Matthew LaCroix

It's always shown as a circle.

And we know that it's life because of its depictions all over the underworld and the trees, right?

It's life.

And then the flame is the holy flame, just like in religion teaches us.

It's the holy flame.

It's what we have inside each one of us, meaning that we are made of only two things, life and light, and that they're basically teaching us the path to ascension.

Okay, so what is Hermeticism?

For those who are listening to this, Hermeticism is a philosophical tradition concerned with the underlying order of reality itself.

It teaches that the universe operates according to consistent principles that link mind, nature, and the cosmos, and that these principles can be understood through symbolism, geometry, and observation, rather than belief or doctrine.

They're all based on governing reality.

Reality is ordered, intelligent, interconnected.

It's all a system.

It's all balanced.

Knowledge is conveyed through this, through symbolism and allegory.

They emphasize, always emphasize the harmony of consciousness, nature, and the cosmos.

And they encode it in the most important things possible.

So this may be another thing that's going to completely shock people is that this whole story and how this emerged, like how hermeticism was destroyed, but what it led to before it was destroyed.

So what we're going to do is we're going to talk about this time period in which hermeticism was basically banned and destroyed and how Leonardo da Vinci and other secret societies were trying to maintain this knowledge.

So the story goes that

If you look it up and you're really curious, is that in the 15th century, in the 1400s, during this time period of Constantinople collapsing, this is the Byzantine Empire, right?