
Hermetic Fragments From Stobaeus
By Pedro Giordano De Faria E CicarelliLength33m
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This edition presents a rare window into one of the most discreet and revealing layers of Hermetic thought: the fragments preserved by Joannes Stobaeus. Drawn from a vast anthology compiled in Late Antiquity, these passages survive only through his work and offer insights found nowhere else in the Hermetic tradition. In them, we glimpse a world where philosophy, theology, and contemplative practice intersected in a fluid exchange between Greek speculation, Egyptian spirituality, and the intellectual atmosphere of Alexandria. Far from forming a single doctrine, the fragments reveal Hermeticism in its living diversity: reflections on the nature of mind, ethical maxims shaped by Stoic and Pythagorean influence, concise visions of the cosmos, and meditations on the ascent of the soul. Brief yet striking, they preserve voices from circles and schools that may have vanished before leaving complete treatises behind. This edition gathers, organizes, and renders these texts in accessible, contemporary language while respecting their fragmentary nature and symbolic force. It does not attempt to reconstruct a lost system, but to illuminate what remains—offering readers a coherent path through material that time nearly erased. What emerges is a portrait of a tradition that saw the human being as a bridge between worlds, capable of understanding both the order of the cosmos and the depths of the self.
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GenreHorror, Spirituality and Religion
Length33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 7, 2025
LanguagePortuguese
Table of contents
1HERMETIC FRAGMENTS FROM STOBAEUS
2INTRODUCTION
3EDITOR’S NOTE
4NOTE ON THIS TRANSLATION
5SECTION I — On God, the One, and the All
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6SECTION II — On the Human Being and the Mind
7SECTION III — On Knowledge and Ignorance
8SECTION IV — On Destiny and Universal Order
9SECTION V — On Virtue and Purification
10SECTION VI — On the Soul, Cycles, and Incarnation
11SECTION VII — On Wisdom and the Path of the Initiate
12SECTION VIII — On Nature, the Cosmos, and Harmony
13SECTION IX — On Magic, Theurgy, and Power
14SECTION X — On Virtues, Ethics, and Conduct
15SECTION XI — On Time, Destiny, and Necessity
16SECTION XII — On Silence, Contemplation, and Union
17Late Fragments, Variants, and Hermetic Apocrypha
18SECTION XIV — Fragments Transmitted by Zosimos of Panopolis (Alchemical Apocrypha)
19SECTION XV — Fragments Preserved in Clement of Alexandria (Ancient Variant)
20SECTION XVI — Arcane Fragments (Anonymous Variants)
21SECTION XVII — Esoteric Fragments
22SECTION XVIII — Final Fragment (Ancient Synthesis)
23CLOSING REMARKS
24NOTE ON SOURCES AND PUBLIC DOMAIN