Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (949 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1926842324 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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The sympathetic study of this material may well prove an initiatory process towards an understanding of that Archaic Gnosis. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. They might thus perhaps be described as the preparation of materials to serve for the historic, mythic, and mystic consideration of the Origins of Christianity,-where the term "mythic" is used in its true sense of inner, typical, sacred and "logic," as opposed to the external processioning of physical events known as "historic," and where the term "mystic" is used as that which pertains to initiation and the mysteries. And, therefore, though these volumes are intended to show those competent to judge that all has been set forth in decency according to approved methods of modern research, they are also designed for those who are not qualified to give an opinion on such matters, but who are able to feel and think with the writers of these beautiful tractates.. Though the material that we have collected, has, as to its externals, been tested, as far as our hands are capable of the work, by the methods of scholarship and criticism, it has nevertheless at the same time been allowed ungrudgingly to show itself the outward expression of a truly vital endeavour of immense interest and value to all who are disposed to make friends with it. THESE volumes, complete in themselves as a series of studies in a definite
G.R.S Mead received Blavatsky's six Esoteric Instructions and other teachings at twenty-two meetings headed by Blavatsky which were only attended by the Inner Group of the Theosophical Society. Mead became a member of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's Theosophical Society in 1884. While still at Cambridge University Mead read Esoteric Buddhism by Alfred Percy Sinnett, this comprehensive theosophical account of the eastern religion prompted Mead to contact two theosophists in London named Bertam Keightly and Mohini Chatterji which eventually led him to join the Theosophical Society. was for those whom the Theosophical Society deemed more advanced. Making many contributions to the Theosophical Society's Lucifer as joint editor he eventually became the sole editor of The Theosophical Review in 1907 (as Lucifer was renamed in 1897). About the Author George Robert Stowe Mead (1863–1933) was an aut
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He abandoned his teaching profession in 1889 to be Blavatsky's private secretary and also became a joint-secretary of the Esoteric Section (E.S.) of the Theosophical Society, the E.S. George Robert Stowe Mead (1863–1933) was an author, editor, translator, and an influential member of the Theosophical Society as well as the founder of the Quest Society. . While still at Cambridge University Mead read