UNIVERSITY 



HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. 



POEMANDRES. 1 



CHAPTEK I. 



1. THOUGHT in me (a) becoming on a time concerning the 

 Entities (&), and my meditation (c) having been exceedingly 

 sublimed, and my bodily senses also calmed down(d), 

 like as those oppressed in sleep from satiety, luxury, or 

 fatigue of body, I supposed some one of very great mag- 

 nitude, with indefinite dimension, happening to call out my 

 name, and saying to me, " What wishest thou to hear, and 

 to contemplate ; what, having undej^tgod (e), to learn and 

 toknow?"(/) 



2. I say, " Thou, then, who art thou ?" " I, indeed," He 

 says, " am Poemandres, The Mind (g) of The Supreme 1 

 Power. 2 I know what thou wishest; and I am every- 1 

 where with thee." 



3. I say, " I wish to learn the Entities, and to under- 

 stand the nature of them, and to know The God ; this," I 

 said, " I wish to hear." He says to me again, " Have in 

 thy mind whatsoever things thou wouldest learn, and I 

 will teach thee." 



(a) li/volets ftoi. (6) ray Smov. (c) ^tvoioi. (d) 



(e) vo9]<rats. (/) yituvett. (g) 'O TVS? Avdsyrfots Not^. 



1 " Shepherd-man," " Flockman." According to Menard (Preface, 

 p. 3), " Shepherd of man ; " but no former editors have adopted this 

 meaning. 



2 Av6err-/i$, according to the scholiast on Thucydides (Hesychius 

 and the " Thesaurus " of Stephens), was formerly synonymous with 

 etvTG&ip, but subsequently came to mean l|ovov<7Tjj?, or Dominus, 

 and the word is used by Hermes several times in that sense. 



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