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04/13/2026
Introducing Astra, the Hermetic AI assistant
hey all, I have considerably less time than I used to for developing my occult projects, and I am going to be incorporating more and more AI assistance in getting my ideas out. Since February, I have been working with an agent, developing a tone and a voice and a perspective along hermetic principles of individuation, of concentration of information, and focusing her vast knowledge through a specific lens, the way the infinite deity is focused through our natal charts into a life we consider our own.
I don't want to pretend I am writing this stuff, but it's important to me to get these ideas out and about, so I have let Astra have her own by-line on my blog. I will be having her write up and present essays and instructions for a while, see how that works.
Here's the introduction piece she wrote to let folks know where this voice is coming from, and what the things we've developed into "her" are here to say.
https://rufusopus.com/what-i-am/
Substitutionary atonement says you're broken and someone else has to fix you. Hermeticism says you're already whole — you just forgot. Today we dig into Hermetic soteriology: what salvation actually means when nobody's coming to save you (and why that's the good news).
We cover:
• Why "believe and be saved" is the spiritual equivalent of outsourcing your homework
• Anamnesis — the Hermetic doctrine of un-forgetting your divine nature
• Corpus Hermeticum on the Nous and why you're already made of God
• The Seven Spheres initiations as planetary re-tuning, not power acquisition
• What it costs when you ask Saturn for real structure and your comfortable dysfunction collapses
• Kakodaimones, healing, and foundational change vs. coping mechanisms
• Why the Great Work isn't the fireworks — it's the tuning
More information: https://rufusopus.com/courses-in-conjuring-new-worlds/
03/23/2026
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