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Contents. Footnotes

Contents

Preface	v
I. The Remains of the Trismegistic Literature	1-16
Writer and Reader
The Extant Trismegistic Literature
The Original MS. of our Corpus
Texts and Translations
II. The History of the Evolution of Opinion	17-46
The Chief Points of Interrogation
The Opinions of the Humanists
The First Doubt
The Launching of the Theory of Plagiarism
The Only Argument Adduced
The Theory of Hilgers
The German Theory of Neoplatonic “Syncretismus”
The French Theory of Egyptian Origin
The Views of Mé nard
English Encyclopæ dism
Chambers’ Opinion
German Encyclopæ dism
A Recent Article by Granger
Reitzenstein and the Dawn of Right Views
A Key to Egypt’s Wisdom
The Answers to our Questions
III. Thoth the Master of Wisdom	47-81
Thoth-Teḥ uti
Thoth according to Pietschmann
The Three Grades of the Egyptian Mysteries
Thoth according to Reitzenstein
Thoth according to Budge
His Deific Titles
His Symbols and Name
The Shrine of Thoth
Thoth and his Company of Eight
The “House of the Net”
Thoth the Logos
The Words of Thoth
Thoth and the Osirified
Thoth the Measurer
The Title “Thrice-greatest”
The Supremacy of Thoth
The Views of a Scholar-Mystic
The Spiritual Nature of the Inner Tradition of Egyptian Wisdom
The Holy Land of Egypt and its Initiates
Thoth the Initiator
Some of the Doctrines of Initiation
The Temples of Initiation
The Mystery of the Birth of Horus
“The Book of the Master”
The Steps of the Path
An Illuminative Study
IV. The Popular Theurgic Hermes-Cult in the Greek Magic Papyri	82-98
The “Religion of Hermes”
i. An Invocation to Hermes as the Good Mind
ii. An Invocation to Lord Hermes
iii. An Invocation to Lord Hermes
iv. An Invocation to Thoth as Logos
v. An Invocation to Hermes as the Spiritual Light
vi. The Mystic Rite of the Flame
vii. A Prayer of Consecration
V. The Main Source of the Trismegistic Literature according to Manetho High Priest of Egypt	99-127
Hermes at the Beginning of the Hellenistic Period
Petosiris and Nechepso
Manetho the Beloved of Thoth
The Letter of Manetho to Ptolemy Philadelphus
The Importance of Manetho’s Statement in his “Sothis”
Is “Sothis” a Forgery?
The Arguments of Encyclopæ dism refuted
The Seriadic Land
The Stelæ of Hermes
The Sons of Seth-Hermes
The Epithet “Thrice-greatest”
The Clue of Griffiths
The Earliest Trismegistic Literature
Philo Byblius
Are his “Phœ nician Histories” a Forgery?
Sanchuniathon and the “Books of Hermes”
VI. An Egyptian Prototype of the Main Features of the Pœ mandres’ Cosmogony	128-138
The Higher Criticism of the “Pœ mandres”
A Prototype of its Cosmogenesis
A Praise-giving to Ptah
Ptah-Thoth the Wise One
Egyptian Syncretism 1000 B. C.
The Doctrine of “Pœ mandres” Compared with that of its Prototype
The Man-Doctrine
VII. The Myth of Man in the Mysteries	139-198
The Gnostic Tradition
The “Philosophumena” of Hippolytus
The Naassenes
Analysis of Hippolytus’ Account of the Naassene Document
Hippolytus’ Introduction
The Material for the Recovery of the Original Hellenistic Document
Hippolytus’ Conclusion
Conclusion of Analysis
The Hellenist Commentator
The Jewish and Christian Overwriters
Zosimus and the Anthropos-Doctrine
Philo of Alexandria on the Man-Doctrine
VIII. Philo of Alexandria and the Hellenistic Theology	199-254
Concerning Philo and his Method
The Great Importance of his Writings
Concerning the Mysteries
Concerning the Sacred Marriage
Concerning the Logos
The Son of God
The True High Priest
The Elder and Younger Sons of God
Yet God is One
The Logos is Life and Light
The Divine Vision
The Sons of God on Earth
The City of God
God’s Shadow
The Mother-City of Refuge
The True Shepherd
The Apostles of God
The Ladder of the “Words”
The Logos the Spiritual Sun
The Disciples of the Logos
The River of the Divine Reason
Jerusalem Above
The Logos is as Manna and Coriander Seed
The Logos is the Pupil of God’s Eye
“Man shall not Live by Bread Alone”
The Logos-Mediator
The Yoga of Plotinus
The Race of God
IX. Plutarch: Concerning the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris	255-368
Foreword
Concerning Isis and Osiris	261-366
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”	369-386
An Anticipation
The Higher Criticism of “The Shepherd of Hermas”
The Introduction of the “Pastoral Hermas”
Comparison with our “Pœ mandres”
The Popular Symbolic Representation of the Shepherd
The Name “Hermas”
An Early Form of the “Pœ mandres”
The Holy Mount
“Gnostic” Elements
The Vices and Virtues
The Early Date of the Original “Hermas”
The Dependence Theory to be used with Caution
The Visions of Crates
The General Christian “Many” and the Gnostic “Few”
The Story of Abbot Olympius
A Final Word
XI. Concerning the Æ on-Doctrine	387-412
The Scope of our Essay
The Orphic Tradition of the Genesis of the World Egg
Commentary
The Sethian Gnosis
The Mithriac Æ on
Probable Date of Origin of the Hellenistic Æ on-Doctrine
Abraxas
The Feast of the Æ on
The Quintessence and the Monad
The Æ on in Plato
Concerning the Hellenistic Origin of Æ onology
The Æ on the Logos
The Roman Sæ culum Cult derived from Egypt
The Æ onic Immensities of Egypt
A Song of Praise to the Æ on
The Demiurgic Æ on
The Æ on in Theurgic Literature
XII. The Seven Zones and their Characteristics	413-428
Macrobius on “The Descent of the Soul from the Heights of Cosmos to the Depths of Earth”
The Tradition of Servius
Criticism of the Evidence
The “Ophite” Hebdomad
The Simpler Form of the Trismegistic Gnosis
Concerning Leviathan and Behemoth
The “Fence of Fire”
XIII. Plato: Concerning Metempsychosis	429-436
The Soul and her Mysteries in the “Phæ drus”
Plotinus on Metempsychosis
Proclus on the Descent of Souls into Irrational Natures
XIV. The Vision of Er	437-449
Er Son of Armenius
From the Mysteries
The Cylinder
The Vision
Commentary
XV. Concerning the Crater or Cup	450-456
The Crater in Plato
In “Orpheus, ” Macrobius, and Proclus
The Vision of Aridæ us
The Origin of the Symbol to be sought in Orphic Tradition
XVI. The Disciples of Thrice-Greatest Hermes	457-481
Ptah, Sekhet and I-em-ḥ etep (Asclepius)
Nefer-Tem
Imhotep-Imuth-Asclepius
Thā th-Tat
The Incarnations of Thoth
The Disciples of Lord Hermes in Petosiris and Nechepso
Tosothros-Asclepius
Imuth-Asclepius the Master-Mason and Poet
Æ sculapius the Healer
Asclepius in Trismegistic Tradition
Concerning Ammon
Prophet and King
Amenhotep-Asclepius
The Sacred Group of Four
James, John and Peter
The Triad of Disciples
Chnum the Good Daimon
Osiris Disciple of Agathodaimon the Thrice-greatest
Logos-Mind the Good Daimon
Chnum Good Mind the Æ on
Isis, Lady of Wisdom, Disciple of Thrice-greatest Hermes

p. xvi

Was he one or many, merging
Name and fame in one,
Like a stream, to which, converging,
Many streamlets run?

. . . . . .

Who shall call his dreams fallacious?
Who has searched or sought
All the unexplored and spacious
Universe of thought?

Who in his own skill confiding,
Shall with rule and line
Mark the border-land dividing
Human and divine?

Trismegistus! Three times greatest!
How thy name sublime
Has descended to this latest
Progeny of time!

Longfellow, Hermes Trismegistus. 1

Footnotes

xvi: 1 This poem is dated January 1882. Chambers (p. 155, n. ) says: “It is noteworthy that the last poem of Longfellow was a lyrical ode in celebration of Hermes Trismegistus. ”

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