Neopaganism
Neopaganism has some relation to Hermeticism. Wicca, one of the earliest and most famous of the Neopagan religions, honours a Goddess and a God, who are seen by some as being aspects of a single greater deity. See Wiccan views of divinity. Silver Ravenwolf expresses this in terms of the Qabalistic Tree of Life:
- "Down we go then, to the first two branches of the tree, right below the All. Each branch is exactly the same, one on the right side of the tree and one on the left. Totally balanced in every respect to each other. They represent the God and the Goddess, or the Lord and the Lady. Separate yet equal, together they combine into the essence of the All."
Ravenwolf holds that the God and Goddess are merely the masculine and feminine aspects of The All, and that both in turn express themselves through sub-aspects as the gods and goddesses of the various pantheons, just as in Hermeticism archangels, angels, and demons are all seen as aspects of God.
The Hermetic use of signs, herbs, stones and animal imagery as a means for drawing down the planetary powers into such signs is mirrored in the sympathetic magic practices of Neopagan witchcraft.
Amongst pagan white supremacist groups, the Odinist White Order of Thule integrates Hermetic philosophy into its indoctrination process.
Read more about this topic: Hermetism And Other Religions