The Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus (Hermetic writings) · tr. Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland · 1885 · 42,589 words
The Korē Kosmou (“Virgin of the World”), the Treatise on Initiations (Asclepius), the Definitions of Asclepius and the Hermetic fragments, with Kingsford’s and Maitland’s introductions.
Opening
The Titles of every Book of Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus.
VOL. II.
In presenting the "Virgin of the World"—which with my "Hargrave Jennings" Edition of the "Divine Pymander," now so much in repute and demand, are the text books of Hermetic thought—it is no act of supererogation to gratefully acknowledge my appreciation of the valued services of all associated with me in the privileged task of once again reviving those priceless writings of that "Master Initiate," "Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus;" (to be shortly supplemented by the Third Volume, or "Golden Treatise concerning the Physical Secret of the Philosopher's Stone, in seven sections," esteemed one of the best and oldest pieces of Alchemical Philosophy extant; comprising, in epitome, the whole Art, and secret method of its confection, with corroborative annotations from Fludd, Behmem, Vaughan, &c.
Bath; May, 1885.
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Contents
- The Titles of every Book of Hermes Trismegistus
- The Hermetic Books
- The Hermetic System
- An Introduction
- The Virgin of the World (1)
- The Virgin of the World (2)
- A Treatise on Initiations (1)
- A Treatise on Initiations (2)
- A Treatise on Initiations (3)
- The Definitions of Asclepios
- Fragments
- Fragments of the Writings
- Various Hermetic Fragments