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?