Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Bibliography and abbreviations
- Corpus Hermeticum I
- Corpus Hermeticum II
- Corpus Hermeticum III
- Corpus Hermeticum IV
- Corpus Hermeticum V
- Corpus Hermeticum VI
- Corpus Hermeticum VII
- Corpus Hermeticum VIII
- Corpus Hermeticum IX
- Corpus Hermeticum X
- Corpus Hermeticum XI
- Corpus Hermeticum XII
- Corpus Hermeticum XIII
- Corpus Hermeticum XIV
- Corpus Hermeticum XVI
- Corpus Hermeticum XVII
- Corpus Hermeticum XVIII
- Asclepius
- Notes
- Indexes
Corpus Hermeticum VII
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Bibliography and abbreviations
- Corpus Hermeticum I
- Corpus Hermeticum II
- Corpus Hermeticum III
- Corpus Hermeticum IV
- Corpus Hermeticum V
- Corpus Hermeticum VI
- Corpus Hermeticum VII
- Corpus Hermeticum VIII
- Corpus Hermeticum IX
- Corpus Hermeticum X
- Corpus Hermeticum XI
- Corpus Hermeticum XII
- Corpus Hermeticum XIII
- Corpus Hermeticum XIV
- Corpus Hermeticum XVI
- Corpus Hermeticum XVII
- Corpus Hermeticum XVIII
- Asclepius
- Notes
- Indexes
Summary
[1]Where are you heading in your drunkenness, you people? Have you swallowed the doctrine of ignorance undiluted, vomiting it up already because you cannot hold it? Stop and sober yourselves up! Look up with the eyes of the heart – if not all of you, at least those of you who have the power. The vice of ignorance floods the whole earth and utterly destroys the soul shut up in the body, preventing it from anchoring in the havens of deliverance.[2]Surely you will not sink in this great flood? Those of you who can will take the ebb and gain the haven of deliverance and anchor there. Then, seek a guide to take you by the hand and lead you to the portals of knowledge. There shines the light cleansed of darkness. There no one is drunk. All are sober and gaze with the heart toward one who wishes to be seen, who is neither heard nor spoken of, who is seen not with the eyes but with mind and heart. But first you must rip off the tunic that you wear, the garment of ignorance, the foundation of vice, the bonds of corruption, the dark cage, the living death, the sentient corpse, the portable tomb, the resident thief, the one who hates through what he loves and envies through what he hates.
[3]Such is the odious tunic you have put on.[…]
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- HermeticaThe Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction, pp. 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992