{"collection":"Gnosticism","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_index_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is one of the best books about the Gnostics\nwritten prior to the Nag Hammadi discoveries. G.R.S. Mead, who also translated the\nPistis Sophia,\nsummarizes what was known about the Gnostics at the turn of the 20th century.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten Index","word_count":235},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff74_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff74_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is the closing epilogue of *Fragments of a Faith Forgotten* (1900), a scholarly and devotional examination of early Christian Gnosticism by G.R.S. Mead, a Theosophist and historian of esoteric religion. The passage functions as a personal meditation on the Gnostic and mystical strands of early Christianity that Mead argues have been unjustly suppressed or forgotten by mainstream tradition. His central claim is that these \"heretical\" movements deserve rehabilitation: he contends that their practitioners were sincere devotees of Christ, and that the label of heresy distorts rather than describes them. Mead argues for a pluralistic understanding of religious truth \u2014 that the paths to God are as numerous as human beings, and that no single creed can claim exclusive validity \u2014 framing this not as relativism but as a higher spiritual realism that transcends sectarian reason. Distinctively, he writes from within a late-Victorian esotericist tradition that blends comparative religion, Theosophy, and genuine scholarship, treating Gnostic texts as spiritually live rather than merely historical. The tone is elegiac and devotional rather than polemical, closing with an appeal to revive the inner power of early Christian mysticism in new forms suited to the modern era.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Afterword","word_count":572},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff75_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff75_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"As nothing which may really be called a bibliography of the subject exists, I append an attempt at a preliminary contribution towards a full Bibliography of Gnosticism. Every work (and article) of importance is (I am almost certain) included, and I think that the list of work done on the Coptic Gnostic writings may be said to be fairly complete; there is, however, a certain number of articles in periodicals and publications of learned societies (French especially) which is still to be added\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Bibliographies","word_count":4736},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_errata_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_errata_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"page 7: 'Christainity'->'Christianity'\npage 12: 'parellel'->'parallel'\npage 29: 'earlist'->'earliest'\npage 38: 'theogany'->'theogony'\npage 48: 'divinty'->'divinity'\npage 52: 'dialetical'->'dialectical'\npage 53: 'charcterized'->'characterized'\npage 57: 'charactistics'->'characteristics'\npage 61: 'pyraminds'->'pyramids'\npage 75: 'unqestionably'->'unquestionably'\npage 85: 'Eygptian'->'Egyptian'\npage 99: 'achitecture'->'architecture'\npage 106: 'sucession'->'succession'\npage 108\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Errata","word_count":93},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff16_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE study of Gnosticism has so far been almost entirely confined to specialists, whose works cannot be understanded of the people; the ordinary reader is deterred by the wealth of detail, by the difficulty of the technical terms, by the obscurity of theological phraseology, and by the feeling that he is expected to know many things of which he has never even heard. It is to be hoped that ere long some competent English scholar, endowed with the genius of lucid generalization, may be induced to\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: General and Gnostic Chris...","word_count":2700},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff13_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff13_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Nazor\u00e6ans.Epiphanius would have it that the Christians were first called Iess\u00e6i, and says they are mentioned under this name in the writings of Philo. The followers of the earliest converts of Jesus are also said to have been called Nazor\u00e6i. Even towards the end of the fourth century the Nazor\u00e6ans were still found scattered throughout C\u0153le-Syria, Decapolis, Pella (whither they fled at the destruction of Jerusalem), the region beyond Jordan, and far away to Mesopotamia.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: General and Gnostic Chris...","word_count":1147},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff15_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff15_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The \"Secularizing\" of Christianity.BUT here again accurate historical data are out of the question, and we have for the most part to deal with what the Germans call \"Tendenz.\" Harnack speaks of the tendency, which by long convention is generally called Gnostic, as the \"acute secularizing of Christianity.\" What then is the meaning of this phrase? Catholic dogma is said to be the outcome of the gradual hellenizing of general Christianity, that is to say, the modification of popular tradition by\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: General and Gnostic Chris...","word_count":1812},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff12_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE historical origins of Christianity are hidden in impenetrable obscurity. Of the actual history of The Canon. the first half of the first century we have no knowledge.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: General and Gnostic Chris...","word_count":1094},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff14_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"BASING themselves on the Sayings preserved in the canonical Gospels and on the description of the communities given in the Acts, many have supposed that Jesus was a member of or intimately acquainted with the doctrines and discipline of the Essene communities. Who then were these Essenes or Healers? For centuries before the Christian era Essene communities had dwelt on the shores of the Dead Sea.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: General and Gnostic Christianity: The Essenes","word_count":1322},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff02_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| Tetramorph (Anthropos symbol) standing on two wheels, symbol of the Old and New Testaments. From the Vatopedi Monastery, Mt. Athos.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Illustrations","word_count":414},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff03_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Abdias, 418. Abiram, 226. Abortion, 225, 269, 329, 340, 356.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Index","word_count":6788},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff05_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| The whole creation groaneth and travaileth together waiting for the manifestation of the Sons of God. PAUL (according to Gnostic tradition.) | \nMYSTERIOUS Time is once more big with child and labouring to bring forth her twentieth babe, as the The Creed of Christendom. Western world counts her progeny; for, according to the books, just nineteen children of her centenarian brood have lived and died since He appeared to whom all Christians look as Teacher of the Way to God.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Introduction: Prolegomena","word_count":6946},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_pageidx_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_pageidx_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Index\nFragments of a Faith Forgotten: Page Index\npage v\npage vi\npage vii\npage viii\npage ix\npage x\npage xi\npage xii\npage xiii\npage xiv\npage xv\npage xvi\npage xvii\npage xviii\npage xix\npage xx\npage xxi\npage xxii\npage xxiii\npage xxiv\npage xxv\npage xxvi\npage xxvii\npage xxviii\npage xxix\npage xxx\npage xxxi\npage xxxii\npage xxxiii\npage xxxiv\npage xxxv\npage xxxvi\npage xxxvii\npage xxxviii\npage xxxix\npage xl\npage xli\npage xlii\npage xliii\npage xliv\npage xlv\npage xlvi\npage xlvii\npage xlviii\npage xlix\npage\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Page Index","word_count":1368},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff07_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IF we turn to the Greece of the sixth century prior The Greece of 600 B.C. to our era, we can perceive the signs of the birth of a new spirit in the Western world, the beginning of a great intellectual activity; it is, so to speak, the age of puberty of the Greek genius, new powers of thought are coming into activity, and the old-time myths and ancient oracular wisdom are receiving new expression in the infant science of empirical physics and the birth of philosophy. This activity is part and\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of th...","word_count":5424},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff09_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"As I have already treated of Ess\u00e6ans who the assiduously practise the [religious] life of action, The Ess\u00e6ans. carrying it out in all, or, not to speak too presumptuously, in most of its degrees, I will at once, following the sequence of my subject, proceed to say as much as is proper concerning those who embrace [the life of] contemplation; and that too without adding anything of my own to better the matter--as all the poets and history-writers are accustomed to do in the scarcity of good\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of th...","word_count":5458},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff06_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE familiar story of the origins of Christianity which we have all drunk in as it were with our The Greatest Story in the World. mothers\u2019 milk, may be said to be almost a part of the consciousness of the Western world. It is interwoven with our earliest recollections; it has been stamped upon our infant consciousness with a solemnity which has repressed all questioning; it has become the \"thing we have grown used to.\" It has upon its side that stupendous power of inertia, the force of custom\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of th...","word_count":1954},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff11_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The rough outlines of the background of the Gnosis which we have endeavoured to sketch, are of necessity of the vaguest, for each of the many\nsubjects touched upon is deserving of a volume or several volumes. Our intention has only been to give some general idea of the manifold lines along which its complicated heredity has to be traced. But our sketch is so vague that perhaps it may be as well, before proceeding further, to give the reader some notion of the more immediate outer conditions in\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of the Background of the Gnosis: Alexandria","word_count":6457},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff08_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LET us now turn to Egypt and cast a glance on the vista which has to be surveyed, before the outlines of this part of the background of the Gnosis can be filled in. In spite of her reserve and immeasurable contempt for the upstart Greek genius, Egypt had, even in the The wisdom of Egypt. times of the earliest Ptolemies, given of her wisdom to Greece.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of the Background of the Gnosis: Egypt","word_count":2281},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff10_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE third stream which poured into the matrix of the Christian origins, was that of Jewry. Even The Influence of Babylon. before the Exile the undisciplined tribes composing this peculiar nation had had their \"Schools of the Prophets,\" small communities holding themselves apart and recruited by seers and visionaries.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of the Background of the Gnosis: Jewry","word_count":2371},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff61_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff61_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A Recently Published Fragment.IN a recent volume of that most valuable series Texts and Studies (Apocrypha Anecdota II., by M. R. James, 1897), there is a long fragment of The Acts of John, much of which has never been previously published.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Traces of the Gnosis in the Uncanonical Acts: From The Acts of John","word_count":4903},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff60_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff60_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WE have already given the reader the most important fragment preserved in the Acts of Thomas, or Judas A Hymn to Wisdom. Thomas; it is the beautiful Hymn of the Soul, composed in every likelihood by Bardesanes. If the Acts of Thomas had given us nothing else than this grand Gnostic Hymn of the Robe of Glory, their life would not have been preserved in vain.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Traces of the Gnosis in the Uncanonical Acts: From The Acts of Thomas","word_count":1884},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff59_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff59_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"JUST as there existed, prior to and alongside of the canonical Gospels, many other settings of the Sayings The Gnostic Acts. and Doings of the Lord, so there existed, prior to and alongside of the selected or canonical Acts, many other narratives professing to record the doings and sayings of the Apostles and Disciples of the Lord. Most of these originated in what are now called heretical circles, but were subsequently worked over by orthodox editors to suit doctrinal prejudices, and eagerly\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Traces of the Gnosis...","word_count":859},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff62_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff62_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"FROM The Acts of Andrew the following Address Address to the Cross. to the Cross is of great interest, when compared with what has been already quoted from The Acts of John and with the rest of the Gnostic ideas on the subject. For the Gnostics the Cross was a symbol of cosmic processes as well as of the crucifixion of the soul in matter and of its regeneration, and it is to be regretted that our information is so fragmentary.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Traces of the Gnosis...","word_count":346},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff63_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff63_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"To the above may be added the final speech put into the mouth of Peter, in the romance of his Travels, or Circuits (Tours). It is found in the fragment of the Linus-collection, called The Martyrdom of Peter. The legend says that Peter insisted on being crucified head downwards, and the reasons for this strange proceeding are given as follows in the faulty Latin translation.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Traces of the Gnosis...","word_count":1035},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff01_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff01_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Synopsis of Contents","word_count":5319},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff72_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff72_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IN the early centuries of Christianity there were in circulation many traditions, legends, and religious romances, called Memoirs, Acts, and Gospels, which contained Sayings-of-the-Lord or Logoi. These Logoi or Logia were oracles, or oracular utterances, couched in the same language and of much the same tenour as the prophetic utterances of the members of the Schools of the Prophets, which were introduced by the solemn formula, \"Thus saith the Lord,\" when recorded in the books of the Old\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to I...","word_count":2600},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff68_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff68_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Book of the Gnoses of the Invisible God.THE first page is headed with the beautiful words: \"I have loved you and longed to give you Life,\" and is followed by the statement: \"This is the Book of the Gnoses (pl.) of the Invisible God\"; it is the Book of the Gnosis of Jesus the Living One, by means of which all the hidden mysteries are revealed to the elect. Jesus is the Saviour of Souls, the Logos of Life, sent by the Father from the Light-world to mankind, who taught His disciples the one\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to I...","word_count":7790},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff71_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff71_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WE have now to lay before our readers what little information is at present available with regard to the latest find in Gnosticism. Ten years ago, Dr. Carl Schmidt informed me that he had hopes of bringing out a work on the subject (including presumably a text and translation) in some two years; but unfortunately his anxiously-awaited labours have not yet seen the light.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to I...","word_count":3580},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff70_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff70_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE attentive reader will have already perceived that the contents of the Pistis Sophia treatise, of the The Kinship of the Titled Treatises. Extracts from The Books of the Saviour, and of the fragments given under the title The Book of the Great Logos according to the Mystery, are closely related together; they indubitably belong to the same school. The result of the researches of Schmidt into this very interesting question may be most clearly seen in his reply to Preuschen's criticism on his\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: Notes on the Contents of the Bruce and Askew Codices","word_count":2900},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff69_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff69_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE beginning is lost, and the leaves that are left us plunge into the midst of a description of the supernal beings and spaces as follows:\n\"He [the God beyond Being] established Him, that they might strive towards the City in which is their The First Being. Image. In this City it is that they move and live; it is the House of the Father, and the Vesture of the Son, and the Power of the Mother, and the Image of the Fullness (Pl\u0113r\u014dma).","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: Selections from the Untitled Apocalypse of the Codex Brucianus","word_count":5379},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff66_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff66_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE treatise begins by informing us that Jesus, after rising from the dead, had spent eleven years The Teaching of the Eleven years. with His disciples, instructing them. So far, however, He had taught them the mysteries of the inner world up to a certain point only, apparently up to the outermost realms of the Light-world only, and yet even so far with omissions of many points which they were as yet incapable of understanding.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: Summary of the Contents of the So-Called Pistis Sophia Treatise","word_count":13438},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff67_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff67_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE first extract occurs on pp. 252-254 of the Askew Codex, and runs as follows:\n\"And they that are worthy of the mysteries which lie in the Ineffable, that is to say, those that The Immanent Limbs of the Ineffable. have not emanated--they are prior to the First Mystery.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: Summary of the Extracts From the Books of the Saviour","word_count":3041},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff65_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff65_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"So far we have endeavoured to recover some fragments of flotsam and jetsam from the pitiful wreck of the Gnosis, wrought by the hands of its bitterest foes, the orthodox Church Fathers; we will now try to give the reader some rough idea of the contents of some Gnostic treatises, which have been preserved to us in Coptic translation by the hands of its friends. We have to consider the contents of three precious documents known as the Askew, Bruce, and Akhm\u012bm Codices, the last of which was only\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: The Askew and Bruce Codices","word_count":1436},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff64_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff64_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Gnosticism\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book at Amazon.com\n \n \nFragments of a Faith Forgotten, by G.R.S. Mead, [1900]\n \n p. 450 p.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: The Gnosis According to Its Friends","word_count":36},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff44_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff44_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"On the Pure in Heart.\"One [alone] is Good, whose free utterance is His manifestation through his Son; it is by Him alone that the heart can become pure, [and that too only] when every evil essence has been expelled out of it. Now its purity is prevented by the many essences which take up their abode in it, for each of them accomplishes its own deeds, outraging it in\ndivers fashions with unseemly lusts. As far as I can see, the heart seems to receive somewhat the same treatment as an inn [or\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":362},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff22_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff22_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"ONE of the teachers of the \"Simonian\" Gnosis who was singled out by Justin for special mention, because His Date. of his having led \"many\" away, even as Marcion was gaining an enormous following in Justin's own time, is Menander, a native, we are told, of the Samaritan town Capparatea. The notice in Justin shows us that Menander was a man of a past generation, and that he was specially famous because of his numerous following.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":654},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff48_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff48_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Concerning the People of the Beloved.\"Many of these things which are written in the public volumes, are found written in the Church of God. For those teachings which are common, are the words which proceed from the heart, the law written in the heart. This is the People of the Beloved who are loved by and love Him.\"\nClement assumes that Valentinus means by \"public volumes\" the Jewish writings and the books of the philosophers.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":192},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff21_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff21_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"SIMON MAGUS,\" as we have already said, is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, a document of the New Testament collection, said not to be quoted prior to 177 A.D. Iren\u00e6us and his successors repeat the Acts legend. Justin Martyr (c.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":2650},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff23_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff23_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SATURNINUS, or more correctly Satornilus, is generally regarded as the founder of the Syrian Gnosis, but The Chain of Teachers. there is every reason to suppose that Gnosticism was widespread in Syria prior to his time. Justin Martyr (Trypho, xxxv.), writing between 150 and 160, speaks of the Satornilians as a very important body, for he brackets them with the Marcians (?","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":877},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff31_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff31_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"HIPPOLYTUS devotes his next section to a certain Mono\u00efmus, who is only mentioned by one other h\u00e6resiologist, namely Theodoret, in a brief paragraph. Mono\u00efmus was an Arabian and lived somewhere in the latter half of the second century. His system is based on the idea of the Heavenly Man, the universe, and the Son of this Man, the perfect man, all other men being but imperfect reflections of the one ideal type.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":530},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff41_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff41_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The \"Great Unknown\" of Gnosticism.BEHIND the whole Valentinian movement stands the commanding and mysterious figure of Valentinus himself, universally acknowledged to have been the greatest of the Gnostics. His learning and eloquence are admitted, even by his bitterest opponents, to have been of a most extraordinary nature, and no word has ever been breathed against his moral character. And yet, when we come to analyze the chaos of \"information\" which Patristic writers have left us on the\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":2475},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff53_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff53_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"VALENTINUS and Heracleon and Ptolem\u00e6us and the entire school of these [Gnostics], disciples of Pythagoras and Plato and following their guidance, laid down the 'arithmetical science' as the fundamental principle of their doctrine. \"For them the beginning of all things is the Monad, ingenerable, imperishable, incomprehensible, The Father of all. inconceptible, the creator and cause of all things that are generated.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":5742},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff52_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff52_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IN order to elevate our thought to a contemplation of the transcendent problems towards which the Towards the Great Silence. mind of these Gnostics was carried, we should refresh our memory with the sketch of the Basilidian system which has been given above. From the world of men, our earth, we must pass in thought through the sublunary spaces, visible and invisible; thence we must pass beyond the moon-firmament, the heaven, into the \u00e6thereal spaces--the star-worlds, and their infinite\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":6571},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff46_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff46_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"From the very beginning have ye been immortal and children of life--such life as the \u00e6ons enjoy;Ye are the Sons of God. yet would ye have death shared up among you, to spend and lavish it, so that death might die in you and by your hands; for inasmuch as ye dissolve the world and are not dissolved yourselves, ye are lords of all creation and destruction.\"\nHere we have the burden of the teaching in one of the treatises of the Codex Brucianus--to crucify the world and not let the world crucify\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":164},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff56_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff56_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"OF the life of Heracleon, whom Clement of Alexandria (Strom., iv. 9) calls the \"most esteemed of the His Commentary on the Fourth Gospel. school of Valentinus,\" we again know nothing except that he wrote certain Memoirs (\u1f51\u03c0\u03bf\u03bc\u03bd\u03ae\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1), containing a commentary on the fourth Gospel.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":282},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff57_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff57_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Biography.WE will now treat of Bardesanes, \"the last of the Gnostics,\" as Hilgenfeld calls him, and so bring to an end these rough sketches of the Christian theosophists, which we have endeavoured to reconstruct from the disfigured scraps of the originals preserved in Patristic literature. Bardesanes was the \"last of the Gnostics,\" in the sense of being the last who attempted to make any propaganda of the phase of the Gnosis we are dealing with, among the ranks of Common Christianity; for the\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":3485},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff40_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff40_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LET us now return to the early years of the second century, and devote our attention to Basilides and his Writings. Basilides and his followers (\"them of Basilides\") who elaborated one of the most abstruse and consistent systems of the Gnosis, the outlines of which are plainly recoverable from the garbled fragments that Patristic polemics have left us. Of the life of this great doctor of the Gnosis we know nothing beyond the fact that he taught at Alexandria.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":8117},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff27_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff27_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"PRIOR to the section on Justinus, Hippolytus treats of three schools under the names Naasseni, Perat\u00e6, and Sethians or Sithians. All three schools apparently belong to the same cycle, and the first two present features so identical as to make it highly probable that the Naassene work and the two Peratic treatises from which Hippolytus quotes, pertain to the same Gnostic circle. Although the name Naassene is derived from the Hebrew Nachash, a serpent, Hippolytus does not call the Naassenes\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":1994},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff17_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Gnosticism\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book at Amazon.com\n \n \nFragments of a Faith Forgotten, by G.R.S. Mead, [1900]\n \n p. 154 p.","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":43},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff30_htm","collection":"Gnosticism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_gno_fff_fff30_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"As previously remarked, the remains of the ancient bed of the stream of the Gnosis which we are endeavouring to survey, are so fragmentary, that nothing can be attempted, but a most imperfect outline, or rather a series of rough sketches of certain sections that some day further discovery may enable us to throw into the form of a map. Chronological indications are almost entirely wanting, and we can as yet form no idea of the correct sequence of these general Gnostic schools. We must therefore\u2026","title":"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...","word_count":1329}],"sort":"title","tag":null,"total":325}