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The Divine Pymander · Everard reading text

Hermetic writings; translated by John Everard

Everard’s 1650 translation; Internet Sacred Text Archive web transcription

A reading witness of the seventeen books in Everard’s early English translation, with separate links for each dialogue. It complements the incomplete Wikisource transcription.

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Where to begin

The Second Book, called Poemander, then the Twelfth Book, His Crater or Monas. Use Everard’s book titles when comparing a modern translation.

Keep in mind

A modern web transcription, not a facsimile of the 1650 printing. Its seventeen-book order differs from modern Corpus Hermeticum numbering. Claims in the preface about authorship and antiquity belong to the history of reception.

Inside this edition

Each link opens a separate file on the source’s website, in the archive’s own order.

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  1. Title and introductory note Reading text
  2. Preface Reading text
  3. Hermes Trismegistus, His First Book Reading text
  4. The Second Book, Called, Poemander Reading text
  5. The Third Book, the Holy Sermon Reading text
  6. The Fourth Book, Called the Key Reading text
  7. The Fifth Book, That God is not Manifest, and Yet Most Manifest Reading text
  8. The Sixth Book, That in God Alone is Good Reading text
  9. The Seventh Book, His Secret Sermon in the Mount of Regeneration, Profession of Silence Reading text
  10. The Eighth Book, the Greatest Evil in Man is the not Knowing God Reading text
  11. The Ninth Book, a Universal Sermon to Asclepius Reading text
  12. The Tenth Book, the Mind to Hermes Reading text
  13. The Eleventh Book of the Common Mind, to Tat Reading text
  14. The Twelfth Book, His Crater or Monas Reading text
  15. The Thirteenth Book, of Sense and Understanding Reading text
  16. The Fourteenth Book, of Operation and Sense Reading text
  17. The Fifteenth Book, of Truth to His Son Tat Reading text
  18. The Sixteenth Book, that None of the Things that Are Can Perish Reading text
  19. The Seventeenth Book, to Asclepius, to be Truly Wise Reading text

Reading paths

  • Read Hermes across editionsFollow the speaker, the image and the argument in Everard’s Pymander, then compare the opening of Agrippa.

Companion editions and parts

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