V. An Invocation to Hermes as the Spiritual Light

vi. The Mystic Rite of the Flame . vii A Prayer of Consecration
82-98 82 84 86 87 90 90 93 97
Thb Main Sodrcb of thb TRiSMBaisric Litbra- TURB aooording TO Manbtho Hiqh Pribst OF Egypt .... 99-127
Hermes at Uie Beginning of the Hellenistic Period . 99 Petosiris and Nechepso .IOC
Manetho the Beloved of Thoth .102
The Letter of Manetho to Ptolemy Philadelphos . 103 The Importance of Manetho*s Statement in hiis
"Sothis" 105
CONTENTS XI
Is " Sotliis " a Forgery ?
Tile Argumento of EncyclopsBdism refuted
The Seriadic Land
The Steke of Hermes
The Sons of Seth-Hermes
The Epithet ** Thrice-greatest "
The Clue of Griffiths.
The Earliest Trismegistic Literature
PhiloByblius
Are his " Phosnician Histories " a Forgery ?
Sanchuniathon and the '* Books of Hermes "
PAOB
107 108 110 112 113 116 118 121 122 123 124
VI, An Egyptian Prototype of the Main Featubes
OF THE PCEMANDaEB' COSMOOONY 128-138
The Higher Criticism of the '* Pcemandres " .128
A Prototype of its Cosmogenesis .129
A Praise-giving to Ptah .131
Ptah-Thoth the Wise One . .132
Egyptian Syncretism 1000 aa .135 The Doctrine of " PoBmandres " Compared with that
of its Prototype . .136
The Man-Doctrine . .138