Thrice-Greatest Hermes
Studies in Hellenistic Theosophyand Gnosis, Vol. 2
by G.R.S. Mead
Being a Translation of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic Literature, with Prolegomena, Commentaries, and Notes
London and Benares
The Theosophical Publishing Society
[1906]
[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
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>
"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
He who is without a Wife is Half a Man
<page 73>
CORP. HERM. III. (IV.)
THE SACRED SERMON
<page 75>-<page 77>
Text and Title
<page 78>
The Trinity
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>
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>
<page 106>
Maya
The Higher Pantheism or Panmonism
<page 108>
Hymn to All-God
CORP. HERM. VI. (VII.)
IN GOD ALONE IS GOOD AND ELSEWHERE NOWHERE
<page 110>-<page 114>
<page 115>
Dualism?
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