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PISTIS SOPHIA
A GNOSTIC GOSPEL (WITH EXTEACTS FEOM
THE BOOKS OF THE SAVIOUE APPENDED)
OEIGINALLY TEANSLATED FEOM GEEEK INTO
COPTIC AND NOW FOE THE FIEST TIME
ENGLISHED FEOM SCHWAETZE'S LATIN VEESION OF THE ONLY KNOWN COPTIC MS. AND
CHECKED BY AMELINEAU'S FEENCH VEESION
WITH AN INTBODUCTION BY G. E. S. MEAD
B.A. M.E.A.8.
London
The Theosophical Publishing Society
NEW YOBK: THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY, 65 FIFTH
AVENUE
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MADRAS: "THE THEOSOPHIST" OFFICE, ADYAR
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TABLE OF SUMMARIES.
PAGE
The documents and general literature of Gnosticism. xvii
The method of the best Gnostic doctors xxiii
Description and criticism of the MS xxv
General analysis of contents xxix
The date and authorship of the Greek original.. xxx
The Books of the Saviour xxxi
The probable history of the treatise xxxiii
The translator's apologia
The work that has been previously done
THE FIRST BOOK OF PISTIS SOPHIA.
Jesus hitherto instructeth his disciples only up to the region
of the first mystery 1
What the first mystery surroundeth
The regions of the great invisible 2
The treasure of light
The light-world 3
Jesus and his disciples are seated on the Mount of Olives. 4
A great light-stream descendeth on Jesus
It surroundeth him entirely 5
Jesus ascendeth into heaven
The confusion of the …