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Thrice Greatest Hermes, v. 1 (Paperback)
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Volume one of a three volume set. (This description is for all
volumes.) Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis Being a
Transaction of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic
Literature with Prolegomena, Commentaries, and Notes; All three
volumes are combined into one book. "These volumes might be
described as the preparation of materials to serve for the
historic, mythic, and mystic consideration of the Origins of
Christianity. The serious consideration of the matter contained in
these pages will, enable the attentive reader to outline in his
mind, however vaguely, some small portion of the environment of
infant Christianity, and allow him to move a few steps round the
cradle of Christendom." Partial Contents: Vol. 1: Remains of the
Trismegistic Literature; History of the Evolution of Opinion; Thoth
the Master of Wisdom; Popular Theurgic Hermes-Cult; Main Source of
the Trismegistic Literature; An Egyptian Prototype of the Main
Features of the Poemandres'' Cosmogony; Myth of Man in the
Mysteries; Philo of Alexandria; Plutarch: Concerning the Mysteries
of Isis and Osiris; "Hermas" and "Hermes"; Concerning the
Fon-Doctrine; Seven Zones and their Characteristics; Plato:
Concerning Metempsychosis; Disciples of Thrice-Greatest Hermes.
Vol. 2: Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men; General Sermon; Sacred
Sermon; Cup or Monad; In God Alone is Good; Greatest Ill Among Men
is Ignorance of God; But Men in Error Speak of Their Changes as
Destructions and as Deaths; On Thought and Sense; The Key; Mind
Unto Hermes; About the Common Mind; Secret Sermon on the Mountain.
Vol. 3: Excerpts by Stobfus; Of Piety and True Philosophy;
Ineffability of God; Of Truth; God, Nature and the Gods; OfMatter
and Time; Energy and Feeling; Justice; Providence and Fate; Of
Soul; Power of Choice; Of Isis to Horus; From "Aphrodite";
References and Fragments in the Fathers; Justin Martyr; Clement of
Alexandria; Tertullian; Cyprian; Augustine; Cyril of Alexandria;
References and Fr
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