CONTENTS. 



PAET I. 



POEMANDRES. 



CHAP. PAGE 



I. Poemandres, ...... 1 



II. To Asclepius. Catholic Discourse, ... 16 



III. Sacred Discourse, . . . . .24 



IV. To his own Son Tat. Discourse: The Crater or 



Monas, ...... 30 



V. To his own Son Tat. That the Invisible God is most 



Manifest, ...... 36 



VI. That in The God alone is The Good, and by no means 



anywhere else, ..... 42 



VII. That the greatest evil among men is ignorance of The 



God, . . . . . .45 



VIII. That none of the Entities perish; but mankind erro- 

 neously call the changes destructions and deaths, . 47 

 IX. Concerning Understanding and Sense, and that in The 

 God only is The Beautiful and The Good, but else- 

 where not at all, ..... 50 



X. The Key. To his Son Tat, .... 55 



XI. Mind to Hermes, ..... 68 



XII. Respecting Common Mind. To Tat, ... 77 



XIII. To his Son Tat. On a Mountain. Secret Discourse 



about Regeneration and Profession of Silence, . 87 



Secret Hymnody, . . .93 



XIV. To Asclepius. To be rightly wise, . . 96 



PART II. 



EXCERPTS FROM HERMES BY STOB^US. 



I. Of Truth. From the things to Tat, . . .100 



II. Of Death. From Asclepius, .... 104 



III. Of God. From the things to Tat, . . 105 



