Reviews for Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis Being a Translation of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic Lite

The average rating for Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis Being a Translation of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic Lite based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-02 00:00:00 Jay La Valley Oh Henry! I love your words. . . Here's a romance that sets the standards for romance. Nearly two hundred years after the event of which Longfellow is writing, he captures the love story. . .or more specifically the love triangle of Priscilla Mullins, Myles Standish and John Alden, and when it is laid out it could be one in your very own neighborhood, workplace or school. There is a victor, a loser and the prize. Often the prize is unpersoned, just an award to win. . .thankfully HWL allows Priscilla all the spunk and fight she must have truly had in her real existence to make it through that awful voyage, her family tragedies and then a long life with at least eleven babes born of the match that was finally made. Since it was the Thanksgiving season and I was dabbling in my Mayflower reads, I threw this one in, for these are my 9th great grandparents, and I could double count my reading and genealogy columns for this day. It won't take you long, and it is his attempt at documenting history. That said, it is history one reads with knitted brows in places where Standish takes his personal disappointments out on Native Peoples, and the relish with which HWL writes of it explains more about where white gents of the mid 1800s were in their thinking and racial prejudices than the documenting of accurate historical events two hundred years previous. For that I remove a star.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-29 00:00:00 DON WILLIAMS What a refreshing change of pace. A great Sunday read about a long-ago ancestor. The book belonged to my great-grandfather, Howard Engh, and was given to me by my grandmother. A neat "decorative" book, it sat on my shelf for years and years until I was finally curious enough to open it up. In essence, it's a love-triangle of pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower in the form of a poetic ballad.