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First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott's extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is said that these teachings are records of private, intimate talks between a teacher and one or two of his disciples. The setting was in Egypt under the Roman Empire, among men who had received some instruction in Greek philosophy, and especially the Platonism of the period, but were not content with merely accepting and repeating the dogmas of the orthodox philosophic religion that would better satisfy their needs. Included here is the translator's commentary on the Latin "Asclepius" and the Hermetic excerpts of Stobaeus. Volumes I, II, and IV of "Hermetica," which contain Scott's translation, his notes on the "Corpus Hermeticum, " and "testimonia," addenda, indices, are also published by Shambhala. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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CORPVS HERMETICVM
LIBELLVS I
Contents
THE REVELATION·
The man who speaks was visited in his sleep by the supreme
Mind, who taught him as follows.
The beginning of things. In the beginning was God (who is
pictured as a boundless expanse of light), and God alone. Then,
formless matter (pictured as a cloud of darkness) came into being.
The formless matter first assumed form by changing into a watery
substance. And from iod came forth a Word (hypostatized, and
called son of God), who worked upon the watery substance.
In God are included innumerable Powers; and the Intelligible
World,-the archetype of the Sensible World,-is made up of these
Powers of God-
Formation of the Sensible Forld. The watery substance, by the
operation of the Word, was differentiated into (r) fire, which rose
aloft; (2) air, which occupied the region next below the fire: and
(3) gross matter (earth and water intermixed), which remained
below. 3 b, 5 b. (Later on, earth and water were separated.
The making of living beings. The supreme Mind (i. e. Cod) gave
birth to a second Mind, called 'the Demiurgus', whose station is
the highest sphere of the region of fire; and the Demiurgus made
out of fire and air the seven Planets, whose function is to govern
the sublunar world. .Acting in conjunction with the Word (who
now quitted the grosser elements below, and flew up to the regiorn
of fire), the Demiurgus set the Planets circling in their several
spheres.
Then, at the bidding of the Demiurgus, the earth and the water
brought forth the irrational animals.
The origin of man. The supreme Mind (i. e. God) gave birth to
(incorporeal) Man, a Being like to God himself. This Man at first
took up his abode in the highest sphere of heaven, beside his brother
the Demiurgus. Thence he descended to the planetary region ;