Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1: Page Index

Preface

Contents

Poem

I. The Remains of the Trismegistic Literature

II. The History of the Evolution of Opinion

III. Thoth the Master of Wisdom

IV. The Popular Theurgic Hermes-Cult in the Greek Magic Papyri

V. The Main Source of the Trismegistic Literature According to Manetho, High Priest of Egypt

VI. An Egyptian Prototype of the Main Features of the Pœmandres’ Cosmogony

VII. The Myth of Man in the Mysteries

VIII. Philo of Alexandria and the Hellenistic Theology

Foreword

Address to Klea concerning Gnosis and the Search for Truth

The Art of Knowing and of Divinising

The True Initiates of Isis

Why the Priests are Shaven and wear Linen

Of the Refraining from Flesh and Salt and Superfluities

On the Drinking of Wine

On Fish Taboos

The Onion and Pig Taboos

The Kings, the Riddles of the Priests, and the Meaning of Amoun

Of the Greek Disciples of Egyptians and of Pythagoras and his Symbols

Advice to Klea concerning the Hidden Meaning of the Myths

The Mystery-Myth

The Undermeaning a Reflexion of a Certain Reason

Concerning the Tombs of Osiris

Concerning the Theory of Evemerus

The Theory of the Daimones

Concerning Sarapis

Concerning Typhon

The Theory of the Physicists

Concerning Osiris and Dionysus

The Theory of the Physicists Resumed

The Theory of the Mathematici

The Theory of the Dualists

The Proper Reason according to Plutarch

The Symbolism of the Sistrum

The True “Logos,” again, according to Plutarch

Against the Weather and Vegetation God Theories

Concerning the Worship of Animals, and Totemism

Concerning the Sacred Robes

Concerning Incense

Afterword

X. ‘Hermas’ and ‘Hermes’

XI. Concerning the Æon-Doctrine

XII. The Seven Zones and their Characteristics

XIII. Plato: Concerning Metempsychosis

XIV. The Vision of Er

XV. Concerning the Crater or Cup

XVI. The Disciples of Thrice-Greatest Hermes