Gnostic scripture, apocrypha, and hidden revelation
Gnosticism and Apocrypha Texts
Gnostic and apocryphal texts covering Pistis Sophia, the Book of Enoch, early Christian gnosis, pseudepigrapha, mystical revelation, and esoteric Christian cosmology.
- Texts
- 26
- Authors
- 23
- Range
- 200 BCE to 1945
Overview
The main subjects, texts, and practices represented in this collection.
This path brings together Gnostic writing and apocryphal scripture for readers following related sources across more than one doctrinal tradition. It covers Pistis Sophia, Enochic material, early Christian gnosis, pseudepigrapha, hidden revelation, and esoteric cosmology alongside the explicitly Gnostic texts in the archive.
- Gnostic scripture, myth, cosmology, and commentary.
- Apocryphal and pseudepigraphal texts represented in the archive.
- Early Christian esoteric writing centered on revelation, ascent, and hidden knowledge.
Texts
Key source texts and related works for studying Gnostic & Apocrypha.
The Nag Hammadi Library
Pistis Sophia
Philosophumena (Vol 2)
Pistis Sophia
Buchstabenmystik
The Book of Enoch
Philosophumena (Vol 1)
Isis Unveiled, Vol. 2: Theology
The Cloud of Unknowing
Five Books of Mystery
The Interior Castle
Rosicrucian Manifestos
More Gnosticism and Apocrypha Texts
The Signature of All Things
The Divine Pymander
An Address to Men of Science
The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary
The Rosicrucians
Meister Eckhart: Sermons
Meister Eckhart, Vol. 2
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
The Christian Mythology
Demonology and Devil-lore
Miti, leggende e superstizioni (Vol 1)
Fact and Fable in Psychology
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
Encyclopaedia of Occultism
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