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
L'Apocalypse d'Abraham
Ryszard Rubinkiewicz
1987CHU
La Chiesa del Paracleto
Vincenzo Soro
1922Italian
La concienza Cristo
Samael Aun Weor
2011Italian
La gnosi cristiana di Alessandria e le antiche scuole cristiane
Paolo Brezzi
1950Italian
La gnosi spuria
Ennio Innocenti
1993Italian
Las enseñanzas secretas de Jesús
1986Spanish
Le Livre sacré des gnostiques d'Égypte
Fabrice Bardeau
1977French
Le Livre sacré du grand esprit invisible ou L'Evangile des Egyptiens.texte copte édité, traduit et commenté d'après le codex I de Nag'a Hammadi-Khénoboskion
Jean Doresse
1969French
Le chant gnostico-magique des sept voyelles grecques
Charles-Émile Ruelle
1901French
Les actes de Pierre et des Douzes apôtres (NH VI, 1)
Victor Ghica, Jean-Daniel Dubois, Paul-Hubert Poirier
2014Coptic
Mysterien der Gnosis
2023German
Nauka Ambrozjastra o stanie pierwotnym człowieka
Emil Stanula
1977Polish
Opuscula
Wincenty Myszor
1986
Pistis-Sophia
Valentin
1975French
Pizhūhishī dar paydāyish va taḥavvulāt-i taṣavvuf va ʻirfān
ʻAbbās ʻAlī ʻAmīd Zanjānī, عميد زنجانى، عباسعلى
1366Persian
Sentiers de gnose
Frithjof Schuon
1957French
Testi gnostici cristiani
Manlio Simonetti
1970Italian
The language of secrecy as a mundane feature of all talk in the Kabbalistic, Gnostic, and Buddhistic schools of exoteric sociology
J. J Hurtak
1983
Urkristendommen
Rudolf Karl Bultmann
1963Danish
Weisheit ist weiblich
Bettina Küpper Latusek
2001German
Zwei gnostische Hymnen
Erwin Preuschen
1904German
Ē epanastasē tēs dialektikēs
Samael Aun Weor
2011Ancient Greek
グノーシス主義と近代ヨーロッパ文学
高橋, 義人, 京都大学
2003Japanese
グノーシス主義に関する『ナグ・ハマディ文書』の教説解釈及びドイツ観念論における疎外論に対する「救済」の思想的共有性をめぐって
山下, 祐樹
2025Japanese