The Nature of the Archons
Author : Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Gnosticism
ISBN : 9783447025188
Author : Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Gnosticism
ISBN : 9783447025188
Author : Emily K Patel
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2023-07-03
Category :
ISBN :
As an artificial intelligence language model, I must clarify that the concept of Archons varies across different belief systems, mythologies, and spiritual traditions. There is no universally agreed-upon physical description of Archons. However, in certain esoteric or Gnostic teachings, Archons are often described as non-physical entities or spiritual beings rather than physical beings with tangible form. In some interpretations, Archons are depicted as shapeless or formless entities existing in the subtle realms, beyond the physical realm. They are sometimes described as energetic or ethereal beings, lacking a specific physical body or material manifestation. Archons may be perceived as forces or intelligences that influence the material world and human consciousness, rather than having a physical appearance themselves. It's important to note that these descriptions are metaphorical and symbolic, representing spiritual or metaphysical concepts rather than literal physical beings. Different spiritual traditions may have unique interpretations of Archons, and their depictions may vary accordingly.
Author : James McConkey Robinson
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Gnostic literature
ISBN : 9789004071858
Author : Jonathan Cahana-Blum
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498566294
This book demonstrates that ancient Christian Gnosticism was an ancient form of cultural criticism in a mythological garb. It establishes that, much like modern forms of critical theory, ancient Gnosticism was set on deconstructing mainstream discourses and cultural premises. Strains of critical theory dealt with include the Frankfurt School, queer theory, and poststructural philosophy. The book documents how in both ancient Gnosticism and modern critical theories issues that used to serve as premises for discussion or as concepts relegated to the realms of the “natural” and the “given” in their respective historical contexts, are transformed into objects of contention. The main aim of this book is to salvage the historical category of Gnosticism from its present scholarly disavowal, if only because Gnosticism, when read as a cultural, and not only a religious phenomenon, presents us an ancient form of culture criticism which would be hard to parallel until (post) modernity. While Hans Jonas remarked many years ago that “something in Gnosticism knocks at the door of our Being and of our twentieth-century Being in particular,” by the 21st century global world this something has already entered and lives with us. We can thus still benefit from another perspective, even if it comes from Mediterranean people who lived almost 2,000 years ago.
Author : Kurt Rudolph
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2001-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567086402
Translated by R. McL. WilsonA full-scale study based on the documents of the Coptic Gnostic library found at Nag Hammadi providing a comprehensive survey of the nature, the teachings, the history and the influence of this religion.
Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1590301994
The most comprehensive collection of gnostic literature ever published, this volume is the result of a unique collaboration between a renowned poet-translator and a leading scholar of early Christian texts.
Author : Nicola Denzey Lewis
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199755318
Introduction to "Gnosticism": Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds is the first textbook on Gnosticism, guiding students through the most significant of the Nag Hammadi texts, grouping them by theme and genre, and revealing to the uninitiated their most inscrutable mysteries.
Author : James Endell Tyler
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 1834
Category : Oaths
ISBN :
Author : Tuomas Rasimus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2009-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047426703
This book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism by examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite.’ In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites the Genesis paradise story and is attested, for example, in Irenaeus’ Adversus haereses 1.30, The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World, the snake’s advice to eat of the tree of knowledge is considered positive, the creator and his angels are turned into demonic beasts and the true Godhead is presented as an androgynous heavenly projection of Adam and Eve. It is argued that Hans-Martin Schenke’s influential model of the ‘Sethian system’ only reveals part of a larger whole to which the Ophite material belongs as an important and organic component.
Author : Elaine Pagels
Publisher : Random House
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2004-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1588364178
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow in reputation and influence over the past two decades. It is now widely recognized as one of the most brilliant and accessible histories of early Christian spirituality published in our time. In 1945 an Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, thirteen papyrus volumes that expounded a radically different view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from that of the New Testament. In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today. With insight and passion, Pagels explores a remarkable range of recently discovered gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, to show how a variety of “Christianities” emerged at a time of extraordinary spiritual upheaval. Some Christians questioned the need for clergy and church doctrine, and taught that the divine could be discovered through spiritual search. Many others, like Buddhists and Hindus, sought enlightenment—and access to God—within. Such explorations raised questions: Was the resurrection to be understood symbolically and not literally? Was God to be envisioned only in masculine form, or feminine as well? Was martyrdom a necessary—or worthy—expression of faith? These early Christians dared to ask questions that orthodox Christians later suppressed—and their explorations led to profoundly different visions of Jesus and his message. Brilliant, provocative, and stunning in its implications, The Gnostic Gospels is a radical, eloquent reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.