Corpus Hermeticum
The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of Greek treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus.
Established The treatises were written in Roman Egypt, mostly between the first and third centuries CE. The first treatise is the Poimandres. A related Latin text, the Asclepius, also survives.[1] Established Marsilio Ficino translated fourteen treatises into Latin for Cosimo de' Medici in 1463; the translation was printed in 1471 as Pimander and was widely read in the Renaissance.[2] Tradition / belief Hermetic texts teach that the human mind can know God through rebirth and contemplation of the cosmos.[3] Established In 1614 Isaac Casaubon argued on linguistic grounds that the texts date from the Christian era, not from remote Egyptian antiquity; see Hermes Trismegistus.[4]
References
- ↑ G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes (1906). 3 vols; public domain; sacred-texts.com and Project Gutenberg.
- ↑ Marsilio Ficino (trans.), Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander (1471). Latin; public domain.
- ↑ Mead (1906), vol. 2, Corpus Hermeticum I and XIII.
- ↑ Isaac Casaubon, De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI (1614). Latin; Internet Archive.
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