{"collection":"Gnosticism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/gno/fff/fff01.htm","path":"gno/fff/fff01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/gno/fff/fff01.htm","text":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, by G.R.S. Mead, [1900]\n| | PAGE | \n| INTRODUCTION | 1-153 | \n| PROLEGOMENA | 3-28 | \n| The Creed of Christendom | 3 | \n| The New Era Two Thousands Years ago | 4 | \n| The New Hope of To-day | 5 | \n| Our Present Task | 5 | \n| The One Religion | 6 | \n| The Sunshine of its Doctrine | 7 | \n| The Comparative Science of Religion | 8 | \n| The True Scholar of Religion | 9 | \n| The Just Method of Comparison | 9 | \n| The Analysis of Religion | 10 | \n| The Beginnings of Christianity | 11 | \n| The First Two Centuries | 12 | \n| The \"Higher Criticism\" | 14 | \n| \"Providentissimus Deus\" | 14 | \n| Its Immediate Result | 16 | \n| The Force of Reaction | 17 | \n| The Force of Progress | 18 | \n| The Nature of Criticism | 18 | \n| The Resultant | 19 | \n| p. vi | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Nineteen Centuries Ago and Now | 21 | \n| The Return of Souls | 23 | \n| The Conditions of the Comparison | 23 | \n| The Intensified Present | 24 | \n| Occident and Orient | 25 | \n| The Reconciliation of Science and Theology | 25 | \n| The Coming and Going of Souls | 26 | \n| The Birth and Death of Races | 27 | \n| The Manhood of the Western World | 8 | \n| SOME ROUGH OUTLINES OF THE BACKGROUND OF THE GNOSIS | 29-120 | \n| PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS | 29-36 | \n| The Greatest Story in the World | 29 | \n| The Need of a Background | 30 | \n| The Main Means to a Recovery of the Outlines | 30 | \n| The Gnostic Schools | 32 | \n| Where to look for their Origins | 32 | \n| The Nature of the Field to be Surveyed | 33 | \n| The Soil of the Field | 34 | \n| Three Mother Streams | 35 | \n| GREECE | 36-57 | \n| The Greece of 600 B.C. | 36 | \n| The Precursors of Pythagoras | 37 | \n| The Orphic Tradition | 39 | \n| Primitive Hellas | 39 | \n| The Wavelets of Aryan Immigration | 41 | \n| The Orphic Line | 42 | \n| The Greece of Homer | 43 | \n| Orpheus returns to Greece | 44 | \n| The Mysteries | 46 | \n| Their Corruption | 47 | \n| The Reason of it | 47 | \n| p. vii | | \n| PAGE | | \n| The Various Traditions | 48 | \n| The Political Mysteries | 49 | \n| The Private Mysteries | 49 | \n| The Orphic Communities | 50 | \n| The Philosophic Mysteries | 51 | \n| Pythagoras and Plato | 51 | \n| Aristotle and Scepticism | 53 | \n| East and West | 54 | \n| Rome | 55 | \n| The Mysteries of Mithras | 55 | \n| EGYPT | 57-65 | \n| The Wisdom of Egypt | 57 | \n| The Blendings of Tradition | 58 | \n| The Mystic Communities | 60 | \n| The Therapeuts | 60 | \n| The Earliest Christians of Eusebius | 61 | \n| The Pseudo-Philo Theory | 62 | \n| Its Death blow | 63 | \n| An Interesting Question of Date | 64 | \n| The Title and Context | 65 | \n| PHILO ON THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE | 66-86 | \n| The Ess\u00e6ans | 66 | \n| The Name Therapeut | 66 | \n| Their Abandonment of the World | 67 | \n| Their Retreats | 68 | \n| The Mare\u014dtic Colony | 69 | \n| Their Dwellings | 69 | \n| The Original Meaning of the Term Monastery | 70 | \n| Their Prayers and Exercises | 70 | \n| The Nature of their Books | 71 | \n| Their Mode of Meeting | 71 | \n| The Sanctuary | 72 | \n| Their Rule | 72 | \n| p. viii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Fasting | 73 | \n| The Seventh-day Common Meal | 73 | \n| Housing and Clothing | 73 | \n| Their Sacred Feasts | 74 | \n| The Banquet on the Fiftieth Day | 75 | \n| Seniority | 75 | \n| The Women Disciples | 75 | \n| The Plain Couches | 76 | \n| The Servers | 76 | \n| The Frugal Fare | 77 | \n| The President | 78 | \n| The Instruction | 78 | \n| The Interpretation of Scripture | 79 | \n| The Singing of Hymns | 79 | \n| Bread and Salt | 80 | \n| The Sacred Dancing | 80 | \n| The Morning Prayer | 82 | \n| A Note on the Sacred Numbers | 82 | \n| Philo's Connection with the Therapeuts | 84 | \n| The Lay Disciples | 85 | \n| The Variety of Communities | 85 | \n| JEWRY | 86-95 | \n| The Influence of Babylon | 86 | \n| The Writing of Scripture-history | 88 | \n| The Mythology of History | 88 | \n| Honest Self-delusion | 90 | \n| The Spiritualizing of Judaism | 91 | \n| Zealotism | 91 | \n| Pharisaism | 92 | \n| The Chassidim and Essenes | 93 | \n| The Inner Schools | 94 | \n| ALEXANDRIA | 95-120 | \n| A Bird's-eye View of the City | 96 | \n| p. ix | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Populace | 100 | \n| The Library | 102 | \n| The Museum | 106 | \n| The Schools of the Sophists | 109 | \n| The Dawn-land | 110 | \n| The New Religion | 113 | \n| Jewish and Christian Schools | 116 | \n| GENERAL AND GNOSTIC CHRISTIANITY | 121-153 | \n| THE EVOLUTION OF CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY | 121-125 | \n| The Canon | 121 | \n| The Gospels | 122 | \n| The Letters of Paul | 123 | \n| The Gentilization of Christianity | 124 | \n| THE EBIONITES | 126-130 | \n| The Nazor\u00e6ans | 126 | \n| The Poor Men | 127 | \n| The Ebionite Tradition of Jesus | 128 | \n| THE ESSENES | 131-136 | \n| Their Manner of Life | 132 | \n| The Degrees of Holiness | 133 | \n| Points of Contact with Christianity | 134 | \n| THE TENDENCIES OF GNOSTICISM | 136-142 | \n| The \"Secularizing\" of Christianity | 136 | \n| Yahweh not \"the Father\" of Jesus | 138 | \n| The Inner Teaching | 138 | \n| Various Classes of Souls | 139 | \n| The Person of Jesus | 140 | \n| The Main Doctrines | 141 | \n| THE LITERATURE AND SOURCES OF GNOSTICISM. | 143-153 | \n| Literature | 143 | \n| Indirect Sources | 146 | \n| Direct Sources | 151 | \n| p. x | | \n| | PAGE | \n| THE GNOSIS ACCORDING TO ITS FOES | 155-449 | \n| SOME GNOSTIC FRAGMENTS RECOVERED FROM THE POLEMICAL WRITINGS OF THE CHURCH FATHERS | 157-414 | \n| No Classification possible | 157 | \n| THE \"SIMONIANS\" | 160-161 | \n| The Origin of the Name | 160 | \n| DOSITHEUS | 162-164 | \n| A Follower of John the Baptist | 162 | \n| The Pre-Christian Gnosis | 163 | \n| \"SIMON MAGUS\" | 164-174 | \n| The Ebionite \"Simon\" | 165 | \n| The \"Simonian\" Literature | 167 | \n| The \"Simonian\" System of Iren\u00e6us | 168 | \n| The Great Announcement | 170 | \n| The Hidden Fire | 171 | \n| The Fire Tree | 172 | \n| The \u00c6ons | 173 | \n| MENANDER | 175-177 | \n| His Date | 175 | \n| His Doctrines | 175 | \n| A Link with Zoroastrianism | 177 | \n| SATURNINUS | 177-180 | \n| The Chain of Teachers | 177 | \n| Asceticism | 178 | \n| Summary of Doctrines | 178 | \n| The Making of Man | 180 | \n| THE \"OPHITES\" | 181-188 | \n| The Obscurity of the Subject | 181 | \n| p. xi | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Term \"Ophite\" | 182 | \n| The Serpent Symbol | 183 | \n| The Myth of the Going-forth | 186 | \n| Pseudo-philology | 187 | \n| AN ANONYMOUS SYSTEM FROM IREN\u00c6US | 188-193 | \n| The Spiritual Creation | 188 | \n| Yahweh Ialdaba\u014dth | 189 | \n| O. T. Exegesis | 189 | \n| Christology | 191 | \n| Jesus | 191 | \n| AN EARLY \"OPHITE\" SYSTEM | 193-197 | \n| Justinus | 193 | \n| The Book of Baruch | 194 | \n| Baruch | 196 | \n| Christology | 197 | \n| THE NAASSENI | 198-206 | \n| Their Literature | 198 | \n| Their Mystical Exegesis | 199 | \n| The Assyrian Mysteries | 200 | \n| The Egyptian | 201 | \n| The Greek | 201 | \n| The Samothracian | 202 | \n| The Phrygian | 202 | \n| The Mysteries of the Great Mother | 203 | \n| The Fragment of a Hymn | 205 | \n| THE PERAT\u00c6 | 206-212 | \n| The Source of their Tradition | 206 | \n| The Three Worlds | 207 | \n| A Direct Quotation | 208 | \n| The Meaning of the Name | 209 | \n| Psychological Physiology | 210 | \n| The Lost Books of Hippolytus | 212 | \n| p. xii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| THE SETHIANS | 213-216 | \n| Seth | 213 | \n| An Outline of their System | 214 | \n| The Mysteries | 215 | \n| THE DOCET\u00c6 | 217-221 | \n| God | 218 | \n| The \u00c6ons | 218 | \n| Cosmos and Man | 219 | \n| The Saviour | 220 | \n| MONO\u00cfMUS | 222-223 | \n| Number Theories | 222 | \n| How to Seek after God | 223 | \n| THE SO-CALLED CAINITES | 224-229 | \n| The Obscurity of the Subject | 224 | \n| The Enemies of Yahweh the Friends of God | 225 | \n| Judas | 226 | \n| A Scrap of History | 228 | \n| THE CARPOCRATIANS | 229-233 | \n| Their Idea of Jesus | 230 | \n| Reincarnation | 231 | \n| \"EPIPHANES\" | 233-236 | \n| The Moon god | 234 | \n| Communism | 234 | \n| The Monadic Gnosis | 236 | \n| CERINTHUS | 237-238 | \n| The Scape-Goat for the \"Pillar-Apostles\" | 237 | \n| The Over-Writer of the Apocalypse | 238 | \n| NICOLAUS | 239-240 | \n| \"Which Things I hate\" | 239 | \n| CERDO | 240-241 | \n| The Master of Marcion | 240 | \n| p. xiii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| MARCION | 241-249 | \n| The Spread of Marcionism | 241 | \n| The \"Higher Criticism\" | 242 | \n| The Gospel of Paul | 244 | \n| Eznik | 246 | \n| A Marcionite System | 247 | \n| The Title Chr\u0113stos | 249 | \n| APELLES | 250-252 | \n| His Wide Tolerance | 250 | \n| Philum\u0113n\u0113 | 250 | \n| Her Visions | 251 | \n| THE BASILIDIAN GNOSIS | 253-284 | \n| Basilides and his Writings | 253 | \n| Our Sources of Information | 255 | \n| The Divinity beyond Being | 256 | \n| Universality beyond Being | 257 | \n| Ex Nihilo | 259 | \n| The Sonship | 260 | \n| The Holy Spirit | 261 | \n| The Great Ruler | 262 | \n| The \u00c6therial Creation | 263 | \n| The Sub-lunary Spaces | 264 | \n| Soteriology | 265 | \n| The Mystic Gospel | 267 | \n| The Sons of God | 268 | \n| The Final Consummation | 270 | \n| Jesus | 272 | \n| Karman and Reincarnation | 274 | \n| The Theory of \"Appendages\" | 276 | \n| Moral Responsibility | 277 | \n| A Trace of Zoroastrianism | 278 | \n| The Spurious System | 280 | \n| Abrasax | 282 | \n| p. xiv | | \n| | PAGE | \n| THE VALENTINIAN MOVEMENT | 284-293 | \n| The \"Great Unknown\" of Gnosticism | 284 | \n| \"They of Valentinus\" | 285 | \n| The So-called Eastern and Western Schools | 287 | \n| The Leaders of the Movement | 287 | \n| The Syntheticizing of the Gnosis | 289 | \n| Sources of Information | 291 | \n| VALENTINUS | 294-311 | \n| Biography | 294 | \n| Date | 296 | \n| Writings | 297 | \n| The Fragments that Remain | 298 | \n| Concerning the Creation of the First Race of Mankind | 299 | \n| On the Pure in Heart | 300 | \n| Concerning One of the Powers of the Perfect Man | 302 | \n| Ye are Sons of God | 303 | \n| The Face of God | 303 | \n| Concerning the People of the Beloved | 305 | \n| The Galil\u00e6ans | 306 | \n| The Wisdom of the \"Little One\" | 306 | \n| The Chain of Being | 307 | \n| The Ariadne's Thread out of the Maze | 309 | \n| SOME OUTLINES OF \u00c6ONOLOGY | 311-335 | \n| Towards the Great Silence | 311 | \n| The Depth beyond Being | 312 | \n| The \u00c6on World | 313 | \n| The Platonic Solids | 314 | \n| A Living Symbolism | 316 | \n| The \"Fourth Dimension\" | 318 | \n| The Eternal Atom | 320 | \n| The Law of Syzygy | 321 | \n| p. xv | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Law of Differentiation | 322 | \n| The Three and the Seven | 323 | \n| The Twelve and Ten | 323 | \n| The Dodecahedron | 325 | \n| The Decad | 326 | \n| Chaos | 328 | \n| Theos | 329 | \n| Cosmos | 331 | \n| Mythology | 332 | \n| The Sophia-Mythus | 333 | \n| The Mother of Many Names | 334 | \n| HIPPOLYTUS\u2019 ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE VARIANTS OF THE SOPHIA-MYTHUS | 335-357 | \n| The Father of All | 335 | \n| The Parents of the \u00c6ons | 336 | \n| The Names of the \u00c6ons | 338 | \n| The World-Mother | 339 | \n| The Abortion | 340 | \n| The Term \"Only-begotten\" | 341 | \n| The Cross | 342 | \n| The Last Limit | 343 | \n| The Mystic or Cosmic Jesus | 345 | \n| The Grief of Sophia | 346 | \n| The Sensible World | 347 | \n| Its Demiurge | 348 | \n| \"Words\" or Minds | 351 | \n| Souls | 351 | \n| Bodies | 352 | \n| The New Man | 353 | \n| The Mystic Body of the Christ | 354 | \n| Soteriology | 355 | \n| THE NUMBER-SYMBOLISM OF MARCUS | 358-382 | \n| Sources | 358 | \n| p. xvi | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Number-letters | 359 | \n| Kabalism | 361 | \n| The Great Name | 363 | \n| The Echo of the Name | 365 | \n| The Symbolic Body of the Man of Truth | 366 | \n| The Numbers | 369 | \n| Gospel Exegesis | 370 | \n| The Creation of the Sensible World | 372 | \n| The Tetraktys | 373 | \n| Theological Arithmetic | 375 | \n| Jesus the Master | 376 | \n| The \"Moving Image of Eternity\" | 378 | \n| From the Marcosian Ritual | 380 | \n| PTOLEMY | 383-390 | \n| The Letter to Flora | 383 | \n| The \"Higher Criticism\" | 385 | \n| The Source of Moses\u2019 Inspiration | 387 | \n| The Proem to the Fourth Gospel | 388 | \n| HERACLEON | 391-392 | \n| His Commentary on the Fourth Gospel | 391 | \n| BARDESANES | 392-405 | \n| Biography | 392 | \n| Writings | 393 | \n| Indirect Sources | 395 | \n| From His Hymns | 396 | \n| The Book of the Laws of Countries | 398 | \n| Karman | 399 | \n| Fortune and Nature | 400 | \n| The Right and Left | 401 | \n| The Hymn of the Soul | 403 | \n| THE HYMN OF THE ROBE OF GLORY | 406-414 | \n| p. xvii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| SOME TRACES OF THE GNOSIS IN THE UNCANONICAL ACTS | 415-449 | \n| FOREWORD | 415-418 | \n| The Gnostic Acts | 415 | \n| Catholic Over-Working | 416 | \n| Early Collectors | 417 | \n| FROM THE ACTS OF THOMAS | 419-426 | \n| A Hymn to Wisdom | 419 | \n| Its Meaning | 421 | \n| Two Sacramental Invocations | 422 | \n| A Note thereon | 423 | \n| The Palace that Thomas built | 424 | \n| FROM THE ACTS OF JOHN | 426-444 | \n| A Recently-published Fragment | 426 | \n| The Rationale of Docetism | 426 | \n| The Evolution of Tradition | 427 | \n| Mystic Stories of Jesus | 428 | \n| The Christ speaks with Jesus | 429 | \n| An Early Form of One of the Great Miracles | 430 | \n| A Ritual from the Mysteries | 431 | \n| The Doxology | 434 | \n| The Mystery of the Cross | 435 | \n| The Interpretation thereof | 437 | \n| The Initiation of the Cross | 438 | \n| The Higher and Lower Selves | 439 | \n| A Prayer of Praise to Christ | 440 | \n| John's Farewell Address to his Community | 441 | \n| John's Last Prayer | 442 | \n| The Story of John and the Bugs | 443 | \n| FROM THE ACTS OF ANDREW | 445-446 | \n| Address to the Cross | 445 | \n| p. xviii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| FROM THE TRAVELS OF PETER | 446-449 | \n| The Descent of Man | 446 | \n| The Mystic Redemption through the Cross | 447 | \n| Afterword | 449 | \n| THE GNOSIS ACCORDING TO ITS FRIENDS | 451-602 | \n| SOME GREEK ORIGINAL WORKS IN COPTIC TRANSLATION | 453-592 | \n| THE ASKEW AND BRUCE CODICES | 453-458 | \n| The Askew Codex | 453 | \n| The Bruce Codex | 454 | \n| Translations | 455 | \n| The Difficulty of the Subject | 456 | \n| Programme | 457 | \n| SUMMARY OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SO-CALLED PISTIS SOPHIA TREATISE | 459-506 | \n| The Teaching of the Eleven Years | 459 | \n| The Mystic Transfiguration and Ascent in the Twelfth Year | 459 | \n| The Master Returns to His Disciples | 460 | \n| The Mystic Incarnation of the Twelve | 460 | \n| That the Soul of Elias is Born in John the Baptist | 461 | \n| Of His Own Incarnation | 461 | \n| Concerning the Robe of Glory | 461 | \n| The Hymn of Welcome \"Come unto Us\" | 462 | \n| The Three Vestures of Light | 463 | \n| The Journey into the Height | 464 | \n| The Master Robs the \u00c6ons of a Third of Their Light | 465 | \n| The Questions of Mary | 466 | \n| Why the Rulers have been Robbed | 466 | \n| p. xix | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Shortening of the Times | 468 | \n| The Heaven-journey Continued | 468 | \n| The Myth of Pistis Sophia | 469 | \n| The Enmity of Arrogant | 469 | \n| The Fall into Matter | 470 | \n| The Descent of the Soul | 471 | \n| Its Repentance and Redemption | 471 | \n| The Degrees of Purification | 472 | \n| The Light-crown | 473 | \n| The Final Victory | 473 | \n| An Otherwise-unknown Story of the Infancy | 474 | \n| Of the Glory of them of the Thirteenth \u00c6on | 476 | \n| The Scale of Light | 477 | \n| The Perfect shall be Higher than the Emanations of Light in the Kingdom 477 | | \n| The \"Last\" shall be \"First\" | 478 | \n| The Three Supernal Spaces of the Light | 478 | \n| The Inheritance of Light | 479 | \n| The Mystery of the First Mystery | 479 | \n| The Gnosis of Jesus, the Mystery of the Ineffable | 479 | \n| The Disciples lose Courage in Amazement at the Glories of the Gnosis | 480 | \n| The Highest Mystery is the Simplest of them All | 481 | \n| Concerning the One Word of the Ineffable | 481 | \n| The Glory of Him who Receiveth the Mystery | 483 | \n| Of the Thrones in the Light-kingdom | 484 | \n| There are Other Logoi | 484 | \n| The Degrees of the Mysteries | 484 | \n| The Boons they Grant | 485 | \n| The Limbs of the Ineffable | 485 | \n| The Thousand Years of Light | 486 | \n| The Books of Ieou | 487 | \n| p. xx | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Ye are Gods | 487 | \n| Of Souls in Incarnation | 488 | \n| The Preaching of the Mysteries | 489 | \n| The Burden of the Preaching | 489 | \n| The Boundary Marks of the Paths of the Mysteries | 490 | \n| The After-death State of the Uninitiated Righteous | 490 | \n| Of those who Repent and again Fall Back | 491 | \n| The Added Glories of the Saviours of Souls | 492 | \n| Concerning the Irreconcilables | 492 | \n| Of the Infinite Compassion of the Divine | 493 | \n| Of Those who Mimic the Mysteries | 493 | \n| Can the Pains of Martyrdom be Avoided | 494 | \n| The Mystery of the Resurrection of the Dead | 494 | \n| The Transport of the Disciples | 495 | \n| That this Mystery is to be Kept Secret | 495 | \n| The Constitution of Man | 496 | \n| The Evil Desire which Constraineth a Man to Sin | 497 | \n| The After-death State of the Sinner | 497 | \n| And of the Initiated Righteous | 498 | \n| \"Agree with Thine Enemy\" | 499 | \n| The Stamping of the Sins on the Souls | 499 | \n| The Burning up of the Sins by the Fires of the Baptism-Mysteries | 500 | \n| The Infinite Forgiveness of Sins | 501 | \n| But Delay Not to Repent | 502 | \n| For at a Certain Time the Gates of the Light will be Shut | 502 | \n| \"I know not whence ye are\" | 503 | \n| The Dragon of Outer Darkness | 503 | \n| The Draught of Oblivion | 504 | \n| p. xxi | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Parents we are to Leave | 504 | \n| The Books of Ieou Again | 505 | \n| The Christ the First of this Humanity to Enter the Light | 506 | \n| \u2019Tis He Who Holds the Keys of the Mysteries | 506 | \n| SUMMARY OF THE EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOKS OF THE SAVIOUR | 507-517 | \n| The Immanent Limbs of the Ineffable | 507 | \n| The Christ is the Ineffable | 507 | \n| The Gnosis of the Christ | 508 | \n| The Initiation of the Disciples on the Mount | 508 | \n| The First Veil is Drawn Aside | 509 | \n| They Enter the Way of the Midst | 510 | \n| The Ordering of the Fate-sphere is Described | 510 | \n| All Mysteries up to the Light-treasure are Promised them | 511 | \n| The Punishments of the Ways of the Midst | 512 | \n| The Duration of the Punishments | 512 | \n| The Disciples Pray for Mercy to Sinners | 513 | \n| They Enter an Atmosphere of Exceeding Great Light | 514 | \n| The Vision of the Baptism-Mysteries | 514 | \n| They Return to Earth | 515 | \n| The Celebration of the Mystic Eucharist | 515 | \n| The Mysteries that are to be Revealed | 515 | \n| The Punishment of Sinners in the Lower Regions and the Evil Bodies they Receive when Reborn | 516 | \n| The Cup of Wisdom | 516 | \n| The Note of a Scribe | 517 | \n| SUMMARY OF THE FRAGMENTS OF THE BOOK OF THE GREAT LOGOS ACCORDING TO THE MYSTERY | 518-546 | \n| p. xxii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Book of the Gnoses of the invisible God | 518 | \n| The Hidden Wisdom | 518 | \n| A Dark Saying is Explained | 519 | \n| The Flesh of Ignorance | 520 | \n| The Mysteries of the Treasure of Light | 520 | \n| To be Revealed to the Worthy Alone | 521 | \n| The Lesser Mysteries | 522 | \n| The Good Commandments | 522 | \n| The Greater Mysteries | 523 | \n| The Powers they Confer | 523 | \n| The Mystic Rite of the Baptism of the Water of Life | 524 | \n| The Baptism of Fire | 526 | \n| The Baptism of the Holy Spirit | 526 | \n| The Mystery of Withdrawing the Evil of the Rulers | 527 | \n| The Powers the Lesser Mysteries Confer | 527 | \n| The Mystery of the Forgiveness of Sins | 528 | \n| The Powers it Confers | 528 | \n| The Ordering of the Light-treasures | 529 | \n| The Great Light | 529 | \n| Invocation to the True God | 530 | \n| Invocation to the Unapproachable | 531 | \n| The Mystery of the Twelve \u00c6ons | 531 | \n| The Thirteenth \u00c6on | 532 | \n| The Fourteenth \u00c6on | 532 | \n| The Three Great Rulers | 532 | \n| Concerning Ieou the Emanator of the Middle Light world | 533 | \n| The Tetragrammaton | 534 | \n| The Type of the Treasures | 535 | \n| The Type of the True God Ieou | 535 | \n| The Mystic Diagrams | 536 | \n| Cosmic Embryology | 536 | \n| p. xxiii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Seal on the Forehead of Ieou | 537 | \n| General Characteristics of the Diagrams | 537 | \n| The Twelve the Order of Jesus | 538 | \n| Hymn to the First Mystery sung in the Thirteen \u00c6ons | 539 | \n| The Thirteenth \u00c6on | 539 | \n| The Sixty Treasures | 540 | \n| The Little Idea | 541 | \n| The Name of the Great Power | 542 | \n| Hymn to the Unapproachable God sung in the Seventh Treasure | 543 | \n| The Great Logoi according to the Mystery | 544 | \n| The Universal Idea | 545 | \n| Hymn to the [? First] Mystery | 545 | \n| The Way of the Midst | 546 | \n| SELECTIONS FROM THE UNTITLED APOCALYPSE OF THE CODEX BRUCIANUS | 547-566 | \n| The First Being | 547 | \n| The Second Being | 547 | \n| The Supernal Cross | 548 | \n| The Twelve Depths | 548 | \n| The Primal Source | 549 | \n| The Unmanifested | 550 | \n| The Manifested, the Pl\u0113r\u014dma | 550 | \n| Three-faced and Two-faced Space | 551 | \n| The View of the Commentator | 552 | \n| Marsan\u0113s, Nicotheus, and Ph\u014dsilamp\u0113s | 553 | \n| The Creative Logos | 553 | \n| The Descent of the Light-spark | 554 | \n| The Spiritual Atom | 554 | \n| Hymn to the Logos | 555 | \n| The Christ | 555 | \n| The Glorified of the Logos | 556 | \n| p. xxiv | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The At-one-ment | 556 | \n| Soteriology | 557 | \n| The Ineffable Vesture | 557 | \n| The Purification of the Lower Nature | 558 | \n| The World-Saviour | 558 | \n| The Promise | 559 | \n| The Powers of the Light vesture | 559 | \n| The Mothers of Men | 560 | \n| The Song of Praise of the Mother Above | 561 | \n| The Hidden Worlds | 561 | \n| The Man | 562 | \n| The Lord of Splendour | 562 | \n| His Promise to Them who Believe | 563 | \n| The Prayer of the Earth-born | 564 | \n| The Powers of Discrimination are Given them | 564 | \n| The Ladder of Purification | 565 | \n| The Son of God | 565 | \n| Hymn to the Light | 566 | \n| NOTES ON THE CONTENTS OF THE BRUCE AND ASKEW CODICES | 567-578 | \n| The Kinship of the Titled Treatises | 567 | \n| Date | 568 | \n| Authorship | 568 | \n| The Titles | 569 | \n| The Books of Ieou | 569 | \n| The Probable Author | 570 | \n| The Obscurity of the Subject | 570 | \n| The Original Pistis Sophia Treatise | 572 | \n| The Coptic Translation | 572 | \n| The Books of the Saviour | 573 | \n| The Copyist | 573 | \n| The Scheme Pre-supposed in these Treatises | 574 | \n| p. xxv | | \n| | PAGE | \n| An Appreciation of the Untitled Treatise | 576 | \n| Not to be Attributed to a Single Author | 577 | \n| Its Apocalyptic Basis | 577 | \n| The Over-working | 578 | \n| THE AKHM\u012aM CODEX | 579-592 | \n| The MS. and its Contents | 579 | \n| The Gospel of Mary | 580 | \n| The Wisdom of Jesus Christ | 582 | \n| Iren\u00e6us quotes from The Gospel of Mary | 582 | \n| An Examination of his Statements | 583 | \n| The Father | 583 | \n| The Mother | 584 | \n| The Pentad | 584 | \n| The Decad | 586 | \n| The Christ | 587 | \n| The Egyptian Origin of the Treatise | 588 | \n| The Opinion of Harnack | 589 | \n| The Importance of the MS. | 591 | \n| SOME FORGOTTEN SAYINGS | 593-602 | \n| Rejected Logoi | 593 | \n| The Oxyrhynchus Papyri | 600 | \n| CONCLUSION | 603-633 | \n| AFTERWORD | 605-607 | \n| BIBLIOGRAPHIES | 608-633 | \n| GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY | 609-623 | \n| Early Works | 609 | \n| Critical Studies prior to 1851 | 610 | \n| Works subsequent to the Publication of the Philosophumena in 1851 | 613 | \n| p. xxvi | | \n| | PAGE | \n| THE COPTIC GNOSTIC WORKS | 624-627 | \n| REVIEWS AND ARTICLES IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PERIODICALS | 628-630 | \n| UNCANONICAL ACTS | 630 | \n| GNOSTIC (?) GEMS AND ABRAXAS-STUDIES | 631 | \n| GNOSTIC WORKS MENTIONED BY ANCIENT WRITERS | 631 | \n| THE MOST RECENT TEXTS OF THE H\u00c6RESIOLOGICAL CHURCH FATHERS AND THEIR ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS | 631-633 |","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Synopsis of Contents","type":"page"}