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Pistis Sophia - A Gnostic Gospel (Paperback)
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Pistis Sophia - A Gnostic Gospel (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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George Robert Stow Mead (1863 1933) was for twenty-five years a
prominent member of the Theosophical Society and worked closely
with its founder, Helena Blavatsky. He was fascinated both by
eastern religions and by western esotericism, including gnosticism,
and published widely in these areas. Pistis Sophia, an important,
probably second-century, text preserved in a Coptic manuscript,
presents complex gnostic teachings in 'gospel' format, as having
been addressed by Jesus Christ to his disciples after the
resurrection. This translation, based on a Latin version published
in 1851, appeared in 1896 and was the first English version of a
major gnostic work. The book also includes passages from the Books
of the Saviour found in the same manuscript. Mead's introduction
discusses the origin of the texts and highlights their difficulty.
It also describes the upsurge of scholarly interest in Gnosticism
in the mid-nineteenth century and the mysterious history of the
manuscript itself.
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