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Thrice-Greatest Hermes Volume 2 by G. R. S. Mead [1906]

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This is the second volume of three of G.R.S. Mead's comprehensive survey of the Hermetic literature, attributed to the legendary Egyptian sage, Hermes Trismegistus. This volume includes translations of the entire Corpus Hermeticum and the Asclepius.

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Title Page

Contents

I. Corpus Hermeticum

I. Pœmandres, the Shepherd of Men
Commentary
(II.) The General Sermon
II. (III.) To Asclepius
Commentary
III. (IV.) The Sacred Sermon
Commentary
IV. (V.) The Cup or Monad
Commentary
V. (VI.) Though Unmanifest God is Most Manifest
Commentary
VI. (VII.) In God Alone is Good and Elsewhere Nowhere
Commentary
VII. (VIII.) The Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of God
Commentary
VIII. (IX.) That No One of Existing Things doth Perish, but Men in Error Speak of Their Changes as Destructions and as Deaths
Commentary
IX. (X.) On Thought and Sense
Commentary
X. (XI.) The Key
Commentary
XI. (XII.) Mind Unto Hermes
Commentary
XII. (XIII.) About the Common Mind
Commentary
XIII. (XIV.) The Secret Sermon on the Mountain
Commentary
XIV. (XV.) A Letter to Asclepius
Commentary
(XVI.) The Definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon
Commentary
(XVII.) Of Asclepius to the King
Commentary
(XVIII.) The Encomium of Kings
Commentary

II. The Perfect Sermon; or the Asclepius

Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part VII
Part VIII
Part IX
Part X
Part XI
Part XII
Part XIII
Part XIV
Part XV
Commentary

 

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