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Author : George Robert Stow Mead
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465516387
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Simon Magus written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. R. S. Mead
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781795806718
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Simon Magus written by G. R. S. Mead and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Robert Stowe Mead (04/22/1863 - 09/28/1933), commonly known as G. R. S. Mead, was an English historian, writer, editor, translator, and an influential member of the Theosophical Society, as well as the founder of the Quest Society. His scholarly works dealt mainly with the Hermetic and Gnostic religions of Late Antiquity, and were exhaustive for the time period. Simon the Sorcerer or Simon the Magician, in Latin Simon Magus, was a Samaritan magus or religious figure and a convert to Christianity, baptised by Philip, whose later confrontation with Peter is recorded in Acts 8:9-24. The sin of simony, or paying for position and influence in the church, is named for Simon. Surviving traditions about Simon appear in anti-heretical texts, such as those of Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius, where he is often regarded as the source of all heresies. Justin wrote that nearly all the Samaritans in his time were adherents of a certain Simon of Gitta, a village not far from Flavia Neapolis. Irenaeus held him as being one of the founders of Gnosticism and the sect of the Simonians.
Author : George Robert Stow Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558181779
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Simon Magus, the Gnostic Magician written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Haar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110898829
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Simon Magus: The First Gnostic? written by Stephen Haar and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest comprehensive work on Simon Magus lends new impetus to the investigation of Early Christianity and questions surrounding the origin and nature of Gnosticism. Major contributions of this study include: (1), a departure from the traditional exegesis of Acts 8, 5-24 (the first narrative source of Simon), and the later following reports of ancient Christian writers; (2), an overview of the literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity to determine the contribution of "magic" and "the Magoi" in the development of perceptions and descriptions of Simon; and (3), the inclusion of social science explanation models and modern estimations of "identity", in a creative approach to questions surrounding the phenomenon of Simon.
Author : G. R. S. Mead
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3748183224
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Simon Magus written by G. R. S. Mead and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody in Christendom has heard of Simon, the magician, and how Peter, the apostle, rebuked him, as told in the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles. Many also have heard the legend of how at Rome this wicked sorcerer endeavoured to fly by aid of the demons, and how Peter caused him to fall headlong and thus miserably perish. And so most think that there is an end of the matter, and either cast their mite of pity or contempt at the memory of Simon, or laugh at the whole matter as the invention of superstition or the imagination of religious fanaticism, according as their respective beliefs may be in orthodoxy or materialism. This for the general. Students of theology and church history, on the other hand, have had a more difficult task set them in comparing and arranging the materials they have at their disposal, as found in the patristic writings and legendary records; and various theories have been put forward, not the least astonishing being the supposition that Simon was an alias for Paul, and that the Simon and Peter in the accounts of the fathers and in the narrative of the legends were simply concrete symbols to represent the two sides of the Pauline and Petrine controversies.
Author : G. R. S. Mead
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Simon Magus written by G. R. S. Mead and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Apocrypha, Simon Magus was a contemporary of the Biblical apostles and an important religious figure. Biblical legend tells that Simon was trying to buy his way into the number of Apostles but got rejected by Peter. Later he started preaching as well and collected a group of adherents. In his book, G.R.S. Mead compares the deeds of Simon with those of Peter and Paul and casts a look on the Simonian ideas, which he believes are similar to the system of Theosophy popular in Mead's times.
Author : G. R. S. Mead
Publisher : Book Tree
ISBN 13 : 9781585092314
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Simon Magus written by G. R. S. Mead and published by Book Tree. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Magus was originally a Christian and disciple of John the Baptist, but broke off and formed the first Christian heresy, called Simonianism. After learning magical medicine in Alexandria he was considered to have many magical skills. To this day, a skilled magician is called a "magus." He also studied Greek philosophers, especially Heraclitus, and became the first Christian to attempt to bridge Greek philosophy and Christianity. If a mixture ever occurred Church leaders feared they would become weaker over time and not survive. According to Mead, this was Simon's great heresy -- not his magic. This interesting book shows Simon Magus to have been a brilliant man who was breaking new ground, both philosophically and spiritually.
Author : Smith, Morton
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 157174715X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Jesus the Magician written by Smith, Morton and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A twentieth-century classic, uncannily smart, incredibly learned."--from the foreword by Bart Ehrman This book challenges traditional Christian teaching about Jesus. While his followers may have seen him as a man from heaven, preaching the good news and working miracles, Smith asserts that the truth about Jesus is more interesting and rather unsettling. The real Jesus, only barely glimpsed because of a campaign of disinformation, obfuscation, and censorship by religious authorities, was not Jesus the Son of God. In actuality he was Jesus the Magician. Smith marshals all the available evidence including, but not limited to, the Gospels. He succeeds in describing just what was said of Jesus by "outsiders," those who did not believe him. He deals in fascinating detail with the inevitable questions. What was the nature of magic? What did people at that time mean by the term "magician"? Who were the other magicians, and how did their magic compare with Jesus' works? What facts led to the general assumption that Jesus practiced magic? And, most important, was that assumption correct? The ramifications of Jesus the Magician give new meaning to the word controversial. This book recovers a vision of Jesus that two thousand years of suppression and polemic could not erase. And--what may be the central point of the debate--Jesus the Magician strips away the myths and legends that have obscured Jesus, the man who lived.
Author : Richard L. Tierney
Publisher : Pickman's Press
ISBN 13 : 1953215033
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Sorcery Against Caesar written by Richard L. Tierney and published by Pickman's Press. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A REBEL AGAINST ROME Simon of Gitta, an escaped slave turned magician, roves the Roman Empire battling dark magic and demons, all the while pursued by Caesar’s soldiers. Join Simon as he flees across the ancient world evading cultists and Legionaries, outwitting sorcerers and Centurions, and fighting gladiators and gods, even the deities of the Cthulhu Mythos. Yet all these foes cannot prepare him for his greatest challenge: the pursuit of his lost soul-mate Helen, a love so deep even death can’t stand in its way for long. These stories were one of the inspirations for the Cthulhu Invictus campaign for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game by Chaosium. Enjoy sixteen stories combining superbly researched historical fiction with sword & sorcery and Lovecraftian horror, including: The Sword of Spartacus The Fire of Mazda The Seed of the Star-God The Blade of the Slayer The Throne of Achamoth The Emerald Tablet The Soul of Kephri The Ring of Set The Worm of Urakhu The Curse of the Crocodile The Treasure of Horemkhu The Secret of Nephren-Ka The Scroll of Thoth The Dragons of Mons Fractus The Wedding of Sheila-Na-Gog The Pillars of Melkarth Vengence Quest (poetry)
Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590301994
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Gnostic Bible written by Willis Barnstone and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive collection of gnostic literature ever published, this volume is the result of a unique collaboration between a renowned poet-translator and a leading scholar of early Christian texts.
Author : Tobias Churton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620554224
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Gnostic Mysteries of Sex written by Tobias Churton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the sexual practices and doctrinal secrets of Gnosticism • Reconstructs the lost world of Gnostic spiritual-erotic experience through examination of every surviving text written by heresiologists • Investigates the sexual gnosis practices of the Barbelo Gnostics of the 2nd century and their connections to the Gnostic Aeon Sophia, the Wild Lady of Wisdom • Explains the vital significance of “the seed” as a sacrament in Gnostic practice Examining every surviving text written by heresiologists, accounts often ignored in favor of the famous Nag Hammadi Library, Tobias Churton reveals the most secret inner teaching passed down by initiated societies: the tradition of sexual gnosis--higher union with God through the sacrament of sex. Discovering actual sex practices hidden within the writings of the Church’s authorities, he reconstructs the lost world of Gnostic spiritual-erotic experience as taught by initiated masters and mistresses and practiced by Christian couples seeking spiritual freedom from the world. Churton explores the practices of the “first Gnostic,” the historical Simon Magus, and explains the vital significance of “the seed” in Gnostic practice, showing it to be the sacramental substance par excellence. He illuminates the suppressed truth of why the name “Valentine” came to be associated with ennobling erotic love and reveals profound parallels between sexual gnosis and Tantra, suggesting that gnosis lies at the root of the tantric path. Solving a millennia-old riddle regarding the identity and secret symbol of Sophia, the mysterious Gnostic “Aeon,” Churton investigates Sophia’s connections to Barbelo, also known as Pruneikos, the Wild Lady of Wisdom, and the central focus of the Barbelo Gnostics of the 2nd century, whose religious sex practices so shocked orthodox Christian contemporaries that they were condemned, their cults of spiritual gnosis and “redemption by sin” driven underground. Churton exposes the mystery of Sophia in the philosophy of the medieval Troubadours and explores William Blake’s inheritance of secret Renaissance sexual mysticism through the revolutionary English poet Andrew Marvell. Showing how Blake’s sexual and spiritual revolution connects to modern sexual magic, Churton also examines the esoteric meaning of the free-love explosion of the 1960s, revealing how sex can be raised from the realm of guilt into the highest magical sacrament of spiritual transformation.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311055772X
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.
Author : T. Frohock
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062428969
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Los Nefilim written by T. Frohock and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected together for the first time, T. Frohock’s three novellas--In Midnight’s Silence, Without Light or Guide, and The Second Death--brings to life the world of Los Nefilim, Spanish Nephilim that possess the power to harness music and light in the supernatural war between the angels and daimons. In 1931, Los Nefilim’s existence is shaken by the preternatural forces commanding them … and a half-breed caught in-between. Diago Alvarez, a singular being of daimonic and angelic descent, is pulled into the ranks of Los Nefilim in order to protect his newly-found son. As an angelic war brews in the numinous realms, and Spain marches closer to civil war, the destiny of two worlds hangs on Diago’s actions. Yet it is the combined fates of his lover, Miquel, and his young son, Rafael, that weighs most heavily on his soul. Lyrical and magical, Los Nefilim explores whether moving towards the light is necessarily the right move, and what it means to live amongst the shadows.
Author : Alberto Ferreiro
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047415469
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions written by Alberto Ferreiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of the post-New Testament figure of Simon Magus spanning the patristic era, Middle Ages, and the early modern period as found in art, vernacular literatures, heresiologies, theological texts, hagiographies and homilies.
Author : M R Osborne
Publisher : Rose Circle Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (929 download)
Download or read book Son of Perdition written by M R Osborne and published by Rose Circle Publications. This book was released on 2022-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardback, Digital Cloth-Cover with Dust Jacket A re-telling of the legendary conflict between ancient magic and the early Church. In our present day and age, the story of the confrontation between the Apostles and Simon Magus has become increasingly forgotten. M.R. Osborne considers the relationship between miracles and magic as they played out in this dramatic encounter, and investigates how ancient magical operations - such as necromancy, transmutation, sex magic and transvection - acted as opposing miracles to the sacramental powers of the Primitive Church. The appearance of Simon Magus in the New Testament is colorful but brief, and more questions are raised than answered. Researchers are compelled to look at the apocryphal legends and writings of the early Christian apologists to discern what they can about Simon. Many legends regarding his magic and conduct are fantastical, others less so. Yet theologians and writers on religion alike tend to disparage these accounts and write off Simon as a type, a legendary figure of anti-pagan polemic. Sometimes, the boot has been put on the other foot, and Simon is identified with St. Paul, as a Gnostic Apostle. What is the truth, and what were Simon's magical operations actually like? Author M.R. Osborne's approach to the question of Simon Magus has been to take the accounts of his magical powers seriously. If, for the sake of argument, we treat the apocryphal and apologetic material as containing authentic historical facts (even if fragmentary), then we may begin an attempt to reconstruct the life and possible beliefs of Simon Magus. This is all set in the context of Simon's battle with Peter as it moves from Samaria to Rome, and a study of both men is required to make sense of what Christians and Jews alike regarded as legitimate or illegitimate magic. Thus, did the Apostles practise magic? Does the Church still do so? What differentiates miracles from magic? More interesting still, is the question of Simon's status as a false messiah or antichrist. There are various definitions and perceptions of this role in the New Testament, and false messiahs are likely set apart from the False Messiah, and antichrists from the Antichrist. Into which category does Simon fall, and does his magic and moral conduct throw any light on the question? What relevance does this have for us today in our modern, secular world? The author looks into these issues and presents a case for Simon Magus being a real magician, practising generally negative operations as a false messiah. There are no hard and fast or definitive answers as the primary sources are too few, but we can reconstruct the most likely scenario with careful analysis. The author has chosen illustrations from the early Church period and later Middle Ages since the manuscript discusses the possible connection of ancient Jewish magic with the later medieval grimoires. With a foreword by Tony Hutchins. "This excellent work is well researched and written." Piers A. Vaughan, Rose Circle Books
Author : Kurt Rudolph
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567086402
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Gnosis written by Kurt Rudolph and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-06-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by R. McL. WilsonA full-scale study based on the documents of the Coptic Gnostic library found at Nag Hammadi providing a comprehensive survey of the nature, the teachings, the history and the influence of this religion.
Author : Keith Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781991157034
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Gnosis of Simon Magus written by Keith Hill and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Magus is an enigma. Long derided as a heretic magician, the truth is much more complex. And fascinating. Keith Hill's dramatic retelling of Simon's story draws on documentary and legendary materials that show him to be a misunderstood pioneer of Western spirituality. An in-depth background essay explores his connection to Gnostic thought and how he came to be declared an enemy of Christianity. The Gnosis of Simon Magus is set in Jerusalem in 52 CE. The city is occupied by Rome, a puppet king sits in the palace, the populace is seething, and the Roman army's presence is provoking rebellion rather than instilling peace. In this cauldron, Jesus' apostle Kepa is struggling to guide the first Christian community. Enter Simon Magus. After the death of John the Baptist, Simon travelled to Egypt to study spiritual philosophy and penetrate the mysteries of magic. Twenty years after Jesus' crucifixion, he returns to Jerusalem with a former prostitute who knew Jesus well and lights another fuse in a city ready to explode.
