Next. Ii. To Asclepius : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], COMMENTARY "AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GNOSIS OF THE NATURE OF ALL THINGS" This treatise has no precise title, for, as we have already seen in treating of the make-up of the Corpus, the traditional title, "Of Hermes to Tat, the General Serm...
Next. Commentary : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 213 COMMENTARY THE SAYINGS OF THE GOOD DAIMON This Sermon has as its subject the Common or General Mind--Great Mind, Good Mind, Good Daimon. For Mind, as we are told ( 2), is the Benefactor of men ( ); He is the Good Shepherd, the Good...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Of Asclepius To The King : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 285 CORPUS HERMETICUM (XVII.) [OF ASCLEPIUS TO THE KING] (Text: R. 354; Pat. at end of last piece.) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Asclepius." If thou dost think [of it], O King, even of bodies there are...
Next. V. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], COMMENTARY THE TITLE The redactor of our Corpus must have taken this sermon from some collection of "Those to Tat," for it begins "." One other sermon at least, then, must have preceded it; but whether it was our "C. H.", iv. (v.), "...
Untitled : * This is the second volume of three of G.R.S. Mead's comprehensive survey of the literature attributed to the legendary Egyptian sage, Hermes Trismegistus. This volume includes translations of the Corpus Hermeticum, including the Sheperd Poemandres, To Asclepius, The Secret Sermon on the Mount...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part Xiv : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], XXXIX 1. [XIV. M.] "Asc." What part of the economy, 4 Thrice-greatest one, does the Heimarmen, or Fate, then occupy? For do not the celestial Gods rule over generals 5; the terrene occupy particulars? p. 385 "Tris." That which we call...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part Vii : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], 2. [VII. M.] And now let us begin to treat of Spirit and such things. There was first God and Matter, 3 which we in Greek 4 believe [to be] the Cosmos; and Spirit was "with" Cosmos, or Spirit was "in" Cosmos, but not in like way as in God...
Next. I. Poemandres, The Shepherd Of Men : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], COMMENTARY OF VISION AND APOCALYPSIS The "Pmandres" treatise not only belongs to the most important type of the Trismegistic literature, but is also the most important document within that type. It constitutes, so to speak...
Commentary. Part 1 : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], COMMENTARY ON THE ADORATION OF IMAGES The loss of the end of the previous sermon, and also the loss of almost the whole of (xvii.), is to be accounted for by the falling out of one or more quires from the original MS. of our Corpus, 4...
Title Page : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], THRICE-GREATEST HERMES Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis Being A Translation Of The Extant Sermons And Fragments Of The Trismegistic Literature, With Prolegomena, Commentaries, And Notes By G. R. S. MEAD VOLUME II.--SERMONS...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. X. The Key : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 141 CORPUS HERMETICUM X. (XI.) THE KEY OF THRICE-GREATEST HERMES (Text: P. 67-84; Pat. 9b-12.) 1. "Hermes." My yesterdays discourse ("logos") I did devote to thee, Asclepius, and so tis [only] right I should devote to-days to Tat;...
Next. Iii. The Sacred Sermon : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 78 COMMENTARY TEXT AND TITLE The text seems to be very corrupt, and at one time I thought it incomplete; but it may very well end with the reference to the mighty deeds of the men of old. The title "Sacred Sermon" would lead us...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Xii. About The Common Mind : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 199 CORPUS HERMETICUM XII. (XIII.) ABOUT THE COMMON MIND OF HERMES TO TAT (Text: P. 99-113; Pat. 23b-25b.) 1. "Hermes." The Mind, O Tat, is of Gods very essence--(if such a thing as "essence" of God 1 there be)--and what "that" is, it...
Next. Vii. The Greatest Ill Among Men Is : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 122 COMMENTARY A PREACHING There is little to be said about this powerful appeal to cease from the drunkenness of physical sensations and to awaken to the Light. Reitzenstein (p. 194) calls it a "Prophetenpredigt" and says that nowhere...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part Xi : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], 3. [XI. M.] All things, then, being thus, p. 368 theres nothing stable, nothing fixed, nothing immoveable, of things that are being born, in Heaven or on the Earth. Immoveable 1 [is] God alone, and rightly [He] alone; for He Himself is...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Vi. In God Alone Is : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 110 CORPUS HERMETICUM VI. (VII.) IN GOD ALONE IS GOOD AND ELSEWHERE NOWHERE (Text: P. 48-53; Pat. 14a-15a.) 1. Good, O Asclepius, is in none else save God alone; nay, rather, Good is God Himself eternally. If it be so, [Good] must be...
Next. Iv. The Cup Or Monad : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 92 COMMENTARY THE TITLE This beautiful little treatise, in which the great principles of the Gnosis are set forth so clearly and lucidly by the philosopher-mystic who penned it so many centuries ago, bears a double, or rather a triple...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], COMMENTARY THE TITLE The titles in the Latin MSS. vary. The heading preferred by Hildebrand is "Asclepius, or a Dialogue of Thrice-greatest Hermes"; while in the Bipontine edition, the title stands: "Thrice-greatest Hermes Concerning...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Vii. The Greatest Ill : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 120 CORPUS HERMETICUM VII. (VIII.) THE GREATEST ILL AMONG MEN IS IGNORANCE OF GOD (Text: P. 54, 55; Pat. 18a.) 1. Whither stumble ye, sots, who have sopped up the wine of ignorance unmixed, and can so far not carry it that ye already...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part V : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], IX 1. [V. M.] But, O Asclepius, I see that thou with swift desire of mind art in a hurry to be told how man can have a love and worship of the Heaven, or of the things that are therein. Hear, then, Asclepius! The love of God and Heaven...
Next. Ix. On Thought And Sense : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], COMMENTARY TITLE AND ORDERING This treatise bears a double title:--"On Thought and Sense," and "That the Beautiful and Good is in God only." The former heading is clearly taken from the concluding words: "Let so much then suffice...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part Ix : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], [IX. M.] And 1 since our sermon treats of the relationship and intercourse 2 of men and Gods,--learn, Asclepius, the power and strength of man! [Our] Lord and Father, or what is Highest God,--as Hes Creator of the Gods in Heaven, so mans...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Viii. That No One : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 124 CORPUS HERMETICUM VIII. (IX.) THAT NO ONE OF EXISTING THINGS DOTH PERISH, BUT MEN IN ERROR SPEAK OF THEIR CHANGES AS DESTRUCTIONS AND AS DEATHS [OF HERMES TO TAT] (Text: P. 56-59; Pat. 48a, 48b.) 1. ["Hermes."] Concerning Soul...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part 02 : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], XXXVII 1. [XIII. M.] But 5 now let this suffice about such things; and let us once again return p. 381 to man and reason,--gift divine, from which man has the name of rational animal. Less to be wondered at are the things said of m...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Ii. To Asclepius : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 59 CORPUS HERMETICUM II. (III.) TO ASCLEPIUS (Text: P. 19-30; Pat. 18b-20.) * * * * * 1. "Hermes." 1 All that is moved, Asclepius, is it not moved "in" something and "by" something? "Asclepius." Assuredly. "Her." And must not th...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Xiv. A Letter To Asclepius : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 257 CORPUS HERMETICUM XIV. (XV.) [A LETTER] OF THRICE-GREATEST HERMES TO ASCLEPIUS UNTO ASCLEPIUS GOOD HEALTH OF SOUL! 1 (Text: P. 128-134; Pat. 49, 50.) 1. Since in thy absence my son Tat desired to learn the nature of the things th...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part Iv : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], 3. [IV. M.] "Asc." What, then, Thrice-greatest one, has caused it that man should be planted in the world, and should not pass his life in highest happiness in that part [of the universe] where there is God? ["Tris."] Rightly thou...
Next. Xi. Mind Unto Hermes : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 190 COMMENTARY TITLE AND FORM The title in the MSS. is simply "Mind to Hermes." When, therefore, Cyril, in quoting the first three paragraphs of 22 of our treatise, says that Hermes wrote these words "to his own mind," 1 he is...
Commentary : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], COMMENTARY THE APOLOGY OF A PMANDRIST This, the last piece in our Corpus, differs so greatly both in style and form of contents from the rest of our sermons, that we are plainly dealing with a different order of endeavour. The style is...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Xiii. The Secret Serm : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 219 CORPUS HERMETICUM XIII. (XIV.) THE SECRET SERMON ON THE MOUNTAIN CONCERNING REBIRTH AND THE PROMISE OF SILENCE OF THRICE-GREATEST HERMES UNTO TAT HIS SON (Text: R. 339-348; P. 114-128; Pat. 15b-17b.) 1. "Tat." [Now] in the General...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Commentary : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 234 COMMENTARY CONCERNING THE TITLE "The Secret Sermon on the Mountain" is the main title given in all the MSS., with the exception of A; the subsidiary contents-title is evidently derived from the same edition to which we owe...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part X : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], 4. [X. M.] But now the question as to deathlessness or as to death must be discussed. The expectation and the fear of death torture the multitude, who do not know True Reason. Now death is brought about by dissolution of the body, wearied...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Iii. The Sacred Sermon : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 75 CORPUS HERMETICUM III. (IV.) THE SACRED SERMON OF HERMES (Text: P. 31-33; Pat. 8b-9.) 1. The Glory of all things is God, Godhead and Godly Nature. Source of the things that are is God, who is both Mind and Nature,--yea Matter...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. V. Though Unmanifest : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 99 CORPUS HERMETICUM V. (VI.) THOUGH UNMANIFEST GOD IS MOST MANIFEST OF HERMES TO HIS SON TAT (Text: P. 41-48; Pat. 12b-13b.) 1. I will recount for thee this sermon ("logos") too, O Tat, that thou mayst cease to be without...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part Ii : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], 2. [II. M.] Heaven, then, God Sensible, is the p. 312 director of all bodies; bodies increasings and decreasings are ruled by Sun and Moon. But He who is the Ruler of the Heaven, and of its Soul as well, and of all things with...
Next. Viii. That No One Of Existing Things : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], COMMENTARY THE COSMOS AS "SECOND GOD" The superscription enunciates the nature of the treatise. It is evidently taken from the Dialogues to Tat, and originally formed part of some General Dissertation or of a collection of Dissertations...
Next. X. The Key : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], COMMENTARY THE CONSUMMATION OF THE "GENERAL SERMONS" What "yesterdays sermon," which Hermes addressed to Asclepius, may have been, we have no means of deciding. The similarity of the phrase with the opening words of "C. H.", ix. (x.) is...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. I. Poemandres : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 1 I CORPUS HERMETICUM p. 2 p. 3 CORPUS HERMETICUM I. PMANDRES, THE SHEPHERD OF MEN (Text: R. 328-338; P. 1-18; Pat. 5b-8.) 1 1. It chanced once on a time my mind was meditating on the things that are, 2 my thought was raised to a gre...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Ix. On Thought And Sense : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 129 CORPUS HERMETICUM IX. (X.) ON THOUGHT AND SENSE THAT THE BEAUTIFUL AND GOOD IS IN GOD ONLY AND ELSEWHERE NOWHERE (Text: P. 60-67; Pat. 14, 15.) 1. I gave the Perfect Sermon ("Logos") yesterday, Asclepius; to-day I think it right...
Next. The Definitions Of Asclepius Unto King Ammon : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 277 COMMENTARY CONCERNING THE TlTLE Patrizzi has run (xvi.) and (xvii.) together, under the title "Definitions of Asclepius--Book I.," though he clearly saw that (xvii.) did not belong to (xvi.) by his remark, "videntur sequentia ex...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. The General Sermon : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 58 CORPUS HERMETICUM (II.) THE GENERAL SERMON (The title only is preserved in our Corpus, the text having disappeared with the loss of a quire or quires before the parent copy came into the hands of Psellus.) * * * * * * * * * * * * *...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part I : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 304 p. 305 II THE PERFECT SERMON p. 306 p. 307 THE PERFECT SERMON OR THE ASCLEPIUS (Text: The Greek original is lost, and only a Latin version remains to us. I use the text of Hildebrand (G. F.), "L. Apuleii Opera Omnia ex Fide...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Iv. The Cup Or Monad : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 85 CORPUS HERMETICUM IV. (V.) THE CUP OR MONAD OF HERMES TO TAT (Text: P. 34-40; Pat. 26b-27.) 1. "Hermes." With Reason ("Logos"), not with hands, did the World-maker 1 make the universal World 2; so that thou thus shouldst think...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part 03 : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], XIX 1. [VIII. M.] "Asc." What dost thou call, Thrice-greatest one, the heads of things, or sources of beginnings? "Tris." Great are the mysteries which I reveal to thee, divine the secrets I disclose; and so I p. 340 make beginning...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. The Encomium Of Kings : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 288 CORPUS HERMETICUM (XVIII.) [THE ENCOMIUM OF KINGS] (ABOUT THE SOULS BEING HINDERED BY THE PASSION OF THE BODY) (Text: R. 355-360; Pat. at end.) 1. [Now] in the case of those professing the harmonious art of muse-like melody--if...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. The Definitions : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 266 CORPUS HERMETICUM (XVI.) THE DEFINITIONS OF ASCLEPIUS UNTO KING AMMON THE PERFECT SERMON OF ASCLEPIUS UNTO THE KING (Text: R. 348-354; Pat. at end. 1) 1. Great is the sermon ("logos") which I send to thee, O King--the summing up...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part Xv : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], 4. [XV. M.] And now it hath been told you on each several point,--as man hath power [to tell], and God hath willed it and permitted it. This, then, alone remains that we should do,--bless God and give Him praise; and so return to taking...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part Iii : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], VI 1. [III. M.] It is for reasons such as these, Asclepius, man is a mighty wonder,--an animal meet for our worship and for our respect. p. 316 For he doth pass into Gods Nature, 1 as though himself were God. This genus [also] knows...
Commentary. Part 2 : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], COMMENTARY ASCLEPIUS AND TAT Fabricius, in his "Bibliotheca Grca", 2 says that the title should be "On the Nature of the All," and that he has recovered it from Cyril, "C. Jul.", ii., but I cannot verify this statement. The form of this...
I. Corpus Hermeticum. Xi. Mind Unto Hermes : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 175 CORPUS HERMETICUM XI. (XII.) MIND UNTO HERMES (Text: P. 85-99; Pat. 20b-23.) 1. "Mind." Master this sermon ("logos"), 1 then, Thrice-greatest Hermes, and bear in mind the spoken words; and as it hath come unto Me to speak, I will...
Next. Vi. In God Alone Is Good And Elsewhere : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], p. 115 COMMENTARY THE TITLE This sermon, which bears no proper title, but has been headed by some editor with the enunciation of the subject taken from the opening sentence of the treatise itself, belongs to the Asclepius-group...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part Xii : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], XXXIII 1. [XII. M.] Now on the subject of a "Void," 1--which seems to almost all a thing of vast importance,--I hold the following view. Naught is, naught could have been, naught ever will be void. For all the members of the Cosmos are...
Ii. The Perfect Sermon. Or The Asclepius. Part Vi : * "Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2", by G.R.S. Mead, [1906], 2. [VI. M.] The Lord of the Eternity 3 is the first God; the seconds Cosmos; man is the third. 4 God is the Maker of the Cosmos and of all the things therein; at the same time He ruleth 5 all, with man himself, [who is] the ruler...