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Hermetica Volume 1 Introduction, Texts, and Translation: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribe Paperback - 1985

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First published in 1924, this classic work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings attributed to the Egyptian sage 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 schools. Instead, they sought to expound a philosophic religion that would better satisfy their needs.

Included here are the libelli of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Asclepius, the Hermetic excerpts in the Anthologium of Stobaeus, and other fragments. The entire text is produced in the original Greek or Latin, with an English translation on facing pages.

Walter Scott (1855-1925), a classical scholar, devoted much of his life to the study of the Hermetica.

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Once on a time, when I had begun to think about the things that are, and my thoughts had soared high aloft, while my bodily senses had been put under restraint by sleep,-yet not such sleep as that of men weighed down by fullness of food or by bodily weariness,-methought there came to me a Being of vast and boundless magnitude, who called me by my name, and said to me, 'What do you wish to hear and see, and to learn and come to know by thought?'

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  • Title Hermetica Volume 1 Introduction, Texts, and Translation: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribe
  • Author Walter Scott (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Shambhala, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 1985-12-01
  • ISBN 9781570626302 / 1570626308
  • Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.56 x 5.58 x 1.33 in (21.74 x 14.17 x 3.38 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Mediterranean
  • Library of Congress subjects Hermetism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 85008198
  • Dewey Decimal Code 299.93
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