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Forbidden Faith : The Gnostic Legacy from the Gospels to the Da Vinci Code

ISBN: 9780060783396 | 0060783397
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
Pub. Date: 3/22/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
Who were the Gnostics? Were they heretics, or were they ancient visionaries who possessed the keys to the deepest secrets of Christianity? Where did they come from? Did they leave any descendants? Why were they suppressed by the early Church? And why do their ideas keep reappearing throughout history? "Forbidden Faith" is the first comprehensive popular history of Gnosticism, a secretive tradition that has survived for centuries in many forms and under many names. Richard Smoley, an expert in esoteric Christianity, traces the Gnostic legacy fro... MORE
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Acknowledgmentsvii
Introduction1(10)
1. Who Were the Gnostics?11(20)
2. The Heirs of Egypt31(20)
3. The Lost Religion of Light51(16)
4. The War against the Cathars67(22)
5. Gnosis in the Medieval Church89(18)
6. The Sages of the Renaissance107(18)
7. Rosicrucianism and the Great Lodges125(26)
8. The Gnostic Revival151(20)
9. Gnosis and Modernity171(30)
io. The Future of Gnosis201(12)
Selected Bibliography213(8)
Notes221(14)
Index235

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