Hermetic Tradition: Osiris to Franklin

Hermetic Tradition: Osiris to Franklin

In this 24-episode series, Roger Weir presents information concerning the history and hermetic tradition from Osiris in ancient Egypt to Ben Franklin and the American Revolution. This series was originally presented from January through June of 1986. Discover more content related to this series at https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/hermetic-tradition-osiris-to-franklin Discover more presentations by Roger Weir at https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations Learn more about Roger Weir at https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/resonance/person-roger-weir Learn more about the Shared Presence Foundation at https://sharedpresencefoundation.org

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May 20, 2026 • 60 mins
This lecture explores the profound continuity between the ancient Hermetic tradition and the mystical core of Christianity, tracing an unbroken spiritual lineage from the Egyptian mysteries of Thoth and the Pyramid Texts through Plotinus, Dionysius the Areopagite, and into Christian and Islamic mysticism. Examining the esoteric teachings of The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, Roger reveals how Hermetic wisdom survived through symbolic la...
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In this presentation, Roger explores the profound spiritual and psychological crisis that shattered the ancient Hermetic tradition in the 3rd century A.D., splitting Western consciousness into two paths: rigid intellectual systems and esoteric mystical experience. Through the figures of Zosimos, Porphyry, Plotinus, and Iamblichus, the talk traces how humanity lost the living center where authentic personhood, community, and wholene...
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May 5, 2026 • 52 mins
This lecture explores the hidden evolution of the Hermetic tradition after Plotinus, revealing how its teachings were deliberately concealed through symbolic systems, lineages, and esoteric methods to survive a hostile historical shift in the late Roman world. Through figures like Hypatia and Synesius of Cyrene, the discussion shows how contemplative wisdom was preserved beneath outward institutions, emphasizing personal vision ove...
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April 28, 2026 • 56 mins
This concluding lecture on Plotinus traces the final moment when the Hermetic tradition remained publicly accessible before receding underground for nearly a millennium. It explores how, after the collapse of Alexandria as a spiritual center, figures like John Scotus Erigena briefly carried the flame of contemplative wisdom forward until its reemergence in the Renaissance. Central to the teaching is Plotinus’ vision of contemplatio...
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April 21, 2026 • 54 mins
This lecture explores the profound transformation in human consciousness from the ancient world to the early centuries A.D., drawing on newly translated texts from the Pyramid of Unas and the philosophical evolution from Aristotle to Plotinus. It reveals how the Hermetic and early Christian traditions in Alexandria redefined spirituality—not as abstract doctrine, but as a personal, experiential reality rooted in inner transformatio...
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April 20, 2026 • 64 mins
This presentation explores a profound shift in human consciousness around the time of Jesus Christ, arguing that religious experience transitioned from mythological understanding to a direct, “magical” engagement with reality through awakened consciousness. Drawing on figures like Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, and Cleopatra, the talk traces how psychological and spiritual pressures in the ancient world mirror our modern crisis of...
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April 13, 2026 • 69 mins
This presentation explores the profound transformation from ancient mythological consciousness to magical consciousness through the lens of the Egyptian and Greek papyri, tracing a pivotal shift in human awareness around the time of Jesus. Drawing on sources like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Greek Magical Papyri, and the writings of Josephus. Roger examines how early myth—rooted in nature and the afterlife—evolved into magic ...
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April 6, 2026 • 54 mins
In this presentation, Roger explores the profound distinction between data and true wisdom, revealing how spiritual insight requires an intuitive grasp of what lies beneath the surface rather than what is plainly presented. Drawing on Gospel of Matthew, the teachings of Jesus Christ, and the Hermetic texts like the Asclepius and Nag Hammadi Library, it uncovers the meaning of the “monasteria” as an inner crucible of transformation ...
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March 26, 2026 • 59 mins
This presentation explores the profound and challenging teachings of the Corpus Hermeticum, focusing on the enigmatic discourse of Asclepius and its place within the broader Hermetic tradition. Moving through themes of ancient magic, the role of the Persian Magi, and figures like Plotinus and Apuleius, Roger builds toward a deeper understanding of the mind’s role in spiritual transformation. At its core, the discussion reveals the ...
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March 23, 2026 • 53 mins
This presentation explores the profound spiritual teachings of the Hermetic tradition through A Discourse of Mind to Hermes from the Corpus Hermeticum. Roger describes the journey of the soul as a spiraling movement toward the divine center—like a chambered nautilus—where life, soul, mind, and God converge. Drawing on the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, the talk reveals how human consciousness can harmonize with cosmic forces, tr...
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March 3, 2026 • 58 mins
This presentation traces the Hermetic wisdom stream from ancient Egypt through Alexandria to the spiritual crisis of the 3rd century A.D., when experiential gnosis clashed with rising imperial Christianity. Drawing on Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Augustine of Hippo, and the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, it explores how early Alexandrian spirituality—rooted in direct inner awakening—was reshaped under Constantine the Great into institutiona...
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February 23, 2026 • 65 mins
In this presentation, Roger examines the fusion of the Egyptian soul and the Greek mind in the Hermetic tradition and how that union transformed the ancient world. Tracing the archetypal structure shaped by Homer—through figures like Hermes, Apollo, and Dionysus—he shows how classical balance collapsed into a new era of personal religion focused on the salvation of the individual soul. With the emergence of Hermes Trismegistus and ...
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February 21, 2026 • 62 mins
In this presentation, the Hermetic dialogue between Hermes Trismegistus and Thoth reaches its climax in the mystery of polygenesis—spiritual rebirth through silence, memory, and the awakening of divine mind. Tracing the Egyptian soul at the heart of Western civilization, the talk moves from the Corpus Hermeticum to Homer, from the seven-stringed lyre of Hermes to the nine Muses born of Mnemosyne, revealing rebirth not as metaphor b...
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February 10, 2026 • 58 mins
In this presentation, Roger brings the Hermetic tradition to a powerful point of culmination, exploring consciousness as an undifferentiated field that takes form through images, ideas, and shared realizations—first in individuals, then across entire civilizations. Tracing the emergence of collective spiritual awakenings from ancient cities to the Roman world, the talk centers on Saint John as the historical focus of a vast transfo...
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February 2, 2026 • 55 mins
This presentation reframes the Hermetic tradition not as a fringe or occult curiosity, but as the central “royal road” of Western civilization—an unbroken spine of spiritual, intellectual, and cultural continuity stretching from ancient Egypt, through Greece and Alexandria, into Christianity and beyond. Tracing Hermes from Egyptian Thoth to Greek myth, the fusion of palace and library, and the seismic transformation of consciousnes...
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January 26, 2026 • 48 mins
This presentation continues the Hermetic treatise The Kore Kosmou (The Virgin of the World), unveiling Isis as the living matrix of wisdom who instructs consciousness itself—Horus—on how unity, articulation, and life emerge from indeterminacy. Moving fluidly between Plato’s Philebus, Egyptian cosmology, Hermetic alchemy, and mythic symbolism, the talk explores how knowledge is born not from isolated concepts but from intervals, rel...
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January 19, 2026 • 73 mins
In this presentation, Roger traces one of the most radical transformations in Western spiritual history: the enantiodromia, the great turning-inside-out by which ancient Egyptian and Hermetic wisdom moved from guiding souls after death to awakening consciousness in the living. Beginning with the Pyramid Texts and indigenous African origins of Egyptian wisdom, Roger unfolds the meaning of The Kore Kosmou (“The Virgin of the World”) ...
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January 12, 2026 • 58 mins
This lecture offers a profound, line-by-line exploration of The Poimandres, the foundational Hermetic revelation of the “Shepherd of Mind,” tracing how consciousness—not belief, morality, or sensory reasoning—is the true field of spiritual testing and liberation. Moving from Manetho’s testimony to Hermes Trismegistus, Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Thoth’s epithets, Cicero’s devastating critique of mind-based theology, and the Hermetic co...
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January 5, 2026 • 50 mins
In this presentation, Roger explores a profound turning point in Western spiritual history: the moment wisdom shifted from guiding souls after death to transforming the minds of the living. Drawing from Hermetic philosophy, Egyptian wisdom traditions, Greek thought, and The Poimandres, it traces the concept of metanoia—the radical transformation of the mind that awakens foresight (pronoia) and direct knowledge of the divine. Center...
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December 23, 2025 • 51 mins
In this presentation, Roger traces the deep Egyptian roots of the Hermetic tradition, moving from the Pyramid Texts and The Book of Two Ways through Thoth, Osiris, and the transformation of myth into symbol, magic, and consciousness, culminating in the emergence of Hermes Trismegistus and the Hermetic worldview. Exploring funerary texts, the journey of the soul, language as a vehicle of transformation, and the idea that all gods ar...
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