Eternal Hermes by Faivre, Antoine -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Dedication Page Preface Chapter One - Hermes in the Western Imagination

Introduction: The Greek Hermes The Thrice-Greatest The Arabic Idris and the Alchemical Mercury The Metamorphoses of Hermes in the High Middle Ages At the Dawn of the Renaissance Hermes and the New Spirit of Humanism Geoffroy Tory and Francois Rabelais The Return of Trismegistus at the Renaissance Faces of Hermes in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Hermesian Perspectives Select Bibliography for Chapter One

Chapter Two - The Children of Hermes and the Science of Man

Hermetica and Modern Hermeticism Hermes's Place Today Select Bibliography for Chapter Two

1. Thoth, Hermes, Trismegistus; or The Ancient Faces of Mercury

A. The Appearance of Trismegistus B. Genealogies of the Triplex C. Books and Seals of Hermes

2. Scenarios and Tablets, or Secrets of the Tomb of Hermes

A. Statues and Cities of Hermes B. The Book of Crates and the Emerald Tablet C. The Liber de Causis and other Scenarios

3. The Beacon of Hermes, or Avatars of the Tradition

A. Philosophia Perennis B. Hermeticism and Esotericism C. Resistances and Permanencies

Notes to Chapter Three

Chapter Four - Hermes's Presence in the City

Hermes the Architect, or Hermetistic Harmony At the Crossroads of Amsterdam, or the Initiatic Message Little-Eyes, or the Discreet Presence of Mercury The Meeting of Two Hermeses in the City of Screaming Metal Notes to Chapter Four

1. The Middle Ages

A. References in the Church Fathers B. Medieval Authors Mentioning Hermes C Medieval Texts Influenced by Hermetism

2. Rediscovery at the Renaissance

A. The Point of Departure B. English Puritanismi the Situation in Germany C. Editions and Commentaries on the Corpus Hermeticum D. Authors Whose Work is Marked by this Hermetism

3. Casaubon's “Revelation” and the Seventeenth Century

A. Isaac Casaubon B. Authors Whose Work is Marked by this Hermetism

4. In the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

A. General Remarks B. German Works C. Reawakening in England and the United States

5. Tradition and Erudition in the Twentieth Century

A. Persistence of Esoteric Exegesis B. The Corpus Hermeticum and Academic Study

6. Studies of the Reception of Alexandrian Hermetism

A. Books B. Selected Articles

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