Introduction, Texts and Translations. Volume 2 ISBN 1564594823, Volume 3 ISBN 1564594831, Volume 4 ISBN 156459484X.
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This review is from: Hermetica, Part 1: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus (Paperback)
If you just want to read the Hermetica, read Brian Copenhaver's translations, which are much better than Scott's. And of course, these aren't by Sir Walter Scott (of Ivanhoe fame) anyway, if you're interested in him for some reason, but by a quite different Walter Scott.Scott's translations are still valuable for the specialist. You should be able to find used copies of the trade paperback edition (Hermes House, at one point), though, which are rather better bound than these Kessinger xeroxes. If you have Copenhaver, you'll probably want these, although I'd recommend a different printing.
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This review is from: Hermetica, Part 1: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus (Paperback)
I like this book for a study on Hermetics...I read "The Kybalion" The Hermetica" and am also reading "Initiation into Hermetics " by Franz Bardon. The only thing i didn't care for in the book was the Christian overtone at some points of the book. This is not the fault of the translator as far as I can tell and may just be this readers opinion.I have one other translation by Brian Copenhaver. His introduction to the Hermetica is more on a college level and was harder for this reader to understand, where as this version was much better for this reader. For a study about Hermetics I recommend buying this book.
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Once on a time, when I had begun to think about the things that are, and my thoughts had soared high aloft, while my bodily senses had been put under restraint by sleep,-yet not such sleep as that of men weighed down by fullness of food or by bodily weariness,-methought there came to me a Being of vast and boundless magnitude, who called me by my name, and said to me, 'What do you wish to hear and see, and to learn and come to know by thought?' Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Discourses of Hermes, God the Father, Mental Substance, Agathos Daimon, Hermes Trismegistus, Mind the Maker, Sole Ruler, God's Word, Codices Stob, Lactantius Div, Powers of God New!
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Once on a time, when I had begun to think about the things that are, and my thoughts had soared high aloft, while my bodily senses had been put under restraint by sleep,-yet not such sleep as that of men weighed down by fullness of food or by bodily weariness,-methought there came to me a Being of vast and boundless magnitude, who called me by my name, and said to me, 'What do you wish to hear and see, and to learn and come to know by thought?' Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Discourses of Hermes, God the Father, Mental Substance, Agathos Daimon, Hermes Trismegistus, Mind the Maker, Sole Ruler, God's Word, Codices Stob, Lactantius Div, Powers of God New!
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