Mead gathers what the Acts of the Apostles, Justin, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Epiphanius and the Clementine writings say about Simon the magician and his Gnostic followers. He weighs the hostile church fathers’ testimony and then reconstructs Simon’s teaching on fire, the divine powers and Helen, reading it through his own Theosophical interests.
An 1892 study of an early Gnostic figure, of interest to readers of Christian origins and esoteric history. Download the free EPUB.