Contents

I. EXCERPTS BY STOBÆUS

Ex. I. Of Piety and True Philosophy	3
Commentary	12
Ex. II. Of the Ineffability of God	14
Commentary	15
Ex. III. Of Truth	17
Commentary	23
Ex. IV. God, Nature and the Gods	24
Commentary	25
Ex. V. Of Matter	26
Ex. VI. Of Time	28
Ex. VII. Of Bodies Everlasting and Bodies Perishable	30
Commentary	33
Ex. VIII. Of Energy and Feeling	34
Commentary	43
Ex. IX. Of the Decans and the Stars	45
Commentary	54
Ex. X. Concerning the Rule of Providence, Necessity and Fate	55
Commentary	57
Ex. XI. Of Justice	58
Commentary	59
Ex. XII. Of Providence and Fate	60
Ex. XIII. Of the Whole Economy	61
Ex. XIV. Of Soul, I.	63
Ex. XV. Of Soul, II.	65
The Embryonic Stages of Incarnation	68
Ex. XVI. Of Soul, III.	72
Ex. XVII. Of Soul, IV.	75
Ex. XVIII. Of Soul, V.	77
Commentary	79
Ex. XIX. Of Soul, VI.	80
Commentary	82
Ex. XX. The Power of Choice	84
Commentary	86
Ex. XXI. Of Isis to Horus	87
Commentary	87
Ex. XXII. An Apophthegm	88
Ex. XXIII. From “Aphrodite”	89
Commentary	90
Ex. XXIV. A Hymn of the Gods	91
Commentary	92
Ex. XXV. The Virgin of the World, I.	93
Ex. XXVI. The Virgin of the World, II.	125
Commentary
Argument	134
Sources?	146
The Direct Voice and the Books of Hermes	147
Kamephis and the Dark Mystery	149
Kneph-Kamephis	151
Hermes I. and Hermes II.	152
The Black Rite	155
Black Land	158
The Pupil of the World’s Eye	159
The Son of the Virgin	160
The Mystery of the Birth of Horus	162
“Ishon”	165
The Sixty Soul-Regions	168
Plutarch’s Yogin	169
The Plain of Truth	171
The Boundaries of the Numbers which Pre-exist in the Soul	173
The Mysterious “Cylinder”	175
The Eagle, Lion, Dragon and Dolphin	180
Momus	182
The Mystic Geography of Sacred Lands	184
Ex. XXVII. From the Sermon of Isis to Horus	188
Commentary
Argument	204
Title and Ordering	206
The Books of Isis and Horus	207
The Watery Sphere and Subtle Body	209
The Habitat of Encarnate Souls	210

II. REFERENCES AND FRAGMENTS IN THE FATHERS

	I. JUSTIN MARTYR
i.	The Most Ancient of Philosophers	215
	The “Words of Ammon”	215
	The Ineffability of God	216
ii.	Hermes and Asclepius Sons of God	217
iii.	Hermes the Word who brings Tidings from God	217
	The Sons of God in Hellenistic Theology	218
	An Unverifiable Quotation	218

	II. ATHENAGORAS	220
	III. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
i.	Many Hermeses and Asclepiuses	221
ii.	The Apotheosis of Hermes and Asclepius	222
iii.	The Books of Hermes	222
	The General Catalogue of the Egyptian Priestly Library	225

	IV. TERTULLIAN
i.	Hermes the Master of all Physics	226
ii.	Hermes the Writer of Scripture	227
iii.	Hermes the First Preacher of Reincarnation	227
iv.	Hermes on Metempsychosis
	Frag. I.	228

	V. CYPRIAN
	God is beyond all Understanding	229

	VI. ARNOBIUS
	The School of Hermes	230

	VII. LACTANTIUS
i.	Thoyth-Hermes and his Books of the Gnosis	231
	Frag. II.	233
	The Historical Origin of the Hermetic Tradition	233
ii.	Uranus, Cronus and Hermes, Adepts of the Perfect Science	234
iii.	Divine Providence	235
iv.	On Mortal and Immortal Sight
	Frag. III.	235
v.	Man made after the Image of God	236
vi.	Hermes the First Natural Philosopher	237
vii.	The Daimon-Chief	237
viii.	Devotion in God-Gnosis
	Frag. IV.	238
ix.	The Cosmic Son of God
	Frag. V.	239
x.	The Demiurge of God	240
xi.	The Name of God
	Frag. VI.	241
xii.	The Holy Word about the Lord of All
	Frag. VII.	241
xiii.	His Own Father and Own Mother	242
xiv.	The Power and Greatness of the Word	242
xv.	The Fatherless and Motherless	242
xvi.	Piety the Gnosis of God	243
xvii.	The Only Way to Worship God	243
xviii.	The Worthiest Sacrifice to God
	Frag. VIII.	244
xix.	Man made in the Image of God	244
xx.	Contemplation	245
xxi.	The Dual Nature of Man
	Frag. IX.	245
	Wonder the Beginning of Philosophy	246
xxii.	The Cosmic Restoration
	Frag. X.	247
xxii.	Of Hermes and his Doctrine Concerning God	247
xxiv.	A Repetition	248
xxv.	Plato as Prophet follows Trismegistus	248

	VIII. AUGUSTINE
i.-iii.	Three Quotations from the Old Latin Version of the “Perfect Sermon”	249

	IX. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA
i.	Cyril’s Corpus of XV. Books	251
ii.	The Incorporeal Eye
	Frag. XI.	253
iii.	The Heavenly Word Proceeding Forth
	Frag. XII.	254
	The Pyramid
	Frag. XIII.	254
	The Nature of God’s Intellectual World
	Frag. XIV.	255
	The Word of the Creator
	Frag. XV.	256
iv.	Mind of Mind
	Frag. XVI.	257
	He is All
	Frag. XVII.	258
	Concerning Spirit
	Frag. XVIII.	258
	The “To Asclepius” of Cyril’s Corpus	259
v.	From “The Mind”	260
vi.	Osiris and Thrice-greatest Agathodaimon
	Frag. XIX.	261
	“Let there be Earth!”
	Frag. XX.	262
	The Generation of the Sun
	Frag. XXI.	262
	“Let the Sun be!”
	Frag. XXII.	263
vii.	The Firmament
	Frag. XXIII.	263
viii.	From the “To Asclepius”	264
ix.	The Sole Protection	265
x.	The Supreme Artist
	Frag. XXIV.	266
xi.	An Unreferenced Quotation
	Frag. XXV.	266

	X. SUIDAS
	Hermes speaks of the Trinity	268
	An Orphic Hymn	269

	XI. ANONYMOUS	270

III. REFERENCES AND FRAGMENTS IN THE PHILOSOPHERS

I. ZOSIMUS
On the Anthrōpos-Doctrine	273
The Processions of Fate	273
“The Inner Door”	274
Against Magic
Frag. XXVI.	275
Thoth the First Man	276
The Libraries of the Ptolemies	277
Nikotheos	278
From the Books of the Chaldæans	279
Man the Mind
Frag. XXVII.	280
The Counterfeit Daimon	281	His Advice to Theosebeia	283

II. JAMBLICHUS	Abammon the Teacher	285	Hermes the Inspirer	286	Those of the Hermaïc Nature	288	The Books of Hermes	289	The Monad from the One	291	The Tradition of the Trismegistic Literature	291	Bitys	294	Ostanes-Asclepius	296	From the Hermaïc Workings	297	The Cosmic Spheres	299

III. JULIAN THE EMPEROR	The Disciples of Wisdom	303

IV. FULGENTIUS THE MYTHOGRAPHER
Frag. XXVIII.	305