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Hm... lots to unpack here.
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First - I hope it is apparent to you that my line of questioning isn't an attack on you.
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Second - how familiar are you with the three initiates? Paul Foster Case in particular is no phony. He is the founder of the hermetic esoteric school, Builders of the Adytum, and he wrote a great many books on esoteric subjects which speak to his great knowledge of ancient philosophy, including but not by any means limited to what you consider to be Hermeticism. In particular, he wrote some great books on alchemy which are very much in line with Hermetic thought - specifically, I am thinking of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Hermetic-Alchemy-Science-Practice-Golden/dp/0982352115
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So, let's be clear - your notion that they are false is unsubstantiated by the facts.
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Third - if you agree that the subject matter is timeless, then why do you arbitrarily draw a line in the sand and say that the "core" texts are the only texts? It is obvious to me that there has been a current of thought which has developed these universal ideas and it was around long before your canonical Hermeticism and continues to this day uninterrupted. So if you are going to say that true Hermeticism ended at some point in the past, you will have to make a substantive argument as to why those works were legitimate heirs to the name of Hermeticism and certain other ones weren't.
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Is Rosicrucianism not Hermetic, for example?
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And now that I think of it, are you aware of the circumstances which contributed to the rise and fall of Hermeticism as a spiritual movement? Ironically both the rise and the fall can be attributed to something which is mirrored in your view: Hermeticism became popular because it had the air of "ancientness" to it and spoke to a then-unconscious intuition that spirituality and gnosis had existed in a meaningful way long before the Christian era.
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When it was later revealed that the authors had been (relatively) contemporary (at the time -- not for us) and that the authors had borrowed Hermes' name in an attempt to lend their philosophies some credence, the movement lost all the credibility it had falsely accumulated in the eyes of the would-be seekers of the time. But this had no bearing on the validity of the philosophy.