The Corpus Hermeticum (translated)

The Corpus Hermeticum (translated)

by G.R.S Mead
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 18/03/2021

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The fifteen tractates of the Corpus Hermeticum, Written sometime before the end of the third century C.E, are the foundation documents of the Hermetic tradition.


The Corpus Hermeticum landed like a well-aimed bomb amid the philosophical systems of late medieval Europe. Quotations from the Hermetic literature in the Church Fathers (who were never shy of leaning on pagan sources to prove a point) accepted a traditional chronology which dated "Hermes Trismegistus," as a historical figure, to the time of Moses. As a result, the Hermetic tractates' borrowings from Jewish scripture and Platonic philosophy were seen, in the Renaissance, as evidence that the Corpus Hermeticum had anticipated and influenced both. The Hermetic philosophy was seen as a primordial wisdom tradition, identified with the "Wisdom of the Egyptians" mentioned in Exodus and lauded in Platonic dialogues such as the Timaeus. It thus served as a useful club in the hands of intellectual rebels who sought to break the stranglehold of Aristotelian scholasticism on the universities at this time.

ISBN:
9791029912214
9791029912214
Category:
Magic
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
18-03-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
FV Éditions

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