Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott’s extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is sai. First published in , this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes. Walter Scott. — Hermetica, The ancient Greek and Latin writings which contain religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to HER-. MES TMRISMEGISTUS.
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The Waverley Novels express his belief in the need for social progress that does not reject the traditions of the past. Find Rare Books Book Value. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Christopher rated it it was amazing Mar waltsr, The Walter Scott translation – despite the cover blurb on the recent Shambhala reprint, this is not the Sir Walter Scott of Ivanhoe fame – while more recent than Mead’s, is hermeticq product of the “New Criticism” of the first half of this century, and garbles the text severely; scholars of Hermeticism of the caliber of Dame Frances Yates have labeled the Scott translation worthless.
In his novels Scott arranged the plots and characters so the reader enters into the lives of both great and ordinary people caught up in violent, dramatic changes in history. It thus served as a useful club in the hands of intellectual rebels who sought to break the stranglehold of Aristotelian scholasticism on the universities at this time.
Moderate foxing of top edge, less of other edges; spine tanning. The treatises we now call the Corpus Hermeticum were collected into a single volume in Byzantine times, and uermetica copy of this volume survived to come into the hands of Lorenzo de Medici’s agents in the fifteenth century.
In the same year his Fragmenta hermdtica Luis Natera rated it really liked it Oct 02, Tantra of the Yoga Sutras. The attempt, though, made the language and concepts of the Hermetic tractates central to much of post-medieval magic in the West.
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Be ready to immerse yourself into deep philosophical and spiritual wisdom. The Wisdom of Yoga. He was the first novelist to portray peasant characters sympathetically and realistically, and was equally just hermteica merchants, soldiers, and even kings.
This didn’t work, of course; the radical redefinition of Western Christianity that took place in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation hardened doctrinal barriers to the point that people were being burned in the sixteenth century for practices that were considered evidences of devoutness in the fourteenth. Preview — Hermetica, Vol. Very good plus to near fine paperback with a very small dog ear to the rear jacket. Life Between Heaven and Earth.
Sir Walter Scot Editor. The Corpus Hermeticum landed like a well-aimed bomb amid the philosophical systems of late medieval Europe. The “poetic” word order is probably the most serious barrier to readability; it’s a good rule, whenever the translation seems to descend into gibberish, to try shuffling the words of the sentence in question.
Clarence Webb rated it it was amazing Oct 21, Mindful Eating on the Go. He was one of the leaders in the movement for the establishment of the women’s college, and as dean of the faculty of arts encouraged the teaching waltre modern literature, history and philosophy, and the inauguration of university extension lectures.
SOme light waltrr and bends to cover. When Scott died of heart disease on 26 February the first volume had been published, and the second and third were in the press. What makes Biblio different?
In his novels Scott arranged the plots and characters so the reader enters into the lives of both great and ordinary people caught up in violent, dramatic Librarian Note: Thus Spoke the Plant. The Myth of Sisyphus. Lists with This Book. There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Another body of literature attributed to Hermes Trismegistus was made up of astrological, alchemical and magical texts. Scott, Sir Walter Whitefish: In these comments, Greer approaches the Hermetic tradition from a philosophical and Platonic perspective.
Ships with Tracking Number! Buy with confidence, excellent customer service! Scottt from the Hermetic literature in the Church Fathers who were never shy of leaning on pagan sources to prove a point accepted a traditional chronology which dated “Hermes Trismegistus,” as a historical figure, to the time of Moses.
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