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G.R.S. Mead,Plutarch
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G.R.S. Mead
Echoes from the cup of the unicorn. The references in this volume are to the recently published work Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis. Contains The Service…
This little book represents Adyar Pamphlet No. 118. Mr. Mead presents a dissertation involving hostility to the flesh. He extolls the virtues of ancient Aryan India & their beliefs, while…
This would be the version translated by Blavatsky enthusiast G.R.S. Mead. Hopefully, nobody was stuck in the middle of an alchemy session waiting for vital details the other version (q.v.)…
Some short sketches among the Gnostics, mainly of the first two centuries-a contribution to the study of Christian Origins based on the most recently discovered materials. I have written so…
Clare Goodrick-Clarke,Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
George Robert Stowe Mead (1863-1933) was a major translator, editor, and commentator on Gnostic and hermetic literature and thus a pivotal figure linking the late 19th-century esoteric revival to 20th-century…
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The Mithriac Ritual is a book written by G.R.S. Mead that delves into the ancient mystery religion of Mithraism. This religion was practiced in the Roman Empire from the 1st…
The Gnostic Crucifixion is a book written by G. R. S. Mead that explores the Gnostic interpretation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The author delves into the teachings of…
An Enquiry into the Talmud Jesus Stories, the Toldoth Jeschu, and Some Curious Statements of Epiphanius-Being a Contribution to the Study of Christian Origins. Canonical Date of Jesus; Earliest External…
With the exception of the Christ no more interesting personage appears upon the stage of Western history in those early years.
Contents: Translations from the Greek, Catholicized Syriac and the Later Armenian Version texts; Syrian Wedding Festivities, Song of Songs; Sacred Marriage in the Kabalah; In the Writings of Philo Judfus…
The marvellous and beautiful Hymn, which is the subject of this small volume, is found in what are without doubt the Leucian Acts of John. This Hymn is no hymn…
Contents: Preamble; Origins and Development; diffusion in the Roman Empire; From the Texts; From the Monuments.
Contents: Vol. I The Supreme Principle; The End of Understanding; Mystic Union; The One Desirable; The Divine Triad; God-nurturing Silence The Holy Fire; Mind of Mind; The Monad and Dyad…
Stray Thoughts on Theosophy. G.R.S. Mead’s thoughts on H.P.Blavatsky. Mead was Blavatsky’s personal secretary. Who else could be as qualified to give candid insights into the character of H.P.B.
Contents: As Above, So Below; Heresy; The Elasticity of a Permanent Body; The Immensities; Heirs of the Ages; The Master; Initiation; A measure of What Wisdom Means to Me; Adumbrations…
The original text of this beautiful Gnostic poem is in Syriac. The Hymn is poetic inspiration and deals with high mysteries and experiences. Contents: Preamble; The Hymn; Comments; The Pearl…
Together with Studies on John and Christian Origins, the Slavonic Josephus’ Account of John and Jesus, and John and the Fourth Gospel Proem. Contents: Foreword; John the Baptizer and Christian…
Scholars in Christendom have heard of Simon, the magician and how at Rome this sorcerer endeavored to fly by the aid of occult powers. Simon was an alias for Paul…
Contents: Orphic Origins, Works, Theology, Theogony; Some Cosmogonical Details; Orphic Pantheon; On the Mysteries and Symbolism; Orphic Discipline and Psychology; The Doctrine of Rebirth; Bibliography.
The story of Aridaeus is the most detailed and graphic Vision of Hades preserved to us from classical antiquity. When a man dies he goes through the same experiences as…
Foreword; Then and Now; The System of Plotinus; Bibliography.
This book is a collection of mystical, philosophical, theosophical, historical and scientific essays selected from the first five volumes of The Theosophist magazine, which was then edited by H.P. Blavatsky…
This small volume of short sketches is put forward with the very modest purpose of roughly chronicling a moment in the ever-changing fortunes of opinion occasioned by the persistent inroads…
All the studies or sketches in this volume are illustrative of the quest of reality, the search for truth, or the restless striving of the human soul for the satisfaction…
The notion that the physical body of man is as it were the exteriorization of an invisible subtle embodiment of the life of the mind is a very ancient belief…
Reveals that Gnosticism is the True Philosophy and Pure Science of Nature and of Man.
Volume one of a three volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis Being a Transaction of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the…
Volume two of a three volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis Being a Transaction of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the…
Volume three of a three volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis Being a Transaction of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the…
A Gnostic Miscellany: Being for the most part extracts from the books of the Saviours, to which are added excerpts from a cognate literature. This is one of our most…
And in this sacred inquiry let us start with ourselves, where we find a soul vehicled or involved in a body, the home of innumerable ‘lives, ’ vehicled again in…
H. P. Blavatsky,G.R.S. Mead
This glossary’s purpose is to give information on the principal Sanskrit, Pahlavi, Tibetan, Pali, Chaldean, Persian, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Kabalistic and Gnostic words, and occult terms generally used in…
G R S Mead,Plutarch
THIS 86 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Thrice Greatest Hermes Part 1, by G. R. S. Mead. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126129.
