Hermetica: Volume Four

by SCOTT, WALTER

• ISBN13: 9781570626333
• ISBN10: 1570626332
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott's extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is said that these teachings are records of private, intimate talks between a teacher and one or two of his disciples. The setting was in Egypt under the Roman Empire, among men who had received some instruction in Greek philosophy, and especially the Platonism of the period, but were not content with merely accepting and repeating the dogmas of the orthodox philosophic religion that would better satisfy their needs. Included here are alchemical writings in Greek and Latin about theHermetica, as well as addenda and indices compiled after Scott's death. Volumes I, II, and III ofHermetica, which contain Scott's translation, his notes on theCorpus Hermeticum,and his commentary onAsclepiusand the Hermetic excerpts of Stobaeus, are also published by Shambhala.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
TESTIMONIA	1	(352)
Athenagoras	2	(1)
Tertullian	3	(2)
Cypriauus	5	(1)
Pseudo-Justinus	6	(1)
Arnobius	7	(2)
Lactantius	9	(19)
Abammonis Responsum	28	(75)
Notes on Abammonis Responsum	40	(63)
Iamblichus	103	(2)
Zosimus Panopolitanus	105	(49)
Notes on Zosimus	112	(42)
Marcellus of Ancyra	154	(1)
Pseudo-Anthimus	155	(6)
Ephraim Syrus	161	(5)
Filastrius	166	(2)
Didymus Alexandrinus	168	(9)
Ammianus Marcellinus	177	(2)
Augustinus	179	(12)
Cyrillus Alexandrinus	191	(36)
Excerpta e Theosophia	227	(3)
Fulgentius	230	(1)
Joannes Lydus	230	(2)
Joannes Malalas	232	(3)
Chronicon Paschale	235	(1)
Suidas	235	(1)
Cedrenus	235	(1)
Artemii Passio	236	(7)
Psellus	243	(4)
Nicephorus Gregoras	247	(1)
Al-Kindi	248	(2)
Al-Maqdisi	250	(3)
Mas'udi	253	(2)
An-Nadim	255	(201)
Ibn Zulaq	256	(1)
Ibn Hazm Al-Qorthobi	256	(1)
Ibrahim Ben Wassif Shah	257	(1)
Al-Shahrastani	258	(5)
`Umar Ben Chidhr Isfahani	263	(1)
Suhrawardf	264	(5)
Maimonides	269	(1)
Al-Qifthi	270	(1)
AI-Katibi	271	(3)
Barhebraeus	274	(3)
Hermes De Castigatione Animae	277	(212)
Joannes Antiochenus	489	(1)
Joannes de Niciu	489	(1)
Cosmas Hierosolymitanus	490
Addenda	353	(138)
Author-Index to Addenda	491	(2)
Appendix	493	(8)
Index Graecitatis	501	(37)
Index Latinitatis	538	(9)
Index Locorum	547	(23)
Supplementum Lectionum	570	(305)
Errata	575