Poimandres (Greek: Ποιμάνδρης; also known as Poemandres, Poemander or Pimander) is a chapter in the Corpus Hermeticum.
Originally written in Greek, the title was formerly understood to mean "Man-Shepherd" from the words and , but recent studies on its etymology have shown that it is actually derived from the Egyptian phrase Peime-nte-rê meaning "Knowledge of Re" or "Understanding of Re".
It is also a sort of deity, or attribute of God as nous or "mind" as expressed in the following translations
To quote (John Everard translation):
And in the G. R. S. Mead translation:
And in the translation by Salaman, Van Oyen and Wharton: