Where to begin with gnosticism?

Where to begin with gnosticism?

Plato of course. Then the early Christians. Then the heresies.

Don't.

I think OP should do some research at the very least until he stops associating the Judge with "gnosticism."

You should start by deleting this bad picture of the judge from your computer

The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity by David Brakke
Neoplatonism by Paulina Remes
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus by Florian Ebeling

Plato's Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
Nag Hammadi Scriptures by Meyer
Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius by Brian P. Copenhaver
Enneads by Plotinus

>shows you Christianity
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT HOW DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THIS ABSURD BULLSHIT CANT BELIEVE THAT EUROPE BELIEVED THIS SHIT FOR NEARLY 2000 YEARS WHAT KIND OF FOUCAULDIAN FORCE OF KNOWLEDGE IS THAT
>shows you gnosticism
Ah yes, this seems completely reasonable. Let me study this please *uploads cum tribute video to Carl Jung on xvideos*

>Jung
>gnostic
wut?

not that user but seven sermons, look it up

some people don't learn so good and must put their hand on the hot stove for themselves

are you ok

buster wolf

I'm fine, I just know shallow religious hipsterism when I see it.

Only right answer. Read the Enneads and go straight to neoplatonism. That's basically rational theism.

Asking someone on Veeky Forums "are you ok" is probably the gayest thing you can do. This isn't Reddit, there's going to be people here unduly cynical, fiery, vehement, upset.

are you ok

Hans Jonas, the gnostic religion

>Plotinus
Plotinus despised that shit desu.

user, I see you've grasped that non-christianity is reaction and individuation.
But have you reached the truth of the Lord Christ, who died or your sins?

>nobody cares, he says
thank you for taking the time to explain this :^)

are you ok

best post itt. op isn't going to read a damn thing, except maybe wikipedia.

I have, Brother, I have. :)

Pure nonsense.

Some of us just weren't raised chrisitian, and had nothing to react against.

Says the non-Christian :^)

Not him, but not sure what this means

Read Against The Day desu

Pynchon knows.

Uhh.. yeah because I wasn't raised chrisitian. Like most people.

thanks for the recs, not the original user but a good list. Starting with The Gnostics by Brakke and using Plato and Plotinus as my primary sources a good idea?

How to become a Gnostic in 3 Easy Steps:
1) Due to a stark and sudden revalation by the TRUE GOD, drop your friends, family and career and wander off into the nearest forrest.
2) create on alter with honeywax candles pointed directly at the star of your choosing.
3) get mauled to death by a bear and scream "ILL GET YOU NEXT TIME DEMIUUUUUUUUUURGE"
Jesus Christ I hate mystics.

Gnostics don't give a shit about Plotinus calling them imbeciles and blasphemers, and read him anyway.

No. Read the primary sources in that order, you cannot skip the Bible and Nag Hammadi Library.

holy shit this thread is sad

you guys are literal retards. is the only one who's been helpful. everyone is is just projecting some struggle or something.

>uses the word hipster in 2018

user... did someone fuck your girlfriend or something? Some pseudo mystic?

So what?

Bible first, then
The great courses lectures on Nag Hammadi