Download or read book The Gnostics written by Sean Martin and published by Pocket Essentials. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although largely stamped out by the Church by the sixth century, Gnosticism survived underground through groups such as the Bogomils and the Cathars, and influenced the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the psychologist Carl Jung, the Existentialists, the New Age movement and writers as diverse as William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Albert Camus and Philip K. Dick. Here, Sean Martin recounts the long and diverse history of Gnosticism and argues for its continued relevance today.