I'm already aware of the Nag Hammadi codices and Corpus Hermeticum, but I don't know where to start. I feel compelled to dive right into intermediate and more advanced texts, but I don't think I have the necessary background. At the same time, I don't want to waste my time on beginner schlock no better than a bargain bin self-help book.
I want well translated essential texts with extensive footnotes. Any recommendations? Is Elaine Pagels actually good? Any good intros to Qabbalism, astrology? Is too early to buy sackcloth robes and a caduceus cane? I am very enthusiastic about this.
Pic related is a very convenient book containing all the main Gnostic texts split into useful categories.
Jordan Phillips
Thank you. Any other suggestions?
Michael Foster
Bump?
Angel Green
>Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Qabalah Read The middle pillar by Israel Regardie >Golden Dawn: Complete Golden Dawn by Regardie. >Qabalah Sepher Yetzirah by Aryeh Kaplan. >Chaos magic Read Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll >8 circuit Read Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson >Rosicrucian Read The Mystic Path by Raymund Andrea >General practice Read "Initiation into Hermetics" by Franz Bardon (better accompanied by "A Bardon Companion" by Rawn Clark). >General theory "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" by Agrippa. "Theurgia or the Egyptian Mysteries" by Iamblichus. >Ars Memoriae Rhetorica ad Herennium The New Psychology by William Walker Atkinson
For gnosticism is a good introduction.
Andrew Fisher
Why even read anything on Gnosticism when you can just look at Gnostic memes?
Adam Collins
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Gavin Mitchell
Top kek
Gavin Adams
Why doesn't the Demiurge just kill itself? It got pretty BTFO over here.
