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The Corpus Hermeticum

This is the extended and annotated edition including

* an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the history and basics of Gnosticism, written by Wilhelm Bousset

The so-called Hermetic writings have been known to Christian writers for many centuries. The early church Fathers (Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) quote them in defense of Christianity. Stobaeus collected fragments of them. The Humanists knew and valued them. They were studied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in modern times have again been diligently examined by many scholars.

Contents:

I. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men
II. To Asclepius
III. The Sacred Sermon
IV. The Cup or Monad
V. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest
VI. In God Alone Is Good And Elsewhere Nowhere
VII. The Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of God
VIII. That No One of Existing Things doth Perish, but Men in Error Speak of Their Changes as Destructions and as Deaths
IX. On Thought and Sense
X. The Key
XI. Mind Unto Hermes
XII. About The Common Mind
XIII. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain
105 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • Georgi Andonovhas quoted4 years ago
    Wherefore child-making is a very great and a most pious thing in life for them who think aright, and to leave life on earth without a child a very great misfortune and impiety; and he who hath no child is punished by the daimones after death.
  • mehmaniushas quoted5 years ago
    And this is why beyond all creatures on the earth man is twofold; mortal because of body, but because of the essential man immortal.

    Though deathless and possessed of sway o'er all, yet doth he suffer as a mortal doth, subject to Fate

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