Matthew LaCroix

These are the fundamental core principles that must be adhered to.

Period.

And so what is Hermeticism?

It's simply the remnant philosophical and natural law understanding of how the universe works with its principles that survived thousands and thousands of years through mystery traditions and schools to get to where it is.

But we have to go over the history a little bit first because it's very sad what happened to it.

And there are people here listening that are going to say, oh, maybe I thought that was evil.

I thought this.

I thought that.

Let's go over it.

So...

Well, pagans and Druids are direct descendants and connections to this.

So we'll go over that in a second.

Ties all the way to St.

Patrick, the whole thing.

It's a big circle.

In the 1400s, during the years that Constantinople was falling, right?

So it's a city that Constantine formed.

It became Istanbul today.

During that time period,

This is before the rise of the Christianity and all monotheistic religions in that kind of framework.