The Poimandres As Myth: Scholarly Theory and Gnostic Meaning (Religion and Reason)

Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline. Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Poimandres as a Gnostic Myth Gnosticism The Text Analysis Chapter 2: An "Eliadean" Analysis of the Poimandres Religion Myth The Classification of Mankind The Return to the Sacred Eliade on Gnosticism Eliade’s Theory Applied to the Poimandres Chapter 3: A Jungian Analysis of the Poimandres The Unconscious Myth Jung’s Interest in Gnosticism The History of the Psyche Jung’s Theory Applied to the Poimandres Jung’s Own Analysis of Gnosticism Archetypes in the Poimandres Androgyny in the Poimandres Evil in the Poimandres Conclusion Bibliography Index including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form -by photoprint, microfilm, or any other means -nor transmitted nor translated into a machine language without written permission from Mouton de Gruyter, a Division of Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin. The Corpus Hermeticum, of which the Poimandres is the first tractate, is a collection of from fourteen to eighteen ancient Greek texts. Robert A. Segal. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [171]-209.