unpopular opinion actively looking for rebuttal.
My intent here is to keep this simple and academic, no feelings need to get involved.
Hermiticism seems to me to be the occult of the empire. What I mean by that is that it is inherently Urban and Imperial, and therefore we'll have the same pitfalls. It has its roots in, was sustained by, and is now mostly practiced by aristocrats or the modern-day equivalent: academics.
I know that colonizer is often used as a bad word, but that is not my intention here, it is just a word that brings with it a certain piece of data. As colonizer magic, hermeticism will have the same problems that colonizers have. Those being a lack of land-based connection and a tendency to Center the self above a web of relationships in a larger ecosystem.
I will do my best to illustrate this point with a very simple comparison:
A ceremonial magician will make themselves the centerpiece of a ritual to call down planetary power to serve their ends.
An animist will simply ask the planet to be with and to be present during an upcoming trial.
Does this make sense?