The Gnostic Faustus: The Secret Teachings behind the Classic Text
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (983 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594772045 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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She lives in upstate New York. She is a visual artist with ex-tensive illustration credits in the comics industry. She was the artist for Aquaman, Metamorpho, and the comic strip Brenda Starr. . Ramona Fradon has been investigating the Faust legend since 1978 in order to decipher the mysteries of its spiritual framework. She
Gnosic Teachings. Rosemarie A. Leeds Bought as a gift for a student of Gnosis. He really loved it.
And that is the best thing about this book. "The historical and literary information in the Introduction is key. Familiarity with the book can improve one's magic because it includes basic esoteric concepts and their application." (Michelle Mueller, Facing North, Feb 2008)" The Gnostic Faustus isone of those books in which every other paragraph is so illuminating that you want to jot down notes so as to not forget anything. Fradon's style is mature and she frames these gems of insight in a way that everyone can understand." (Jeff Arrow, Parallel Perspectives, Jan 2008)“Fradon’s comparative study of the hidden origins of the ‘original’ Faust tale not only illumin
It provides an account of spiritual initiation whose goal is ecstatic revelation and union with the divine. Extensive line-by-line text comparisons with these Gnostic manuscripts show that Faustus’s corruption by the Devil and his despair parallel Sophia’s transgression and fall, and that his tragic death is a simple reversal of her joyful rebirth, so written in order to make an otherwise heretical story palatable to Church authorities at that time.Fradon demonstrates that the Faust legend is a vehicle for transmitting antiquity’s secret wisdom. Nearly every element of the original 16th-century text is a metaphor containing profound spiritual messages based on passages of Coptic and Syrian Gnostic manuscripts, including the Pistis Sophia and The Hymn of the Pearl. The elements of alchemy, sacramental sex, and worship of the divine feminine that are encoded in the Faust Book reveal the same hidden goddess-worshipping tradition whose practices are hinted at by the writings of Renaissance magi such as Cornelius Agrippa and Giordano Bruno.. The Faust le