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THE GNOSTIC CRUCIFIXION




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  ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS

  BY G. R. S. MEAD

  VOL. VII.


  THE GNOSTIC CRUCIFIXION


  THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY
  LONDON AND BENARES
  1907


  PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN




ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS.


Under this general title is now being published a series of small volumes,
drawn from, or based upon, the mystic, theosophic and gnostic writings of
the ancients, so as to make more easily audible for the ever-widening
circle of those who love such things, some echoes of the mystic
experiences and initiatory lore of their spiritual ancestry. There are
many who love the life of the spirit, and who long for the light of
gnostic illumination, but who are not sufficiently equipped to study the
writings of the ancients at first hand, or to follow unaided the labours
of scholars. These little volumes are therefore intended to serve as
introduction to the study of the more difficult literature of the subject;
and it is hoped that at the same time they may become for some, who have,
as yet, not even heard of the Gnosis, stepping-stones to higher things.

G. R. S. M.




THE GNOSTIC CRUCIFIXION




CONTENTS

                             PAGE

  PREFACE                       9

  THE VISION OF THE CROSS      12

  COMMENTS                     20

  POSTCRIPT                    69


TEXTS

Bonnet (M.), _Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha_ (Leipzig, 1898).

James (M. R.), _Apocrypha Anecdota, T. & S._, v. i. (Cambridge,