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“Abel et Caïn” (Baudelaire), 172
Abraham, 107, 139
Abraxas or Abrasax, 25, 160
Acts, Book of: 1:5, 75; 7:22, 31, 111; 8:9, 19; 8:20, 19; 17:34, 90
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Pagels), 168
Adamson, Henry, 142
Advaita Vedanta, 60
Agrippa, Cornelius, 116–17, 122
Aïvanhov, Omraam Mikhaël, 70
Akindynus, 100
Albigenses. See Cathars
alchemy, 113, 127, 132, 135, 136, 144, 161, 170, 171
Alpert, Richard (Ram Dass), 186
Alpha Galates, 195
America: A Prophecy (Blake), 176
Andreae, Johann Valentin, 133
angels: in Basilides’ cosmology, 25; as creators, 156; dark, 89; law ordained by, 21, 43; in Medieval cosmology, 5, 89, 90; Origen’s version, 43; visions of, 4
antinomianism, 25
Antony, Saint, 94–95, 96
Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 104, 164
apocalypse, 177–79
Apocalypse of Philip, 93
Apocryphon of John, 192
Arian heresy, 44–45
Aristotle and Aristotelian philosophy, 104, 109, 110, 111, 164
Arius, 45
Armenia, 68–69, 72
Asclepius (god), 55
Asclepius (Hermes Trismegistus), 33, 35
Ashmole, Elias, 144
Askew, A., 151; Askew Codex, 172
Athanasius the Great, 94, 194
Athonite monks, 95, 99
Atlantis, 17–18
Atman (Self), 23, 60
Augustine, Saint, 59, 64, 65,169
Aurora (Boehme), 135
Bacon, Francis, 131
Bahram I of Persia, 52
Baigent, Michael, 28,140,194
Baillet, Adrien, 132,133
Balkans, 69–71, 73
Balzac, Honoré de, 148–49
Bamford, Christopher, 153–54
Baphomet, 140
baptism (water), 74, 76, 201–2
“baptism by fire,” 69, 73–78
Barlaam of Calabria, 98–99, 100, 101, 103
Basilides, 24–25, 160
Baudelaire, Charles, 148, 172
Benedict XIV, Pope, 146
Bernard of Clairvaux, 72
Beyond Belief (Pagels), 168, 204
Bible: critical approach to, 152; as literally true, 46; New Testament canon, 194; Old Testament canon, 194; Origen’s levels of meaning, 46, 47
Blake, William, 148,172–76,181,192, 207
Blavatsky, Mme., 153–59, 169
Bloom, Harold, 1, 180–82, 203
body: Blake’s soma sema, 174; contempt for, 25, 40, 54–55, 101, 204; mind-body split, 55, 101; as “other,” 55, 80
Boehme, Jacob, 9, 41, 135–37, 184
Bogomil and Bogomilism, 69–70, 72, 86
Book of Raziel, 107
Book of Urizen, The (Blake), 173–74
Borges, Jorge Luis, 148
Born in Blood (Robinson), 140
Bosch, Hieronymus, 85–87
Bradley, Ian, 93
Brown, Dan, 8, 28, 140, 193–200
Bruno, Giordano, 120–22, 141, 142, 148, 156
Buber, Martin, 162
Buddha, 57, 64; nature, 23
Buddhism, 4, 51, 60, 63, 65, 94, 97, 158, 187
Bulgars, 69
Butler, Samuel, 138
Byzantine Empire, 68, 69, 70, 95
Cagliostro, Count, 147, 148
Campanella, Tommasso, 122
Campbell, Joseph, 163
Capra, Fritjof, 154
Carey, John, 92, 93
Carpocrates/Carpocratians, 25, 39, 175
Casaubon, Isaac, 32
Casaubon, Meric, 119
Case, Paul Foster, 134, 138
Cassian, John, 95, 100
Cathars, 67–88, 101, 108; as Albigenses, 72; Albigensian crusade, 83–84; appearance and spread, 71–73; Armenia, the Balkans, the Bogomils and, 68–71; baptism by fire or consolamentum, 71–72, 73–78, 80; Believers, 73, 74; bonshommes, 67–68, 80, 108; in Cologne, 71–72, 85; courtly love and, 78–83; dualism of, 73; fasting, 76; as the “great heresy,” 68, 171; Hieronymus Bosch and, 85–87; “kiss of peace” and, 75; martyrdom and disappearance, 84, 87–88; at Montségur, 84, 88; parfaits, 73, 74, 84; in Provence, 67, 71, 72–74, 83–84; sun and, 71; treasure of, 84
Catherine of Siena, 41
Catholic Church, 11; Apostle’s and Nicene Creeds, 70; Church Fathers, 11, 13, 19, 40, 41, 44, 46; Counter-Reformation and the Thirty Years’ War, 128–29; current position on Gnosticism, 203–4; easy message of sin and sacrifice, 21, 206–8; as emissary of darkness, 76; Freemasons excommunicated, 146; heresy and, 11, 13, 67, 72, 83, 111, 115, 152, 168; as persecutor, 13; Scholasticism in, 99, 104, 109, 110, 115; secret societies and, 196; sex and, 80, 197; simony and, 19; “wandering bishops,” 169
Catholic Encyclopedia, The, 44
Celestial Hierarchy (Dionysus), 90
Celtic Christianity (Bradley), 93
Celts, 91–93
Cenobitic monasticism, 94
Cerdo, 25
Cerinthus, 25, 26
Charles VIII, King of France, 111
Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, The (Andreae), 133
“Christianisme et initiation” (Guéron), 48–49
Christianity: Celts and, 91–93; Constantine and, 12, 45, 48; contemporary, 4; Creator vs. creature, 99; crusades, 72; development of (proto-orthodoxy), 152, 167, 168, 203; doctrine of resurrection, 167; doctrine of the Trinity, 24, 45, 194; early communities, 12; element missing, 7, 8–9, 49–50, 105, 199, 206–10; eschaton, 177–79; esoteric, 23, 35, 37, 103, 205; Eucharist, 60; exteriorization of, 47–50; Gnostic influence, 38–41; good and bad spirits, 121; Gospels, 7; Kabbalists of, 109–15, 116; lack of eyewitnesses to Christ, 7–8; love, 208; medieval worldview, 90; origins, 11; persecution, 41, 42, 64; reincarnation, 36–37, 44; Roman Empire and, 16; secret tradition, 111; as universal, 51; women in, 27, 167, 168
2 Chronicles 3:17,142
Clavicula Salomonis (The Key of Solomon the King), 116
Clement of Alexandria, 38–41, 42, 43,111
Clement V, Pope, 140
Clement XII, Pope, 146
Colossians: 1:16, 90; 2:15, 90
Conclusions (Pico), 110–11
Confessio Fraternitatis, 125,127,129,132,138
Confucianism, 49, 65
consciousness. See enlightenment; soul
consolamentum, 71–72, 73–78, 80
Constantine I, Holy Roman Emperor, 12, 15, 45, 48, 64,194
Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor, 69
Contra Celsum (Origen), 42,43
Copernicus, 120
Cordovero, Moses, 114
1 Corinthians: 3:16–17,74; 7:10,96; 10:20, 157; 15:28,45
Corpus Hermeticum, 31, 32–35, 109, 117, 121
“Correspondences” (Baudelaire), 148
“Cosmogony and Cosmology” (Dick), 184
Council of Constantinople, 37, 44
Council of Nicaea, 7, 15, 37, 45, 49, 194
Course in Miracles, (Schucman), 190–92
courtly love (l’amour courtois), 78–83
Crowley, Aleister, 122
Cupid and Psyche myth, 59
Dan, Joseph, 115
Daniel, Book of, 178
Dante Alighieri, 80, 91, 112, 127–28, 208; Beatrice and, 81, 91; as Ghibelline, 128
Darkness: Catholic Church and forces of, 68; as hyle, 61; as prakrti, 62; realm of, 56–57, 137, 202
Dattilo, 112–13
Da Vinci, Leonardo, 194
Da Vinci Code, The (Brown), 8, 28, 140, 193–200
De arte armandi (On the Art of Love), 80
Decius, Emperor of Rome, 42
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 48
Dee, John, 118–20
Defense (Eckhart), 103, 110
Deghaye, Pierre, 136
Demeter, 18
Demetrius of Alexandria, 42
demiurge: Blake and Urizen, 172–76, 192; Descartes’, 189–90; ego and psychology of, 174, 185–87, 190–92, 207; Gnostic creator god, 4, 18, 33, 43, 53, 157, 162, 172; Ialdabaoth, 192
Democritus, 111
de Molay, Jacques, 140
De monarchia (Dante), 128
Demonologie (James I), 120
de Pierrefeu, Nita, 71
de Rougemont, Denis, 78, 80, 82
Descartes, René, 62, 131–32, 133–34, 189–90
Desert Fathers, 94, 98
Deunov, Peter, 70–71, 154
devil(s): Christian, 157, 175, 209; demiurge as, 175; in hesychast tradition, 94, 96, 98; personal, the Massalians, and baptism by fire, 69; seven, 26, 28, 29, 35, 39; Zoroastrianism and, 53
Dialogue of the Savior, 27
Dick, Philip K., 182–87, 202
Diocletian, Emperor of Rome, 64
Dionysus, 18, 90
Dionysus the Areopagite, 90, 111
Discourse on Method (Descartes), 131
Divine Feminine, 88, 197–99
Docetism, 70, 100
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 119
Doinel du Val-Michel, Jules-Benoît, 169
Dolgoruki, Prince Paul, 154
Dominican Order, 83, 102, 104
Druids, 92
dualism, 61–63, 66, 68–69, 83, 87, 137; “absolute” (of the Cathars), 73
Durkheim, Émile, 5
Eastern Orthodox Church, 47, 65, 69, 98; hesychast tradition and, 94–98; mysticism, 99, 170; Uncreated Light or Light of Tabor, 99
Ecclesia Gnostica, 169
Eckhart, Meister, 41, 101–5
Église Gnostique, 169
Egypt: ankh or crux ansata, 121; Christian mysticism and, 94–98, 111–12; Clement of Alexandria, 38–41; funerary texts, 93; Gnostics in, 38–41, 98; heirs of, 31–50; Hermeticism, 31–35, 121, 122; Kabbalah and, 111–12; lost religion of, 35–38; “mind of authority,” 32–35; mystery cults, 18; Origen, 36, 37, 41–47; religion, 49
Eleanor of Aquitaine, 79
Elchasaites, 51
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 118
Empedocles, 111
Encausse, Gérard “Papus,” 169
enlightenment (awakening, illumination): Boehme and, 135–37; consciousness and light, 59–63; Eastern religions, 4; gnosis as, 4, 15–16, 19, 75, 188, 200, 210–11; hesychast tradition and, 94–98; initiation rites and, 75–76
enneagram, 203–4
Enoch, 107
1 Enoch, 89
Enthusiasm (Knox), 182
Ephesians, 33; 3:10, 90; 6:12, 22, 29, 90
Epiphanius of Salamis, 44, 189
Ermengarde, 79
esotericism, 23, 35, 37–38, 46, 47, 48, 49, 89, 94–98, 109–15, 119, 128, 133, 136, 143–44, 153, 161, 196, 205, 208, 210–11; theosophy and, 136, 155–59. See also Blavatsky, Mme.; Gnosticism; Kabbalah; Rosicrucianism; specific doctrines and individuals
Essenes, 155
Evagrius the Solitary, 95, 96
Exegesis (Dick), 183–84
existentialism, 163–65, 182
ExistenZ (film), 187
Exodus 14:19–21, 118
Ezekiel: 1:1, 108; 1:19, 108
faith, 40, 210–11
Fama Fraternitatis, 125, 126, 129, 132, 138, 146
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 127, 128–29
Ficino, Marsilio, 31–32, 37, 109, 111, 116, 122, 155
Flaubert, Gustave, 94
Fox, George, 9
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (Mead), 1, 158
Franciscan Order, 102
Frederick V, Elector Palatine, 128–30, 132
Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 145
Freemasons. See Masons
Galatians 3:19, 21, 43
Galileo Galilei, 122
Gargantua (Rabelais), 117
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 146, 154
Genesis: 1:27, 33; 4:18–19, 139; 5:22, 107; 6:2, 89; 14:18, 107
Gibbon, Edward, 16, 48
Gichtel, Georg, 137
Gikatilla, Joseph, 44
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Yates), 121
gnosis (knowledge, hidden knowledge): Celts and, 91–93; Christianity and, 38, 40, 47, 137; as enlightenment, 4, 9, 15–16, 19, 63, 75, 77, 188, 200, 210–11; faith versus, 40, 210–11; Manichaeism and, 52; in Medieval church, 89–105; pronunciation and meaning, 1, 4; reason and, 210–11; salvation versus, 77, 206–8
Gnosis magazine, 170
Gnosis und spätantiker Geist (Jonas), 163
Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas, The (Tau Malachi), 166
Gnostic Gospels (Pagels), 9, 27, 167
Gnostic Gospels of Jesus (Meyer), 205
Gnostic Religion (Jonas), 163–64, 165
Gnostics and Gnosticism, 9, 11–29, 32, 41; as arch-heresy, 171, 180; archons, 5, 6, 7, 22, 34, 89, 90, 188; body, lack of importance of, 25, 204; Boehme and, 137–38; carnality and, 40; Cathars and, 77–78; contemporary churches, 168–70, 201–2; current interest in, 1, 4, 7; date of rise of, 5; decline and disappearance, 41, 63; demiurge of, 4, 18, 33, 43, 53, 157, 162, 172, 175, 190–92; Docetism and, 70, 100; elitism of, 24; enlightenment and, 4, 21, 15–16, 77–78, 80, 188, 200; existentialism and, 163–65; future of, 201–11; God and, 5, 22, 40, 43, 44, 89, 156–57; good and evil in, 175; Gospel of Thomas and, 13–16; as heresy, 1, 13; hesychasm and, 98; influence on Christianity, 38–41; innercosmic nihilism, 165; Jesus’s role, 5; Jung and, 159–63, 165; Kabbalah and, 107–8, 155, 170; legacy, 205–10; legacy of hidden masters and clairvoyance, 134, 155, 184–85; legacy in Massalians and Paulicians, 69; Mary Magdalene and, 26–29; Mme. Blavatsky and, 153–59; modernity, literature, film, philosophy, and, 171–200; Nag Hammadi Library and, 13, 152, 165–67; public interest in, 165–68; revival, 151–70; revolt and, 171–72, 175, 176–79; roots, 16–19; Rosicrucianism and, 138; sects, ancient, 25, 39, 54, 69, 175; sects, contemporary, 201–2; soul vs. spirit, 23, 80; teachers, 19–27; Thought of God, 20, 21; three levels of being: soul (psychic), flesh (hylic), air (pneumatic or spiritual), 23–24, 40, 46; “true I,” liberation, 181–82, 207–8; two gods, one true, good and remote, one bad, 18, 21, 34, 40, 43, 53; universe of, 5–6; world, innate depravity of, 54, 200, 203; world, visible, in, 4–5
God: absent, existential, 164; as androgynous, 33; as “craftsman,” 33–34; creates man in His own image, 33, 34; as demiurge, 4, 18, 33, 43, 53; as Elohim, 156, 173; Gnostic’s “true, good,” 5, 40, 43, 53; Judaism’s (Old Testament’s), 17, 21, 22, 25, 40, 43, 44, 89, 156–57; man as, 103–4; Plato’s, 18; as Shaddai, 113; as two gods, one good and remote, one bad, 18, 21, 34, 44; as Uncreated Light, 96, 97, 99; as unknowable, 99; as Yahweh (YHVH, Jehovah), 44, 113–14, 156, 173; Zoroastrianism and, 53–54
Golden Chain (aurea catena), 32, 37, 109, 155
Gold- und Rosenkreutz, 144–45, 196
Gregory the Great, Pope, 26
Guénon, René, 48–49, 50, 154
Gurdjieff, George Ivanovich, 154, 189
Guzmán, Dominic, 83
Hagiorite Tome (Palamas), 99
Hanegraaff, Wouter, 153, 158, 210–11
Hapsburg dynasty, 128–30
Harner, Michael, 188–89, 190
Harris, Lynda, 85–87
Harrison, C. G., 158
Hawkins, David, 7
Heidegger, Martin, 164
Heisenberg, Werner, 207
Henry II, King of England, 79
Heraclitus, 35
heresy, 11, 13, 44, 66, 72, 83, 111, 115, 135, 168; “great heresy,” 68, 171. See also specific sects
Hermes, 31, 33
Hermes Trismegistus and Hermeticism, 31–37, 49, 109, 117, 121, 131, 132, 135, 137, 139, 154, 155, 171, 172, 205
Herodotus, 36
hesychasm, 94–98; controversy and Gregory Palamas, 98–101
Hexapla (Origen), 42
Hillman, James, 122
Hinduism, 4, 51, 94, 97, 99; shaktipat, 76; Vedas and Upanishads, 62
History of Christianity (Johnson), 87
Hoeller, Stephan A., 169, 170
Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Lincoln, Baigent, and Leigh), 28, 194, 195, 196
Holy Spirit, 11, 48
Homer, 39
Hudibras (Butler), 138
Hugo, Victor, 194
“Hymn of the Pearl,” 220
Ialdabaoth, 192
Idel, Moshe, 114
Illuminati, 145
Illuminatus! (Wilson), 145
Immaculate Conception, 14
initiation rites, 75–76
Innocent III, Pope, 83
Innocent VIII, Pope, 111
Inquisition, 68, 84, 102, 121, 148
Instructor, The (Clement), 38
In Tenga Bithnua, 93
Ireland, 91–93
Irenaeus of Lyons, 25
Isaiah 49:7, 17
Isis, 18, 197
Isis Unveiled (Blavatsky), 155, 158
Islam, 49, 51, 70
James I, King of England, 120, 128
James VI, King of Scotland, 141
Jeremiah, prophet of the Bogomils, 69
Jerome, Saint, 42, 198
Jesus Christ, 57; Basilides’s view, 25; “channeling” of by Schucman, 190; “Christ consciousness,” 167; Da Vinci Code and, 193–200; ethics versus theology of, 11–12; Gnostics and, 5; as incarnate Son of God, 14, 15, 100; inner authority of, 2; lack of eyewitness accounts of, 7–8; Mary Magdalene and, 8, 193–200; nature of, 37, 45, 47; personal relationship with and “born again” Christians, 208–9; quest for historical, 152; in Thomas, 14–15; Two Great Commandments, 12; as Yehoshua, 114
Jesus Prayer, 100
Joachim of Fiore, 113, 177, 178
John, Gospel of, 7, 26; date of, 14; 3:5, 73–73; 8:1–12, 26; 10:34, 104; 11:2, 26; 20:14–15, 26; 20:24–29, 16; 21:24, 7
1 John 4:1, 121
John the Baptist, 20, 77, 201
John the Evangelist, 25
John XXII, Pope, 102
John Paul II, Pope, 203
Johnson, Paul, 87
Jonas, Hans, 163–65
Joseph of Arimathea, 92
Joyce, James, 178
Judaism, 16–17, 32, 33, 51, 65, 72; concept of a devil introduced, 53; Hasidism, 66; Kabbalah and, 23, 44, 49, 66, 72, 107–18, 157; Marranos, 87; mystics, 108
Jung, Carl, 122, 159–63, 169, 171, 185; archetypes, 160–61; Gnosticism and, 159, 161–63, 165; individuation, 161
Jung Cult, The (Noll), 159, 160
Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor, 44, 64
Kabbalah, 23, 44, 49, 72, 107–18, 132, 136, 154, 155, 157, 166, 205; Christianity, Pico della Mirandola, and others, 109–18; four worlds of, 112, 115; Freemasonry and, 143, 144; Gnostics and, 107–8, 155; holy names and, 113–15, 118; Manichaeism and, 66; origins, 107; Pillar of Mercy and Pillar of Severity, 143; “practical Kabbalah,” 115–18; Rosicrucians and, 126; Sefer ha-Bahir “Book of Illumination,” 72, 108–9; sefirot, 112, 114, 115–16, 118, 144, 208; tzimtzum, concept of, 137; Zohar, or “Splendor,” 109, 114–15
Kant, Immanuel, 161, 163, 186–87, 207
Katha Upanishad, 62
Kelly, Edward, 118–19
Kephalaia (Mani), 52
King, Karen, 203,204
1 Kings 7:21, 142
Kinney, Jay, 170
Knights Templar, 139–41, 155, 193
Knox, Ronald, 182
Krishnamurti, Jiddu, 154
La Asociacíon Gnóstica, 168–69
Lamentations 3:38, 17
Last Judgment, 177
Leary, Timothy, 186
Leigh, Richard, 28, 140, 194
Lessing, Doris, 171
Life of Saint Antony (Athanasius), 94
light: Buddhism’s “Clear Light,” 60; consciousness and, 59–63; in Kabbalism, 66; in Manichaeism, 52, 56–58, 59–63, 68, 82; as pneuma, 61; as purusha, 62; sparks of, 57–58, 61, 112; Uncreated or “Light of Tabor,” 96, 97, 99
Lincoln, Henry, 28, 194
Living Religions of the World (Spiegelberg), 65–66
logical positivism, 6
Loki, 162
Louis VII, King of France, 79
Louis IX, King of France, 83
love, 208; courtly, 78–83
Love in the Western World (de Rougemont), 78, 82
Luke, Gospel of, 7, 25; date of, 14; 1:2, 7; 8:2, 26
Luria, Isaac, 66, 113
Luther, Martin, 3, 133
MacLaine, Shirley, 37
magic and magi, 110–11, 116, 117, 118–20, 121, 126, 136, 147, 151, 154, 158
Mainwaring, Henry, 144
Makarios, 95
Malachi, Tau, 166
man: baseness of, 146; as bound to the world and the body, 34–35; Clement’s three tiers of humanity, 40, 46; created in God’s image, 33, 34; existential, 164–65; Gnostics three levels of being: soul (psychic), flesh (hylic), and air (pneumatic or spiritual), 23–24, 40; as God, 103–4; as mortal and immortal, 34; Rosicrucian legacy and dignity of, 146–47; theosophy’s seven levels of, 157
Mandaeans, 201–2
Mani, 51–53, 55
Manichaeism, 51–66, 68, 70, 71, 180; consciousness and light, 59–63; cosmology of, 56–57; decline and disappearance, 63–65; dualism of, 61–63, 66, 73, 87, 137; founding of, 51–53; as the “great heresy,” 68, 171; Hearers (Auditors) and the Elect, 57–59, 63, 70, 73; Light and Dark, 56–57, 137; light sparks, 57–58, 61, 112; rituals, 58–59, 63; sex and, 57, 80, 82; traces that survived, 65–66, 69; war with the body, 54–55; Zoroastrian background, 53–54
Manuel I, Byzantine Emperor, 70
Marcion, 21–22, 25, 69
Mark, Gospel of: date of, 14; lost alternate version, 38–39; missing ending, 8; 1:22, 2; 12:28–31, 12; 15:40, 26; 16:8, 8; 16:9, 26, 28
Marlowe, Christopher, 119
Marranos, 87
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The (Blake), 175–76
Mar Saba fragment, 38–39
Martinist Order and Martinism, 169
Marxism, 176–79, 187
Mary Magdalene, 8, 26–29, 35, 39, 167, 169, 193–200
Massalians, 68–69
Masons and Freemasonry, 122, 133, 138–47, 154, 206; American Founding Fathers as, 145; British royal family as, 196; Catholics versus, 146–47; French Revolution and, 145–45; Kabbalah and, 143, 144; Gold- und Rosenkreutz offshoot, 144–45; Illuminati, 145; “Mason Word,” 142; “Old Charges,” 139, 143; public domain and, 144–46; rise of, 138–44; rites, 139, 144; Rosicrucianism and, 142, 143, 144; Schaw Statutes (memory temple), 141–42, 143; Swedenborg and, 149; two pillars and, 139, 142, 143; unification of Italy and, 146; U. S. presidents as, 196
Matrix, The (film), 7, 187–90
Matthew, Gospel of: date of, 14; 6:21, 24; 13:44, 98; 19:12, 42; 22:35–40, 12; 23:13, 77; 24:45–51, 80
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, 127
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 116
Mead, G. R. S., 1, 151, 158–59, 161
Medici, Cosimo de’, 31
Meditations on the Tarot (Tomberg), 37
Melchizedik, 107
Melville, Herman, 181
merkavah mysticism, 108, 166
Merovingian dynasty, 8, 193, 195, 196
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 147
Metatron, 107
Metzner, Ralph, 186
Meyer, Marvin, 205–6
Micah 6:8, 12
Miller, Rosamonde, 169–70
Milton, John, 175, 181
“Mind of Authority,” 32–35
Mithraic religion, 161
Mithridates, Flavius, 110
Moses, 31, 107, 111, 118
Muhammad, 57
mystery cults, 18, 38, 54, 69, 161
mysticism, 18, 32, 99, 101–5, 108, 121; practical, 95. See also esotericism; Kabbalah
Naasenes, 175
Nag Hammadi Library, The 13–16, 152, 165–67
Narcissus, 34
Nasr, S. H., 48
National Review magazine, 179
Nature, 34, 173
Neoplatonism, 18, 42, 107, 155, 171
Nestorian Christianity, 64
New Age, 154, 166, 168, 203
New Age Religion and Western Culture (Hanegraaff), 210
New Science of Politics, The (Voegelin), 176–77
New Testament: Catholic canon, 21–22, 194; dating of gospels, 14; first book written, 179; Marcion’s, 21; source, Q, 14. See also specific books
Nicetas, Papa, 73
Nicodimos of the Holy Mountain, 95
Noll, Richard, 159, 160
Nostradamus, 119
nous, 95–96, 98, 100–101
occultists, 127, 128, 138, 144, 147–49, 171. See also alchemy; Kabbalah; magic; Masons and Freemasonry
Occult Philosophy (Agrippa), 117
Olcott, Henry Steel, 155, 158
On First Principles (Origen), 42
On the Three Natures (Valentinus), 24
Opus Dei, 193, 194
Oration on the Dignity of Man (Pico), 146
Order of Mary Magdalene, 169
Origen, 36–37, 41–47, 111, 156
original sin, 65
Orpheus and Orphism, 32, 54, 69, 175
Ouspensky, Peter D., 154
paganism, 12, 16, 38, 49, 87, 92
Pagels, Elaine, 9, 27, 167–68, 204
Palamas, Gregory, 99–101, 103
Palladius, 92
Pantaenus, 38
Paradise Lost (Milton), 175
Paradiso (Dante), 81, 91
Parsis, 53
Pasqually, Martinez de, 169
Patrick, Saint, 92
Paul, Apostle, 6, 21, 40, 90, 157, 179, 206; Gnosticism and, 22
Paulicians, 69, 72
Peace of Paris, 83, 84
Persian Empire, 51–52, 53, 64, 68
Peter, Apostle, 19, 21, 167
Peter, Tsar, 69
Petrarch, 100
Pfefferkorn, Johann, 113
Phaedo (Plato), 54–55
Philip, Apostle, 93
Philip, The Gospel of, 27, 28
Philip the Fair, King of France, 140
Philokalia, 95–98, 99, 121
Philo of Alexandria, 46
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 44, 109–13, 114, 115, 116, 122, 146
Pistis Sophia (“Faith Wisdom”), 27, 28, 151–52, 157; Mead’s translation, 158
Pistoi, Leonardo da, 31
Pius VI, Pope, 148
Plantard, Pierre, 195, 196
Plato and Platonism, 17–18, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 39, 54–55, 95–96, 109, 111, 155, 172
Plotinus, 18, 42
Poimandres (Hermes Trismegistus), 32–35, 117
Popper, Karl, 190
prayer, unceasing, 96, 100
Prayer of the Heart or Jesus Prayer, 100
Priory of Sion, 193–94, 196
Protevangelion of James, 14
Psalms, Book of: 19, 118; 70:1, 100; 82:6, 104; 118:22, 9
psyche. See soul
Psychedelic Experience, The (Leary, Metzner, and Alpert), 186
psychedelic experimentation, 185,188–89
Puységur, Marquis de, 147
Pythagoras, 32, 36, 37, 109, 111, 139, 154
quantum physics, 207
Rabelais, 117
Raine, Kathleen, 173
Ramakrishna, Sri, 54
Raymond VI, count of Toulouse, 83
Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, 83–84
Reed, Ishmael, 125
reincarnation (metempsychosis), 35–37, 44
religion, 2–3, 5; American transcendent self, 181–82; discrediting, two options, 157; divine order as reflecting society’s organization, 5; Greco-Roman, 49; inner or esoteric and outer or exoteric aspects of all, 49, 63, 65, 77; lost, Manichaeism, 51–66; mystical revelations and, 3; political sponsorship, 65; universal, 51
Resurrection, 167
Rethinking “Gnosticism” (Williams), 203
Reuchlin, Johannes, 113–15, 122
Revelation, 178; 12, 189; 20:10, 46
revolt, 171–72, 175, 176–79
Richardson, Robert, 195, 196
Richter, Gregor, 135
Roberts, J. R., 146
Robinson, Henry Cobb, 173
Robinson, John J., 140
Roché, Déodat, 75, 76, 80
Rodriguez, Victor, 168
Roman Empire, 5, 6, 16; Britain, conquest of, 92; Edict of Milan, 64; mystery cults, 18; persecution of early Christians, 41, 42, 64
Romans 8:38, 90
Rosenkreutz, Christian, 125–27, 133, 136
Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Yates), 129
Rosicrucianism, 125–34, 146, 166, 206; the Enlightenment, Descartes, Bacon and the foundation of modern science, 130–32, 133; existence of, controversy, 132–34, 138; Gnosticism and, 138; as “invisible ones,” 130, 132; legacy of, 146–47; Masonry and, 142, 143, 144; politics and, 127–29; Thirty Years’ War and, 127, 128–29
Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland, 140
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 119, 127, 129
Rudolph, Kurt, 152
Saccas, Ammonius, 42
Saint-Germain, Comte de, 147, 148
Saint-Martin, Louis-Claude de, 169
salvation, 15, 45–46, 47, 57, 77, 206–8
Samkhya, 62
1 Samuel 9:1–2, 195
Sartre, Jean–Paul, 164
Satan (Ahriman), 56
Schaw, William, 141–42
Scholasticism, 99, 101, 104, 109, 110, 131
Scholem, Gershom, 108
Schucman, Helen, 190–92
Schwaller de Lubicz, René, 154
Schwartze, M. G., 151
Schweitzer, Albert, 152
Secret Doctrine, The (Blavatsky), 156, 158
Secret Heresy of Hieronymus Bosch (Harris), 85–87
Sefer ha–Bahir, “Book of Illumination,” 72, 108–9
Seraphita (Balzac), 148–49
serpent: Ourobouros, 202; symbolism of, 175, 189; Ur, 202
seven: devils (cast out of Mary Magdalene), 26, 28, 29, 35, 39; governors, 33–35, 39; planets, 18, 28–29, 34, 35; symbolism, 28–29; theosophy’s levels, 157; veils, 39
Seven Sermons to the Dead (Jung), 160
Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome, 38, 41
sexual desire and sexuality, 40; Cathars and, 82; Catholic Church and, 80, 197; Christianity and, 97, 197–98; courtly love and, 79–82; hesychasm and, 97–98; Judaism and, 198; Manichaeism and, 57, 80, 82
Shappur I of Persia, 52
Sheldrake, Rupert, 154
Shem, 107
Shinto, 51
Simon Magus, 19–21
Simon of Cyrene, 25
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 201
Sisinus, 53
Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, or Moses’ Magical Spirit-Art, 118
Smith, Huston, 48
Smith, Morton, 38, 39
Socrates, 54–55, 207
Sophia, 198, 207
soul (psyche, consciousness), 23, 94–98; consolamentum and union with spirit, 80; heart as location of, 96; immortality of, 36–37, 55; universalism and, 45, 47
Sparrow, John, 136
Spiegelberg, Frederic, 65–66, 80, 180
spirit (pure consciousness) and spiritual path, 23, 55, 80, 206–8, 210–11; symbolism, 80; “true I,” liberation of, 181–82, 207–8. See also enlightenment
Steindl-Rast, David, 49
Steiner, Rudolf, 154
Stevenson, David, 143
Stoics, 25
Stromateis or Stomata (Clement), 38
Sufism, 49; baraka, 76
“Summer Harvest” (Valentinus), 23
Surya Yoga (“sun yoga”), 71
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 148–49, 159, 172, 176
Sylvester II, Pope (Gerbert d’Aurillac), 71
Synod of Whitby, 93
Syzygus (Divine Twin), 52
Talks of Instruction, The (Eckhart), 102
Taoism, 49, 51, 65
Taylor, Thomas, 172
Temple and the Lodge, The (Baigent and Leigh), 140
Temptation of St. Anthony (Flaubert), 94
Teresa of Avila, 121
Theodosius, Emperor of Rome, 64
Theosophical Society, 154, 155; Echoes from the Gnosis series, 159
Theosophy, 136, 154–58, 169
1 Thessalonians, 179; 5:17, 100
Theudas, 22
Thirty Years’ War, 127, 128–29
Thomas, Apostle, 16, 93, 169
Thomas, The Gospel of, 13–16, 25, 60–61, 166–67, 168
Thomism, 111
Thoth or Tehouti, 31, 33
Thought of God, 20, 21
Three Books of Occult Philosphy (Agrippa), 117
Threefold Life of Man, The (Boehme), 135
Three Principles of the Divine Essence, The (Boehme), 135
Tibetan Book of the Dead, 54
Timaeus (Plato), 17–18, 33
Timothy, Epistles to, 40
Tomberg, Valentin, 37
Tower of Babel, 43, 44
Triads in Defense of the Holy Hesychasts, The (Palamas), 99, 100–101
Trinity, 24, 45, 103, 194
Trithemius, Johannes, 117
True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits, A (Casaubon), 118–19
Truman Show, The (film), 187
Tuátha De’ Danann, 91
Turbo, 58
“Tyger, The,” (Blake), 173
Uncertainty and Vanity of Sciences, The (Agrippa), 117
universalism, 45, 47
Urgrund, 184–85
Urizen, 173–74, 176, 207
Valentinus, 22–23, 164
Versluis, Arthur, 135, 137
Virgin Mary, 3, 18, 26, 27, 28, 70, 197, 198; as Theotokos, 197
Vita Nuova (Dante), 81
Vivkananda, Swami, 60
Voegelin, Eric, 176–79, 182, 203
von Franckenburg, Abraham, 137
Wachowski brothers, 187
Walter, Balthasar, 136
Watson, Lyall, 154
Way to Christ, The (Boehme), 135
Weishaupt, Adam, 145
What Is Gnosticism? (King), 203
White, Victor, 162
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? (Clement), 38
Whole Earth Review, 170
Widmanstadt, Johann Albert, 112
William of Poitiers, 80
Williams, Michael, 203, 204
Wilson, Robert Anton, 145
Woide, C. G., 151
World’s Religions, The (Smith), 48
worldview: Cartesian, 189–90; contemporary, paranoid, 6; Gnostic, 5–6, 98, 176, 200, 203; Kant’s, 161; logical positivism, 6, 122; medieval Christian, 90, 122, 123; Platonism, 17, 18–19; Renaissance esoteric, 107–23; Rosicrucianism and modern science, 130–32; twenty-first century, 123
Yates, Frances, 121, 129, 131, 132
Yeats, W.B., 55
Zen, 114
Zohar, or “Splendor,” 109, 114–15
Zoroaster, 57
Zoroastrianism, 32, 52, 53–54