The Hymns of Hermes

Name: The Hymns of Hermes
Author: G. R. S. Mead
ISBN: 9781911535362

Author: G. R. S. Mead
Series: Christian Classics
Language: English
Length: 44 pages
ISBN: 9781911535362
Published: 19 September 2016
Imprint: The Big Nest

Gnostic
Coptic
mystic
mysticism
divinity
divine
cosmology
Christianity
religion
faith

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Description

Clement of Alexandria tells us that the whole of the religious philosophy-that is, the wisdom, discipline and multifarious arts and sciences-of the Egyptian priesthood was contained in the Books of Hermes, that is of Thoth. These Books, he informs us further, were classified under forty-two heads and divided into a number of groups according to the various septs or divisions of the priests.

Author

G. R. S. Mead (1863–1933) was an English historian and translator who opened Hermetic, Gnostic, and Neoplatonic texts to a modern readership. A prominent Theosophist and later founder of the Quest Society, he treated ancient wisdom as living literature rather than museum dust. Pistis Sophia, his studies of Hermes, and related works in our catalogue show a scholar who wanted the hidden traditions of late antiquity to speak clearly in English.

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