An exploration of the sexual practices and doctrinal secrets of Gnosticism Reconstructs the lost world of Gnostic spiritual-erotic experience through examination of every surviving text written by heresiologists Investigates the sexual gnosis practices of the Barbelo Gnostics of…
"Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on the following stage in which it is 'essentialised' into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same ti…
Introduction -- 1. Against All Heresies: Gnosticism before Modern Scholarship -- 2. The Era of Gnosis Restored: Nineteenth-century Gnostics -- 3. The Alien God: Gnosticism as Existentialism -- 4. Elite Knowledge: Jung and the Eranos Circle -- 5. No Texts, No History: Nag Hammadi…
"Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on the following stage in which it is 'essentialised' into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same ti…
"Gnosticism, as a category in religious studies - and public discourse - is inexorably entangled with the phenomenological "History of Religions" school. Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism w…
Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge einer Tagung, die 2015 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin stattfand, dem Jahr, in dem sich der Fund der Nag-Hammadi-Codices zum 70. Mal jährte. Die Perspektive des Bandes ist darauf gerichtet, die Nag-Hammadi-Schriften im Kontext d…
A Gnostic Christian Kabbalah that teaches the science and art of conscious evolution at the core of all religion, consciousness, and human endeavor.
