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Contents 8 Acknowledgements 12 Abbreviations 14 Chapter 1 Introduction 18 1.1 The Status Quaestionis 21 1.2 The Aim of the Present Contribution 29 1.3 Theoretical Considerations 32 1.3.1 Hermetic Myths: Hermes as Model Author and Figure of Memory 32 1.3.2 The Tradition of Hermes 37 1.3.3 The Term Hermetism 44 Part 1 Who is Hermes Trismegistus? 48 Chapter 2 The Myth of Hermes Trismegistus 50 2.1 The Egyptian Pre-History of the Thrice-Greatest Thoth 50 2.2 Greek Sources for the Egyptian Hermes 53 2.2.1 Plato’s Egyptian Myth of Theuth 55 2.2.2 Aristoxenus’ Thoth 62 2.2.3 The Letter of Manetho to King Ptolemy II Philadelphus 64 2.2.4 The Myth of Hermes in Cicero and Diodorus Siculus 104 Chapter 3 The Primordial Egyptian Kings in the Hermetica 114 3.1 SH XXIII (Korê Kosmou): An Egyptian Account of Creation 118 3.2 SH XXIV: The Emanations of Royal Souls 128 3.3 SH XXV: Cosmology and the Location of the Royal Souls 132 3.4 SH XXVI: Hermes as a Royal Soul 134 3.5 CH I: Poimandres the King 138 3.6 Kmeph and Protology in the Hermetica 148 3.7 De Anima: The Creation of the Souls and the Primal Human 163 3.8 The Bronze Age in CH I: Erroneous Love and Its Remedy 167 3.9 The Hermetic Transmigrat

Author

Bull, Christian H.;

Published

2018

Language

EN