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What some essential books on Gnosticism?

>> No.13932090
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>>13932072

>> No.13932104

Ask /x/ instead, this place is full of people trying to dickwave how much smarter they are because they read some books. It’s like /sci/ but even worse.

>> No.13932136

>>13932104
>because they pretend to have read some books
ftfy

>> No.13932144

>>13932072
cant answer that but i really love the pic you used, thanks for posting it again. one of my favorites

>> No.13932148

>>13932104
/sci/ is worse than /x/

>> No.13932155

>>13932144
When I was a kid my mom bought me a book about astronomy and physics and it had that illustration. Used to trip me out and make me wonder what it meant. Wish I still had that book.

>> No.13932239

Reading Hans Jonas would be a decent place to start. Kirsten Grimstad's The Modern Revival of Gnosticism and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus has a good summary of the modern scholarship on gnosticism I think, which is useful as an introduction to critical historiography of gnosticism. The rest of the book is so-so.

>> No.13932284

>>13932090
She is real pretty

>> No.13932450

Voyage to Arcturus

Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion

LeCarriere's essay on them

>> No.13933300

>>13932090
holy bible? more like holy boring LMAO
Occult books are more fun to read

>> No.13933319

>>13932090
The picture isn't wrong. Only about 15% of The Bible is actually insightful or interesting in any way at all.

>> No.13933554

>>13932090
good books. I would add Stephen Hoeller's A fool's Pilgrimage and maybe Gnostic Jung

>> No.13933640

>>13932090
>Not knowing that the bible is also a Gnostic text

>> No.13933885

>>13932072
>>13932090

The Canonical Gospels are THE "Gnostic" texts.

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>>13932072

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>Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

>> No.13934184

>>13933885
No this is >>13933894 -- Unless you believe >>13933885 -- But >>13933300 and >>13933319 aren't wrong...

>> No.13935356

>>13932104
>this place is full of people trying to dickwave how much smarter they are because they read some books
I reminds me to a place.

>> No.13935376

hannegraaff's dictionary of gnosis and western esotericism is on libgen.

But elaine pagels' gnostic gospels is still a fun intro. You need the nag hammadi codicies, get the robinson translation.

>> No.13935377

>>13932090
The bible is also an occult book itself, but yeah, additions are essential too.