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Libra Esoterica

The Egyptian Hermes

a historical approach to the late pagan mind

by Garth Fowden

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

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Egypt, we read in the Hermetic treatise called Asclepius, is 'the image of heaven...the temple of the whole world'.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism.

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Hermetism”. Retained metadata contains “hermetic” in the description, “Alchemy” in the subject metadata, and “Hermetism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Hermetism”· via Open Library
    • “hermetic”· in description
    • “Alchemy”· in subject
    • “Hermetism”· in subject

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Editions

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a historical approach to the late pagan mind

Open Library record

1993Princeton University PressEnglish
  • 9780691024981
  • 0691024987
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  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL4309316W
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