The Modern Hermeticist

Dan Attrell (MA) gives a lecture based on his paper "What Athens Has Got To Do With Jerusalem: The Marriage of Greek and Jewish Themes in the Apocryphon of John" Visit http://www.themodernhermeticist.wordpress.com for more information and for other lectures by Dan Attrell. BIBLIOGRAPHY Agus, Aharon. "Some Early Rabbinic Thinking on Gnosticism." The Jewish Quarterly Review 71 (1), 1980: 18-30. Carroll, Scott T. "The "Apocalypse of Adam" and Pre-Christian Gnosticism." Vigiliae Christianae 44 (3), 1990: 263-279. Dodds, E. R. Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Grant, Robert M. Gnosticism and Early Christianity. New York: Harper and Row, 1966. Grant, Robert M. "The Earliest Christian Gnosticism." Church History 22 (2), 1953: 81-98. Grant, Robert. M. "Les êtres intermédiaires dans le judaïsme tardif." Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 38, 1967: 245-259. Hengel, Martin. Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in their Encounter in Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975. Hoeller, Stephan A. The Gnostic Society Library: The Nag Hammadi Library. March 13, 2014. http://gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html (accessed May 16, 2014). Katz, Joseph. "Plotinus and the Gnostics." Journal of the History of Ideas 15, 2, 1954: 289-298. MacCulloch, James A. "The Ascent of the Soul: A Comparative Study in Gnosticism." The Irish Church Quarterly 5 (18), 1912: 122-141. Nock, Arthur Darby. "Gnosticism." The Harvard Theological Review 57 (4), 1964: 255-279. Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Pearson, Birger A. "Gnosticism as Platonism: With Special Reference to Marsanes (NHC 10,1)." The Harvard Theological Review 77 (1), 1984: 55-72. Quispel, Gilles. "Ezekiel 1:26 in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosis." Vigiliae Christianae 34 (1), 1980: 1-13. Quispel, Gilles. "Gnosticism and the New Testament." Vigiliae Christianae 19 (2), 1965: 65-85. Quispel, Guilles. Gnosis als Weltreligion. Leiden: Origo, 1951. Rasimus, Tuomas. "Ophite Gnosticism, Sethianism, and the Nag Hammadi Library." Vigiliae Christianae 59 (3), 2005: 235-263. Scholem, Gershom G. Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism,and Talmudic Tradition. Philadelphia: Maurice Jacobs, 1965. Swartz, Michael D. "The Dead Sea Scrolls and Later Jewish Magic and Mysticism." Dead Sea Discoveries 8 (2), 2001: 182-193. Von Stuckrad, Kocku. "Jewish and Christian Astrology in Late Antiquity: A New Approach." Numen 47, 2000: 1-40. Yamauchi, Edwin M. "Pre-Christian Gnosticism in the Nag Hammadi Texts?" Church History 48 (2), 1979: 129-141.

Dan Attrell (MA) discusses some of the recent debates among scholars in the history of alchemy. Visit http://www.themodernhermeticist.wordpress.com for more information and for other lectures by Dan Attrell. Bibliography: Devun, Leah. Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Eliade, Mircea. "The Forge and the Crucible: A Postscript." History of Religions 8 (1), 1968: 74-88. Eliade, Mircea, and Stephen Corrin (trans.). The Forge and the Crucible. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Matus, Zachary. "Alchemy and Christianity in the Middle Ages." History Compass 10/12, 2012: 934-945. Newman, William R. "What Have We Learned from the Recent Historiography of Alchemy." Isis 102, 2, June 2011: 313-321. Newman, William R., and Lawrence M. Principe. "Alchemy vs. Chemistry: The Etymological Origins of a Historiographic Mistake." Early Science and Medicine 3 (1), 1998: 32-65. Nummedal, Tara. Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pereira, Michela. "Alchemy and the Use of Vernacular Languages in the Late Middle Ages." Speculum 74 (2), 1999: 336-356. Principe, Lawrence M. The Secrets of Alchemy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Dan Attrell (MA) gives a talk on the use of psychoactive substances in the Picatrix, an infamous work of medieval magic which was vital to the occult traditions of the European Renaissance and played a key role in the development of renaissance demonology and astrology. This talk entitled "High Times: Astral Magic and the Curious World of Psychotropic Substances in the Picatrix" was first presented at Western Michigan University's 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies in May 2013 in a session run by the Societas Magicka. It has since been re-recorded for a larger audience. Visit http://www.themodernhermeticist.wordpress.com for more information and for other lectures by Dan Attrell

An interview with Dan Attrell (MA) concerning the Picatrix, a grimoire of medieval magic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picatrix Visit http://www.themodernhermeticist.wordpress.com for more information and for other lectures by Dan Attrell.