Until the 17th century he was thought to be a cont
Until the 17th century he was thought to be a contemporary of Moses, and his writings were considered almost as sacred as the Bible. Actually, the books ascribed to him were written by a group of teachers who lived in Alexandria in the first two centuries BC or AD. Still, his supposed writings on alchemy and the occult had influence on the French symbolists and William Butler Yeats. FTP give the name sometimes applied to the Egyptian god Thoth-- the source of Hermeticism.
Until the 17th century he was thought to be a contemporary of Moses, and his writings were considered almost as sacred as the Bible.
{Hermes Trismegistus}