Thrice Greatest Hermes (the Hermetic Fragments)
tr. G. R. S. Mead · 1906 · English (from Greek/Latin)
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About this book
Thrice Greatest Hermes — Mead’s three-volume 1906 translation of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Stobaeus Hermetic fragments, and the Perfect Sermon (Asclepius), with introduction and commentary. The complete three volumes are hosted here.
Relevance to this project
The Greco-Egyptian Hermetic corpus — the decans, the seven planetary spheres, and the cosmic sympathy — is the late-antique astral milieu behind the Gnostic and Sefer Yetzirah letter-cosmologies.
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