The Luminous Body
The development of a body of light through practice.
Advanced Hermetic practice develops the 'luminous body' - a vehicle of consciousness not dependent on the physical form. This is the true immortality sought by Hermetists.
Become bright as Fire, as Spirit; be without body.
The luminous body concept parallels similar teachings in many traditions.
Corpus Hermeticum
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- What Hermeticism says about illness and the body failing
The immortality hermeticism actually pursues is a luminous body, a vehicle of consciousness not dependent on the physical form. That is the tradition conceding, in its own vocabulary, that the physical form does not last.