The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (Forgotten Books) - Softcover

Mercurius Trismegistus, Hermes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605064890 ISBN 13: 9781605064895

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2008

Synopsis

Book Description:

"Hermes Trismegistus ("thrice-great Hermes"; Latin: Mercurius ter Maximus) is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. In Hellenistic Egypt, the Egyptian god Thoth was given as epithet the Greek name of Hermes. He has also been identified with Enoch. Other similar syncretized gods include Serapis and Hermanubis.

Hermes Trismegistus might also be explained in Euhemerist fashion as a man who was the son of the god, and in the Kabbalistic tradition that was inherited by the Renaissance, it could be imagined that such a personage had been contemporary with Moses, communicating to a line of adepts a parallel wisdom, from Zoroaster to Plato. A historian, however, would leave such speculation to the history of alchemy and the nineteenth-century history of occultism." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; Preface; Hermes Trismegistus, His First Book; The Second Book, Called, Poemander; The Third Book, The Holy Sermon; The Fourth Book, Called The Key; The Fifth Book, That God Is Not Manifest, And Yet Most Manifest; The Sixth Book, That In God Alone Is Good; The Seventh Book, His Secret Sermon In The Mount Of Regeneration, And The Profession Of Silence; The Eighth Book, The Greatest Evil In Man Is The Not Knowing God; The Ninth Book, A Universal Sermon To Asclepius; The Tenth Book, The Mind To Hermes; The Eleventh Book Of The Common Mind, To Tat; The Twelfth Book, His Crater Or Monas; The Thirteenth Book, Of Sense And Understanding; The Fourteenth Book, Of Operation And Sense; The Fifteenth Book, Of Truth To His Son Tat; The Sixteenth Book, That None Of The Things That Are Can Perish; The Seventeenth Book, To Asclepius, To Be Truly Wise

About the Publisher:

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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605064890
• ISBN 13: 9781605064895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146