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The Hymns of Hermes

by George Robert Stowe Mead

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  • 20th century
  • Language: English
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What It's About This short collection gathers a series of mystical and devotional writings drawn from the Hermetic and Gnostic tradition. The texts include hymns of praise, sacred invocations, and meditative reflections focused on divine wisdom, spiritual awakening, and humanity’s relationship with the All-Father God. Among the pieces included are “The Service of Song,” “The Secret Hymnody,” and “A Song of Praise for the Aeon.” Key Concepts Hermetic spirituality, Gnosticism, sacred song, divine wisdom, mystical devotion, aeons, spiritual ascent, inner illumination. About the Author George Robert Stowe Mead was an English scholar, translator, and prominent Theosophist best known for his studies of Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and early mystical Christianity. Through works such as the Echoes from the Gnosis series, Mead helped introduce esoteric religious texts to English-speaking readers in the early twentieth century.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity, and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

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  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page matched “Hermetism”. Retained metadata contains “hermetic” in the description, “Hermeticism” in the description, and “Hermetism” in the subject metadata.

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  • Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page matched “Gnosticism”. Retained metadata contains “gnostic” in the description, “Gnosticism” in the description, “Christian mysticism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from global-grey matched “Mystic Texts and Mysticism”. Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the subject metadata.

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Echoes From the Gnosis v2; London and Varanasi: Theosophical Pub. Society, 1907

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  • hymns-of-hermes
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  • olbp107297

Cataloging notes

  • Contributors: Hermes, Trismegistus|* Hermes Trismegistus
  • Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 0.5.2
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BF1601 .H86
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: Echoes From the Gnosis v2; London and Varanasi: Theosophical Pub. Society, 1907
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