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| | THOTH AND HERMETICISM IN CHRISTIANITY - Hermetics |
 | | A good many of these were lost during the systematic destruction of non-Christian literature that took place between the fourth and sixth centuries A.D. Church Father Clement of Alexandria says that the books of Hermes treat of Egyptian religion; and Tertullian, Iamblichus, and Porphyry all seem to be acquainted with Hermetic literature. |
 | | Hermeticism, as previously discussed, provides another dimension to our understanding of the rise (or, fall) of Christianity; like its counterpart, Gnosticism, Hermeticism reflects an advanced stage in late Hellenistic thought. |
 | | But, like Gnosticism, Hermeticism was not to survive (except as a secret, underground movement); forces of ignorance, superstition and fanaticism would wreak havoc upon the sublime, Hellenistic vision, one which had helped carry the flame of Gnosis from ancient Egypt. |
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