The Origins of Hellenistic Astrology

During the middle ages, first of all, moslems and then latin and greek writing. developed their own corpora of hermetic literature which mimicked material that had been transmitted in other languages. Some of it might go back as far as the fourth or the fifth century before the common era. But almost all of it was complete a thousand years later, by the fifth century of thecommon era. It's because devotion he the things that people re meant to do as people involved in a religious practice have a theoretical grounding.