The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus
by Ebeling, Florian; Assmann, Jan; Lorton, DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-06-01
Publisher(s): Cornell Univ Pr
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Summary
"Perhaps Hermeticism has fascinated so many people precisely because it has made it possible to produce many analogies and relationships to various traditions: to Platonism in its many varieties, to Stoicism, to Gnostic ideas, and even to certain Aristote
Author Biography
Florian Ebeling is Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Prehistory and Early History of a Phantasm | p. 3 |
| What Are Hermetic Texts? | p. 7 |
| The Hermetic Texts of Late Antiquity | p. 9 |
| Hermes as Preacher of Theology and Philosophy | p. 12 |
| Hermes: Astrologer, Magus, and Alchemist | p. 21 |
| What Was Ancient Hermeticism? | p. 27 |
| The Middle Ages: Christian Theology and "Antediluvian" Magic | p. 37 |
| Christian Hermeticism | p. 38 |
| Arab Hermeticism | p. 44 |
| Hermes Latinus | p. 51 |
| Traditions of Medieval Hermeticism | p. 57 |
| Renaissance: Primeval Wisdom for a New World | p. 59 |
| Tradition or Rediscovery? | p. 59 |
| Hermeticism and Paracelsism | p. 70 |
| Religious Hermeticism | p. 81 |
| Two Paths of Hermeticism in the Early Modern Period | p. 89 |
| Seventeenth Century: High Point and Decline | p. 91 |
| Casaubon and the Dating of the Hermetic Texts | p. 91 |
| Hermeticism and the Modern Natural Sciences | p. 100 |
| Hermeticism and Pietism | p. 109 |
| The Decrepitude of Hermeticism? | p. 113 |
| Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Between Occultism and Enlightenment | p. 115 |
| Two German Editions of the Corpus Hermeticum | p. 118 |
| Hermes Trismegistus in Freemasonry | p. 121 |
| From Historical to Systematic Hermeticism | p. 129 |
| Twentieth Century: Systems and Esoterica | p. 135 |
| Julius Evola and Esoteric Hermeticism | p. 137 |
| Umberto Eco's Hermetic Semiosis and Heinrich Rombach's Hermeticism | p. 139 |
| Chronology | p. 143 |
| Glossary | p. 147 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 151 |
| Index | p. 153 |
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