Esotericism
The Gnosis of Hermes Trismegistus
A Summary of the “Corpus Hermeticum” (100 CE)
The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of mystical texts that date to the early centuries of the Common Era. The texts are attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes, and the Egyptian god Thoth.
The style of the texts is a series of sermons given by Hermes, usually involving one of his students: Asclepius, Tat, and Ammon, whose names are derived from the Egyptian “Imhotep”, “Thoth”, and “Amun”, respectively.
In the following article, we present a simplified abridgement of the corpus, while attempting to preserve some of the romanticism present in the arcane and cryptic prose.
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I. Poimandres, the Shepard of Men
While meditating on the world, I was lifted to a higher level and a vast Being called out to me, asking what I wanted to learn. The Being introduced himself as “Poimandres”, the Mind, or Nous, of all-masterhood, and offered…
