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Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3, 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 III.--Excerpts and Fragments

 

London and Benares

 

The Theosophical Publishing Society

 

[1906]

 

Prepared for sacred-texts.com, February 2009. This text is in the public domain because it was published prior to 1922.

 

    

Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3, by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], at sacred-texts.com

 

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Contents

 

I. EXCERPTS BY STOBAeUS

 

EX. I. OF PIETY AND TRUE PHILOSOPHY <page 3>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 12>

 

EX. II. OF THE INEFFABILITY OF GOD <page 14>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 15>

 

EX. III. OF TRUTH <page 17>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 23>

 

EX. IV. GOD, NATURE AND THE GODS <page 24>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 25>

 

EX. V. OF MATTER <page 26>

 

EX. VI. OF TIME <page 28>

 

EX. VII. OF BODIES EVERLASTING AND BODIES PERISHABLE <page 30>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 33>

 

EX. VIII. OF ENERGY AND FEELING <page 34>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 43>

 

EX. IX. OF THE DECANS AND THE STARS <page 45>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 54>

 

EX. X. CONCERNING THE RULE OF PROVIDENCE, NECESSITY AND FATE <page 55>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 57>

 

EX. XI. OF JUSTICE <page 58>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 59>

 

EX. XII. OF PROVIDENCE AND FATE <page 60>

 

EX. XIII. OF THE WHOLE ECONOMY <page 61>

 

EX. XIV. OF SOUL, I. <page 63>

 

EX. XV. OF SOUL, II. <page 65>

 

      The Embryonic Stages of Incarnation

 

<page 68>

 

EX. XVI. OF SOUL, III. <page 72>

 

EX. XVII. OF SOUL, IV. <page 75>

 

EX. XVIII. OF SOUL, V. <page 77>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 79>

 

EX. XIX. OF SOUL, VI. <page 80>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 82>

 

EX. XX. THE POWER OF CHOICE <page 84>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 86>

 

EX. XXI. OF ISIS TO HORUS <page 87>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 87>

 

EX. XXII. AN APOPHTHEGM <page 88>

 

EX. XXIII. FROM "APHRODITE" <page 89>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 90>

 

EX. XXIV. A HYMN OF THE GODS <page 91>

 

      Commentary

 

<page 92>

 

EX. XXV. THE VIRGIN OF THE WORLD, I. <page 93>

 

EX. XXVI. THE VIRGIN OF THE WORLD, II. <page 125>

 

COMMENTARY

      Argument

 

<page 134>

 

      Sources?

 

<page 146>

 

      The Direct Voice and the Books of Hermes

 

<page 147>

 

      Kamephis and the Dark Mystery

 

<page 149>

 

      Kneph-Kamephis

 

<page 151>

 

      Hermes I. and Hermes II.

 

<page 152>

 

      The Black Rite

 

<page 155>

 

      Black Land

 

<page 158>

 

      The Pupil of the World's Eye

 

<page 159>

 

      The Son of the Virgin

 

<page 160>

 

      The Mystery of the Birth of Horus

 

<page 162>

 

      "Ishon"

 

<page 165>

 

      The Sixty Soul-Regions

 

<page 168>

 

      Plutarch's Yogin

 

<page 169>

 

      The Plain of Truth

 

<page 171>

 

      The Boundaries of the Numbers which Pre-exist in the Soul

 

<page 173>

 

      The Mysterious "Cylinder"

 

<page 175>

 

      The Eagle, Lion, Dragon and Dolphin

 

<page 180>

 

      Momus

 

<page 182>

 

      The Mystic Geography of Sacred Lands

 

<page 184>

 

EX. XXVII. FROM THE SERMON OF ISIS TO HORUS <page 188>

 

COMMENTARY

      Argument

 

<page 204>

 

      Title and Ordering

 

<page 206>

 

      The Books of Isis and Horus

 

<page 207>

 

      The Watery Sphere and Subtle Body

 

<page 209>

 

      The Habitat of Encarnate Souls

 

<page 210>

 

II. REFERENCES AND FRAGMENTS IN THE FATHERS

 

 

 

 

 

I. JUSTIN MARTYR

 

i.

 

The Most Ancient of Philosophers

 

<page 215>

 

 

 

The "Words of Ammon"

 

<page 215>

 

 

 

The Ineffability of God

 

<page 216>

 

ii.

 

Hermes and Asclepius Sons of God

 

<page 217>

 

iii.

 

Hermes the Word who brings Tidings from God

 

<page 217>

 

 

 

The Sons of God in Hellenistic Theology

 

<page 218>

 

 

 

An Unverifiable Quotation

 

<page 218>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

II. ATHENAGORAS

 

<page 220>

 

 

 

 

 

III. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

 

i.

 

Many Hermeses and Asclepiuses

 

<page 221>

 

ii.

 

The Apotheosis of Hermes and Asclepius

 

<page 222>

 

iii.

 

The Books of Hermes

 

<page 222>

 

 

 

The General Catalogue of the Egyptian Priestly Library

 

<page 225>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IV. TERTULLIAN

 

i.

 

Hermes the Master of all Physics

 

<page 226>

 

ii.

 

Hermes the Writer of Scripture

 

<page 227>

 

iii.

 

Hermes the First Preacher of Reincarnation

 

<page 227>

 

iv.

 

Hermes on Metempsychosis

 

 

 

FRAG. I.

 

<page 228>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V. CYPRIAN

 

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