Gnostic and mystical themes in the great literature of the world, the poetic-visionary authors and their inspired works which manifest Gnosis:  In this twenty-four part set Dr. Hoeller evaluates and quotes the poetry and literature of the great writers of Gnostic orientation.  The significant connection between literary inspiration and Gnosis and the impact of Gnostic writers on the consciousness of their own age and ours is traced.  This list is set in order chronologically with the earliest work, that of Homer, at the top of the list.

The individual titles are:

• Homer’s Mystic Journey in “Odyssey”. 79:29 #500401
Omar Khayyam; Gnostic poet of the Sufis. New light on the Rubayat’s mystic message. 70:57 #500402
• Dante’s Gnostic Cosmos. Insights into Dante’s “Divine Comedy”. 75:06 #500403
• Prince and Specter; Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. Shakespeare’s Mystic Self. The Existential Drama of Hamlet. Shakespeare the Renaissance Gnostic. Drama and Hermeticism. 71:48 #500404
• “King Lear”: Transformation through Tragedy. The Spiritual value of misfortune. Gnosis as tragic Wisdom. The Bard’s great statement of the dark stage of human alchemy. 69:25 #500405
• “The Tempest”: Shakespeare’s Magical Evocation. The Magic Isle of Shakespeare’s late play. Hermetic and Gnostic magic in “The Tempest”. Indications of the rebirth of Magic today. 80:21 #500406
• “Macbeth”: Making of the Anti-Hero. 68:31 #500407
• John Donne’s Mystic Poetry. Extolled by T.S. Eliot and others, this Sixteenth Century Anglican priest can still elevate the spirit to mystic heights. 68:24 #500408
• Louis Claude de St. Martin; Mystic Poet; Unknown Philosopher. The Life, Message and Adeptic Role of the Father of the French Martinist tradition. 74:04 #500409
• J.W. von Goethe and the Archetype of Faust. The “prince of poets and poet of princes” admired by Freud, Jung, Rudolf Steiner; co-creator of the modern German language and Esoteric Sage. 76:13 #500410
• William Blake; Visionary Gnostic. Insight into his works, especially “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”. 73:28 #500411
• Friedrich Nietzsche, Poet and Gnostic. Sometimes unjustly associated with the Nazis, Nietzsche was a seminal, gnosticizing thinker who influenced C.G. Jung and the Existentialists. 75:41 #500412
• Rilke and Kafka. Poetry and Existence. 73:43 #500413
• W.B. Yeats: The Poetry of Magic and Vision. Magus of the Golden Dawn; protegé of H.P. Blavatsky; prophet of the Celtic Revival. 72:53 #500414
• Vladimir Soloviev. Modern Prophet of Sophia. 75:46 #500415
• The Gnosis of Hermann Hesse. “Demian”, “Steppenwolf”, and “The Glass Bead Game”. 73:41 #500416
• D.H. Lawrence. The Mysteries of Life’s Dynamism. 83:32 #500417
• Robert Graves, the Poet of Myth. Greatest living poet of the English tongue of his time. Imaginative myth-maker extraordinaire. 70:45 #500418
• Gnostic Women Writers of the Age. Simone Weil, Anais Nin and Marguerite Yourcenar. 81:21 #500419
• Lawrence Durrell. The Gnostic Call of Alexandria. 74:57 #500420
• Albert Camus. Courage and Nobility in Life’s Darkness 86:33 #500421
• Philip K. Dick: Gnostic Prophet of Science Fiction. In his best work “Valis” and its two companion volumes, “The Divine Invasion” and “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, the late Philip K. Dick called attention to Gnostic wisdom. What can we learn from him today? 71:45 #500422
• Gnosis and Stoicism: Tom Wolfe’s “A Man in Full”. Tom Wolf’s recent novel “A Man in Full” espouses the philosophy of the Stoics. The relevance of Stoicism to our era and to Gnosticism. 67:02 #500423
• Gnosis in the Harry Potter literature. 71:00 #500424

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