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Corpus Hermeticum (The Divine Pymander and the Sermons of Hermes)

Attributed to Hermes Trismegistus · translated by G. R. S. Mead (1906)

The sermons of Hermes Trismegistus, opening with the vision of Poemandres, in G. R. S. Mead's translation.

Contents

  1. Corpus Hermeticum I: Pœmandres, the Shepherd of Men32 paragraphs
  2. Corpus Hermeticum II: To Asclepius17 paragraphs
  3. Corpus Hermeticum III: The Sacred Sermon4 paragraphs
  4. Corpus Hermeticum IV: The Cup or Monad11 paragraphs
  5. Corpus Hermeticum V: Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest11 paragraphs
  6. Corpus Hermeticum VI: In God Alone Is Good and Elsewhere Nowhere6 paragraphs
  7. Corpus Hermeticum VII: The Greatest Ill Among Men Is Ignorance of God3 paragraphs
  8. Corpus Hermeticum VIII: That No One of Existing Things Doth Perish, but Men in Error Speak of Their Changes as Destructions and as Deaths5 paragraphs
  9. Corpus Hermeticum IX: On Thought and Sense10 paragraphs
  10. Corpus Hermeticum X: The Key25 paragraphs
  11. Corpus Hermeticum XI: Mind unto Hermes22 paragraphs
  12. Corpus Hermeticum XII: About the Common Mind23 paragraphs
  13. Corpus Hermeticum XIII: The Secret Sermon on the Mountain22 paragraphs
  14. Corpus Hermeticum XIV: A Letter to Asclepius10 paragraphs
  15. Corpus Hermeticum XVI: The Definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon17 paragraphs
  16. Corpus Hermeticum XVII: Of Asclepius to the King1 paragraph
  17. Corpus Hermeticum XVIII: The Encomium of Kings16 paragraphs

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Edition and rights

Thrice-Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis, vol. II, Theosophical Publishing Society, London and Benares, 1906

Published 1906; translator G. R. S. Mead died 1933. Public domain in the US (published before 1929) and in life+70 countries since 1 January 2004.

Source: https://sacred-texts.com/gno/th2/index.htm Text taken from the Internet Sacred Text Archive's plain-text transcription (retrieved through the Internet Archive because sacred-texts.com refuses automated downloads); the archive's page headers and notes, and the book's front matter, notes and commentary, removed. Normalisation: CH (II.) 'The General Sermon' omitted: Mead prints only its title, the text being lost; CH XVI: paragraph numbers go from 4 to 6 as printed; CH XVII has no paragraph numbers in Mead; kept as one unit; sacred-texts page headers and printed page numbers ([p. n]: 404 lines, 0 inline) removed; paragraphs split by a page break rejoined: 235; footnote references [*n] removed: 985; footnote blocks dropped: 49; Mead's lacuna rows (* * * * *): 12 printed; consecutive rows kept as a single row; Mead's '(Text: ...)' source references and his Commentary chapters excluded; his square-bracketed supplied words and speaker labels (Her., Tat., Asc.) kept; Paragraph numerals moved into keys; Mead's other paragraphs within a numbered section joined with blank lines; Section keys follow Mead's first numbering (the modern CH numbering); his bracketed alternative number kept in 'mead_alt'; titles from the sacred-texts contents (title case), the transcription's 'POeMANDRES' given as 'Pœmandres'; extra heading lines kept in 'subtitle'; Sub-heading 'The Secret Hymnody' (CH XIII) kept as the unit 'heading'.

Changes made in transcription (10)
  • CH (II.) 'The General Sermon' omitted: Mead prints only its title, the text being lost
  • CH XVI: paragraph numbers go from 4 to 6 as printed
  • CH XVII has no paragraph numbers in Mead; kept as one unit
  • sacred-texts page headers and printed page numbers ([p. n]: 404 lines, 0 inline) removed; paragraphs split by a page break rejoined: 235
  • footnote references [*n] removed: 985; footnote blocks dropped: 49
  • Mead's lacuna rows (* * * * *): 12 printed; consecutive rows kept as a single row
  • Mead's '(Text: ...)' source references and his Commentary chapters excluded; his square-bracketed supplied words and speaker labels (Her., Tat., Asc.) kept
  • Paragraph numerals moved into keys; Mead's other paragraphs within a numbered section joined with blank lines
  • Section keys follow Mead's first numbering (the modern CH numbering); his bracketed alternative number kept in 'mead_alt'; titles from the sacred-texts contents (title case), the transcription's 'POeMANDRES' given as 'Pœmandres'; extra heading lines kept in 'subtitle'
  • Sub-heading 'The Secret Hymnody' (CH XIII) kept as the unit 'heading'

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