Hermetica

Hermetica is a category of popular Late Antique literature purporting to contain secret wisdom, and generally attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes", a syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. A collection of several such Greek texts from the second and third centuries, survivors from a more extensive literature, were compiled into a Corpus Hermeticum by Italian scholars during the Renaissance. Other Hermetic works, however, existed in Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, and other languages.

Contents of the Corpus Hermeticum

The following are the titles given to thirteen of the eighteen tracts, as translated by G.R.S. Mead.

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• Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men
• To Asclepius
• The Sacred Sermon
• The Cup or Monad
• Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest
• In God Alone Is Good And Elsewhere Nowhere
• The Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of God
• That No One of Existing Things doth Perish, but Men in Error Speak of Their Changes as Destructions and as Deaths
• On Thought and Sense
• The Key
• Mind Unto Hermes
• About the Common Mind
• The Secret Sermon on the Mountain

The Following are the titles given by the Blackmask.com edition.

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• The First Book
• The Second Book. Called Poemander
• The Third Book. Called The Holy Sermon
• The Fourth Book. Called The Key
• The Fifth Book
• The Sixth Book. Called That in God alone is Good
• The Seventh Book. His Secret Sermon in the Mount Of Regeneration, and # the Profession of Silence. To His Son Tat
• The Eighth Book. That The Greatest Evil In Man, Is The Not Knowing God
• The Ninth Book. A Universal Sermon To Asclepius
• The Tenth Book. The Mind to Hermes
• The Eleventh Book. Of the Common Mind to Tat
• The Twelfth Book. His Crater or Monas
• The Thirteenth Book. Of Sense and Understanding
• The Fourteenth Book. Of Operation and Sense
• The Fifteenth Book. Of Truth to His Son Tat
• The Sixteenth Book. That None of the Things that are, can Perish
• The Seventeenth Book. To Asclepius, to be Truly Wise