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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.
A document of paramount historical importance, not only in terms of
Christianity but also with respect to the development of Western
religion. It chronicles the teachings of Jesus, who explains life's
mysteries to his disciples and Mary Magdalene. Their discussions
take place after Christ's resurrection and include accounts of his
ascension into heaven.
2013 Reprint of 1906 Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Three
Volumes bound into one. Volume contents are: Vol. 1. Prolegomena.
-- Vol. 2. Sermons. -- Vol. 3. Excerpts and fragments This work
exemplifies all that is best in Mead's dedicated, scholarly, but
eminently readable studies of the spiritual roots of Christian
Gnosticism and, more generally, of personal religion in the
Greco-Roman world. His work encompassed much more than this; Mead
was equally at home with Sanskrit texts, Patristic literature,
Buddhist thought, and the problems of contemporary philosophy and
psychical research. He devoted his intellectual energy to the
complex interplay of Gnosticism, Hellenism, Judaism, and
Christianity. This three volume set presents his insights into the
formation of the Gnostic world-view and establishes him as an
outstanding translator of these Hermetic books, and as the first
modern scholar of Gnostic tradition.
THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Quests Old and
New, by G. R. S. Mead. To purchase the entire book, please order
ISBN 0922802793.
THIS 32 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Quests Old and
New, by G. R. S. Mead. To purchase the entire book, please order
ISBN 0922802793.
Pistis Sophia is an important Gnostic text. It relates the Gnostic
teachings of the transfigured Jesus to the assembled disciples
including his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Martha. Pisti Sophia
recounts that Jesus remained on earth after the resurrection for 11
years. In it the complex structures and hierarchies of heaven
familiar in Gnostic teachings are revealed.
The Corpus Hermeticum are at the core of the Hermetic tradition.
Early Church officials believed this was an early precursor to
Christianity. Today we know it emerged from Hellenic Egypt. In the
text, the Thrice Great Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, engages in an
educational and easy to follow discussion with the great healer of
ancient Greece; Asclepius, answering the eternal questions as to
the nature of the Logos.
These marvelous narratives may seem vastly fantastic to the modern
mind, but to every shade of Christianity in those days, they were
entirely credible.-from The Hymn of JesusLost words of Jesus? One
of the greatest thinkers on the origins of Christianity and a
renowned expert on Gnostic and Hermetic literature presents, in
this snug volume first published in 1907, the lost teachings of
Jesus. Not found in the canonical Gospels and, indeed, frequently
dismissed as blasphemous or heretical or "reworked" by later
editors to comply with perceived tradition, this beautiful hymn is
not just of interest to Christian mystics but to anyone who values
wise words well spoken.Also available from Cosimo Classics: Mead's
The Doctrine of the Subtle Body in Western Tradition and Did Jesus
Live 100 B.C.?British scholar and philosopher GEORGE ROBERT STOW
MEAD (1863-1933) was educated at Cambridge University. He served as
editor of The Theosophical Society's Theosophical Review, and later
formed The Quest Society and edited its journal, The Quest Review.
He is also the author of Notes on Nirvana (1893) and an 1896
translation of The Upanishads.
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