Finding A Good Source For Hermetics Options

i really want to get into hermetics!
does anyone know of a book i could just go and pick up

also i like authors who don't constantly repeat themselves

help is appreciated.

Well, lets differentiate just a bit . . .

Hermetica - Corpus Hermeticum (Hermetic Corpus), an specific subset of Egyptian or Greek literature
Hermeticism - a religo-magickal movement stemming from the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus
Hermetic Kabalah - a syncretism of Kabalah within Hermeticism
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - a rosicrucian based magickal order in the western Hermetic Kabalistic tradition

There is an enormous breadth of literature and practic within the above. Most of the Western Mystery Tradition is base (primarily) on the Golden Dawns work. But, Hermeticism itself is a very different beast from the cosmological / magickal tradition presented in the Golden Dawn.

Its sounds arbitrary; hermetics / western magickal traditions / Golden Dawn. Maybe it is . . .

This post has been edited by palindroem: Sep 22 2006, 02:30 PM