2
three requisites of 1
lipids 1
living fossils 1
Louis XIV of France 1
Lovelock, James 1
LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) 1, 2
Luther, Martin 1, 2
M-theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
magic
as legitimate Christian activity 1
Hermetic texts 1
natural magic 1
Renaissance interest in 1, 2
sex magic 1
split between magic and science 1
talismanic magic 1
magical worldview hardwired into humanity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
magnetism 1, 2
Magus, Simon 1
Maier, Michael 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
mammals 1, 2
Manetho 1, 2, 3, 4
Mars 1
Martinism 1
mechanist philosophy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Medici, Catherine de’ 1, 2, 3
Medici, Cosimo de’ 1
Medici, Cosimo II de’ 1, 2
Medici, Lorenzo de’ 1, 2
Medici, Marie de’ 1
memory systems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Memphis 1, 2
Mendel, Gregor 1
Mersenne, Marin 1, 2
meteorites 1, 2, 3
Miller, Stanley L. 1
mindduality 1
Mocenigo, Zuan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
molecular biology 1
monadology 1, 2
Moray, Sir Robert 1, 2
More, Henry 1, 2
Moses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
multiverse hypothesis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Nag Hammadi texts 1, 2
NASA Ames Research Center 1, 2
natural selection 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Neoplatonism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Egyptian origins 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Newton, Isaac 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
calculus 1
esoteric interests 1, 2
gravity theory 1, 2, 3, 4
Hermeticism 1, 2
infinitesimal calculus 1
laws of motion 1, 2, 3
light theory 1, 2
optics 1, 2
Principia Mathematica 1, 2, 3, 4
proves Copernicus’ theory 1, 2
and Rosicrucianism 1
and the Royal Society 1, 2, 3
spiritual beliefs 1
noetics 1
noosphere 1, 2
nuclear physics 1, 2
numerology 1
obelisk-raising 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Occam’s razor 1
occult philosophy 1, 2, 3, 4
Oldenburg, Henry 1
optics 1, 2, 3
Origen 1
original sin, doctrine of 1
Osiander, Andreas 1
Osiris 1, 2, 3
Otherness 1, 2
Panopolis 1
pansophic college 1, 2
panspermia 1, 2, 3, 4
Paracelsus 1, 2, 3
parapsychology (psi) 1, 2, 3
participatory anthropic principle (PAP) 1, 2, 3, 4
particle physics 1, 2
Patrizi, Francesco 1
Paul III, Pope 1, 2
Paul V, Pope 1, 2
Philo of Alexandria 1
philosophia perennis 1
photosynthesis 1
physics 1, 2, 3, 4
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni 1, 2, 3, 4
and Cabala 1
and Ficino 1
imprisonment 1, 2
and magic 1
Oration on the dignity of man 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Pinelli, Gian Vincenzo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
de Pistoia, Leonardo 1
planetary motion, laws of 1, 2, 3
see also heliocentric theory
Plato 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Academy 1, 2, 3
archetypes, theory of 1
Plotinus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Plutarch of Athens 1, 2
Poliphilo’s Strife of Love in a Dream 1, 2
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) 1, 2, 3
Porphyry of Tyre 1
Porta, Giovanni Battista della 1
precognition 1
‘primordial soup’ 1, 2, 3
prisca philosophia 1
prisca sapientia 1
prisca theologia 1, 2, 3
prokaryotes 1, 2, 3
Protestant Church 1, 2
and heliocentricity 1
France 1, 2
and Hermeticism 1
and Rosicrucianism 1
Protestant Reformation 1, 2, 3, 4
Psellus 1
psychokinesis 1
Ptah 1
Ptolemy, Earth-centred model 1
punctuated equilibrium 1, 2
Pyramid Texts 1, 2, 3, 4
quantum evolution 1, 2
quantum theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
quarks 1
Qur’an 1, 2
Ra/Re (Atum-Ra) 1, 2
Random Event Generators (REGs) 1, 2
Rees, Martin 1, 2, 3, 4
relativity theory 1, 2
religion and science debate 1, 2
Renaissance 1, 2, 3
French relocation 1, 2
Hermetic Renaissance 1, 2, 3
interest in the magical 1, 2
and occult philosophy 1, 2, 3, 4
resonance 1
Richelieu, Cardinal 1, 2, 3, 4
RNA 1, 2
Rosenkreutz, Christian 1, 2, 3
Rosicrucianism 1
alchemical philosophy 1, 2, 3, 4
and the Alchemical Wedding 1, 2, 3, 4
anti-Rosicrucian paranoia 1, 2
continuation of Hermetic reform 1, 2
foundation myth 1
Fraternity of the Rose Cross 1, 2, 3, 4
and the Giordanisti 1, 2
in England 1, 2, 3, 4
in France 1, 2
in Germany 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Invisibles 1, 2, 3
rose and cross symbolism 1
Rosicrucian manifestos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
secret societies 1, 2, 3
seeks return to primitive Christianity 1
shamanism 1
Royal Society
foundation 1, 2, 3, 4
and Freemasonry 1
and intelligence-gathering activities 1
motto 1, 2
Newton’s presidency 1, 2
rejects Hermetic/Rosicrucian model 1, 2, 3, 4
royal charter 1
Rudolph II, Emperor 1, 2, 3, 4
Sabians 1, 2
sacred sexuality 1, 2
salvation 1
Samaritans 1
Santa Maria sopra Minerva 1, 2, 3
Saqqara 1, 2
Sarpi, Paolo 1
Schönborn, Christoph 1
scientific atheism 1, 2
scientific method 1, 2
scientific rationalism 1, 2, 3, 4
scientific revolutio
n 1, 2, 3
scientism 1, 2, 3
Scottish Covenanters 1
senescence see ageing phenomenon
Serapeum 1, 2, 3
Serapis cult 1, 2, 3
sexual evolution 1, 2
sexual reproduction 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Shakespeare, William
Globe Theatre 1
Hamlet 1, 2, 3
and the heliocentric debate 1, 2
Love’s Labour’s Lost 1
Love’s Labour’s Won 1
The Tempest 1
shamanism 1, 2
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1
Sidney, Sir Philip 1, 2, 3
simulated universes concept 1
Sixtus V, Pope 1, 2
Smolin, Lee 1, 2, 3
Societas Christiana 1, 2
space-time curvature 1
speciation 1, 2
Spencer, Herbert 1
stars 1, 2
Stobaeus 1
Stoker, Bram 1
string theory 1, 2, 3
subconscious mind 1
Sufism 1
supernovae 1
superstition 1, 2
Susskind, Leonard 1, 2, 3
talismanic magic 1
tantrism 1
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
telepathy 1
telescopes 1, 2, 3
Theodosius I, Emperor 1, 2
Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria 1, 2
theoretical physics 1, 2, 3
theurgy 1, 2, 3
Thirty Years War 1, 2, 3, 4
Thoth 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
time asymmetry 1
transubstantiation 1
triple minimum, doctrine of 1, 2, 3
triple-alpha process 1
Ultimate Observer 1, 2
universe
anthropic principle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
big bang theory 1, 2, 3, 4
designed for intelligent life 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
expansion 1
infinite universe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
multiverse hypothesis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
participatory universe hypothesis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
simulated universes concept 1
see also creation story; world systems
Urban VIII, Pope 1, 2, 3
Urey, Harold 1
vacuum energy 1, 2, 3, 4
da Vinci, Leonardo 1, 2
Virgin of the World, The 1, 2
Walsingham, Francis 1
Watson, James D. 1, 2
wave-particle duality 1
Webster, John 1
Weinberg, Steven 1
Wense, Wilhelm 1
Wheeler, John Archibald 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Wickramasinghe, Chandra 1, 2, 3, 4
Wilkins, John 1, 2, 3, 4
witchcraft 1
world systems
biblical theory 1, 2
heliocentric 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
hybrid model 1, 2
Ptolemaic 1, 2, 3, 4
Worthington, John 1, 2, 3, 4
Wotton, Sir Henry 1
Wren, Sir Christopher 1
Yeats, W. B. 1
Young, Thomas 1
The famous page from Copernicus On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (1543) showing his world-changing diagram of the sun-centred solar system. Less famously, just four lines below, he acknowledges his inspiration, the esoteric works of ‘Trismegistus’ – the legendary Egyptian sage Thrice-Great Hermes.
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