Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1: Prolegomena

Is “Sothis” a Forgery? . . . . 107
The Arguments of Encyclopædism refuted . . . 108
The Seriadic Land . . . . . 110
The Stelæ Stelæ: Ancient stone slabs or pillars inscribed with text of Hermes . . . . . 112
The Sons of Seth-Hermes . . . . 113
The Epithet “Thrice-greatest” . . . . 116
The Clue of Griffiths . . . . . 118
The Earliest Trismegistic Literature . . . 121
Philo Byblius . . . . . . 122
Are his “Phœnician Histories” a Forgery? . . 123
Sanchuniathon and the “Books of Hermes” . . 124

VI. AN EGYPTIAN PROTOTYPE OF THE MAIN FEATURES OF THE PŒMANDRES' COSMOGONY . . 128-138

The Higher Criticism of the “Pœmandres” The seminal text of the Corpus Hermeticum . . . 128
A Prototype of its Cosmogenesis Cosmogenesis: The origin of the universe . . . 129
A Praise-giving to Ptah . . . . 131
Ptah-Thoth the Wise One . . . . 132
Egyptian Syncretism 1000 B.C. . . . 135
The Doctrine of “Pœmandres” Compared with that of its Prototype . . . . . 136
The Man-Doctrine . . . . . 138

VII. THE MYTH OF MAN IN THE MYSTERIES . . 139-198

The Gnostic Tradition . . . . . 139
The “Philosophumena” of Hippolytus . . . 140
The Naassenes An early sect associated with Gnosticism . . . . . 141
Analysis of Hippolytus' Account of the Naassene Document . . . . . . 142
Hippolytus' Introduction . . . . 146
The Material for the Recovery of the Original Hellenistic Document . . . . 148
Hippolytus' Conclusion . . . . . 186
Conclusion of Analysis . . . . . 192
The Hellenist Commentator . . . . 193
The Jewish and Christian Overwriters . . . 194
Zosimus and the Anthropos-Doctrine Anthropos: The Primordial or Celestial Man . . . 196
Philo of Alexandria on the Man-Doctrine . . 197

VIII. PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE HELLENISTIC THEOLOGY . . . . . 199-254

Concerning Philo and his Method . . . 199
The Great Importance of his Writings . . . 204