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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Italic title Шаблон:Hermeticism Шаблон:Hatnote The Шаблон:Lang, also known as the Perfect Discourse (from the Greek Шаблон:Transliteration),Шаблон:Efn is a religio-philosophical Hermetic treatise. The original Greek text, which was likely written in Alexandria between 100 CE and 300 CE,[1] is largely lost and only a few fragments remain. However, the full text is extant in an early Latin translation, and fragments from a Coptic translation have also been found among the documents discovered in Nag Hammadi.[2]

Contents

The text takes the form of a dialogue, set in the sanctuary of an Egyptian temple, between Hermes Trismegistus and three of his students: Asclepius (a grandson of the Greek god and physician Asclepius), Tat, and Hammon.[3]

Legacy

Medieval Latin readers had access to many Hermetic treatises of a 'technical' nature (astrological, alchemical, or magical, often translated from the Arabic).[4] However, the Шаблон:Lang was the only Hermetic treatise belonging to the 'religio-philosophical' category that was available in Latin before Marsilio Ficino's (1433–1499) and Lodovico Lazzarelli's (1447–1500) translation of the 17 Greek treatises that constitute the Шаблон:Lang.[5] During the Middle Ages, the Шаблон:Lang was falsely attributed to the Middle Platonist philosopher Apuleius (Шаблон:Circa–after 170).[6]

The text of the Шаблон:Lang was used by the philosopher Peter Abelard (1079–1142) and his student Robert of Melun (Шаблон:Circa–1167) as a means to prove that knowledge of the Trinity was naturally available to pagans.[7] Albertus Magnus (Шаблон:Circa–1280) praised the idea developed in the Шаблон:Lang that the human being forms a link between God and the world, uniting in themselves both the spiritual nature of divine beings and the corporeal nature of the material world.[8]

References

Notes

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Citations

Шаблон:Reflist

Bibliography

Translations and editions

Secondary literature

Шаблон:The Nag Hammadi Codices