The mystery and meaning of human existence according to the hermetic revelation in the Poimandres, the first treatise of the Corpus Hermeticum. The religious message of hermetism in the anthropological aspect

Abstract

The subject of this paper is the Poimandres, the first book of the Corpus Hermeticum, in which the title character, Poimandres (the Mind of the Supreme God), appears to Hermes Trismegistus, revealing to him the deepest secrets of human nature and human life from the supernatural perspective. The paper analyzes the revelation of Poimandres from the point of view of the religious message contained therein, focusing on its anthropological aspects.