num_pages: 400
description: Traces the use of powerful gnostic visionary techniques from Hellenistic Gnosticism and Jewish merkabah mysticism through Muhammad the Ismaeilis and theosophical Sufism to medieval neoplatonism and renaissance alchemy.
language: English
title: Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions
publisher: State University of New York Press