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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Gnostic Sex Book
CONFESSIO CHURTONATIS
Part 1: The Sex Gnostics
Chapter 1: The “Filthy Gnostickes”
GREAT MONSTERS OF HERESY
IS AN EROTIC CHRISTIAN RELIGION REALLY POSSIBLE?
THE ESSENTIAL MYTH
ANDROGYNY
Chapter 2: Heresy Starts in Eden: The Accusers
THE HERESIOLOGISTS
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
TERTULLIAN
HIPPOLYTUS
EPIPHANIUS
Chapter 3: How to Be a Superman: The First Gnostic
SEX AND SIMON
SIMON SAYS—ACCORDING TO HIPPOLYTUS
EPIPHANIUS ON SIMON
Chapter 4: After Simon, the Deluge
CERDO
SATURNILUS
Chapter 5: The Dirty People
SETHIANS, SEED-GATHERERS, AND SERPENT-WORSHIPPERS
HIPPOLYTUS ON THE NAASSENI
KUNDALINI GNOSTICS?
EPIPHANIUS ON BARBELIOTES AND BORBORITES
Chapter 6: Tantra—Remarkable Parallels
Chapter 7: Be My Valentine
Chapter 8: A Question of Seed
SENSELESS AND CRACK-BRAINED
TERTULLIAN ON THE VALENTINIANS
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA AND THEODOTUS
A NEW PICTURE OF VALENTINIAN SEX
Chapter 9: The Valentinian Marriage
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HEART
THE GOOD SPERMARITAN
Chapter 10: In Search of the Mystery of Prouneikos and Barbelo in Alexandria
PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA (CA. 20 BCE–CA. 50 CE)
Chapter 11: The Lascivious One
THE WILD ONE
Part 2: Gnostic Love and the Spiritual Revolution
Chapter 12: All You Need Is Sophia
RETURN TO THE TROUBADOURS
Chapter 13: The Golden Riddle
THE GOLDEN BALL
THE COY MISTRESS
THE SPHERICAL ART
THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS
HEAVEN’S GATE
THY HEAVEN DOORS ARE MY HELL GATES
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Copyright & Permissions
Index
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