This is the extended and annotated edition including* an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the history and basics of Gnosticism, written by Wilhelm BoussetThe so-called Hermetic writings have been known to Christian writers for many centuries. The early church Fathers (Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) quote them in defense of Christianity. Stobaeus collected fragments of them. The Humanists knew and valued them. They were studied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in modern times have again been diligently examined by many scholars.Contents:I. Poemandres, the Shepherd of MenII. To AsclepiusIII. The Sacred SermonIV. The Cup or MonadV. Though Unmanifest God Is Most ManifestVI. In God Alone Is Good And Elsewhere NowhereVII. The Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of GodVIII. That No One of Existing Things doth Perish, but Men in Error Speak of Their Changes as Destructions and as DeathsIX. On Thought and SenseX. The KeyXI. Mind Unto HermesXII. About The Common MindXIII. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain
