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