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A Revised Hermetic Corpus
I have posted an article on Substack where I analyze the Corpus Hermeticum and provide a new order and with some changes to the names of the tractates.
https://themysteriousdeepblack.substack.com/p/a-revised-hermetic-corpus
The Way of Hermes
Introductory Lectures on the Nature of God, for the listeners (Akousmatikoi):
- “Hieros Logos” (CH III)
- “Eyes of the Heart” (CH VII)
- “The Good is God, Source of All, in this way the Cosmos is Good” (CH VI)
- “God Unmanifest, beyond all name, manifests through the Whole World” (CH V)
General Dialogues on the Nature of Reality, for the learners (Mathematikoi):
- “Hermes to Asclepius, on Space” (CH II)
- “Hermes to Asclepius, on Thought and Sense” (CH IX)
- “Hermes to Tat, The Impermanence of Composite Reality” (CH XV)
- “Hermes to Asclepius, The Purgation of Generation” (CH XVII)
- “Hermes to Tat, Concerning the Soul and Body” (CH VIII)
- “Hermes to Tat, The Monad” (CH IV)
- “Hermes to Asclepius, The Nature of Mind” (CH XIV)
- “Hermes Dialogue with Asclepius, to me this Asclepius is like the Sun” (Latin*, Ascl.)*
- “Mind (Nous) to Hermes: God and the All” (CH XI)
- “Hermes to Tat, Mind is God’s Essence, Mind in Men is God” (CH XII)
- “Hermes to Tat, The Key” (CH X)
- “Asclepius to King Ammon: The All who is One & the One who is All “(CH XVI)
- “Tat to a king: On Harmony” (CH XVIII)
Dialogues On the Secrets of Rebirth & Immortality:
- “Poimandres to Hermes: Mind of All, with Love Nature Embraced (CH I)
- “Hermes to Tat: Secret Initiation of Re-birth” (CH XIII)
- “The Eighth Reveals the Ninth” (Nag Hammadi Library)
Additional Tractates:
- The Emerald Tablet (Arabic 8^(th) c. CE)
- “The Definitions of Hermes to Asclepius” (Armenian)
- “The Prayer of Thanksgiving” (Nag Hammadi)
u/Deepblack67 — 21 hours ago