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• The Last Word (Shawneetown, IL: The author, c1935), by Thomas Sawyer Spivey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1900), by G. R. S. Mead (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (second edition; London and Varanasi: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), by G. R. S. Mead (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Frammenti di una Fede Dimenticata: Brevi Studi Sugli Gnostici, Principalment dei Primi due Secoli, Contributo allo Studio delle Origini Cristiane, Basato su Materiali più Recentemente Ricuperati (Italian translation of the second edition of "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten"; 1909), by G. R. S. Mead, trans. by M. L. Kirby and B. Fantoni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gnostic and Historic Christianity, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
• The Gnostics and Their Remains, Ancient and Mediaeval (second edition; London: David Nutt, 1887), by C. W. King (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Miscellany (London: J. M. Watkins, 1921), ed. by G. R. S. Mead (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Thrice-Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis (attributed, probably spuriously, to Hermes Trismegistus; 3 volumes; London and Varanasi: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), ed. by G. R. S. Mead, contrib. by Hermes Trismegistus
  • all 3 volumes: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all 3 volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Paul the Gnostic Opponent of Peter, Not an Apostle of Historic Christianity, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
• Perfect Matrimony (English translation), by Samael Aun Weor (HTML with commentary at glorian.org)
• Gnosticisme et christianisme. (Établissements Généraux d'Imprimerie, 1910), by A. Cornélius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnostic heresies. (AMS Press, 1980), by Henry Longueville Mansel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Materials for the study of the apostolic gnosis ... (B. H. Blackwell, 1919), by Thomas Simcox Lea and Frederick Bligh Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gnôsis of the light; a translation of the untitled apocalypse contained in the Codex Brucianus, with introduction and notes (J. M. Watkins, 1918), by F. Lamplugh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gnostiques et gnosticisme; étude critique des documents du gnosticisme chrétien aux IIe et IIIe siècles (E. Leroux, 1913), by Eugène de Faye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pistis sophia; a Gnostic miscellany; being for the most part extracts from the books of the Saviour, to which are added excerpts from a cognate literature; englished (with an introduction and annotated bibliography) (J. M. Watkins, 1921), by G. R. S. Mead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die gnosis; grundlagen der weltanschauung einer edleren kultur ... (E. Diederichs, 1903), by Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Gnostics and their remains, ancient and mediaeval. (Putnam, 1887), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthropos and Son of man : a study in the religious syncretism of the Hellenistic Orient (Columbia University Press, 1927), by Carl H. Kraeling and Columbia University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pistis Sophia (Hauniae : Gyldendalske Boghandel-Nordisk forlag, 1925., 1925), by Carl Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die gnosis (Mohr, 1911), by Walther Köhler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le gnosticisme égyptien : ses développements et son origine égyptienne (E. Leroux, 1887), by E. Amélineau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnostiques et gnosticisme: étude critique des documents du gnosticisme chrétien aux IIe et IIIe siècles. (P. Geuthner, 1925), by Eugène de Faye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gnostic scriptures interpreted (The C.W. Daniel company, 1927), by George Arthur Gaskell and G. R. S. Mead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gnostics and their remains, ancient and medieval (Bell and Dalby, 1864), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gnostics and their remains, ancient and mediaeval (David Nutt, 1887), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• V poiskakh za bozhestvom. (1913), by I︠U︡riĭ Nikolaev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das antike Mysterienwesen in seinem Einfluss auf das Christentum (Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1894), by Gustav Anrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in logos and gnosis mainly in relation to the neo-Buddhist theosophy (H. Frowde, 1905), by Thomas Simcox Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnosticismus und Judenthum. (B. L. Monasch, 1971), by Heinrich́ Hirsch Grätz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sancti Irenaei ... Libros quinque Adversus haereses, textu graeco in locis nonnullis locupletato, versione latina cum codicibus claromontano ao arundeliano denuo collata, praemissa de placitis gnosticorum prolusions, fragmenta neonon graece, syriace, armeniace, commentatione perpetua et indicibus variis (typis academicis, 1857), by Saint Irenaeus and William Wigan Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Koptisch-gnostische Schriften (J.C. Hinrichs, 1905), by Carl Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evidences of the genuineness of the Gospels (American Unitarian Association, 1871), by Andrews Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lo gnosticismo : storia di antiche lotte religiose (Francesco Ferrari, 1907), by Ernesto Buonaiuti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnostische Mysterien : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des christlichen Gottesdienstes (C. Kaiser, 1922), by Leonhard Fendt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters. (C.H. Beck, 1890), by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Irenaei episcopi lugdunensis Quae supersunt omnia : accedit apparatus continens ex iis, quae ab aliis editoribus aut de Irenaeo ipso aut de scriptis eius sunt disputata, meliora et iteratione haud indigna (T. O. Weigel, 1853), by Saint Irenaeus and Adolphus Stieren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pre-Christian Gnosticism : a survey of the proposed evidences (Baker Book House, 1983), by Edwin M. Yamauchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• De historiae gnosticismi fontibus : novae quaestiones criticae / scripsit Joannes Kunze. (Dörfeling & Franke, 1894), by Johannes Kunze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blicke in die Religionsgeschichte zu Anfang des zweiten christlichen Jahrhunderts (Verlag Schottlaender, 1880), by M. Joël (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genetische Entwickelung der vornehmsten gnostischen Systeme (F. Dümmler, 1818), by August Neander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Une excursion gnostique en Italie (Berger-Levrault, 1852), by Jacques Matter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Valentinianische Gnosis und die heilige Schrift; eine Studie. (Wiegandt und Grieben, 1871), by C. F. Georg Heinrici (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Apellis gnosi monarchica : Commentatio historica quam summe venerandi theologorum ordinis auctoritate in academia lipsiensi ad impetrandam veniam legendi illustrissimi jctorum ordinis concessu die IX M. Julii A. MDCCCLXXIV Hora X in auditorio juridico (E. Bidder, 1874), by Adolf von Harnack (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gnostic heresies of the first and second centuries (John Murray, 1875), by Henry Longueville Mansel and J. B. Lightfoot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evidences of the genuineness of the Gospels (J. Chapman, 1847), by Andrews Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur la philosophie de Victor Hugo, du point de vue gnostique. (Calmann-Lévy, 1922), by Jacques Heugel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De Alexandrijnsche haeresiarch Basilides; een bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der gnosis. (H. J. Paris, 1926), by Pieter Jan Gerhard Antonius Hendrix (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sancti Irenaei episcopi Lugdunensis Libros quinque adversus haereses ... (Typis Academicis, 1857), by Saint Irenaeus and W. Wigan Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The third book of St. Irenaeus, Bp. of Lyons, against heresies. With short notes, and a glossary (Clarendon Press, 1880), by Saint Irenaeus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei gnostische Hymnen (J. Ricker (A. Topelmann), 1904), by Erwin Preuschen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments of a faith forgotten. Some short sketches among the gnostics, mainly of the first two centuries. A contribution to the study of Christian origins based on the most recently recovered materials. (Theosophical Pub. Society, 1900), by G. R. S. Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grosskirche und Gnosticismus in ihrem Zusammenhang mit dem Mysterienwesen in den 3 ersten Jahrhundersten (E. A. Huth, 1894), by Gustav Anrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evidences of the genuineness of the Gospels (John Owen, 1846), by Andrews Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bardesanes gnosticus, Syrorum primus hymnologus : commentatio historico-theologica (Sumptibus Frid.Christ.Guil. Vogelii, 1819), by August Hahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pistis Sophia : opus gnosticum (F. Duemmler, 1851), by M. G. Schwartze and Jul. Henr. Petermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christliche Gnosis. (C.F. Osiander, 1835), by Ferdinand Christian Baur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire critique du gnosticisme, et de son influence, sur les sectes religieuses et philosophiques des six premiers siècles de l'ère chrètienne. (Levrault;, 1828), by Jacques Matter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Kosmologie in der griechischen Kirche bis auf Origines : mit Specialuntersuchungen über die gnostischen Systeme (Fricke, 1860), by Ernst Wilhelm Möller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters. (Beck, 1890), by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basilidis philosophii gnostici sententias ex Hippolyti libro [Kata pason aireseon] nuper reperto (Wiegandt et Grieben, 1852), by J. L. Jacobi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sochinenīi͡a V. D. Kudri͡avt͡seva-Platonova. (Izd. Bratstva Prepodobnago Sergīi͡a, 1892), by V. D. Kudri͡avt͡sev-Platonov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The evidences of the genuineness of the Gospels. (J. B. Russell, 1837), by Andrews Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frammenti gnostici. (Libreria di cultura, 1923), by Ernesto Buonaiuti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das wesen des gnostizismus und sein verhältnis zum katholischendogma (F. Schöningh, 1922), by Johann Peter Steffes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Libros quinque adversus haereses; [Greek and Latin]... (Typis academicis, 1857), by Saint Irenaeus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sochineniia Sviatago Irineia, episkopa Lionskago (Katkov i ko, 1871), by Saint Irenaeus and P. Preobrazhenskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractatus de vestigiis gnosticorum in Novo Testamento frustra quaesitis. (Lipsiae, 1773), by Karl Christian Tittmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctrina gnostica (Mohr et Winter, 1818), by Ernst Anton Lewald (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the life and writings of S. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons and martyr intended to illustrate the doctrine, discipline, practices, and history of the church, and the tenets and practices of the gnostic heretics, during the second century (Rivington, 1841), by James Beaven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire critique du gnosticisme, et de son influence sur les sectes religieuses et philosophiques des six premiers siècles de lè̕re chrétienne. (V.e Levrault;, 1843), by Jacques Matter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dokumente der Gnosis (E. Diederichs, 1910), by Wolfgang Schultz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire critique du gnosticisme, et de son influence sur le sectes religieuses et philosophiques des six premiers siècles de l'ère chrétienne. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres (Chez F. G. Levrault, 1828), by Jacques Matter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clement d'Alexandrie, sa doctrine et sa polemique (E. Dentu, 1859), by Joseph Cognat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bardesanes, der letzte Gnostiker (T.O. Weigel, 1864), by A. Hilgenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evidences of the genuineness of the Gospels (American Unitarian Assoc., 1868), by Andrews Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Evangelium Marcions und das kanonische Evangelium des Lucas : eine kritische Untersuchung (Ostander, 1846), by Albrecht Ritschl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia Monachorum und Historia Lausiaca; Eine Studie zur Geschichte des Mönchtums und der frühchristlichen Begriffe Gnostiker und Pneumatiker (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1916), by Richard Reitzenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Irenaei Libros quinque adversus haereses. Texte Graeco in locis nonnullis locupletato, versione Latina cum codicibus Claromontano ac Arundeliano (Typis Academicis, 1965), by Saint Irenaeus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Ophiten : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Jüdischen Gnosticismus (Mayer & Müller, 1889), by Adolf Hönig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pistis Sophia (Theosophical Publishing Society, 1896), by G. R. S. Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Gnosticismus; sein Wesen, Ursprung und Entwickelungsgang. (F.A. Brockhaus, 1860), by Richard Adelbert Lipsius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction à l'étude du gnosticisme au IIe et au IIIe siècle (E. Leroux, 1903), by Eugène de Faye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ophites par les philosophoumena. (Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1873), by Philippe Berger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Antichrist in den vorchristlichen jüdischen quellen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1901), by Moriz Friedländer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Offenbarung im Gnosticismus (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1901), by R. Liechtenhan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Valentinianismens historie og lære (G. E. C. Gad, 1901), by Frederik Emanuel Torm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Témoignages des gnostiques sur le Nouveau-Testament d'après les philosophoumena de Saint Hippolyte : thèse (J. Vidallet, 1872), by Abel Destandau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief an die Flora (A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1904), by the Gnostic Ptolemy and Adolf von Harnack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur Quellenkritik der Geschichte des Gnosticismus (E. Bidder, 1873), by Adolf von Harnack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Frage nach dem Ursprung des Gnostizismus (August Pries, 1897), by Wilhelm Anz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Vorchristliche jüdische Gnosticismus (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1898), by M. Friedländer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gnosticismus und Judenthum. (B. L. Monasch, 1846), by Heinrich Graetz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnosis en evangelie : eene historische studie (A. H. Adriani, 1905), by Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Irenaei episcopi Lugdunensis libros quinque adversus haereses : textu Graeco in locis nonullis locupletato, versione Latina cum codicibus Claromontano ac Arundeliano denuo collato, praemissa de placitis gnosicorum prolusione, fragmenta necnon graece, syriace, armeniace, commentatione perpetua et indicibus variis ed. (Typis Academicis, 1857), by Saint Irenaeus and William Wigan Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religionsgeschichtliche Studien ... (Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1910), by Arthur Marmorstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De codice Bruciano seu de libris gnosticis qui in lingua coptica exstant commentatio. Pars I. A qua haeresi et quo tempore "Pistis Sophia" et "Duo libri Jeû" sint conscripti. ... (Typis August Pries, 1892), by Carl Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gnostics and their remains, ancient and mediaeval (Bell and Daldy, 1864), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die biblische Gnosis : pragmatische Darstellung der Religionsphilosophie des Orientes zur Erklärung der heiligen Schrift (Gebrüdern Hahn, 1805), by Johann Horn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnostiques et gnosticisme : étude critique des documents du gnosticisme chrétien aux IIe et IIIe siècles (AMS Press, 1978), by Eugène de Faye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demonstratio apostolicae praedicationis ... (Herder, 1917), by Saint Irenaeus and Simon Weber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gnostics and their remains, ancient and medieval (Bell and Dalby, 1864), by C. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnostische Schriften in koptischer Sprache aus dem Codex Brucianus (J. C. Hinrichs, 1892), by Carl Schmidt, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, and Kunst und Volksbildung Prussia (Germany). Ministerium für Wissenschaft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments of a faith forgotten : some short sketches among the gnostics mainly of the first two centuries : a contribution to the study of Christian origins based on the most recently recovered materials (Theosophical Pub. Society, 1906), by G. R. S. Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evidences of the genuineness of the Gospels (American Unitarian association, 1880), by Andrews Norton and Charles Eliot Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études sur le gnosticisme musulman. (Casa editrice italiana, 1913), by E. Blochet (page images at HathiTrust)
• A preliminary investigation of the cabala contained in the Coptic Gnostic books and of a similar gematria in the Greek text of the New Testament, shewing the presence of a system of teaching by means of the doctrinal significance of numbers, by which the holy names are clearly seen to represent aeonial relationships which can be conceived in a geometric sense and are capable of a typical expression of that order, by Frederick Bligh Bond and Thomas Simcox Lea. (B.H. Blackwell, 1917), by Frederick Bligh Bond and Thomas Simcox Lea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Einige Notizen als Ergänzungen zum zweiten Theil meiner Schrift "Blicke in die Religionsgeschichte" (S. Schottlaender, 1887), by M. Joël (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phallicism, celestial and terrestrial, heathen and Christian, its connexion with the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics and its foundation in Buddhism, with an essay on mystic anatomy. (London : G. Redway, 1884., 1884), by Hargrave Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of the Life and Writings of S. Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons and Martyr: Intended to Illustrate the Doctrine, Discipline, Practices, and History of the Church, and the Tenets and Practices of the Gnostic Heretics During the Second Century, by James Beaven (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gnostic Crucifixion, by G. R. S. Mead (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gnôsis of the Light, by F. Lamplugh (Gutenberg ebook)

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