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The perfect sermon or asclepiuswhich is also included here, reached the renaissance by a different route. As such, hermes played his role in later esoteric cults. Hermetica the greek corpus hermeticum and the latin asclepius in a new english translation, with notes and introduction. The hermetica is the name given to an extraordinary collection of writings ascribed to hermes trismegistus, the greek name for the legendary teacher, prophet and scribe deified by the egyptians as the god thoth and known to the hebrews as enoch. It is a tractate practical in nature about the purification of the soul, the ancient.
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The hermetica are egyptiangreek wisdom texts from the 2nd century ad and later, which are mostly presented as dialogues in which a teacher, generally identified as hermes trismegistus thricegreatest hermes, enlightens a disciple. The hermetica the lost wisdom of the pharaohs book pdf download. Hermes trismegistus was a teacher, magician and author of hermetica, egyptiangreek wisdom texts from the 2nd. Hermes trismegistus may be associated with the greek god hermes and the egyptian god thoth. Download now this complete edition of the corpus hermeticum, which introduces in eighteen chapters the religious and philosophical principles of hermetics, was translated by g.
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