Contents

PREFACE . . . . . . . . v

I. THE REMAINS OF THE TRISMEGISTIC LITERATURE . 1-16
Writer and Reader . . . . . . . . 1
The Extant Trismegistic Literature . . . . . . 3
The Original MS. of our Corpus . . . . . . 6
Texts and Translations . . . . . . . 8

II. THE HISTORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF OPINION . 17-46
The Chief Points of Interrogation . . . . . 17
The Opinions of the Humanists . . . . . . 18
The First Doubt . . . . . . . . 20
The Launching of the Theory of Plagiarism . . . . 21
The Only Argument Adduced . . . . . . 22
The Theory of Hilgers . . . . . . . 25
The German Theory of Neoplatonic "Syncretism" original: "Syncretismus" . . 26
The French Theory of Egyptian Origin . . . . 27
The Views of Ménard . . . . . . . 27
English Encyclopædism . . . . . . . 33
Chambers' Opinion . . . . . . . . 34
German Encyclopædism . . . . . . . 35
A Recent Article by Granger . . . . . . 36
Reitzenstein and the Dawn of Right Views . . . . 40
A Key to Egypt's Wisdom . . . . . . 44
The Answers to our Questions . . . . . . 44

III. THOTH THE MASTER OF WISDOM . . . . 47-81
Thoth-Teḥuti . . . . . . . . 47
Thoth according to Pietschmann . . . . . 48
The Three Grades of the Egyptian Mysteries . . . 50
Thoth according to Reitzenstein . . . . . 51
Thoth according to Budge . . . . . . 52