A Translation of and Commentary on the Poemandres section of the Corpus Hermeticum. This ancient Greek text is also known as "The Divine Pymander," and as the Poimandres tractate. This is the large format edition (8"x11"). A standard format edition is also available - ISBN 978-1495470684

Translation of and Commentary on the Poemandres chapter of the Corpus Hermeticum. This ancient Greek text is also known as "Mercurii Trismegisti P mander," as "The Divine Pymander," and as the Poimandres tractate. "

Contents. Part One: Towards Understanding Extremism - Some Notes From Personal Experience. Part Two: A Learning From Grief. Part Three: A Rejection of Extremism Perhaps Explained.

The first part contains some reflexions on, and some conclusions concerning, forty years as a practical extremist and forty years of practical experience of extremism and of other extremists. The conclusions regarding extremism resulted from some years of moral, personal, and philosophical questioning and reflexion; a questioning whose genesis was a personal tragedy in 2006, and which questioning led a few years later to a rejection all forms of extremism to the development of a philosophy of pathei-mathos, based on the virtues of empathy, compassion, and humility.

Part two consists of transcriptions of some handwritten letters sent to a friend following that tragedy in 2006. Since such personal correspondence is usually far more revealing - of personal views, motivations, and feelings - than some essay or other in which one pontificates about this or that, some readers may find this part more interesting and insightful than either part one or part three.

The third part consists of personal replies sent to individuals between 2011 and 2012 and which replies may serve to place into perspective that rejection of all forms of extremism as well as elucidate the development of the philosophy of pathei-mathos.

Letters and essays - some autobiographical in nature - concerning religion, redemption, expiation, and humility, and relating to the numinous way - the philosophy - of pathei-mathos. Contents: I Numinous Expiation. II Questions of Good, Evil, Honour, and God. III Blue Reflected Starlight. IV Fifty Years of Diverse Peregrinations.

Contents: Prefatory Note. 1 Conspectus. 2 The Way of Pathei-Mathos - A Philosophical Compendium. 3 Some Personal Musings On Empathy. 4 Enantiodromia and The Reformation of The Individual. 5 Society, Politics, Social Reform, and Pathei-Mathos. 6 The Change of Enantiodromia. 7 The Abstraction of Change as Opposites and Dialectic. Appendix I - The Principle of Dika. Appendix II - Glossary of Terms and Greek Words.

Myatt - who has translated works by Sophocles, Sappho, Aeschylus, and Homer - has been described as "a British iconoclast who has lived a somewhat itinerant life"; as "emblematic of the modern syncretism of radical ideologies"; as "an example of the axis between right-wing extremists and Islamists"; as a "theoretician of terror"; and as "the leading hardline Nazi intellectual in Britain since the 1960s."

'Myngath' provides an overview of his strange and diverse life. A childhood in Africa and the Far East; his often violent political activism; his involvement with paramilitary and criminal activities; his time as a Catholic monk; his conversion to Islam, and the personal tragedy that, via pathei-mathos, led to his rejection of all extremism and to him developing a mystical philosophy centered on empathy and the personal virtues of compassion, tolerance, and humility.