Gnosis, livre ebook

Traces the use of powerful gnostic visionary techniques from Hellenistic Gnosticism and Jewish merkabah mysticism, through Muhammad, the Ismaeilis, and theosophical Sufism to medieval neoplatonism, and renaissance alchemy.

Traces the use of powerful gnostic visionary techniques from Hellenistic Gnosticism and Jewish merkabah mysticism, through Muhammad, the Ismaeilis, and theosophical Sufism to medieval neoplatonism, and renaissance alchemy.

Gnosis traces the use of powerful gnostic visionary techniques from Hellenistic Gnosticism and Jewish merkabah mysticism, through Muhammad, the Ismaeilis, and theosophical Sufism to medieval neoplatonism, and renaissance alchemy.

Preface

Part One: Jung, Active Imagination, and the Gnostic-Alchemical Hypothesis
1. The Study of Mystical Experiences

2. Jung, Silberer, and Active Imagination

3. Theories of Spiritual Alchemy

4. The Alchemical Production of Gold
Part Two: A History of Gnosis
5. Defining Gnosis

6. The Gnostic Journey to the Ogdoad

7. The Recital of the Chariot

8. Muhammad and his Mi'raj

9. Islamic Gnosis and the World of Imagination

10. The Passage of Gnosis to the Latin West

Notes

Works Cited

Index