Contemplative reception of the Corpus Hermeticum | Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages

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Contemplative reception of the Corpus Hermeticum is cataloged as a Practice / discipline within Historical Religions & Mystery Cults. Its public geographic context is “Historical or contested polity; no modern country assigned” and its period or origin is “c. 1st–3rd century CE texts; later revivals.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Greco-Egyptian Hermetism and later Hermetic reception.”

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Record fields

Alternate / historical names: Corpus Hermeticum Praxises (Poimandres Gnosis); Poimandres; Hermetic gnosis; philosophical Hermetica
Parent tradition: Greco-Egyptian Hermetism and later Hermetic reception
Public geographic context: Historical or contested polity; no modern country assigned
Period / origin: c. 1st–3rd century CE texts; later revivals
Living / historical status: Ancient texts verified; no single continuous praxis lineage
Access / protocol: Open / public
Evidence status: Directly cited

Geography

Candidate

Historical or contested polity; no modern country assigned

Historical or contested context in the source record is not converted into a modern political claim.

Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.

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Source 1britannica.com

Source 2plato.stanford.edu

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Contemplative reception of the Corpus Hermeticum. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 0210. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/0210

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