The Allure of Gnosticism The Gnostic

"This book is a concatenation of sparks of religious light.... Gnosticism is to be understood as the ongoing formulation of freshly imagined spirits, a logos of what we can know about those moments when the religious experience itself breaks through the veils of dogma to assert the psychological reality of a living redemptive godhead". -- John Beebe Editor, Journal of Analytical Psychology

Contributors

vii

Introduction

1

(9)

Robert A. Segal

Gnosis and Psychology

10

(16)

Gilles Quispel

Jung's Fascination with Gnosticism

26

(13)

Robert A. Segal

The Gnostic Critique, Past and Present

39

(15)

Murray Stein

The Evolution of the Soul

54

(16)

June Singer

``Begotten, Not Created'': The Gnostic Use of Language in Jungian Perspective

70

(14)

Schuyler Brown

Mary Magdalene in the Canonical and Gnostic Gospels

84

(10)

Bradley TePaske

Sex, Suffering, and Incarnation: Female Symbolism in Gnosticism

94

(13)

Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley

The ``Mystery of Marriage'' in the Gospel of Philip

107

(10)

Elaine Pagels

Gnosticism and Modern Nihilism

117

(19)

Hans Jonas

Eric Voegelin and the Changing Perspective on the Gnostic Features of Modernity

136

(11)

Stephen A. McKnight

Between Gnosticism and Jehovah: The Dilemma in Kafka's Religious Attitude

147

(20)

Walter H. Sokel

Leaving Home: A Gnostic Note in the Lives of C. G. Jung and T. S. Eliot

167

(6)

Daniel A. Lindley

Buddhism and Gnosis

173

(17)

Edward Conze

Parallels to Gnosticism in Pure Land Buddhism

190

(9)

Kenneth O'Neill

The Experience of Gnosis

199

(5)

Rosamonde Miller

The Revival of Ancient Gnosis

204

(21)

Richard Smith

Index

225

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