SYLLABUS
Recommended Source Texts:
The Nag Hammadi Library, ed. James Robinson (recent paperback copy)
The Other Bible, ed. Willa Barnstone (recent paperback copy)
MODULES:
Hellenistic Gnosticism A
Gnosis in the Western Mystery Tradition
Positive ("Optimistic") and Negative ("Pessimistic") Gnosticism
Gnostic Origins
Gentile Mithraism and Syrian Redeemer Cults
Jewish Mandaism
Earliest Gnostic Christian Sects
Anti-Gnostic Polemic by Irenaeus and Tertullian
Hellenistic Gnosticism B
The Nag Hammadi Coptic Gnostic Library
Libertines, Ascetics, and the Encratitic Movement
The Valentinian Gnosis
The Gnosis of Jesus Compared to Valentinian Gnosis
The
Gospel of Thomas
Manichaeism
Alexandrian and Hermetic Schools
Plotinus and Neoplatonic Critique of Gnosticism
Timelines for Transmission of Negative and Positive Gnosis
Medieval European Gnosticism
Merovingian Dynasty and Celtic Christianity
Carolingian Dynasty and Catholic Christianity
Oppression of Heretical Communities
Bogomil Transmission of Manichaeism
Inquisition, Albigensian Genocide, and Cathar Diaspora
Inquisition and Templar Diaspora
Hermetic Renaissance and Rosicrucian Enlightenment
From Gnosticism to Gnosis
Modern Gnosticism
Animated Timeline to Modern Period
19th and 20th Century Schools of Gnosis
Spiritualism, Theosophy, Buddhist and Hindu Schools,
Rosicrucian, Magickal, Sufi, Pythagorean, Alchemical, etc.
Great Modern Gnostics
History of the Modern Gnostic Ecclesiae
Postive Revisions of Valentinian and Pessemistic Gnosis
Modern Gnostic Bishops: Saraydarian, Palatine, Hoeller, Miller, the Keizers
