"A guide to direct communication with the spirits and the Gods"--Provided by publisher.
"A guide to direct communication with the spirits and the Gods"--Provided by publisher
The Faust legend seen as a transmission of core Gnostic teachings disguised as a morality tale - Shows the 16th-century Faust text to be a coded, composite Gnostic creation myth - Identifies the many Hermetic, alchemical, and Tantric symbols found in Faust that signify worship o…
Gnosticism like mysticism pursues the inner way; its authority is not external but internal-a living personal experience-but without denying the outer world. Under the guise of Basilides, a second-century AD Gnostic sage, Jung wrote in 1916 the Seven Sermons to the Dead after he…
Gnosticism like mysticism pursues the inner way; its authority is not external but internal-a living personal experience-but without denying the outer world. Under the guise of Basilides, a second-century AD Gnostic sage, Jung wrote in 1916 the Seven Sermons to the Dead after he…
Were the gnostics cosmic pessimists? -- Nag Hammadi and the providential cosmos -- This body of death : cosmic malevolence and enslavement to sin in Pauline exegesis -- Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi : the Apocryphon of John and On the origin of the world -- Middle platonism, heimarm…
"In this book, Nicola Denzey Lewis dismisses Hans Jonas' mischaracterization of second-century Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement built on the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. A focused study on the concept of astrological fate in 'Gnos…