Study and Scholarship
The importance of learning the tradition.
The Hermetic tradition values study and scholarship. One must learn the tradition from texts and teachers before attempting advanced practice. Knowledge provides context and safety for experiential work.
Study is the beginning of wisdom.
Hermetic practice is grounded in thorough understanding of the tradition.
Hermetic Tradition
Written about in
- What Hermeticism says about teachers and lineage
Reading comes before practice, and the reason given is safety as much as understanding: study supplies the context that experience is then fitted into.