Name of Tractate 8, of Codex VI of the Nag Hammadi Lib., also known as "The Perfect Teachings". Also name of main character of the text. The text is Hermetic, and related to the "Discourse of the 8th and 9th". (See also; "Kybalion", Three Initiates, Inner Traditions, 2004, List of Hermetic Principles.) http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/asclep.html