# Pistis Sophia

Author: Horner, G. (George), 1849-1930 [Translator]; Legge, Francis, 1853-1922 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76266

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Pistis+Sophia+Horner&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The history of Gnosticism, which may be defined as the belief that man’s place in the next world is determined by the knowledge of it that he acquires in this, goes back probably to the very dawn of our civilisation; but its importance for most of us is mainly centred round the first three centuries of our Era. Not even Christianity, as Amélineau quotes from Pascal, was able at once to make an angel out of a beast; and no sooner did it emerge from its first home in Judæa into the broader light of the Roman Empire than there sprang up within it many more or less secret schools which sought to combine the truths of the new religion with some of the most pernicious superstitions of the old....

## Chapters

- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pistis-sophia-76266/chapters/31/index.md)