* This is the first volume of three of G.R.S. Mead's comprehensive survey of the literature attributed to the legendary Egyptian sage, Hermes Trismegistus.
Title Page
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 Pmandres Cosmogony
VII. The Myth of Man in the Mysteries
VIII. Philo of Alexandria and the Hellenistic Theology
Ix. Plutarch: Concerning The Mysteries Of Isis And Osiris
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