Spirituality-Religions
Gnostic Studies
|
THERE is no age more remarkable to the quiet observer than our own. Everywhere there is a fermentation in the minds of men; everywhere there is a battle between light and darkness, between exploded thought and living ideas, between powerless wills and living active force; in short everywhere is there war between animal man and growing spiritual man.
This translation of the ancient Gnostic work, called by Schmidt, the Untitled Apocalypse, is based chiefly on Amelineau's French version of the superior MS. of the Codex Brucianus, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Serious research and study into the psychic world, its abilities, supernatural, and the spirits that seem to answer us. The author was a sceptic -- but now?
It may be said, truly enough, that all mystical experiences ultimately meet in a single point; but that point assumes widely different aspects according to the mystic's temperament, while the converging lines of approach admit of almost infinite variety.
The Apocryphal Gospel of St. Peter : A long forgotten manuscript of the Gospel of Peter.
A look into the strange presumption of most religions of God-Sex with human women, producing gods from their offspring. A cabalistic or esoteric view of the spiritual wedding and marriage.
Few Christians today realize that mysticism was once an integral of that religion.
It is written, The natural man receives not the things of the spirit, nor the Mystery of the kingdom of God, they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them: therefore I admonish and exhort the Christian lover of Mysteries, if he will study these high writings, and read, search, and understand them, that he does not read them outwardly only, with sharp speculation and meditation; for in so doing, he shall remain in the outward imaginary ground only, and obtain no more than a counterfeit color of them.
Volume 10 of the mystical revelations of G.R.S. Mead.
Volume 11 of the mystical revelations of G.R.S. Mead.
Volume 1 of the mystical revelations of G.R.S. Mead.
Volume 2 of the mystical revelations of G.R.S. Mead.
Volume 3 of the mystical revelations of G.R.S. Mead.
Volume 4 of the mystical revelations of G.R.S. Mead.