What House of the Order of Hermes does Brazilian musician Jorge Ben Jor belongs to?
Jorge Ben Jor is a Brazilian musician who single handedly put the Hermetic works in Brazilian public consciousness. As a kid, he was inspired by his grandpa, a member of the Rosacruzians, to read Nicholas Flanel (his muse, according to Ben Jor). As a teen, he learnt Latin so he could read Saint Thomas of Aquine (his brother). As an adult, he would change his name from Jorge Ben to Jorge Ben Jor for numerological reasons
In 1974 he went to an alchemists meeting in Paris at the house that Flanel lived in the 1400's, and saw "wondrous things", including the ghost of Flanel, who he called "the widow's boyfriend". In the same year, he released *A Tábua de Esmeralda* (The Emerald Table), a reference to the magical texts written by Hermes Trismegistus with a diamond tip, and the album was a commercial and critical hit, widely considered one of the greatest masterpieces of Brazilian music. With tracks such as *Os Alquimistas Estão Chegando* (The Alchemists Are Arriving), *Hermes Trismegisto*, *O Namorado da Viúva* (The Widow's Boyfriend), and powerful lyrics in *Menina Mulher da Pele Preta* (Girl Woman with the Black Skin), *Zumbi* and *Brother* (sung in English) it's a complex treatise about Alchemy, and trying to dissect it would be a post of its own. Very simplistically, it poises that alchemy is the art of mixing substances that are greater than the sum of its parts, born in Africa, developed in Arabia and later refined by Europeans such as Flanel and St. Thomas. In a sense, the album is Jorge Ben Jor's own philosophers stone: a mix of samba, soul, rock, psychedelia, jazz and spoken word; a mix of African, European, Pagan and Christian influences; that makes for a unique concoction that will make him live after death through his music
Thanks to the perennial success of the album, to this day some Brazilian college kids will find themselves studying the Hermetica. In WoD terms, he was, to the OoH in Brazil, what Jim Morrison or Raul Seixas were for the Ecstatics in the US or in Brazil, respectively. You can imagine a NWO operative fuming and an older Hermetic going "why all our new recruits are hippies"?
House Solificati seems the natural fit, but I can also see him quarreling with other members due to his views and going to House Ngoma or some other smaller house that loves this kind of inventivity