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Gnosis : an esoteric tradition of mystical visions and unions / Dan Merkur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merkur, Daniel, author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions
- SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions Gnosis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visions--History.
- Visions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 387 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [1993]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traces the use of powerful gnostic visionary techniques from Hellenistic Gnosticism and Jewish merkabah mysticism, through Muhammad, the Ismaeilis, and theosophical Sufism to medieval neoplatonism, and renaissance alchemy.Gnosis traces the use of powerful gnostic visionary techniques from Hellenistic Gnosticism and Jewish merkabah mysticism, through Muhammad, the Ismaeilis, and theosophical Sufism to medieval neoplatonism, and renaissance alchemy.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Jung, active imagination, and the gnostic-alchemical hypothesis: The study of mystical experiences
- Jung, Silberer, and active imagination
- Theories of spiritual alchemy
- The alchemical production of gold
- pt. 2. A history of gnosis: Defining gnosis
- The gnostic journey to the Ogdoad
- The recital of the chariot
- Muhammad and his Miʻraj
- Islamic gnosis and the world of imagination
- The passage of gnosis to the Latin West.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-377) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438412863
- 143841286X
- 9780585057422
- 0585057427
- OCLC:
- 1511483615
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