"Hermetic" meaning in English

See Hermetic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more Hermetic [comparative], most Hermetic [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} Hermetic (comparative more Hermetic, superlative most Hermetic)
  1. Alternative letter-case form of hermetic. Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: hermetic
    Sense id: en-Hermetic-en-adj-gB6~BRPY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1910, Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II",
          "text": "As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.",
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          "ref": "1931, Henry More, Geoffrey Bullough, Philosophical Poems of Henry More Comprising Psychozoia and Minor Poems",
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          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 16",
          "text": "\"As above, so below\" is an axiom from Hermetic mysticism, and in this Hermetic vision of physiology the tongue is connected through the spinal column to the penis.",
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