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Hermes Trismegistus and the Hermetica

uring the Renaissance, alchemists looked to a number of texts written by experts in their field for guidance, but none were as important as the , a collection of Egyptian-Greek wisdom texts from the 2nd century CE written, or The Corpus Hermeticum, went on to form the basis of the religious, philosophical and esoteric tradition known as Hermeticism.

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