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1657 · The Divine Pymander

Attributed to Hermes Trismegistus · 1657

The Divine Pymander

The Divine Pymander is John Everard's English version of the Greek Hermetic treatises now known as the Corpus Hermeticum, made from the Latin and published after his death, in 1650. Its seventeen books, divided and ordered differently from modern editions, contain the Poemander vision of creation and the fall of man, the Key, the secret sermon on the mount of regeneration, the Crater or Monas, and discourses on mind, sense, truth and the good addressed to Tat and Asclepius. This 1657 edition adds the Asclepius, the Latin dialogue on the gods, man and the coming lament for Egypt, in fifteen chapters, each followed by a commentary. The text follows the EEBO-TCP transcription of that printing in its original spelling.

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Contents

  1. 1.Title page70 w.
  2. 2.To the reader1,160 w.
  3. 3.Pymander, books 1–2: The first book, and Poemander4,779 w.
  4. 4.Pymander, books 3–4: The Holy Sermon, and The Key3,760 w.
  5. 5.Pymander, books 5–7: God not manifest yet most manifest; that in God alone is good; the secret sermon on regeneration5,123 w.
  6. 6.Pymander, books 8–10: The greatest evil; a universal sermon to Asclepius; the Mind to Hermes5,133 w.
  7. 7.Pymander, books 11–12: Of the common mind; the Crater or Monas4,119 w.
  8. 8.Pymander, books 13–15: Of sense and understanding; of operation and sense; of truth4,266 w.
  9. 9.Pymander, books 16–17: That none of the things that are can perish; to Asclepius, to be truly wise1,855 w.
  10. 10.Asclepius (with the commentary), chapters 1–43,834 w.
  11. 11.Asclepius (with the commentary), chapters 5–85,271 w.
  12. 12.Asclepius (with the commentary), chapters 9–114,340 w.
  13. 13.Asclepius (with the commentary), chapters 12–153,254 w.