Table of Contents

Preface

Part One: Jung, Active Imagination, and the Gnostic-Alchemical Hypothesis

1. The Study of Mystical Experiences

2. Jung, Silberer, and Active Imagination

3. Theories of Spiritual Alchemy

4. The Alchemical Production of Gold

Part Two: A History of Gnosis

5. Defining Gnosis

6. The Gnostic Journey to the Ogdoad

7. The Recital of the Chariot

8. Muhammad and his Mi'raj

9. Islamic Gnosis and the World of Imagination

10. The Passage of Gnosis to the Latin West

Notes

Works Cited

Index