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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS ROELOF VAN DEN BROEK AND CIS VAN HEERTUM (EDS.), From Poimandres to Jacob Böhme: Gnosis, Hermetism and the Christian Tradition [Pimander. Texts and Studies published by the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica 4]. In de Pelikaan, Amsterdam 2000, 432 pp. ISBN 9071608107. On the occasion of the eightieth birthday of Gilles Quispel, the nestor of hermetic gnosis, on 30 May 1996, a symposium was held in his honour at the University of Amsterdam. The lectures presented at the symposium by Roclof van den Broek, Peter Kingsley, Jean-Pierre Mahé, Carlos Gilly, and Quispel himself are inserted in this volume, together with eight other arti- cles written by the same authors, for the most part already published else- where but for the occasion translated from Dutch into English. The lion's share (almost 200 pages in total) is made up by six essays written by Quispel, preceded by three scholarly contributions by editor and introducer Van den Broek. The title of this book is somewhat misleading, since diverse articles - especially Quispel's essays cover a period protracted until Goethe and Novalis. Nevertheless the volume can be typified as a com- pendium of scholarly insights in the Egyptian and Hellenistic roots of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis (in 2006 continued as Church History and Religious Culture) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0028-2030
eISSN
1871-2401
DOI
10.1163/187607504X00237
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BOOK REVIEWS ROELOF VAN DEN BROEK AND CIS VAN HEERTUM (EDS.), From Poimandres to Jacob Böhme: Gnosis, Hermetism and the Christian Tradition [Pimander. Texts and Studies published by the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica 4]. In de Pelikaan, Amsterdam 2000, 432 pp. ISBN 9071608107. On the occasion of the eightieth birthday of Gilles Quispel, the nestor of hermetic gnosis, on 30 May 1996, a symposium was held in his honour at the University of Amsterdam. The lectures presented at the symposium by Roclof van den Broek, Peter Kingsley, Jean-Pierre Mahé, Carlos Gilly, and Quispel himself are inserted in this volume, together with eight other arti- cles written by the same authors, for the most part already published else- where but for the occasion translated from Dutch into English. The lion's share (almost 200 pages in total) is made up by six essays written by Quispel, preceded by three scholarly contributions by editor and introducer Van den Broek. The title of this book is somewhat misleading, since diverse articles - especially Quispel's essays cover a period protracted until Goethe and Novalis. Nevertheless the volume can be typified as a com- pendium of scholarly insights in the Egyptian and Hellenistic roots of

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Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis (in 2006 continued as Church History and Religious Culture)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2004

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