G.R.S. Mead: Essays and Commentaries

G.R.S. Mead: Essays and Commentaries
Author: G.R.S. Mead
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1365288390

Various shorter works of G.R.S. Mead. Subjects included are those of Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet, and H.P. Blavatsky.

Orpheus

Orpheus
Author: George Robert Stow Mead
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1896
Genre: Cults
ISBN:

Simon Magus

Simon Magus
Author: George Robert Stow Mead
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465516387

Thrice-Greatest Hermes

Thrice-Greatest Hermes
Author: G. R. S. Mead
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1906
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3849674819

This is the edition including all three books. The so-called Hermetic writings have been known to Christian writers for many centuries. The early church Fathers (Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) quote them in defense of Christianity. Stobaeus collected fragments of them. The Humanists knew and valued them. They were studied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in modern times have again been diligently examined by many scholars. G. R. S. Mead has issued a translation of the whole body of extant literature, with extended prolegomena, commentary, etc. There is a wide difference of opinion as to the date at which this literature was produced. Mead believes that some of the extant portions of it are at least as early as the earliest Christian writings, while von Christ assigns them to the third Christian century, and thinks that they show the influence of neo-Platonism. To affirm that they influenced New Testament usage would be hazardous, but they perhaps throw some light on the direction in which thought was moving in New Testament times.

The Path

The Path
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1896
Genre: Occultism
ISBN: