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Hermetism 11
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mainly c. 100–300 CE
Corpus Hermeticum
Philosophical-religious dialogues on God, Mind, cosmos, humanity, rebirth and divine knowledge. Its central movement is inward and contemplative: humanity awakens to its divine...
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roughly 2nd–3rd centuries CE
Asclepius
A Hermetic dialogue surviving complete in Latin, containing cosmology, theology and the famous discussion of statues animated through divine or spiritual powers.
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earliest secure forms medieval, probably Arabic
Emerald Tablet
A very short alchemical text that eventually produces the formula usually paraphrased as 'as above, so below'. Its legendary attribution to ancient Hermes is much older than the...
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1463
Latin translation of the Hermetic writings
Made philosophical Hermetism accessible to Renaissance Latin readers, and gave it a prestige built on a mistaken date.
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Rome, 1652–1654
Oedipus Aegyptiacus
Three volumes claiming to decipher the hieroglyphs, which it does not. It carries the engraved Sephirothic Tree that became the standard diagram of Western occultism — the...
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1885
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1887
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1893 onward
Collectanea Hermetica
A series he edited, making Hermetic, alchemical and Kabbalistic material available to students.
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1906
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1908
The Kybalion
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