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TABLE OF SUMMARIES.

INTRODUCTION.

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The documents and general literature of Gnosticism	xvii
The method of the best Gnostic doctors	xxiii
Description and criticism of the manuscript original: "MS."	xxv
General analysis of contents	xxix
The date and authorship of the Greek original	xxx
The Books of the Saviour	xxxi
The probable history of the treatise	xxxiii
The translator’s apologia formal defense or explanation	xxxv
The work that has been previously done	xxxvi


Jesus hitherto instructs his disciples only up to the region of the first mystery	1
What the first mystery surrounds	”
The regions of the great invisible	2
The treasure of light	”
The light-world	3
Jesus and his disciples are seated on the Mount of Olives	4
A great light-stream descends on Jesus	”
It surrounds him entirely	5
Jesus ascends into heaven	”
The confusion of the powers and the great earthquake	6
The dismay of the disciples	”
Jesus descends again	”
The nature of his glory	7
Jesus addresses them	”
He draws his light unto himself	8
He promises to tell them all things	”
How the vesture of light was sent unto him	9
Of the souls of the disciples and their incarnation	10
Of the incarnation of John the Baptist	11
That John was Elias in a former birth	12