The Hymn of Jesus: Echoes from the Gnosis

Name: The Hymn of Jesus: Echoes from the Gnosis
Author: G. R. S. Mead
ISBN: 9781911535331

Author: G. R. S. Mead
Series: Christian Classics
Language: English
Length: 48 pages
ISBN: 9781911535331
Published: 19 September 2016
Imprint: The Big Nest

Pistis Sophia
Gnostic
Coptic
mystic
mysticism
divinity
divine
cosmology
Christianity
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Description

Just as many other settings of the Sayings and Doings of the Lord existed prior to and alongside of the canonical Gospels, so were there, prior to and alongside of the subsequently selected or canonical Acts, many other narratives professing to record the doings and sayings of the Apostles and Disciples of the Lord. Most of these originated in circles which were subsequently called heretical, and many of them were later on worked over by orthodox editors to suit doctrinal preconceptions, and so preserved for the edification of large numbers in the Catholic or General Church.

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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