Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum.Volume 1 ISBN 1564594815, Volume 3 ISBN 1564594831, Volume 4 ISBN 156459484X.
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The core teachings of Gnosis,
By OAKSHAMAN "oakshaman" (Algoma, WI United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Hermetica, Part 2: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus (Paperback)
I am going to review this volume because I read every single English word of it, cover-to-cover. I admit that I didn't read the corresponding original language text, because my Latin was never all that good, and I have no Greek. I wish that I did, though. Just in English translation I can see where these teachings transport you to an entirely different sort of mind-set, an entirely different world.Indeed, you will either come to develop a sort of intuitive understanding of the spiritual principles being discused here, or you will simple give up in disgust and dismiss it as meaningless and incomprehensible. Perhaps it is incomprehensible to modern sensibility, but it is far from meaningless. If you are familiar with Plato and Plotinus it will help. I also find that a familiarity with the concept of the Tao helps with understanding what is meant by Kosmos. I suppose that there could be esoteric teachings encoded and hidden in the original text, but personally I find the exoteric spiritual and metaphysical speculations to be quite interesting and valuable in their own right. There was a reason that these teachings were preserved through so many centuries, while so much else was consigned to flames or left to rot....
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The man who speaks was visited in his sleep by the supreme Mind, who taught him as follows. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
got gnosis, extracosmic space, astral gods, arithmetical unit, incorporeal part, things incorporeal, sublunar world, accentual rhythm, incorporeal world, watery substance, outermost sphere, incorporeal soul, reborn man, note inserted, gross matter, satisfactory sense, putting life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christian Gnostics, Agathos Daimon, Diels Doxogr, Noetos Kosmos, Powers of God, Anthropos of Corp, New Testament, Arius Didymus, Heraclides Ponticus, North Pole, Philo Byblius, Hermes Trismegistus, Maximus Tyrius, Old Testament, Simon Magus, God of Platonism, Hebrew Genesis, Joannes Diaconus, Vita Apollon New!
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got gnosis, extracosmic space, astral gods, arithmetical unit, incorporeal part, things incorporeal, sublunar world, accentual rhythm, incorporeal world, watery substance, outermost sphere, incorporeal soul, reborn man, note inserted, gross matter, satisfactory sense, putting life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Aztecs by Philip Ardagh on page 289
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- On Prayer by Tertullian on page 71
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