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Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1 · Sacred Texts

Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1

52 entries · 2 sections

by G.R.S. Mead

Start Reading Page Index 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

Foreword Address to Klea concerning Gnosis and the Search for Truth The Art of Knowing and of Divinising The True Initiates of Isis Why the Priests are Shaven and wear Linen Of the Refraining from Flesh and Salt and Superfluities On the Drinking of Wine On Fish Taboos The Onion and Pig Taboos The Kings, the Riddles of the Priests, and the Meaning of Amoun Of the Greek Disciples of Egyptians and of Pythagoras and his Symbols Advice to Klea concerning the Hidden Meaning of the Myths The Mystery-Myth The Undermeaning a Reflexion of a Certain Reason Concerning the Tombs of Osiris Concerning the Theory of Evemerus The Theory of the Daimones Concerning Sarapis Concerning Typhon The Theory of the Physicists Concerning Osiris and Dionysus The Theory of the Physicists Resumed The Theory of the Mathematici The Theory of the Dualists The Proper Reason according to Plutarch The Symbolism of the Sistrum The True “Logos,” again, according to Plutarch Against the Weather and Vegetation God Theories Concerning the Worship of Animals, and Totemism Concerning the Sacred Robes Concerning Incense Afterword 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