The Divine Pymander of Hermes

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The Divine Pymander is the first and most important text of the Corpus Hermeticum: the vision in which Hermes Trismegistus falls into a divine trance and encounters Pimander, the Mind of Sovereignty, who shows him the creation of the universe in a vision of overwhelming beauty and horror. The text describes a cosmogony — the origin of the world — and a path of return: how the human soul, fallen in

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Edition089

FormatDigital PDF

Editorial statusIn review

TraditionMystery Schools

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01 / Historical context

1st–3rd century AD, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. The vision of creation in the mind of God. Preserved by Arab scholars; rediscovered in Florence 1460; almost immediately cond

02 / Why it matters

Cosimo dropped Plato for this. Bruno was burned for following it.

From / associated with the text

““I am Pimander, the mind of the great Lord, the most mighty and absolute Emperor: I know what thou wouldst have, and I am always present with thee.””

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The Divine Pymander of Hermes

Context without the mythology.

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