Simon Magus The Gnostic Magician
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Simon Magus
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Author : George Robert Stow Mead
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Simon Magus written by George Robert Stow Mead and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
Simon Magus The Gnostic Magician
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Author : George Robert Stow Mead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Simon Magus The Gnostic Magician written by George Robert Stow Mead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Gnosticism categories.
Simon Magus
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Author : G. R. S. Mead
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-02-04
Simon Magus written by G. R. S. Mead and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-04 with categories.
George Robert Stowe Mead (04/22/1863 - 09/28/1933), commonly known as G. R. S. Mead, was an English historian, writer, editor, translator, and an influential member of the Theosophical Society, as well as the founder of the Quest Society. His scholarly works dealt mainly with the Hermetic and Gnostic religions of Late Antiquity, and were exhaustive for the time period. Simon the Sorcerer or Simon the Magician, in Latin Simon Magus, was a Samaritan magus or religious figure and a convert to Christianity, baptised by Philip, whose later confrontation with Peter is recorded in Acts 8:9-24. The sin of simony, or paying for position and influence in the church, is named for Simon. Surviving traditions about Simon appear in anti-heretical texts, such as those of Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius, where he is often regarded as the source of all heresies. Justin wrote that nearly all the Samaritans in his time were adherents of a certain Simon of Gitta, a village not far from Flavia Neapolis. Irenaeus held him as being one of the founders of Gnosticism and the sect of the Simonians.
Simon Magus The First Gnostic
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Author : Stephen Haar
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-10-24
Simon Magus The First Gnostic written by Stephen Haar and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-24 with Religion categories.
This latest comprehensive work on Simon Magus lends new impetus to the investigation of Early Christianity and questions surrounding the origin and nature of Gnosticism. Major contributions of this study include: (1), a departure from the traditional exegesis of Acts 8, 5-24 (the first narrative source of Simon), and the later following reports of ancient Christian writers; (2), an overview of the literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity to determine the contribution of "magic" and "the Magoi" in the development of perceptions and descriptions of Simon; and (3), the inclusion of social science explanation models and modern estimations of "identity", in a creative approach to questions surrounding the phenomenon of Simon.
Simon Magus
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Author : G. R. S. Mead
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-11-14
Simon Magus written by G. R. S. Mead and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-14 with Religion categories.
Everybody in Christendom has heard of Simon, the magician, and how Peter, the apostle, rebuked him, as told in the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles. Many also have heard the legend of how at Rome this wicked sorcerer endeavoured to fly by aid of the demons, and how Peter caused him to fall headlong and thus miserably perish. And so most think that there is an end of the matter, and either cast their mite of pity or contempt at the memory of Simon, or laugh at the whole matter as the invention of superstition or the imagination of religious fanaticism, according as their respective beliefs may be in orthodoxy or materialism. This for the general. Students of theology and church history, on the other hand, have had a more difficult task set them in comparing and arranging the materials they have at their disposal, as found in the patristic writings and legendary records; and various theories have been put forward, not the least astonishing being the supposition that Simon was an alias for Paul, and that the Simon and Peter in the accounts of the fathers and in the narrative of the legends were simply concrete symbols to represent the two sides of the Pauline and Petrine controversies.
Simon Magus
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Author : G. R. S. Mead
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
Simon Magus written by G. R. S. Mead and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with Fiction categories.
According to Apocrypha, Simon Magus was a contemporary of the Biblical apostles and an important religious figure. Biblical legend tells that Simon was trying to buy his way into the number of Apostles but got rejected by Peter. Later he started preaching as well and collected a group of adherents. In his book, G.R.S. Mead compares the deeds of Simon with those of Peter and Paul and casts a look on the Simonian ideas, which he believes are similar to the system of Theosophy popular in Mead's times.
Simon Magus
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Author : G. R. S. Mead
language : en
Publisher: Book Tree
Release Date : 2003-04
Simon Magus written by G. R. S. Mead and has been published by Book Tree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04 with History categories.
Simon Magus was originally a Christian and disciple of John the Baptist, but broke off and formed the first Christian heresy, called Simonianism. After learning magical medicine in Alexandria he was considered to have many magical skills. To this day, a skilled magician is called a "magus." He also studied Greek philosophers, especially Heraclitus, and became the first Christian to attempt to bridge Greek philosophy and Christianity. If a mixture ever occurred Church leaders feared they would become weaker over time and not survive. According to Mead, this was Simon's great heresy -- not his magic. This interesting book shows Simon Magus to have been a brilliant man who was breaking new ground, both philosophically and spiritually.
Simon Magus
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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Son Of Perdition
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Author : M R Osborne
language : en
Publisher: Rose Circle Publications
Release Date : 2022-04-03
Son Of Perdition written by M R Osborne and has been published by Rose Circle Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-03 with Religion categories.
Hardback, Digital Cloth-Cover with Dust Jacket A re-telling of the legendary conflict between ancient magic and the early Church. In our present day and age, the story of the confrontation between the Apostles and Simon Magus has become increasingly forgotten. M.R. Osborne considers the relationship between miracles and magic as they played out in this dramatic encounter, and investigates how ancient magical operations - such as necromancy, transmutation, sex magic and transvection - acted as opposing miracles to the sacramental powers of the Primitive Church. The appearance of Simon Magus in the New Testament is colorful but brief, and more questions are raised than answered. Researchers are compelled to look at the apocryphal legends and writings of the early Christian apologists to discern what they can about Simon. Many legends regarding his magic and conduct are fantastical, others less so. Yet theologians and writers on religion alike tend to disparage these accounts and write off Simon as a type, a legendary figure of anti-pagan polemic. Sometimes, the boot has been put on the other foot, and Simon is identified with St. Paul, as a Gnostic Apostle. What is the truth, and what were Simon's magical operations actually like? Author M.R. Osborne's approach to the question of Simon Magus has been to take the accounts of his magical powers seriously. If, for the sake of argument, we treat the apocryphal and apologetic material as containing authentic historical facts (even if fragmentary), then we may begin an attempt to reconstruct the life and possible beliefs of Simon Magus. This is all set in the context of Simon's battle with Peter as it moves from Samaria to Rome, and a study of both men is required to make sense of what Christians and Jews alike regarded as legitimate or illegitimate magic. Thus, did the Apostles practise magic? Does the Church still do so? What differentiates miracles from magic? More interesting still, is the question of Simon's status as a false messiah or antichrist. There are various definitions and perceptions of this role in the New Testament, and false messiahs are likely set apart from the False Messiah, and antichrists from the Antichrist. Into which category does Simon fall, and does his magic and moral conduct throw any light on the question? What relevance does this have for us today in our modern, secular world? The author looks into these issues and presents a case for Simon Magus being a real magician, practising generally negative operations as a false messiah. There are no hard and fast or definitive answers as the primary sources are too few, but we can reconstruct the most likely scenario with careful analysis. The author has chosen illustrations from the early Church period and later Middle Ages since the manuscript discusses the possible connection of ancient Jewish magic with the later medieval grimoires. With a foreword by Tony Hutchins. "This excellent work is well researched and written." Piers A. Vaughan, Rose Circle Books
Simon Magus
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Author : George Robert Stowe Mead
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2017-03-11
Simon Magus written by George Robert Stowe Mead and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-11 with Fiction categories.
In this enquiry, I shall have to be slightly wearisome to some of my readers, for instead of giving a selection or even a paraphraze of the notices on Simon which we have from authenticated patristic sources, I shall furnish verbatim translations, and present a digest only of the unauthenticated legends. The growth of the Simonian legend must unfold itself before the reader in its native form as it comes from the pens of those who have constructed it. Repetitions will, therefore, be unavoidable in the marshalling of authorities, but they will be shown to be not without interest in the subsequent treatment of the subject, and at any rate we shall at least be on the sure ground of having before us all that has been said on the matter by the Church fathers.