Difference between revisions of "Corpus Hermeticum"

From The SpiritWiki
m (Text replacement - "\[\[(.*)\]\] > {{#ask:\[\[Is a related term::(.*)\]\]}}" to "'''Endogenous to the LP''' $1 > {{#ask:Is a _related_ LP term::$1}} '''Exogenous to the LP''' $1 > {{#ask:Is a related term::$1}}")
(Text replacement - "==Related Terms== '''Endogenous to the LP'''" to "==Related LP Terms==")
Line 2: Line 2:
</blockquote>
</blockquote>


==Related Terms==
==Related LP Terms==  
 
'''Endogenous to the LP'''


[[Hermeticism]] > {{#ask:[[Is a _related_ LP term::Hermeticism]]}}
[[Hermeticism]] > {{#ask:[[Is a _related_ LP term::Hermeticism]]}}

Revision as of 04:31, 18 December 2022

The Corpus Hermeticum is the most "historically important" part of the hermetic literature through which mythology about Hermes Trismegistus comes to us."[1]

Related LP Terms

Hermeticism >

Exogenous to the LP

Hermeticism > Corpus Hermeticum

Notes

"Though there are some attestations of the name in the archaeological record, Hermes Trismegistus is almost entirely known to us through a body of literature."[2]


"The doctrines of the Hermetica are a stew of late antique pagan thought. They clearly are not translations from ancient Egyptian, as once was thought, for they have obvious links to aU sorts of Greek intellectual currents. In 1614 the classicist Isaac Casaubon demonstrated that the Corpus Hermeticum."[3]

Footnotes

  1. Walbridge, John. The Wisdom of the Mystic East: Suhrawardi and Platonic Orientalism. New York: SUNY Press, 2001.p. 2-3.
  2. Walbridge, John. The Wisdom of the Mystic East: Suhrawardi and Platonic Orientalism. New York: SUNY Press, 2001.p. 2-3.
  3. Walbridge, John. The Wisdom of the Mystic East: Suhrawardi and Platonic Orientalism. New York: SUNY Press, 2001.p. 2-3.