Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. III — G. R. S. Mead (1906)
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" The work is one of great labour and learning, and deserves study as a sympathetic estimate of a rather severely-judged class of heretics." — Glasgow Herald.
" Written in a clear and elegant style The bibliographies in the volume are of world-wide range, and will be most valuable to students of theosophy " — Atiatic Quarterly.
" Mr. Mead writes with precision and clearness on subjects usually associated with bewildering technicalities and mystifications. Even the long-suffering ' general reader ' could go through this large volume with pleasure. That is a great deal to say of a book on such a subject. — Light.
" This striking work will certainly be read not only with the greatest interest in the select circle of the cultured, but by that much larger circle of those longing to learn all about
Truth May be summed up as an extraordinarily clear exposition of the Gnosig of the Saints and the Sages of philosophic Christianity." — The Roman Herald.
" Mr. Mead does us another piece of service by including a complete copy of the Gnostic Hymn of the Robe of Glory . . . and a handy epitome of the Pistis Sophia is another item for which the student will be grateful." — The Literary Guide.
" The author has naturally the interest of a theosophist in Gnosticism, and approaches the subject accordingly from a point of view different from our own. But while his point of view emerges in the course of the volume, this does not affect the value of his work for those who do not share his special standpoint Mr. Mead has at any rate rendered us an excellent service, and we shall look forward with pleasure to his future studies." — The Primitive Methodist Quarterly.
" The writing of the present work has been a congenial task to Mr. Mead, and he has brought to bear, lovingly and zealously, upon the portraiture of the figure of Christ and of early Christianity all the knowledge which a deep study of Oriental religions from their emotional side could furnish. The book is published by the Theosophical Publishing Society, and bears, of course, the marks of its associations ; but it may be stated at the outset that there is very little of what is commonly regarded as the Theosophic method apparent in the work, which is the product of a scholarly though, withal, very devotional spirit
In his endeavour to realise the object which he has set himself, Mr. Mead has traversed a wide field In fine, we have in his volume a bird's-eye view of the whole field
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WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
of early Gnosticism written for the general reader in a style and method requiring no knowledge of the ancient tongues." — The Monist.
" We are glad to see that the Theosophists. ... are settling down to the study of religion Though we do not appreciate their fundamental philosophy, so far as we understand it, we think they may do good work if they produce books like this of Mr.
Mead — comprehensive, interesting, and scholarly though evidently biassed
Readers not familiar with the learned German works on Gnosticism will find here an account of its varying phases and of the influences which helped to produce it. The chapters entitled ' Some Rough Outlines of the Background of the Gnosis ' are well written, and they tend to focus the philosophic and religious movement of the ancient world. There is a very excellent bibliography."— ThelSpectator.