History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents

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History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents

The world's first academic institution dedicated to research and teaching in the field of Western esotericism. Based at the University of Amsterdam.

https://linktr.ee/AmsterdamHermetica

10/09/2026

🌟SPIRITUAL AND ESOTERIC ART GRANT🌟

The Visionary Roze Gift is an art grant for artists working in spiritual and esoteric enquiry.

This is an open call closing October 15, 2026.

“This isn’t a traditional grant. It’s seven gifts; most decided by an eight-person jury, one decided by vote inside the Sub-Roza Circle by the community itself. First place is $1,750 CAD and two weeks at the Aurigin Centre in Spain.”

For all details on this grant, see the images or go to:

https://www.rozeumbra.com/visionaryrozegift

08/09/2026

🌟MASTERS PROGRAMME IN PISA🌟

Enrolment is now open for the second edition of the University of Pisa’s Level II Master’s programme in Religions, Esotericism and New Spiritualities: Developments and Prospects, following a successful first year.

The programme is offered in Italian and it draws on a high-calibre, interdisciplinary teaching staff from Italian and international universities, combining academic rigour with attention to contemporary religious, cultural and social change.

A genuinely new offering in the Italian university landscape, it applies a historical-critical, comparative approach to esoteric currents and alternative spiritual traditions from antiquity to today, including digital and AI-related spirituality, and the intersections of esotericism, mysticism, psychology and psychoanalysis. Fields contributing to the curriculum include history of religions, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, sociology and digital humanities. Graduates can apply their training in teaching, research, publishing, media, healthcare and end-of-life counselling, museums and cultural institutions, religious pluralism management, and spirituality-related tourism.

The programme runs 80% online, 20% in person, starting January 2027. Applications close 30 October 2026.

For all details:

https://www.master-rens.it

06/09/2026

🌟SHWEP SHARE🌟

Hello Sunday! Today another SHWEP podcast recommendation. ✨
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TITLE:
Episode 165: Joel Kalvesmaki on Evagrius of Pontus, the ‘Gnostic Trilogy’, and the Origenist Controversy

ABOUT:
“We are delighted to discuss Evagrius of Pontus, a crucial esoteric thinker of the eastern Christian tradition, with Joel Kalvesmaki. Evagrius lived in interesting times and interesting places, and was at the heart of the same fourth-century scene in the eastern Roman Empire as the Cappadocian fathers, which brought extreme ascetic practices, high-octane metaphysical speculation, and literary erudition together in an explosive social and intellectual cocktail.

We start with a potted biography and some background on the nascent proto-monastic movements in Egypt and the near East, providing important background for studying Evagrius and his colleagues. We then turn to and survey Evagrius’ many writings, foremost among which are the ‘Gnostic Trilogy’, the Praktikos, Gnōstikos, and Kephalaia Gnōstika.…”

Image: Evagrius from an early-modern engraving by Maerten de Vos, sporting a pair of anachronistic spectacles [https://www.europeana.eu/item/89/item_APQKTMELW3PXVOGQ3DBLX4NVVY7SIBA4]

💫-for the podcast, full description, info and cited works go to SHWEP.net-💫⁠

https://shwep.net/podcast/joel-kalvesmaki-on-evagrius-of-pontus-the-gnostic-trilogy-and-the-origenist-controversy/
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To become a SHWEP-member and/or to listen to this free episode, go to SHWEP.net, Spotify or any other podcast streaming service!

Enjoy the episode! ✨
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05/09/2026

🌟SPECIAL COLLECTIONS🌟

Today we share a work of a figure within the history of esotericism, and also part of the UvA library collection. Students have access the this special collection. A perks of studying with us!

BOOK TITLE:
Parallela ecclesiae Catholicae cm haereticorum synagogis.

By Andreas Patricius Nidecius

Cologne, 1576.

(Available, Allard Pierson Depot, PH1785-C.)

ABOUT THE COLLECTION:
This book is part of the state-owned part of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (BPH) at Allard Pierson, which is a unique collection of manuscripts and printed works about the hermetic tradition.

Statue depicting Andreas Patricius Nidecius (Wikipedia commons)

Stay tuned for more!

04/09/2026

🌟NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE🌟

Riffing on/as the Real: Towards Jazz as a Framework for Medieval Sufism

By Cyril V. Uy II

In Sophia - International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions

Taking In ‘Arabi’s (d. 638/1240) Allusions of the Qur’ăn in the World of Man as its point of departure, this article explores jazz as a framework for the study of medieval Sufi knowledge. The first half introduces the jazz standard and develops its possibilities as a theoretical lens. Coupling musical analysis with the work of Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ingrid Monson, and Fumi Okiji, the author frames jazz performance as a creative form of knowing/being constituted by a self-reflexive negotiation of ambivalence, multiplicity, and tension. The second half uses these reflections to guide a close reading of Ibn ‘Arabi’s Allusions. (Re-)articulating Qur’anic language and themes through the particularities of his own experience, the author argues that Ibn ‘Arabi’s writing opens up a play of identity and alterity that (re-)iterates the self-disclosure of God in/as creation.

Through a subtle manipulation of allusion, rhyme, and rhythm, the shaykh shows his readers how multiplicities are unified through irreducible particularities and how unities make manifest irresolvable differences. In so doing, Ibn ‘Arabi vaunts himself as the Perfect Human Being who not only comprehends reality, but consciously takes part in its production.

The article is available (open access):

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-026-01143-8

02/09/2026

🌟ANSIE CONFERENCE🌟

The ANSIE Social Media is back from its summer break with a very early CfP, concerning a fascinating conference in Oxford next July:

The Mystical Theology Network invites abstracts for Mysticism and the Everyday, the annual conference of the Mystical Theology Network. The conference seeks to engage scholars and creative practitioners in a multidisciplinary examination of the ways in which mysticism and everyday interact and interrelate. The conference will also include a mini-symposium: ‘Mysticism in the Classroom’, with a particular focus on Medieval Scholarly engagement with Mysticism across Religious Traditions.

The conference invites contributions touching upon a large number of themes, all available via:

https://www.mysticaltheologynetwork.org/annual-conference?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleAUFT_JwZG9mAmZkaWQWUNpQLmC0PvWcwfX2ggUohK0ByWZbq2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp2nV5xkad7cnervvFRHlqNxQh_oE5opfgpA5uIeQL_EtaoxDP50EMxM2loqy_aem_choGi2kN0c50brLx--5PEg

Deadline for abstracts is 31 January 2027.

01/09/2026

🌟A YALE SYMPOSIUM🌟

Thinking about the Impossible

🗓️December 4–5, 2026
📍Humanities Quadrangle, Yale University
New Haven, CT

Miracles, apparitions, anomalous observations, and unexplained experiences — phenomena that resist prevailing explanatory frameworks — have long served as testing grounds for how we know what we know. A two-day interdisciplinary symposium on how societies define, contest, and adjudicate the boundaries of the real.

Image: Photo by Felice Boscaratti on Wikimedia Commons

For all info, click the link:
https://yaleimpossible2026.github.io/

30/08/2026

🌟SHWEP SHARE🌟

Hello! Today a SHWEP podcast recommendation: a members only episode ✨
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TITLE:
Into the Darkness with Michæl Motia

ABOUT:
We ask some further questions. What has Gregory actually read? And who read him? We discuss Gregory’s understanding of language, and its resonances with post-structuralist ideas. I ask Motia whether Gregory is an esoteric writer, in the sense of someone who is presenting subtexts for the alert reader to find beneath the surface of his theological writings? No, he isn’t. The doctrine of universal salvation or apocatastasis is right there on the page for all to read. But does this mean Christians reincarnate? The conversation finishes with some discussion of Gregory’s apophatic anthropology; God is unknowable, but so are all the human beings!

Image: Inside a Cappadocian cave-church. There are hundreds of these things! Not to mention the underground cities .... (from shwep.net)

💫-for the podcast, full description, info and cited works go to SHWEP.net-💫⁠

https://shwep.net/podcast/into-the-darkness-with-michael-motia/

Become a SHWEP-member to listen to this episode, go to SHWEP.net, Spotify or any other podcast streaming service!

Enjoy the episode!
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29/08/2026

🌟SPECIAL COLLECTIONS🌟

Today we share a work of a figure within the history of esotericism, and also part of the UvA library collection. Students have access the this special collection. A perks of studying with us!

BOOK TITLE:
Praeceptorium divinae legis. Compendium de vita Antichristi.

By Nicolaus de Lyra

[Parijs], [ca.1491].

(Available, Allard Pierson Depot, PH3214-A.)

ABOUT THE COLLECTION:
This book is part of the state-owned part of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (BPH) at Allard Pierson, which is a unique collection of manuscripts and printed works about the hermetic tradition.

Image of Nicholas of Lyra (Wikipedia)

Stay tuned for more!

28/08/2026

🌟NISIS AUTUMN SCHOOL🌟

Join the NISIS Autumn School 2026 for Dr. Gulnaz Sibgatullina’s talk: “Dissent after the 1960s:
The Murabitun Movement between Counterculture and Tradition.”

📍Utrecht University
🗓️10-12 November

Scan the QR code to learn more and register.

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