This article investigates how the Letter from Isis to Horus (first-fourth century CE) explores the literary potentialities allowed by the complex cultural backdrop one finds in late antique Egypt. By looking into how this example of alchemical writing both engages with and departs from shared motifs of Hermetism, the Greco-Egyptian magical papyri, and 1 Enoch, it demonstrates how the Letter uses literary artifice in a way that gives alchemical knowledge a specific and distinct voice. It also argues that the cultural mixture of Hermetism, magic, and Scripture represented in the Letter reflects the alchemical procedure of mixing frequently mentioned in the text.

本文探讨了《伊希斯给荷鲁斯的信》（公元 14 世纪）如何探索人们在古埃及晚期发现的复杂文化背景所允许的文学潜力。通过研究这个炼金术写作的例子如何与赫尔墨斯主义、希腊-埃及魔法纸莎草纸和1 以诺的共同主题相结合和背离，它展示了这封信如何以一种赋予炼金术知识特定而独特的方式使用文学技巧语音。它还认为，这封信中所代表的赫尔墨斯主义、魔法和圣经的文化混合反映了文本中经常提到的混合炼金术的过程。