Masonic, Occult and Esoteric Online Library
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3
By G.R.S. Mead
Contents
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Ex. I. Of Piety and True Philosophy |
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Commentary |
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Ex. II. Of the Ineffability of God |
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Commentary |
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Ex. III. Of Truth |
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Commentary |
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Ex. IV. God, Nature and the Gods |
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Commentary |
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Ex. V. Of Matter |
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Ex. VI. Of Time |
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Ex. VII. Of Bodies Everlasting and Bodies Perishable |
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Commentary |
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Ex. VIII. Of Energy and Feeling |
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Commentary |
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Ex. IX. Of the Decans and the Stars |
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Commentary |
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Ex. X. Concerning the Rule of Providence, Necessity and Fate |
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Commentary |
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Ex. XI. Of Justice |
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Commentary |
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Ex. XII. Of Providence and Fate |
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Ex. XIII. Of the Whole Economy |
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Ex. XIV. Of Soul, I. |
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Ex. XV. Of Soul, II. |
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The Embryonic Stages of Incarnation |
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Ex. XVI. Of Soul, III. |
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Ex. XVII. Of Soul, IV. |
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Ex. XVIII. Of Soul, V. |
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Commentary |
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Ex. XIX. Of Soul, VI. |
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Commentary |
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Ex. XX. The Power of Choice |
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Commentary |
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Ex. XXI. Of Isis to Horus |
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Commentary |
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Ex. XXII. An Apophthegm |
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Ex. XXIII. From “Aphrodite” |
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Commentary |
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Ex. XXIV. A Hymn of the Gods |
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Commentary |
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Ex. XXV. The Virgin of the World, I. |
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Ex. XXVI. The Virgin of the World, II. |
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Commentary |
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Argument |
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Sources? |
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The Direct Voice and the Books of Hermes |
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Kamephis and the Dark Mystery |
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Kneph-Kamephis |
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Hermes I. and Hermes II. |
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The Black Rite |
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Black Land |
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The Pupil of the World’s Eye |
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The Son of the Virgin |
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The Mystery of the Birth of Horus |
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“Ishon” |
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The Sixty Soul-Regions |
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Plutarch’s Yogin |
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The Plain of Truth |
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The Boundaries of the Numbers which Pre-exist in the Soul |
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The Mysterious “Cylinder” |
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The Eagle, Lion, Dragon and Dolphin |
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Momus |
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The Mystic Geography of Sacred Lands |
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Ex. XXVII. From the Sermon of Isis to Horus |
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Commentary |
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Argument |
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Title and Ordering |
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The Books of Isis and Horus |
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The Watery Sphere and Subtle Body |
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The Habitat of Encarnate Souls |
II. REFERENCES AND FRAGMENTS IN THE FATHERS
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I. JUSTIN MARTYR
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The Most Ancient of Philosophers |
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The “Words of Ammon” |
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The Ineffability of God |
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Hermes and Asclepius Sons of God |
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Hermes the Word who brings Tidings from God |
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The Sons of God in Hellenistic Theology |
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An Unverifiable Quotation |
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II. ATHENAGORAS
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III. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
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Many Hermeses and Asclepiuses |
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The Apotheosis of Hermes and Asclepius |
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The Books of Hermes |
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The General Catalogue of the Egyptian Priestly Library |
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IV. TERTULLIAN
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Hermes the Master of all Physics |
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Hermes the Writer of Scripture |
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Hermes the First Preacher of Reincarnation |
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Hermes on Metempsychosis |
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Frag. I. |
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V. CYPRIAN
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God is beyond all Understanding |
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VI. ARNOBIUS
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The School of Hermes |
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VII. LACTANTIUS
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Thoyth-Hermes and his Books of the Gnosis |
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Frag. II. |
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The Historical Origin of the Hermetic Tradition |
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Uranus, Cronus and Hermes, Adepts of the Perfect Science |
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Divine Providence |
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On Mortal and Immortal Sight |
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Frag. III. |
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Man made after the Image of God |
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Hermes the First Natural Philosopher |
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The Daimon-Chief |
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Devotion in God-Gnosis |
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Frag. IV. |
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The Cosmic Son of God |
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Frag. V. |
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The Demiurge of God |
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The Name of God |
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Frag. VI. |
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The Holy Word about the Lord of All |
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Frag. VII. |
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His Own Father and Own Mother |
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The Power and Greatness of the Word |
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The Fatherless and Motherless |
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Piety the Gnosis of God |
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The Only Way to Worship God |
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The Worthiest Sacrifice to God |
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Frag. VIII. |
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Man made in the Image of God |
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Contemplation |
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The Dual Nature of Man |
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Frag. IX. |
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Wonder the Beginning of Philosophy |
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The Cosmic Restoration |
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Frag. X. |
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Of Hermes and his Doctrine Concerning God |
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A Repetition |
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Plato as Prophet follows Trismegistus |
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VIII. AUGUSTINE
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Three Quotations from the Old Latin Version of the “Perfect Sermon” |
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IX. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA
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Cyril’s Corpus of XV. Books |
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The Incorporeal Eye |
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Frag. XI. |
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The Heavenly Word Proceeding Forth |
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Frag. XII. |
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The Pyramid |
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Frag. XIII. |
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The Nature of God’s Intellectual World |
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Frag. XIV. |
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The Word of the Creator |
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Frag. XV. |
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Mind of Mind |
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Frag. XVI. |
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He is All |
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Frag. XVII. |
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Concerning Spirit |
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Frag. XVIII. |
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The “To Asclepius” of Cyril’s Corpus |
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From “The Mind” |
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Osiris and Thrice-greatest Agathodaimon |
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Frag. XIX. |
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“Let there be Earth!” |
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Frag. XX. |
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The Generation of the Sun |
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Frag. XXI. |
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“Let the Sun be!” |
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Frag. XXII. |
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The Firmament |
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Frag. XXIII. |
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From the “To Asclepius” |
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The Sole Protection |
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The Supreme Artist |
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Frag. XXIV. |
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An Unreferenced Quotation |
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Frag. XXV. |
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X. SUIDAS
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Hermes speaks of the Trinity |
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An Orphic Hymn |
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XI. ANONYMOUS
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III. REFERENCES AND FRAGMENTS IN THE PHILOSOPHERS
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I. ZOSIMUS
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On the Anthropos-Doctrine |
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The Processions of Fate |
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“The Inner Door” |
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Against Magic |
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Frag. XXVI. |
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Thoth the First Man |
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The Libraries of the Ptolemies |
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Nikotheos |
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From the Books of the Chaldæans |
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Man the Mind |
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Frag. XXVII. |
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The Counterfeit Daimon |
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His Advice to Theosebeia |
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II. JAMBLICHUS
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Abammon the Teacher |
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Hermes the Inspirer |
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Those of the Hermaïc Nature |
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The Books of Hermes |
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The Monad from the One |
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The Tradition of the Trismegistic Literature |
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Bitys |
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Ostanes-Asclepius |
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From the Hermaïc Workings |
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The Cosmic Spheres |
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III. JULIAN THE EMPEROR
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The Disciples of Wisdom |
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IV. FULGENTIUS THE MYTHOGRAPHER
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Frag. XXVIII. |
IV. CONCLUSION
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An Attempt at Classifying the Extant Literature |
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Of Hermes |
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To Tat |
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To Asclepius |
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To Ammon |
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Of Asclepius |
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Of Isis |
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From the Agathodaimon Literature |
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Of Judgments of Value |
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The Sons of God |
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Concerning Dates |
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The Blend of Traditions |
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Of Initiation |
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A Last Word |
V. INDEX
