Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prolegomena -- Some rough outlines of the background of the gnosis: Preliminary considerations -- Greece -- Egypt -- Philo on the contemplative life -- Jewry -- Alexandria -- General and gnostic Christianity: The evolution of catholic Christianity -- The Ebionites -- The Essenes -- The tendencies of Gnosticism -- The literature and sources of Gnosticism -- The gnosis according to its foes -- Some gnostic fragments recovered from the polemical writings of the church fathers: The "Simonians" -- Disitheus -- "Simon Magus" -- Menander -- Saturninus -- The "Ophites" -- An anonymous system from Irenaeus -- An early "ophite" system -- The Naasseni -- The Peratae -- The Sethians -- The Docetae -- Monoimus -- The so-called Cainites -- The Carpocratians -- "Epiphanes" -- Cerinthus -- Nicolaus -- Cerdo -- Marcion -- Apelles -- The Basilidian gnosis -- The Valentinian movement -- Valentinus -- Some outlines of aeonology -- Hippolytus' account of one of the variants of the Sophia-mythus -- The number-symbolism of Marcus -- Ptolemy -- Heracleon -- Bardesanes -- The hymn of the robe of glory -- Some traces of the gnosis in the uncanonical acts: Foreward -- From the Acts of Thomas -- From the Acts of John -- From the Acts of Andrew -- From the travels of Peter -- The gnosis according to its friends -- Some Greek original works in coptic translation: The Askew and Bruce codices -- Summary of the contents of the so-called Pistis Sophia treatise -- Summary of the extracts from the Books of the Saviour -- Summary of the fragments of the Book of the great Logos according to the mystery -- Selections from the untitled apocalypse of the Codex Brucianus -- Notes on the contents of the Bruce and Askew codices -- The Akhmim codex -- Some forgotten sayings.

Photocopy. Springfield, Illinois: Good Books, 2009. 23 cm.