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The Gibbs free energy relates the tendency of a physical or chemical system to simultaneously lower its energy and increase its disorder, or entropy, in a spontaneous natural process. Gibbs's approach allows a researcher to calculate the change in free energy in the process, such as in a chemical reaction, and how fast it will happen.
[11] However, Hermeticism’s influence was most pronounced in Gnostic traditions , which shared with Hermeticism an emphasis on esoteric knowledge as the key to salvation . Both movements taught that the soul’s true home was in the divine realm and that the material world was a place of exile, albeit with a more positive view in Hermeticism.