The Sacred Texts

This is a collection of sacred writings or texts from a number of traditions, primarily those relating to Hermeticism.

Renaissance Neo-Platonism by Richard Hooker

Anonymous Works:

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes

The Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead)

The Sepher Yetzirah

The Chaldean Oracles

The Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth

The Corpus Hermeticum
An Introduction to the Corpus Hermeticum
I. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men
II. To Asclepius
III. The Sacred Sermon
IV. The Cup or Monad
V. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest
VI. In God Alone Is Good And Elsewhere Nowhere
VII. The Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of God
VIII. That No One of Existing Things doth Perish,
but Men in Error Speak of Their Changes as Destructions and as Deaths
IX. On Thought and Sense
X. The Key
XI. Mind Unto Hermes
XII. About the Common Mind
XIII. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain

The Works of Plato:

The Symposium
Timaeus
The Seventh Letter

The Works of Plotinus:

The Enneads
The First Ennead
The Second Ennead
The Third Ennead
The Fourth Ennead
The Fifth Ennead
The Sixth Ennead

Other Works

On the Gods and The World by Sallustius
The Theogony by Hesiod


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