Thrice-Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy & Gnosis Allegory pagan rites and symbols

pagan rites and symbols

ideas recur from different perspectives and in different contexts

Through his therapeutic work

gathered in this volume

Swedenborg

Thrice-Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy & Gnosis Allegory pagan rites and symbolsThis work exemplifies all that is best in Mead's dedicated, scholarly, but eminently readable studies of the spiritual roots of Christian Gnosticism and, more generally, of personal religion in the Greco Roman world. His work encompassed much more than this; Mead was equally at home with Sanskrit texts, Patristic literature, Buddhist thought, and the problems of contemporary philosophy and psychical research. He devoted his intellectual energy to the