WHAT I'M READING:
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Francis Yates
One of the first scholars to show the huge influence in medieval magickal thinking on, um, everything. From the Rosicrucians to John Dee to Isaac Newton etc etc, occult Hermetic thought permeated it all.
I'm a big fan of Yates, author of The Art of Memory, an eye-opening treatise on the lost art of mnemnotechnics. (Remember Keanu in Johnny Mnemonic?)
Creating mental libraries, cabinets of curiosity, is a long lost skill for most of us. Except for those involved in certain styles of meditation, like Ascension work, the creating of inner merkabahs (bodily sacred geometry that creates an engine, or "chariot" in ancient Jewish mystical writing) for Waking Up.
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition is a wonderfully smart, mind expanding book.
I highly recommend it.














