Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
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Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Theosophy

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnostics — A Contribution to the Study of the Origins of Christianity

G.R.S. Mead1900
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A comprehensive scholarly survey of the Gnostic movements of the early Christian centuries, widely regarded as one of the finest introductions to Gnosticism in the English language. Mead systematically examines the major Gnostic schools — Valentinians, Basilidians, Ophites, Sethians, and others — drawing on Patristic sources and surviving Gnostic texts. He traces the connections between Gnosticism, the Hermetic literature, Neo-Pythagoreanism, and Eastern mysticism, presenting Gnosticism as a sophisticated attempt to synthesise the spiritual wisdom of the ancient world. An essential scholarly companion to the Pistis Sophia and Corpus Hermeticum.

This edition1900
EditionFirst published 1900 by Theosophical Publishing Society, London and Benares
Gnosticismmystical gnosis and knowledgeancient mystery religionsDivine emanationCoptic ManuscriptsEarly ChristianityMystical gnosisReligious syncretismMystery religionsmystical studyHermeticismGnostic philosophyClassical scholarshipEsoteric Christianitymystery cult practicesEarly Christian Gnosticism

Contents761 chapters

  1. 01The Creed of Christendom
  2. 02The New Era Two Thousands Years ago
  3. 03Our Present Task
  4. 04The New Hope of To-day
  5. 05The One Religion
  6. 06The Sunshine of its Doctrine
  7. 07The Comparative Science of Religion
  8. 08The Just Method of Comparison
  9. 09The True Scholar of Religion
  10. 10The Analysis of Religion
  11. 11The Beginnings of Christianity
  12. 12The First Two Centuries
  13. 13The “Higher Criticism”
  14. 14“Providentissimus Deus”
  15. 15Its Immediate Result
  16. 16The Force of Reaction
  17. 17The Force of Progress
  18. 18The Nature of Criticism
  19. 19The Resultant
  20. 20Nineteen Centuries Ago and Now
  21. 21The Conditions of the Comparison
  22. 22The Return of Souls
  23. 23The Intensified Present
  24. 24Occident and Orient
  25. 25The Reconciliation of Science and Theology
  26. 26The Coming and Going of Souls
  27. 27The Birth and Death of Races
  28. 28The Manhood of the Western World
  29. 29The Greatest Story in the World
  30. 30The Main Means to a Recovery of the Outlines
  31. 31The Need of a Background
  32. 32The Gnostic Schools
  33. 33Where to look for their Origins
  34. 34The Nature of the Field to be Surveyed
  35. 35The Soil of the Field
  36. 36Three Mother Streams
  37. 37The Greece of 600 B.C
  38. 38The Precursors of Pythagoras
  39. 39Primitive Hellas
  40. 40The Orphic Tradition
  41. 41The Wavelets of Aryan Immigration
  42. 42The Orphic Line
  43. 43The Greece of "Homer"
  44. 44"Orpheus" returns to Greece
  45. 45The Mysteries
  46. 46The Reason of it
  47. 47Their Corruption
  48. 48The Various Traditions
  49. 49The Political Mysteries
  50. 50The Private Mysteries
  51. 51The Orphic Communities
  52. 52Pythagoras and Plato
  53. 53The Philosophic Mysteries
  54. 54Aristotle and Scepticism
  55. 55East and West
  56. 56Rome
  57. 57The Mysteries of Mithras
  58. 58The Wisdom of Egypt
  59. 59The Blendings of Tradition
  60. 60The Mystic Communities
  61. 61The Therapeuts
  62. 62The Earliest Christians of Eusebius
  63. 63The Pseudo-Philo Theory
  64. 64An Interesting Question of Date
  65. 65The Title and Context
  66. 66The Essæans
  67. 67The Name Therapeut
  68. 68Their Abandonment of the World
  69. 69Their Retreats
  70. 70The Mareōtic Colony
  71. 71Their Dwellings
  72. 72The Original Meaning of the Term Monastery
  73. 73Their Prayers and Exercises
  74. 74The Nature of their Books
  75. 75Their Mode of Meeting
  76. 76The Sanctuary
  77. 77Their Rule
  78. 78Fasting
  79. 79Housing and Clothing
  80. 80The Seventh-day Common Meal
  81. 81Their Sacred Feasts
  82. 82Seniority
  83. 83The Banquet on the Fiftieth Day
  84. 84The Women Disciples
  85. 85The Plain Couches
  86. 86The Servers
  87. 87The Frugal Fare
  88. 88The Instruction
  89. 89The President
  90. 90The Interpretation of Scripture
  91. 91The Singing of Hymns
  92. 92Bread and Salt
  93. 93The Sacred Dancing
  94. 94A Note on the Sacred Numbers
  95. 95The Morning Prayer
  96. 96Philo's Connection with the Therapeuts
  97. 97The Lay Disciples
  98. 98The Variety of Communities
  99. 99The Influence of Babylon
  100. 100The Mythology of History
  101. 101The Writing of Scripture-history
  102. 102Honest Self-delusion
  103. 103The Spiritualizing of Judaism
  104. 104Zealotism
  105. 105Pharisaism
  106. 106The Chassidim and Essenes
  107. 107The Inner Schools
  108. 108A Bird's-eye View of the City
  109. 109The Populace
  110. 110The Library
  111. 111The Museum
  112. 112The Schools of the Sophists
  113. 113The Dawn-land
  114. 114The New Religion
  115. 115Jewish and Christian Schools
  116. 116The Canon
  117. 117The Gospels
  118. 118The Letters of Paul
  119. 119The Gentilization of Christianity
  120. 120The Nazoræans
  121. 121The Poor Men
  122. 122The Ebionite Tradition of Jesus
  123. 123Their Manner of Life
  124. 124The Degrees of Holiness
  125. 125Points of Contact with Christianity
  126. 126The "Secularizing" of Christianity
  127. 127The Inner Teaching
  128. 128Yahweh not "the Father" of Jesus
  129. 129Various Classes of Souls
  130. 130The Person of Jesus
  131. 131The Main Doctrines
  132. 132Literature
  133. 133Indirect Sources
  134. 134Direct Sources
  135. 135No Classification possible
  136. 136The Origin of the Name
  137. 137A Follower of John the Baptist
  138. 138The Pre-Christian Gnosis
  139. 139The Ebionite "Simon"
  140. 140The "Simonian" Literature
  141. 141The "Simonian" System of Irenæus
  142. 142The Great Announcement
  143. 143The Hidden Fire
  144. 144The Fire Tree
  145. 145The Æons
  146. 146His Date
  147. 147His Doctrines
  148. 148A Link with Zoroastrianism
  149. 149The Chain of Teachers
  150. 150Asceticism
  151. 151Summary of Doctrines
  152. 152The Making of Man
  153. 153The Obscurity of the Subject
  154. 154The Term "Ophite"
  155. 155The Serpent Symbol
  156. 156The Myth of the Going-forth
  157. 157Pseudo-philology
  158. 158The Spiritual Creation
  159. 159O. T. Exegesis
  160. 160Yahweh Ialdabaōth
  161. 161Christology
  162. 162Jesus
  163. 163Justinus
  164. 164The Book of Baruch
  165. 165Baruch
  166. 166Christology
  167. 167Their Literature
  168. 168Their Mystical Exegesis
  169. 169The Assyrian Mysteries
  170. 170The Egyptian
  171. 171The Greek
  172. 172The Phrygian
  173. 173The Samothracian
  174. 174The Mysteries of the Great Mother
  175. 175The Fragment of a Hymn
  176. 176The Source of their Tradition
  177. 177The Three Worlds
  178. 178A Direct Quotation
  179. 179The Meaning of the Name
  180. 180Psychological Physiology
  181. 181The Lost Books of Hippolytus
  182. 182Seth
  183. 183An Outline of their System
  184. 184The Mysteries
  185. 185God
  186. 186The Æons
  187. 187Cosmos and Man
  188. 188The Saviour
  189. 189Number Theories
  190. 190How to Seek after God
  191. 191The Obscurity of the Subject
  192. 192The Enemies of Yahweh the Friends of God
  193. 193Judas
  194. 194A Scrap of History
  195. 195Their Idea of Jesus
  196. 196Reincarnation
  197. 197Communism
  198. 198The Moon-god
  199. 199The Monadic Gnosis
  200. 200The Scape-Goat for the “Pillar-Apostles”
  201. 201The Over-Writer of the Apocalypse
  202. 202“Which Things I hate”
  203. 203The Master of Marcion
  204. 204The Spread of Marcionism
  205. 205The "Higher Criticism"
  206. 206The Gospel of Paul
  207. 207Eznik
  208. 208A Marcionite System
  209. 209The Title Chrēstos
  210. 210His Wide Tolerance
  211. 211Philumēnē
  212. 212Her Visions
  213. 213Basilides and his Writings
  214. 214Our Sources of Information
  215. 215The Divinity beyond Being
  216. 216Universality beyond Being
  217. 217Ex Nihilo
  218. 218The Sonship
  219. 219The Holy Spirit
  220. 220The Great Ruler
  221. 221The Ætherial Creation
  222. 222The Sub-lunary Spaces
  223. 223Soteriology
  224. 224The Mystic Gospel
  225. 225The Sons of God
  226. 226The Final Consummation
  227. 227Jesus
  228. 228Karman and Reincarnation
  229. 229The Theory of "Appendages"
  230. 230Moral Responsibility
  231. 231A Trace of Zoroastrianism
  232. 232The Spurious System
  233. 233Abraxas
  234. 234The “Great Unknown” of Gnosticism
  235. 235“They of Valentinus”
  236. 236The Leaders of the Movement
  237. 237The So-called Eastern and Western Schools
  238. 238The Syntheticizing of the Gnosis
  239. 239Sources of Information
  240. 240Biography
  241. 241Date
  242. 242Writings
  243. 243The Fragments that Remain
  244. 244Concerning the Creation of the First Race of Mankind
  245. 245On the Pure in Heart
  246. 246Concerning One of the Powers of the Perfect Man
  247. 247The Face of God
  248. 248Ye are Sons of God
  249. 249Concerning the People of the Beloved
  250. 250The Galilæans
  251. 251The Wisdom of the “Little One”
  252. 252The Chain of Being
  253. 253The Ariadne’s Thread out of the Maze
  254. 254Towards the Great Silence
  255. 255The Depth beyond Being
  256. 256The Æon World
  257. 257The Platonic Solids
  258. 258A Living Symbolism
  259. 259The “Fourth Dimension”
  260. 260The Eternal Atom
  261. 261The Law of Syzygy
  262. 262The Law of Differentiation
  263. 263The Three and the Seven
  264. 264The Twelve and Ten
  265. 265The Dodecahedron
  266. 266The Decad
  267. 267Chaos
  268. 268Theos
  269. 269Cosmos
  270. 270Mythology
  271. 271The Sophia-Mythus
  272. 272The Mother of Many Names
  273. 273The Father of All
  274. 274The Parents of the Æons
  275. 275The Names of the Æons
  276. 276The World-Mother
  277. 277The Abortion
  278. 278The Term “Only-begotten”
  279. 279The Cross
  280. 280The Last Limit
  281. 281The Mystic or Cosmic Jesus
  282. 282The Grief of Sophia
  283. 283The Sensible World
  284. 284Its Demiurge
  285. 285Souls
  286. 286“Words” or Minds
  287. 287Bodies
  288. 288The New Man
  289. 289The Mystic Body of the Christ
  290. 290Soteriology
  291. 291Sources
  292. 292Number-letters
  293. 293Kabalism
  294. 294The Great Name
  295. 295The Echo of the Name
  296. 296The Symbolic Body of the Man of Truth
  297. 297The Numbers
  298. 298Gospel Exegesis
  299. 299The Creation of the Sensible World
  300. 300The Tetraktys
  301. 301Theological Arithmetic
  302. 302Jesus the Master
  303. 303The "Moving Image of Eternity"
  304. 304From the Marcosian Ritual
  305. 305The Letter to Flora
  306. 306The "Higher Criticism"
  307. 307The Source of Moses' Inspiration
  308. 308The Proem to the Fourth Gospel
  309. 309His Commentary on the Fourth Gospel
  310. 310Biography
  311. 311Writings
  312. 312Indirect Sources
  313. 313From His Hymns
  314. 314The Book of the Laws of Countries
  315. 315Karman
  316. 316Fortune and Nature
  317. 317The Right and Left
  318. 318The Hymn of the Soul
  319. 319The Gnostic Acts
  320. 320Catholic Over-Working
  321. 321Early Collectors
  322. 322A Hymn to Wisdom
  323. 323Its Meaning
  324. 324Two Sacramental Invocations
  325. 325A Note thereon
  326. 326The Palace that Thomas built
  327. 327A Recently-published Fragment
  328. 328The Rationale of Docetism
  329. 329The Evolution of Tradition
  330. 330Mystic Stories of Jesus
  331. 331The Christ speaks with Jesus
  332. 332An Early Form of One of the Great Miracles
  333. 333A Ritual from the Mysteries
  334. 334The Doxology
  335. 335The Mystery of the Cross
  336. 336The Interpretation thereof
  337. 337The Initiation of the Cross
  338. 338The Higher and Lower Selves
  339. 339A Prayer of Praise to Christ
  340. 340John's Farewell Address to his Community
  341. 341John's Last Prayer
  342. 342The Story of John and the Bugs
  343. 343Address to the Cross
  344. 344The Descent of Man
  345. 345The Mystic Redemption through the Cross
  346. 346Afterword
  347. 347The Askew Codex
  348. 348The Bruce Codex
  349. 349Translations
  350. 350The Difficulty of the Subject
  351. 351Programme
  352. 352The Mystic Transfiguration and Ascent in the Twelfth Year
  353. 353The Teaching of the Eleven Years
  354. 354The Master Returns to His Disciples
  355. 355The Mystic Incarnation of the Twelve
  356. 356Concerning the Robe of Glory
  357. 357Of His Own Incarnation
  358. 358That the Soul of Elias is Born in John the Baptist
  359. 359The Hymn of Welcome "Come unto Us"
  360. 360The Three Vestures of Light
  361. 361The Journey into the Height
  362. 362The Master Robs the Æons of a Third of Their Light
  363. 363The Questions of Mary
  364. 364Why the Rulers have been Robbed
  365. 365Its Death-blow
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  372. 372FRAGMENTS OF A
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  374. 374FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN
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  376. 376PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
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  378. 378PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
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  382. 382SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
  383. 383SOME ROUGH OUTLINES OF THE BACKGROUND OF THE GNOSIS 29—120
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  393. 393xxii. FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN.
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  401. 401XXX. FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN.
  402. 402SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS
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  404. 404INDEX.
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  428. 428INTRODUCTION.
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  446. 446ALEXANDRIA.
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  467. 467THE ESSENES.
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  480. 480THE GNOSIS ACCORDING TO
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  485. 485"SIMON MAGUS."
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  499. 499THE DOCETÆ.
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  502. 502THE CARPOCRATIANS.
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  504. 504“EPIPHANES.”
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  562. 562THE HYMN OF THE ROBE OF GLORY.
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  623. 623SUMMARY OF THE EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOKS OF THE SAVIOUR.
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  663. 663SELECTIONS FROM THE UNTITLED APOCALYPSE OF THE CODEX BRUCIANUS.
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  683. 683NOTES ON THE CONTENTS OF THE BRUCE
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  695. 695THE AKHMĪM CODEX.
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  709. 709SOME FORGOTTEN SAYINGS.
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  719. 719CONCLUSION.
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  721. 721AFTERWORD.
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  724. 724BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
  725. 725GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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  740. 740THE COPTIC GNOSTIC WORKS.
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  744. 744REVIEWS AND ARTICLES IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PERIODICALS.
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  746. 746UNCANONICAL ACTS.
  747. 747GNOSTIC (?) GEMS AND ABRAXAS-STUDIES.
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  750. 750Works by G. R. S. MEAD, B.A., M.R.A.S.
  751. 751WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
  752. 752THE GOSPELS AND THE GOSPEL :
  753. 753WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
  754. 754WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
  755. 755THE THEOSOPHY OF THE GREEKS.
  756. 756THRICE-GREATEST HERMES.
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