Tradition 08 of 33
Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity
Gnostic texts, Christian esotericism, mystical apocrypha, and heterodox cosmologies.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 878
- Earliest
- 1000
- to 2026
- Read free
- 20%
- 174 with public full text
- With covers
- 33%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match793
- Metadata match73
- Query match10
- Source classification (retained through merging)2
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- gnosticism354
- Gnosis141
- Gnosticisme120
- History106
- Philosophy91
- Christian mysticism81
- Religion67
- Social Sciences65
- Arts and Humanities64
- Gnosticismo59
- Mysticism59
- Theology59
- christianity59
- Archeology53
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies53
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices46
- Art44
- Religious studies42
- Text41
- Non-fiction literature39
- Gnostycyzm37
- Literature36
- グノーシス主義36
- Gnostic literature34
Top languages
- English426 · 49%
- German130 · 15%
- French60 · 7%
- Latin46 · 5%
- Spanish34 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Samael Aun Weor17 in this tradition20 books
- 大貫, 隆14 books
- Bishop of Lyon Irenaeus13 books
- Amelia Febriany12 in this tradition25 books
- Hans Jonas8 books
- Irenaeus8 books
- Bentley Layton7 books
- Bishop of Lyon Irenaeus Saint7 books
- Kurt Rudolph7 books
- 荒井, 献7 books
- Bernard McGinn6 in this tradition11 books
- Timothy Freke5 in this tradition8 books
878 books
Gnosis und Stoa
Takashi Onuki, 大貫, 隆
1989German
Jésus et la déesse égarée
Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy
2008French
Lo gnosticismo
Ernesto Buonaiuti
1907Italian
Selected Essays on Gnosticism, Dualism, and Mysteriosophy
Bianchi, Ugo Bianchi
1978Multiple languages
500 years of gnosis in Europe
Carlos Gilly, Marina Afanasʹeva, M. I Afanasʹeva, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ gosudarstvennai︠a︡ biblioteka inostrannoĭ literatury imeni M.I. Rudomino
1993
Die jüdische Apokalyptik in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwickelung
A. Hilgenfeld
1857German
Gnostiques et gnosticisme
Eugène de Faye
1913French
Sancti Irenaei, episcopi Lugdunensis, Libros quinque adversus haereses
Bishop of Lyon Irenaeus Saint
1857Latin
The apocalypse of Adam Nag Hammadi codex V,5 considered from its egyptian background
Per-Arne Linder
1991
'In search of truth'
Jacob Albert van den Berg, Johannes van Oort
2011
A Fresh Approach to St. John of the Cross
Ronald Rolheiser, Richard Copsey, Kevin Culligan
1996
Allegorical readers and cultural revision in ancient Alexandria
David Dawson
1992
Ancient Christian Gospels
Helmut Koester
1990
Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West
Johannes van Oort
2001
Beyond belief
Elaine Pagels
2003
Church and gnosis
F. Crawford Burkitt
1978
Cracking the Gnostic code
Walter Wink
1993
Dilemmas of reaction in Leninist Russia
Christian Gottlieb
2003
Esoteric traditions in Islamic thought
Leonard Lewisohn
2024
Fantascienza e gnosticismo
Ezio Albrile
2022
Female fault and fulfilment in Gnosticism
Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
1986
For the children, perfect instruction
Hans-Gebhard Bethge, Stephen Emmel
2002
Gnose et philosophie
Jean-Marc Narbonne, Paul-Hubert Poirier, Martin Achard
2009
Gnosis
Daniel Merkur
1993