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The Mead Translations

Ione Kasparian

Ione reads the Corpus Hermeticum through G.R.S. Mead's 1906 translation, a passage at a time — quoting first, glossing after, and marking where Mead's Victorian English needs a modern hand.

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Poimandres: The First Vision in the Corpus Hermeticum

The Corpus Hermeticum opens with a vision: light first, darkness inside it, and a Word that sorts chaos into world. A slow reading of the first pages, in Mead's 1906 translation.

By Ione Kasparian