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Hermes Trismegistus — Corpus Hermeticum (PDF)

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Complete translation of the four books, by Louis Ménard (1866), text established and collated.

The Hermetic books were born in Alexandria, where Greeks, Egyptians and Jews crossed paths. Attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, they were written in the first centuries of the common era, and were held throughout the Renaissance to be the oldest wisdom in the world.

In 1866, Louis Ménard gave them their first complete French translation: the fourteen treatises, the Discourse of Initiation, the Virgin of the World, the fragments and the Definitions, preceded by a study in which he seeks their date and their place.

There one reads the prophecy of the abandonment of Egypt, in which Ménard recognises “a supreme and sorrowful protest of expiring paganism against inevitable destiny”.

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Hermes Trismegistus, translated and annotated by Louis Ménard. Éditions Pongh!, ISBN 979-10-989226-0-2.

PDF format, laid out in A5, cover included: 285 pages typeset for continuous reading and for printing. The table of contents is clickable.

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