Hear thou the voice of the Fire (2)

Uploaded a re-set of G.R.S. Mead's work on the Chaldæan Oracles to Scribd. This was originally published in 1908 as nos. VIII and IX in a series of pamphlets titled "Echoes from the Gnosis" issued through the Theosophical Society. While less than satisfactory as an edition of the texts (about a third of the fragments which appeared in the Westcott edition are omitted, and those which are presented are interspersed in long passages of commentary), Mead had taken advantage of contemporary scholarly work on the material, and generally shows himself far less credulous than Westcott and Bullock did (it is amusing though, to see him quote the "Sword of Dardanos" from PGM IV, a coercive agôgê spell, as an invocation of the "Chaste and Holy Divine Love"). I made no attempt to retain the layout of the print edition on this one.

Also uploaded a revision of the Westcott rendition, mainly fixing a few stylistic inconsistencies and related issues, also clarifying a few of my notes. Percy Bullock's "Introduction" is still omitted from this copy.

I have noticed other re-sets of the Mead edition on Scribd, but they only include the first volume.