ENDNOTES

ONE. THE “FILTHY GNOSTICKES”

1. Versluis, “Baader, Benedict, Franz Xaver von,” in Hanegraaff and Brill, Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, 148–54.

2. Lennon, “The Mysterious Smell of Roses,” in Skywriting by Word of Mouth, and Other Stories.

TWO. HERESY STARTS IN EDEN

1. Irenaeus, Adversus Omnes Haereses, I.13, 7.

2. Blair, The Kaleidoscope of Truth, Types and Archetypes in Clement of Alexandria, 13.

THREE. HOW TO BE A SUPERMAN

1. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, vol. 2, ch. 13.

2. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, ch. 4, 18.

FOUR. AFTER SIMON, THE DELUGE

1. Justin Martyr, Apology, 1.26, 56.

2. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I.23.

3. Ibid., I.3.

4. Tertullian, De Praescriptione Haereticorum (On the Prescription of Heretics), (a “prescription” was a Roman legal means of denying a plaintiff a court hearing); sections 41 and 43.

5. Tertulliana, Q.S.Fl. Tertuliana Adversus Omnes Haereses, 6.

6. Hippolytus, Refutatio, VII, 21.

7. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, ch. 35.

8. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I.

9. Ibid., I, ch. 28, 2.

10. Hippolytus, Refutatio, VII, 16.

FIVE. THE DIRTY PEOPLE

1. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I.30, 15.

2. Clement of Alexandria, Strōmateis, VII, 17.

3. Hippolytus, Refutatio, V, 2.

4. Tertullian, De Praescriptione Haereticorum, 1.

5. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I.25, 3.

6. Ibid., I.29.

7. Ibid., I.29, 3; my italics.

8. Ibid., I, 30, 9.

9. Ibid., I.30, 15.

10. Ibid., I.30, 7.

11. Ibid., I, 30, 9.

12. Ibid., I, 30, 12.

13. Hippolytus, Refutatio, V, 15–17.

14. Nag Hammadi Library, VII, I, 40.

15. Ibid., VII, I, 1.

16. Nag Hammadi Library, Asklepios, VI, 8, 66.

17. Nag Hammadi Library, III, 2, 60.

18. Clement of Alexandria, Strōmateis, VII.

19. Julius Africanus, The Writings of Julius Africanus, ix.

20. “Sexuality and Sexual Symbolism in Hermetic and Gnostic Thought and Practice, Second to Fourth Centuries,” in Hanegraaff and Kripal, Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism, 12ff.

21. Nag Hammadi Library, Gospel of Thomas, II, 2, logion 113.

22. Epiphanius, Panarion, 25, 2:4.

23. Ibid., 25, 3:2.

24. Ibid., 26, 8:2.

25. Nag Hammadi Library, Gospel of Thomas, II, 2, logia 21–22.

26. “Sexuality and Sexual Symbolism in Hermetic and Gnostic Thought and Practice, second to fourth centuries,” in Hanegraaff and Kripal, Hidden Intercourse, 16.

SIX. TANTRA—REMARKABLE PARALLELS

1. Urban, “The Yoga of Sex, Tantra, Orientalism and Sex Magic in the Ordo Templi Orientis,” in Hanegraaff and Kripal, Hidden Intercourse, 402.

2. Arthur Avalon [Sir John Woodroffe], ed., Kularnava Tantra, II.4. II.117; quoted in Urban, “The Yoga of Sex, Tantra, Orientalism and Sex Magic,” in Hanegraaff and Kripal, Hidden Intercourse.

3. Quoted in Dasgupta, An Introduction to Tantric Buddhism, 142.

4. Quoted in Urban, “The Yoga of Sex, Tantra, Orientalism and Sex Magic,” in Hanegraaff and Kripal, Hidden Intercourse, 402.

5. Agamavagisha, Brihat Tantrasana, 703.

6. Kripal, Kālī’s Child, University of Chicago Press, 1998, 28.

7. Crowley, Magical Record of the Beast 666, 248.

8. Djurdjevic, “The Great Beast as a Tantric,” in Bogdan and Starr, Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, 126.

9. Sanderson, Purity and Power, 200–201; quoted in Urban, “The Yoga of Sex,” in Hanegraaff and Kripal, Hidden Intercourse, 409.

10. Urban, “The Yoga of Sex,” in Hanegraaff and Kripal, Hidden Intercourse, 406.

11. Djurdjevic, in Bogdan and Starr, Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, 115.

12. Walter O. Kaelber cited by Djurdjevic in Bogdan and Starr, Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, 116.

13. Ibid., 118.

14. Nag Hammadi Library, Apocalypse of Peter, VII, 3, 81–83; The Second Treatise of the Great Seth, VII, 2, 55–56.

15. Kripal, Kālī’s Child, 28.

16. Carrithers et al., “Purity and Power among the Brahmans of Kashmir,” in The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History, 198.

SEVEN. BE MY VALENTINE

1. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, III, 11.9.

2. Helderman, Die Anapausis im Evangelium Veritatis.

3. Tertullian, De Praescriptione Haereticorum, vii.

4. Nag Hammadi Library, I, 3, 18.

5. Ibid., I, 3, 16.

6. Quispel, “Reviews,” Vigiliae Christianae, 39 (1985), 394.

7. Ibid.

8. Nag Hammadi Library, The Thunder, Perfect Mind, VI, 2, 13.

EIGHT. A QUESTION OF SEED

1. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I.6, 4.

2. Ibid., I.7, 1.

3. Quispel, “Reviews,” 394.

4. Bentley Layton translation.

5. Nag Hammadi Library, Gospel of the Egyptians, III, 2, 42, 62.

6. Ibid., Gospel of Philip, II, 3, 67, translated by Wesley W. Isenberg.

7. Ibid., II, 3, 69.

8. Ibid., II, 3, 70.

9. Ibid.

10. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I, 15, 6.

11. Ibid., I, 21, 3.

12. Ibid., I, 21, 2.

13. Tertullian, De Praescriptione Haereticorum, 7; 36.

14. Tertullian, Adv. Val. XXXII.

15. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 5, 28, 6.

16. Clement of Alexandria, Excerpta ex Theodato, 76.

17. DeConick, “Conceiving Spirits” in Hanegraaff and Kripal, Hidden Intercourse, 23ff.

18. Ibid., 23.

19. Ibid., 25.

20. Ibid., 31.

NINE. THE VALENTINIAN MARRIAGE

1. DeConick, “Conceiving Spirits,” Hanegraaff and Kripal, Hidden Intercourse, 32.

2. Nag Hammadi Library, Gospel of Truth, I, 3, 20–21.

3. Ibid., I, 23–24.

4. Tertullian, Q.S.Fl. Tertulliana Adversus Valentinianos, NHL XI, 2.

5. Nag Hammadi Library, The Exegesis on the Soul, II, 6, 127.

6. Ibid., II, 6, 133–34.

TEN. IN SEARCH OF THE MYSTERY OF PROUNEIKOS AND BARBELO IN ALEXANDRIA

1. Nag Hammadi Library, Apocryphon of John, II, 1, 9, 25.

2. Ibid. The Thunder, Perfect Mind, VI, 2, 13.

3. Henry Chadwick, “Philo of Alexandria.”

4. Philo, De confusione linguarum, in Philo, 41, 62, 146.

ELEVEN. THE LASCIVIOUS ONE

1. Cephalas, Anth. P. 12.209, cf. A.B. [Anecdota Bekkeri, or Anaecdota Graeca] 3:1415; Photius’s Lexicon. &c.

2. Pasquier, “Pruneikos: A Colorful Expression,” in King, Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism, 47.

3. Cited by Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, and sourced as: “Cod. Paris. 2630.”

4. Pasquier, “Prouneikos: A Colorful Expression,” in King, Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism, 48ff.

5. Photius, Lexicon, ed. Naber, 116.

6. Schmidt, Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon, 1:405.3 citing Pasquier, in King, Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism, 49.

7. Pasquier, “Prouneikos: A Colorful Expression,” in King, Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism, 48.

8. Bekker, Anecdota Graeca, 3:1415.

9. Nag Hammadi Library, Second Treatise of the Great Seth, VII, 2, 50:25–30.

10. Pasquier, in “Prouneikos: A Colorful Expression,” in King, Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism, 63.

11. Churton, Kiss of Death.

12. Harvey, 2 vols., in edition of Irenaeus’s Adversus Haereses, CUP, 1857.

13. Reference to the obscure scholar called “Matter” in Ante Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, 353.

14. Nag Hammadi Library, Trimorphic Protennoia, XIII.1; Paul-Hubert Poirier, commentary in Nag Hammadi Library “Textes” 32, Laval University Press, Quebec, 2006, 225–26.

15. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I, 29.

16. Nag Hammadi Library Trimorphic Protennoia, XIII, 1, 35:25.

17. Ibid., XIII, 1, 37:35.

18. Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos, XX.

19. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I, 11, 4.

20. Nag Hammadi Library, The Apocryphon of John, II, 1, 30:30.

21. Nag Hammadi Library, The Apocryphon of John, II, 1, 31:14–20.

22. Liddell and Scott, Geoponika, book 10:13, in A Greek-English Lexicon.

23. Geoponicorum, [= “Agricultural Pursuits”] sive De re rustica libri XX.

24. Cassianus Bassus and Owen, “Concerning the Planting of the Duracina, and the Care of Them.” Agricultural Pursuits, Translated from the Greek by Rev T. Owen, MA, vol. 2.

25. See Churton, Golden Builders.

26. Lancelot and Louis le Maistre de Say, The Primitives of the Greek Tongue.

27. Prichard, An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology.

28. Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, volume IV; De Iside et Osiride.

29. Classical Manual, 226–27.

30. Nag Hammadi Library, Eugnostos the Blessed, III, 3, 88, 5–15.

31. Ibid., The Thunder, Perfected Mind, VI, 2, 149–216.

TWELVE. ALL YOU NEED IS SOPHIA

1. Péladan, De Parsifal à Don Quichotte, 1906, 53.

2. Péladan, De Parsifal à Don Quichotte, 2011, 50.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid., 52.

5. Ibid., 53.

6. Ibid., 54.

7. Ibid., 56.

8. Ibid., 58.

9. Ibid., 59.

10. Ibid.

THIRTEEN. THE GOLDEN RIDDLE

1. Bembridge, “The Rosicrucian Resurgence at the Court of Cromwell,” 219–45.

2. E-mail from Christopher McIntosh to the author June 8, 2014. McIntosh’s new translation of the Fama Fraternitatis, celebrating 400 years since its first publication can be found in Fama Fraternitatis, English translation by Christopher McIntosh and Donate Pahnke McIntosh (Vanadis Texts, 2014). Donate McIntosh has also produced a modern German version (also Vandis Texts, 2014).

3. See Abraham, Marvell and Alchemy.

4. Marvell, “Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax,” verse 43.

5. Marvell’s millennial sympathies are explored in Margarita Stocker’s Apocalyptic Marvell.

6. E-mail from Paul Bembridge to the author, March 3, 2014.

7. Davies, Characters, 148–49.