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Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2: Contents

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 | | | | | CORP. HERM. (II.) | | | THE GENERAL SERMON | 58 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 | | | | | CORP. HERM. (XVII.) | | | OF ASCLEPIUS TO THE KING | 285-286 | | Commentary— | | | On the Adoration of Images | 286 | | | | | 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 | | | | | 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 |