The Hermetic texts are Late Antique and medieval Greco-Egyptian and Arab-Islamic writings that purport to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus and other legendary figures in his circle. Influential in occult circles, the Hermetic texts cross between the fields of alchemy, cosmology, eschatology, and history, taking influence from pagan mythology and the Judeo-Christian myth of the Watchers and the Pillars of Wisdom.