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Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1
G.R.S. Mead · Hermeticism · 1906 CE
Translated by G.R.S. Mead
49 chapters
Volume 1 of Mead's three-volume Hermetica: the prolegomena, the history of Trismegistic literature, the Egyptian and Hellenistic background, Plutarch on Isis and Osiris, and the Pœmandres.
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Contents
- 1Preface
- 2Poem
- 3I. The Remains of the Trismegistic Literature
- 4II. The History of the Evolution of Opinion
- 5III. Thoth the Master of Wisdom
- 6IV. The Popular Theurgic Hermes-Cult in the Greek Magic Papyri
- 7V. The Main Source of the Trismegistic Literature According to Manetho, High Priest of Egypt
- 8VI. An Egyptian Prototype of the Main Features of the Pœmandres’ Cosmogony
- 9VII. The Myth of Man in the Mysteries
- 10VIII. Philo of Alexandria and the Hellenistic Theology
- 11Foreword
- 12Address to Klea concerning Gnosis and the Search for Truth
- 13The Art of Knowing and of Divinising
- 14The True Initiates of Isis
- 15Why the Priests are Shaven and wear Linen
- 16Of the Refraining from Flesh and Salt and Superfluities
- + 33 more chapters
