The gnostic religion; the message of the alien God and the beginnings of Christianity.
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Boston,
Beacon Press
[1958]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1: Gnostic literature-main tenets, symbolic language
- The meaning of Gnosis and the extent of the Gnostic movement
- Gnostic imagery and symbolic language
- pt. 2: Gnostic systems of thought
- Simon Magus
- The "hymn of the pearl"
- The angels that made the world, the gospel of marcion
- The poimadres of Hermes Trismegistus
- The Valentinian speculation
- Creation, world history, and salvation according to Mani
- pt. 3: Gnosticism and the classical mind
- The cosmos in Greek and Gnostic evaluation
- Virtue and the soul in Greek and Gnostic teaching.