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Author:   Christian H. Bull
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   186
Weight:   0.978kg
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9789004370814

ISBN 10:   9004370811
Pages:   532
Publication Date:   20 September 2018
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 The Status Quaestionis  1.2 The Aim of the Present Contribution  1.3 Theoretical Considerations Part 1: Who is Hermes Trismegistus? 2 The Myth of Hermes Trismegistus  2.1 The Egyptian Pre-History of the Thrice-Greatest Thoth  2.2 Greek Sources for the Egyptian Hermes 3 The Primordial Egyptian Kings in the Hermetica  3.1 SH XXIII (Korê Kosmou): An Egyptian Account of Creation  3.2 SH XXIV: The Emanations of Royal Souls  3.3 SH XXV: Cosmology and the Location of the Royal Souls  3.4 SH XXVI: Hermes as a Royal Soul  3.5 CH I: Poimandres the King  3.6 Kmeph and Protology in the Hermetica  3.7 De Anima: The Creation of the Souls and the Primal Human  3.8 The Bronze Age in CH I: Erroneous Love and Its Remedy  3.9 The Hermetic Transmigration of Souls  3.10 Hermes, Nature, and the Royal Souls in Manilius’ Astronomica  3.11 Hermes, Nature, and the Royal Souls in Petosiris and Nechepsos  3.12 The Importance of Myth in the Hermetic Tradition Conclusion to Part 1 Part 2: What is the Way of Hermes? 4 Introduction to the Way of Hermes  4.1 Testimonies to the Existence of a “Way”  4.2 The Way of Thoth  4.3 The Order of the Tradition  4.4 Conversion  4.5 First Stage: Knowing Oneself  4.6 Second Stage: Becoming a Stranger to the World 5 The Ritual of Rebirth  5.1 CH XIII: General Remarks  5.2 The Phase of Separation  5.3 Limen: The Threshold Phase  5.4 The Aggregation or Incorporation Phase  5.5 Concluding Remarks on the Rebirth 6 Heavenly Ascent: The Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth (NHC VI,6)  6.1 Introduction: The Sequence of the Tradition (52,1–13)  6.2 Explanation of Spiritual Generation (52,14–55,23)  6.3 The Visionary Ascent (55,24–61,17)  6.4 Epilogue: Erection of a Votive Stela (61,18–63,32) Conclusion to Part 2 Part 3: Who Were the Hermetists?—Situating the Way of Hermes 7 The True Philosophy of Hermes  7.1 The Way of Hermes as a Philosophical School  7.2 Philosophy as a Hermetic Self-Designation  7.3 The Hermetic Science of the Stars  7.4 Priestly Philosophers 8 The Magician and the Temple  8.1 On the Term ‘Magic’  8.2 The Thebes-Cache  8.3 Hermetism in the Thebes-Cache?  8.4 Thessalos and Thebes  8.5 Vision and Divination  8.6 Rebirth and Ascent: The Mithras or Pšai-Aion Liturgy 9 The Egyptian Priesthoods and Temples  9.1 Egyptian Priests as Purveyors of Native Tradition  9.2 The Idealized Priests of Chaeremon and the Perfect Discourse  9.3 The Temple as a Dwelling-Place of Priests and Gods  9.4 Egypt as the Temple of the World and The Twilight of Its Gods  9.5 The New Law  9.6 The Hermetic Sitz-im-Leben: A Suggestion Conclusion Bibliography

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Bull's work represents an accessible yet profound and thoughtful introduction and handbook to the Hermetica, providing both a fair and thorough summary of previous work and a lucid approach to understanding them, and it is likely to become an invaluable reference work and source of further ideas in years to come. - Korshi Dosoo, Wurzburg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.02.23. Par sa qualite, ses ambitions et ses positions interpretatives, l'ouvrage ne meritait pas une collection moins prestigieuse (...) Aussi peut-on etre certain que cette these brillante fera date dans les etudes sur l'hermetisme. - Florian Audureau, Universite Paris Diderot Paris 7, Revue de l'histoire des religions 1, 2020.

"""Bull’s work represents an accessible yet profound and thoughtful introduction and handbook to the Hermetica, providing both a fair and thorough summary of previous work and a lucid approach to understanding them, and it is likely to become an invaluable reference work and source of further ideas in years to come."" - Korshi Dosoo, Würzburg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.02.23. ""Par sa qualité, ses ambitions et ses positions interprétatives, l’ouvrage ne méritait pas une collection moins prestigieuse (...) Aussi peut-on être certain que cette thèse brillante fera date dans les études sur l’hermétisme."" - Florian Audureau, Université Paris Diderot Paris 7, Revue de l'histoire des religions 1, 2020."

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Christian H. Bull, Ph.D. (2014), University of Bergen, is a Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Oslo and Princeton University. He has published several articles on the Hermetica and the Nag Hammadi Codices, as well as a book of Norwegian translations of the Corpus Hermeticum. He co-edited Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature (Brill, 2012).

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