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