This book examines the influence of Gnostic philosophy on Jungian psychology as indicated by Jung's essay, -The Transcendent Function- (1916), and his Gnostic-inspired treatise, The Seven Sermons to the Dead (also written in 1916).

Relevant and timely due to the relatively recent publication of Jung's The Red Book, the hypothesis of this work is that the Seven Sermons is the mythopoetic, metaphysical twin of -The Transcendent Function- and that these texts can be considered as two sides of the same coin. The Seven Sermons formed a prelude to everything Jung was...