Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. III — G. R. S. Mead (1906)

Nevertheless they are all each of other, the same in difference and different in the same. Their source and middle and their end is Man, and Man alone can reach unto the Gnosis of God.

And therefore we may conclude with the daring counsel given unto Hermes by the Mind — a doctrine fit for Men.

" If, then, thou dost not make thyself like unto God, thou canst not know Him. For like is knowable to like alone.

" Make thou thyself to grow to the same stature as the Greatness which transcends all measure ; leap forth from every Body ; transcend all Time ; become Eternity ; and then shalt thou know God.

" Conceiving nothing is impossible unto thyself, think thyself deathless and able to know all — all arts, all sciences, the way of every life.

" Become more lofty than all height, and lower than all depth. Collect into thyself all senses of all creatures — of fire and water, dry and moist. Think that thou art at the same time in every place — in earth, in sea, in sky; not yet begotten, in the womb, young, old, and dead, in after-death conditions.

" And if thou knowest all these things at once — -times, places, doings, qualities, and quantities ; thou canst know God."

This is the Straight Way, the Good's Own Path, the
Ancient Koad.

" If thou but sett'st thy foot thereon, 'twill meet thee everywhere, 'twill anywhere be seen, both where and when thou dost expect it not — waking, sleeping, sailing, journeying, by night, by day, speaking, and saying naught. For there is naught that is not image of the Good."

And so for the present writing we bid farewell to Thrice-greatest Hermes and the teachings of his Mind, the Shepherd of all men — with heart-felt thanks that by the Mercy of God the echo of his voice has come to us across the ages and bidden us once more remember.

Index

Aah-Tehuti, i. 66.

Aahlu, Territory of Illumination, i. 70.

Aall, i. 33.
Aan, i. 55.
Ab, i. 89.

Abammon, the Teacher, iii. 285.
Abbot Olympius, Story of, i. 384.
Abercius, ii. 55.
Abortion, i. 335, ii. 366.
Abraham, i. 253.
Abraxas, i. 82, 402.
Abraxoid, i. 82.
Abydos, i. 292.

Abyss, i. 408, ii. 27, 80, 81, 269.
Accuser, blind, iii. 281.
Achaab, the Husbandman, ii. 265.
Acbsea, i. 350.
Acharantus, the Husbandman, ii.

265.

Achemides, i. 400.
Active Principle, the, i. 225.
Acts of John, i. 236, ii. 55, 238,

iii. 157 ; mystery ritual in, i. 182,

183, ii. 243, iii. 156.
Acts of Philip, i. 147.
Adam, i. 115, 149, iii. 277, 281 ;

body of, i. 281 ; celestial, i. 146.
Adam (J.), i. 336.
Adam Kadmon, i. 146.
Adamant, i. 392.
Adamas, i. 146, 159, 161.
Adams (see Marsham).
Adomenon, iii. 305.
Adonis, i. 151, 156, 294.
Adoration of images, ii. 286.
Adrasteia, i. 430, iii. 116.
Advent, ii. 171.
Adversary, Agree with thine, iii.

281.

jEacus, i. 303.

jElian, i. 103.

jEon, i. 66, 92, ii. 128, 175, 232, 370, iii. 117, 161 ; become, ii. 190 ; birth of the, iii. 160 ; circle of infinitude, i. 399 ; communities of the, in Phoenicia, i. 403 ; demiurgic, i. 410 ; eternity or, iii. 91 ; feast of the, i. 403 ; in Theurgic literature, i. 410 ; Logos, i. 406 ; Mithriac, i. 399 ; in Plato, i. 404 ; song of praise to the, i. 408 ; is not time, i. 405 ; boundary of all universes, i. 392 ; wealth -giving, i. 402.

Mon or JEons, i. 182, ii. 240.

^Eon-doctrine, the, i. 387, ii. 190.

Ionian Essence Above, i. 152.

JEonic Consciousness, ii. 244 ;
Immensities of Egypt, i. 407.

jEonology, ii. 32, 192, 248 ; Hellenistic origin of, i. 401, 405.

JEons, ii. 373 ; father of the, i.
411 ; hymn of the, ii. 43 ; Great
Silence, Mother of, ii. 241 ;
of Pleroma, i. 408, ii. 245;
"rootage" of, ii. 317; type
of the, ii. 282.

Aerolites, iii. 53.

JEsculapius, cult of, i. 468.

^Ether, i. 84, 101, iii. 50, 98, 101, 125 ; the height of the, i. 233 ; quintessence or, ii. 92 ; Mighty Whirlpool, i. 451.

^Ethiopia (see Ethiopia), i. 188, 281.

^Ethiopian queen, i. 316.

Again- becoming, ii. 76, 83.

Agamemnon, i. 446.

Agathodaimon, i. 85, 98, 105, 109,
479, ii. 213, iii. 156, 157, 163 ;

INDEX

Osiris disciple of, i. 478, iii.

261 ; literature, iii. 257, 316 ;

sayings of, iii. 310, 316 ; type, iii. 261. Age, Golden, iii. 135 ; of seven years, iii. 37. Agree with thine adversary, iii.

281.