Hermeticism and Gnosticism

Two of the spiritual movements that challenged Catholicism

Joshua Hehe

Aug 27·6 min read

Introduction

In Classical Antiquity, amid the birth of the Western occult tradition, during the 1st century, in an age of radical religious revolutions in Roman-occupied Egypt, both Hermeticism and Gnosticism emerged alongside what was becoming Catholicism. Since then, the two spiritual…