The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and
art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians …

Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced
by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces …

According to Christian theology, fallen angels share key similarities with human beings
because they share our outcast condition. Cast to Earth and wandering in search of respite …

Duplice è stata fin dall'origine la produzione degli alchimisti: il ri sultato materiale delle
operazioni di laboratorio su cui fondavano il proprio sapere ei fiumi di parole che hanno …

Gods, such as the Elohim of chapter ii of Genesis. Men became creative Gods, in their turn,
able to give life to beings like themselves... since men had discovered, thanks to …

We study the fifteenth-century Medici family partly because of their impact on fifteenth-
century Florentine art and society and partly because we seek to under stand their …

Fig. 101. The pyramids of Egypt. From Giosefo Petrucci, Prodomo apologetico alli studi
chircheriani (1677).(The image first appeared in Sphinx Mystagoga.)“real” language that …