Gnosis and Psychology
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A single lecture by the Dutch scholar Gilles Quispel on the Jung Codex from Nag Hammadi and on Gnosticism read through Jung’s psychology as an experience of the Self.
Gilles Quispel
Gilles Quispel (1916–2006) was a Dutch theologian and historian of religion, professor at Utrecht University and one of the leading scholars of Gnosticism. In 1952 he played a central role in acquiring one of the Nag Hammadi codices for the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, where it became known as the Jung Codex and was presented to Jung. He co-edited its first text, the Gospel of Truth, worked on the Gospel of Thomas, and lectured at the Eranos conferences, often bringing Jung's psychology to bear on Gnostic experience.
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Part 1: Gnosis and Psychology
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Gilles Quispel tells the story of the Jung Codex, part of the Nag Hammadi library of Gnostic texts found in the Egyptian desert in the 1940s, and his own role, with Jung, in acquiring it. He discusses its Valentinian writings, including the Gospel of Truth, and uses Jung's psychology to argue that Gnosticism rested on a religious experience of discovering the Self, which reshaped how Gnostics saw history and the cosmos.