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Das Geheimnis des Hermes Trismegistos : Geschichte des Hermetismus von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit
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ISBN: 3406528163 Year: 2005 Volume: 1642

The secret history of Hermes Trismegistus : hermeticism from ancient to modern times
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ISBN: 9780801445460 0801445469 9780801477492 Year: 2007 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,


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The tradition of Hermes Trismegistus : the egyptian priestly figure as a teacher of hellenized wisdom
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ISBN: 9789004370814 9004370811 9004370846 Year: 2018 Volume: 186 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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In The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian H. Bull argues that the treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus reflect the spiritual exercises and ritual practices of loosely organized brotherhoods in Egypt. These small groups were directed by Egyptian priests educated in the traditional lore of the temples, but also conversant with Greek philosophy. Such priests, who were increasingly dispossessed with the gradual demise of the Egyptian temples, could find eager adherents among a Greek-speaking audience seeking for the wisdom of the Egyptian Hermes, who was widely considered to be an important source for the philosophies of Pythagoras and Plato. The volume contains a comprehensive analysis of the myths of Hermes Trismegistus, a reevaluation of the Way of Hermes, and a contextualization of this ritual tradition.

The secret history of Hermes Trismegistus
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ISBN: 0801464889 080146482X 9780801464829 9780801445460 0801445469 9780801477492 0801477492 9780801464881 Year: 2007 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press

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"Perhaps Hermeticism has fascinated so many people precisely because it has made it possible to produce many analogies and relationships to various traditions: to Platonism in its many varieties, to Stoicism, to Gnostic ideas, and even to certain Aristotelian doctrines. The Gnostic, the esoteric, the Platonist, or the deist has each been able to find something familiar in the writings. One just had to have a penchant for remote antiquity, for the idea of a Golden Age, in order for Hermeticism, with its aura of an ancient Egyptian revelation, to have enjoyed such outstanding success."-from the IntroductionHermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes," emerged from the amalgamation of the wisdom gods Hermes and Thoth and is one of the most enigmatic figures of intellectual history. Since antiquity, the legendary "wise Egyptian" has been considered the creator of several mystical and magical writings on such topics as alchemy, astrology, medicine, and the transcendence of God. Philosophers of the Renaissance celebrated Hermes Trismegistus as the founder of philosophy, Freemasons called him their forefather, and Enlightenment thinkers championed religious tolerance in his name. To this day, Hermes Trismegistus is one of the central figures of the occult-his name is synonymous with the esoteric.In this scholarly yet accessible introduction to the history of Hermeticism and its mythical founder, Florian Ebeling provides a concise overview of the Corpus Hermeticum and other writings attributed to Hermes. He traces the impact of Christian and Muslim versions of the figure in medieval Europe, the power of Hermeticism and Paracelsian belief in Renaissance thought, the relationship to Pietism and to Freemasonry in early modern Europe, and the relationship to esotericism and semiotics in the modern world.

The Egyptian Hermes : a historical approach to the late pagan mind
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ISBN: 0691024987 Year: 1993 Volume: *2 Publisher: Princeton ; Chichester Princeton University Press


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Hermes Trismegistos als Zeuge der Wahrheit : die christliche Hermetikrezeption von Athenagoras bis Laktanz
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ISBN: 3825703223 9783825703226 Year: 2002 Volume: 36 Publisher: Berlin Philo


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The arabic hermes : from pagan sage to prophet of science
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ISBN: 9780195376135 0195376137 0199871639 1282335367 0199704481 9786612335365 Year: 2009 Volume: *1 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

The Egyptian Hermes : a historical approach to the late Pagan mind
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ISBN: 0521325838 9780521325837 Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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