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Gnostic John the Baptizer

Author
G. R. S. Mead
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
5 hours
ISBN
9781802567120
Published
29 June 2025
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • Gnostic
  • Coptic
  • mystic
  • mysticism
  • divinity
  • divine
  • cosmology
  • Christianity
  • religion
  • faith

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Description

Mead sets the Baptist beside Jesus as a mystical teacher in his own right, drawing Mandaean traces and rare translations on repentance, immersion, and cosmic wisdom. Early Christian argument opens into secret doctrine and inner transformation — John as hinge of hidden knowledge, not only a Jordan prologue. Dated scholarship that still opens texts most church histories leave in the margin.

Author

G. R. S. Mead (1863–1933) was an English historian and translator who opened Hermetic, Gnostic, and Neoplatonic texts to a modern readership. A prominent Theosophist and later founder of the Quest Society, he treated ancient wisdom as living literature rather than museum dust. Pistis Sophia, his studies of Hermes, and related works in our catalogue show a scholar who wanted the hidden traditions of late antiquity to speak clearly in English.

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