hermeticum

Updated: July 3, 2025

But to see Him after due purification, to be led to Him along the true Way by an initiating Priest, is the ultimate blessing of human life. It is to die and be born again. There were regular official initiations. We have one in the Mithras-Liturgy, more than one in the Corpus Hermeticum. The Sun shone upon him at midnight, and he saw the Gods of Heaven and of Hades.

Gilbert Murray - Five Stages of Greek Religion

And, of course, in this paper I have left out of account many of the grosser forms of superstition. In any consideration of the balance, they should not be forgotten. If a reader of Proclus and the Corpus Hermeticum wants relief, he will find it, perhaps, best in the writings of a gentle old Epicurean who lived at Oenoanda in Cappadocia about A. D. 200.

Gilbert Murray - Five Stages of Greek Religion