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Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2, by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], at sacred-texts.com

 

Thrice-Greatest Hermes

 

Studies in Hellenistic Theosophyand Gnosis

 

Being a Translation of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic Literature, with Prolegomena, Commentaries, and Notes

 

By

 

G. R. S. Mead

 

Volume II.--Sermons

 

London and Benares

 

The Theosophical Publishing Society

 

[1906]

 

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Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2, by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], at sacred-texts.com

 

[p. ix]

 

Contents

 

I. CORPUS HERMETICUM

 

CORP. HERM. I.

 

 

 

POeMANDRES, THE SHEPHERD OF MEN

 

<page 3>-<page 20>

 

COMMENTARY--

 

      Of Vision and Apocalypsis

 

<page 20>

 

      The Great and Little Man

 

<page 23>

 

      The Presence

 

<page 24>

 

      The Vision of Creation

 

<page 25>

 

      The Descent of the Logos

 

<page 27>

 

      The Revelation of the Pleroma

 

<page 28>

 

      The Second Emanation

 

<page 33>

 

      The Descent of Man

 

<page 34>

 

      The First Men

 

<page 37>

 

      "Increase and Multiply"

 

<page 38>

 

      Love

 

<page 39>

 

      The Way of Deathlessness

 

<page 39>

 

      The Ascent of the Soul

 

<page 41>

 

      The Eighth Sphere

 

<page 42>

 

      The Three "Bodies" of the Buddha

 

<page 44>

 

      The Preaching of the Gnosis

 

<page 47>

 

      A Hymn of Praise and Prayer for the Gnosis

 

<page 49>

 

      The Name "Poimandres"

 

<page 50>

 

      The Good Shepherd

 

<page 52>

 

 

 

 

 

CORP. HERM. (II.)

 

 

 

THE GENERAL SERMON

 

<page 58>

 

 

 

 

 

CORP. HERM. II. (III.)

 

 

 

TO ASCLEPIUS

 

<page 59>-<page 68>

 

COMMENTARY--

 

      "An Introduction to the Gnosis of the Nature of All Things"

 

<page 68>

 

      Space is a Plenum

 

<page 70>

 

      The Spouse of Deity

 

<page 71>

 

      God is Cause that Spirit is

 

<page 71>

 

      He who is without a Wife is Half a Man

 

<page 73>

 

 

 

 

 

CORP. HERM. III. (IV.)

 

 

 

THE SACRED SERMON

 

<page 75>-<page 77>

 

COMMENTARY--

 

      Text and Title

 

<page 78>

 

      The Trinity

 

<page 78>

 

      From the System of the Nicolaitans

 

<page 79>

 

      The "Books of the Chaldaeans"

 

<page 81>

 

      The "Flood"

 

<page 83>

 

 

 

 

 

CORP. HERM. IV. (V.)

 

 

 

THE CUP OR MONAD

 

<page 85>-<page 91>

 

COMMENTARY--

 

      The Title

 

<page 92>

 

      The Baptism of the Mind

 

<page 93>

 

      The Holy Grail

 

<page 94>

 

      The "Hating of the Body"

 

<page 95>

 

      The Gnosis and its Blessings

 

<page 97>

 

      The Ancient Path

 

<page 98>

 

 

 

 

 

CORP. HERM. V. (VI.)

 

 

 

THOUGH UNMANIFEST GOD IS MOST MANIFEST

 

<page 99>-<page 106>

 

COMMENTARY--

 

      The Title

 

<page 106>

 

      Maya

 

<page 106>

 

      The Higher Pantheism or Panmonism

 

<page 108>

 

      Hymn to All-God

 

<page 108>

 

 

 

 

 

CORP. HERM. VI. (VII.)

 

 

 

IN GOD ALONE IS GOOD AND ELSEWHERE NOWHERE

 

<page 110>-<page 114>

 

COMMENTARY--

 

      The Title

 

<page 115>

 

      Dualism?

 

<page 115>

 

      God the Pleroma of Good

 

<page 117>

 

 

 

 

 

CORP. HERM. VII. (VIII.)

 

 

 

THE GREATEST ILL AMONG MEN IS IGNORANCE OF GOD

 

<page 120>-<page 121>

 

COMMENTARY--

 

      A Preaching

 

<page 122>

 

      The Probable Completion of an Oxyrhynchus Logion

 

<page 122>

 

 

 

 

 

CORP. HERM. VIII. (IX.)

 

 

 

THAT NO ONE OF EXISTING THINGSDOTH PERISH, BUT MEN IN ERRORSPEAK OF THEIR CHANGES AS DESTRUCTIONS AND AS DEATHS

 

<page 124>-<page 127>

 

COMMENTARY--

 

      The Cosmos as "Second God"

 

<page 127>

 

      The Law of Apokatastasis

 

<page 128>

 

 

 

 

 

CORP. HERM. IX. (X.)

 

 

 

ON THOUGHT AND SENSE

 

<page 129>-<page 136>

 

COMMENTARY--

 

      Title and Ordering

 

<page 136>

 

      "Sense-and-Thought"

 

<page 137>

 

      "Those in Gnosis"

 

<page 137>

 

      The True Gnostic

 

<page 138>

 

      The Goal of the Gnosis

 

<page 139>

 

      The Possibility of Knowing God

 

<page 140>

 

 

 

 

 

CORP. HERM. X. (XI.)

 

 

 

THE KEY

 

<page 141>-<page 158>

 

COMMENTARY--

 

      The Consummation of the "General Sermons"

 

<page 159>

 

      The Will of Go...