The Esoteric Teaching of the Gnostics

About this book

The Gnostics imagined knowledge as a means of awakening from a world governed by ignorance and limitation. Frances Swiney revisits those ancient teachings through the spiritual questions of her own time.

Her account looks for meanings within the language of divine origin, inner liberation and the soul's relation to the material world. Like many early writers on Gnosticism, she sometimes reconstructs a unity that the surviving sources do not fully support. The book is most revealing as an encounter between ancient religious fragments and modern esoteric interpretation.