Nicolas Flamel's engraving, Crucified Serpent.
From Abraham Eleazar, Uraltes chymisches werck. Erfurt, 1735.

The Hermetic Academy is a Related Scholarly Organization of the American
Academy of Religion

Co-directors: James B. Robinson Karen-Claire Voss

The Hermetic Academy is a professional society for scholarly research into esoteric traditions in religion. Our primary aim is to facilitate communication among scholars of the esoteric within the field of religious studies and other related areas. Specifically, we want to provide information from and to our readers which is not readily obtainable from more conventional sources. We also want to support and encourage publishers to maintain and increase individual works or series devoted to topics in esotericism and to convince editors of journals that articles on the esoteric in religion are of value to the field of religious studies and are of substantive scholarly merit. Our plans for future development include providing a venue for those interested in encouraging methodological pluralism in the field of esotericism, possibly in the form of a refereed internet journal.

You can download the Summer 2002 edition, in a "Word" format file, by clicking this.