← Tehiru ⇗ open this live, in the app →
THE ATLAS OF THE ALIEN SPARK

Michael A. Williams

Williams
nature
Author of Rethinking "Gnosticism" (1996), the book that argued the category is a polemical invention: the texts lumped under it do not share a common doctrine, most are not "anticosmic," most are not libertine, and the label mostly reproduces the heresiologists' own sorting.

The strongest case that this entire pack is organised around a word that should not exist. It is included prominently BECAUSE it undermines the pack's own frame — a resource that only flatters its subject teaches nothing.
rhymes with
sephirahgevurah
whyGevurah dissolves a category by drawing the distinctions it was hiding.
tags
rethinking gnosticism · category critique · biblical demiurgical
go and look
GO AND LOOK — everything below leaves this app
▤ read
Wikipedia direct
❡ scholarship
scholarship — Williams Rethinking Gnosticism dubious category search
⌸ hold a copy
AbeBooks (used & rare) search
⇗ walk this live in Tehiru →
Tehiru is a walk-in model of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and its kindred ways — built to be explored, not read. This page is a still frame of one node; the app is where it moves.