Podcast Episodes Themed "Tabula smaragdina"

Storytime: Reading the Hermetic Kyranides, Part I

We dive into the very complicated layering of texts which makes up the Kyranides, and explore the prologue, written by the unnamed East Roman compiler, which tells us a lot about the `authors' he compiled, and about why their work is esoteric. Featuring Hermes Trismegistos by way of Mesopotamia.

Episode 39: The Esoteric Aristotle, Part 2

In this episode we survey the philosophical and occult Pseudo-Aristotles of late antiquity and the middle ages, dipping into a couple of wonderful manuscripts along the way.