Echoes From The Gnosis

by Mead, George Robert Stow; Algeo, John; Gilbert, Robert; Hoeller, Stephan A.

• ISBN13: 9780835608411
• ISBN10: 0835608417
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-25
• Publisher: Quest Books

Summary

The fully revised complete collection of eleven seminalk works on Gnosticism, the first of which orginally appeared in 1906.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
G.R.S. Mead and the Gnosis: A Biographical Essay by Robert A. Gilbert	xv
Gnosis and Its Echoes: An Explanatory Essay by Stephan A. Hoeller	xxv
Book 1: The GNOSIS of the MIND
Introduction to Book One by Stephan A. Hoeller	3	(34)
THE GNOSIS OF THE MIND	7	(30)
Book 2: The HYMNS of HERMES
Introduction to Book Two by Stephan A. Hoeller	37	(44)
THE SERVICE OF SONG	41	(10)
A TRIPLE TRISAGION	51	(7)
A HYMN TO ALL-FATHER GOD	58	(6)
THE SECRET HYMNODY	64	(7)
A HYMN OF GRACE FOR GNOSIS	71	(3)
A SONG OF PRAISE TO THE JEON	74	(7)
Book 3: The VISION of ARIDÆUS
Introduction to Book Three by Stephan A. Hoeller	81	(40)
PREAMBLE	85	(4)
THE VISION	89	(9)
COMMENTS	98	(23)
Book 4: The HYMN of JESUS
Introduction to Book Four by Stephan A. Hoeller	121	(42)
PREAMBLE	125	(9)
THE HYMN	134	(4)
COMMENTS	138	(25)
Book 5: The MYSTERIES of MITHRA
Introduction to Book Five by Stephan A. Hoeller	163	(46)
PREAMBLE	167	(7)
ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT	174	(6)
DIFFUSION IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE	180	(5)
FROM THE TEXTS	185	(10)
FROM THE MONUMENTS	195	(14)
Book 6: A MITHRIAC RITUAL
Introduction to Book Six by Stephan A. Hoeller	209	(42)
PREAMBLE	213	(4)
THE RITUAL	217	(8)
COMMENTS	225	(26)
Book 7: The GNOSTIC CRUCIFIXION
Introduction to Book Seven by Stephan A. Hoeller	251	(44)
PREFACE	255	(1)
THE VISION OF THE CROSS	256	(4)
COMMENTS	260	(23)
POSTSCRIPT	283	(12)
Book 8: The CHALDÆAN ORACLES I
Introduction to Book Eight by Stephan A. Hoeller	295	(50)
INTRODUCTION	299	(5)
FRAGMENTS AND COMMENTS
The Supreme Principle	304	(1)
The End of Understanding	305	(3)
Mystic Union	308	(1)
The One Desirable	309	(1)
The Divine Triad	310	(1)
God-nurturing Silence	311	(1)
The Holy Fire	312	(1)
Mind of Mind	313	(2)
The Monad and Dyad	315	(1)
The One Body of All Things	316	(1)
Once Beyond and Twice Beyond	316	(1)
The Great Mother	317	(3)
All Things are Triple	320	(2)
The Mother-Depths	322	(2)
The Æon	324	(1)
The Utterance of the Fire	325	(1)
Limit the Separator	326	(1)
The Emanation of Ideas	327	(2)
The Bond of Love Divine	329	(2)
The Seven Firmaments	331	(2)
The True Sun	333	(1)
The Moon	334	(1)
The Elements	334	(1)
The Shells of the Cosmic Egg	335	(1)
The Physiology of the Cosmic Body	335	(1)
The Globular Cosmos	336	(2)
Nature and Necessity	338	(1)
The Principles or Rulers of the Sensible World	339	(6)
Book 9: The CHALDÆAN ORACLES II
Introduction to Book Nine by Stephan A. Hoeller	345	(52)
FRAGMENTS AND COMMENTS
The Starters	349	(4)
The Maintainers	353	(2)
The Enders	355	(2)
The Daimones	357	(1)
The Dogs	357	(2)
The Human Soul	359	(2)
The Vehicles of Man	361	(1)
Soul-Slavery	362	(1)
The Body	363	(1)
Nature	364	(2)
The Divine Spark	366	(1)
The Way of Return	367	(1)
The Armour of Sounding Light	367	(3)
The Way Above	370	(2)
Purification by Fire	372	(1)
The Angelic Powers of Purification	372	(1)
The Sacred Fires	373	(2)
The Fruit of the Fire-Tree	375	(1)
The Pæan of the Soul	376	(1)
The Mystery-Cultus	376	(1)
The Mystic Marriage	377	(1)
The Purifying Mysteries	378	(1)
The Fire-Gnosis	378	(1)
The Manifestations of the Gods	379	(2)
The Theurgic Art	381	(1)
The Royal Souls	382	(1)
The Light-Spark	383	(1)
The Unregenerate	384	(1)
The Perfecting of the Body	385	(2)
Re-incarnation	387	(1)
The Darkness	388	(1)
The Infernal Stairs	389	(2)
On Conduct	391	(1)
The Gnosis of Piety	392	(5)
Book 10: The HYMN of the ROBE of GLORY
Introduction to Book Ten by Stephan A. Hoeller	397	(52)
PREAMBLE	401	(3)
THE HYMN	404	(8)
COMMENTS
The Pearl	412	(2)
Egypt	414	(2)
The Parable of the Prodigal	416	(2)
The Dual Sonship	418	(2)
The Robe of Glory	420	(6)
A Story of the Infancy	426	(1)
The Two Couriers	427	(1)
The Allegorical Geography	428	(2)
NOTES	430	(19)
Book 11: The WEDDING-SONG of WISDOM
Introduction to Book Eleven by Stephan A. Hoeller	449	(54)
PREAMBLE	453	(4)
TRANSLATIONS
From the Greek Version	457	(2)
From the Catholicized Syriac Text	459	(2)
From the Later Armenian Version	461	(1)
COMMENTS
Syrian Wedding-Festivities	462	(1)
The Song of Songs	463	(2)
The Sacred Marriage in the Kabalah	465	(2)
In the Writings of Philo Judxus	467	(4)
In the New Testament	471	(3)
Wisdom	474	(7)
The Sacred Marriage in Christian Gnosticism	481	(5)
In the Trismegistic Gnosis	486	(1)
In the Chaldæan Oracles	487	(2)
In the Mithriac Mysteries	489	(1)
The Seven	490	(3)
The Choir of the Æons	493	(1)
NOTES	494	(9)
References	503