e greeks speak of him as the logos, and also trismegistus. he was doubtless thinking of the passage on the creative word as the son of god in the pimander, and he adds that trismegistus, who by some means or other searched into almost all truth, often described the excellence and the majesty of the word.3 indeed, lactantius regards hermes trismegistus as one of the most important of the gentile