The Hermetic Grade of Jupiter

A Guide to Jovian Magic

De: Andre Consciencia

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In the poem ''Paradiso'' by Dante Alighieri, Paradise is depicted as a series of concentric spheres surrounding the Earth, consisting of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, the Primum Mobile and finally, the Empyrean. It was written in the early 14th century. Allegorically, the poem represents the soul’s ascent to God. Dante calls the sphere of Jupiter the sphere of the just rulers.

This belief in the spheres is a Neoplatonic and a hermetic philosophy, depicted by Dante since he was also of the same wise tradition. Franz Bardon, another sage of the hermetic tradition, replaces, as other more modern hermetists do, the Fixed Stars, the Primum Mobile and the Empyrean by Uranus, Pluto and Neptune.

Even scientifically, Jupiter has an enormous gravitational sphere of influence, known as a Hill sphere. Like Jupiter’s magnetosphere, its gravitational force also extends far into space. Hill sphere is defined as the distance where Jupiter’s gravitational attraction gets stronger than the Sun’s, for objects orbiting the Sun. In hermeticism as well, Jupiter stands larger than the Sun.

For years and years I have worked with the planetary sphere of Jupiter, and for a good part of such years I had a hard time translating its teachings into practices and philosophies fit to our material mundane life. Jovian wisdom would often escape through my fingers like blue water and red sand. This book will provide the opportunity for others to start on a different and more favourable ground.