Hermes Trismegistus - Pater philosophorum

A Textual history of the Corpus Hermeticum

Emblem from A. Bocchi Symbolicarum quaestionum.
Bologna, 1574

Hermes as Harpocrates, the God of mystical silence, portrayed as the mystagogue accompanying the souls on their return to the Monad. 'Silentium deum cole - monas manet in se'; worship God through silence - the Oneness remains in itself.

(Reference to Jamblichus De mysteriis Aegyptiorum VIII 2-3; cf. CH XIII).