The Divine Pymander

Within these pages lies a gold mine of wisdom. The author, Hermes Trismegistus, may not have been a single personage, but the information here is both illuminating and highly relevant. These teachings have been often referred to by the greatest philosophers of Greece and the Church Fathers of Christianity. Tertullian and Justin Martyr once stated that if anyone wanted to learn about God, they should listen to Hermes. He and/or the writers of this work likely lived in Alexandria, and were influenced by early Christian and Gnostic ideas.

PART I. POEMANDRES

Poemandres

1

(15)

To Asclepius. Catholic Discourse

16

(8)

Sacred Discourse

24

(6)

To his own Son Tat. Discourse: The Crater or Monas

30

(6)

To his own Son Tat. That the Invisible God is most Manifest

36

(6)

That in The God alone is The Good, and by no means anywhere else

42

(3)

That the greatest evil among men is ignorance of The God

45

(2)

That none of the Entities perish; but mankind erroneously call the changes destructions and deaths

47

(3)

Concerning Understanding and Sense, and that in The God only is The Beautiful and The Good, but elsewhere not at all

50

(5)

The Key. To his Son Tat

55

(13)

Mind to Hermes

68

(9)

Respecting Common Mind. To Tat

77

(10)

To his Son Tat. On a Mountain. Secret Discourse about Regeneration and Profession of Silence

87

(9)

Secret Hymnody

93

(3)

To Asclepius. To be rightly wise

96

(4)

PART II. EXCERPTS FROM HERMES BY STOBAEUS

Of Truth. From the things to Tat

100

(4)

Of Death. From Asclepius

104

(1)

Of God. From the things to Tat

105

(1)

From Stobaeus, Physica, 134

106

(1)

Hermes to the Son

107

(1)

Concerning the Economy of the Universe. Of Hermes from those to Ammon

108

(1)

Of Hermes from those to Ammon

109

(1)

Of Hermes from the things to Tat

109

(2)

Of Hermes from the things to Tat

111

(1)

Of Hermes from that to Tat

111

(5)

Of Hermes from the things to Ammon

116

(1)

Of Hermes from the things to Tat

117

(5)

Of Hermes from those to Ammon

122

(1)

Of Hermes from those to Ammon to Tat

123

(2)

Of Hermes

125

(1)

Of Hermes

126

(1)

Of the Same

127

(1)

Of the Same

128

(1)

Of the Same

129

(2)

[As to the Sacred Book.]

Of Hermes

131

(1)

Of Hermes from that to Tat

132

(6)

[As to the Decans.]

PART III. NOTICES OF HERMES IN THE FATHERS

Justin Martyr

138

(1)

Tertullian

139

(1)

Cyprian

140

(1)

Eusebius Pamphilus

140

(1)

Clemens Alexandrinus

141

(1)

Firmianus Lactantius

141

(7)

Arnobius

148

(1)

Augustine of Hippo

149

(1)

Cyrillus Alexandrinus

149

(5)

Suidas

154

(2)

Index

156

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