ISBN: 9781162576336

Paperback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Other volumes in this set incl… More...

Paperback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766126137, 0766126145. Volume 1 of 3. (This description is for all volumes.) Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis Being a Transaction of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic Literature with Prolegomena, Commentaries, and Notes; All three volumes are combined into one book. "These volumes might be described as the preparation of materials to serve for the historic, mythic, and mystic consideration of the Origins of Christianity. The serious consideration of the matter contained in these pages will, enable the attentive reader to outline in his mind, however vaguely, some small portion of the environment of infant Christianity, and allow him to move a few steps round the cradle of Christendom." Partial Contents: Vol. 1: Remains of the Trismegistic Literature; History of the Evolution of Opinion; Thoth the Master of Wisdom; Popular Theurgic Hermes-Cult; Main Source of the Trismegistic Literature; An Egyptian Prototype of the Main Features of the Poemandres' Cosmogony; Myth of Man in the Mysteries; Philo of Alexandria; Plutarch: Concerning the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris; "Hermas" and "Hermes"; Concerning the AEon-Doctrine; Seven Zones and their Characteristics; Plato: Concerning Metempsychosis; Disciples of Thrice-Greatest Hermes. Vol. 2: Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men; General Sermon; Sacred Sermon; Cup or Monad; In God Alone is Good; Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of God; But Men in Error Speak of Their Changes as Destructions and as Deaths; On Thought and Sense; The Key; Mind Unto Hermes; About the Common Mind; Secret Sermon on the Mountain. Vol. 3: Excerpts by Stobaeus; Of Piety and True Philosophy; Ineffability of God; Of Truth; God, Nature and the Gods; Of Matter and Time; Energy and Feeling; Justice; Providence and Fate; Of Soul; Power of Choice; Of Isis to Horus; From "Aphrodite"; References and Fragments in the Fathers; Justin Martyr; Clement of Alexandria; Tertullian; Cyprian; Augustine; Cyril of Alexandria; References and Fragments in the Philosophers; Zosimus; Jamblichus; Julian the Emperor; Fulgentius the Mythographe, Anthologies (non-poetry)<

2010, ISBN: 9781162576336

Kessinger Publishing, Paperback, 354 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-10T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.79 kg, Verkaufsrang: 6430944, Anthologies, Fiction, Subjects, Books, Kessinger Publis… More...

Kessinger Publishing, Paperback, 354 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-10T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.79 kg, Verkaufsrang: 6430944, Anthologies, Fiction, Subjects, Books, Kessinger Publishing, 2010<

2010, ISBN: 9781162576336

Kessinger Publishing, Taschenbuch, 354 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-10T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 1.75 kg, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Kessinger Publishing, 2010