hermetic art

It was also known to be a symbol of the hermetic art.

The use of such sealed containers in the Hermetic arts led to the term "hermetically sealed".

"I'm not interested in a purely hermetic art world audience," said the photographer Gregory Crewdson.

Repeatedly, his concern is less for the hermetic art he wishes fiction to be than for the empty cliche he fears it may become.

Between the time of Bolus and Zosimos, the change took place that transformed this metallurgy into a Hermetic art.

Jasper Johns's hermetic art not excepted, there could hardly be a more useful index to a more maddeningly mysterious body of work.

Similarly, there were practitioners, among both Moslem and Christian, of the 'hermetic arts' of alchemy, science and mystical theology.

For in the Hermetic Art - symbolic though its language was - the mating of Sol and Luna was a moment of great joy and exaltation.

Theurgy translates to "The Science or Art of Divine Works" and is the practical aspect of the Hermetic art of alchemy.

He was the tutelary deity of the Hermetic Art -; a slippery, ambiguous figure who was, according to that great master Gerhard Dorn, 'the true hermaphroditic Adam'.

The poet John Milton, aware of the association of Proteus with the Hermetic art of alchemy, wrote in Paradise Lost of alchemists who sought the philosopher's stone:

These movements have roots in Transcendentalism, Mesmerism, Swedenborgianism, and various earlier Western esoteric or occult traditions, such as the hermetic arts of astrology, magic, alchemy, and Kabbalah.

She published her first philosophical paper, A Short Inquiry concerning the Hermetic Art by a Lover of Philatethes in 1894 and wrote several of the Order's secret instruction papers, called the "Flying Rolls".

On occasion, he also operates on a grander scenic scale, while maintaining the essence of his hermetic art, as in his reduction of the work of Chekhov, Strindberg and others to a single definable image (cutout trees for Chekhov, which, on cue, fall down).

This exhibition helps clarify Mr. Herrera's simultaneously charming and hermetic art by more clearly revealing his sources, which are usually Disney cartoons, and his process, an especially elaborate form of post-80's appropriation art that is at its most mind-boggling in a series of small seamless collages (Smith).

Their fanatical confidence in the omnipotence of church plunder has induced these philosophers to overlook all care of the public estate, just as the dream of the philosopher's stone induces dupes, under the more plausible delusion of the hermetic art, to neglect all rational means of improving their fortunes.