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The Allure of Gnosticism: the Gnostic experience in Jungian psychology and contemporary culture. Open Court. pp. 26– 38. ISBN 0-8126-9278-0. Smith, Richard (1995). "The revival of ancient Gnosis". In Segal, Robert (ed.). The Allure of Gnosticism: the Gnostic experience in Jungian psychology and contemporary culture. Open Court. p. 206.
Republic by Plato – The original is not Gnostic, but the Nag Hammadi library version is heavily modified with then-current Gnostic concepts. The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth – a Hermetic treatise; The Prayer of Thanksgiving (with a hand-written note) – a Hermetic prayer; Asclepius 21–29 – another Hermetic treatise; Codex VII: The ...
R. C. Zaehner distinguishes between three fundamental types of mysticism, namely theistic, monistic, and panenhenic ("all-in-one") or natural mysticism. [7] The theistic category includes most forms of Jewish, Christian and Islamic mysticism and occasional Hindu examples such as Ramanuja and the Bhagavad Gita. [7]
The study of gnosis itself covers a number of subjects, which include magic, noetics, gnostic logic, and logical gnosticism, among others. [12] Gnosology has also been used, particularly by James Hutchison Stirling , [ 10 ] to render Johann Gottlieb Fichte 's term for his own version of transcendental idealism , Wissenschaftslehre , meaning ...
Scientia sacra is a Latin term that means "sacred science". [1] Although Nasr employs the terms "scientia sacra", "sacred science" and "sacred knowledge" interchangeably, he prefers the term "scientia sacra" to others because he thinks the word "science" in modern English usage can be misleading. [2]
In chaos magic, gnosis or the gnostic state refers to an altered state of consciousness in which a person's mind is focused on only one point, thought, or goal and all other thoughts are thrust out. [1] The gnostic state is used to bypass the "filter" of the conscious mind – something thought to be necessary for working most forms of magic. [2]
Seven Sermons to the Dead (Latin: Septem Sermones ad Mortuos) is a collection of seven mystical or "Gnostic" texts written and privately published by C. G. Jung in 1916, under the title Seven Sermons to the Dead, written by Basilides of Alexandria, the city where East and West meet.
1975 - Revolutionary Psychology ISBN 978-1-934206-24-9; 1976 - Sacred Book of Gnostic Liturgy (For Second and Third Chamber Students ONLY). 1977 - The Mysteries of Christic Esoterism; 1977 - The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries; 1977 - Esoteric Course of Theurgy (Included in the collection "The Divine Science," ISBN 978-1-934206-40-9)