Wing I
The Texts
TL;DR
Nine bodies of text, three languages, seventeen centuries. Start with the Corpus Hermeticum — or with the one “hermetic” bestseller that isn’t ancient at all.
- Corpus HermeticumThe seventeen treatises at the heart of the tradition (c. 100–300 CE).
- — PoimandresThe vision that opens the Corpus, guided.
- The Emerald Tablet“As above, so below” — the real, Arabic origin.
- AsclepiusThe perfect discourse — and the lament for Egypt.
- The Kybalion (1908)What it gets right, and what it invents.
- Definitions of HermesThe oldest philosophical Hermetic text — in Armenian.
- Stobaean FragmentsIncluding the Korē Kosmou.
- Nag Hammadi HermeticaThe 1945 desert finds — proof of ritual practice.
- PicatrixThe Arabic handbook of astral magic.
- Musaeum HermeticumThe Baroque alchemical anthology.