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Early Access - The Hermetic Demiurge (Patreon)

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2025-11-19 18:43:06
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What is the Hermetic God & Demiurge?

The concept of the Demiurge is often associated with the demonic cosmos creator of the Gnostics. But, what do we know about the ancient Hermetic Demiurge? Emerging from the world of Greco-Egyptian religion and philosophy, Hermeticism was a powerfully optimistic means of reuniting one's high consciousness (Nous) with the Divine Parental Light after exorcising one's body of fatalistic daimonic infestation. But, the Hermetic Spiritual Philosophy is ambivalent about the place of any Demiurge in it's cosmology and means of salvation. Yet, some texts do speak of a magnificent Solar Demiurge as the conduit and cosmic artisan. Just what is the place of the Demiurge in Hermeticism? Recommended Readings: Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination - https://amzn.to/4r7cRRB Hermetica I: The Corpus Hermeticum, Asclepius, and Nag Hammadi Hermetica Ordered as a Path of Initiation - https://amzn.to/47P4kvf Dr. David Litwa's YT channel - @m.davidlitwa The Demiurge in Ancient Thought: Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators - https://amzn.to/49tSc3Z

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Raygun Judas

Amazing and educational as well, Dr Sledge! Learning about the demiurge is always incredibly fascinating - Ancient Christians having such vast array of cosmic interoperations is truly eye opening. I only wish we kept a lot of these thing as the religion as an institution grew over the millennia

Sasha

A random thought came to me, I'd love to see a "scribes gone wild: tales from the marginalia" episode. I've seen so much goofy stuff added as commentary by scribes.

Areaknown

How do you spell "philo-sofers" (lovers of noise)?

Erich Brown

One of my favorite reels so far. Will need to watch a few more times, look up the chapters in my corpus hermeticum. And maybe get a B on the test. 😀

S Mill

Loves the Hermetic deep dives! One of my favorites! BTW, are the next batch of incantation bowls going to be the same design as the previous batches or something different? Thanks!

Anon Omous

That demiurgic character is such a fixed and moving target. Just can't quite figure him out. Is he here to help or here to hinder? No one knows for sure.

Dianne Lawrence

At the end of the video you mentioned the YouTube channel of another gentleman and you said you we have to absolutely check him out, but you kind of mumbled his name and I couldn't understand what it was. Could you give that to us again?

Matthew Barker

Well that was fantastic! Thanks Dr. Sledge! Good stuff. Dr. Litwa shoutout was appropriate here. His work in Hermeticism and Gnosticism is unparalleled. His translation of the corpus is superb.

Matthew Barker
>>194314571

Ain’t that the etoinal question! Was I thrown in, or did I volunteer? Am I trapped, or willing, did I fall, or dive. As Campbell says, if you realize you’re falling, turn it into a dive.

Icarus Flyby

link to todays session

Gabriel Elliot
>>194257367

The mark of scholarship? Her-story perspective for religious safety at any speed

DFrost451

Greetings Dr. Sledge. I've been following your work for a little while now, and truly appreciate your insightful analysis and witty commentary. Although I generally prefer to lurk, a comment you made in this lecture triggered some questions I'd love to hear your thoughts on. The concept of competing creators resulting in one attempting to create beyond the scope of its power seems to echo themes from the creation myths of Tolkien's Silmarillion. Do we know if hermeticism had any direct influence on Tolkien's work, or would this be a common theme derived from other sources in his case?