Liber Hermetis · Chapter 1

Liber Hermetis

No public-domain English translation; recommended editions: Wilhelm Gundel, *Neue astrologische Texte des Hermes Trismegistos: Funde und Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der antiken Astronomie und Astrologie* (Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1936; reprinted Hildesheim: Olms, 1978) — Latin text with German introduction and apparatus; partial English translation in Robert Zoller, *The Arabic Parts in Astrology* (Inner Traditions, 1989). · Stub entry; no text reproduced.

1**Stub.** No public-domain English translation has been imported.
**What survives.** A long astrological compendium preserved in a 4th-/5th-century CE Latin translation of an originally Greek treatise. The text gives the names of the thirty-six decans with their planetary attributions, the topothetic places of the houses, and material on the Egyptian terms.

**Recommended edition.**

Wilhelm Gundel, *Neue astrologische Texte des Hermes Trismegistos*, Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, n.f. 12 (Munich, 1936; reprinted Hildesheim: Olms, 1978). The standard critical edition; Latin text with German apparatus.

**English material.** Partial English renderings appear in Robert Hand, ed., *Project Hindsight* astrological-text series (Berkeley Springs, WV, 1990s); these are non-commercial scholarly editions but distribution is restricted.