Hermetic Virtues

The Hermetic Virtues are grounded in Gnosis of the Way of the Gods, the attainment of Divine Nous, the drinking of the Memory, the baptism/immersion of the Light. This leads to a freedom and exaltation of ecstasy. To this bliss we invoke and apply Self-Restraint in the concentration and containment of that energy and force. Thus, we endure through Perseverance through the internal and external vulnerabilities and obstacles that hinder the Way. We seek Nobility and Justice through Ancestral Custom, the proper order and appropriate action of the accumulated wisdom of the Ancestors. This is the foundation of fellowship, of filiation, of Community, which is the recreation of the World, the microcosmos of order in the rural esoteric hermitages and homesteads. These aggregate to Alithei (Alethea) (the antithesis of lethe as “oblivion”, “amnesia”, or “concealment”) the banishment of forgetfulness, the recovery and Remembrance of Immortal Memory. Thus we proceed to the 12 Houses and their attendant Ordeals and avenging aspects:

Two Translation (Myatt, Copenhaver, of the 12 ‘tormentors’, twelve in number, but under them are many more besides)

Vengeress (a feminine form of avenging wrath) is Unknowing; the second, Grief. The third, Unrestraint;
the fourth, Lascivity. The fifth, Unfairness; the sixth, Coveter. The seventh,
Deceit; the eighth, Envy. The ninth, Treachery; the tenth, Wroth. The eleventh,
Temerity; the twelfth, Putridity
and misery and ignorance are banished, Corpus Hermticum XIII the means of Rebirth, the alchemical purification from these toxins of Soul

This ignorance, my child, is the first torment; the second is grief;
the third is incontinence; the fourth, lust; the fifth, injustice; the sixth,
greed; the seventh, deceit; the eighth, envy; the ninth, treachery; the
tenth, anger; the eleventh, recklessness; the twelfth, malice.

To us has come knowledge of joy, and
when it arrives, grief will fly off to those who give way to it. [9] The
power that I summon after joy is continence. O sweetest power! Let us
receive her too, most gladly, child. As soon as she arrives, how she has
repulsed incontinence! Now in fourth place I summon perseverance, the
power opposed to lust. This next level, my child, is the seat of justice.
See how she has expelled injustice, without a judgment. With injustice
gone, my child, we have been made just. The sixth power that I summon
to us is the one opposed to greed – liberality. And when greed has
departed, I summon another, truth, who puts deceit to flight. And truth
arrives. See how the good has been fulfilled, my child, when truth arrives.
For envy has withdrawn from us, but the good, together with life and
light has followed after truth, and no torment any longer attacks from
the darkness. Vanquished, they have flown away in a flapping of wings.”