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This is a translation of part of the text made by Leone Muller and transcribed by Mark House. This entry page, plus 13 others. 

Entry page to Introduction and urls for 13 documents. "The Corpus Hermeticum are the core documents of the Hermetic tradition. Dating from early in the Christian era, they were mistakenly dated to a much earlier period by Church officials (and everyone else) up until the 15th century. Because of this, they were allowed to survive and we seen as an early precursor to what was to be Christianity. We know today that they were, in fact, from the early Christian era, and came out of the turbulent religious seas of Hellenic Egypt. 

Index entries are divided into two categories, primary and secondary. Primary index entries (page numbers printed in bold) occur when a significant part of a chapter is devoted to a particular ring system. Secondary index entries occur when a heterocyclic system is mentioned in a chapter devoted to other systems. This may be, for example, as a starting material or as a product, or in a discussion comparing properties. 

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