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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.
"I like the passion and enthusiasm of an author in touch with something real who pursues it with an open mind. Implicit here is the author's seriousness and commitment. He believes his subject makes a difference and he communicates this to the reader. The author's perspective gives some startling and important insights into a tradition that is for the most part unknown and ignored." — Christopher Bamford, Lindisfarne Press
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