Why Egyptian Antiquity Holds the Spiritual Key You’ve Been Seeking

‘Up, Up O ye gods!’

Mitch Horowitz
8 min readAug 6, 2019

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Does life grant us second chances? I believe it does. One of mine arrived when I rediscovered the so-called Hermetic literature, a body of mystical writing produced during the final stages of Egyptian and Greek antiquity.

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China