The Gnostics (Classic Reprint): And Their Remains, Ancient and Medæval: And Their Remains, Ancient and Medæval (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Gnostics: And Their Remains, Ancient and Medæval

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Excerpt from The Gnostics: And Their Remains, Ancient and Medæval

Critique du Gnosticisme but thenceforward I have carried on my investigations according to a theory, in my conviction the only true one, which, although he once alludes approvingly to it, he has entirely neglected to follow out to its necessary consequences. Restricting himself to describing in his lucid and elegant style, the speculations of the respective beresi archs, and going no further back than the Zend-avesta and the Kabala for the store-houses whence they borrowed their mystic principles, he em in representing all their systems as novel, and the pure compositions of the teachers themselves.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.