The Hermetic Tradition

English edition cover.

The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art (in Italian La tradizione ermetica nei suoi simboli, nella sua dottrina e nella sua “arte regia”) is a work by Italian esoteric writer Julius Evola. Published in 1931 by Laterza; English translation by Inner Traditions International, 1994 (ISBN 0892814519).

Contents

• Foreword by H. T. Hansen
• Translator's Note
• Preface

Part One: The Symbols and Teachings

• Introduction to Part One: The Tree, the Serpent, and the Titans
• One: The Plurality and Duality of Civilizations
• Two: Living Nature
• Three: The Hermetic Knowledge
• Four: "One the All" and the Dragon Ouroboros
• Five: The Hermetic Presence
• Six: Creation and Myth
• Seven: "Woman", "Water," "Mercury," and "Poison"
• Eight: The Separation: Sun and Moon
• Nine: Frozen and Flowing Waters
• Ten: Salt and the Cross
• Eleven: The Four Elements and Sulfur
• Twelve: Soul, Spirit, and Body
• Thirteen: The "Four" in Man
• Fourteen: The Planets
• Fifteen: The Centers of Life
• Sixteen: The Seven, the Operations, and the Mirror
• Seventeen: Gold in the Art
• Eighteen: Shadow, Ashes, and Remains
• Nineteen: Philosophical Incest
• Twenty: The Tomb and Thirst
• Twenty-One: Saturn: Inverted Gold
• Twenty-Two: The Field and the Seed
• Twenty-Three: The Sword and the Rose
• Twenty-Four: Stem, Virus and Iron

Part Two: The Hermetic Royal Art

• Introduction to Part Two: The Reality of Palingenesis
• Twenty-Five: The Separation
• Twenty-Six: Death and the Black Work
• Twenty-Seven: The Trial of the Void
• Twenty-Eight: The Flight of the Dragon
• Twenty-Nine: The Dry Path and the Wet Path
• Thirty: Hermetic Ascetism
• Thirty-One: The Path of the Breath and the Path of the Blood
• Thirty-Two: The Heart and the Light
• Thirty-Three: Denudations and Eclipses
• Thirty-Four: The Thirst for God and the Corrosive Waters
• Thirty-Five: The Path of Venus and the Radical Path
• Thirty-Six: The Hermetic Fires
• Thirty-Seven: The White Work: Rebirth
• Thirty-Eight: The Coniunctio in White
• Thirty-Nine: The Eternal Vigil
• Forty: The Body of Light and Production of Silver
• Forty-One: Birth into Life and Immortality
• Forty-Two: The Red Work: Return to Earth
• Forty-Three: The Alchemical Colors and Multiplication
• Forty-Four: The Planetary Hierarchy
• Forty-Five: Knowledge of the Red and the Triunity
• Forti-Six: Prophetic Knowledge
• Forty-Seven: The Four Stages of Power
• Forty-Eight: Metallic Transmutation
• Forty-Nine: Correspondances, Times, and Rites
• Fifty: Silence and the Tradition
• Fifty-One: The Invisible Masters

• Index