Hermetic Philosophy

Percy William Bullock (1868-1940) was an English esotericist, alchemist and initiate, member of the Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a secret society devoted to the study and practice of occult Hermeticism and metaphysics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.He was initiated into the Golden Dawn at its Isis-Urania temple in London in September 1890, choosing, as an initiatory name, the Latin motto ‘Levavi oculos’. He was well-versed in the occult already, and worked through the Golden Dawn’s study programme for initiates quickly.  Then, he was initiated into its inner, 2nd Order on 3 July 1892.  For over ten years he was one of the Golden Dawn’s most committed and hard-working members.  He also married, in 1894, another member of the Order, Pamela Carden.The Bullock’s work Hermetic Philosophy, which we propose to our readers today, was a Paper read before the Adelphi Lodge (Theosophical Society), then published in The Theosophist in 1892.According to Bullock, «Hermetic philosophy is at once a union of the reason and the religious instinct: it offers a key to unlock the mysteries of being and is a testimony to the eternal aspiration of the religious sentiment in man to become united with the Divine».