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    • G.R.S. Mead Collection
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      • Did Jesus Live 100 BC?
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      • Against All Heresies (Book 1)
      • Against the Valentinians (Riley)
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      • Against the Fundamental Epistle of Mani
      • Against All Heresies, Book 2
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      • Against the Valentinians
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      • Against Praxeas
      • Appendix: Against All Heresy
      • Prescriptions Against Heretics
      • Scorpiace
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 4
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 5
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 6
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 7
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 8
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      • Contra Faustum Manichaeum, Books 1 - 15
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      • De Moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae
      • De Moribus Manichaerorum
      • De Duabus Animabus Contra Manichaeos
      • Disputatio Contra Fortunatum Manichaeum
      • De Natura Boni, Contra Manichaeos
      • Homily Against Marcionists and Manichaeans
      • Third Discourse to Hypatius Against Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan
      • Third Discourse to Hypatius Against Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan
      • Clement of Alexandria and The Secret Gospel of Mark
      • Stromata, Book 1
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      • Stromata, Book 6
      • Stromata, Book 7
      • Recognitions, Book 2
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      • Contra Celsum, Book 8
      • Lost commentary of Heracleon
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book I
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book II
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book IV
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book V
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book VI
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book X
      • theology of the leading Gnostic Christian of his age, Valentinus
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      • The Acts of John
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      • The Infancy Gospels of Jesus
      • An Arabic Infancy Gospel
      • The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary
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      • The Gospel of Nicodemos (The Acts of Pilate)
      • The Gospel of Bartholomew
      • The Gospel of Peter
      • The Gospel of the Lord by Marcion
      • The Secret Gospel of Mark
      • Didache
      • The Shepherd of Hermas
      • Teaching of Addaeus the Apostle
    • Corpus Hermeticum
      • Thrice Greatest Hermes
      • On the Trail of the Winged God: Hermes and Hermeticism Throughout the Ages
      • The Gnosis of the Mind
      • Hermes: The Thrice Great Hierophant of Gnosis
      • Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men
      • Commentary on the Pymander
      • An Introduction to G.R.S. Mead's translation of the Corpus Hermeticum
      • To Asclepius
      • The Sacred Sermon
      • The Cup or Monad
      • Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest
      • In God Alone Is Good And Elsewhere Nowhere
      • The Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of God
      • That No One of Existing Things doth Perish
      • On Thought and Sense
      • The Key
      • Mind Unto Hermes
      • About the Common Mind
      • The Secret Sermon on the Mountain
      • A Letter of Thrice-Greatest Hermes to Asclepius
      • The Definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon
      • Of Asclepius to the King
      • The Encomium of Kings
      • The Perfect Sermon (The Asclepius)
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      • The Hymns of Hermes
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      • The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
      • Prayer of Thanksgiving
      • The Authoritative Teaching
      • The Thunder, Perfect Mind
      • The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
      • Asclepius (21-29)
    • Manichaean Writings
      • Mani: Helmsman of the Ship of Light
      • Psalms to Jesus
      • Hymn to the Father of Greatness
      • Excerpt from the Kephalia
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      • Psalm II
      • Psalm V
      • Psalm VII
      • Psalm X
      • Psalm XI
      • Psalm XXI
      • Psalm XXX
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      • Psalm CCXXIII
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      • Psalm CCXXX
      • Psalm CCXXXV
      • Psalm CCXXXVII
      • Psalm CCXXXIX
      • Psalm CCXL
      • Psalm CXLI
      • Taste and Know that the Lord is Sweet
      • Put in Me a Holy Heart, My God
      • Light Your Lamps
      • The Hymn on the Third Messenger and the Archons
      • The Hymn about the Captivity of Light
      • Invocation of Jesus the Splendor
      • Hymn on the Second Coming of Jesus
      • Hymn on the Fate of the Living Soul
      • Hymn Exhorting the Soul to Remembrance
      • Hymn to the Living Soul
      • Hymn to the Third Messenger
      • Hymn in Praise of Mani
      • Commemorative Hymn for Mar Zaku
      • Homily on the Correct Preparations for the Sacred Meal
      • Invocation of the Angels
      • The Invocation of Bar Simus
      • Invocation of the Gods in the Moon
      • A Confessional Prayer for the Elect
      • The Hymn on the End of the World
      • The Hymn on Body-and-Soul
      • The Funerary Hymn
      • Hymns to the Soul
      • Hymn in Honor of the Dominions of Light
      • Untitled Parthian Hymn
      • The Crucifixion Hymn
      • The Praise of the Lesser Ones
      • The Praise of the Greater Ones
      • We Would Fulfill: Mani's Hymn to Jesus, the King
      • The Praise of Jesus the Life-giver
      • Untitled Psalm fragment
      • The Opening Words of the Living Gospel
      • Apocryphal letter to Màr Ammo ascribed to Mani
      • Parable about the Auditors
      • Parable about the Farmer
      • Parable of the Pearl Borer
      • The Parable of the Monk and the Girl
      • Parable about the Two Snakes
      • The Psalms of Thomas
      • A Manichaean Psalm
      • Primal Man, a Manichaean fragment
      • Come to Me, My Kinsman, the Light, My Guide. A Manichaean Prayer
      • The End of the Deficiency. A Manichaean eschatological hymn
      • Joy Came Over Me. A Manichaean fragment
      • Salvation of the Soul. A Turkish Manichaean fragment
      • Excerpt from the Fundamental Epistle of Mani
      • O Soul, a Manichaean fragment
      • De Moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae
      • De Moribus Manichaerorum
      • De Duabus Animabus Contra Manichaeos
      • Disputatio Contra Fortunatum Manichaeum
      • Contra Epistolam Fundamenti Manichaei
      • Contra Faustum Manichaeum Books, I - XV
      • Contra Faustum Manichaeum Books, XVI-XXII
      • Contra Faustum Manichaeum Books, XXIII-XXXIII
      • De Natura Boni, Contra Manichaeos
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      • Foundational Chronicle
      • Open Access PDF
      • The Messenger of Light
      • Kurt Rudolph , The Mandaean Religion
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      • Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandæan John-Book
      • The Deliverance of Adam
      • The Baptism of Adam
      • The Soul's Deliverance
      • Bliss and Peace
      • The Soul in its Coat of All Colors
      • Wrapped in Sleep
      • The Song of Ascent
      • Instruction of Adam by an Uthra
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      • Interrogatio Iohannis
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      • The Book of the Two Principles
      • The Aparelhamentum (Confession of Sins)
      • Traditio: Rite for the Transmission of the Prayer
      • The Consolamentum
      • Raynaldus: On the accusations against the Albigensians
      • Bernard Gui (Inquisitor): On the Albigensians
      • Bernard Gui: On Inquisitorial Technique
    • Alchemical Writings
      • Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens
      • The Rosarium Philosophorum
      • The Book of Alze
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      • Alchemical Mass, by Melchior Cibinensis
      • The Mystery of the Alchemists, by George Ripley
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      • The Testament of Nicholas Flammel
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      • Coelum Terrae, by Thomas Vaughan
      • The Six Keys of Eudoxus
      • Marsilio Ficino on the Alchemical Art
      • The Alchemical Practice of Mary the Prophetess
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  • Review: C. G. Jung, A Biography in Books
  • Review: The Gnostic New Age (April DeConick)

Review: C. G. Jung, A Biography in Books


Review: The Gnostic New Age (April DeConick)