Crafting Gnosis: Gnostic Spirituality in the Ancient New Age

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April D. DeConick
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285–305
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Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World

Essays in Honour of John D. Turner

Series:  Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, Volume: 82
Cover Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World
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9789004254763
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2013
Front Matter
A Distinctive Intertextuality: Genesis and Platonizing Philosophy in The Secret Revelation of John
The Three Forms of First Thought (NHC XIII,1), and the Secret Book of John (NHC II,1 and par.)
Emissaries of Truth and Justice: The Seed of Seth as Agents of Divine Providence
Sethian Names in Magical Texts: Protophanes and Meirotheos
“Third Ones and Fourth Ones”: Some Reflections on the Use of Indefinite Ordinals in Zostrianos
Le quatrième écrit du codex Tchacos: les livres d’Allogène et la tradition littéraire séthienne
The Book of Allogenes (CT,4) and Sethian Gnosticism
The Temptation of Allogenes (Codex Tchacos, Tractate IV)
Martin Hengel and the Origins of Gnosticism
Arithmos and Kosmos: Arithmology as an Exegetical Tool in the De Opificio Mundi of Philo of Alexandria
Parole intérieure et parole proférée chez Philon d’Alexandrie et dans l’Évangile de la Vérité (NH I,3)
Remarques sur la cohérence des Extraits de Théodote
Evidence of “Valentinian” Ritual Practice? The Liturgical Fragments of Nag Hammadi Codex XI (NHC XI,2a–e)
A Salvific Act of Transformation or a Symbol of Defilement? Baptism in Valentinian Liturgical Readings (NHC XI,2) and in the Testimony of Truth (NHC IX,3)
“The Garment Poured its Entire Self over Me”: Christian Baptismal Traditions and the Origins of the Hymn of the Pearl
Alexander of Lycopolis, Manichaeism and Neoplatonism
The Symposium and Republic in the Mystical Thought of Plotinus and the Sethian Gnostics
“Those Who Ascend to the Sanctuaries of the Temples”: The Gnostic Context of Plotinus’ First Treatise, 1.6 [1], On Beauty
Johannine Background of the Being-Life-Mind Triad
The Neopythagorean Backdrop to the Fall (σφαλμα/νευσισ) of the Soul in Gnosticism and its Echo in the Plotinian Treatises 33 and 34
Écho et les antitypes
Plotinus and the Magical Rites Practiced by the Gnostics
Where Did Matter Appear From? A Syntactic Problem in a Plotinian anti-Gnostic Treatise
Plotinus, Epicurus, and the Gnostics: On Plotinian Classification of Philosophies
Plotinus and the Vehicle of the Soul
Life and Happiness in the “Platonic Underworld”
Trial by Fire: An Ontological Reading of Katharsis
“Harmonizing” Aristotle’s Categories and Plato’s Parmenides before the Background of Natural Philosophy
Christians against Matter: A Bouquet for Bishop Berkeley
Proclus against the Gnostics? Some Remarks on a Subtle Allusion in the Timaeus-Commentary concerning Caves and Cages
Imagination and Psychic Body: Apparitions of the Divine and Geometric Imagination according to Proclus
Neoplatonizing Gnosticism and Gnosticizing Neoplatonism in the “American Baroque”
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