The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
201–300
2 works
c. AD 100–300
Greek
Attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
Seventeen Greek treatises from Roman Egypt on God, mind, and the ascent of the soul. The first, the Poimandres, describes a Word coming out of light, a Man made in the image of God who falls in love with his own reflection in nature, and a rebirth into mind.
c. 250–300
Greek, surviving in Coptic
Anonymous
Hermes leads a pupil through the last stages of initiation into silence, where the two of them see the eighth sphere and hear the ninth singing, and the pupil finds he can no longer speak in his own words but only in a hymn of vowels.
2 of 1774 works