Thrice-greatest Hermes
by G. R. S. Mead
Occult PhilosophyHermeticismModern
Chapters
140
Total Words
150,900
Reading Time
604 min
Published
1949
Table of Contents
1.Preface
5 min2.I. The Rkmainb of the Trismbgistic Liter aturi
1 min3.II. The Hibtort of the Evolution of Opinion
1 min4.III. Thoth the Master of Wisdom
1 min5.IV. The Popular Theuroic Hermks-Cult in thb
1 min6.V. An Invocation to Hermes as the Spiritual Light
1 min7.VII. The Myth of Man in the Mysteries 139-198
1 min8.VIII. Philo of Alexandria and the Hellenistic
1 min9.IX. Plutarch: Concerning the Mybterier of Isis
2 min10.XI. GONCERNIKG THE .'EON-DOCTRINE 387-412
1 min11.XII. The Seven Zones and their Characteristics 413-428
1 min12.XIII. Plato: Concerning Metempsychosis 429-436
1 min13.XIV. The Vision o¥ Er
1 min14.XVI. Thk Disoifues of Thricb-Orkatest Hbrmss 457-481
4 min15.D. Beferences and Fragments in the Fathers.
1 min16.C. There are twenty-seven Excerpts, from otherwise
1 min17.D. From the Church Fathers we obtain many refer-
96 min18.I. An Invocation to Herhxs as ths Good Mind^
5 min19.III. An Invocation to Lord Hbbmis
5 min20.V. An Invocation to Hermxs as ths Spiritual Light
26 min21.book deseryee oarefol study, and camiot be hastily set aside with
35 min22.Book X. the summary of their contents is also omitted.
8 min23.X. 9 ; but the phrase wApii rh^ tArmw xiyw still remains an enigma.
3 min24.Book VI. of his lost work, The InMutioni, where he writes:
3 min25.C. From whom, as is said, every faUierhood has its name on
4 min26.C. — where (H. he sajs) is ** neither male nor female,'' ^ but a
1 min27.C. "For the invisible » things of Him [God]— namely. His
2 min28.C. — ^and likewise also their males, leaving the natural use of
1 min29.C. — " and receiving in themselves the recompense of their
2 min30.C. ** He who seeketh shall find me in children from the age
3 min31.C. And ooneeming Uub was spoken what was said by the
2 min32.C. — «i it ««R *a li^ Boc vmicr tike bonbil, bns* abc
3 min33.C. Concerning them the Scripture saith : " Awake thoa that
2 min34.C. — ** that hath become the head of the oomer." * For in the
3 min35.C. For from water alone — ^that is, spirit — is begotten the
4 min36.C. For ^ all things (H. he sajB) were made through Him, and
2 min37.C. This (H. he sajB) would be sufficient alone if men would
1 min38.C. — ^that is, spiritual, not carnal —
1 min39.C. And this is the Water at those Fair Nuptials which Jesus
1 min40.C. — which it i» kwful for the perfect alone to know — [that
1 min41.C. And [also] of the regenerated ^ spiritual [man], in all things
4 min42.C. — that Ib his regeneration in order that he may be bom
2 min43.C. On this account (H. he says) Jesus saith :
1 min44.C. — as tlie perfect man. The not-perfect man, thereforey
1 min45.C. And : Make ''peace for them that are far"— that is, the
1 min46.C. This (H. he says) is what is said :
1 min47.C. For he hecomes (H. he says) Qod when, rising from the
3 min48.C. For He is unfruitful as long as He is fleshly and works
1 min49.C. This is what He saith (H. he says) :
4 min50.C. That is, the regenerated, deathless, and ever-continuing
2 min51.C. For thifl caiue (H. he says) :
1 min52.C. For Jeremiah also (H. he Bays) knew the perfect man, re-
1 min53.C. Thus (H. he says) the knowledge of the perfect man is
1 min54.C. — and marvellous and most perfect —
1 min55.C. — and divorced from all fleshly generation —
2 min56.C. —the Spiritual, Heavenly [Genesifl]—
1 min57.C. — the spiritual —
1 min58.C. —being broad and wide,—
1 min59.C. — tlioee of the fleshly generation —
1 min60.C. — heavenly [Mysteries].
1 min61.C. — no psychic, no fleshly [man] —
1 min62.C. —not psychic, not fieehly, but a blessed JSon of .£ons. *
2 min63.C. —the Invisible^ Unnameable, and Ineffable [One] of whom
1 min64.C. From whom proceeded and was bom the Invifdble —
1 min65.C. For « God (H. he says) is Spirit" ^
3 min66.C. This [Point] (H. he says) is the Kingdom of the Heavens,
5 min67.C. Concerning which (H. he says) the Saviour hath said :
1 min68.C. And if any man (H. he says) is *' blind from birth,"' and
2 min69.C. —the Living Water—
1 min70.C. — which is Jesus the Blessed.
1 min71.C. — who was fellow-citizen with an evil daemon of fleshly
56 min72.LXX. giTes " The place where the Qod of Israel stood."
36 min73.II. 1. Wherefore the longing for the Godly state ii
2 min74.III. 1. Yet many have set down that she is Hermes'
3 min75.IV. 1. Now, as far as the " many " are concerned, even
3 min76.V. 1. And the priests handle so hardly ^ the nature
2 min77.VI. 1. And as for vrine, the servants of the Grod in
2 min78.VII. 1. As to sea-fish, all [Egyptians] abstain gener-
3 min79.VIII. 1. For nothing reasonless, or [purely] fabulous,
5 min80.X. 1. And the most wise of the Greeks also are
4 min81.XI. 1. When, therefore, thou hearestthemyth-aayiogs
3 min82.XII. 1. The myth which is told is — ^in its very
3 min83.XIII. 1. And [they say] that when Osiris was king,
4 min84.XIV. 1. And as the Pans and Satyrs^ that in-
3 min85.XV. 1. It was from him she got intelligence about
6 min86.XVIII. 1. And [they say] that when Isis had gone a
2 min87.XIX. 1. Thereafter Osiris, coming to Horus out of
3 min88.XX. 1. These are approximately the chief headings of
6 min89.XXII. 1. Now, since many of such [? tombs] are
2 min90.XXIII. 1. But I am afraid that this is "* moTiDg the
2 min91.XXIV. 1. And yet mighty deeds of Semiramis are
3 min92.XXVI. 1. Moreover, we hear Homer also on every
2 min93.XXVII. 1. Bom from the self-same womb as these
2 min94.XXVIII. 1. And Ftolemy the Saviour^ saw in a
4 min95.XXX. 1. Osiris and Isis have, then, changed from
2 min96.XXXI. 1. And, as Egyptians believe that lyphonwn
2 min97.XXXII. 1.^ The above [data] then afford [us] such
2 min98.XXXIII. 1. But the more wise of the priests call not
2 min99.XXXIV. 1. Moreover, they say that sun and moon
1 min100.XXXV. 1. That, however, he Ib the same aa Dionyaos
3 min101.XXXVI. 1. And they call not only the Nile, bat also
2 min102.XXXVII. 1. Moreover, both Greeks consecrate the
3 min103.XXXIX. 1. The conspiracy and despotism of Typhon,
4 min104.XLI. 1. Those, however, who combine with the
2 min105.XLII. 1. The Egyptian myth runs that the death of
2 min106.XLIII. 1. Moreover, they think that the riaingp of the
2 min107.XLIV. 1. Some, moreover, make out of the myth a
7 min108.XLVIII. 1. Moreover, Chaldaeans declare that of the
2 min109.XLIX. 1. For though the genesis and composition d
2 min110.L. 1. Wherefore also of domestic animals they ap-
1 min111.LI. 1. Osiris, again, on the other hand, they write
4 min112.LIII. 1. For Isis is the feminine [principle] of Nature
1 min113.LIV. 1. Hence not unreasonably do they say in the
2 min114.LV. 1. But this Horus [of ours] is their Son»^
2 min115.LVI. 1. Now the better and diviner Nature is from
3 min116.LVII. 1. And Heaiod ^ also, when be mmkes all the
3 min117.LIX. 1. But where Typhon steals in, laying hold of
1 min118.LX. 1. But He is on the whole the Better one, as
1 min119.LXI. 1. And Osiris has had his name from a combina-
3 min120.LXII. 1. The Egyptian [names] also resemble these
3 min121.LXIV. 1. But, to speak concisely, it is not correct to
1 min122.LXV. 1. And we shall also get our hands on the dull
1 min123.LXVI. 1. Still there is nothing to complain of if
2 min124.LXVII. 1. For a God is not a thing without a mind
3 min125.LXIX. 1. What use, then, must one make of those
1 min126.LXX. 1. And the season of the year suggests that the
2 min127.LXXI. 1. But such is not mify the case; bat.
4 min128.LXXIII. 1. Again, as many say that the soul of
2 min129.LXXIV. 1. There remain of ooorae the utilitarian and
2 min130.LXXV. 1. Nay, not even has the crocodile had honour
4 min131.LXXVI. 1. If, then, the most approved of the philo-
2 min132.LXXVII. 1. Now as to robes: those of Isis [are]
2 min133.LXXVIII. 1. The fact, moreover, which the present
2 min134.LXXIX. 1. And must I also speak of the daily incense-
2 min135.LXXX. 1. And [finally] kuphi^ is a mixture com-
27 min136.III. ^ There was when nau^t was but Chaos and an
2 min137.IV. "Both fourfold Matter* being ensouled and the
2 min138.V. " I would therefore have you think of Oonus
2 min139.VI. "Accordingly the First Egg that was ever pro-
79 min140.part in the heredity of the cosmogeneeis of our
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