Hermetic

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The term "hermetic" may refer to:

• Hermeticism, a magical and religious movement stemming from the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus
• Hermetics, the deliberate use of esoteric imagery
• Hermeticism (history of science), also refers to reconstructing the mode of thought held by 17th century scientists
• Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, an initiatic occult organisation that first became public in late 1884
• Hermetic Qabalah, a syncretism of Kabbalah within Hermeticism
• Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a 19th century occult society
  • The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc., a modern occult society
• Hermetic seal, an airtight seal
• Hermetic detector, a particle detector with large-angle coverage, designed to observe as many particles from an interaction as possible.
• Hermetica, also known as the Corpus Hermeticum or Hermetic Corpus, a corpus of Egyptian or Greek literature
• Hermética, an Argentine heavy metal band

[edit] See also

• Hermeneutics, the study of the methods (the "art" or the "science") of interpreting texts

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