Corpus Hermeticum — Treatise CH7, passage by passage
The original Greek with a word-by-word English interlinear. Tap any passage.
- CH7.1 Whither are you carried, O men, drunken, having drained the unmixed word of ignorance,… — Whither are you carried, drunken men? — sober up and look with the eyes of the heart
- CH7.2 Do not, therefore, be swept down by the great current, but using a counter-current,… — Seek a guide to the doors of knowledge — and first tear off the tunic you wear
- CH7.3 Such is the hostile tunic you have put on: throttling you down toward itself,… — The enemy garment throttles you down — so that you neither hear nor see what you ought
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