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Hermeticism

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Hermeticism. System of gnostic thought known from the Corpus Hermeticum, a collection of philosophical and magical texts dating from the 2nd and 3rd cents. CE. The Egyptian God, Thoth, is identified with the Greek Hermes who is called ‘Thrice Greatest’, i.e. Trismegistus.

Hermeticism and the Corpus became immensely influential in the Renaissance when most of the texts were translated in Italy. The Corpus was correctly dated by Isaac Casaubon in 1614, and the texts rapidly waned in influence.

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