Hermes Trismegistus
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    Hermes Trismegistus

    Hermes Trismegistus

    Legendary sage whose writings became the emblem of esoteric wisdom and sacred philosophy. In late antiquity and especially the Renaissance, the Hermetica were read as a philosophic-religious tradition about mind, cosmos, and spiritual regeneration.

    Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Library) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)

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    The Divine Pymander of Hermes Trismegistus

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    The divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus in XVII. books. Translated formerly out of the Arabick into Greek, and thence into Latine, and Dutch, and now out of the original into English; by that learned divine Doctor Everard

    The Dial's edition: London, 1650

    A foundational English introduction to the Corpus Hermeticum: revelatory dialogues on mind, cosmos, and spiritual regeneration, long central to Renaissance and later esoteric theologies.

    Full textSurvives at Houghton Library

    Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Library) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)