Handbook of metaphysics

By Tom Butler - My first attempt to develop a metaphysical cosmology was the Handbook of Metaphysics.17 It provides a good overview which can be useful to the reader as context for understanding new metaphysical ideas. I tried very hard to normalize the many different perspectives as a single view but found much disagreement amongst the various schools of thought. Even more problematic was the fact that so many systems of thought seemed to have originated from just a few original sources, themselves primitive from a contemporary perspective.

As I have discussed above, the problem of cultural contamination makes it necessary for us to find a new, contemporary anchor on which to reset the old teachings. I have a great deal of respect for the Hermetica and the Tarot, but it is now time to refresh our perspective. The new book, Your Immortal Self,4 is what I believe to be a useful reset of the old concepts. It is also a leap forward from what we thought was true when I wrote the Handbook.

The take away I hope you will gain from this essay is that the ideas of our immortality and the need for our pursuit of understanding are fundamental lessons that have been given to us by our friends on the other side since the earliest days of civilization. These lessons have been refreshed many times by important wayshowers of all of the world’s religions. There is a reason for this which we will all do well to head https://ethericstudies.org/hermes-concepts/ .