Toward Ecosophy

The first of two volumes of my collected essays is now out from Aeon Books! The City of Hermes includes all my published essays from 1993 to 2000, the years when my involvement in Hermetic occultism was at its peak and I was afire with a vision of a renewed Hermeticism based on the Golden Dawn tradition but enriched with the additional tools and practices of Renaissance Hermeticism. The essays in this volume are: 

• The Fifty Gates of Understanding 
• Meditation in Magical Practice 
• The Magical Lodge 
• Ars Memorativa: an Introduction to the Hermetic Art of Memory 
• The Hall of Thmaa: Sources of the Golden Dawn lodge system 
• The method of judging questions according to Peter de Abano of Padua: a medieval handbook of geomancy 
• Geometries of the Sword 
• Hermeticism and the Utopian Imagination 
• Pythagoras and Western Magic 
• The Forgotten Oracle 
• Osiris and Christ: Powers of Transformation in Golden Dawn Ritual
• Magic, Politics, and the Origins of the “mind-body problem” 
• The G.D. Elemental Grades: a new version 
• Swordsmanship and Esoteric Spirituality: an introduction to Gerard Thibault’s Academie de l’Espee