Dan Merkur is a Lecturer in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.

"I like the passion and enthusiasm of an author in touch with something real who pursues it with an open mind. Implicit here is the author's seriousness and commitment. He believes his subject makes a difference and he communicates this to the reader. The author's perspective gives some startling and important insights into a tradition that is for the most part unknown and ignored." — Christopher Bamford, Lindisfarne Press

• PrefacePart One: Jung, Active Imagination, and the Gnostic-Alchemical Hypothesis 1. The Study of Mystical Experiences2. Jung, Silberer, and Active Imagination3. Theories of Spiritual Alchemy4. The Alchemical Production of Gold Part Two: A History of Gnosis 5. Defining Gnosis6. The Gnostic Journey to the Ogdoad7. The Recital of the Chariot8. Muhammad and his Mi'raj9. Islamic Gnosis and the World of Imagination10. The Passage of Gnosis to the Latin WestNotesWorks CitedIndex