The Corpus Hermeticum, Greek treatises from Roman Egypt, teach that God is mind, that the cosmos is his image and the human being a second image, and that through knowledge the soul is reborn and ascends. Rediscovered in the Renaissance, they were thought to be older than Moses.
Hermeticism
The tradition of the Hermetic writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, on God, the cosmos and the rebirth of the soul.
Also: Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes Trismegistus