TY Baker
Hermes Trismegistus
The pseudonymous author of The Divine Pymander
https://www.alchemylab.com/pymander.htm#Thrice-Greatest%20Hermes
An alchemy text, hermeticism.
The Vision of Hermes
It chanced once on a time, while I was meditating on the things that are, my thought was raised to a great height, yet my bodily senses had been put under restraint as in sleep, though not such sleep as that of men weighed down by fullness of food or bodily weariness. Methought a Being more than vast, in size beyond all bounds, called out my name and said:
“What would you hear and see, and what have you in mind to learn and know?”
“Who are you?” said I.
“I am the Pymander, Divine Mind of the Sovereignity, the Shepherd of Men. I know what you desire, and I am with you everywhere.”
“I long to learn the things that are, ” I replied, “and comprehend their nature, and know God. This is what I desire to hear.”
“Hold in your mind all you would know,” the Shepherd answered back to me, “and I will teach you.”
CONTENTS
The Visions of Hermes
The Above and the Below
First Emanation: Descent of the Logos
Second Emanation: Mind the Maker
Third Emanation: Descent of Man
The First Men
The Way of Deathlessness
Ascent of the Soul to the Eighth Sphere
Thrice Greatest Hermes