…n Late Victorian England Aries , 2013 This article surveys the reception of the Gnostic text Pistis Sophia in esoteric milieus in ninet... more This article surveys the reception of the Gnostic text Pistis Sophia in esoteric milieus in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Europ…

…ith, and understanding of, Judaism. From 'Gnosis und spätantiker Geist' to 'The Gnostic Religion': The Jerusalem Period in Hans Jonas’s Intellectual Development Hans Jonas: The Early Years, edited by Daniel M. Herskowitz, Elad Lapidot, and Christian Wiese , 2024 Anyone who reads …

… Judaic rejection and condemnation of love for one's one sex. In addition, from Gnostic speculation on the role of sexuality in the cosmic process, Christians acquired a profound malaise with sexual dimorphism (as an imperfect human condition) and the ideal of an asexual humanity…

…rs – the ambiguities that emerge from an isolated emotive contact with God, the gnostic tendencies to turn Christianity into a product of the human subject, the reduction of Christian life to a moral and immanent exercise, the technocratic transformation of experience into an app…

… gave to the religious instinct far from the rituals of the formal state. Since Gnosticism was one of those currents, we tried to extrapolate and analyze its content as an integrated system into its cognitive system and its view of God, the universe, and human beings and how to t…

…as was seen as an authority for doctrine, although this belief is documented in Gnostic groups as early as the Pistis Sophia . In that Gnostic work, Mary Magdalene (one of the disciples) says: Now at this time, my Lord, hear, so that I speak openly, for thou hast said to us "He w…

…nteraction. Influential literature of gnostic ideas, especially originating from the Egyptian-Semitic tradition, attracted Iran and it was inevitable that many religious thoughts and move- ments would occur. Zoroastrianism, which is the main legalistic religious tradition of Iran…

…epresent complex theological constructs, reflecting a syncretism in 2nd-century Gnosticism. How are Protophanes and Meirotheos characterized in magical practices? add The paper reveals that Protophanes is often invoked in rites for enlightenment, while Meirotheos is associated wi…

…der and Anti-Pagan Violence in Late Antique Southern Egypt) [2017b] In: <I>From Gnostics to Monastics: Studies in Coptic and Early Christianity in Honor of Bentley Layton</I>, edited by David Brakke, Stephen J. Davis, and Stephen Emmel, 369–407. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, v…

…merges: Philippians is not a product of the apostolic age, but a second-century Gnostic fraud. It is a Greek philosophical forgery designed to hijack the early movement and sever its Jewish roots. To read it as anything else is to ignore the glaring historical markers that scream…

…: Den gnostiske kirke [ 9 ] som er en norsk gren av Église Gnostique , Ecclesia Gnostica [ 10 ] med hovedsete i USA, og Valentinaris Antiqua [ 11 ] med hovedsete i Skandinavia. Ved siden av disse kirkesamfunnene finnes også Sodalitas Sanctum Seth som et moderne uttrykk for den se…

…ss and the Structures of Reality Charles D. Laughlin, Ph.D. and C. Jason Throop Gnostic Dilemmas in Western Psychologies of Spirituality 27 Harry T. Hunt Mysticism and Its Cultural Expression: An Inquiry into the Description of Mystical Experience 40 and Its Ontological and Epist…

…ollows: "Let the philosophers and scholars be content with their knowledge, the Gnostic drinks serenity in each moment from radiant cups of gnosis!" (Gülen, 2006, p. 199). According to Gülen, self-possession, steadfastness, seriousness, profundity and resolution are the main aspe…

…proper and particularly unique philosopher’s and scientist’s lair and aim. But, gnostic insight can not only include the former, but expand the scope such that it t integrates our felt realities as well, whether fully articulated or not. Much as R.G. Collingwood (1958) argued tha…

… there are two kind of tasks for the what were until then known to scholars as “gnostic” students of magical amulets, i.e. to describe them in all de! amulets, he identified a specific group which reveal a Jew! tails of the designs and inscriptions and then to examine ish charact…