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Received an influx of gnosis --
Order Gnosis magazine while you can
Gnosis magazine issues may be shredded
soon
New book
list created today:
Western
Esotericism
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/30HYPPVWEBD87
I quickly
received 30 issues of Gnosis from Jay Kinney, completing my 51-issue
collection.
He is
going to recycle the remaining copies soon -- I'm glad I received my
Gnosis. The magazine is far more
readable than most books on the subject.
My library is very competitive for attention; to be read, a work must be
nicely packaged and accessible, skimmable and a pleasure to read.
>From:
Michael Hoffman
>Sent:
Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:32 PM
>Subject:
RE: [egodeath] Gnosis magazine issues may be shredded soon
>I
recently read my 21 of the 51 issues of Gnosis magazine, from around 1985 to
2000 -- effectively an excellent encyclopedia of esotericism, in highly
readable format. I have to decide
whether to spend $200 completing my collection before the magazine issues
become unavailable.
>From:
Jay Kinney
>Sent:
Thursday, September 18, 2003
>To:
gnosis_lumen at yahoogroups
>Subject:
[gnosis_lumen] GNOSIS Magazine - Important notice
>
>
>Dear
members of the gnosis_lumen list,
>
>As you
know, this list is used for notices from Gnosis Magazine to those of you who
have signed up for this notice list at the Gnosis website.
>"Please
send an announcement to the discussion group before recycling Gnosis back
issues."
>I am
now doing that. Here's the situation...
>So,
spread the word. Now is the time... Our website is at:
http://www.lumen.org. Ordering
information can be found there.
>Thanks
for your help and attention.
>Jay
Kinney
>Publisher
>P.O.
Box 14820
>San
Francisco, CA 94114-0820 USA
>Voicemail:
415-487-0506 (leave your name and number and best time to reach
>you,
also your email)
>Fax:
415-552-9054 (earmark for GNOSIS/Jay Kinney)
>email gnosis at lumen org
Contents
of all issues of Gnosis, 1-51:
http://www.lumen.org/back_issue_list/back_issue_list.html
Here's
what the following issues after Spring 1999 were to have covered:
52 - Egypt
53 -
Archetypal Psychology
54 - The
Rosicrucians
55 -
Spiritual Politics
http://www.lumen.org/back_issue_list/back_issue_list.html
Jan 2003
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gnosis_lumen/message/100
Jay Kinney
wrote:
let me
fill you in on where things stand with Gnosis. It is hard to believe that it is
now almost 4 years since we had to cease publication. For all this time, I've
continued to make back issues available, as a form of continued service to
readers. For the last 2-3 years this has been an entirely voluntary gesture on
my part, since only enough orders have come in to cover the cost of storage,
postage, and website and phone.
However,
this situation will be changing some time this year. I am hoping to find some
compatible organization to take over our stock of back issues and take order
fulfillment off my hands. I need to muster all my energy for other, newer
projects. If I am unable to find someone else to take over the back issues,
then the remaining copies will finally be recycled.
So, if
you, or anyone you know, or your local library, or whomever should still want
to order any back issues, NOW is the time. All issues are still $7 apiece or $6
apiece on orders for ten or more, plus shipping. Full sets are $245, plus
shipping. For full details please go to http://www.gnosismagazine.com, or if
that is too technologically challenging, just email me for further information.
But please do not delay. Things could change at any time.
Other
news:
I am
wrapping up the editing of an anthology of articles (mostly from Gnosis) called
The Inner West. It is slated to be published in early 2004 by Tarcher/Putnam.
Richard
Smoley, former Gnosis editor, has a new book out from Shambhala called Esoteric
Christianity. In fact, he will be appearing at the Bodhi Tree in L.A. this very
afternoon for a reading and signing. Further appearances will be in the Bay
Area this coming week. It is an excellent book and I highly recommend it.
From time
to time, I still receive inquiries as to whether Gnosis will ever be restarted.
There is still little or no prospect of a revival. The more time that passes
the more I feel that I need to shed the old Gnosis snakeskin and see what new
project wants to happen. If anyone receiving this has a lead on decent paying
editing or writing work (or something related), do let me know.
Finally, I
received the following announcement from James Robinson and Karen-Claire Voss
about the revival of the Hermetic Academy. This is an organization of scholars
who are interested in esotericism. ...
**********************************************************
The
Hermetic Academy, a related scholarly organization of the American Academy of
Religion, publishes HERMES, a quarterly newsletter dedicated to providing
information about what is currently going on in the field of esotericism. ...
http://www.istanbul-yes-istanbul.co.uk
http://www.hermetic-academy.com
**********************************************************
Take care,
Jay Kinney
for Gnosis
I recently
read my 21 of the 51 issues of Gnosis magazine, from around 1985 to 2000 --
effectively an excellent encyclopedia of esotericism, in highly readable
format. I have to decide whether to
spend $200 completing my collection before the magazine issues become
unavailable.
-----Original
Message-----
From:
Jay Kinney
Sent:
Thursday, September 18, 2003
To:
gnosis_lumen at yahoogroups
Subject:
[gnosis_lumen] GNOSIS Magazine - Important notice
Dear
members of the gnosis_lumen list,
As you
know, this list is used for notices from Gnosis Magazine to those of you who
have signed up for this notice list at the Gnosis website.
Recently,
a list member [m.h.] emailed me directly and asked:
"Please
send an announcement to the discussion group before recycling Gnosis back
issues."
I am now
doing that. Here's the situation...
As I've
mentioned in the past, I've done my best over the past 4 years, since GNOSIS
had to cease publication, to continue to make back issues available at a
nominal cost to the public.
However,
I've also mentioned that at the point that there were no longer sufficient
orders coming in to cover the overhead of storing the back issues, I would have
to consider sending our remaining stock (still 20,000+ copies) to the recycler.
I am now
being forced to seriously consider that option.
Orders in
August and September have fallen below the threshold where our costs are being
covered. I recently had to have reprints made of 3 out of print back issues, in
order to be able to fill orders, but the cost of the reprints alone is more
than the amount of money we have in the bank.
To make matters worse, our credit card processing terminal (over 7 years
old) went kablooey a couple of days ago and a replacement will run $100. And
then there's the $380 every month for storage.
Well,
enough of that. This email isn't meant to bore you. It is supposed to alert you
that "The End is Near," as they say.
In other
words, if you've ever thought about getting any more back issues... do it
now! If you can alert your friends and
have them order back issues... do it now!
If you have a local library that should have a complete set, get them to
order it now!
Full set
orders are especially needed.
If enough
people come through, I may be able to postpone the recycling. But if not,
recycling is the only practical solution.
(Yes, I
know, recycling would be a great tragedy. And people have suggested such things
as sending out free full sets to libraries before doing so. But even such
notions cost time and money, both of which are in short supply.)
So, spread
the word. Now is the time... Our website is at: http://www.lumen.org. Ordering information can be found there.
Thanks for
your help and attention.
Jay Kinney
Publisher
P.O. Box
14820
San
Francisco, CA 94114-0820 USA
Voicemail:
415-487-0506 (leave your name and number and best time to reach you, also your
email)
Fax:
415-552-9054 (earmark for GNOSIS/Jay Kinney)
email gnosis at lumen org
Alexandria
-- The Journal of Western Cosmological Traditions
http://www.phanes.com/alexandria.html
Issue 1
Introduction
-- David R. Fideler
Revisioning
the Sacred for Our Time -- Kathleen Raine
The Orphic
Mystery: Harmony and Mediation -- Lee Irwin
Hymns of
Orpheus: Mutations -- R. C. Hogart
Michael
Maier's Alchemical Quadrature of the Circle -- John Michell
The
Eternal Feminine: Vladimir Solov'ev's Visions of Sophia -- Kristi A. Groberg
Embodying
the Stars: Iamblichus and the Transformation of Platonic Paideia -- Gregory
Shaw
Galaxies
and Photons -- Dana Wilde
Esotericism
Today: The Example of Henry Corbin -- Christopher Bamford
The Waters
of Vision and the Gods of Skill -- John Carey
The Path
Toward the Grail: The Hermetic Sources and Structure of Wolfram von
Eschenbach's Parzival -- David Fideler
The
Creation of a Universal System: Saint-Yves d'Alveydre and his Archeometer --
Joscelyn Godwin
Aspects of
Ancient Greek Music -- Flora R. Levin
A
Plotinian Solution to a Vedantic Problem -- Michael Hornum
"Gnosticism,"
Ancient and Modern -- Arthur Versluis
Hekate's Iynx:
An Ancient Theurgical Tool -- Stephen Ronan
Reviews
About the
Contributors
Issue 2
Introduction:
Cosmopolis, or the New Alexandria -- David Fideler
The Museum
at Alexandria -- Edward Parsons
A Note on
the Muses -- Adam McLean
Bibliotheca
Alexandrina: The Revival of the First Universal Library. A Report from UNESCO
Alexandria:
Past, Present, and Future -- Eric Mueller
Hypatia of
Alexandria: Mathematician, Astronomer, and Philosopher -- Nancy Nietupski
The Life
of Hypatia from The Suda -- Jeremiah Reedy (translator)
The Life
of Hypatia -- Socrates Scholasticus
The Life
of Hypatia -- John, Bishop of Nikiu
Psychedelic
Effects and the Eleusinian Mysteries -- Shawn Eyer
The
Science and Art of Animating Statues -- David Fideler
The
Alchemical Harp of Mechtild of Hackeborn -- Therese Schroeder-Sheker
The Fish
Bride -- Jane Thigpen
An
Introduction to the Monochord -- Siemen Terpstra
A Note on
Ptolemy's Polychord and the Contemporary Relevance of Harmonic Science -- David
Fideler
Mysticism
and Spiritual Harmonics in Eighteenth-Century England -- Arthur Versluis
Mentalism
and the Cosmological Fallacy -- Joscelyn Godwin
Printing,
Memory, and the Loss of the Celestial -- Arthur Versluis
Gerhard
Dorn's Monarchy of the Ternary in Union Versus the Monomachia of the Dyad in
Confusion -- Daniel Willens (translator)
Imago
Magia, Virgin Mother of Eternity: Imagination and Phantasy in the Philosophy of
Jacob Boehme -- Hugh Urban
The Castle
of Heroes: W. B. Yeats' Celtic Mystical Order -- Peter Cawley
The
Availability of the One: An Interpretive Essay -- Michael Hornum
The Magic
of Romance: The Cultivation of Eros from Sappho to the Troubadours --
Christopher Bamford
Seating
Arrangements in Plato's Symposium -- Robin Waterfield
All
Religions are One -- William Blake
The
Dolphin in Greek Legend and Myth -- Melitta Rabinovitch
Sacred
Geography of the Ancient Greeks -- Christine Rhone
The
Cosmological Rorschach -- David Fideler
Psalm --
Carolyn North
Orphic
Hymn to Artemis -- Shawn Eyer (translator)
Reports
from Hyperborea -- John Henry
Book
Reviews
Books in
Brief -- David Fideler
Notices
About the
Contributors
Issue 3
Introduction:
Education and the Signs of the Times -- David Fideler
Harmony
Made Visible -- Michael S. Schneider
The
Alchemy of Art -- Arthur Versluis
Ecopsychology
in Theory and Practice: A Report on the 1994 Conference -- Melissa Nelson
A Note
Against the Aristotelians -- Peter Ramus
The Divine
Sophia: Isis, Achamoth, and Ialdabaoth -- Lee Irwin
Ruminations
on All and Everything -- Peter Russell
Clement of
Alexandria's Letter to Theodore Containing Fragments of a Secret Gospel of Mark
The
Strange Case of the Secret Gospel According to Mark: How Morton Smith's
Discovery of a Lost Letter of Clement of Alexandria Scandalized Biblical
Scholarship -- Shawn Eyer
Knowledge,
Reason, and Ethics: A Neoplatonic Perspective -- Michael Hornum
Delphi's
Enduring Message: On the Need for Oracular Communications in Psychological Life
-- Dianne Skafte
Two Lyrics
-- Christopher Reynolds
Lyric on a
Renaissance Woodcut -- David Fideler
Anatolius:
On the Decad -- Robin Waterfield (translator)
Two
Letters of Marsilio Ficino
Proclus's
Hymn to the One -- Michael Hornum (translator)
Cosmologies
-- Dana Wilde
The
Invisible College -- Anthony Rooley
Reviving
the Academies of the Muses -- David Fideler
Plato,
Athena, and Saint Katherine: The Education of the Philosopher -- Christine
Rhone
The School
of Wisdom -- Jane Leade
Education
in the New World Order: A Trialogue -- Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and
Rupert Sheldrake
The
Teaching Mission of Socrates -- Ignacio L. Götz
A Note on
Myth, the Mysteries, and Teaching in Plato's Republic -- Ignacio L. Götz
The
Tarocchi del Mantegna: An Overview of the Engravings
Reflections
on the Tarocchi of Mantegna -- Oliver T. Perrin
Speaking
in Hieroglyphics -- Peter Lamborn Wilson
Three
Exemplars of the Esoteric Tradition in the Renaissance -- Karen-Claire Voss
Ships with
Wings
Apuleius
in the Underworld: A Footnote to Metamorphoses 11 -- John Carey
Three
Homeric Hymns -- Bruce MacLennan (translator)
Astronomy,
Contemplation, and the Objects of Celestial Desire -- David Fideler
Book
Reviews
About the
Contributors
Issue 4 -
The Order and Beauty of Nature
Introduction:
Philosophy Embracing the World -- David Fideler
The Cosmic
Religious Feeling -- Albert Einstein
Science
and Religion -- Albert Einstein
Science
and the Beautiful -- Werner Heisenberg
Soul and
the World: A Conversation with Thomas Moore and Suzi Gablik
Retrieving
an Ancient Ecology: Art -- Christopher Castle
Deep Form
in Art and Nature -- Betty and Theodore Roszak
Ecomorphology:
Art -- Gordon Onslow Ford
Two Poems
-- Betty Roszak
Cosmology,
Ethics, and the Practice of Relatedness: A Conversation on Philosophy, the
Patterns of Nature, and the Ways of Knowing -- David Fideler
Cultivating
Ecological Design Intelligence -- Stuart Cowan
Neoplatonism
and the Cosmological Revolution: Holism, Fractal Geometry, and Mind in Nature
-- David Fideler
Egos,
Angels, and the Colors of Nature -- Robert D. Romanyshyn
The
Contemporary Christian Platonism of A. H. Armstrong -- Jay Bregman
The
Theology of the Invisible -- Bruce Nelson
The World
Religions and Ecology -- Joseph Milne
The
Information War -- Hakim Bey
Philosophical
Counseling -- Kathleen Damiani
Novelty,
the Stop, and the Advent of Conscience -- David Appelbaum
Life,
Lindisfarne, and Everything: William Irwin Thompson Speaks Out
Jung and
the Myth of the Primordial Tradition -- Andrew Burniston
The Lost
Spirit of Hellenic Philosophy -- Christos Evangeliou
Drinking
with the Muses -- Thomas Willard
Claiming a
Liberal Education -- Stephen Rowe
How to
Host a Philosophical Banquet -- Plutarch
Words of
the God: Ancient Oracle Traditions of the Mediterranean World -- Lee Irwin
Hermeticism
and the Utopian Imagination -- John Michael Greer
Issue 5
Dante and
the Comic Way -- Joseph Meeker
An Ecology
of Mind -- Doug Man
Science's
Missing Half: Epistemological Pluralism and the Search for an Inclusive
Cosmology -- David Fideler
Negotiating
the Highwire of Heaven: The Milky Way and the Itinerary of the Soul -- E. C.
Krupp
Nature and
Nature's God: Modern Cosmology and the Rebirth of Natural Philosophy --
Theodore Roszak
Creativity:
The Meeting of Apollo and Dionysus -- F. David Peat
Mithras,
the Hypercosmic Sun, and the Rockbirth -- David Ulansey
Musical
Emblems in the Renaissance: A Survey -- Christina Linsenmeyer-van Schalkwyk
Jung and
the Alchemical Imagination -- Jeffrey Raff
Two
Platonic Voices in America: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas M. Johnson -- David
Fideler
Alcott's
Transcendental Neoplatonism and the Concord Summer School -- Jay Bregman
Chaos and
the Millennium -- Ralph Abraham
Is
Anything the Matter? -- Roger S. Jones
Magnificent
Desolation -- Dana Wilde
Soul Loss
and Soul Making -- Kabir Helminski
Ideal
Beauty and Sensual Beauty in Works of Art -- Aphrodite Alexandrakis
Socrates
and the Art of Dialogue -- Robert Apatow
Footprints
on the Threshold -- Christine Rhone
Science:
Method, Myth, Metaphor? -- Amy Ione
Teaching
Archaeoastronomy -- Greg Whitlock
Oneiriconographia:
Entering Poliphilo's Utopian Dreamscape: A Review Essay -- Peter Lamborn Wilson
Memorial
of A. H. Armstrong -- Jay Bregman
Memorial
of Marie-Louise von Franz -- Jeffrey Raff
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