Asclepius

The Asclepius (also known as the Perfect Sermon) is a Hermetic dialogue between Hermes Trismegistus and Asclepius on the nature of the divine, the cosmos, and the human being. It survives complete only in Latin.|||Latin translation (4th century CE) preserved in numerous manuscripts. The Greek original is lost, though fragments survive in Stobaeus and the Mimaut papyrus. Used by Augustine in De civitate Dei.|||The Greek original was composed in the 1st–3rd century CE. The Latin translation dates to the 4th century CE.|||Not canonical in any tradition. One of the most important Hermetic texts.|||Presents a comprehensive Hermetic cosmology, anthropology, and soteriology. Discusses the creation of the cosmos, the nature of the human being, the role of the divine, and the ascent of the soul.|||Copenhaver, B. P. Hermetica. Cambridge University Press, 1992.|||Festugière, A.-J. La Révélation d'Hermès Trismégiste. Les Belles Lettres, 1944–1954.|||Mead, G. R. S. Thrice-Greatest Hermes. Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906.|||Asclepius — Sacred Texts|https://www.sacred-texts.com/gno/th2/index.htm|G. R. S. Mead's translation of the Asclepius.;; Asclepius — Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius_(text)|Background and scholarly discussion.|||" The human being is a great miracle, a being worthy of reverence and honor." — Asclepius 6