How do I into Gnosticism? Essential reading?
Interessted too.
Nag Hammadi
Start on http://www.gnosis.org
>>17677221
Thanks anon!
>>17677221
Also, bear in mind that Gnosticism is not a coherent set of beliefs. There were several groups classified together as Gnostic, but they did not all believe the same things and none of them called themselves, "Gnostics".
>>17677243
Katharer were gnostics right? Who are the other groups?
>>17677395
Cathars were too late to be Gnostics proper. There were Valentinians, Bardaisanites, Marcosians, Manicheans, and others.
>>17677190
Gnsoticism by Stephan A. Hoeller
Voices of Gnosticism is a book by Miguel Conner interviewing various scholars. He also has a podcast called Aeon Byte: Gnostic Radio.
The works of Jeremy Puma are interesting. It's a mix of Gnosticism with a little Buddhism and a lot of PKD thrown in.
Also read ancient greek philosophers.
>>17677190
just watch the matrix
Monroe.
>>17677522
not mentioning the simonians the first ones of telling of the simulation.
>>17677243
Actually the people condemned by Irenaeus and variously also been described as "Sethians" & "Barbeloites" by polemicists and modern scholars are the endonymous namesake of Gnosticism as a religious category. They referred to themselves as Gnostikoi.
>>17677190
The Nag Hammadi; The Gospel of Judas, and the translation controversy; and the Chaldean Oracles.
>>17678306
This. The importance of ancient Greek philosophical concepts cannot be overstated in the hermeneutics of Gnostic (and Hermetic) texts.
>>17678336
>They referred to themselves as Gnostikoi.
Cite?
