Dan Merkur 
Gnosis [PDF ebook] 
An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions

Gnosis traces the use of powerful gnostic visionary techniques from Hellenistic Gnosticism and Jewish merkabah mysticism, through Muhammad, the Ismaeilis, and theosophical Sufism to medieval neoplatonism, and renaissance alchemy.

Table of Content

Preface




Part One: Jung, Active Imagination, and the Gnostic-Alchemical Hypothesis


1. The Study of Mystical Experiences



2. Jung, Silberer, and Active Imagination



3. Theories of Spiritual Alchemy



4. The Alchemical Production of Gold



Part Two: A History of Gnosis


5. Defining Gnosis



6. The Gnostic Journey to the Ogdoad



7. The Recital of the Chariot



8. Muhammad and his Mi’raj



9. Islamic Gnosis and the World of Imagination



10. The Passage of Gnosis to the Latin West



Notes



Works Cited



Index

About the author

Dan Merkur is a Lecturer in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.