About this title: Gnosticism, steeped as it is in individualism, introspection, and personal revelation, is especially appealing to personal seekers who have turned away from formal religion. The publication of several best-selling Gnosticism-related studies and the roaring success of THE DA VINCI CODE have dusted up great public interest in the Gnostic texts in a public that is increasingly turned off by orthodoxy, dogma, and big religion. Poet and literature professor Willis Barnstone and Gnostic scholar Marvin Meyer present an exhaustive compendium of primary-source Gnostic texts, artfully translated by ...
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Description: Brand New. Paperback. A landmark work of scholarship and literary translation, this volume presents the most significant and beautiful sacred texts of gnostic mysticism. The gnostics were religions thinkers who believed that salvation is found through mystical knowledge and personal religious experience. Dating from the first to the 13th centuries, the selections represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar forms of gnostic spirituality; their diverse ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Shambhala Pubns
Date Published: 2009-06-30
ISBN-13:9781590306314ISBN:1590306317
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Binding: orig. cloth
Publisher: Shambhala, Boston
Date Published: 2003
Description: Minor rubbing. A small ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwr. 24x15cm, ix, 860 pp. "This is by far the most comprehensive compilation of gnostic texts ever published. Dating from the first to the thirteenth centuries, these gnostic texts represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar forms of of gnostic spirituality. The texts show that gnosticism was a world religion that sought truths in a wide variety of religious traditions and expressed those truths in ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Seeds
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781590301999ISBN:1590301994
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