Pistis Sophia — G. R. S. Mead — Section 15
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Work: Pistis Sophia
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and the meaning of their names, the development of the dogmas of creation, providence and redemption, as Dulaurier tells lis (op. inf. cit, p. 538). Dulaurier in 1847 promised to publish the text and a French translation of this work, but his labours have never seen the light. To this may be added, as connected with the magical side of the subject, some Greek Papyri mostly in fragments. Two of the Ley den Papyri of the third century have recently been edited, translated, and commentated upon by A. Dieterich (Abraxas : Studien zur Religionsgeschichte des Spatern Altertums ; Leipzig, 1…
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- Pistis Sophia; a Gnostic gospel (with extracts from the books of the Saviour appended) originally tr. from Greek into Coptic and now for the first time Englished from Schwartze's L
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