"In the opening lines the is declared to be "a joy for those who have received from the Father of Truth the gift of kn…"

"Gnosticism gave a new turn by conceiving the planetary constituents of the soul as corruptions of its original nature…"

"The Hermetic... mythological fantasy: not just a rejection of the physical universe in light of pessimsism, but the i…"

"[C]osmos is said to be the "shape" (schema) of "Deficiency"; Deficiency we could equate with the "Oblivion"... Oblivi…"

""[T]he speculative principle of ...the "pneumatic equation"—namely: that the human-individual event of tic knowledge …"

"We come now to the ascent of the knower's soul after death, the main prospect held out to the true Gnostic or tic, in…"

"In the ' the ascent is described as a series of progressive subtractions which leaves the "naked" true self, an insta…"

"[T]he individual correlation of elements with passions varies greatly... from the turning back or supplication result…"

"The ontological relation of Sophia and is best expressed in the statement "the Sophia is called ',' the Demiurge, 'so…"

"Here is one simple criterion for what is "Christian" (orthodox) or "gnostic" (heretical): whether the guilt is Adam's…"