Hermetic Journal

The Hermetic Journal started out as a quarterly journal dedicated to the hermetic tradition, edited by Adam McLean. The first issue was released in August 1978 and publication continued until 1992.

The Hermetic Journal explored alchemy and hermetic philosophy from various angles and attracted a wide range of contributors. It addressed a readership which had a deep interest in hermeticism and although the editor was open to articles of a speculative nature he always tried to encourage scholarly research into hermetic philosophy. It was primarily available only through subscription, and had a small circulation of about three to four hundred readers. It did not attempt to proselytise or reach a wider readership, but built up a network of people interested in furthering the investigation of alchemy and hermetic philosophy.

Back issues of the Hermetic Journal are still available bound in paperback editions (about 176 pages), each covering a year. The entire back issues of the Hermetic Journal is now available on CD-ROM.

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List of articles in the Hermetic Journal

1978

• Transmutation and Resurrection - Gareth Knight
• The Golden Chain of Homer
• A Satanist's Diary
• Alexander Von Suchten: The Sweat on a Philosopher's Brow - Michael Jones
• Divinatory Geomancy: An Hermetic Art - Stephen Skinner
• A Vision - Kelly and Dee
• The Science of Ayurveda: A Hindu Alchemy - Sri Lokanath
• The Glyphs of the Planets - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala Number 1
• The Secret Fire of the Alchemists - Kenneth Clark
• Ourselves - Cottie Burland
• Creative Symbolism - Patricia Villiers-Stuart
• Interpreting a Magical Diagram - Adam McLean
• Hermetic Meditation No. 2
• Paganism and the Hermetic Occult Tradition: Part One - M.A. Howard
• The Seal of Aemeth and the Seal of God
• Fire and Water - Richard Gardner
• Alchemical Mandala No 2
• The Four Fire Festivals Part One: Samhuinn - Colin Murray
• Alchemy in Scotland

1979

• The Feminine Partner in the Alchemical Dance - Magenta Wise
• Paganism and the Hermetic Occult Tradition : Part Two - M. A. Howard
• The Spiritual Implications of Nuclear Power - Adam McLean
• Hermetic Meditation No 3
• Dr John Dee's Hieroglyphic Monad - Gareth Knight
• The First Matter - Kenneth Clark
• Alchemical Mandala No 3
• The Four Fire Festivals : Part Two : Brigantia - Colin Murray
• The Zodiac and the Flashing Colours - Ithell Colquhoun
• Colour and the Two Sigils- Ithell Colquhoun
• A Rosicrucian Alchemical Mystery Centre in Scotland - Adam McLean
• Hermetic Meditation No 4
• Number and Space - Patricia Villiers-Stuart
• Alchemical Mandala No 4
• The Golden Chain of Homer : Part Four
• The Fountain Allegory of Bernard of Treviso
• Fulcanelli - Kenneth Rayner Johnson
• The Rosicrucian Canons of Benedict Hilarion
• The Four Fire Festivals : Part Three : Beltane
• A Rosicrucian Manuscript of Michael Maier - Adam McLean
• Hermetic Meditation No 5
• The Uroboros - Kenneth Clark
• The Birds in Alchemy - Adam McLean
• Gargoyle Evokation - Jon Symon
• Alchemical Mandala No 5
• Some Light on Kundalini - Nancy Ogle
• A Foundation - Richard Gardner
• The Four Fire Festivals : Part Four : Lugnassad - Colin Murray
• A Possible Origin for the Enochian Calls - Geoffrey James
• Hermetic Meditation No 6
• Memoir of E.J.L. Garstin - Ithell Colquhoun
• Notes on the Colouring of the Homer's Golden Chain Diagram - Ithell Colquhoun
• The Forty Worlds of the Holy Lamb - Michael Becket
• Bacstrom's Rosicrucian Society - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No 6
• Robert Fludd's Spiritual Task - Adam McLean

1980

• Ceremonial Magick : Part One - Hans Nintzel
• The Crowning of Nature - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No 7
• Hermetic Meditation No 7
• Towards Occult Christianity - Joe Kelley
• Spiritual Contact with an Alchemical Master - Kenneth Rayner Johnson
• Alchemy in the Open - Nancy Ogle
• Robert Fludd's Temple of Music - Translated by Todd Barton
• Reviews and Book Notices
• The Rosicrucian Emblems of Daniel Cramer - Adam McLean
• The Virga Aurea - Adam McLean
• Capillary Dynamolysis - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No 8
• The Dancing Maidens - Michael Jones
• Palingenesis - Kenneth Rayner Johnson
• An Experiment to Grow a Tree of Silver - Adam McLean
• Hermetic Meditation No 8
• The Mirror of Wisdom - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No 9
• The Ethers and the Fundamental Forces of Physics - Adam McLean
• The Monas Hieroglyphica - Peter Dawkins
• The Alchemy of the Earth Forces - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No 10
• The Hermetic Garden of Daniel Stolcius - Adam McLean
• The International Alchemical Symposium, 1980 - Nancy Ogle
• Hermetic Meditation No 9
• The Metalline Vapour - Michael Watson
• The Tarot, the Seasons and the Five Chinese Elements - Swami Prem Sudheer

1981

• The Astral Light, the Prime Material and the Universal Mercury - Michael Watson
• Whither Magic? - Stephen Skinner
• Some Hermetic Reflections on the "Earth Mysteries" - Swami Prem Sudheer
• The Rosary of the Philosophers - Adam McLean
• Constructing a Magical Mirror according to The Art Of Cyprian - Adam McLean
• Squaring the Circle of 13 - Patricia Villiers-Stuart
• Some Notes on the Work of Louis Kervran - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No. 11
• Hermetic Meditation No 10
• Alchemy and Qabalah - Hans Nintzel
• Rasayana : The Natha School of Alchemy - Lokanatha
• Jane Leade's Revelation of Revelations - Adam McLean
• A Kabbalistic-Alchemical Altarpiece - Adam McLean
• Muller's Process
• Hermetic Meditation No 11
• Heinrich Khunrath - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No. 12
• An Interview with Arturo Schwarz
• Splendor Solis - Adam McLean
• The Confessio of Heinrich Khunrath
• A Lullist Alchemical Illustration - Adam McLean
• The Reversed Lord's Prayer - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No 13
• Advances in Physical Alchemy -
• Modern Taoist Transmutations - Mobius Rex
• Archibald Cockren: Modern Alchemist - Patricia Tahil
• Hermetic Meditation No. 12
• Meyrink's Der Golem: A Study in Alchemical Transformation - D. M. Cooley
• Alchemical Principles in Agriculture: An Outline - Adam McLean
• Man and His Souls - Nicolas N. Tereshchenko
• A Key to the Letters of the Q.B.L - Violet Smyth
• The Aurora Consurgens - Simon Seligman
• Jacob Boehme - Adam McLean
• De Cabala Alchymica or The Alchemical Tree of Life - Rafal T. Prinke
• Working with Practical Alchemy No. 1
• Alchemical Mandala No. 14

1982

• The Mutus Liber - Adam McLean
• Spagyric Medicine Revived - Paul Baines
• Michael Sendivogius - Adept or Imposter - Rafal T. Prinke
• Planning the Apocalypse - Michael Jones
• Alchemical Mandala No. 15
• Historical Note Concerning the Emerald Tablet
• Working with Practical Alchemy No. 2
• Four Basic Patterns of Indian and Western Alchemical Thought - Arturo Schwarz
• Johannes Trithemius - Adam McLean
• Dr Rudd's Treatise - Some New Insights Into the Enochian System
• Rosicrucian Aphorisms and Process from a Manuscript of Sigismund Bacstrom
• Working With Practical Alchemy No. 3
• Alchemical Mandala No. 16
• Light on the Castle Path - Deirdre Green
• Dew and Dew Ponds - Paul Baines
• The Mythology of the Qabalah - P. Harrill James
• The Brave Old World of Alchemy - Patricia Tahil
• Robert Fludd's Great Treatise of Rosicrucian Science - Adam McLean
• Working with Practical Alchemy No. 4
• Alchemical Mandala No. 17
• The Teaching of Gurdjieff - Nicolas N. Tereshchenko
• Alchemical Mandala No. 18
• An Hermetic Interpretation of the Tarot - Adam McLean
• The Alchemical Tarot - Rafal T. Prinke
• The Myth of the Fall and Goethe's Fairy Tale - Adam McLean
• Working with Practical Alchemy No. 5

1983

• Was Jacob Boehme a Paracelsian? - Russell H. Hvolbek
• Alchemical Mandala No 19
• The Naometria of Simon Studion - Adam McLean
• Fundamental Physics: Recapitulation of the Archetypes of the Ancient Alchemists - Adam McLean
• The Triple Goddess - Adam McLean
• Working with Practical Alchemy No. 6
• Freher's Mystical Emblems - Adam McLean
• The Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Theory - Adam McLean
• An Early Rosicrucian Text : Cabala: Mirror of Art and Nature - Translated by Gisela Kirberg
• Alchemical Mandala No. 20
• The Cosmological Structure of the Zohar - Paul Krzok
• Messenger of the Rosy Cross - Adam McLean
• Working With Practical Alchemy No. 7
• The Retrieval of Alchemy - Elemire Zolla
• The Balance of Gold and Silver - Michael Jones
• An Hermetic Origin of the Tarot Cards? A Consideration of the Tarocchi of Mantegna - Adam McLean
• The Second Little World - Andrew Mouldey
• An Alchemical Gate in Rome - Adam McLean
• The School of Gerona : Restoring an Ancient Kabbalistic Centre in Spain - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No. 21
• A Look at Alchemical Transmutation from the Viewpoint of Fundamental Physics - Adam McLean
• A Look at The Bahir - Paul Krzok
• The Inner Geometry of Alchemical Emblems - Adam McLean
• Pathworking and Inner Journeys - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No. 22
• Passages to the Otherworld - Deirdre Green
• Edward Kelley - Adam McLean
• Otto, Eliade, Jung and the Sacrality of Matter - Andrew Mouldey

1984

• 1484-1984 500th Anniversary of the Building of the Vault of Christian Rosenkreutz - Adam McLean
• The Magical "Art" - Robert Ellaby
• Charity of Light: A Zoroastrian Re-Reading of the Grail Romances - Elemire Zolla
• Alchemical Mandala No 23
• Quantum Consciousness - Adam McLean
• Microcosmic Reflections - Andrew Mouldey
• The Kundalini Enigma - Lokanath Maharaj
• The Ripley Scroll - Adam McLean
• The Phoenix and Cinderella - Wolfe van Brussell
• An Esotericist Looks at Cosmology - Adam McLean
• Meditation : Balancing our Inner World - Adam McLean
• The Symbolism of the Rosicrucian Vault - Dr. Deirdre Green
• Early Symbolism of the Rosy Cross : Searching for a Link with Tradition - Rafal T. Prinke
• The Fourth Rosicrucian Manifesto ? The Mirror of Wisdom of Theophilus Schweighardt
• Computers and Occultism - Lokanath Maharaj
• Alchemical Mandala No. 24
• Obituary for Frater Albertus
• Homo Quadratus - Andrew Mouldey
• Hermetic Allegory No. 1
• The Search for a Sound Philosophical Basis for Esotericism - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No. 25
• The Alchemical Emblems of Mylius - Adam McLean
• A Glimpse of a Western Lineage

1985

• A Door will Open for Europe - Marcel Messing
• Alchemical Mandala Number 26
• Spiritual Cosmology in Modern Science - Adam McLean
• Hermetic Allegory Number 2
• Obituary for Israel Regardie
• Hermetic Art: Gnostic Alchemy of the Imagination - A.C. Evans
• Meditation on the Name of God - Gavin S. Bennett
• Through a Glass, Darkly - Pete Ludbey
• The Wroclaw Codex of the Magical Calendar - Rafal T. Prinke
• Emblematic Meditation - Adam McLean
• A Context for Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens - Joscelyn Godwin
• Number in the Philosophy of the Hermetic Magus John Dee 1527-1608 - Chris Pickering
• The Magical Aphorisms of Eugenius - Thomas Vaughan
• Alchemical Mandala Number 27
• The Kabbalistic Diagrams of Knorr von Rosenroth
• The Lemegetton Revealed - Kevin Wilby
• Hermetic Allegory Number 3
• Lampado Trado: From the Fama Fraternitatis to the Golden Dawn - Rafal T. Prinke
• Enochian Chess: A Magickal Vehicle for the Twenty First Century - Steve Nichols
• The Four Angelic Tablets - Christian Wilby
• The Ritual of the Hieroglyphic Monad - Thomas R. Hall III
• Common Ground - Rab Wilkie
• The Dream of Poliphilus : A Source for the Allegory of the Chymical Wedding - Adam McLean

1986

• The Seven Palaces in Early Jewish Mysticism - Dr Deirdre Green
• The Alchemical Vessel as Symbol of the Soul - Adam McLean
• A Method of Photographing Etheric Energy Without the need of Special Operator Properties - Michael Watson
• Alchemical Mandala Number 28
• Gnostic Magic and Jacob Boehme - Harald Sundt III
• The Scryers of John Dee - Chris Pickering
• The Equinoxes and Solstices : An Interpretation Part I : The Summer Solstice - Graham Knight
• Etheric Emblems - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No. 29
• Saint-Yves d'Alveydre and the Agarthian Connection - Joscelyn Godwin
• The Origins of the Western Tradition in the Ancient World - Stephen Ronan
• The Conjurer John Dee : The Myth 1555-1608 - Chris Pickering
• Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians - Ron Heisler
• Alchemical Mandala Number 30
• The Practice of the Art of the Pyramid - Thomas R. Hall III
• The Equinoxes and Solstices : An Interpretation Part 2: The Autumn Equinox - Graham Knight
• A Comparison of the Prayer of the Apostle Paul with the Hymns of Corpus Hermeticum and some Greek Magical Papyri - David R. Fideler
• Two Prayers for Alchemists - Karl von Eckarthausen
• A Threefold Alchemical Journey through The Book of Lambspring - Adam McLean
• A Note on the Paintings of N.K. Roerich - Elemire Zolla
• A Kabbalistic Interpretation of Hebrew Memorial Inscription - G.S. Bennett
• Alchemical Mandala No 31
• The Equinoxes and Solstices : An Interpretation Part 3: The Winter Solstice - Graham Knight

1987

• The Key to Hermetic Philosophy - Joseph R. Ritman
• Speculations on the Monad and its Mathematics - Chris Pickering
• Introduction to the Hermetic Adepti - Ron Heisler
• The Fountain of Philosophers - Mark Haeffner
• Deeper Roots of the Golden Dawn - Rafal Prinke
• The Little Key to the Gate of the Palace of Pentagrams - Harald Sundt
• Fractal Universes, Recursion and our Inner World - Adam McLean
• Notes on the "Twelve Keys" of Basil Valentine - Adam McLean
• Alchemical Mandala No 32
• Yeats and the Unknown Superiors: Swedenborg, Falk and Cagloiostro - Marsha Keith Schuchard
• The Name of God and the Covenant of Abraham - Gavin S. Bennett
• Altar of the Theraphic Brotherhood Fraternitatis Crucis Roseæ
• The Sevenfold Kabbalah - Paul Krzok
• Hermetic Symbolism in a Masonic Engraving - Adam McLean
• The Occult Centre in Cracovia - Rafal T. Prinke
• Palaces, Mansions and Shells in a Kabbalistic Diagram of Rosenroth
• The Statue and the Seed: The Mountains of the Moon - Graham Knight
• The Mute Book of Angels - Kevin Wilby
• Daath, Kether and the Event Horizon - Gavin S. Bennett

1988

• The Poetry of Alchemy - Mark Haeffner
• Kabbalistic Cosmology and its Parallels in the 'Big Bang' of Modern Physics - Adam McLean
• A Rosicrucian Emblem - Adam McLean
• Shaping the Cubic Stone : Masonic Symbolism in Lambert de Lintot's Engraving - R.A. Gilbert
• Symbolism of the Black Hole Egg - George Burnett-Stuart
• Report on the Alchemical Workshop - John Fitzpatrick
• Lilith and the Primal Water - Graham Knight
• The Alchemical Tarot Deck: Part One - Rafal T. Prinke
• The 49 Powers in Kabbalah - Paul Krzok
• The Alchemical Drama of Goethe's Faust - Adam McLean
• Gnostic Cosmogeny - Martin Levin
• The Twelve Figures of Orthelius - Thomas Willard
• Theodorus of Asine and the Kabbalah - Stephen Ronan
• Al-Kemi : Hermetic, Occult, Political, and Private Aspects of R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. - A review of André VandenBroeck's book by - Joscelyn Godwin
• Reviews and Book Notices

1989

• The Alchemical Salt - Charles Upton
• The Four-fold Shin and the Gates of Creation - Graham Knight
• The Sky-Father-God The Earth-Mother-Goddess and the Opening of the Mystic Gate - James Clark
• Report on Gröningen Conference on Alchemy
• Rosicrucianism: The First Blooming in Britain - Ron Heisler
• Hermetic Heraldry - Rafal Prinke
• The Consideratio Brevis of Philip à Gabella - Translated by Christopher Atton
• An Allegorical Letter about an Alchemical Adept
• The Number Philosophy of Philo of Alexandria - David Moir
• Monas Hieroglyphica and the T'ai Hsuan Ching: Extrapolation and Synthesis - Andrew Gaze
• Michael Maier and England - Ron Heisler
• A New Look at an Old Anachronism - Nicholas Tereshchenko
• Kabbalistic and Pythagorean Theory - Robin Waterfield
• Robert Fludd: A Picture in Need of Expansion - Ron Heisler
• Transformations of the Alchemical King in the Allegories of Merlin and Duenech

1990

• The Impact of Freemasonry on Elizabethan Literature - Ron Heisler
• Michael Sendivogius and Christian Rosenkreutz - Rafal Prinke
• Some Hidden Sources of the Florentine Renaissance - Graham Knight
• A Short Confession of Henry Khunrath
• The Everburning Lights ascribed to Trithemius
• The Vision of Ben Adam
• The Sevenfold Adam Kadmon and His Sephiroth - Paul Krzok
• The Spine in Kabbalah - Paul Krzok
• Philip Ziegler - The Rosicrucian "King of Jerusalem" - Ron Heisler
• Towards Gnosis: Exegesis of Valle-Inclán's la lampara Maravillosa. - Robert Lima
• The Journey of Frederick Gall
• General Rainsford : An Alchemical and Rosicrucian Enthusiast - Adam McLean
• A Letter from a Hermetic Philosopher from Ms in British Library
• Shakespeare and Rosicrucianism - Ron Heisler
• Two Diagrams of D.A. Freher
• Some Golden Moments - Nick Kollerstrom

1991

• The Book of Lambsprinck: An Interpretation - Guido Martens
• Solidified Mercury: An Outline - D. Lloyd Thomas
• Hargrave Jennings - Joscelyn Godwin
• The Blacke Toade - Rafal T. Prinke
• A Conference betwixt Philochrysus and Philadelphus on the Philadelphian Gold
• East of Eden: Biblical Knowing and the Inner Elixir within a Kabbalistic Speculum - Gavin S. Bennett
• [Al]chemical Imagery in the Poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega - Daniel L. Heiple
• Hieronymous Bosch, 'Psychedelic' Art, Alchemy, and Bon Religion - Ezio Albrile
• A Source for Robert Fludd's Sevenfold Rose
• Alchemical Agriculture - A recipe for an alchemical fertilizer from an Eighteenth century manuscript
• Seven Illustrations to the Works of Jacob Boehme Extracted from a Walton manuscript
• The Glory of Light or a short treatise showing Urim and Thummim to be made by Art - Transcribed from Ms. Ashmole 1415

1992

• The Epistle of Dr. Hadrianus a Mynsicht: A Rosicrucian Alchemical Allegory - Alberto I. LaCava, Ph.D., FRC
• John Dee and the Secret Societies - Ron Heisler
• An Infallible Touchstone
• Zosimos and the Inner Temple - Graham Knight
• The Fountain of the Lovers of the Science
• A Behemist Circle in Victorian England - Joscelyn Godwin
• Michael Sendivogius and the Statuts des Philosophes Inconnus - Zbigniew Sydlo
• Oath of an Adept
• Foam of the Moon - Graham Knight
• The Forgotten English Roots of Rosicrucianism - Ron Heisler
• Michael Maier's Intellectual cantilenae on the resurrection of the Phoenix - Mike Dickman
• Wood and Metal - Kabbalistic Orientation and Elementary Alchemical Returning - Gavin Bennett
• Glauber's Dialogue on the Alchemical Process
• Christopher Walton's Theosophic Symbols - Adam McLean