HERMETICA
THE ANCIENT GREEK AND LATIN
WRITINGS WHICH CONTAIN RELIGIOUS OR PHILOSOPHIC TEACHINGS ASCRIBED TO
HERMES TRISMEGISTUS
EDITED
WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND NOTES
BY
WALTER SCOTT
VOLUME II
Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum
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ὃ Vor. I. Introduction, Texts ϊ; and Translation. ἑ; Vors. II & III. Commentary. ΐ; Vot. IV. Testimonia, Appen- ᾿; dices and Indices. € Scour eicinsnsiteeninell
CORPVS HERMETICVM
LIBELLVS I
(i) THe RevELATION. δὲ 1-26.
The man who speaks was visited in his sleep by the supreme Mind, who taught him as follows.
The beginning of things. In the beginning was God (who is pictured as a boundless expanse of light), and God alone. Then, formless matter (pictured as a cloud of darkness) came into being.
The formless matter first assumed form by changing into a watery substance. And from God came forth a Word (hypostatized, and called son of God), who worked upon the watery substance.
᾿ In God are included innumerable Powers; and the Intelligible World,--the archetype of the Sensible World,--is made up of these Powers of God. δὲ 7-8 a.
Formation of th…