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| preface:Digging Up My Library | |
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| acknowledgments | |
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| introduction:The Serpent’s Gift Faith, Reason, and Gnosis | |
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| The Premodern, the Modern, and the Postmodern Toward a Gnostic (Post)Modernity Medi(t)ations Writing as Hissing | |
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| Autobiographical and Pedagogical Contexts The Essays | |
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| The Apocryphon of the Beloved Invocation | |
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| The Quest for the Heretical Jesus “One Will Know | |
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| Them by Their Roots” From the Womb . . . Sexual Healings: Dispelling the Demons of Abuse Sexual Teachings | |
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| The Man Jesus Loved The Woman Jesus Loved The Secret | |
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| Restoring the Adam of Light | |
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| The Adam of Light Awakened by Her | |
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| The Fiery Brook The Sacrilegious Secret of Christian Theology Implications of the Method | |
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| The Historical and Intellectual Contexts “Man Is God to Man” | |
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| The Virtues of Pluralism and Polytheism Completing the Incarnation of Love (and Sex): Embodiment in Feedback’s Thought The Sexuality of Numbers The Cancer and the Cure Toward a Mystical Humanism: A Gnostic Rereading | |
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| Comparative Mystics | |
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| The Rebuke of the Gnostic and the Oriental Renaissance Comparative Mystics Ramakrishna: Colonialism, Universalism, Mysticism Doctrinal and Historical-Critical | |
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| Analysis Ramakrishna and the Comparativist | |
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| The Critical Study of Religion as a Modern Mystical Tradition | |
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| The Scandal of Comparison Professional Heresy: The Gnostic Study of Religion interlude:Logoi Mystikoi; or, How to Think like a Gnostic | |
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| Mutant Marvels Educational and Sexual Allegory | |
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| On Puberty and Powers Denying the Demiurge Toward a More Radical Empiricism Dissociation and the Release of Nonordinary Energies | |
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| On Death as Dissociation Real X-Men On X-clusions and X-ceptions Political Allegory; or, How (Not) to Be an X-Man conclusion:Return to the Garden | |
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| The Other Tree The Forbidden Fruit “When | |
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| He Becomes Troubled, He Will Be Astonished” | |
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| The Flaming Sword and the Bridal Chamber notes | |
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| The Fruit of the Tree; or, My Gnostic Library before | |
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| I Have to Bury It (Again) | |
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| index | |