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The secret history of Hermes Trismegistus : hermeticism from ancient to modern times /

"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 esoteri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ebeling, Florian, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Assmann, Jan
  • Introduction
  • I. Prehistory and Early History of a Phantasm
  • II. The Middle Ages: Christian Theology and "Antediluvian" Magic
  • III. Renaissance: Primeval Wisdom for a New World
  • IV. Seventeenth Century: High Point and Decline
  • V. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Between Occultism and Enlightenment
  • VI. Twentieth Century: Systems and Esoterica
  • Chronology
  • Chronology
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index