Masonic, Occult and Esoteric Online Library
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2
By G.R.S. Mead
Contents
PŒMANDRES, THE SHEPHERD OF MEN |
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Commentary— |
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Of Vision and Apocalypsis |
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The Great and Little Man |
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The Presence |
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The Vision of Creation |
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The Descent of the Logos |
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The Revelation of the Pleroma |
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The Second Emanation |
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The Descent of Man |
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The First Men |
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“Increase and Multiply” |
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Love |
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The Way of Deathlessness |
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The Ascent of the Soul |
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The Eighth Sphere |
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The Three “Bodies” of the Buddha |
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The Preaching of the Gnosis |
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A Hymn of Praise and Prayer for the Gnosis |
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The Name “Poimandres” |
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The Good Shepherd |
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CORP. HERM. (II.) |
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THE GENERAL SERMON |
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CORP. HERM. II. (III.) |
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TO ASCLEPIUS |
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Commentary— |
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“An Introduction to the Gnosis of the Nature of All Things” |
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Space is a Plenum |
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The Spouse of Deity |
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God is Cause that Spirit is |
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He who is without a Wife is Half a Man |
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CORP. HERM. III. (IV.) |
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THE SACRED SERMON
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Commentary— |
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Text and Title |
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The Trinity |
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From the System of the Nicolaïtans |
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The “Books of the Chaldæans” |
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The “Flood” |
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CORP. HERM. IV. (V.) |
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THE CUP OR MONAD |
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Commentary— |
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The Title |
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The Baptism of the Mind |
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The Holy Grail |
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The “Hating of the Body” |
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The Gnosis and its Blessings |
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The Ancient Path |
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CORP. HERM. V. (VI.) |
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THOUGH UNMANIFEST GOD IS MOST MANIFEST
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Commentary— |
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The Title |
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Maya |
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The Higher Pantheism or Panmonism |
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Hymn to All-God |
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CORP. HERM. VI. (VII.) |
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IN GOD ALONE IS GOOD AND ELSEWHERE NOWHERE |
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Commentary— |
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The Title |
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Dualism? |
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God the Pleroma of Good |
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CORP. HERM. VII. (VIII.) |
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THE GREATEST ILL AMONG MEN IS IGNORANCE OF GOD |
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Commentary— |
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A Preaching |
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The Probable Completion of an Oxyrhynchus Logion |
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CORP. HERM. VIII. (IX.) |
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THAT NO ONE OF EXISTING THINGS DOTH PERISH, BUT MEN IN ERROR SPEAK OF THEIR CHANGES AS DESTRUCTIONS AND AS DEATHS |
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Commentary— |
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The Cosmos as “Second God” |
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The Law of Apokatastasis |
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CORP. HERM. IX. (X.) |
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ON THOUGHT AND SENSE |
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Commentary— |
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Title and Ordering |
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“Sense-and-Thought” |
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“Those in Gnosis” |
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The True Gnostic |
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The Goal of the Gnosis |
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The Possibility of Knowing God |
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CORP. HERM. X. (XI.) |
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THE KEY |
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Commentary— |
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The Consummation of the “General Sermons” |
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The Will of God |
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Of Gnosis and Ecstasis |
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Of Apotheosis |
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The Metamorphoses of the Soul |
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The Ladder of Being |
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Concerning Transmigration |
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Gnosis the Virtue of the Soul |
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The Vehicles of the Soul |
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The Dual Soul |
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“He who Stands” |
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The Olympian Path |
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“When Mind becomes a Daimon” |
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The “Scourge” of the Christ |
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The Dispensation of the Universe |
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CORP. HERM. XI. (XII.) |
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MIND UNTO HERMES |
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Commentary— |
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Title and Form |
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The Æon-Lore |
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The Root of Form |
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“Become all Things” |
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The Good’s own Path |
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Concerning India |
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CORP. HERM. XII. (XIII.) |
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ABOUT THE COMMON MIND |
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Commentary— |
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The Sayings of the Good Daimon |
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Hermes and Basilides |
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The Sermons on Fate |
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Materiality and Corporality are Energies of God |
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CORP. HERM. XIII. (XIV.) |
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THE SECRET SERMON ON THE MOUNTAIN |
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THE SECRET HYMNODY |
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Commentary— |
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Concerning the Title |
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The Term “Apocryphon” |
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The Three Stages of Probation |
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The Mount of Initiation |
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The Birth from Above |
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The Virgin-Birth |
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The Race of the Logos |
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The Self-taught |
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The New Creation |
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The Way of Birth in God |
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Of the Ten and the Twelve |
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The Dawn of Cosmic Consciousness |
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The Vow of Silence |
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Of the Ogdoad |
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A Hymn for Morning and for Evening Prayer |
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A Theurgic Praise-Giving |
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“Through the Word” |
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CORP. HERM. XIV. (XV.) |
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A LETTER TO ASCLEPIUS |
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Commentary— |
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Asclepius and Tat |
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Compare with “Mind unto Hermes” |
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The Good Husbandman |
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CORP. HERM. (XVI.) |
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THE DEFINITIONS OF ASCLEPIUS UNTO KING AMMON |
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Commentary— |
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The Title |
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A Tradition Concerning the Trismegistic Literature |
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A Speculation as to Date |
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The Delineation of the Sun |
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Concerning the Daimones |
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CORP. HERM. (XVII.) |
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OF ASCLEPIUS TO THE KING
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Commentary— |
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On the Adoration of Images |
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CORP. HERM. (XVIII.) |
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THE ENCOMIUM OF KINGS |
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Commentary— |
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The Apology of a Pœmandrist |
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Speculation as to Date |
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The Story of the, Pythic Grasshopper |
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The True King |
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The Fellow-Rulers of the Height |
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II. THE PERFECT SERMON; OR THE ASCLEPIUS |
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Commentary— |
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The Title |
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The Old Latin Translation and the Greek Original |
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Of the Writer and the Persons of the Dialogue |
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The Doctrine of the Will of God |
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Concerning Spirit and the All-Sense |
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The Prophetic Utterances |
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The Proscription of the Worship of the Gods |
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The Last Hope of the Religion of the Mind |
