Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

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Corpus Hermeticum

Corpus Hermeticum (c. 2nd–3rd century CE)

Anonymous · c. 2nd–3rd century CE

InferredBrowne explicitly invokes 'the philosophy of Hermes' — the Hermetic Corpus (Corpus Hermeticum), attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus. The title of the specific Hermetic text is not named. Browne explicitly defends the 'philosophy of Hermes' — i.e., Hermetic philosophy — stating that 'this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.' This is a central Hermetic tenet from the Corpus Hermeticum.

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Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne

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“The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes; that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible wherein, as in a portract, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (87); Box 6 (87).

Inferred Browne explicitly invokes 'the philosophy of Hermes' — the Hermetic Corpus (Corpus Hermeticum), attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus. The title of the specific Hermetic text is not named. Browne explicitly defends the 'philosophy of Hermes' — i.e., Hermetic philosophy — stating that 'this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.' This is a central Hermetic tenet from the Corpus Hermeticum.

Browne explicitly invokes 'the philosophy of Hermes' — the Hermetic Corpus (Corpus Hermeticum), attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus.