The Gnostic Faustus The Secret Teachings Behind the Classic Text 2nd Edition by Ramona Fradon ISBN 1594777276 9781594777271

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ISBN 10: 1594777276

ISBN 13: 9781594777271 

Author: Ramona Fradon 

The Faust legend seen as a transmission of core Gnostic teachings disguised as a morality tale

• Shows the 16th-century Faust text to be a coded, composite Gnostic creation myth

• Identifies the many Hermetic, alchemical, and Tantric symbols found in Faust that signify worship of the divine feminine through sacramental sexual practices

• Reveals a mystical process of spiritual salvation, as distilled from esoteric traditions

In The Gnostic Faustus, Ramona Fradon shows the legend of Doctor Faustus to be a composite Gnostic creation myth that reveals the process of spiritual salvation. Nearly every element of the original 16th-century text is a metaphor containing profound spiritual messages based on passages of Coptic and Syrian Gnostic manuscripts, including the Pistis Sophia and The Hymn of the Pearl. Fradon identifies many Hermetic, alchemical, and Tantric symbols in the Faust Book that accompany the story of Sophia, the goddess of wisdom, whose troubled journey to salvation is a model for human spiritual development. Extensive line-by-line text comparisons with these Gnostic manuscripts show that Faustus’s corruption by the Devil and his despair parallel Sophia’s transgression and fall, and that his tragic death is a simple reversal of her joyful rebirth, so written in order to make an otherwise heretical story palatable to Church authorities at that time.

Fradon demonstrates that the Faust legend is a vehicle for transmitting antiquity’s secret wisdom. It provides an account of spiritual initiation whose goal is ecstatic revelation and union with the divine. The elements of alchemy, sacramental sex, and worship of the divine feminine that are encoded in the Faust Book reveal the same hidden goddess-worshipping tradition whose practices are hinted at by the writings of Renaissance magi such as Cornelius Agrippa and Giordano Bruno.

Table of contents:

PART ONE HERE BEGINNETH DOCTOR FAUSTUS: HIS VITA & HISTORIA

1. Of His Parentage and Youth
2. How Doctor Faustus Did Achieve and Acquire Sorcery
3. Here Followeth the Disputatio Held By Faustus and the Spirit
4. The Second Disputatio with the Spirit
5. Doctor Faustus’s Third Colloquium with the Spirit, Which Was Called Mephistopheles—Concerning Also the Pact Which These Two Made
6. Doctor Faustus’s Instrumentum, or Devilish and Godless Writ Obligatio
7. Concerning the Service That Mephistopheles Used Toward Faustus
8. Concerning Doctor Faustus’s Intended Marriage
9. Doctor Faustus’s Quaestio of His Spirit Mephistopheles
10. A Disputatio Concerning the Prior State of the Banished Angels
11. A Disputatio Concerning Hell; How It Was Created and Fashioned, Concerning Also the Torments in Hell

PART TWO DOCTOR FAUSTUS HIS HISTORIA: HERE FOLLOWETH THE SECOND PART, ADVENTURES & SUNDRY QUESTIONS
12. His Almanacs and Horoscopes
13. A Disputatio or Inquiry Concerning the Art of Astronomia, or Astrologia
14. A Disputatio and False Answer Which the Spirit Gave to Doctor Faustus
15. How Doctor Faustus Traveled Down to Hell
16. How Doctor Faustus Journeyed Up to the Stars
17. Now Will Tell You What I Did See
18. Doctor Faustus’s Third Journey
19. Concerning the Stars
20. A Question on This Topic
21. The Second Question
22. The Third Question

PART THREE HERE FOLLOWETH THE THIRD PART: DOCTOR FAUSTUS, HIS ADVENTURES, THE THINGS HE PERFORMED AND WORKED WITH HIS NIGROMANTIA AT THE COURTS OF GREAT POTENTATES
23. A History of the Emperor Charles V and Doctor Faustus
24. Concerning the Antlers of a Hart
25. Concerning Three Lords Who Were Rapidly Transported to a Royal Wedding in Munich
26. Concerning an Adventure with a Jew
27. An Adventure at the Court of Count Anhalt
28. The Manner in Which Doctor Faustus as Bacchus Kept Shrovetide
29. Concerning Helen Charmed Out of Greece
30. Concerning a Gesticulation Involving Four Wheels
31. Concerning Four Sorcerers Who Cut Off One Another’s Heads and Put Them On Again, Wherein Doctor Faustus, Attending Their Performance, Doth Play the Major Role
32. Concerning an Old Man Who Would Have Converted Doctor Faustus from His Godless Life
33. Pact

PART FOUR DOCTOR FAUSTUS: HIS LAST TRICKS AND WHAT HE DID IN THE FINAL YEARS OF HIS CONTRACT
34. How Doctor Faustus Brought About the Marriage of Two Lovers
35. Concerning Divers Flora in Doctor Faustus’s Garden on Christmas Day
36. Concerning an Army Raised Against Lord Hardeck
37. Concerning the Beautiful Helen from Greece, How She Lived for a Time with Doctor Faustus
38. Concerning One Whose Wife Married While He Was Captive in Egypt and How Doctor Faustus Informed and Aided Him
39. Concerning the Testament: What Doctor Faustus Bequeathed to His Servant Christof Wagner
40. The Discourse Which Doctor Faustus Held with His Son Concerning His Last Will and Testament
41. What Doctor Faustus Did in the Final Month of His Pact
42. Doctor Faustus: His Lamentation, That He Must Die at a Young and Lusty Age
43. Doctor Faustus Lamenteth Yet Further
44. Doctor Faustus: His Hideous End and Spectaculum

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