Hermetica
Subtitle: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 28, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780521361446
Subjects: Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Unexplained phenomena; Ancient Philosophy; History: World; Hermetism; Hermeticism; Literary Collections / General
First sentence: [1] Once, when thought came to me of the things that are and my thinking soared high and my bodily senses were restrained, like someone heavy with sleep from too much eating or toil of the body, an enormous being completely unbounded in size seemed to appear to me and call my name and say to me: "What do you want to hear and see; what do you want to learn and know from your understanding?"