Hermetica, Vol. 1
Subtitle: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: May 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781570626302
Subjects: Religious; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Philosophy / General; General
First sentence: Once on a time, when I had begun to think about the things that are, and my thoughts had soared high aloft, while my bodily senses had been put under restraint by sleep,-yet not such sleep as that of men weighed down by fullness of food or by bodily weariness,-methought there came to me a Being of vast and boundless magnitude, who called me by my name, and said to me, 'What do you wish to hear and see, and to learn and come to know by thought?'