Note 23 — Chapter II · THE PAVEMENT

Ποιμάνδρης = Ποιμὴν ἀνδρῶν = “The Shepherd of men. De Potestate et Sapientia Divina.” The Editio Princeps of this work appeared in Paris in 1554. It was edited by Parthey, in 1854, and had been translated into German, by Tiedemann, in 1781. The connection of the name of Hermes with alchemy will explain what is meant by hermetic sealing, and will account for the use of the phrase, hermetic Medicine, by Paracelsus; as also for the so-called hermetic Freemasonry, of the middle ages.