... have issued handsomely packaged translations of gnostic scripture and, in one case, even a collection of meditations called A gnostic Book of Hours. Among gnosticism's more celebrated adherents are novelist Lawrence Durrell and psychologist Carl Jung, whose loopy gnostic outlook has, inspired many a spiritual/psychological best-selling authors, from James Hillman to Elaine Pagels to Thomas Moore to Bill Moyers. Even Stephen King's current ... as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mormon founder Joseph Smith. America's present gnostic renaissance lacks the social reformist impulses that informed th...

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