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Professor Christian Wildberg on Emending the Corpus Hermeticum

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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Mechanical Interrelation and Marginalia in Corpus Hermeticum

The speaker discusses the process of mechanical interrelation in the Corpus Hermeticum, where an interpolator would write notes in the margin of the text. They explore the challenge of identifying the main text in the marginal due to its translation into Latin and discuss the motivation for a new translation.

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