Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1: Prolegomena (1906) - Page 20

XI. CONCERNING THE ÆON-DOCTRINE Æon: In Gnosticism, a divine emanation or age . . . 387-412

The Scope of our Essay . . . . . . 387
The Orphic Tradition of the Genesis of the World-Egg . . . 388
Commentary . . . . . . . . 392
The Sethian Gnosis . . . . . . . 393
The Mithriac Æon . . . . . . . 399
Probable Date of Origin of the Hellenistic Æon-Doctrine . . 401
Abraxas . . . . . . . . . 402
The Feast of the Æon . . . . . . . 403
The Quintessence and the Monad . . . . 403
The Æon in Plato . . . . . . . 404
Concerning the Hellenistic Origin of Æonology . . 405
The Æon the Logos . . . . . . . 406
The Roman Sæculum Sæculum: Century or age Cult derived from Egypt . . 407
The Æonic Immensities of Egypt . . . . . 407
A Song of Praise to the Æon . . . . . 408
The Demiurgic Æon . . . . . . . 410
The Æon in Theurgic Literature . . . . . 410

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" . . 413
The Tradition of Servius . . . . . . 418
Criticism of the Evidence . . . . . . 419
The "Ophite" Hebdomad Hebdomad: A group of seven, often referencing planetary spheres . . . . . 421
The Simpler Form of the Trismegistic Gnosis . . 423
Concerning Leviathan and Behemoth . . . . 423
The "Fence of Fire" . . . . . . . 427

XIII. PLATO : CONCERNING METEMPSYCHOSIS Metempsychosis: Reincarnation or transmigration of souls . . . 429-436

The Soul and her Mysteries in the "Phædrus" . . 429
Plotinus on Metempsychosis . . . . . . 434
Proclus on the Descent of Souls into Irrational Natures . . 435

XIV. THE VISION OF ER . . . . . . 437-449

Er Son of Armenius . . . . . . . 437
From the Mysteries . . . . . . . 438
The Cylinder . . . . . . . . 439
The Vision . . . . . . . . 440
Commentary . . . . . . . . 448