Hermetica, Part 1
Subtitle: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus
Edition: Facsimile Ed edition
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9781564594815
Subjects: Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy; Unexplained phenomena; Religious; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Occultism
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?'