Some short sketches among the Gnostics, mainly of the first two centuries-a contribution to the study of Christian Origins based on the most recently discovered materials. "I have written so that the man of one language only may read from the first to the last page, without being forced to regret his ignorance of other tongues; for I believe that the subject is of profoundly human interest, and not one of merely academical importance...my main object has been to hand on what the earliest Christian philosophers and teachers wrote and thought. They seem to me to have written many beautiful things, and I, for my part, have learned through them to sense the work of the Great Master in a totally new light." Contents: Prolegomena; Some Rough Outlines of the Background of the Gnosis; General And Gnostic Christianity; The Gnosis According to Its Foes; Some Gnostic Fragments Recovered from the Polemical Writings of the Church Fathers; Some Traces of the Gnosis in the Uncanonical Acts; The Gnosis According to Its Friends; Bibliographies.
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MYSTERIOUS Time is once more big with child and labouring to bring forth her twentieth babe, as the Western world counts her progeny; for, according to the books, just nineteen children of her centenarian brood have lived and died since He appeared to whom all Christians look as Teacher of the Way to God. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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MYSTERIOUS Time is once more big with child and labouring to bring forth her twentieth babe, as the Western world counts her progeny; for, according to the books, just nineteen children of her centenarian brood have lived and died since He appeared to whom all Christians look as Teacher of the Way to God. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lower tetrad, counterfeit spirit, rigid ascetics, first mystery, sensible universe, inner schools, authentic names, higher mysteries, ideal universe, some outlines, common fruit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pistis Sophia, Heavenly Man, Treasure of Light, Codex Brucianus, Pistil Sophia, Mystery of the Ineffable, Old Testament, Asia Minor, Invisible God, Kingdom of Light, Askew Codex, New Testament, Clement of Alexandria, The Book of the Great Logos, Books of Ieou, Bruce Codex, Basilidian Gnosis, Mystery of the Forgiveness of Sins, Seven Voices, Simon Magus, Virgin of Light, Way of the Midst, Good God, Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ New!
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- Pistis Sophia (Nag Hammadi Studies) by Carl Schmidt on 6 pages
- History of Dogma by Adolf Harnack on page 144, and Back Matter
- Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. Volume 18: The Writings of Quintus Sept. Flor. Tertullianus (Volume 3) by Florens Quintus Septmius Tertullian in Back Matter
- Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Gospel by G.R.S. Mead in Back Matter
- One and Only , the by F. King on page 562
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- G. R. S. Mead and the Gnostic Quest (Western Esoteric Masters) by Clare Goodrick-Clarke on 11 pages
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