The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism [Hardcover]

Ioan P. Couliano (Author)

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

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• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins (January 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060616156
• ISBN-13: 978-0060616151
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,602,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Scholar and Murdered Magician, May 27, 2006

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This review is from: The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism (Hardcover)

Ioan Culianu, handpicked successor to Mircea Eliade, renegade & popular Professor at Chicago Divinity School, self-professed practitioner of magic and rising star within world academia within religious studies, The mysteriously assassinated magician and political disadent, a defector from Communist Romania evolved into an increasingly renowned scholar whose unorthox exegesis of the variant strains of emergent gnosticism morphologically resonant in our present age of desacralization and rampant nihilism profoundly challenges our consentual half-consciousness and ignorance, Truth as nothing but the unfoldment of the religious collective unconsciousness within the historical processess which act as binary metaprograms within the time & space as a fiction within the resonance of the unitary feild of ontology as aternating presencing truthful lies as time and space. Which he claimed to be able to change through the praxis of magic within insubstantial shfting fields we within programmed human culture in delusion beleive to be 'objective reality'.

Wake up, open your eyes to the words of this grimoire or game we live thinking we are free. Culianu: "mind. it's all in the mind" and we can ill afford to be unmindful of what this seeker on a quest offers us. A heteorodx wisdom to awaken us with from the nightmare of humanity's history heretofar largely written in blood. A unique and feasibly transformative book!