This complete and unabridged edition of Thrice Greatest Hermes, containing translations of extant sermons and fragments of Trismegistic (Hermetic) literature, with Prolegomena, commentaries, and notes, will be of great value to anyone studying Hellenistic theosophy or the historic, mythic, and mystic origins of Christianity. It was first published in three volumes in London in 1906 and is considered the definitive masterpiece of G. R. S. Mead, Gnosticism's greatest scholar. Index.
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These volumes, complete in themselves as a series of studies in a definite body of tradition, are intended to serve ultimately as a small contribution to the preparation of the way leading towards a solution of the vast problems involved in the scientific study of the Origins of the Christian Faith. They might thus perhaps be described as the preparation of materials to serve for the historic, mythic, and mystic consideration of the Origins of Christianity - where the term "mythic" is used in its true sense of inner, typical, sacred and "logic", as opposed to the external processioning of physical events known as "historic", and where the term "mystic" is used as that which pertains to initiation and the mysteries.
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slight verbal variants, excarnate souls, sensible cosmos, sacred sermon, irrational lives, doth differ, intelligible cosmos, theurgic rite, magic papyri, moist nature, black rite, holy reason, meanest thou, expository sermon, fiery body, royal souls, doth pass, simple heading, seven spheres Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Divine Reason, Son of God, Hermes Trismegistus, Good Daimon, Book of the Dead, Lord Hermes, British Museum, New Testament, Pistis Sophia, Thrice-greatest Hermes, Church Fathers, Great God, Great Green, Mother of the Gods, Myth of Man, Son of Man, Celestial Nile, Clement of Alexandria, The Perfect Sermon, Virgin of the World, Eleusinian Mysteries, Great Mother, Pastoral Hermas, Thoth the Wise, Christian Gnostic New!
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