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Mr G. R. S. Mead, in his translation of the Hermetic writings entitled Thrice-Greatest Hermes, has given a careful translation and detailed analysis of this most important text, and it is from his work that I shall quote. So far as the structure of the document is concerned Mr Mead distinguishes three stages.
The Thrice-greatest Hermes may also be consulted for a translation of Plutarch's Isis and Osiris. All this may sound strange, but one may fairly say that it represented in its degree, and in that first 'unfallen' stage of human thought and psychology, a true conception of the cosmic Life, and indeed a conception quite sensible and admirable, until, of course, the Second Stage brought corruption.
In later years Hermes Trismegistus, the Thrice-Greatest One, further developed these principles, adding to them the mystical treasures of Egyptian wisdom. It has been said by Lactance that "Hermes, one knows not how, succeeded in discovering nearly all the truth."
Only that Peter and this Catharine could have begotten such a Paul. Genealogically genuine enough, my poor Czar, that needed to be garroted so very soon! In which department it is well known what a Thrice-Greatest she became: superior to any Charles II.; equal almost to an August the Strong!
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