Table of Contents
The Corpus Hermetica.......................................................................................................................................1
Attributed to Hermes Trismestigustus.....................................................................................................1
The First Book. .......................................................................................................................................1
The Second Book. Called "Poemander." ................................................................................................5
The Third Book. Called "The Holy Sermon." .....................................................................................12
The Fourth Book. Called "The Key." ...................................................................................................12
The Fifth Book......................................................................................................................................18
The Sixth Book. Called "That in God alone is Good." ........................................................................21
The Seventh Book. His Secret Sermon in the Mount Of Regeneration, and the Profession of
Silence. To His Son Tat........................................................................................................................23
The Eighth Book. That The Greatest Evil In Man, Is The Not Knowing God. ..................................28
The Ninth Book. A Universal Sermon To Asclepius...........................................................................29
The Tenth Book. The Mind to Hermes. ................................................................................................33
The Eleventh Book. Of the Common Mind to Tat...............................................................................40
The Twelfth Book. His Crater or Monas..............................................................................................46
The Thirteenth Book. Of Sense and Understanding.............................................................................49
The Fourteenth Book. Of Operation and Sense....................................................................................52
The Fifteenth Book. Of Truth to His Son Tat.......................................................................................55
The Sixteenth Book. That None of the Things that are, can Perish......................................................58
The Seventeenth Book. To Asclepius, to be Truly Wise......................................................................59
Table of Contents
The Corpus Hermeticum....................................................................................................................................1
translated by G.R.S. Mead.......................................................................................................................1
The Corpus Hermeticum..........................................................................................................................1
I. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men...................................................................................................................1
II. To Asclepius....................................................................................................................................................7
III. The Sacred Sermon......................................................................................................................................11
IV. The Cup or Monad.......................................................................................................................................12
V. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest..................................................................................................14
VI. In God Alone Is Good And Elsewhere Nowhere........................................................................................17
VII. The Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of God.....................................................................................18
VIII. That No One of Existing Things doth Perish, but Men in Error Speak of Their Changes as
Destructions and as Deaths.................................................................................................................................19
IX. On Thought and Sense.................................................................................................................................20
X. The Key.........................................................................................................................................................23
XI. Mind Unto Hermes......................................................................................................................................29
XII. About The Common Mind.........................................................................................................................34
XIII. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain ........................................................................................................38