The Corpus Hermeticum (I–VII)

Hermes Trismegistus · G. R. S. Mead

The Corpus Hermeticum — the core sermons of the Hermetic tradition, dialogues of revelation ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, the “thrice-greatest.” In discourses between Hermes and his sons Tat and Asclepius, and with the divine Mind, Poemandres, they unfold the Hermetic vision of God, the cosmos, and the regeneration of the soul. This is G. R. S. Mead’s English translation (1906), comprising Books I–XIII. Public-domain text. 1. It chanced once on a time my mind was meditating on the things that are, my thought was raised to a great height, the senses of my body being held back — just as men who are weighed down with sleep after a fill of food, or from fatigue of body. Methought a Being more than vast, in size beyond all bounds, called out my name and saith: What wouldst thou hear and see, and what hast thou in mind to learn and know? 2. And I do say: Who art thou? He saith: I am …

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