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PoimandresRichard Reitzenstein
Poimandres
Studien zur griechisch-ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur
- First published1904
- TraditionHermeticism
- Shelf107 books
A landmark German study of the first treatise of the Corpus Hermeticum, which Reitzenstein linked to an Egyptian religious community and to early Christian and Gnostic literature. Many of its hypotheses have been abandoned, but it set the agenda for the modern study of the Hermetica.











