Back issues of the Hermetic Journal are still available bound in paperback editions (about 176 pages), each covering a year.

It built up a network of people interested in furthering the investigation of alchemy and hermetic philosophy.

[2] It is one of only a few English periodicals which focused on alchemy and the Hermetic tradition in the late twentieth century.

[3] Other periodicals of the time were the academic journals Ambix, and Cauda Pavonis, and publications by the Philosophers of Nature and the Paracelsus Research Society for members of their organizations.

Often, these contained scholarly material from renowned authorities – such as Gareth Knight, Stephen Skinner, Ithell Colquhoun, Kenneth Rayner Johnson, R.A. Gilbert, Graham Knight, Hans Nintzel, Joseph Ritman, and Joscelyn Godwin.