{"collection":"Gnosticism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/gno/th2/th201.htm","path":"gno/th2/th201.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/gno/th2/th201.htm","text":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2, by G.R.S. Mead, [1906]\n| P\u0152MANDRES, THE SHEPHERD OF MEN | 3-20 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| Of Vision and Apocalypsis | 20 | \n| The Great and Little Man | 23 | \n| The Presence | 24 | \n| The Vision of Creation | 25 | \n| The Descent of the Logos | 27 | \n| The Revelation of the Pleroma | 28 | \n| The Second Emanation | 33 | \n| The Descent of Man | 34 | \n| The First Men | 37 | \n| \u201cIncrease and Multiply\u201d | 38 | \n| Love | 39 | \n| The Way of Deathlessness | 39 | \n| The Ascent of the Soul | 41 | \n| The Eighth Sphere | 42 | \n| The Three \u201cBodies\u201d of the Buddha | 44 | \n| The Preaching of the Gnosis | 47 | \n| A Hymn of Praise and Prayer for the Gnosis | 49 | \n| The Name \u201cPoimandres\u201d | 50 | \n| The Good Shepherd | 52 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. (II.) | | \n| THE GENERAL SERMON | 58 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. II. (III.) | | \n| TO ASCLEPIUS | 59-68 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| \u201cAn Introduction to the Gnosis of the Nature of All Things\u201d | 68 | \n| Space is a Plenum | 70 | \n| The Spouse of Deity | 71 | \n| God is Cause that Spirit is | 71 | \n| He who is without a Wife is Half a Man | 73 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. III. (IV.) | | \n| THE SACRED SERMON | 75-77 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| Text and Title | 78 | \n| The Trinity | 78 | \n| From the System of the Nicola\u00eftans | 79 | \n| The \u201cBooks of the Chald\u00e6ans\u201d | 81 | \n| The \u201cFlood\u201d | 83 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. IV. (V.) | | \n| THE CUP OR MONAD | 85-91 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| The Title | 92 | \n| The Baptism of the Mind | 93 | \n| The Holy Grail | 94 | \n| The \u201cHating of the Body\u201d | 95 | \n| The Gnosis and its Blessings | 97 | \n| The Ancient Path | 98 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. V. (VI.) | | \n| THOUGH UNMANIFEST GOD IS MOST MANIFEST | 99-106 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| The Title | 106 | \n| M\u0101y\u0101 | 106 | \n| The Higher Pantheism or Panmonism | 108 | \n| Hymn to All-God | 108 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. VI. (VII.) | | \n| IN GOD ALONE IS GOOD AND ELSEWHERE NOWHERE | 110-114 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| The Title | 115 | \n| Dualism? | 115 | \n| God the Pleroma of Good | 117 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. VII. (VIII.) | | \n| THE GREATEST ILL AMONG MEN IS IGNORANCE OF GOD | 120-121 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| A Preaching | 122 | \n| The Probable Completion of an Oxyrhynchus Logion | 122 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. VIII. (IX.) | | \n| THAT NO ONE OF EXISTING THINGS DOTH PERISH, BUT MEN IN ERROR SPEAK OF THEIR CHANGES AS DESTRUCTIONS AND AS DEATHS | 124-127 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| The Cosmos as \u201cSecond God\u201d | 127 | \n| The Law of Apokatastasis | 128 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. IX. (X.) | | \n| ON THOUGHT AND SENSE | 129-136 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| Title and Ordering | 136 | \n| \u201cSense-and-Thought\u201d | 137 | \n| \u201cThose in Gnosis\u201d | 137 | \n| The True Gnostic | 138 | \n| The Goal of the Gnosis | 139 | \n| The Possibility of Knowing God | 140 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. X. (XI.) | | \n| THE KEY | 141-158 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| The Consummation of the \u201cGeneral Sermons\u201d | 159 | \n| The Will of God | 160 | \n| Of Gnosis and Ecstasis | 161 | \n| Of Apotheosis | 163 | \n| The Metamorphoses of the Soul | 163 | \n| The Ladder of Being | 165 | \n| Concerning Transmigration | 166 | \n| Gnosis the Virtue of the Soul | 167 | \n| The Vehicles of the Soul | 167 | \n| The Dual Soul | 169 | \n| \u201cHe who Stands\u201d | 170 | \n| The Olympian Path | 171 | \n| \u201cWhen Mind becomes a Daimon\u201d | 171 | \n| The \u201cScourge\u201d of the Christ | 173 | \n| The Dispensation of the Universe | 173 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. XI. (XII.) | | \n| MIND UNTO HERMES | 175-189 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| Title and Form | 190 | \n| The \u00c6on-Lore | 191 | \n| The Root of Form | 193 | \n| \u201cBecome all Things\u201d | 194 | \n| The Good\u2019s own Path | 196 | \n| Concerning India | 197 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. XII. (XIII.) | | \n| ABOUT THE COMMON MIND | 199-212 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| The Sayings of the Good Daimon | 213 | \n| Hermes and Basilides | 215 | \n| The Sermons on Fate | 217 | \n| Materiality and Corporality are Energies of God | 218 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. XIII. (XIV.) | | \n| THE SECRET SERMON ON THE MOUNTAIN | 219-233 | \n| THE SECRET HYMNODY | 230-232 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| Concerning the Title | 234 | \n| The Term \u201cApocryphon\u201d | 234 | \n| The Three Stages of Probation | 236 | \n| The Mount of Initiation | 238 | \n| The Birth from Above | 239 | \n| The Virgin-Birth | 240 | \n| The Race of the Logos | 241 | \n| The Self-taught | 242 | \n| The New Creation | 243 | \n| The Way of Birth in God | 244 | \n| Of the Ten and the Twelve | 245 | \n| The Dawn of Cosmic Consciousness | 249 | \n| The Vow of Silence | 250 | \n| Of the Ogdoad | 251 | \n| A Hymn for Morning and for Evening Prayer | 252 | \n| A Theurgic Praise-Giving | 253 | \n| \u201cThrough the Word\u201d | 255 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. XIV. (XV.) | | \n| A LETTER TO ASCLEPIUS | 257-263 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| Asclepius and Tat | 263 | \n| Compare with \u201cMind unto Hermes\u201d | 265 | \n| The Good Husbandman | 265 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. (XVI.) | | \n| THE DEFINITIONS OF ASCLEPIUS UNTO KING AMMON | 266-276 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| The Title | 277 | \n| A Tradition Concerning the Trismegistic Literature | 278 | \n| A Speculation as to Date | 281 | \n| The Delineation of the Sun | 282 | \n| Concerning the Daimones | 282 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. (XVII.) | | \n| OF ASCLEPIUS TO THE KING | 285-286 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| On the Adoration of Images | 286 | \n| | | \n| CORP. HERM. (XVIII.) | | \n| THE ENCOMIUM OF KINGS | 288-298 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| The Apology of a P\u0153mandrist | 298 | \n| Speculation as to Date | 299 | \n| The Story of the, Pythic Grasshopper | 300 | \n| The True King | 302 | \n| The Fellow-Rulers of the Height | 302 | \n| | | \n| II. THE PERFECT SERMON; OR THE ASCLEPIUS | 307-390 | \n| Commentary\u2014 | | \n| The Title | 390 | \n| The Old Latin Translation and the Greek Original | 391 | \n| Of the Writer and the Persons of the Dialogue | 393 | \n| The Doctrine of the Will of God | 395 | \n| Concerning Spirit and the All-Sense | 396 | \n| The Prophetic Utterances | 398 | \n| The Proscription of the Worship of the Gods | 399 | \n| The Last Hope of the Religion of the Mind | 401 |","title":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2: Contents","type":"page"}