Gnostic Mysteries of Sex

By their texts, the Gnostics are seen as puritans with wild minds. By their opponents, the Gnostics were seen as libertines with wild appetites. What is the truth? The latest research reveals that the Gnostics were likely practitioners of sexual magic while still being lofty mystics. They hid ancient sensual mysteries in their works and myths, forging an undercover tradition from the Sethians to the Troubadours, from the Valentinians to William Blake—borrowing from the heretical movement of their apparent f