Masonic, Occult and Esoteric Online Library
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
By G.R.S. Mead
Synopsis of Contents
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INTRODUCTION |
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PROLEGOMENA |
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The Creed of Christendom |
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The New Era Two Thousands Years ago |
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The New Hope of To-day |
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Our Present Task |
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The One Religion |
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The Sunshine of its Doctrine |
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The Comparative Science of Religion |
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The True Scholar of Religion |
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The Just Method of Comparison |
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The Analysis of Religion |
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The Beginnings of Christianity |
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The First Two Centuries |
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The "Higher Criticism" |
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"Providentissimus Deus" |
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Its Immediate Result |
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The Force of Reaction |
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The Force of Progress |
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The Nature of Criticism |
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The Resultant |
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Nineteen Centuries Ago and Now |
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The Return of Souls |
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The Conditions of the Comparison |
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The Intensified Present |
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Occident and Orient |
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The Reconciliation of Science and Theology |
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The Coming and Going of Souls |
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The Birth and Death of Races |
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The Manhood of the Western World |
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SOME ROUGH OUTLINES OF THE BACKGROUND OF THE GNOSIS |
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PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS |
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The Greatest Story in the World |
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The Need of a Background |
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The Main Means to a Recovery of the Outlines |
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The Gnostic Schools |
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Where to look for their Origins |
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The Nature of the Field to be Surveyed |
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The Soil of the Field |
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Three Mother Streams |
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GREECE |
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The Greece of 600 B.C. |
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The Precursors of Pythagoras |
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The Orphic Tradition |
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Primitive Hellas |
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The Wavelets of Aryan Immigration |
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The Orphic Line |
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The Greece of Homer |
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Orpheus returns to Greece |
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The Mysteries |
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Their Corruption |
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The Reason of it |
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The Various Traditions |
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The Political Mysteries |
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The Private Mysteries |
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The Orphic Communities |
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The Philosophic Mysteries |
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Pythagoras and Plato |
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Aristotle and Scepticism |
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East and West |
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Rome |
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The Mysteries of Mithras |
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EGYPT |
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The Wisdom of Egypt |
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The Blendings of Tradition |
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The Mystic Communities |
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The Therapeuts |
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The Earliest Christians of Eusebius |
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The Pseudo-Philo Theory |
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Its Death blow |
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An Interesting Question of Date |
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The Title and Context |
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PHILO ON THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE |
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The Essæans |
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The Name Therapeut |
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Their Abandonment of the World |
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Their Retreats |
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The Mareotic Colony |
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Their Dwellings |
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The Original Meaning of the Term Monastery |
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Their Prayers and Exercises |
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The Nature of their Books |
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Their Mode of Meeting |
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The Sanctuary |
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Their Rule |
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Fasting |
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The Seventh-day Common Meal |
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Housing and Clothing |
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Their Sacred Feasts |
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The Banquet on the Fiftieth Day |
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Seniority |
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The Women Disciples |
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The Plain Couches |
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The Servers |
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The Frugal Fare |
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The President |
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The Instruction |
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The Interpretation of Scripture |
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The Singing of Hymns |
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Bread and Salt |
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The Sacred Dancing |
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The Morning Prayer |
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A Note on the Sacred Numbers |
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Philo's Connection with the Therapeuts |
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The Lay Disciples |
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The Variety of Communities |
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JEWRY |
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The Influence of Babylon |
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The Writing of Scripture-history |
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The Mythology of History |
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Honest Self-delusion |
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The Spiritualizing of Judaism |
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Zealotism |
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Pharisaism |
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The Chassidim and Essenes |
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The Inner Schools |
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ALEXANDRIA |
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A Bird's-eye View of the City |
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The Populace |
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The Library |
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The Museum |
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The Schools of the Sophists |
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The Dawn-land |
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The New Religion |
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Jewish and Christian Schools |
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GENERAL AND GNOSTIC CHRISTIANITY |
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THE EVOLUTION OF CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY |
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The Canon |
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The Gospels |
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The Letters of Paul |
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The Gentilization of Christianity |
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THE EBIONITES |
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The Nazoræans |
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The Poor Men |
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The Ebionite Tradition of Jesus |
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THE ESSENES |
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Their Manner of Life |
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The Degrees of Holiness |
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Points of Contact with Christianity |
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THE TENDENCIES OF GNOSTICISM |
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The "Secularizing" of Christianity |
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Yahweh not "the Father" of Jesus |
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The Inner Teaching |
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Various Classes of Souls |
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The Person of Jesus |
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The Main Doctrines |
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THE LITERATURE AND SOURCES OF GNOSTICISM. |
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Literature |
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Indirect Sources |
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Direct Sources |
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THE GNOSIS ACCORDING TO ITS FOES |
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SOME GNOSTIC FRAGMENTS RECOVERED FROM THE POLEMICAL WRITINGS OF THE CHURCH FATHERS |
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No Classification possible |
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THE "SIMONIANS" |
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The Origin of the Name |
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DOSITHEUS |
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A Follower of John the Baptist |
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The Pre-Christian Gnosis |
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"SIMON MAGUS" |
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The Ebionite "Simon" |
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The "Simonian" Literature |
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The "Simonian" System of Irenæus |
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The Great Announcement |
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The Hidden Fire |
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The Fire Tree |
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The Æons |
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MENANDER |
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His Date |
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His Doctrines |
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A Link with Zoroastrianism |
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SATURNINUS |
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The Chain of Teachers |
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Asceticism |
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Summary of Doctrines |
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The Making of Man |
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THE "OPHITES" |
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The Obscurity of the Subject |
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The Term "Ophite" |
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The Serpent Symbol |
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The Myth of the Going-forth |
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Pseudo-philology |
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AN ANONYMOUS SYSTEM FROM IRENÆUS |
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The Spiritual Creation |
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Yahweh Ialdabaoth |
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O. T. Exegesis |
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Christology |
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Jesus |
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AN EARLY "OPHITE" SYSTEM |
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Justinus |
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The Book of Baruch |
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Baruch |
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Christology |
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THE NAASSENI |
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Their Literature |
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Their Mystical Exegesis |
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The Assyrian Mysteries |
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The Egyptian |
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The Greek |
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The Samothracian |
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The Phrygian |
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The Mysteries of the Great Mother |
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The Fragment of a Hymn |
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THE PERATÆ |
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The Source of their Tradition |
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The Three Worlds |
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A Direct Quotation |
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The Meaning of the Name |
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Psychological Physiology |
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The Lost Books of Hippolytus |
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THE SETHIANS |
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Seth |
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An Outline of their System |
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The Mysteries |
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THE DOCETÆ |
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God |
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The Æons |
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Cosmos and Man |
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The Saviour |
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MONOÏMUS |
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Number Theories |
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How to Seek after God |
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THE SO-CALLED CAINITES |
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The Obscurity of the Subject |
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The Enemies of Yahweh the Friends of God |
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Judas |
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A Scrap of History |
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THE CARPOCRATIANS |
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Their Idea of Jesus |
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Reincarnation |
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"EPIPHANES" |
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The Moon god |
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Communism |
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The Monadic Gnosis |
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CERINTHUS |
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The Scape-Goat for the "Pillar-Apostles" |
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The Over-Writer of the Apocalypse |
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NICOLAUS |
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"Which Things I hate" |
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CERDO |
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The Master of Marcion |
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MARCION |
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The Spread of Marcionism |
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The "Higher Criticism" |
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The Gospel of Paul |
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Eznik |
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A Marcionite System |
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The Title Chrestos |
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APELLES |
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His Wide Tolerance |
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Philumene |
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Her Visions |
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THE BASILIDIAN GNOSIS |
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Basilides and his Writings |
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Our Sources of Information |
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The Divinity beyond Being |
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Universality beyond Being |
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Ex Nihilo |
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The Sonship |
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The Holy Spirit |
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The Great Ruler |
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The Ætherial Creation |
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The Sub-lunary Spaces |
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Soteriology |
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The Mystic Gospel |
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The Sons of God |
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The Final Consummation |
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Jesus |
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Karman and Reincarnation |
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The Theory of "Appendages" |
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Moral Responsibility |
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A Trace of Zoroastrianism |
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The Spurious System |
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Abrasax |
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THE VALENTINIAN MOVEMENT |
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The "Great Unknown" of Gnosticism |
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"They of Valentinus" |
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The So-called Eastern and Western Schools |
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The Leaders of the Movement |
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The Syntheticizing of the Gnosis |
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Sources of Information |
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VALENTINUS |
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Biography |
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Date |
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Writings |
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The Fragments that Remain |
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Concerning the Creation of the First Race of Mankind |
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On the Pure in Heart |
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Concerning One of the Powers of the Perfect Man |
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Ye are Sons of God |
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The Face of God |
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Concerning the People of the Beloved |
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The Galilæans |
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The Wisdom of the "Little One" |
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The Chain of Being |
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The Ariadne's Thread out of the Maze |
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SOME OUTLINES OF ÆONOLOGY |
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Towards the Great Silence |
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The Depth beyond Being |
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The Æon World |
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The Platonic Solids |
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A Living Symbolism |
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The "Fourth Dimension" |
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The Eternal Atom |
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The Law of Syzygy |
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The Law of Differentiation |
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The Three and the Seven |
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The Twelve and Ten |
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The Dodecahedron |
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The Decad |
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Chaos |
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Theos |
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Cosmos |
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Mythology |
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The Sophia-Mythus |
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The Mother of Many Names |
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HIPPOLYTUS’ ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE VARIANTS OF THE SOPHIA-MYTHUS |
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The Father of All |
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The Parents of the Æons |
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The Names of the Æons |
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The World-Mother |
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The Abortion |
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The Term "Only-begotten" |
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The Cross |
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The Last Limit |
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The Mystic or Cosmic Jesus |
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The Grief of Sophia |
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The Sensible World |
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Its Demiurge |
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"Words" or Minds |
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Souls |
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Bodies |
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The New Man |
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The Mystic Body of the Christ |
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Soteriology |
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THE NUMBER-SYMBOLISM OF MARCUS |
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Sources |
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Number-letters |
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Kabalism |
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The Great Name |
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The Echo of the Name |
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The Symbolic Body of the Man of Truth |
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The Numbers |
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Gospel Exegesis |
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The Creation of the Sensible World |
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The Tetraktys |
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Theological Arithmetic |
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Jesus the Master |
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The "Moving Image of Eternity" |
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From the Marcosian Ritual |
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PTOLEMY |
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The Letter to Flora |
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The "Higher Criticism" |
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The Source of Moses’ Inspiration |
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The Proem to the Fourth Gospel |
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HERACLEON |
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His Commentary on the Fourth Gospel |
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BARDESANES |
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Biography |
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Writings |
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Indirect Sources |
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From His Hymns |
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The Book of the Laws of Countries |
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Karman |
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Fortune and Nature |
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The Right and Left |
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The Hymn of the Soul |
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THE HYMN OF THE ROBE OF GLORY |
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SOME TRACES OF THE GNOSIS IN THE UNCANONICAL ACTS |
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FOREWORD |
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The Gnostic Acts |
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Catholic Over-Working |
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Early Collectors |
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FROM THE ACTS OF THOMAS |
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A Hymn to Wisdom |
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Its Meaning |
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Two Sacramental Invocations |
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A Note thereon |
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The Palace that Thomas built |
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FROM THE ACTS OF JOHN |
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A Recently-published Fragment |
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The Rationale of Docetism |
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The Evolution of Tradition |
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Mystic Stories of Jesus |
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The Christ speaks with Jesus |
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An Early Form of One of the Great Miracles |
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A Ritual from the Mysteries |
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The Doxology |
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The Mystery of the Cross |
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The Interpretation thereof |
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The Initiation of the Cross |
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The Higher and Lower Selves |
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A Prayer of Praise to Christ |
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John's Farewell Address to his Community |
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John's Last Prayer |
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The Story of John and the Bugs |
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FROM THE ACTS OF ANDREW |
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Address to the Cross |
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FROM THE TRAVELS OF PETER |
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The Descent of Man |
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The Mystic Redemption through the Cross |
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Afterword |
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THE GNOSIS ACCORDING TO ITS FRIENDS |
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SOME GREEK ORIGINAL WORKS IN COPTIC TRANSLATION |
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THE ASKEW AND BRUCE CODICES |
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The Askew Codex |
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The Bruce Codex |
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Translations |
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The Difficulty of the Subject |
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Programme |
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SUMMARY OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SO-CALLED PISTIS SOPHIA TREATISE |
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The Teaching of the Eleven Years |
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The Mystic Transfiguration and Ascent in the Twelfth Year |
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The Master Returns to His Disciples |
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The Mystic Incarnation of the Twelve |
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That the Soul of Elias is Born in John the Baptist |
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Of His Own Incarnation |
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Concerning the Robe of Glory |
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The Hymn of Welcome "Come unto Us" |
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The Three Vestures of Light |
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The Journey into the Height |
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The Master Robs the Æons of a Third of Their Light |
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The Questions of Mary |
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Why the Rulers have been Robbed |
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The Shortening of the Times |
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The Heaven-journey Continued |
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The Myth of Pistis Sophia |
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The Enmity of Arrogant |
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The Fall into Matter |
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The Descent of the Soul |
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Its Repentance and Redemption |
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The Degrees of Purification |
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The Light-crown |
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The Final Victory |
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An Otherwise-unknown Story of the Infancy |
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Of the Glory of them of the Thirteenth Æon |
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The Scale of Light |
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The Perfect shall be Higher than the Emanations of Light in the Kingdom 477 |
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The "Last" shall be "First" |
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The Three Supernal Spaces of the Light |
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The Inheritance of Light |
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The Mystery of the First Mystery |
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The Gnosis of Jesus, the Mystery of the Ineffable |
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The Disciples lose Courage in Amazement at the Glories of the Gnosis |
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The Highest Mystery is the Simplest of them All |
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Concerning the One Word of the Ineffable |
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The Glory of Him who Receiveth the Mystery |
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Of the Thrones in the Light-kingdom |
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There are Other Logoi |
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The Degrees of the Mysteries |
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The Boons they Grant |
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The Limbs of the Ineffable |
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The Thousand Years of Light |
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The Books of Ieou |
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Ye are Gods |
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Of Souls in Incarnation |
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The Preaching of the Mysteries |
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The Burden of the Preaching |
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The Boundary Marks of the Paths of the Mysteries |
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The After-death State of the Uninitiated Righteous |
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Of those who Repent and again Fall Back |
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The Added Glories of the Saviours of Souls |
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Concerning the Irreconcilables |
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Of the Infinite Compassion of the Divine |
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Of Those who Mimic the Mysteries |
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Can the Pains of Martyrdom be Avoided |
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The Mystery of the Resurrection of the Dead |
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The Transport of the Disciples |
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That this Mystery is to be Kept Secret |
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The Constitution of Man |
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The Evil Desire which Constraineth a Man to Sin |
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The After-death State of the Sinner |
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And of the Initiated Righteous |
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"Agree with Thine Enemy" |
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The Stamping of the Sins on the Souls |
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The Burning up of the Sins by the Fires of the Baptism-Mysteries |
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The Infinite Forgiveness of Sins |
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But Delay Not to Repent |
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For at a Certain Time the Gates of the Light will be Shut |
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"I know not whence ye are" |
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The Dragon of Outer Darkness |
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The Draught of Oblivion |
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The Parents we are to Leave |
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The Books of Ieou Again |
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The Christ the First of this Humanity to Enter the Light |
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’Tis He Who Holds the Keys of the Mysteries |
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SUMMARY OF THE EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOKS OF THE SAVIOUR |
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The Immanent Limbs of the Ineffable |
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The Christ is the Ineffable |
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The Gnosis of the Christ |
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The Initiation of the Disciples on the Mount |
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The First Veil is Drawn Aside |
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They Enter the Way of the Midst |
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The Ordering of the Fate-sphere is Described |
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All Mysteries up to the Light-treasure are Promised them |
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The Punishments of the Ways of the Midst |
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The Duration of the Punishments |
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The Disciples Pray for Mercy to Sinners |
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They Enter an Atmosphere of Exceeding Great Light |
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The Vision of the Baptism-Mysteries |
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They Return to Earth |
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The Celebration of the Mystic Eucharist |
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The Mysteries that are to be Revealed |
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The Punishment of Sinners in the Lower Regions and the Evil Bodies they Receive when Reborn |
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The Cup of Wisdom |
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The Note of a Scribe |
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SUMMARY OF THE FRAGMENTS OF THE BOOK OF THE GREAT LOGOS ACCORDING TO THE MYSTERY |
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The Book of the Gnoses of the invisible God |
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The Hidden Wisdom |
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A Dark Saying is Explained |
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The Flesh of Ignorance |
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The Mysteries of the Treasure of Light |
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To be Revealed to the Worthy Alone |
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The Lesser Mysteries |
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The Good Commandments |
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The Greater Mysteries |
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The Powers they Confer |
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The Mystic Rite of the Baptism of the Water of Life |
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The Baptism of Fire |
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The Baptism of the Holy Spirit |
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The Mystery of Withdrawing the Evil of the Rulers |
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The Powers the Lesser Mysteries Confer |
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The Mystery of the Forgiveness of Sins |
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The Powers it Confers |
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The Ordering of the Light-treasures |
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The Great Light |
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Invocation to the True God |
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Invocation to the Unapproachable |
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The Mystery of the Twelve Æons |
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The Thirteenth Æon |
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The Fourteenth Æon |
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The Three Great Rulers |
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Concerning Ieou the Emanator of the Middle Light world |
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The Tetragrammaton |
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The Type of the Treasures |
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The Type of the True God Ieou |
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The Mystic Diagrams |
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Cosmic Embryology |
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The Seal on the Forehead of Ieou |
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General Characteristics of the Diagrams |
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The Twelve the Order of Jesus |
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Hymn to the First Mystery sung in the Thirteen Æons |
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The Thirteenth Æon |
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The Sixty Treasures |
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The Little Idea |
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The Name of the Great Power |
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Hymn to the Unapproachable God sung in the Seventh Treasure |
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The Great Logoi according to the Mystery |
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The Universal Idea |
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Hymn to the [? First] Mystery |
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The Way of the Midst |
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SELECTIONS FROM THE UNTITLED APOCALYPSE OF THE CODEX BRUCIANUS |
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The First Being |
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The Second Being |
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The Supernal Cross |
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The Twelve Depths |
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The Primal Source |
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The Unmanifested |
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The Manifested, the Pleroma |
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Three-faced and Two-faced Space |
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The View of the Commentator |
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Marsanes, Nicotheus, and Phosilampes |
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The Creative Logos |
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The Descent of the Light-spark |
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The Spiritual Atom |
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Hymn to the Logos |
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The Christ |
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The Glorified of the Logos |
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The At-one-ment |
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Soteriology |
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The Ineffable Vesture |
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The Purification of the Lower Nature |
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The World-Saviour |
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The Promise |
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The Powers of the Light vesture |
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The Mothers of Men |
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The Song of Praise of the Mother Above |
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The Hidden Worlds |
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The Man |
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The Lord of Splendour |
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His Promise to Them who Believe |
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The Prayer of the Earth-born |
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The Powers of Discrimination are Given them |
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The Ladder of Purification |
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The Son of God |
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Hymn to the Light |
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NOTES ON THE CONTENTS OF THE BRUCE AND ASKEW CODICES |
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The Kinship of the Titled Treatises |
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Date |
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Authorship |
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The Titles |
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The Books of Ieou |
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The Probable Author |
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The Obscurity of the Subject |
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The Original Pistis Sophia Treatise |
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The Coptic Translation |
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The Books of the Saviour |
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The Copyist |
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The Scheme Pre-supposed in these Treatises |
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An Appreciation of the Untitled Treatise |
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Not to be Attributed to a Single Author |
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Its Apocalyptic Basis |
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The Over-working |
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THE AKHMIM CODEX |
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The MS. and its Contents |
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The Gospel of Mary |
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The Wisdom of Jesus Christ |
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Irenæus quotes from The Gospel of Mary |
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An Examination of his Statements |
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The Father |
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The Mother |
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The Pentad |
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The Decad |
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The Christ |
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The Egyptian Origin of the Treatise |
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The Opinion of Harnack |
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The Importance of the MS. |
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SOME FORGOTTEN SAYINGS |
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Rejected Logoi |
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri |
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CONCLUSION |
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AFTERWORD |
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES |
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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Early Works |
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Critical Studies prior to 1851 |
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Works subsequent to the Publication of the Philosophumena in 1851 |
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THE COPTIC GNOSTIC WORKS |
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REVIEWS AND ARTICLES IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PERIODICALS |
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UNCANONICAL ACTS |
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GNOSTIC (?) GEMS AND ABRAXAS-STUDIES |
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GNOSTIC WORKS MENTIONED BY ANCIENT WRITERS |
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THE MOST RECENT TEXTS OF THE HÆRESIOLOGICAL CHURCH FATHERS AND THEIR ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS |
