(Ebook) The Secret History of Hermes TrismegistusH Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times 1st Edition by Florian Ebeling ISBN 0801445469 9780801445460

(Ebook) The Secret History of Hermes TrismegistusH Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times 1st Edition by Florian Ebeling ISBN 0801445469 9780801445460

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ISBN 10: 0801445469 
ISBN 13: 9780801445460
Author: Florian Ebeling

"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 Aristotelian doctrines. The Gnostic, the esoteric, the Platonist, or the deist has each been able to find something familiar in the writings. One just had to have a penchant for remote antiquity, for the idea of a Golden Age, in order for Hermeticism, with its aura of an ancient Egyptian revelation, to have enjoyed such outstanding success."―from the Introduction

Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes," emerged from the amalgamation of the wisdom gods Hermes and Thoth and is one of the most enigmatic figures of intellectual history. Since antiquity, the legendary "wise Egyptian" has been considered the creator of several mystical and magical writings on such topics as alchemy, astrology, medicine, and the transcendence of God. Philosophers of the Renaissance celebrated Hermes Trismegistus as the founder of philosophy, Freemasons called him their forefather, and Enlightenment thinkers championed religious tolerance in his name. To this day, Hermes Trismegistus is one of the central figures of the occult―his name is synonymous with the esoteric.

In this scholarly yet accessible introduction to the history of Hermeticism and its mythical founder, Florian Ebeling provides a concise overview of the Corpus Hermeticum and other writings attributed to Hermes. He traces the impact of Christian and Muslim versions of the figure in medieval Europe, the power of Hermeticism and Paracelsian belief in Renaissance thought, the relationship to Pietism and to Freemasonry in early modern Europe, and the relationship to esotericism and semiotics in the modern world.

(Ebook) The Secret History of Hermes TrismegistusH Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. Prehistory and Early History of a Phantasm

3. What Are Hermetic Texts?

4. The Hermetic Texts of Late Antiquity

5. Hermes as Preacher of Theology and Philosophy

6. Hermes: Astrologer, Magus, and Alchemist

7. What Was Ancient Hermeticism?

8. The Middle Ages: Christian Theology and “Antediluvian” Magic

9. Christian Hermeticism

10. Arab Hermeticism

11. Hermes Latinus

12. Traditions of Medieval Hermeticism

13. Renaissance: Primeval Wisdom for a New World

14. Tradition or Rediscovery?

15. Hermeticism and Paracelsism

16. Religious Hermeticism

17. Two Paths of Hermeticism in the Early Modern Period

18. Seventeenth Century: High Point and Decline

19. Casaubon and the Dating of the Hermetic Texts

20. Hermeticism and the Modern Natural Sciences

21. Hermeticism and Pietism

22. The Decrepitude of Hermeticism?

23. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Between Occultism and Enlightenment

24. Two German Editions of the Corpus Hermeticum

25. Hermes Trismegistus in Freemasonry

26. From Historical to Systematic Hermeticism

27. Twentieth Century: Systems and Esoterica

28. Julius Evola and Esoteric Hermeticism

29. Umberto Eco’s Hermetic Semiosis and Heinrich Rombach’s Hermeticism

30. Chronology

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