Hermetica

Corpus Hermeticum

Hermes Trismegistus (attrib.) · ed. & tr. Walter Scott

Year 200 CE

Tradition Late Antiquity

Era Imperial

Language Greek (English for Libellus I)

“‘I would fain learn,’ said I, ‘the things that are, and understand their nature, and get knowledge of God.’”

Poimandres and the treatises that follow it in Scott's edition: Hermes teaches Tat and Asclepius about God, mind and rebirth.