Arbol de la gnosis, El

This work deals, for the first time, with a complete presentation of all the dualistic religions whose history has so profoundly influenced the West: Gnosticism, Marcionism, Manichaeism, Paulicianism, Bogomilism, and Occitan and Lombard Catharism. Ioan Culianu's book not only fills a gap in the history of ideas. He makes a fundamental discovery: the dualist currents are a system, and must be studied from a synchronic perspective, which means that the search for their historical relationship...