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Hermeticism
The Hermetic tradition; Hermes Trismegistus
c.100 – c.300 CE (revived 1460s) · Esoteric / Occult · Revived / Reconstructed · Roman Egypt, then Renaissance Europe
IV. THE CLASSICAL & IMPERIAL WORLD — c.200 BCE – 500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.100–300 CE The Greek Hermetica composed in Roman Egypt.
- c.700–1000 CE Transmission and elaboration in Arabic; the Emerald Tablet appears.
- <strong>1460 CE</strong> A monk brings a Greek manuscript of the Corpus Hermeticum to Florence. Cosimo de' Medici orders Ficino to stop translating Plato and translate this first, believing it older and more authoritative.
- 1471 CE Ficino's Latin translation printed; Hermeticism becomes central to Renaissance thought.
- 1614 CE Isaac Casaubon demonstrates on linguistic grounds that the texts are Roman-era Greek, not ancient Egyptian. The intellectual prestige collapses almost overnight.
- 1600 CE Giordano Bruno burned in Rome; his Hermetic commitments were part of the case.
- 1614–17 Rosicrucian manifestos; the esoteric line continues underground.
- 1888 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn founded, reviving the label.
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