Place of Publication:
Wheaton, Illinois
Publisher:
Theosophical Publishing House (a Quest Book; a Quest Original)
Digital Platform for this Publication:
EBSCO
Copyright Date:
1982
ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
9780835630245
Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)
Media Sub-type:
eBook
LoC Call Number:
BF 1999 .J86 H63 1982 eb
Accession Number:
079987
Keyword Subject Headings:
Gnosticism--Pychological aspects--Jungian psychology
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav) 1875-1961--Gnostic influences
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav) 1875-1961--VII Sermones ad Mortuos (Seven Sermons to the Dead)
Occult sciences--Mysticism
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav) 1875-1961--Gnostic influences
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav) 1875-1961--VII Sermones ad Mortuos (Seven Sermons to the Dead)
Occult sciences--Mysticism
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This material was first published in 1916 by Jung under the title
"Septem Sermones ad Mortuos" in a privately printed and circulated
edition, distributed solely by Jung as gifts. This remained the case until
the publication of the Revised Edition of "Memories Dreams Reflections"
(©1965?), in which "The Seven Sermons to the Dead" was included as an
appendix. The same material (or nearly the same) appears in the concluding section ("Scrutinies") of Jung's "Liber Novus" ["Red Book"], published in 2009 (pp. 346-354). The version of "Septem Sermones ad Mortuos" that appears in the "Red Book" was taken from entries dated January 31 through February 8, 1916, in Volume 6 of Jung's "Black Books."
The first English translation of "Septem Sermones ad Mortuos" by
Cary Baynes (1925) was published in "Memories Dreams Reflections"
(Revised Edition). The translation that is published in "The Gnostic Jung"
is by the author, Stephan A. Hoeller, made from a transcription of a
privately circulated copy that came to him in 1949.
"Septem Sermones ad Mortuos" is not included in Jung's Collected Works.
Copies of both the "Red Book" and the "Black Books" are among the
Library's holdings.
Contents:
Preface
Prologue
Part I: The gnosis of C.G. Jung
A science born of mystery
Preaching to the dead
What in the world are Gnostics
Jung and Gnosticism
Jung and the pansophic gnosis
Towards a new gnosis
Part II: The Seven Sermons to the Dead
(Text of original translation of the sermons.)
Part III: Interpretation of the seven sermons
The preamble--The sage, the city and the dead
The first sermon: The empty fullness
The second sermon: Helios, image of God
The third sermon, Part 1: Abraxas, the heavenly chanticleer
The third sermon, Part 2: Jung's unknown God
The fourth sermon: Burning bush and Tree of Life
The fifth sermon: The two communities--Mother city and father fortress
The sixth sermon: The serpent and the dove
the seventh sermon: Homeward bound among the stars
Epilogue
Appendix: Translator's note
Notes
Quintessential Gnostic glossary
Bibliography
Index
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