Gnosticism

325 pages

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten Index

  This is one of the best books about the Gnostics written prior to the Nag Hammadi discoveries. G.R.S. Mead, who also translated the Pistis…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Afterword

  This is the closing epilogue of *Fragments of a Faith Forgotten* (1900), a scholarly and devotional examination of early Christian…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Bibliographies

  As nothing which may really be called a bibliography of the subject exists, I append an attempt at a preliminary contribution towards a…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Errata

  page 7: 'Christainity'->'Christianity' page 12: 'parellel'->'parallel' page 29: 'earlist'->'earliest' page 38: 'theogany'->'theogony' page…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: General and Gnostic Chris...

  THE study of Gnosticism has so far been almost entirely confined to specialists, whose works cannot be understanded of the people; the…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: General and Gnostic Chris...

  The Nazoræans.Epiphanius would have it that the Christians were first called Iessæi, and says they are mentioned under this name in the…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: General and Gnostic Chris...

  The "Secularizing" of Christianity.BUT here again accurate historical data are out of the question, and we have for the most part to deal…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: General and Gnostic Chris...

  THE historical origins of Christianity are hidden in impenetrable obscurity. Of the actual history of The Canon. the first half of the…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: General and Gnostic Christianity: The Essenes

  BASING themselves on the Sayings preserved in the canonical Gospels and on the description of the communities given in the Acts, many have…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Illustrations

  | Tetramorph (Anthropos symbol) standing on two wheels, symbol of the Old and New Testaments. From the Vatopedi Monastery, Mt. Athos.

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Index

  Abdias, 418. Abiram, 226. Abortion, 225, 269, 329, 340, 356.

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Introduction: Prolegomena

  | The whole creation groaneth and travaileth together waiting for the manifestation of the Sons of God. PAUL (according to Gnostic…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Page Index

  Index Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Page Index page v page vi page vii page viii page ix page x page xi page xii page xiii page xiv page…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of th...

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of th...

  "As I have already treated of Essæans who the assiduously practise the [religious] life of action, The Essæans. carrying it out in all, or…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of th...

  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’…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of the Background of the Gnosis: Alexandria

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of the Background of the Gnosis: Egypt

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Rough Outlines of the Background of the Gnosis: Jewry

  THE third stream which poured into the matrix of the Christian origins, was that of Jewry. Even The Influence of Babylon. before the Exile…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Traces of the Gnosis in the Uncanonical Acts: From The Acts of John

  A Recently Published Fragment.IN a recent volume of that most valuable series Texts and Studies (Apocrypha Anecdota II., by M. R. James…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Traces of the Gnosis in the Uncanonical Acts: From The Acts of Thomas

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Traces of the Gnosis...

  JUST as there existed, prior to and alongside of the canonical Gospels, many other settings of the Sayings The Gnostic Acts. and Doings of…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Traces of the Gnosis...

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Traces of the Gnosis...

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Synopsis of Contents
• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to I...

  IN the early centuries of Christianity there were in circulation many traditions, legends, and religious romances, called Memoirs, Acts…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to I...

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to I...

  WE have now to lay before our readers what little information is at present available with regard to the latest find in Gnosticism. Ten…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: Notes on the Contents of the Bruce and Askew Codices

  THE attentive reader will have already perceived that the contents of the Pistis Sophia treatise, of the The Kinship of the Titled…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: Selections from the Untitled Apocalypse of the Codex Brucianus

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: Summary of the Contents of the So-Called Pistis Sophia Treatise

  THE treatise begins by informing us that Jesus, after rising from the dead, had spent eleven years The Teaching of the Eleven years. with…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: Summary of the Extracts From the Books of the Saviour

  THE first extract occurs on pp. 252-254 of the Askew Codex, and runs as follows: "And they that are worthy of the mysteries which lie in…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: The Askew and Bruce Codices

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to Its Friends: The Gnosis According to Its Friends

  Sacred Texts Gnosticism Index Previous Next Buy this Book at Amazon.com Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, by G.R.S. Mead, [1900] p. 450 p.

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  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"…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  "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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  SATURNINUS, or more correctly Satornilus, is generally regarded as the founder of the Syrian Gnosis, but The Chain of Teachers. there is…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  HIPPOLYTUS devotes his next section to a certain Monoïmus, who is only mentioned by one other hæresiologist, namely Theodoret, in a brief…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  The "Great Unknown" of Gnosticism.BEHIND the whole Valentinian movement stands the commanding and mysterious figure of Valentinus himself…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  "VALENTINUS and Heracleon and Ptolemæus and the entire school of these [Gnostics], disciples of Pythagoras and Plato and following their…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  IN order to elevate our thought to a contemplation of the transcendent problems towards which the Towards the Great Silence. mind of these…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  "From the very beginning have ye been immortal and children of life--such life as the æons enjoy;Ye are the Sons of God. yet would ye have…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  OF the life of Heracleon, whom Clement of Alexandria (Strom., iv. 9) calls the "most esteemed of the His Commentary on the Fourth Gospel…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  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…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  LET us now return to the early years of the second century, and devote our attention to Basilides and his Writings. Basilides and his…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  PRIOR to the section on Justinus, Hippolytus treats of three schools under the names Naasseni, Peratæ, and Sethians or Sithians. All three…

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  Sacred Texts Gnosticism Index Previous Next Buy this Book at Amazon.com Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, by G.R.S. Mead, [1900] p. 154 p.

• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Gnosis According to i...

  As previously remarked, the remains of the ancient bed of the stream of the Gnosis which we are endeavouring to survey, are so fragmentary…

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