{"collection":"Gnosticism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/gno/gar/gar02.htm","path":"gno/gar/gar02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/gno/gar/gar02.htm","text":"The Gnostics and Their Remains, by Charles William King, [1887]\n| | PAGE. | \n| PREFACE | v | \n| Introduction | xiii | \n| PART I. | | \n| GNOSTICISM AND ITS SOURCES. | | \n| Introduction--Gnosticism and its origin--Pistis-Sophia--Book of Enoch--Gnosticism in its beginning--Influence of Judaism on the Ancients--The Zendavesta--The Kabbala and the Talmud--Indian Sources of Gnosticism, Manes--Buddhism--Simonianism--Basilides--The Ophites--Machinery of the Gnosis | | \n| PART II. | | \n| THE WORSHIP OF MITHRAS AND SERAPIS. | | \n| Origin of Mithraicism--The Mithraic Sacraments--A Roman Mithras in his Cave--Mithraic Talismans--Gnostic Sacraments and Initiations, as Connected with the Mithraic--St. Augustine on Gnosticism--The Worship of Serapis--The Figured Representations of Serapis--Probable Origin of Serapis--Monuments of the Serapis-worship--The Caduceus and its Symbolism--Death, as Represented in Ancient Art--Tomb-treasures--Gnostic connection with Superstitious Practices, the Evil Eye--Ceraunia of Jade converted into a Gnostic Talisman | 113 | \n| PART III. | | \n| ABRAXAS, ABRAXASTER AND ABRAXOID GEMS. | | \n| Agathodaemon Worship--The Chnuphis Serpent--The Abraxas--Abraxaster, or Borrowed Types--Abraxoids, or Gems confounded with the true Gnostic--The True Abraxas Gems--The god Abraxas, as described by the Christian Fathers--\"Abraxas,\" Etymology of--\"Abraxas,\" its numerical Value--The Abraxas Religion--The Ineffable name in its Hindoo Form--Abraxas-gems, their Materials, Workmanship, and Nature--Legends and Formula. | 213 | \n| p. xii | | \n| PART IV. | | \n| THE FIGURED MONUMENTS OF GNOSTICISM. | | \n| Gnostic Sigl\u00e6, Symbols, Legends Explained--The Name \u0399\u0391\u03a9--Abraxas, a New Type of--Original Purpose of these Formul\u00e6--The Gnostic Theogony--The Schema of the Ophites--The Cause of Sin--State after death of the Uninitiated--Future Punishments, and the Infernal Hierarchy--Talismanic Leaden Scrolls--Leaden Books--Numerals, Their Virtues--Magic Squares | 303 | \n| PART V. | | \n| TEMPLARS, ROSICRUCIANS, FREEMASONS. | | \n| Preservation of Gnostic Symbols among the Freemasons--Masonic Pretences--\"Constitutiones Artis Geometriae\"--Henry VI. and his Masons--Hindoo and. Chinese Symbols--Masons\u2019 Marks--Stonehenge--The Carbonari--De Quincey--The Rosy Cross--\"Vultus Triformis\"--Hosea Lux--Lodges First Established--Templars Suppressed--\"Mystery of Baphomet Revealed\"--Articles of Accusation against the Templars--Orphic Mysteries--Clarkson on the Temple Church--\"Baphometic Vases\"--Manicheism in France--The Assassins of the Lebanon--The Druses--The Sufi of Persia--Lodges first Established--Spartacus Weishaupt--Wren--\"Scottish Knights\"--Cypher Writing--\"Book of Kells\"--Brand-marking, National and Mystic | 373 | \n| DESCRIPTION OF WOODCUTS | 432 | \n| DESCRIPTION OF PLATES | 435 | \n| BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX, by Joseph Jacobs, B.A. | 449 | \n| INDEX | 459 |","title":"The Gnostics and Their Remains: Contents","type":"page"}