2 10 76 https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/6c0b045769627819ff0aa46b59347eb3.jpg 9768eee5b1ad736d914e119aa67c18f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Peter Philp Kenneth R. Small curator Perennial Wisdom Resources Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SDSU Library Special Collections Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Peter Philp Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Mythology - Global, Greek, Celtic/Druid/Arthurian, Egyptian Literature - William Butler Yeats writings and studies, William Blake writings and studies (extensive) and others. Christianity - New Testament Studies, Gnosticism, Mystical Christianity Sacred Geometry Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana studies and texts Hinduism - Yoga, tantra and Siva writings. Islam - Koran and Sufi texts and studies. Writings of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna, Rumi, Hafez etc. (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Taoism Greek philosophy - Plato, Neo-Platonism, Pythagorean studies (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Jewish studies - Kabbalah Symbolism Studies - the Tarot Linguistics Art- Color studies and World Religious Art Archeology of Stone Monuments Theosophy - Blavatsky, dePurucker, Subba Row, writings. W.Y. Evans-Wentz - First editions of his four volumes of Tibetan translations JRR Tolkien writings and studies Wizards Bookshelf Secret Doctrine Reference Series - quality reprints of 19th century references to Blavatsky's 'Secret Doctrine'. Ancient Egyptian Religion, Symbolism and History Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2020 Description An account of the resource The overview paradigm, for The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions, was inspired by the 'essential unity of all religions' from Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Theosophical Society Sanskrit motto 'There is no Religion Higher than Truth'. Philp's view on Western Esotericism is reflected in an essay by the Greek classics, Gnostic scholar and theosophist, G. R. S. Mead (1863-1933). Mead outlined, in his March 1891 essay.* Mead outlines, in his 1891 essay, a broad based overview of the essential perennialism found in the Western Wisdom Traditions, including Greek philosophies of Plato, Pythagorus, pre-Socratics and Noeplatonism, Greek drama, mystery schools, mythology, Gnostic literature and Christian Mysticism, Hermetic philosophy and Alchemy, Jewish Kabbalah, Global Mythology, European folk religions and 'the nature of the soul and states after death'. Mead's view was to complement the study of the translations and promotion of the perennial wisdom from Asia, especially focused on India, which Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society were advocating and spearheading during the 1880's to 90's. Peter Philp, in his decades of perennial wisdom book study and collecting, with his ever growing collection, maintained this theosophic basis as its underlying paradigm and inspiration. (* "G.R.S.Mead and the Gnostic Quest" p 56) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Some Short Sketches Among the Gnostics Mainly of the First Century: a Contribution to the Study of Christian Origins Based on the Most Recently Recovered Materials Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource G.R.S. Mead Subject The topic of the resource Gnosticism Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available London: Watkins Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1931 Christianity Gnosticism Theosophy https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/2dd2a534997bfb8592b1fecbc286ffe8.jpg 1394f825e9f7b4f92a0e90684dc4b753 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lomaland Theosophy Collection Description An account of the resource The Lomaland collection contains books and periodicals from the Lomaland Theosophy Community in Point Loma, San Diego (1897-1942). The Lomaland Community, founded by Katherine Tingley, was known for its emphasis on the creative arts and education, with its Raja Yoga School its central focus. This growing collection contains a broad range of books and periodicals from Theosophy and writings from the Perennial Wisdom Traditions. Also incorporated are the writings of its key figures, Katherine Tingley and G. de Purucker, and central Lomaland authors Kenneth Morris, Talbot Mundy, Osvald Siren, William E. Gates, and W. Y. Evans-Wentz. This collection interfaces with the Kenneth R. Small Lomaland archival collection held in the Department of Special Collections at the San Diego State University Library. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource G.R.S. Mead Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University Books: New York Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Introd. by Kenneth Rexroth Relation A related resource <span>For more information on G.R.S. Mead, </span><a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/G._R._S._Mead" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">click here</a><span>.</span> Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Prolegomena -- Preliminary considerations -- Greece -- Egypt -- Philo on the contemplative life -- Jewry -- Alexandria -- The evolution of catholic Christianity -- The Ebionites -- The Essenes -- The tendencies of Gnosticism -- The literature and sources of Gnosticism -- The "Simonians" -- Disitheus -- "Simon Magus" -- Menander -- Saturninus -- The "Ophites" -- An anonymous system from Irenaeus -- An early "Ophite" system -- The Naasseni -- The Peratae -- The Sethians -- The Docetae -- Monoimus -- The so-called Cainites -- The Carpocratians -- "Epiphanes" -- Cerinthus -- Nicolaus -- Cerdo -- Marcion -- Apelles -- The Basilidian gnosis -- The Valentinian movement -- Valentinus -- Some outlines of aeonology -- Hippolytus' account of one of the variants of the Sophia-mythus -- The number-symbolism of Marcus -- Ptolemy -- Heracleon -- Bardesanes -- The hymn of the robe of glory -- From the Acts of Thomas -- From the Acts of John -- From the Acts of Andrew -- From the travels of Peter -- The Askew and Bruce codices -- Summary of the contents of the so-called Pistis Sophia treatise -- Summary of the extracts from the Books of the Saviour -- Summary of the fragments of the Book of the great Logos according to the mystery -- Selections from the untitled apocalypse of the Codex Brucianus -- Notes on the contents of the Bruce and Askew codices -- The Akhmim codex. Title A name given to the resource Fragments of a faith forgotten.: Some short sketches among the gnostics, mainly of the first two centuries Christianity G.R.S. Mead Gnosticism https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/76a178e6b2940560bd41df7207b3c4e6.jpg 6652297dea9f021b0ce5a5be8f38c4cd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lomaland Theosophy Collection Description An account of the resource The Lomaland collection contains books and periodicals from the Lomaland Theosophy Community in Point Loma, San Diego (1897-1942). The Lomaland Community, founded by Katherine Tingley, was known for its emphasis on the creative arts and education, with its Raja Yoga School its central focus. This growing collection contains a broad range of books and periodicals from Theosophy and writings from the Perennial Wisdom Traditions. Also incorporated are the writings of its key figures, Katherine Tingley and G. de Purucker, and central Lomaland authors Kenneth Morris, Talbot Mundy, Osvald Siren, William E. Gates, and W. Y. Evans-Wentz. This collection interfaces with the Kenneth R. Small Lomaland archival collection held in the Department of Special Collections at the San Diego State University Library. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fragments of a faith forgotten.: Some short sketches among the gnostics, mainly of the first two centuries Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource G.R.S. Mead Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Theosophical Publishing Society: London Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906 Relation A related resource <div class="element-set"> <div class="element"> <div class="element-text five columns omega"> <p>For more information on G.R.S. Mead,<span> </span><a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/G._R._S._Mead" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">click here</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="element-set"></div> Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. The therapeuts -- The earliest Christians of Eusebius -- The Pseudo-Philo theory -- Its death-blow -- An interesting question of date -- The title and context -- Philo on the contemplative life -- The Essaeans -- The name therapeut -- Their abandonment of the world -- Their retreats -- the Mareotic colony -- Their dwellings -- The original meaning of the term monastery -- Their prayers and exercises -- The nature of their books -- Their mode of meeting -- The sanctuary -- Their rule -- Fasting -- The seventh-day common meal -- Housing and clothing -- Their sacred feasts -- The banquet on the fiftieth day -- Seniority -- The women disciples -- The plain couches -- The servers -- The fugal fare -- The president -- The instruction -- The interpretation of Scripture -- The singing of hymns -- Bread and salt -- The sacred dancing -- The morning prayer -- A note on the sacred numbers -- Philo's connection with the therapeuts -- The lay disciples -- The variety of communities -- Jewry -- The influence of Babylon -- The writing of Scripture-history -- The mythology of history -- Honest self-delusion -- The spiritualizing of Judaism -- Zealotism -- Pharisaism -- The Chassidim and Essenes -- The inner schools -- Alexandria -- A bird's-eye view of the city -- The populace -- The library -- The museum -- The schools of the Sophists -- The dawn-land -- The new religion -- Jewish and Christian schools -- General Gnostic Christianity -- The evolution of Catholic Christianity -- The canon -- The gospels -- The letters of Paul -- The gentilization of Christianity -- The Ebionites -- The Nazoraeans -- The poor men -- The Ebionite tradition of Jesus -- The Essenes -- Their manner of life -- The degrees of holiness -- Points of contact with Christianity -- The tendencies of Gnosticism -- The "secularizing" of Christianity -- Yahweh not "the father" of Jesus -- The inner teaching -- Various classes of souls The person of Jesus -- The main doctrines -- The literature and sources of Gnosticism -- Literature -- Indirect sources -- Direct sources -- The gnosis according to its foes -- some Gnostic fragments recovered from the polemical writings of the church fathers -- No classification possible -- The "Simonians" -- The origin of the name -- Dositheus -- A follower of John the Baptist -- The pre-Christian Gnosis -- "Simon Magus" -- The Ebionite "Simon" -- The "Simonian" literature -- The "Simonian" system of Irenaeus -- The great announcement -- The hidden fire -- The fire tree -- The Aeons -- Menander -- His date -- His doctrine -- A link with Zoroastrianism -- Saturninus -- The chain of teachers -- Asceticism -- Summary of doctrines -- The making of man -- The "Ophites" -- The obscurity of the subject -- The term "Ophite" -- The serpent symbol -- The myth of the going-forth -- Pseudo-philology -- An anonymous system from Irenaeus -- The spiritual creation -- Yahweh Ialdabaoth -- O.T. exegesis -- Christology -- Jesus -- An early "Ophite" system -- Justinus -- The book of Baruch -- Baruch -- Christology -- The Naasseni -- Their literature -- Their mystical exegesis -- The Assyrian mysteries -- The Egyptian -- The Greek -- The Samothracian -- The Phrygian -- The mysteries of the great mother -- The fragment of a hymn -- The Peratae -- The source of their tradition -- The three worlds -- A direct quotation -- The meaning of the name -- Psychological physiology -- The lost books of Hippolytus -- The Sethians -- Seth -- An outline of their system -- The mysteries -- The Docetae -- God -- The Aeons -- Cosmos and man -- The savior -- Monoimus -- Number theories -- How to seek after God -- The so-called Cainites -- The obscurity of the subject -- The enemies of Yahweh the friends of God -- Judas -- A scrap of history -- The Carpocratians -- Their idea of Jesus -- Reincarnation -- "Epiphanes" -- The moon-god -- communism -- The Monadic gnosis -- Cerinthus The scape-goat for the "pillar-apostles" -- The over-writer of the apocalypse -- Nicolaus -- "Which things I hate" -- Cerdo -- The master of Marcion -- Marcion -- The spread of Marcionism -- The "higher criticism" -- The gospel of Paul -- Eznik -- A Marcionite system -- The title Chrestos -- Apelles -- His wide tolerance -- Philumene -- Her visions -- The Basilidian gnosis -- Basilides and his writings -- Our sources of information -- The divinity beyond being -- Universality beyond being -- Ex Nihilo -- The sonship -- The Holy Spirit -- The great ruler -- The Aetherial creation -- The sub-lunary spaces -- Soteriology -- The mystic gospel -- The sons of God -- The final consummation -- Jesus -- Karman and reincarnation -- The theory of "Appendages" -- Moral responsibility -- A trace of Zoroastrianism -- The spurious system -- Abrasax -- The Valentinian movement -- The "great unknown" of Gnosticism -- "They are Valentinus" -- The so-called Eastern and Western schools -- The leaders of the movement -- The synthesizing of the gnosis -- Sources of information -- Valentinus -- Biography -- Date -- Writings -- The fragments that remain -- concerning the creation of the first race of mankind -- On the pure in heart -- Concerning one of the powers of the perfect man -- Ye are sons of God -- The face of God -- Concerning the people of the beloved -- The Galilaeans -- The wisdom of the "little ones" -- The chain of being -- The Ariadne's thread out of the maze -- Some outlines of Aeonology -- Towards the great silence -- The depth beyond being -- The Aeon world -- The Platonic solids -- A living symbolism -- The "fourth dimension" -- The eternal atom -- The law of Syzygy -- The law of differentiation -- The three and the seven -- The twelve and ten -- The dodecahedron -- The decad -- Chaos -- Theos -- Mythology -- The Sophia-mythus -- The mother of many names -- Hippolytus' account of one of the variants of the Sophia-Mythus -- The father of all -- The parents of the Aeons -- The names of the Aeons -- The world-mother -- The abortion -- The term "only-begotten" -- The cross -- The last limit -- The mystic or cosmic Jesus -- The grief of Sophia -- The sensible world -- Its demiurge "Words" or minds -- Souls -- Bodies -- The new man -- The mystic body of the Christ -- Soteriology -- The number-symbolism -- Sources -- Number-letters -- Kabalism -- The great name -- The echo of the name -- The symbolic body of the man of truth -- The numbers -- Gospel exegesis -- The creation of the sensible world -- The tetraktys -- Theological arithmetic -- Jesus the master -- The "moving image of eternity" -- From the Marcosian ritual -- Ptolemy -- The letter to flora -- The "higher criticism" -- The source of Moses' inspiration -- The proem to the fourth gospel -- Heracleon -- His commentary on the fourth gospel -- Heracleon -- His commentary on the fourth gospel -- Bardesanes -- Biography -- Writings -- Indirect sources -- From his hymns -- The book of the laws of countries -- Karma -- Fortune and nature -- The right and left -- The hymn of the soul -- The hymn of the robe of glory -- Some traces of the gnosis in the uncanonical acts -- Foreword -- The Gnostic acts -- Catholic over-working -- Early collectors -- From the acts of Thomas -- A hymn to wisdom -- Its meaning -- Two sacramental invocations -- A note thereon -- The palace that Thomas built -- From the acts of John -- A recently-published fragment -- The rationale of docetism -- The evolution of tradition -- Mystic stories of Jesus -- The Christ speaks with Jesus -- An early form of one of the great miracles -- A ritual from the mysteries -- The doxology -- The mystery of the cross -- The interpretation thereof -- The initiation of the cross -- The higher and lower selves -- A prayer of praise to Christ -- John's farewell address to his community -- John's last prayer -- The story of John and the bugs -- From the acts of Andrew -- Address to the cross -- From the travels of Peter -- The descent of man -- The mystic redemption through the cross -- Afterword -- The gnosis according to its friends -- Some Greek original works in Coptic translation -- The askew and Bruce Codices -- The askew codex -- The Bruce codex -- Translations -- The difficulty of the subject -- Programme -- Summary of the contents of the so-called Pistis Sophia Treatise -- The teaching of the eleven years -- The mystic transfiguration and ascent in the twelfth year -- The master returns to his disciples -- The mystic incarnation of the twelve -- That the soul of Elias is born in John the Baptist -- Of his own incarnation -- Concerning the robe of glory -- The hymn of welcome "come unto us" -- The three vestures of light -- The journey into the height -- The master robs the Aeons of a third of their light -- The question of Mary -- Why the rulers have been robbed -- The shortening of the times -- The heaven-journey continued The myth of pistis Sophia -- The enmity of arrogant -- The fall into matter -- The descent of the soul -- Its repentance and redemption -- The degrees of purification -- The light-crown -- The final victory -- An otherwise-unknown story of the infancy -- Of the glory of them of the thirteenth Aeon -- The scale of light -- The perfect shall be higher than the emanations of light in the kingdom -- The "last" shall be "first" -- The three supernal spaces of the light -- The inheritance of light -- The mystery of the first mystery -- The gnosis of Jesus, the mystery of the ineffable -- The disciples lose courage in amazement at the glories of the gnosis -- The highest mystery is the simplest of them all -- Concerning the one word of the ineffable -- The glory of him who receiveth the mystery -- Of the thrones in the light-kingdom -- There are other logoi -- The degrees of the mysteries -- The boons they grant -- The limbs of the ineffable -- The thousand years of light -- The books of Ieou -- Ye are Gods -- Of souls in incarnation -- The preaching of the mysteries -- The burden of the preaching -- The boundary marks of the paths of the mysteries -- The after-death state of the uninitiated righteous -- Of those who repent and again fall back -- The added glories of the saviors of souls -- Concerning the irreconcilables -- Of the infinite compassion of the divine -- Of those who mimic the mysteries -- Can the pains of martyrdom be avoided -- The mystery of the resurrection of the dead -- The transport of the disciples -- That this mystery is to be kept secret -- The constitution of man -- The evil desire which constraineth a man to sin -- The after-death state of the sinner -- And of the initiated righteous -- "Agree with thine enemy" -- The stamping of the sins of the souls -- The burning up of the sins by the fires of the baptism-mysteries -- The infinite forgiveness of sins -- But delay not to repent -- For at a certain time the gates of the light will be shut -- "I know not whence ye are" -- The dragon of outer darkness -- The draught of oblivion -- The parents we are to leave -- The books of Ieou again -- The Christ the first of this humanity to enter the light "Tis he who holds the keys of the mysteries" -- Summary of the extracts from the books of the savior -- The immanent limbs of the ineffable -- The Christ is the ineffable -- The gnosis of the Christ -- The initiation of the disciples on the mount -- The first veil is drawn aside -- They enter the way of the midst -- The ordering of the fate-sphere is described -- All mysteries up to the light-treasure are promised them -- The punishments of the ways of the midst -- the duration of the punishments -- The disciples pray for mercy to sinners -- They enter an atmosphere of exceeding great light -- The vision of the baptism-mysteries -- They return to earth -- The celebration of the mystic Eucharist -- The mysteries that are to be revealed -- The punishment of sinners in the lower regions and the evil bodies they receive when reborn -- The cup of wisdom -- The note of a scribe -- Summary of the fragments of the book of the great logos according to the mystery -- The books of the gnosis of the invisible God -- The hidden wisdom -- A dark saying is explained -- The flesh of ignorance -- The mysteries of the treasure of light -- To be revealed to the worthy alone -- The lesser mysteries -- The good commandments -- The greater mysteries -- The powers they confer -- The mystic rite of the baptism of the water of life -- The baptism of fire -- The baptism of the Holy Spirit -- The mystery of withdrawing the evil of the rulers -- The powers of lesser mysteries confer -- The mystery of the forgiveness of sins -- The powers it confers -- The ordering of the light-treasures -- The great light -- Invocation to the true God -- Invocation to the unapproachable -- The mystery of the twelve Aeons -- The thirteenth Aeon -- The fourteenth Aeon -- The three great rulers -- Concerning Ieou the emanatory of the middle light-world -- The tetragrammaton -- The type of the treasures -- The type of the true God Ieou -- The mystic diagrams Cosmic embryology -- The seal on the forehead of Ieou -- General characteristics of the diagrams -- The twelve the order of Jesus -- Hymn to the first mystery sung in the thirteen Aeons -- The thirteenth Aeon -- The sixty treasures -- The little idea -- The name of the great power -- Hymn to the unapproachable God sung in the seventh treasure -- The great Logoi according to the mystery -- The universal idea -- Hymn to the mystery -- The way of the midst -- Selections from the untitled apocalypse of the codex Brucianus -- The first being -- The second being -- The supernal being -- The twelve depths -- The primal source -- The unmanifested -- The manifested, the Pleroma -- Three-faced and two-faced space -- The view of the commentator -- Marsanes, Nicotheus, and Phosilampes -- The creative logos -- The descent of the light-spark -- The Spiritual atom -- Hymn to the logos -- The Christ -- The glorified of the Logos -- The at-one-moment -- Soteriology -- The ineffable vesture -- The purification of the lower nature -- The world-savior -- The promise -- The powers of the light-vesture -- The mothers of men -- The song of praise of the mother above -- The hidden worlds -- The man -- The Lord of splendor -- His promise to them who believe -- The prayer of the earth-born -- The power of discrimination are given them -- The ladder of purification -- The son of God -- Hymn to the light -- Notes on the contents of the Bruce and Askew Codices -- The kinship of the titled treatises -- Date -- Authorship -- The titles -- The books of Ieou -- The probable author -- The obscurity of the subject -- The original Pistis Sophia treatise -- The Coptic translation -- the books of the savior -- The copyist -- The scheme pre-supposed in these treatises -- An appreciation of the untitled treatise -- Not to be attributed to a single author -- Its apocalyptic basis -- The over-working -- The akhmim codex -- The MS and its contents -- The gospel of Mary -- The wisdom of Jesus Christ -- Irenaeus quotes from the Gospel of Mary -- An examination of his statements -- The father -- The mother -- The pentad -- The decad -- The Christ -- The Egyptian origin of the treatise -- The opinion of Harnack -- The importance of the MS -- Some forgotten sayings -- Rejected Logoi -- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Bibliographies -- General Bibliography -- Early works -- Critical studies prior to 1851 -- Works subsequent to the publication of the philosophumena in 1851 -- The Coptic Gnostic works -- Reviews and articles in English and American periodicals -- Uncanonical acts -- Gnostic gems and abraxas-studies -- Gnostic works mentioned by ancient writers -- The most recent texts of the Haeresiological church fathers and their English translations. Christianity G.R.S. Mead Gnosticism https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/669d1c93b773d6a5146a99ffce698ae4.jpg 168e8fe0ce3727f5cb7d82c6c8cca92a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Peter Philp Kenneth R. Small curator Perennial Wisdom Resources Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SDSU Library Special Collections Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Peter Philp Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Mythology - Global, Greek, Celtic/Druid/Arthurian, Egyptian Literature - William Butler Yeats writings and studies, William Blake writings and studies (extensive) and others. Christianity - New Testament Studies, Gnosticism, Mystical Christianity Sacred Geometry Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana studies and texts Hinduism - Yoga, tantra and Siva writings. Islam - Koran and Sufi texts and studies. Writings of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna, Rumi, Hafez etc. (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Taoism Greek philosophy - Plato, Neo-Platonism, Pythagorean studies (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Jewish studies - Kabbalah Symbolism Studies - the Tarot Linguistics Art- Color studies and World Religious Art Archeology of Stone Monuments Theosophy - Blavatsky, dePurucker, Subba Row, writings. W.Y. Evans-Wentz - First editions of his four volumes of Tibetan translations JRR Tolkien writings and studies Wizards Bookshelf Secret Doctrine Reference Series - quality reprints of 19th century references to Blavatsky's 'Secret Doctrine'. Ancient Egyptian Religion, Symbolism and History Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2020 Description An account of the resource The overview paradigm, for The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions, was inspired by the 'essential unity of all religions' from Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Theosophical Society Sanskrit motto 'There is no Religion Higher than Truth'. Philp's view on Western Esotericism is reflected in an essay by the Greek classics, Gnostic scholar and theosophist, G. R. S. Mead (1863-1933). Mead outlined, in his March 1891 essay.* Mead outlines, in his 1891 essay, a broad based overview of the essential perennialism found in the Western Wisdom Traditions, including Greek philosophies of Plato, Pythagorus, pre-Socratics and Noeplatonism, Greek drama, mystery schools, mythology, Gnostic literature and Christian Mysticism, Hermetic philosophy and Alchemy, Jewish Kabbalah, Global Mythology, European folk religions and 'the nature of the soul and states after death'. Mead's view was to complement the study of the translations and promotion of the perennial wisdom from Asia, especially focused on India, which Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society were advocating and spearheading during the 1880's to 90's. Peter Philp, in his decades of perennial wisdom book study and collecting, with his ever growing collection, maintained this theosophic basis as its underlying paradigm and inspiration. (* "G.R.S.Mead and the Gnostic Quest" p 56) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource G.R.S. Mead and the Gnostic Quest Relation A related resource For more information visit: the Theosohpy Wiki about <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/G._R._S._Mead" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">G.R.S. Mead</a><br /><br /><div><span>Series: Western esoteric masters series.</span></div> Description An account of the resource Chronicles the life of George Robert Stowe Mead, focusing on his influence on twentieth-century art, literature, and psychology and includes an annotated anthology of his writings. Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Universal theosophy : East and West -- Gnosticism -- Hermeticism -- Esoteric Christianity -- Initiation. Subject The topic of the resource Mead, G. R. S. (George Robert Stow), 1863-1933 Gnosticism Theosophy Hermetism Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books Gnosticism H.P. Blavatsky Theosophy Western esotericism https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/74fd5c5e7c09d1ef43bbc4dc88cf9d05.jpg 6596441de487683bb045fa692bde739d https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/b4b6df9c7d95310a9eaf816458df038e.jpg bde11efe7e6f9c5fafd2ce391fea86b5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Peter Philp Kenneth R. Small curator Perennial Wisdom Resources Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SDSU Library Special Collections Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Peter Philp Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Mythology - Global, Greek, Celtic/Druid/Arthurian, Egyptian Literature - William Butler Yeats writings and studies, William Blake writings and studies (extensive) and others. Christianity - New Testament Studies, Gnosticism, Mystical Christianity Sacred Geometry Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana studies and texts Hinduism - Yoga, tantra and Siva writings. Islam - Koran and Sufi texts and studies. Writings of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna, Rumi, Hafez etc. (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Taoism Greek philosophy - Plato, Neo-Platonism, Pythagorean studies (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Jewish studies - Kabbalah Symbolism Studies - the Tarot Linguistics Art- Color studies and World Religious Art Archeology of Stone Monuments Theosophy - Blavatsky, dePurucker, Subba Row, writings. W.Y. Evans-Wentz - First editions of his four volumes of Tibetan translations JRR Tolkien writings and studies Wizards Bookshelf Secret Doctrine Reference Series - quality reprints of 19th century references to Blavatsky's 'Secret Doctrine'. Ancient Egyptian Religion, Symbolism and History Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2020 Description An account of the resource The overview paradigm, for The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions, was inspired by the 'essential unity of all religions' from Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Theosophical Society Sanskrit motto 'There is no Religion Higher than Truth'. Philp's view on Western Esotericism is reflected in an essay by the Greek classics, Gnostic scholar and theosophist, G. R. S. Mead (1863-1933). Mead outlined, in his March 1891 essay.* Mead outlines, in his 1891 essay, a broad based overview of the essential perennialism found in the Western Wisdom Traditions, including Greek philosophies of Plato, Pythagorus, pre-Socratics and Noeplatonism, Greek drama, mystery schools, mythology, Gnostic literature and Christian Mysticism, Hermetic philosophy and Alchemy, Jewish Kabbalah, Global Mythology, European folk religions and 'the nature of the soul and states after death'. Mead's view was to complement the study of the translations and promotion of the perennial wisdom from Asia, especially focused on India, which Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society were advocating and spearheading during the 1880's to 90's. Peter Philp, in his decades of perennial wisdom book study and collecting, with his ever growing collection, maintained this theosophic basis as its underlying paradigm and inspiration. 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Title A name given to the resource Gnosis and Faith in Early Christianity: An Introduction to Gnosticism Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Riemer Roukema Christianity Gnosticism https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/06c77e13b9e171b339252bd1142759f4.jpg ee992a5383e07274c18640ef39596fb8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Peter Philp Kenneth R. Small curator Perennial Wisdom Resources Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SDSU Library Special Collections Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Peter Philp Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Mythology - Global, Greek, Celtic/Druid/Arthurian, Egyptian Literature - William Butler Yeats writings and studies, William Blake writings and studies (extensive) and others. Christianity - New Testament Studies, Gnosticism, Mystical Christianity Sacred Geometry Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana studies and texts Hinduism - Yoga, tantra and Siva writings. Islam - Koran and Sufi texts and studies. Writings of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna, Rumi, Hafez etc. (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Taoism Greek philosophy - Plato, Neo-Platonism, Pythagorean studies (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Jewish studies - Kabbalah Symbolism Studies - the Tarot Linguistics Art- Color studies and World Religious Art Archeology of Stone Monuments Theosophy - Blavatsky, dePurucker, Subba Row, writings. W.Y. Evans-Wentz - First editions of his four volumes of Tibetan translations JRR Tolkien writings and studies Wizards Bookshelf Secret Doctrine Reference Series - quality reprints of 19th century references to Blavatsky's 'Secret Doctrine'. Ancient Egyptian Religion, Symbolism and History Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2020 Description An account of the resource The overview paradigm, for The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions, was inspired by the 'essential unity of all religions' from Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Theosophical Society Sanskrit motto 'There is no Religion Higher than Truth'. Philp's view on Western Esotericism is reflected in an essay by the Greek classics, Gnostic scholar and theosophist, G. R. S. Mead (1863-1933). Mead outlined, in his March 1891 essay.* Mead outlines, in his 1891 essay, a broad based overview of the essential perennialism found in the Western Wisdom Traditions, including Greek philosophies of Plato, Pythagorus, pre-Socratics and Noeplatonism, Greek drama, mystery schools, mythology, Gnostic literature and Christian Mysticism, Hermetic philosophy and Alchemy, Jewish Kabbalah, Global Mythology, European folk religions and 'the nature of the soul and states after death'. Mead's view was to complement the study of the translations and promotion of the perennial wisdom from Asia, especially focused on India, which Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society were advocating and spearheading during the 1880's to 90's. Peter Philp, in his decades of perennial wisdom book study and collecting, with his ever growing collection, maintained this theosophic basis as its underlying paradigm and inspiration. (* "G.R.S.Mead and the Gnostic Quest" p 56) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gnosis and Hermeticism: From Antiquity to Modern Times Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Gnosticism and hermetism in antiquity: two roads to salvation / Roelof van den Broek. -- Gnostic and hermetic ethics / Jean-Pierre Mahé. -- Manichaeism: its sources and influences on western Christianity / Johannes van Oort. -- A Christian Gnostic text: the 'Gospel of Truth' / Jan Helderman. -- The 'Asclepius': from the Hermetic Lodge in Alexandria to the Greek eucharist and the Roman mass / Gilles Quispel. -- A reading of the 'Discourse on the Ogdoad and the Ennead' (Nag Hammadi Codex VI. 6) / Jean-Pierre Mahé. -- The Cathars: medieval Gnostics? / Roelof van den Broek. -- Renaissance hermeticism and the concept of western esotericism / Antoine Faivre. -- Francesco Patrizi's hermetic philosophy / Cees Leijenhorst. -- Spiritual alchemy: interpreting representative texts and images / Karen-Claire Voss. -- Music and the hermetic tradition / Joscelyn Godwin. -- Hermeticism in early Rosicrucianism / Roland Edighoffer. -- Christian theosophic literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Arthur Versluis. Romanticism and the esoteric connection / Wouter J. Hanegraaff. -- William Blake and his Gnostic myths / Jos van Meurs. -- Western esoteric schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Daniël van Egmond. -- Stockhausen's 'Donnerstag aus Licht' and Gnosticism / Joscelyn Godwin. -- The New Age Movement and the esoteric tradition / Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Subject The topic of the resource Gnosticism Hermetism Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Albany : State University of New York Press Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource edited by Roelof van den Broek and Wouter J. Hanegraaff Relation A related resource Series: SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions. Christianity Gnosticism https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/e7e91c6efd93fe9fbb62d41a2d993808.jpg d8e1495be50eef5b6c29c0184c9dc348 https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/730baa847636174408c86585b9df108e.jpg 4be1812f1a5eb4deeff32b79db74ec29 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Peter Philp Kenneth R. Small curator Perennial Wisdom Resources Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SDSU Library Special Collections Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Peter Philp Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Mythology - Global, Greek, Celtic/Druid/Arthurian, Egyptian Literature - William Butler Yeats writings and studies, William Blake writings and studies (extensive) and others. Christianity - New Testament Studies, Gnosticism, Mystical Christianity Sacred Geometry Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana studies and texts Hinduism - Yoga, tantra and Siva writings. Islam - Koran and Sufi texts and studies. Writings of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna, Rumi, Hafez etc. (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Taoism Greek philosophy - Plato, Neo-Platonism, Pythagorean studies (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Jewish studies - Kabbalah Symbolism Studies - the Tarot Linguistics Art- Color studies and World Religious Art Archeology of Stone Monuments Theosophy - Blavatsky, dePurucker, Subba Row, writings. W.Y. Evans-Wentz - First editions of his four volumes of Tibetan translations JRR Tolkien writings and studies Wizards Bookshelf Secret Doctrine Reference Series - quality reprints of 19th century references to Blavatsky's 'Secret Doctrine'. Ancient Egyptian Religion, Symbolism and History Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2020 Description An account of the resource The overview paradigm, for The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions, was inspired by the 'essential unity of all religions' from Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Theosophical Society Sanskrit motto 'There is no Religion Higher than Truth'. Philp's view on Western Esotericism is reflected in an essay by the Greek classics, Gnostic scholar and theosophist, G. R. S. Mead (1863-1933). Mead outlined, in his March 1891 essay.* Mead outlines, in his 1891 essay, a broad based overview of the essential perennialism found in the Western Wisdom Traditions, including Greek philosophies of Plato, Pythagorus, pre-Socratics and Noeplatonism, Greek drama, mystery schools, mythology, Gnostic literature and Christian Mysticism, Hermetic philosophy and Alchemy, Jewish Kabbalah, Global Mythology, European folk religions and 'the nature of the soul and states after death'. Mead's view was to complement the study of the translations and promotion of the perennial wisdom from Asia, especially focused on India, which Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society were advocating and spearheading during the 1880's to 90's. Peter Philp, in his decades of perennial wisdom book study and collecting, with his ever growing collection, maintained this theosophic basis as its underlying paradigm and inspiration. (* "G.R.S.Mead and the Gnostic Quest" p 56) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Small curator Perennial Wisdom Resources Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SDSU Library Special Collections Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Peter Philp Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Mythology - Global, Greek, Celtic/Druid/Arthurian, Egyptian Literature - William Butler Yeats writings and studies, William Blake writings and studies (extensive) and others. Christianity - New Testament Studies, Gnosticism, Mystical Christianity Sacred Geometry Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana studies and texts Hinduism - Yoga, tantra and Siva writings. Islam - Koran and Sufi texts and studies. Writings of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna, Rumi, Hafez etc. (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Taoism Greek philosophy - Plato, Neo-Platonism, Pythagorean studies (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Jewish studies - Kabbalah Symbolism Studies - the Tarot Linguistics Art- Color studies and World Religious Art Archeology of Stone Monuments Theosophy - Blavatsky, dePurucker, Subba Row, writings. W.Y. Evans-Wentz - First editions of his four volumes of Tibetan translations JRR Tolkien writings and studies Wizards Bookshelf Secret Doctrine Reference Series - quality reprints of 19th century references to Blavatsky's 'Secret Doctrine'. Ancient Egyptian Religion, Symbolism and History Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2020 Description An account of the resource The overview paradigm, for The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions, was inspired by the 'essential unity of all religions' from Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Theosophical Society Sanskrit motto 'There is no Religion Higher than Truth'. Philp's view on Western Esotericism is reflected in an essay by the Greek classics, Gnostic scholar and theosophist, G. R. S. Mead (1863-1933). Mead outlined, in his March 1891 essay.* Mead outlines, in his 1891 essay, a broad based overview of the essential perennialism found in the Western Wisdom Traditions, including Greek philosophies of Plato, Pythagorus, pre-Socratics and Noeplatonism, Greek drama, mystery schools, mythology, Gnostic literature and Christian Mysticism, Hermetic philosophy and Alchemy, Jewish Kabbalah, Global Mythology, European folk religions and 'the nature of the soul and states after death'. Mead's view was to complement the study of the translations and promotion of the perennial wisdom from Asia, especially focused on India, which Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society were advocating and spearheading during the 1880's to 90's. Peter Philp, in his decades of perennial wisdom book study and collecting, with his ever growing collection, maintained this theosophic basis as its underlying paradigm and inspiration. (* "G.R.S.Mead and the Gnostic Quest" p 56) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gnosis and the New Testament: Gnosticism and Newly Discovered Gnostic Writings in Relation to the New Testament Description An account of the resource This book had its origin in a series of lectures delivered in the spring of 1965 at a number of universities and colleges in the United States and Canada. For publication, the lectures have been completely revised and considerably expanded. Gnosticism first appeared and attracted the attention of scholars as a movement within the Christian religion, and for a long time it was regarded as a purely Christian movement, a perversion of the Christian faith into a speculative theology. It is not the separate elements themselves which are Gnostic, but the total synthesis, the system, into which they are combined. - p. [vii], 4-5. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource R. McL. Wilson, B.D., Ph.D. Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. The Gnostic heresy in the light of recent research and discovery -- 'Gnosticism' in the New Testament -- Gnostic use of the New Testament -- The New Gospels -- The other published documents from Nag Hammadi. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Philadelphia : Fortress Press Christianity Gnosticism https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/217f98dd56d86916d96d0e329e32ddd6.jpg 46fdb61757aeaa988318b7385a85fdfc https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/08e8f0f1fe41f62dcb4573e4c2f8e6bb.jpg a0c89e7e1e9d268be8a06e5be612d944 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Peter Philp Kenneth R. Small curator Perennial Wisdom Resources Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SDSU Library Special Collections Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Peter Philp Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Mythology - Global, Greek, Celtic/Druid/Arthurian, Egyptian Literature - William Butler Yeats writings and studies, William Blake writings and studies (extensive) and others. Christianity - New Testament Studies, Gnosticism, Mystical Christianity Sacred Geometry Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana studies and texts Hinduism - Yoga, tantra and Siva writings. Islam - Koran and Sufi texts and studies. Writings of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna, Rumi, Hafez etc. (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Taoism Greek philosophy - Plato, Neo-Platonism, Pythagorean studies (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Jewish studies - Kabbalah Symbolism Studies - the Tarot Linguistics Art- Color studies and World Religious Art Archeology of Stone Monuments Theosophy - Blavatsky, dePurucker, Subba Row, writings. W.Y. Evans-Wentz - First editions of his four volumes of Tibetan translations JRR Tolkien writings and studies Wizards Bookshelf Secret Doctrine Reference Series - quality reprints of 19th century references to Blavatsky's 'Secret Doctrine'. Ancient Egyptian Religion, Symbolism and History Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2020 Description An account of the resource The overview paradigm, for The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions, was inspired by the 'essential unity of all religions' from Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Theosophical Society Sanskrit motto 'There is no Religion Higher than Truth'. Philp's view on Western Esotericism is reflected in an essay by the Greek classics, Gnostic scholar and theosophist, G. R. S. Mead (1863-1933). Mead outlined, in his March 1891 essay.* Mead outlines, in his 1891 essay, a broad based overview of the essential perennialism found in the Western Wisdom Traditions, including Greek philosophies of Plato, Pythagorus, pre-Socratics and Noeplatonism, Greek drama, mystery schools, mythology, Gnostic literature and Christian Mysticism, Hermetic philosophy and Alchemy, Jewish Kabbalah, Global Mythology, European folk religions and 'the nature of the soul and states after death'. Mead's view was to complement the study of the translations and promotion of the perennial wisdom from Asia, especially focused on India, which Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society were advocating and spearheading during the 1880's to 90's. Peter Philp, in his decades of perennial wisdom book study and collecting, with his ever growing collection, maintained this theosophic basis as its underlying paradigm and inspiration. (* "G.R.S.Mead and the Gnostic Quest" p 56) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gnosis on the Silk Road: Gnostic Texts from Central Asia Subject The topic of the resource Manichaeism -- Asia, Central Asia, Central -- Religion Description An account of the resource In the late 1970s the first English translation of the Coptic texts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which came to be known as the Nag Hammadi Library, profoundly changed the world's understanding of Christianity. Now with the publication of Gnosis on the Silk Road - a never before published collection of extraordinary texts from the Gnostic tradition in Central Asia - renowned scholar and author Hans-Joachim Klimkeit has provided a unique Eastern companion text to that important work. This first-ever English translation of the major Gnostic texts from Asia is a vital discovery that reveals a new expression of Christianity as it blended with the mystical religions of Turkey, Persia, Central Asia, and even China. Klimkeit presents an astonishing collection of parables, hymns, narratives, and prayers that unveil a major Christian movement primarily founded by the prophet Mani, who merged Gnostic Christianity with the radical religious dualism of Persian religion and Zoroaster. As the movement spread along the Silk Road from Turkey to Asia, it adopted prominent features from Hinduism, Buddhism, and other Asian faiths. The result was a Christian philosophy and practice that was much closer to the mystical, meditative religions of the East. Like the Western Gnosticism reflected in the Nag Hammadi Library, this Eastern Gnosticism was condemned as heresy by orthodox Christianity, and only today with the opening up of the former Soviet Union and the increased awareness of the importance of the Silk Road has the world been given a chance to learn from this radically different approach to Christianity. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Translations from Iranian and Turkish texts. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available San Francisco, Calif. : HarperSanFrancisco Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource translated & presented by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit Asia Christianity Gnosticism https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/0d4fb3bed5afc1cdd19331dbad234079.jpg de4cf5b51c938aa9b44876c256642aa8 https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/files/original/ef152c8bef284ff0b341d0df24748bf5.jpg a2bb8ea556a98d7c525cbf83aa600e50 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Peter Philp Kenneth R. Small curator Perennial Wisdom Resources Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SDSU Library Special Collections Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Peter Philp Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Mythology - Global, Greek, Celtic/Druid/Arthurian, Egyptian Literature - William Butler Yeats writings and studies, William Blake writings and studies (extensive) and others. Christianity - New Testament Studies, Gnosticism, Mystical Christianity Sacred Geometry Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana studies and texts Hinduism - Yoga, tantra and Siva writings. Islam - Koran and Sufi texts and studies. Writings of Ibn Arabi, Avicenna, Rumi, Hafez etc. (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Taoism Greek philosophy - Plato, Neo-Platonism, Pythagorean studies (extensive collection of several hundred volumes) Jewish studies - Kabbalah Symbolism Studies - the Tarot Linguistics Art- Color studies and World Religious Art Archeology of Stone Monuments Theosophy - Blavatsky, dePurucker, Subba Row, writings. W.Y. Evans-Wentz - First editions of his four volumes of Tibetan translations JRR Tolkien writings and studies Wizards Bookshelf Secret Doctrine Reference Series - quality reprints of 19th century references to Blavatsky's 'Secret Doctrine'. Ancient Egyptian Religion, Symbolism and History Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2020 Description An account of the resource The overview paradigm, for The Peter Philp Library of Western Esotericism and Global Wisdom Traditions, was inspired by the 'essential unity of all religions' from Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Theosophical Society Sanskrit motto 'There is no Religion Higher than Truth'. Philp's view on Western Esotericism is reflected in an essay by the Greek classics, Gnostic scholar and theosophist, G. R. S. Mead (1863-1933). Mead outlined, in his March 1891 essay.* Mead outlines, in his 1891 essay, a broad based overview of the essential perennialism found in the Western Wisdom Traditions, including Greek philosophies of Plato, Pythagorus, pre-Socratics and Noeplatonism, Greek drama, mystery schools, mythology, Gnostic literature and Christian Mysticism, Hermetic philosophy and Alchemy, Jewish Kabbalah, Global Mythology, European folk religions and 'the nature of the soul and states after death'. Mead's view was to complement the study of the translations and promotion of the perennial wisdom from Asia, especially focused on India, which Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society were advocating and spearheading during the 1880's to 90's. Peter Philp, in his decades of perennial wisdom book study and collecting, with his ever growing collection, maintained this theosophic basis as its underlying paradigm and inspiration. (* "G.R.S.Mead and the Gnostic Quest" p 56) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gnosis, the Mysteries and Christianity: An Anthology of Essene, Gnostic and Christian Writings Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Floris Books Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Selected and introduced by Andrew Welburn Christianity Gnosticism