Trismegistus
Americannoun
noun
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He quoted Hermes Trismegistus, the mythical author of a corpus of second- and third-century Alexandrian mystical texts: “As above, so below.”
From Slate • Aug. 1, 2016
They are drawn from the ancient works of Hermes Trismegistus, whose writings became popular during the Renaissance and Reformation.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2015
When family straits got too much for him Alcott retired to his room, plunged into the Rig-Veda or the Confucian Analects or Hermes Trismegistus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Disturbingly before their marriage he also met Karen, a heaven-wrought sheath Of ice and intellect and indifference, whose favorite reading in a hot New England summer is Hermes Trismegistus and Apollonius Rhodius.
From Time Magazine Archive
Trismegistus was the Greek name of the Egyptian god Thoth, who was regarded as the originator of Egyptian culture, the god of religion, of writing, and of the arts and sciences.
From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise
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