…astic Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 5 Hermetica, Magic and Gnostic Sources 135 Who is Hermes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Thoth and the Letters in Philebus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 The Creation Elem…

…evelopment. the authors assess the influence of seminal thinkers, including the Gnostics, Plotinus, and Augustine, but also of cultural and religious practices such as astrology and monasticism, as well as, more generally, the role played by intellectual disciplines such as gramm…

…ocused on the question throughout: “How do we use this potentially disembodied, Gnosticizing medium for fully embodied face-to-face discipleship?” (155–6). The book examines how the advent of digital technologies alters the way we engage with each other, our- selves, and the worl…

…s scriptures. 3. The later Atimārga (II & III) viewed liberation as a yogic-cum-gnostic ascent through a hierarchy of worlds. In the sole surviving source (SANDERSON 2006: 163) that describes the doctrine of the early Kālamukhas (= Atimārga II), i.e. the fourth chapter of the Niś…

…וסי, האדם הוא עץ הפוך , באתר nrg ↑ Gedaliahu Stroumsa, Another Seed: Studies in Gnostic Mythology , Leiden: Brill, 1984 ↑ תלמוד בבלי , מסכת ברכות , דף כ"ח, עמוד ב' ↑ Gershom Scholem, Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism and Talmudic Tradition , 1960 ↑ תלמוד בבלי , מסכת חגיגה , ד…

…e: the “pizza effect” ..................................... 139 10.1 Dragons in Gnostic and Gnosticizing literature .................................. 139 10.2 An example: the dragon in the Hymn of the Pearl .............................. 140 10.3 The dragon in the Book of Revela…

…....................... 49 Paola Puppo A Particular Class of Engraved Gems: The Gnostic-Magical Gems from Luni (La Spezia) ......................................................................................... 509 Alina Streinu – Dan Pirvulescu Note on a Small *URXS of Gems fr…

…ferred to its proponents as Godhead, and their sacred marriage (see below). He “Gnostic kabbalists.” He saw R. Moses as a conduit of is also the first known kabbalist to suggest that one “gnostic” teachings originating with the brothers R. should forgo studying Kabbalah prior to …

…e vast region between the Christianity and Judaism, as well as Manichaeism, the gnostic religion Oxus and Euphrates rivers from ad 223 to 651, was perhaps the which was at one point the faith of Augustine, originated and lourished most inluential of all ancient Iranian empires. N…

…r Salibi († 1171), is provided by A. Guillaumont (Guillaumont A. Les ‘Képhalaia Gnostica’ d’Évagre le Pontique et l’histoire de l’origénisme chez les Grecs et chez les Syriens. Paris, 1962. (Patristica Sorbonensia; 5). P. 20–21). For the edition and Italian translation of the cla…

…? To foment meaning. So far, investigators of document work have focused on the gnostic (conceptual, cognitive, procedural) meaning fomented through document work—the answers it engenders. But we know that documents are more than merely gnostic. Surely this means that document wo…

…tures and traditions: Arab, Persian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Gnostic, Hebrew, Mandaean, Phoenician, Samaritan, and Syriac. He discusses ring amulets, terra cotta devil-traps; stones and their prophylactic and therapeutic qualities; the importance of color, shap…

…an integral component of its philosophy, its other parts being astrological and Gnostic cosmogony . The three letters Aleph, Mem, Shin, are not only the three "mothers" from which the other letters of the alphabet are formed, but they are also symbolic figures for the three primo…

…embered how these claims run parallel to his arguments against various forms of Gnosticism. 27 Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom. II,5,4. 28 Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom. V,72,4. 29 Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom. II,74,1. 30 Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom. V,1,3–4. 31 Clemens Alexandrinus, S…

…. Gershom Scholem defines Kabbalah as the historical interpenetration of Jewish Gnosticism and Neoplatonism. The doctrine of the Sefirot with its 10 spheres is likely from the Pythagorean School or from Gnostic doctrine. Also, the Kabbalistic link between gematria [or esoteric nu…