SUGGESTED READING AND RESOURCES

By SH MELITODES AND T MEITHRAS

  • For a general history of Gnosticism, see The Gnostic Scriptures and the Gnostic ChurchTau and Serpent
  • The Gnostic Society Library is a fantastic online recourse, filled with contemporary articles and original texts. 
  • The Gnostic Gospels, by Elaine Pagels (1979)
  • A list of and links to online versions of the early Gnostic Gospels is available here
  • The Gnostic Bible, ed. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer (2003)
  • The Chaldean Oracles, ed. Ruth Majercik (2013)
  • The original account and refutation of Simon Magus by Hippolytus, Refutatio IV, is available here
  • The Gnostics and Their Remains, by Charles William King (1887). Full text available here
  • Ancient Mystery Cults, by Walter Burkert (1987)
  • The Virgin of the World, by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland (1885)
  • The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, by Nicolas Novotich (1894)
  • G.R.S. Mead and the Gnostic Quest, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2005)
  • Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, by G.R.S. Mead (1900). Full text available here
  • The Mysteries of Mithra, by G.R.S. Mead (1907). Full text available here
  • Simon Magus, by G.R.S. Mead (1892). Full text available here
  • Pistis Sophia, by G.R.S. Mead (1896). Full text available here
  • The Rosicrucians, their Rites and Mysteries, by Hargrave Jennings (1870). Full text available here
  • The Hidden Church of the Holy Grail, A.E. Waite (1909)
  • Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival, by Christopher McIntosh (1972)
  • Gnostic Return in Modernity, by Cyril O’Reagan (2001)
  • The Allure of Gnosticism: the Gnostic experience in Jungian psychology and contemporary culture, by Robert Segal (1995)
  • Gnosticism: New light on the ancient tradition of inner knowing, by Stephan Hoeller (2002)
  • Wisdom’s Children, by Arthur Versluis (1999)
  • Babylon and the Brethren, by James Harding (2015)
  • The Book of the Law (1904). Full text available here
  • An in-depth analysis of Liber XV, the Gnostic Mass may be found at The Invisible Basilica of Sabazius
  • Mystery of Mystery, a Primer of Thelemic Ecclesiastical Gnosticism, by T Apyrion and Helena (2013)
  • HRILIU, Symbolic Explorations of the Gnostic Mass, by IAO131 (2015)
  • ARARITA, Elaborations on the Star Sapphire, by A Traveller In Darkness (2009)