{"collection":"Gnosticism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/gno/th1/th102.htm","path":"gno/th1/th102.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/gno/th1/th102.htm","text":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1, by G.R.S. Mead, [1906]\n| Preface | v | \n| I. The Remains of the Trismegistic Literature | 1-16 | \n| Writer and Reader | 1 | \n| The Extant Trismegistic Literature | 3 | \n| The Original MS. of our Corpus | 6 | \n| Texts and Translations | 8 | \n| II. The History of the Evolution of Opinion | 17-46 | \n| The Chief Points of Interrogation | 17 | \n| The Opinions of the Humanists | 18 | \n| The First Doubt | 20 | \n| The Launching of the Theory of Plagiarism | 21 | \n| The Only Argument Adduced | 22 | \n| The Theory of Hilgers | 25 | \n| The German Theory of Neoplatonic \u201cSyncretismus\u201d | 26 | \n| The French Theory of Egyptian Origin | 27 | \n| The Views of M\u00e9nard | 27 | \n| English Encyclop\u00e6dism | 33 | \n| Chambers\u2019 Opinion | 34 | \n| German Encyclop\u00e6dism | 35 | \n| A Recent Article by Granger | 36 | \n| Reitzenstein and the Dawn of Right Views | 40 | \n| A Key to Egypt\u2019s Wisdom | 44 | \n| The Answers to our Questions | 44 | \n| III. Thoth the Master of Wisdom | 47-81 | \n| Thoth-Te\u1e25uti | 47 | \n| Thoth according to Pietschmann | 48 | \n| The Three Grades of the Egyptian Mysteries | 50 | \n| Thoth according to Reitzenstein | 51 | \n| Thoth according to Budge | 52 | \n| His Deific Titles | 53 | \n| His Symbols and Name | 54 | \n| The Shrine of Thoth | 56 | \n| Thoth and his Company of Eight | 57 | \n| The \u201cHouse of the Net\u201d | 58 | \n| Thoth the Logos | 63 | \n| The Words of Thoth | 63 | \n| Thoth and the Osirified | 65 | \n| Thoth the Measurer | 66 | \n| The Title \u201cThrice-greatest\u201d | 66 | \n| The Supremacy of Thoth | 67 | \n| The Views of a Scholar-Mystic | 68 | \n| The Spiritual Nature of the Inner Tradition of Egyptian Wisdom | 69 | \n| The Holy Land of Egypt and its Initiates | 70 | \n| Thoth the Initiator | 71 | \n| Some of the Doctrines of Initiation | 73 | \n| The Temples of Initiation | 74 | \n| The Mystery of the Birth of Horus | 75 | \n| \u201cThe Book of the Master\u201d | 77 | \n| The Steps of the Path | 79 | \n| An Illuminative Study | 80 | \n| IV. The Popular Theurgic Hermes-Cult in the Greek Magic Papyri | 82-98 | \n| The \u201cReligion of Hermes\u201d | 82 | \n| i. An Invocation to Hermes as the Good Mind | 84 | \n| ii. An Invocation to Lord Hermes | 86 | \n| iii. An Invocation to Lord Hermes | 87 | \n| iv. An Invocation to Thoth as Logos | 90 | \n| v. An Invocation to Hermes as the Spiritual Light | 90 | \n| vi. The Mystic Rite of the Flame | 93 | \n| vii. A Prayer of Consecration | 97 | \n| V. The Main Source of the Trismegistic Literature according to Manetho High Priest of Egypt | 99-127 | \n| Hermes at the Beginning of the Hellenistic Period | 99 | \n| Petosiris and Nechepso | 100 | \n| Manetho the Beloved of Thoth | 102 | \n| The Letter of Manetho to Ptolemy Philadelphus | 103 | \n| The Importance of Manetho\u2019s Statement in his \u201cSothis\u201d | 105 | \n| Is \u201cSothis\u201d a Forgery? | 107 | \n| The Arguments of Encyclop\u00e6dism refuted | 108 | \n| The Seriadic Land | 110 | \n| The Stel\u00e6 of Hermes | 112 | \n| The Sons of Seth-Hermes | 113 | \n| The Epithet \u201cThrice-greatest\u201d | 116 | \n| The Clue of Griffiths | 118 | \n| The Earliest Trismegistic Literature | 121 | \n| Philo Byblius | 122 | \n| Are his \u201cPh\u0153nician Histories\u201d a Forgery? | 123 | \n| Sanchuniathon and the \u201cBooks of Hermes\u201d | 124 | \n| VI. An Egyptian Prototype of the Main Features of the P\u0153mandres\u2019 Cosmogony | 128-138 | \n| The Higher Criticism of the \u201cP\u0153mandres\u201d | 128 | \n| A Prototype of its Cosmogenesis | 129 | \n| A Praise-giving to Ptah | 131 | \n| Ptah-Thoth the Wise One | 132 | \n| Egyptian Syncretism 1000 B.C. | 135 | \n| The Doctrine of \u201cP\u0153mandres\u201d Compared with that of its Prototype | 136 | \n| The Man-Doctrine | 138 | \n| VII. The Myth of Man in the Mysteries | 139-198 | \n| The Gnostic Tradition | 139 | \n| The \u201cPhilosophumena\u201d of Hippolytus | 140 | \n| The Naassenes | 141 | \n| Analysis of Hippolytus\u2019 Account of the Naassene Document | 142 | \n| Hippolytus\u2019 Introduction | 146 | \n| The Material for the Recovery of the Original Hellenistic Document | 148 | \n| Hippolytus\u2019 Conclusion | 186 | \n| Conclusion of Analysis | 192 | \n| The Hellenist Commentator | 193 | \n| The Jewish and Christian Overwriters | 194 | \n| Zosimus and the Anthropos-Doctrine | 196 | \n| Philo of Alexandria on the Man-Doctrine | 197 | \n| VIII. Philo of Alexandria and the Hellenistic Theology | 199-254 | \n| Concerning Philo and his Method | 199 | \n| The Great Importance of his Writings | 204 | \n| Concerning the Mysteries | 205 | \n| Concerning the Sacred Marriage | 216 | \n| Concerning the Logos | 225 | \n| The Son of God | 226 | \n| The True High Priest | 227 | \n| The Elder and Younger Sons of God | 229 | \n| Yet God is One | 230 | \n| The Logos is Life and Light | 231 | \n| The Divine Vision | 233 | \n| The Sons of God on Earth | 233 | \n| The City of God | 235 | \n| God\u2019s Shadow | 236 | \n| The Mother-City of Refuge | 237 | \n| The True Shepherd | 238 | \n| The Apostles of God | 239 | \n| The Ladder of the \u201cWords\u201d | 239 | \n| The Logos the Spiritual Sun | 241 | \n| The Disciples of the Logos | 243 | \n| The River of the Divine Reason | 244 | \n| Jerusalem Above | 245 | \n| The Logos is as Manna and Coriander Seed | 246 | \n| The Logos is the Pupil of God\u2019s Eye | 247 | \n| \u201cMan shall not Live by Bread Alone\u201d | 248 | \n| The Logos-Mediator | 249 | \n| The Yoga of Plotinus | 251 | \n| The Race of God | 253 | \n| IX. Plutarch: Concerning the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris | 255-368 | \n| Foreword | 255 | \n| Concerning Isis and Osiris | 261-366 | \n| Address to Klea concerning Gnosis and the Search for Truth | 261 | \n| The Art of Knowing and of Divinising | 262 | \n| The True Initiates of Isis | 263 | \n| Why the Priests are Shaven and wear Linen | 265 | \n| Of the Refraining from Flesh and Salt and Superfluities | 267 | \n| On the Drinking of Wine | 268 | \n| On Fish Taboos | 269 | \n| The Onion and Pig Taboos | 271 | \n| The Kings, the Riddles of the Priests and the Meaning of Amoun | 273 | \n| Of the Greek Disciples of Egyptians and of Pythagoras and his Symbols | 274 | \n| Advice to Klea concerning the Hidden Meaning of the Myths | 276 | \n| The Mystery-Myth | 278 | \n| The Undermeaning, a Reflexion of a Certain Reason | 291 | \n| Concerning the Tombs of Osiris | 292 | \n| Concerning the Theory of Evemerus | 295 | \n| The Theory of the Daimones | 298 | \n| Concerning Sarapis | 301 | \n| Concerning Typhon | 304 | \n| The Theory of the Physicists | 307 | \n| Concerning Osiris and Dionysus | 310 | \n| The Theory of the Physicists Resumed | 312 | \n| The Theory of the Mathematici | 318 | \n| The Theory of the Dualists | 328 | \n| The Proper Reason according to Plutarch | 333 | \n| The Symbolism of the Sistrum | 344 | \n| The True \u201cLogos\u201d again according to Plutarch | 345 | \n| Against the Weather and Vegetation God Theories | 346 | \n| Concerning the Worship of Animals and Totemism | 353 | \n| Concerning the Sacred Robes | 361 | \n| Concerning Incense | 363 | \n| Afterword | 367 | \n| X. \u201cHermas\u201d and \u201cHermes\u201d | 369-386 | \n| An Anticipation | 369 | \n| The Higher Criticism of \u201cThe Shepherd of Hermas\u201d | 370 | \n| The Introduction of the \u201cPastoral Hermas\u201d | 370 | \n| Comparison with our \u201cP\u0153mandres\u201d | 371 | \n| The Popular Symbolic Representation of the Shepherd | 372 | \n| The Name \u201cHermas\u201d | 374 | \n| An Early Form of the \u201cP\u0153mandres\u201d | 374 | \n| The Holy Mount | 375 | \n| \u201cGnostic\u201d Elements | 376 | \n| The Vices and Virtues | 377 | \n| The Early Date of the Original \u201cHermas\u201d | 378 | \n| The Dependence Theory to be used with Caution | 379 | \n| The Visions of Crates | 380 | \n| The General Christian \u201cMany\u201d and the Gnostic \u201cFew\u201d | 382 | \n| The Story of Abbot Olympius | 384 | \n| A Final Word | 385 | \n| XI. Concerning the \u00c6on-Doctrine | 387-412 | \n| The Scope of our Essay | 387 | \n| The Orphic Tradition of the Genesis of the World Egg | 388 | \n| Commentary | 392 | \n| The Sethian Gnosis | 393 | \n| The Mithriac \u00c6on | 399 | \n| Probable Date of Origin of the Hellenistic \u00c6on-Doctrine | 401 | \n| Abraxas | 402 | \n| The Feast of the \u00c6on | 403 | \n| The Quintessence and the Monad | 403 | \n| The \u00c6on in Plato | 404 | \n| Concerning the Hellenistic Origin of \u00c6onology | 405 | \n| The \u00c6on the Logos | 406 | \n| The Roman S\u00e6culum Cult derived from Egypt | 407 | \n| The \u00c6onic Immensities of Egypt | 407 | \n| A Song of Praise to the \u00c6on | 408 | \n| The Demiurgic \u00c6on | 410 | \n| The \u00c6on in Theurgic Literature | 410 | \n| XII. The Seven Zones and their Characteristics | 413-428 | \n| Macrobius on \u201cThe Descent of the Soul from the Heights of Cosmos to the Depths of Earth\u201d | 413 | \n| The Tradition of Servius | 418 | \n| Criticism of the Evidence | 419 | \n| The \u201cOphite\u201d Hebdomad | 421 | \n| The Simpler Form of the Trismegistic Gnosis | 423 | \n| Concerning Leviathan and Behemoth | 423 | \n| The \u201cFence of Fire\u201d | 427 | \n| XIII. Plato: Concerning Metempsychosis | 429-436 | \n| The Soul and her Mysteries in the \u201cPh\u00e6drus\u201d | 429 | \n| Plotinus on Metempsychosis | 434 | \n| Proclus on the Descent of Souls into Irrational Natures | 435 | \n| XIV. The Vision of Er | 437-449 | \n| Er Son of Armenius | 437 | \n| From the Mysteries | 438 | \n| The Cylinder | 439 | \n| The Vision | 440 | \n| Commentary | 448 | \n| XV. Concerning the Crater or Cup | 450-456 | \n| The Crater in Plato | 450 | \n| In \u201cOrpheus,\u201d Macrobius, and Proclus | 451 | \n| The Vision of Arid\u00e6us | 452 | \n| The Origin of the Symbol to be sought in Orphic Tradition | 456 | \n| XVI. The Disciples of Thrice-Greatest Hermes | 457-481 | \n| Ptah, Sekhet and I-em-\u1e25etep (Asclepius) | 457 | \n| Nefer-Tem | 458 | \n| Imhotep-Imuth-Asclepius | 459 | \n| Th\u0101th-Tat | 461 | \n| The Incarnations of Thoth | 463 | \n| The Disciples of Lord Hermes in Petosiris and Nechepso | 464 | \n| Tosothros-Asclepius | 465 | \n| Imuth-Asclepius the Master-Mason and Poet | 466 | \n| \u00c6sculapius the Healer | 467 | \n| Asclepius in Trismegistic Tradition | 469 | \n| Concerning Ammon | 471 | \n| Prophet and King | 472 | \n| Amenhotep-Asclepius | 473 | \n| The Sacred Group of Four | 474 | \n| James, John and Peter | 475 | \n| The Triad of Disciples | 476 | \n| Chnum the Good Daimon | 477 | \n| Osiris Disciple of Agathodaimon the Thrice-greatest | 478 | \n| Logos-Mind the Good Daimon | 478 | \n| Chnum Good Mind the \u00c6on | 480 | \n| Isis, Lady of Wisdom, Disciple of Thrice-greatest Hermes | 481 |","title":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1: Contents","type":"page"}