The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus

, by Ebeling, Florian; Assmann, Jan; Lorton, David

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ISBN: 9780801445460 | 0801445469
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Copyright: 6/1/2007

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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 Aristote

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Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Prehistory and Early History of a Phantasm	p. 3
What Are Hermetic Texts?	p. 7
The Hermetic Texts of Late Antiquity	p. 9
Hermes as Preacher of Theology and Philosophy	p. 12
Hermes: Astrologer, Magus, and Alchemist	p. 21
What Was Ancient Hermeticism?	p. 27
The Middle Ages: Christian Theology and "Antediluvian" Magic	p. 37
Christian Hermeticism	p. 38
Arab Hermeticism	p. 44
Hermes Latinus	p. 51
Traditions of Medieval Hermeticism	p. 57
Renaissance: Primeval Wisdom for a New World	p. 59
Tradition or Rediscovery?	p. 59
Hermeticism and Paracelsism	p. 70
Religious Hermeticism	p. 81
Two Paths of Hermeticism in the Early Modern Period	p. 89
Seventeenth Century: High Point and Decline	p. 91
Casaubon and the Dating of the Hermetic Texts	p. 91
Hermeticism and the Modern Natural Sciences	p. 100
Hermeticism and Pietism	p. 109
The Decrepitude of Hermeticism?	p. 113
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Between Occultism and Enlightenment	p. 115
Two German Editions of the Corpus Hermeticum	p. 118
Hermes Trismegistus in Freemasonry	p. 121
From Historical to Systematic Hermeticism	p. 129
Twentieth Century: Systems and Esoterica	p. 135
Julius Evola and Esoteric Hermeticism	p. 137
Umberto Eco's Hermetic Semiosis and Heinrich Rombach's Hermeticism	p. 139
Chronology	p. 143
Glossary	p. 147
Select Bibliography	p. 151
Index	p. 153
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