Madame Blavatsky and George R.S. Mead on the Gospel according to John

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Publisher : Philaletheians UK
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Total Pages : 25 pages
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H. P. Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine

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Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780835606301
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Book Synopsis H. P. Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine by : Virginia Hanson

Download or read book H. P. Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine written by Virginia Hanson and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1988-05-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Blavatasky's contributions to world thought.

Darkness is Inner Light

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Publisher : Philaletheians UK
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Total Pages : 7 pages
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Book Synopsis Darkness is Inner Light by : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, George R.S. Mead

Download or read book Darkness is Inner Light written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, George R.S. Mead and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who are familiar with Occult Cosmogony and Theogony, True Darkness is Inner Light or Soul-Wisdom (Heart Doctrine); and “Light,” a mere flicker of head-learning (Eye Doctrine). Mundane “Darkness” is lack of True Knowledge caused by I-ness, selfishness, and false learning, though most people view such states as absolutely normal and natural.

The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions

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Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615927387
Total Pages : 951 pages
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Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions by : James R. Lewis

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions written by James R. Lewis and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surpassing the scope and the thoroughness of the first edition, this new edition of The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions is the most wide-ranging and accessible resource on the historically significant and more obscure, sinister, and bizarre religious groups. Including many entries by scholarly specialists, this volume explains more than 1,000 diverse groups and movements, from such well-known sects as the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, and Heaven's Gate, to obscure groups like Ordo Templi Satanas, Witches International, and the Nudist Christian Church of the Blessed Virgin Jesus. In addition to an exhaustive index and handy cross-references, the second edition includes over a hundred new topical entries on subjects relevant to understanding sectarian movements, from snake-handling and satanic ritual abuse to brainwashing and exorcism.This book, a must for all libraries and schools, will endure as the first and only point of reference for researchers, scholars, students, and anyone interested in fringe religious groups.

Gnosticism and the History of Religions

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350137715
Total Pages : 239 pages
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Book Synopsis Gnosticism and the History of Religions by : David G. Robertson

Download or read book Gnosticism and the History of Religions written by David G. Robertson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on the following stage in which it was “essentialised” into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same time, it shows how Gnosticism became a religious self-identifier, with a number of sizable contemporary groups identifying as Gnostics today, drawing on the same discourses. This book provides a history of this problematic category, and its relationship with scholarly and popular discourse on religion in the twentieth century. It uses a critical-historical method to show how and why Gnosis, Gnostic and Gnosticism were taken up by specific groups and individuals – practitioners and scholars – at different times. It shows how ideas about Gnosticism developed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, drawing from continental phenomenology, Jungian psychology and post-Holocaust theology, to be constructed as a perennial religious current based on special knowledge of the divine in a corrupt world. David G. Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation.

Collected Writings

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Total Pages : 522 pages
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Download or read book Collected Writings written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Echoes from the Gnosis

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Total Pages : 100 pages
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The Place of Enchantment

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226642038
Total Pages : 378 pages
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Book Synopsis The Place of Enchantment by : Alex Owen

Download or read book The Place of Enchantment written by Alex Owen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the nineteenth century, Victorians were seeking rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud was developing his innovative models of the conscious and unconscious mind. And anthropologist James George Frazer was subjecting magic, myth, and ritual to systematic inquiry. Why, then, in this quintessentially modern moment, did late-Victorian and Edwardian men and women become absorbed by metaphysical quests, heterodox spiritual encounters, and occult experimentation? In answering this question for the first time, The Place of Enchantment breaks new ground in its consideration of the role of occultism in British culture prior to World War I. Rescuing occultism from its status as an "irrational indulgence" and situating it at the center of British intellectual life, Owen argues that an involvement with the occult was a leitmotif of the intellectual avant-garde. Carefully placing a serious engagement with esotericism squarely alongside revolutionary understandings of rationality and consciousness, Owen demonstrates how a newly psychologized magic operated in conjunction with the developing patterns of modern life. She details such fascinating examples of occult practice as the sex magic of Aleister Crowley, the pharmacological experimentation of W. B. Yeats, and complex forms of astral clairvoyance as taught in secret and hierarchical magical societies like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Through a remarkable blend of theoretical discussion and intellectual history, Owen has produced a work that moves far beyond a consideration of occultists and their world. Bearing directly on our understanding of modernity, her conclusions will force us to rethink the place of the irrational in modern culture. “An intelligent, well-argued and richly detailed work of cultural history that offers a substantial contribution to our understanding of Britain.”—Nick Freeman, Washington Times

Pistis Sophia

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Publisher : Mockingbird
ISBN 13 : 9781946774002
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Pistis Sophia written by G. R. S. Mead and published by Mockingbird. This book was released on 2017-02-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback edition of the Pistis Sophia is a complete and accurate reprint of the original translation by G.R.S. Mead in 1921. It contains all of Mead's original notes and running commentary, as well as his annotated bibliography which includes numerous sources and further research material for the reader. The Pistis Sophia is a gnostic text thought to have been written sometime between the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. According to Mead, there were two codices discovered in the late 18th century that contained the original work. The Bruce Codex was brought to Oxford by the famous Scottish traveler Bruce in 1769, and the Askew Codex was given to the British Museum by the heirs of a wealthy doctor in 1785. Both codices were thereafter translated by experts and their contents ordered in a fashion that seemed proper according to their best abilities. Mead's translation followed these efforts, but as he says in his introduction, the order of the contents was changed "to place the contents of these Coptic translations roughly in such a sequence that the reader may be led from lower to higher grades of the Gnosis." The Pistis Sophia itself is of such a marvelous and complex nature, that it is hard to describe in a short space. But generally, the book shows the risen Jesus revealing the lower and higher mysteries to a group of his followers over the period of 22 years. Included in these mysteries are complex cosmologies that the human soul must travel through in order to reach Gnosis with the Father. A new story of the rise and fall of a restorative figure known as the Pistis Sophia is also given by Christ. The text in the first three of the four books is a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples, including Mary Magdalene, who is the most active in the discussion. Other disciples involved include John the Virgin, Andrew, Bartholomew, James, John, Mary, Martha, Mathew, Philip, Salome, Simon the Canaanite, and Thomas. It is apparent, based on the character of the text, that the work was a compilation of various earlier editions, as some subjects and events are covered multiple times with slight variations. Changes in certain words used in describing the same ideas also illustrate that the collected works were from different time periods. The first book details how Jesus, after his resurrection, stayed with his disciples for eleven years teaching the lowest of the mysteries. An intricate cosmology is introduced through the details of Jesus ascending the so called aeons in order to do battle with certain servants (archons) of the creator god who stands between human beings and gnosis. It is in this cosmology that the new myth of the Pistis Sophia is introduced and discussed continuing into the second book, where connection between the current work and the Book of Jeu is demonstrated. Interestingly, unlike such other Gnostic myths such as the Apocryphon of John, the Pistis Sophia myth is limited to the lower aeons, not herself being a divine being from the higher levels of heaven. The third book concerns the ethical code for the adherents of Christianity, and outlines punishments for the transgression of that ethical system. Additionally, human beings and their spiritual nature are discussed, along with their connectedness to each other and when they should be given the mysteries. The fourth book details further cosmological and astrological systems, including myths of fallen archons and their imprisonment within certain zodiacal spheres. Five realms of punishment with their corresponding types of sinners are revealed, along with the ritual and requirements for their release.

The Review of Reviews

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Total Pages : 884 pages
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Download or read book The Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record

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Total Pages : 1108 pages
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Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandaean John-Book

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ISBN 13 : 9781539435228
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandaean John-Book written by G. R. S. Mead and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters include: John the Baptist and Christian Origins; From the John-Book of the Mand�ans (Introduction, The Gnostic John the Baptizer, The Story of the Breach with Judaism, Some Typical Extracts); The Slavonic Josepus' Account of the Baptist and Jesus; and, The Fourth Gospel Proem.

The Nation

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Total Pages : 1052 pages
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The United States Catalog

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Total Pages : 1612 pages
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Book Synopsis The United States Catalog by : Mary Burnham

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Not in His Image (15th Anniversary Edition)

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Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 164502136X
Total Pages : 471 pages
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Book Synopsis Not in His Image (15th Anniversary Edition) by : John Lamb Lash

Download or read book Not in His Image (15th Anniversary Edition) written by John Lamb Lash and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-18 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lash is capable of explaining the mind-bending concepts of Gnosticism and pagan mystery cults with bracing clarity and startling insight. . . . [His] arguments are often lively and entertaining.”—Los Angeles Times Fully revised and with a new preface by the author, this timely update is perfect for readers of The Immortality Key. Since its initial release to wide acclaim in 2006, Not in His Image has transformed the lives of readers around the world by presenting the living presence of the Wisdom Goddess as never before revealed, illustrating that the truth of an impactful Gnostic message cannot be hidden or destroyed. With clarity, author John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe and North Africa. Early Christians burned libraries and destroyed temples in an attempt to silence the ancient truth-tellers and keep their own secrets. Not in His Image delves deeply into ancient Gnostic writings to reconstruct the story early Christians tried to scrub from the pages of history, exploring the richness of the ancient European Pagan spirituality—the Pagan Mysteries, the Great Goddess, Gnosis, the myths of Sophia and Gaia. In the 15th Anniversary Edition, Lash doubles down on his original argument against redemptive ideology and authoritarian deceit. He shows how the Gnostics clearly foresaw the current program of salvation by syringe, and places the Sophianic vision of life centrally in the battle to expose and oppose the evil agenda of transhumanism, making this well-timed update more relevant than ever. “Sometimes a book changes the world. Not in His Image is such a book. It is clear, stimulating, well-researched, and sure to outrage the experts. . . . Get it. Improve not just your own life, but civilization’s chances for survival.”—Roger Payne, author of Among Whales

Index to the Periodicals of ...

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The Publisher

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Total Pages : 864 pages
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