Thrice-greatest Hermes; studies in Hellenistic theosophy and gnosis; complete in one volume

Plutarch : 'Mysteries of Isis and Osiris', v1 p255-368.. Poimandres : v2 p3-20.. Isis and Osiris : v1 p255-368.. Philo of Judaeus : v1 p199-254.. Mysteries, Religious : p139-368.. Hermeticism - Texts : [V.II] Corpus Hermeticum: 'Poimandres, the shepherd of men,' 'To Asclepius,' 'The sacred sermon,' 'The cup or monad,' 'Though unmanifest God is most manifest,' 'In God alone is good and elsewhere nowhere,' 'The greatest ill among men is ignorance of god,' 'That no one of existing things doth perish...,' 'On thought and sense,' 'The key,' ' Mind unto Hermes,' 'About the common mind,' 'The secret sermon on the mountain,' 'A letter to Asclepius,' 'The definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon,' 'of Asclepius to the King,' 'The encomium of kings,' 'The perfect sermon; or the Asclepius.' [V. III] Excerpts and fragments from Stobaeus, Church Fathers, Zosimus, Iamblichus, Julian and Fulgentius.. Gnosticism - Texts : [V.II] Corpus Hermeticum: 'Poimandres, the shepherd of men,' 'To Asclepius,' 'The sacred sermon,' 'The cup or monad,' 'Though unmanifest God is most manifest,' 'In God alone is good and elsewhere nowhere,' 'The greatest ill among men is ignorance of god,' 'That no one of existing things doth perish...,' 'On thought and sense,' 'The key,' ' Mind unto Hermes,' 'About the common mind,' 'The secret sermon on the mountain,' 'A letter to Asclepius,' 'The definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon,' 'of Asclepius to the King,' 'The encomium of kings,' 'The perfect sermon; or the Asclepius.' [V. III] Excerpts and fragments from Stobaeus, Church Fathers, Zosimus, Iamblichus, Julian and Fulgentius.

Vols I-III. 1st pub. in one vol. by Samuel Weiser, 1992.

'"Translation of the extant sermons and fragments of the Trismegistic literature, with prologomena, commentaries and notes." Includes Vol. I "Prolegomena," Vol. II "Sermons" and Vol. III "Excerpts and Fragments."'

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