Sacred Texts Gnosticism and Hermetica

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Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1

by G.R.S. Mead

[1906]

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This is the first volume of three of G.R.S. Mead's comprehensive survey of the literature attributed to the legendary Egyptian sage, Hermes Trismegistus.

Title Page
Preface
Contents
Poem
I. The Remains of the Trismegistic Literature
II. The History of the Evolution of Opinion
III. Thoth the Master of Wisdom
IV. The Popular Theurgic Hermes-Cult in the Greek Magic Papyri
V. The Main Source of the Trismegistic Literature According to Manetho, High Priest of Egypt
VI. An Egyptian Prototype of the Main Features of the Pœmandres’ Cosmogony
VII. The Myth of Man in the Mysteries
VIII. Philo of Alexandria and the Hellenistic Theology
IX. Plutarch: Concerning the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris
X. ‘Hermas’ and ‘Hermes’
XI. Concerning the Æon-Doctrine
XII. The Seven Zones and their Characteristics
XIII. Plato: Concerning Metempsychosis
XIV. The Vision of Er
XV. Concerning the Crater or Cup
XVI. The Disciples of Thrice-Greatest Hermes