The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics: Carl G. Jung and Philip K. Dick

212 Pages·2018·0.919 MB·English

by  Stuart Douglas

THE APOCALYPSE OF
THE RELUCTANT GNOSTICS

THE APOCALYPSE OF THE
RELUCTANT GNOSTICS
Carl G. Jung and Philip K. Dick
Stuart Douglas
First published 2018
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
© 2018 Stuart Douglas
The right of Stuart Douglas to be identified as author of this work has been
asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or
utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the
publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered
trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent
to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A catalog record has been requested for this book
ISBN: 978-1-78220-607-1 (pbk)
Typeset in Palatino LT Std
by Medlar Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd, India
apocalypse
noun
1. any of a class of Jewish or Christian writings … that were assumed to
make revelations of the ultimate divine purpose.
2. a prophetic revelation esp. concerning a cataclysm in which the forces
of good triumph over the forces of evil.
3. any revelation or prophecy.
4. any universal or widespread destruction or disaster.
origin
from Greek apokálypsis, from apokalýptein revelation, to uncover, to
reveal (apo- + kalýptein to cover, conceal) + -sis.

CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES ix
PREFACE xi
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction 1
CHAPTER TWO
The living and the dead 15
CHAPTER THREE
Ex nihilo, ex plenitudo 27
CHAPTER FOUR
The darkness and the light 41
CHAPTER FIVE
Archons and archetypes 47
vii
viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER SIX
The cave and the prison 57
CHAPTER SEVEN
The dream and the hologram 65
CHAPTER EIGHT
The seed and the sheaf 81
CHAPTER NINE
The self and the homoplasmate 85
CHAPTER TEN
The virgin and the whore 97
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Slavery and freedom 115
CHAPTER TWELVE
Christ and Sophia 137
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The imagination and the third eye 155
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Reluctant gnosis 167
REFERENCES 183
INDEX 187
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1. The Old Church xiii
Figure 2. Summary of the Gnostic works of Jung and PKD 26
Figure 3. The Monad. The One 28
Figure 4. The Great Invisible Spirit and the universe 30
Figure 5. A lion-faced deity thought to represent
the demiurge 31
Figure 6. Pantheism vs. panentheism 36
Figure 7. The upper and lower realms in PKD’s
Gnostic vision 39
Figure 8. Acosmic panentheism 40
Figure 9. Mitigated and absolute dualism in Gnostic cosmology 43
Figure 10. The Gnostic god Abraxas 52
Figure 11. The Palm Tree Garden and the Black Iron Prison 62
ix