Neoplatonism and Gnosticism Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
	Theourgia - Demourgia: A Controversial Issue in Hellenistic Thought and Religion	9
	Dualism: Platonic, Gnostic, and Christian	33
	The "Second God" in Gnosticism and Plotinus's Anti-Gnostic Polemic, translated from Spanish by Winifred T. Slater	55
	Synesius, the Hermetica and Gnosis	85
	Pleroma and Noetic Cosmos: A Comparative Study	99
	Plotinus's Anti-Gnostic Polemic and Porphyry's Against The Christians	111
	Theological Doctrines of the Latin Asclepius	129
	Negative Theology in Gnosticism and Neoplatonism	167
	The Platonism of the Tripartite Tractate (NH I, 5)	187
	The Noetic Triad in Plotinus, Marius Victorinus, and Augustine	207
	"Plenty Sleeps There": The Myth of Eros and Psyche in Plotinus and Gnosticism	223
	"The Name of the Father is the Son" (Gospel of Truth 38)	239
	Theurgic Tendencies in Gnosticism and Iamblichus's Conception of Theurgy	253
	Beauty, Number and Loss of Order in the Gnostic Cosmos	277
	Theories of Procession in Plotinus and the Gnostics	297
	Titus of Bostra and Alexander of Lycopolis: A Christian and a Platonic Refutation of Manichaean Dualism	337
	Le Nombre et son Ombre (Resume)	351
	Mani's Twin and Plotinus: Questions on "Self"	381
	Gnosticism and Platonism: The Platonizing Sethian Texts from Nag Hammadi in their Relation to Later Platonic Literature	425
	Soul and Nous in Plotinus, Numenius and Gnosticism	461
	Higher Providence, Lower Providences and Fate in Gnosticism and Middle Platonism	483
	Index	509