On Thursday February 27th, 2014 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will

present a purposefully cryptic lecture on the Hermetic conception of

immortality and the concept of "The Great I AM," in Qabalah, astrology,

alchemy, magick and Kalachakra. This profound and ultimate mystery can be

explained briefly in fairly simple terms, but whenever someone tries to do

this they are either laughed at, locked up, or put to death. The concept is

so feared and reviled that it is demonized by psychologists and marginalized

by modern philosophers, although the great pre-Socratean thinkers

Parmenides, Empedocles and Heraclitus considered it primary: the starting

point from which the science of logic and reason arise.The Great Secret is

obviously not for everybody even though Jesus tried to get the common man to

understand it in mythic rather than philosophic terms. And even though he

mythologized it, he still got himself killed! So, we can't come right out

and cast our pearls before swine, lest they "turn and rend us." But we can

at least point to the philosophy and the science behind our mystery -- and

encourage those who have "the mind" as well as "the speech" to find the

center point and "the prize for the souls." So tune in and peek behind the

veil.