TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ebeling,Florian
AU  - Assmann,Jan
AU  - Lorton,David
TI  - The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times 
SN  - 9780801464829
U1  - 135/.45 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Hermetism
KW  - History
KW  - Consumer Health & Fitness
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History of scholarship on the Hermetica
KW  - Marsilio Ficino
KW  - alchemy
KW  - alkemy
KW  - ancient religion
KW  - ancient religious studies
KW  - ancient theology
KW  - arab hermeticism
KW  - christian hermeticism
KW  - corupus hermeticum
KW  - cosmology
KW  - egyptian god thoth
KW  - egyptian hermes trismegistus
KW  - egyptian sage
KW  - egyptology
KW  - esoteric hermeticism
KW  - estoterica
KW  - greek god hermes
KW  - hellenism
KW  - hellenistic egypt
KW  - hermes astrologer
KW  - hermes philosophy
KW  - hermes theology
KW  - hermes trismegistus
KW  - hermetic alchemy
KW  - hermetic discourse
KW  - hermetic enlightenment
KW  - hermetic philosophy
KW  - hermetic texts
KW  - hermetic thought
KW  - hermetic traditions
KW  - hermetic writing
KW  - hermetica
KW  - hermeticism
KW  - hermetism
KW  - hermetists
KW  - history of hermetism
KW  - italian renaissance philosophy
KW  - late antiquity
KW  - marsilio finico
KW  - medievel hermeticism
KW  - new age mysticism
KW  - occultism
KW  - old kingdom egytian gods
KW  - prisca theologia
KW  - pseudepigrapha
KW  - religious hermeticism
KW  - religious studies
KW  - renaissance heremeticism
KW  - the emerald tablet
KW  - thrice-great Hermes
KW  - umberto eco's hermetic semiosis
KW  - western cultural memory
KW  - what are hermetic texts
KW  - what is hermeticism?
KW  - what is paracelsim
KW  - world history
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; 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; restricted access
N2  - "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 IntroductionHermes 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801464829
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801464829
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